Jessica Kwok
“Strategic Partnerships @ Cognition”
- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- PerplexitySpecial Projects - Enterprise Sales
- Status
- Current
- Director of Strategic Partnerships at Cognition since Jul 2025; profile lists '#1 globally in partnership revenue - FY26 (460% plan), H1 FY27', 'Building Cognition's global channel and consulting partner ecosystem' and 'Leading Japan 0->1 channel and strategic alliance build'.Jul 2025
- Announced Suntory Holdings adopting the Cognition Platform (Devin Cloud and Devin Desktop), deployed from June 2026 with UL Systems/ULS Consulting; post written in English and Japanese and tagged #CognitionAIJapan. With Mizuho.Jul 22, 2026🇯🇵 Welcoming Suntory Holdings Limited to the Cognition Platform 🍻 Suntory Holdings has adopted the Cognition Platform (including Devin Cloud and Devin Desktop) to accelerate AI-powered software development and operations as part of its digital transformation. Full-scale deploy
- Announced the Mizuho Securities deployment of Devin with SI partner UL Systems, described as one of the first large-scale AI software engineering deployments at a major Japanese financial institution.Jan 23, 2026Excited to announce that Cognition has partnered with Mizuho Securities to deploy Devin across their engineering organization, one of the first large-scale AI software engineering deployments at a major Japanese financial institution. Thrilled to work with Mizuho Securities and
- Joined Codeium/Windsurf in Nov 2024 as a founding member of its partnerships team: 'Led channel development, co-sell, and joint GTM across GSIs, VARs, hyperscalers, and OEM', ranked '#1 globally in partnership revenue - H1 FY26 (320% plan)'.Nov 2024
- A Nov 2026 public breakdown of Cognition's ~300-person sales org lists Partnerships (~20: clouds, consultancies and channel partners) and says 'Gardner Johnson, Marcel Schwager and Jessica Kwok all came over from Windsurf'.Nov 2026
- Closest Windsurf/Cognition partnerships collaborators visible in her posts: Gardner Johnson (Head of Partnerships), Jeff Wang, Brooke Arthur, Chan Kwon and Akshat Agrawal (tagged on the Mizuho announcement).Jan 23, 2026Excited to announce that Cognition has partnered with Mizuho Securities to deploy Devin across their engineering organization, one of the first large-scale AI software engineering deployments at a major Japanese financial institution. Thrilled to work with Mizuho Securities and
- Before Windsurf: Special Projects - Enterprise Sales at Perplexity (Feb-May 2024) during her HBS MBA, and a Business Development summer role at Descript (Jun-Aug 2023), which traces a pivot from strategy into AI GTM.Feb 2024
- Senior Manager, Strategy & BizOps at Tencent (Nov 2020-Jul 2022) in the Social Entertainment group covering Greater China and APAC.Nov 2020
- Spent six years at Oliver Wyman in Hong Kong (Sep 2014-Oct 2020), rising to Engagement Manager in the Consumer & Retail and Financial Services practices for Greater China and APAC.Sep 2014
- Public headline says "Strategic Partnerships @ Cognition".
- Shared Cognition's AI Productivity Guarantee launch (Cognition funds usage up to $10M if Devin delivers less value than paid for), a commercial lever relevant to partner-led enterprise selling.Jun 4, 2026Today, Cognition is launching the industry's first AI Productivity Guarantee. If Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, we'll fund your usage until it does - up to $10 million. Stop maximizing tokens and start maximizing productive output. Read the full
- Posted that Windsurf's Head of Partnerships Gardner Johnson 'vibe coded' a full-stack SaaS GTM tool in 6 hours that saved the team $150K, framing vibe coding as 'leverage for domain experts'.Apr 25, 2025
- #1 globally in partnership revenue — FY26 (460% plan), H1 FY27 - Building Cognition’s global channel and consulting partner ecosystem - Leading Japan 0→1 channel and strategic alliance build
(Acquired by Cognition Jul 25) - #1 globally in partnership revenue — H1 FY26 (320% plan) - Founding partnerships team. Led channel development, co-sell, and joint GTM across GSIs, VARs, hyperscalers, and OEM
Social Entertainment - Greater China and APAC
Consumer and Retail, Financial Services - Greater China and APAC
Leadership Team of VCPE Club and Tech Club
🇯🇵 Welcoming Suntory Holdings Limited to the Cognition Platform 🍻 Suntory Holdings has adopted the Cognition Platform (including Devin Cloud and Devin Desktop) to accelerate AI-powered software development and operations as part of its digital transformation. Full-scale deploy
🇯🇵 Welcoming Suntory Holdings Limited to the Cognition Platform 🍻 Suntory Holdings has adopted the Cognition Platform (including Devin Cloud and Devin Desktop) to accelerate AI-powered software development and operations as part of its digital transformation. Full-scale deploy
Today, Cognition is launching the industry's first AI Productivity Guarantee. If Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, we'll fund your usage until it does - up to $10 million. Stop maximizing tokens and start maximizing productive output. Read the full
Today, Cognition is launching the industry's first AI Productivity Guarantee. If Devin delivers less engineering value than you're paying for, we'll fund your usage until it does - up to $10 million. Stop maximizing tokens and start maximizing productive output. Read the full
Excited to announce that Cognition has partnered with Mizuho Securities to deploy Devin across their engineering organization, one of the first large-scale AI software engineering deployments at a major Japanese financial institution. Thrilled to work with Mizuho Securities and
