Spencer Applegate

Spencer Applegate is a technology operator and investor who built three software companies before becoming Vice President of Strategy & Business Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Gainsight, the leading customer success platform. With a foundation in nuclear engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Harvard Business School, he has moved fluidly between founding startups (Verusen, REscour, PainTheory), deploying capital at growth and buyout funds (M33 Growth, Pacific Lake Partners, Vector Capital), and now running strategy at a $1.25B enterprise SaaS company in San Francisco.