Carl is the former Head of Growth at Plaid, where he led the account management, commercial, and customer engineering teams for close to a decade. As an early member of the company, he also built out Plaid's sales, support, and operations teams, while balancing his duties as happy hour chairperson. Prior to Plaid, Carl was a strategy and operations consultant to Fortune 500 retail companies as well as a whitewater rafting guide on the Gallatin River in Montana, where he learned to fear the sound of banjos. He supports Rivia on GTM & Strategy.