Sales/GTM · Strategic Account Executive

Van Hoisington III

“GTM @ Cognition”

Joined Cognition
Jul 2025
How they joined
With Windsurf
Before Windsurf
LiveAction SoftwareRegional Sales Manager
Status
Current
Overlapped before Cognition

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LocationAustin, Texas, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
LanguagesEnglish
UniversitySouthern Methodist University
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Notes
  • Became a Cognition Strategic Account Executive in 2025 when Cognition acquired Windsurf (July 2025); Windsurf leaders described the deal as combining Windsurf's in-IDE AI with Devin's autonomous cloud agent, which is the 'better together' story he now sells.Jul 18, 2025
  • Named by Windsurf sales leader Graham Moreno among the top-10 AEs of Q1 2025 ('Breaking into the top 10 this quarter was a BATTLE -- huge congrats to Sam Miraglia, Van Hoisington III...').May 2025
  • Tagged with Alok Desai in Michael Hahl's 'Big news from Cognition & MongoDB' post (2026-08-13).Aug 13, 2026
  • A customer-side engineering leader, Frank Blecha, publicly credited 'Van H. @Windsurf' with showing that Windsurf supports IntelliJ, Xcode and Neovim, not just VS Code ('A real unlock for enterprise-scale development'). This is direct evidence of his enterprise selling motion: technical demos of multi-IDE coverage to large engineering orgs.Jun 11, 2025
  • His only public post found about his work at Codeium/Windsurf/Cognition (2024-11-07), quoted word for word: "Come meet us at re:Invent from December 2-6 in Las Vegas! 🚀 📍 Visit us at Booth 1798 or fill out our contact form at codeium.ai/reinvent to schedule a time to meet with us at the event. We are excited to talk to you about how Codeium's AI-powered solutions can supercharge your developers. See you in Vegas 🔮".Nov 7, 2024Come meet us at re:Invent from December 2-6 in Las Vegas! Visit us at Booth 1798 or fill out our contact form at codeium.ai/reinvent ... how Codeium's AI-powered solutions can supercharge your developers.
  • Joined Codeium (later renamed Windsurf) as a Strategic Account Executive in 2024 after roughly three years at LiveAction Software, moving from network-monitoring sales into AI coding tools.2024
  • Listed in Graham Moreno's Q3 2024 Codeium wrap-up among new hires welcomed that quarter, the same quarter Codeium announced its $150M Series C. That dates his start to the Codeium growth push of mid/late 2024.Nov 7, 2024
  • Public headline says "GTM @ Cognition".
  • Named among teammates in Cognition's Austin office (with Meredith Siewert, Sandeep Shah, Hannah Miller-Jones, Isaac Kim, Connor Haley and others) in Jennifer Ortegón's one-year-at-Cognition post. Many of these names are also ex-Windsurf East/EMEA sellers.Jun 30, 2026
  • Regional Area Manager then Regional Sales Manager at LiveAction Software (2021-2024), a network performance monitoring vendor.2021
  • Enterprise Account Executive (2020-2021) and earlier National Account Manager (Oct 2018-Dec 2019) at SolarWinds, an IT infrastructure monitoring software company.Oct 2018
  • Sales and Business Development Manager at Kata Logistics (Sep 2017-Sep 2018), a managed transportation company.Sep 2017

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