# Salima Ghadimi

![Salima Ghadimi](/resources/cognition/portraits/salima-ghadimi.webp)

GTM Operations lead at Cognition (Devin, Windsurf); joined at ~10 people  
Cognition  
New York, New York, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Operations (Finance/Ops)
- Joined: Mar 2024
- How they joined: Directly
- Before Cognition: Platform Operations, Capchase
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: University of Pennsylvania (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789
- Domain: cognition.ai

## Notes
- Now leads Cognition's GTM Operations team ('Two years later, I lead our GTM Operations team'), a progression from do-anything operator to running the operational backbone of sales. (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)
- Joined Cognition when it had about ten people, in March 2024. (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)
- Early generalist work at Cognition: she worked on the company's first contracts, onboarded customers, thought through pricing and spent growing time with sales, which led her into go-to-market. (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)
- Current role is Operations at Cognition; the profile current-job fields identify both title and company. (linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- A vendor partner (Enda Cahill) posted in Sept 2026 that he visited Cognition's office 'to congratulate Salima Ghadimi and the team on their $2b raise', noting the 'famous Windsurf acquisition' and a renewed partnership. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/enda-cahill_stopped-by-cognitions-office-to-congratulate-activity-7505976391327256576-Efk7)
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE (IP, product, trademark, brand and team), in July 2025, roughly 16 months into her tenure. (https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf)
- Her start was the day of the Devin demo launch: she was summoned at night to a Manhattan apartment whose address was 'said once and never texted', and was onboarded by being handed a Ramp card. (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)
- Platform Operations at Capchase (revenue-based financing for SaaS) from June 2021 to March 2024, quoted as Manager of Platform Operations. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Describes the New York office growing from 'a handful of us' to nearly 90 people in a SoHo office built for about 40, and credits its 'rah-rah' sales culture. (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)
- At her first stand-up, Steven Hao (now Cognition CTO) asked 'Wait, who are you?', and the team asked the question still put to every new hire: 'What have you shipped today?' (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)
- At Capchase she ran payments operations on Modern Treasury; the case study says Capchase saved about 600 hours in 2022 and moved $750M with a 90% reduction in manual work, and quotes her: 'We've gained an incredible amount of extra time, both through the integration and by extracting the information Modern Treasury has on our payments.' (https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/customer-spotlight-capchase)
- Public headline says "Operations @ Cognition". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Public headline says "Operations @ Cognition". (linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Also quoted by Modern Treasury: 'It's a seamless and predictable payments experience... Payment concerns are pretty much eliminated because all of this is automated through payments processing partners.' Payments ops and contracts experience maps directly onto her early Cognition work on contracts and pricing. (https://www.moderntreasury.com/customers/capchase)
- Featured as entry 01 on Cognition's official team-spotlight page with the title 'GTM Operations'. (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)
- Within her first week the landlord tried to evict the team; they moved laptops on a hotel luggage cart down 57th Street to a penthouse a block away that became the next office, shared with a real estate company and barking dogs. (https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi)
- Associate at Dorilton Capital (private investment firm) 2020-2021, overlapping her Columbia MBA. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Senior Associate, Growth at Exiger (risk and compliance) 2018-2020. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Workplace Strategist then Senior Workplace Strategist at CBRE 2016-2018, after a 2015 workplace strategy internship there. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Wrote for Penn's 34th Street Magazine, including the 2014 essay 'Who are you: Salima Ghadimi' and the 2015 piece 'Contrapposto: Covering Charlie'. (https://www.34st.com/staff/salima-ghadimi)
- Previous roles include Platform Operations at Capchase; Associate at Dorilton Capital; Senior Associate, Growth at Exiger; Senior Workplace Strategist at CBRE; Workplace Strategist at CBRE; Workplace Strategy Intern at CBRE; Marketing and Business Development Intern at NeueHouse; Marketing and Communications Intern at Bottega Veneta. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Previous roles include Operations at Cognition; Platform Operations at Capchase; Associate at Dorilton Capital; Senior Associate, Growth at Exiger; Senior Workplace Strategist at CBRE; Workplace Strategist at CBRE; Workplace Strategy Intern at CBRE; Marketing and Business Development Intern at NeueHouse; the experience history lists these employers and titles. (linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Reposted Cognition's 'Introducing Devin Auto-Triage' launch on LinkedIn in May 2026. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_introducing-devin-auto-triage-devin-can-ugcPost-7462162649871478784-raJ4?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAHCgT3gBSkmA3ZU6uOhrq_RGtkFNwY1bxlI)
- Posted 'Proud to be a part of this amazing team!' about Capchase in March 2023. (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/salima-ghadimi-17064789_proud-to-be-a-part-of-this-amazing-team-activity-7037199577006919680-Usp-)
- Early internships in fashion and hospitality: Christian Louboutin wholesale (2012), Bottega Veneta marketing and communications (2013), NeueHouse marketing and business development (2014). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Location is New York, New York, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)
- Location is New York, New York, United States; the profile location field provides this geography. (linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789)

## Experience
- Operations at Cognition - New York, United States (Mar 2024 - Present)
- Platform Operations at Capchase - New York, United States (Jun 2021 - Mar 2024)
- Associate at Dorilton Capital - New York, United States (Sep 2020 - Apr 2021)
- Senior Associate, Growth at Exiger - Greater New York City Area (May 2018 - Jan 2020)
- Senior Workplace Strategist at CBRE - New York, New York (Mar 2018 - May 2018)
- Workplace Strategist at CBRE - New York, New York (Aug 2016 - Mar 2018)
- Workplace Strategy Intern at CBRE - New York, New York (Jun 2015 - Aug 2015)
- Marketing and Business Development Intern at NeueHouse - New York, NY (Jun 2014 - Aug 2014)
- Marketing and Communications Intern at Bottega Veneta - New York, NY (May 2013 - Jul 2013)
- Wholesale Intern at Christian Louboutin - Paris, France (Mar 2012 - Apr 2012)

## Education
- Columbia Business School - Master of Business Administration - MBA - (Jan 2020 - Jan 2021)
- University of Pennsylvania - Bachelor's Degree, Economics - (Jan 2012 - Jan 2016)
- Columbia Business School - Master of Business Administration - MBA - (Jan 2020 - Dec 2021)
- University of Pennsylvania - Bachelor's Degree, Economics - (Jan 2012 - Dec 2016): Kappa Alpha Theta,
Mortar Board Honor Society,
Wharton Real Estate Club

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789
- https://cognition.com/team-spotlights/salima-ghadimi
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/enda-cahill_stopped-by-cognitions-office-to-congratulate-activity-7505976391327256576-Efk7
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/salima-ghadimi-17064789_proud-to-be-a-part-of-this-amazing-team-activity-7037199577006919680-Usp-
- https://www.moderntreasury.com/journal/customer-spotlight-capchase
- https://www.moderntreasury.com/customers/capchase
- https://www.34st.com/staff/salima-ghadimi
- https://www.34st.com/article/2014/11/who-are-you-salima-ghadimi
- https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf
- linkedin.com/in/salima-ghadimi-17064789
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cognition-ai-labs_introducing-devin-auto-triage-devin-can-ugcPost-7462162649871478784-raJ4?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=member_desktop_web&rcm=ACoAAHCgT3gBSkmA3ZU6uOhrq_RGtkFNwY1bxlI


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