# Meredith (McCarty) Siewert

Head of Majors, Insurance @ Cognition  
Cognition  
Austin, Texas, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Head of Majors, Insurance (Leadership)
- Joined: Jul 2024
- How they joined: With Windsurf (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf)
- Before Windsurf: Account Executive - Majors, Sonar
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Codeium (Windsurf); Sonar; Oracle; Airtable (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- Describes her current remit as "I lead Cognition's Insurance practice", advising insurance technology leaders to "let the biggest problem lead the rollout" such as unaddressed vulnerabilities or postponed upgrades sponsored by the CTO or CIO. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/meredithsiewert_i-lead-cognitions-insurance-practice-the-activity-7516188377503760384-OYAB)
- She was at Windsurf through the July 2025 deal turmoil: in a one-year retrospective she wrote she "stood in a small office to preview the highly anticipated announcement of Windsurf's acquisition" and "24 hours later I got a call that Cognition had acquired us", and thanked Scott Wu and Russell Kaplan of Cognition. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7483170766390448128-VpkT)
- Joined Codeium (later Windsurf) on 2024-07-29 as Strategic Account Executive in Austin, posting: "Today is my first day at Codeium. I ran out of the house today heading to the office with pure excitement." She thanked Sonar colleagues Max Steinberger, Lindsey Watkins and Eli Goodrich, which names the team that hired her into dev-tools sales. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7223794328295370752-sRQQ)
- Credited North American insurance carriers for Cognition's growth: "Cognition just crossed $1B annualized revenue run rate! Thank you to the teams, executives, and thought leaders at North America's Insurance giants for choosing Devin AI". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/meredithsiewert_cognition-crosses-1b-in-annualized-revenue-activity-7509324828118663168-ZaLR)
- Cognition announced it was acquiring Windsurf (the company formerly named Codeium) in July 2025; her role carried over and she became Regional Sales Director - Central & East - Majors at Cognition in September 2025. (https://devin.ai/blog/windsurfs-next-chapter)
- Promoted at Windsurf to Strategic Regional Sales Director - Central & East in January 2025, six months after joining as an AE. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Codeium CRO Graham Moreno's Q3 2024 recap says "Meredith Siewert (McCarty) and Connor Haley got on the board in a big way in their first 90 days". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grahammoreno_another-quarter-wrapped-in-q3-at-codeium-activity-7260305545587298306-3wZw)
- Public headline says "Head of Majors, Insurance @ Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Featured by Top Shelf, a community for women in tech co-founded by Jennifer Neeley Ortegon, as "doing go-to-market at the absolute frontier of AI" for its October 16-18, 2026 fall retreat, and in a women-in-GTM panel post. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jenniferortegon_top-shelf-fall-retreat-october-16-18-2026-activity-7485705391691939840--9Lt)
- Welcomed Chris Degnan as Cognition's new CRO in September 2026 (repost of his announcement), a change in her reporting chain's leadership. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/meredithsiewert_im-super-excited-to-join-cognition-as-its-activity-7511198924943069184-te1N)
- Promoted Cognition's productivity guarantee in June 2026: "Cognition is here to help with the industry's first productivity guarantee, and we are putting our money where our mouth is to the tune of $10M." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7468396443398152192--_Dq)
- Graham Moreno wrote that Meredith Siewert, Dave Frankel, Chris Li and Patrick Bresnahan "have built something special in our East / EMEA team", identifying her direct Windsurf peer group in the East/EMEA region. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grahammoreno_these-are-starting-to-feel-redundant-but-activity-7323778147684917248-sL_A)
- Graham Moreno's 'Year one at Codeium' post credits her among the early enterprise sellers alongside Paxton Duff. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grahammoreno_year-one-at-codeium-is-a-wrap-thank-you-activity-7292756465822433281-Y6xp)
- Public headline says "Head of Majors, Insurance @ Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Champions Cognition's "ambition-maxxing" framing for insurance tech leaders: "when faced with a tradeoff, choose the direction that expands what is possible." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/meredithsiewert_two-years-ago-many-technology-leaders-were-activity-7496252355642929154-VKHY)
- Shared Cognition's Devin Review launch (January 2026), a PR-review product, with the line "Code generation keeps getting faster. Code review does not." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7420169327699628032-6Q99)
- Posted Cognition's $400M raise at a $10.2B valuation in September 2025 and Cognition (Windsurf) being named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7370907826249977856-ndUC)
- Enterprise Account Executive at Airtable (Aug 2021 - Apr 2023); Airtable colleague Sam Rudy later followed her to Codeium, naming her in his 'new Codeium family' post. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-rudy-44a2287b_after-4-years-at-airtable-and-an-incredible-activity-7251989958163365888-VWvv)
- Hosted a Codeium GTM open house at the downtown Austin office in September 2024 to recruit SEs, SDRs, AEs and CSMs. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7237085789946306562-_5RX)
- Before Windsurf she was an Account Executive - Majors at Sonar (Apr 2023 - Jul 2024), selling the SonarQube clean-code platform; she posted "AI-generated code still needs to be cleaned". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7165454080306339840-0OpK)
- Spent five years at Oracle (Feb 2016 - Aug 2021), rising from Sales Business Development Representative in Austin to National Technology Account Manager, Analytics Territory Sales Manager and Enterprise Technology Account Executive in Chicago. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Previous roles include Regional Sales Director - Central & East - Majors at Cognition;  Strategic Regional Sales Director - Central & East at Windsurf; Strategic Account Executive at Windsurf; Account Executive - Majors at Sonar; Enterprise Account Executive at Airtable; Enterprise Technology Account Executive at Oracle; Analytics Territory Sales Manager at Oracle; National Technology Account Manager at Oracle. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Education history includes Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Marketing, Marketing with Concentration in Science, Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business; Bachelor’s Degree, Marketing with Concentration in Science, Baylor University. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Holds a BBA in Marketing (concentration in science) from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business (2011-2015); no olympiad, ICPC or training-camp history and no open-source/GitHub work was found. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Previous roles include Regional Sales Director - Central & East - Majors at Cognition;  Strategic Regional Sales Director - Central & East at Windsurf; Strategic Account Executive at Windsurf; Account Executive - Majors at Sonar; Enterprise Account Executive at Airtable; Enterprise Technology Account Executive at Oracle; Analytics Territory Sales Manager at Oracle; National Technology Account Manager at Oracle. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Education history includes Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Marketing, Marketing with Concentration in Science, Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business; Bachelor’s Degree, Marketing with Concentration in Science, Baylor University. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Early security-industry internships: Product Marketing Intern at Bugcrowd (2015) and Marketing Intern at Click Security in Austin (2015). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)
- Recruited for Oracle among Baylor alumni in 2016, posting in a Baylor group: "Oracle is seeking recent Baylor grads". (https://www.facebook.com/groups/232104356801386/posts/1361429170535560/)
- Location is Austin, Texas, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert)

