The story of CTO Levels begins with the founding of 7CTOs.
In 2013, Etienne de Bruin founded an organization focused on bringing Chief Technology Officers into peer groups. The prime directive was to create an emotionally intelligent collective of tech leadership people pursuing growth and impact in their roles.
LevelsOS, LLC was founded in 2023 by Kathy Keating, Scott Graves and Etienne de Bruin.
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Kathy Keating is a mission-driven technology executive, bringing three decades of experience in SaaS B2B and B2B2C. She has worked in technology across seven different industries including HRTech, FinTech and HealthTech. As a two-time founder with an exit, she is a forward-thinking leader committed to steering and empowering high-performing teams to cultivate great culture and deliver successful results.
Kathy has been at the helm of many visionary strategies, transformations, strategic partnerships, pivotal initiatives, turnarounds, and out of the box problem solving leading growing companies to scale quickly and effectively including at such companies as Monster, Webroot, AUTOPAY, and Ad Hoc.
Most of the software products she and her teams have built are still in production today. This has given her a keen eye to what works (and what doesn’t) in building products that will grow and last.
Kathy is a CTO Advisor and Executive Coach. She coaches CTOs and CEOs to develop the key leadership skills that are essential for success in their role, including their ability to think strategically, make effective decisions, build highly productive teams, and successfully navigate change. She assists startups and scaleups to optimize their product engineering operations so that they can deliver quickly and effectively.
Kathy holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona with an emphasis in artificial intelligence. She also holds additional relevant certifications in Data Science, Entrepreneurship and Ontological Coaching. She is a global mentor within the Techstars ecosystem, holds multiple advisory positions, and sits on boards.
Kathy is an articulate communicator, both in writing and speaking, with an innate ability to cultivate and maintain a strong network with the tech ecosystem and with industry experts. Kathy lives in Colorado.
Favorite Blocks: Catalyst, Lean, Product, Collaboration, Partnership, Boards
CTO, Coach, Founder, Author, and Speaker
Founder at 7CTOs
Author of CTO Excellence
Creator of CTO Levels
Host of the CTO Podcast
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Etienne de Bruin began his career as a software developer in his native South Africa before moving to Germany, where he joined a startup building innovative products in the data encryption space, then to San Diego, where he managed the supply chain and business intelligence of a biotech startup. From 2005 to 2015, Etienne co-founded a company, where he served as CTO, navigating SaaS product development in a rapidly scaling environment and establishing himself as a highly effective C-level executive. After serving many organizations as advisory board member or CTO, Etienne founded 7CTOs, a peer group and coaching organization supporting CTOs, technical founders, and other executive leaders.
Technologist, CTO, and Mentor
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Scott Graves started his career at CCH where rose from journeyman programmer to lead architect on the Electronic Filing Center, a system that processed more than one third of US tax returns. While at CCH he was instrumental in the creation of SecureTax, the first online tax preparation platform. Acquired by TurboTax, it became the foundation of TurboTax Online.
From 2005 until 2015 he served as CTO and partner at P3 Partners LLC. P3 provided strategic guidance, acquisition support, and contract management services to the CIOs of the Transportation Security Administration, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Aviation Administration. Scott became interested in machine learning and big data in 2015 while helping the US Treasury Department build systems for forecasting economic disasters.