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Charlie Buffa

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Vice President, Sales at Mainsail Partners

San Francisco, California, United States

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About

Charlie Buffa works with sales leaders across Mainsail's portfolio companies, focusing on building outbound sales programs, adopting AI tools and workflows, sales training, and manager coaching. Before Mainsail, he held individual contributor and sales leadership roles at several SaaS companies, most recently serving as SVP Sales at Mainsail portfolio company Sourcescrub, and spent four years at SurveyMonkey leading BDR teams, with earlier roles at Wonolo and TechValidate. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University.

Invests in

SaaS

Experience

  1. Mainsail PartnersVice President, Salescurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Mainsail PartnersExecutive-in-Residence2026San Francisco, California, United States
  3. SourcescrubSVP of Sales2024 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  4. SourcescrubVP of Sales2021 — 2024
  5. SourcescrubDirector Of Inside Sales2020 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
  6. WonoloMid Market Account Executive2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
  7. ClozeLoopSenior Associate2018San Francisco Bay Area
  8. SurveyMonkeySenior Account Executive2017 — 2018
  9. SurveyMonkeySenior Sales Development Manager2017
  10. TechValidate SoftwareSales Development Manager & Account Executive2016Emeryville, CA
  11. TechValidate SoftwareAccount Executive2015Emeryville, CA
  12. TechValidate SoftwareClient Research Analyst2014 — 2015Emeryville, CA
  13. Persistent Systems, LLCBusiness Development & Sales Support Specialist2013 — 2014New York City Metropolitan Area
  14. Johns Hopkins UniversityPeer Assistant2009 — 2013Washington DC-Baltimore Area
  15. National Basketball AssociationIntern2012New York City Metropolitan Area
  16. JMI EquityIntern2011 — 2012Baltimore, Maryland Area
  17. 2010CUTCO Sales Representative2011

Skills & more

Marketing Strategy18Content Marketing16Business Development28Sales Management12Sandler Sales Training14Public Speaking30Data Analysis29Microsoft Office29Social Media33Sales30Research19Microsoft Excel14
+4 morePowerPointEditingCommunity OutreachMicrosoft Word

Languages English · Italian

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Colleagues at Mainsail Partners

Andrea McNees
Senior Manager, GTM Strategy & Operations at Mainsail Partners
Ania Frankel
Senior Director, Internal Operations at Mainsail Partners
Anthony Hayes
Partner at Mainsail Partners
Anurag Sharma
Associate at Mainsail Partners
Apoorva Polisetty
Talent Director at Mainsail Partners
Atasha Bozorgzad
Executive Assistant at Mainsail Partners
Barnaby Dorfman
CTO-in-Residence at Mainsail Partners
Bashir Abdallah
Vice President, Product at Mainsail Partners

Frequently asked questions

Who is Charlie Buffa?
Charlie Buffa works with sales leaders across Mainsail's portfolio companies, focusing on building outbound sales programs, adopting AI tools and workflows, sales training, and manager coaching. Before Mainsail, he held individual contributor and sales leadership roles at several SaaS companies, most recently serving as SVP Sales at Mainsail portfolio company Sourcescrub, and spent four years at SurveyMonkey leading BDR teams, with earlier roles at Wonolo and TechValidate. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University.
Where does Charlie Buffa work?
Charlie Buffa is Vice President, Sales at Mainsail Partners.
What does Charlie Buffa invest in?
Charlie Buffa invests in SaaS.
Where did Charlie Buffa go to school?
Charlie Buffa studied at The Johns Hopkins University (Bachelor of Arts, International Studies, History); Weston High School.

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