## Experience
- Head of Majors, Insurance at Cognition - Austin, Texas, United States (Feb 2026 - Present)
- Regional Sales Director - Central & East - Majors at Cognition - Austin, Texas, United States (Sep 2025 - Feb 2026)
- Strategic Regional Sales Director - Central & East at Windsurf - Austin, Texas, United States (Jan 2025 - Sep 2025)
- Strategic Account Executive at Windsurf - Austin, Texas, United States (Jul 2024 - Jan 2025)
- Account Executive - Majors at Sonar - Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area (Apr 2023 - Jul 2024): Evangelizing Clean Code for development teams and beyond.
- Enterprise Account Executive at Airtable - Austin, Texas, United States (Aug 2021 - Apr 2023)
- Enterprise Technology Account Executive at Oracle - Greater Chicago Area (Jun 2019 - Aug 2021)
- Analytics Territory Sales Manager at Oracle - Greater Chicago Area (Sep 2018 - Jun 2019)
- National Technology Account Manager at Oracle - Austin, Texas Area (Feb 2017 - Aug 2018)
- Sales Business Development Representative at Oracle - Austin, Texas Area (Feb 2016 - Jan 2017)
- Product Marketing Intern at Bugcrowd Inc - San Francisco Bay Area & Remote (Sep 2015 - Oct 2015)
- Marketing Intern at Click Security - Austin, Texas Area (May 2015 - Aug 2015)
- Marketing Intern at WCG, a W2O Company - Austin, TX (Jun 2014 - Aug 2014)
- Marketing Director at The Southern Gentleman Clothing and Lifestyle Company - Waco, Texas Area (Oct 2013 - Jan 2014)
- Bank Teller at United Heritage Credit Union - Austin, Texas (May 2012 - Aug 2012): • Managed various sums of money in and out of bank
• Had security clearance into banks supply of cash
- Data Assistant at Balcones Pain Consultants - Austin, Texas (May 2011 - Aug 2011): • Transferred patient's paper records to digital
• Assisted in EMR transfer

## Education
- Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business - Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Marketing, Marketing with Concentration in Science - (Jan 2014 - Jan 2015)
- Baylor University - Bachelor’s Degree, Marketing with Concentration in Science - (Jan 2011 - Jan 2015)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithsiewert
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grahammoreno_another-quarter-wrapped-in-q3-at-codeium-activity-7260305545587298306-3wZw
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grahammoreno_year-one-at-codeium-is-a-wrap-thank-you-activity-7292756465822433281-Y6xp
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/grahammoreno_these-are-starting-to-feel-redundant-but-activity-7323778147684917248-sL_A
- https://devin.ai/blog/windsurfs-next-chapter
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/meredithsiewert_cognition-crosses-1b-in-annualized-revenue-activity-7509324828118663168-ZaLR
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jenniferortegon_top-shelf-fall-retreat-october-16-18-2026-activity-7485705391691939840--9Lt
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Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/meredith-mccarty-siewert · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people