Smit is currently part of the leadership team at Postman serving as Head of Corporate Development, looking after M&A and strategic investments. He has also built 3 other teams at company for cultivating the API ecosystem through Postman API Network, Partnerships and Developer Relations.

Previously, he was the first BD hire at Datadog and helped shape the partnerships strategy leading upto the IPO.

He’s worked in various GTM roles at top companies in both Boston and Silicon Valley amongst which are 3 unicorns – Postman, Datadog and HubSpot.

He has the rare ability to understand the bigger strategic picture with the C-Suite while being able to articulate the details necessary and build out the roadmap to execute that larger goal cross-functionally. This has made him a trusted operator/advisor to top founders in tech.