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Charlie Buffa

Investor

Vice President, Sales at Mainsail Partners

San Francisco, California, United States

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.

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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

Education

  1. The Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Arts, International Studies
  2. Weston High School

Skills & more

Public Speaking30Marketing Strategy18Content Marketing16Business Development28Sales Management12Sandler Sales Training14Data Analysis29Social Media33Sales30Research19Editing13Community Outreach10
+4 moreMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft ExcelPowerPointMicrosoft Word

Languages English · Italian · Spanish

From Charlie's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended The Johns Hopkins University196

Wes NicholsPartner at March Capital PartnersDemi ObayomiPrincipal at Sapphire VenturesCaitlinChief of Staff at Hummingbird VenturesJun JeonInvestor at Khosla VenturesNicole FraenkelInvestor at Khosla VenturesElena VibochManaging Director at General Catalyst

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Shared employers

Also worked at Wonolo1

Alex RohrbachSenior Associate at Thomvest Ventures

Also worked at ClozeLoop1

Hilmon SoreyPartner at 2.12 Angels

Also worked at TechValidate Software2

Tyler ChurchillPrincipal at Bonfire VenturesBrian BordleyPartner at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

Also worked at Johns Hopkins University43

Demi ObayomiPrincipal at Sapphire VenturesCaitlinChief of Staff at Hummingbird VenturesJun JeonInvestor at Khosla VenturesLinda CuretonBoard Member at Maryland TEDCOOluwakayode (Kay) JasanyaInvestor at SUPPLY CHANGE CAPITALAnnie MitsakPartner at Cure Ventures

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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