# Parker Drew

GTM @ Cognition  
Cognition  
Austin, Texas, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Account Director, Enterprise (Sales/GTM)
- Joined: Jul 2024
- How they joined: With Windsurf (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf)
- Before Windsurf: Sales Intern, Gigamon
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Codeium (Windsurf) (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew
- Domain: cognition.com

## Notes
- Posted about closing/launching Hippo (insurance) rolling out Devin across its engineering team, citing DeepWiki and a quote from Hippo CPO/CAIO Kyle Ramsay. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_hippo-deploys-devin-cognitions-ai-software-activity-7476054843002941441-t5Wm)
- Promoted to Emerging Enterprise Account Executive at Cognition, announced Feb 2026; LinkedIn now lists the role as Account Director, Enterprise (from 2026-02). (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_im-excited-to-announce-that-ive-been-promoted-activity-7425250308429099009-1Nlv)
- Origin story in his own words: "I stepped into the AI coding space originally joining Codeium in 2024. The fork in the road for me at the time was either take the risk of moving from San Jose to Austin to be apart of a 50 person startup, or take the safe route and try to join a much larger established company." (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_im-excited-to-announce-that-ive-been-promoted-activity-7425250308429099009-1Nlv)
- Rose from early GTM hire at a ~50-person Codeium to enterprise account director at a $26B Cognition in about 19 months, with the acquisition acting as the accelerant; his own post frames taking the startup risk as "the best decision I could've possibly made for my career". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_im-excited-to-announce-that-ive-been-promoted-activity-7425250308429099009-1Nlv)
- Came to Cognition through its acquisition of Windsurf: Cognition signed a definitive agreement on 2025-07-14 covering Windsurf's IP, product, trademark, brand and people, days after Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO and research leaders. (https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf)
- Current role is Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Credits Alex Maske as his mentor for "the past year and a half" (roughly since the Codeium join in mid-2024), and thanks Graham Moreno, Hannah Miller-Jones, Austin Mead and Sebastian Canizares as the leaders who gave him the opportunity. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_im-excited-to-announce-that-ive-been-promoted-activity-7425250308429099009-1Nlv)
- Joined Codeium/Windsurf in GTM in July 2024 and relocated from San Jose to Austin, where Codeium's go-to-market team was based. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Organized a Cognition invite-only executive dinner and poker tournament at AWS re:Invent (Dec 1, 2025) and staffed booth #779, showing field-marketing and exec-pipeline work in enterprise sales. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_were-hosting-something-special-at-aws-re-activity-7399211120525443072-oIGt)
- Public headline says "GTM @ Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Describes Cognition as "the most talent dense GTM and Engineering team in the industry"; the promotion post drew 127 reactions and 35 comments, his most-engaged post. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_im-excited-to-announce-that-ive-been-promoted-activity-7425250308429099009-1Nlv)
- LinkedIn shows overlapping GTM roles at Windsurf (2024-07 to 2025-09) and Cognition (2025-07 to 2026-01). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Sales Intern at Gigamon (network visibility/security) June-Oct 2023 while in college, his first enterprise tech sales exposure. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Worked at Fitness 19 from 2020 to 2024 as Lead Representative and Assistant Manager (2021-07 to 2022-01), a consumer membership-sales background that preceded his move into AI developer tooling. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Regularly reposts Cognition launches: Devin Desktop (next generation of Windsurf, 2026-06), Windsurf 2.0 (2026-04), the $26B raise (2026-05), Auto-Triage, Devin managing Devins, Devin on Mac, and the Citi earnings mention. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_introducing-devin-desktop-the-next-generation-ugcPost-7467656058245718016-w_dZ)
- Previous roles include Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition; GTM at Cognition; GTM at Windsurf; Lead Representative at Fitness 19; Sales Intern at Gigamon; Assistant Manager at Fitness 19. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Education history includes Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General, San José State University. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Holds a BBA in Business Administration and Management from San Jose State University. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Reposted Jeff Wang's Devin and Slack Code launch post (2026-08), keeping him visibly aligned with Cognition leadership's product messaging. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jefflinwang_a-good-teammate-earns-trust-they-give-you-ugcPost-7496293254062194688-lZie)
- Shared a security-remediation post with only the emoji caption "🔒 🤝". (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_security-remediation-is-an-engineering-capacity-activity-7457490507976433664-z0Ib)
- Location is Austin, Texas, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)
- Based in Austin, Texas; about 3,150 LinkedIn followers and connections. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew)

## Experience
- Account Director, Enterprise at Cognition (Feb 2026 - Present)
- GTM at Cognition (Jul 2025 - Jan 2026): Cognition is building the future of AI software engineering agents. Its flagship products—Devin, the world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer, and Devin Desktop, the industry leading agentic AI IDE—push the boundaries of what’s possible, transforming how software engineers work.

Founded in 2023, Cognition has raised over $2 billion in capital at a $26 billion valuation, supporting enterprises like Goldman Sachs, Citi, Dell, Cisco, Palantir, and Mercado Libre. Investors include Founders Fund, Lux Capital, 8VC, and Bain Capital Ventures.
- GTM at Windsurf (Jul 2024 - Sep 2025): (Acquired by Cognition in July, 2025)

Code that writes code.
- Lead Representative at Fitness 19 (Sep 2020 - Jul 2024)
- Sales Intern at Gigamon (Jun 2023 - Oct 2023)
- Assistant Manager at Fitness 19 (Jul 2021 - Jan 2022)

## Education
- San José State University - Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration and Management, General

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-drew?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAADzw6x8B7eBYzltHTrGHe_0Ac6Z99hYQI5U
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/cognition-ai-labs/posts
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflinwang?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAIU70ABoq4f17O2Fls4IOq5yGVjaa1us0c
- https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/imjaredz?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAAqKRmUBEZQHb7INg3brqEZP58uXocnHRpE
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinmincer?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAACDuuwBhvZYRp21JvPY5l0nc2vm1kmkifI
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-addington?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAB9iA1AB_bXxFNItRHJ6ygr-5JOSp2Fj9Ow
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/pat-tillman-foundation/posts
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/14/cognition-maker-of-the-ai-coding-agent-devin-acquires-windsurf/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_hippo-deploys-devin-cognitions-ai-software-activity-7476054843002941441-t5Wm
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_im-excited-to-announce-that-ive-been-promoted-activity-7425250308429099009-1Nlv
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_were-hosting-something-special-at-aws-re-activity-7399211120525443072-oIGt
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_introducing-devin-desktop-the-next-generation-ugcPost-7467656058245718016-w_dZ
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jefflinwang_a-good-teammate-earns-trust-they-give-you-ugcPost-7496293254062194688-lZie
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/parker-drew_security-remediation-is-an-engineering-capacity-activity-7457490507976433664-z0Ib


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/parker-drew · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people