Rick Braitsch
Sales Leadership - Strategic
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Braitsch is a strategic sales leader with 8+ years in cloud and enterprise technology sales and a 25+ year career grounding in infrastructure and technical leadership. Currently leading Strategic Sales at Google after senior roles at AWS and NetApp, he specializes in aligning product and engineering teams to deliver measurable customer outcomes and scalable go-to-market propositions. He excels at navigating complex global accounts—having acted as a CTO-level advisor for multinational media and automotive clients—and consistently drives revenue and footprint expansion. Skilled at bridging technical depth (data center migrations, hybrid cloud strategies) with commercial execution, he amplifies Google and partner ecosystems to build pipeline and shape product direction. Based in Los Angeles, Rick combines hands-on project delivery experience from his Honda and NetApp days with a customer-first, executive-influence approach that surfaces pragmatic product improvements. Notably, he pairs deep technical program management with a knack for translating customer feedback into strategic roadmap wins.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
English, JapaneseProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rbrook22/bar-management-app
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:92 PRs, 103 pushes, 71 branches in 16 days
rbrook22/HMS-App
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 14 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 days
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