We are making sales meetings better for everyone in the room
Nayak was built by product, engineering and operations leaders who have run thousands of sales calls and endured just as many as buyers. We saw the same problem from both sides: the signal was there, but the useful guidance arrived too late.
Backed By
Nayak is backed by investors and operators who understand what it takes to build durable, category-defining software.
Our Team
A team with deep experience building real-time systems, scaling go-to-market organizations and turning difficult problems into useful products.
Jean Templin
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
A product and go-to-market leader with more than 20 years scaling businesses at Twilio, AnchorFree, Avast and Sticky.ai. A two-time founder and former first product hire, Jean pioneered the use of biometrics to measure marketing impact. After thousands of sales calls, she is focused on making meetings better through real-time analysis and coaching.
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Heather Hamsa
Chief Operating Officer
Heather has scaled customer-centric products and high-growth operations across Medallia, Twilio and Wells Fargo. Her work spans product, sales, support, business operations, strategy and consulting. She brings social science to business problems, with degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Christine Templin
Chief Technology Officer
An engineering and technology leader from Apple, Twitter and TextNow, Christine specializes in building and scaling real-time systems at critical growth stages. She has led teams across engineering, infrastructure, platform, DevOps and IT, scaling those functions from zero to enterprise.
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Our Advisors
Reading buyer signals is applied psychology before it is software. Nayak's advisors bring social science, cognitive science and revenue leadership to the work.
Dr. Emily Balcetis
Social Psychologist, New York University
Researcher and author of Clearer, Closer, Better: How Successful People See the World.
Dr. Aron Gerhardt
Applied Psychologist
A psychological-science architect who brings applied cognitive science to AI.
David Morse
Former Chief Revenue Officer · $2B in Sales
Author, advisor and modern B2B sales thought leader focused on disciplined revenue execution.
Doug Childress
Global CEO, Turnium Technology Group
A technology executive and channel leader with 38 years in managed services and Technology as a Service.