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Hayden Hibberd

“GTM @ Cognition | Strategic Sales | Girl Dad”

Joined Cognition: Jul 2025
How they joined: With Windsurf
Before Windsurf: Postal by SendosoEnterprise Sales Team Lead
Status: Current

Overlapped before Cognition

Codeium (Windsurf)57

Sources¹linkedin.com ²techcrunch.com

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Researched with Autumn · 2026-11-04

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LocationSan Jose, California, United States

UniversitySonoma State University, Mission College, Cabrillo College

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Promoted to Strategic Account Executive at Windsurf in Aug 2025; his LinkedIn marks the Windsurf role '**Acquired by Cognition', and he continued as Strategic AE at Cognition from Sep 2025 to Mar 2026 - he came to Cognition through its acquisition of Windsurf.Aug 2025
Joined Codeium (later renamed Windsurf) as an Enterprise Account Executive in March 2025, announcing: "I'm excited to share that I've started a new role as an Enterprise Account Executive at Codeium!"Mar 12, 2025
Windsurf sales leader Ben Jaderstrom listed Hayden among new West/APAC hires 'already making waves in Q2' after West & APAC closed Q1 2025 at 300% of plan, the same post noting Windsurf passed 1M+ active SaaS users.Apr 2025
Named Codeium leaders he joined to work with: Henry G., Graham Moreno and CEO/co-founder Varun Mohan ("I'm excited to take on this new challenge with incredible leaders in Henry G., Graham Moreno, Varun Mohan").Mar 12, 2025
Spent about five years at Postal (Jun 2020 - Mar 2025): Enterprise AE, then Enterprise Sales Team Lead from Aug 2022; profile notes 'Top Revenue Driver 2022' and that Postal was acquired by Sendoso.Jun 2020
Windsurf/Cognition AE Julian Sheinbaum credited Hayden and Ryan Klaus 'for taking initiative on our GTM tooling strategy and bringing in Lemlist' - a concrete internal contribution beyond quota.
Was part of the Windsurf enterprise-sales 'goat team' Shannon (Scheel) Kahn named alongside Nate Olson, Chirag Zaveri, Anisa Edalati, Tyler McCormick and Julian Sheinbaum, under leaders Graham Moreno, Jeff Wang, Henry G. and Arif Shenoy.Aug 4, 2026
Reposted Cognition customer stories for Mercedes-Benz (Devin and Windsurf deployed across global engineering) and Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies (Devin for testing and ticket triage) - automotive/high-tech enterprise logos aligned with his High Tech Majors remit.May 6, 2026
Credited Postal colleagues Erik Kostelnik, Jed Danner, Jonathan Zoob and Patricia DuChene for mentorship, and noted part of the group had worked together since TextRecruit in 2016 - a long-running sales cohort that followed one another across companies.Mar 12, 2025
Enterprise AE at iCIMS (Jan 2018 - Jun 2020) with Presidents Club 2019; profile notes iCIMS was acquired by Vista Equity Partners.Jan 2018
Started his career at TextRecruit in Aug 2016 as an SDR, became Sales Development Team Lead (Jan 2017), then SMB AE (May 2017) and was SMB Account Executive of the Year 2017; TextRecruit was acquired by iCIMS and he moved into iCIMS enterprise sales.Aug 2016
Public headline says "GTM @ Cognition | Strategic Sales | Girl Dad".

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