# Brian Stempeck

> Brian Stempeck is the CEO and co-founder of Evertune AI, a New York startup that helps brands measure and improve how they show up inside AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. He spent 11 years on the executive team of The Trade Desk as employee number eight, serving as Chief Client Officer and later Chief Strategy Officer and a board member, and helped grow the company from a tiny team to a public company worth tens of billions. Before adtech he was a management consultant at Bain & Company and, earlier still, a political journalist. He founded Evertune in 2024 with former Trade Desk colleagues to build the category he calls Generative Engine Optimization.

- **Role:** CEO & Co-Founder at Evertune AI
- **Organizations:** Evertune AI, Nielsen (board), The Trade Desk (former), Bain & Company (former), Unilever (former)
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.A. in English Literature, University of Virginia, M.B.A., Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- **Known for:** Joined The Trade Desk as employee number eight and helped grow it from a small startup to a public company worth tens of billions, Held Chief Client Officer and Chief Strategy Officer roles and served on The Trade Desk board of directors, Founded and grew The Trade Desk's New York office into the company's largest

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Worked as a political journalist at E&E Publishing (later part of Politico)
- **Pre-adtech** — Brand management at Unilever on the Dove brand
- **Pre-adtech** — Management consultant at Bain & Company, advising Fortune 500 clients on digital marketing and in the private equity practice
- **2011** — Joined The Trade Desk as roughly employee number eight
- **2015** — Named Chief Client Officer at The Trade Desk
- **2019** — Serving as Chief Strategy Officer, joined The Trade Desk board of directors
- **2020** — Stepped down as Chief Strategy Officer at The Trade Desk
- **2024** — Co-founded Evertune AI with Ed Chater and Poul Costinsky
- **2025** — Announced $15M Series A led by Felicis Ventures; total funding around $20M

## Achievements

- Joined The Trade Desk as employee number eight and helped grow it from a small startup to a public company worth tens of billions
- Held Chief Client Officer and Chief Strategy Officer roles and served on The Trade Desk board of directors
- Founded and grew The Trade Desk's New York office into the company's largest
- Helped lead The Trade Desk's expansion into Connected TV
- Co-founded Evertune AI and defined the Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) category
- Raised roughly $20M for Evertune including a $15M Series A led by Felicis Ventures
- Serves on the board of directors of Nielsen

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Evertune announced a $15M Series A led by Felicis Ventures, with Eniac Ventures, NextView Ventures and Roger Ehrenberg returning, plus angels from OpenAI, Meta and Uber.
- **2025-08** — Stempeck posted about hitting a major milestone at Evertune on LinkedIn.

## Links

- Website: https://evertune.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-stempeck-1705b35

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Last updated: 2026-07-22