Revenue · Partnerships · Operations
I connect revenue strategy, partnerships and operations to help businesses turn opportunity into growth.
01Professional bio
“A defragmentation specialist — seeing where strategy, systems and everyday execution stop connecting.”
Featured inDigital ReferenceBest Fractional CROs in Austin 2026For more than 20 years, Brad Hayden has worked across enterprises, startups and nonprofits, helping people and operations work better together. His experience spans Dell Technologies, Amazon’s Blink business, entrepreneurship and LGBTQIA+ community building.
Brad calls himself a defragmentation specialist: he sees where strategy, systems and everyday execution stop connecting, then helps teams close those gaps. At Today’s Growth Partners, he works alongside Founder & Chief Performance Officer Mary Douglas on client strategy and execution, with a focus on revenue, partnerships, business development and commercial opportunity.
02Places I have lived
Six places so far — each one a fragment of how Brad works, and the reason he is good at connecting the pieces.
and the route continues
International travels thus far
Travels Brad has experienced so far, expanding his appreciation for cultures outside the US.
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Hong Kong03Selected experience and outcomes
20+
Brands optimized
$1B
ARR MANAGED
$4B
Business improved through RevOps
$1B ARR
50% year-over-year growth
As a Senior Demand Planning Account Manager, Brad was part of the team that grew Dell’s largest customer account 50% year over year to $1B ARR. He also led a revenue operations project improving supply-chain processes and reporting across a $2B business.
P&L
Strategic sales program
Held P&L responsibility for a strategic sales program and led Blink Home Security’s direct-response television program, with work spanning direct sales, brand awareness, channel development and cross-functional operations.
Best Fractional CROs
Austin · Digital Reference
Featured in Digital Reference’s list of Best Fractional CROs in Austin.
04The body of work
Today’s Growth Partners is Brad’s main work today — the practice that ties the ventures below together.
Chair, Austin Community
Brad chairs StartOut’s Austin, TX Leadership Council, increasing opportunity and success for LGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs; while piloting new ideas, new partnerships, and the Texas way.
startout.orgPartnerships
Brad’s Community Bridge research led to the creation of the QUILT Initiative with QWELL. He has since helped QWELL draw in resources and help from more than three other organizations to build the QUILT, which is in progress.
qwell.lgbt/quiltCo-Founder
A program Brad helped co-found under the QWELL Community Foundation: a community of LGBTQIA+ technologists and builders— technologists, founders, researchers, and allies shaping how artificial intelligence gets designed, deployed, and governed. We gather, we ship, and we make sure the next era of computing reflects all of us.
outinai.comAdvisor
A solopreneur- and startup-first accelerator that helps founders validate their idea, find their first customers, make their first dollar, build alongside other founders, and crowdfund what comes next.
peerfounder.comFounded by Brad
Silver Sharps was founded by Brad Hayden as a platform for revenue operations, business development, partnerships and entrepreneurial collaboration. The experience, relationships and body of work developed through Silver Sharps now inform Brad’s work as Founding Partner and Chief Revenue Officer of Today’s Growth Partners.
silversharps.com
Concept in development
Entrepreneurs House is a concept Brad is working toward: a lived-in home where founders can build ventures, share meals, and form meaningful connections. He envisions a place where everyday collaboration, community gatherings, and support for emerging ideas become part of life under one roof.
Brad welcomes feedback and conversations with potential collaborators and partners through Today’s Growth Partners or the social connections below.
Explore the concept05 — COMMUNITY BUILDER
Brad brings the same commitment to connection to LGBTQIA+ community work. As chair of StartOut’s Austin community, he connects founders, operators, mentors, investors and partners. His Community Bridge research and work on QWELL’s QUILT Initiative focus on helping organizations share resources and build stronger relationships.
CO-FOUNDING HISTORY
06Professional Highlights
A defragmentation story across a whole career: Brad has worked for the biggest companies in the world and founded volunteer-run nonprofits that still thrive together.
Senior Demand Planning Account Manager
Gold Award — North America End User Computing COC, February 3, 2017
Brad managed Dell’s largest and most complex account. He was recognized with Dell’s Gold Award for taking on a $2B business-unit supply chain optimization project while leading Demand Planning CPFR efforts for the company’s largest account.
Part of the team that grew that account 50% year over year to $1B ARR.
Shark Tank CEO Robert Herjavec
Brad’s first role after 15 years at Dell was with Shark Tank’s Robert Herjavec, who asked Brad to optimize Business Development efforts at his largest company, Herjavec Group. Brad brought revenue optimization skills across sales, ops, strategy and success — and the company was acquired shortly after, with its acquisition by Cyderes announced in early 2021.
Sales program accelerator
Brad oversaw the sales program accelerator for Amazon’s fastest-growing product line, Blink Home Security Cameras — optimizing at the edge of an enterprise known for optimizing. Blink was acquired a few years before he arrived, and he could still see the transition happening through growth, learning from the smartest and fastest product group at Amazon.
Enterprise defragmentation for nonprofits
Brad is bringing his complex enterprise defragmentation experience to researching 3,000+ organizations — finding where operations efforts are duplicated and where the best ideas struggle to scale efficiently.
Founder and advisor
Brad’s startup experience is expansive when the threads connect: Herjavec Group was acquired shortly after his efforts, Blink was still scaling through its post-acquisition transition, and now he advises early-stage startups and nonprofits on how to set themselves up for success.
Proof that you can build community while fueling your ambitions and helping great ideas scale to millions.
At Today’s Growth Partners, clients get access to the person the biggest companies have relied on to lead complex, fragmented business units that need to be optimized — helping each company achieve its forecasted goals.
07Why Silver Sharps?
Brad is a lover of animals. Sharps is the name of the Weimaraner he wanted as a teenager — and as an adult, he decided not to be responsible for that much energy. Silver is the color of a Weimaraner. Sharps is also the name of a zero-alcohol beer Brad would sneak a taste of when his uncle was in town once a year.
No Weimaraner yet — but plenty of animal friends along the way.
For business engagements, work with Brad through Today’s Growth Partners. For professional connections, board and advisory conversations, or community collaboration, connect with Brad on LinkedIn, Hey Famm or Instagram.
