- Joined
- Oct 2026
- How they joined
- Directly
- Before Cognition
- Snowflake ComputingChief Revenue Officer
- Status
- Current
“Never in my wildest imagination did I think I'd get the opportunity to jump on another rocket ship. Meeting Scott, Russell, and the entire team at Cognition got me so excited to do it again with world-class technology.”
- His Cognition announcement credits CEO Scott Wu and co-founder Russell (Kaplan) and says customer stories about Devin convinced him: "Hearing how customers spoke about how Devin is transforming their business made me realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."Sep 30, 2026I’m super excited to join Cognition as its Chief Revenue Officer. Going from the 1st sales rep at Snowflake to CRO at a $100b public company was the thrill of a lifetime. Never in my wildest imagination did I think I'd get the opportunity to jump on another rocket ship. Meeting Scott, Russell, and the entire team at Cognition got me so excited to do it again with world-class technology. Hearing how customers spoke about how Devin is transforming their business made me realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. While I am not jumping on as the first sales rep this time, I can’t wait
- Current role is Chief Revenue Officer at Cognition.
- Brought longtime partner Chad Peets and RPT Partners with him into Cognition hiring; Peets later said RPT now focuses exclusively on OpenAI, Cognition and Harvey.Oct 21, 2026
- Posted on LinkedIn: "After a noisy week for me, it was incredibly kind of Nasdaq and Jack Cassel to welcome me to Cognition. Never been more motivated in my life. Let's go!!!!!"Oct 2, 2026After a noisy week for me, it was incredibly kind of Nasdaq and Jack Cassel to welcome me to Cognition. Never been more motivated in my life. Let's go!!!!!
- Public headline says "Chief Revenue Officer at Cognition".
- Co-authored the book Make It Snow with Snowflake CMO Denise Persson on how Snowflake built its go-to-market organization from zero to billions.2025
- Sales Leader with experience in Storage, Analytics, & Security.
Specialties: Data analytics, Data Platform, back-up, Security, sales, sales management, business intelligence, public cloud, hybrid cloud, ETL, Big Data, Hadoop, Access Governance, Identity Management, Provisioning, SSO, AWS, Azure, GCP; this comes from the profile summary and preserves the person's own positioning.
- Previous roles include Chief Revenue Officer at Cognition; Board Member at A Security; GTM Advisor at ICONIQ; Board Member at Gambit Security; Author at Makeitsnowbook.com; Board Member at PointFive; Partner at RPT Partners; Advisor at Giga.
- A timestamped segment covers Chris' most impactful decisions at Snowflake.Feb 26, 2026
- Chris Degnan's LinkedIn is listed as https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-degnan/.Feb 26, 2026
- Chris Degnan authored a Snowflake blog post titled 'Secrets of Gen AI Success: Real-World Customer Stories and Outcomes' dated Oct 3, 2024.Oct 3, 2024
- Chris Degnan co-authored a Snowflake blog post titled 'Snowflake Acquires Night Shift Development, Inc. to Accelerate Growth in US Public Sector' dated Sep 19, 2024.Sep 19, 2024
We believe the purpose of technology is to expand human capacity — not by replacing meaningful work but by working alongside people as an exponential collaborator, helping them think deeper and move faster. We build tools for software creation because software shapes nearly every aspect of modern life. Cognition helps engineers operate more like architects: strategizing, designing systems, and focusing on problem-solving, while agents handle the repetitive engineering work. Devin plans, writes, tests, and ships production code on its own, working inside your codebase and the tools your team already uses. Devin is deployed at some of the largest and most complex institutions in the world.
The offensive security and remediation platform to protect against weaponized AI.
Helping build the next generation of world-class GTM teams.
Helping build the next great company.
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I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Chief Revenue Officer at Cognition!
After a noisy week for me, it was incredibly kind of Nasdaq and Jack Cassel to welcome me to Cognition. Never been more motivated in my life. Let's go!!!!!
I’m super excited to join Cognition as its Chief Revenue Officer. Going from the 1st sales rep at Snowflake to CRO at a $100b public company was the thrill of a lifetime. Never in my wildest imagination did I think I'd get the opportunity to jump on another rocket ship. Meeting Scott, Russell, and the entire team at Cognition got me so excited to do it again with world-class technology. Hearing how customers spoke about how Devin is transforming their business made me realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. While I am not jumping on as the first sales rep this time, I can’t wa
I’m super excited to join Cognition as its Chief Revenue Officer. Going from the 1st sales rep at Snowflake to CRO at a $100b public company was the thrill of a lifetime. Never in my wildest imagination did I think I'd get the opportunity to jump on another rocket ship. Meeting Scott, Russell, and the entire team at Cognition got me so excited to do it again with world-class technology. Hearing how customers spoke about how Devin is transforming their business made me realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. While I am not jumping on as the first sales rep this time, I can’t wait
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I joined @SnowflakeDB almost 10 years ago. Many a famous VC turned us down because they “knew” the cloud providers would kill us…. 10 years later and the largest software IPO ever we are alive and kicking . In fact I feel as though we are just getting started.
