# Cameron Brain
> CEO & Co-founder, EveryoneSocial — the employee advocacy platform helping companies activate their people on social

- Profile: https://cameronbrain.com
- Handle: cb
- Location: Seattle, Washington, US
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- Last updated: 1 Oct 2026
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## About

Co-founded EveryoneSocial in 2012 and have led it since — bootstrapped, trusted by Amazon, Meta, NVIDIA, Honeywell and Merck, and now bringing EveryoneSocial Compliance to financial institutions.

Deliberately not on this page: financial information (revenue, ARR, funding, valuation), business KPIs and metrics.

## Areas of expertise

Employee advocacy & social selling, B2B SaaS growth (bootstrapped), Go-to-market strategy & expansion, Social media compliance for financial services, AI-native / agentic product development, LinkedIn & professional social networks, Customer success & retention, Entrepreneurship & start-ups, Product management & product marketing, Content marketing, Strategic partnerships & business development

## Positions

- CEO & Co-Founder at EveryoneSocial (2012-01 – present) — email-confirmed
- Director of Product at Reddit (2014-10 – 2015-11), San Francisco, CA
  Led product for commerce and business development at Reddit, then one of the 10 most-trafficked sites in the US.
- Advisor at Mission Motorcycles (2014-02 – 2014-10), San Francisco, CA
  Advised the maker of the Mission RS, a high-performance all-electric superbike built in San Francisco.
- Founder & CEO at Open Box Technologies (2004-10 – 2010-03), Troy, NY
  Founded and ran an early SaaS video platform that let businesses store, manage and publish video to the web and mobile.
- Founder & CEO at Bicycle Parts Direct (1998-05 – 2000-10), Seattle, WA
  Started the first online mountain bike retailer to import high-quality, machine-manufactured frames and components to the US. The business lives on as Unreal Cycles.

## Education

- BS — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

## Publications

- The State of Exec & Employee Advocacy: Momentum, Focus, and the Future — article, 2026-01-28 (https://cameronbrain.com/articles/the-state-of-exec-and-employee-advocacy-momentum-focus-and-the-future); originally published on LinkedIn, January 28, 2026
- The ROI of Advocacy in 2025 — article, 2025-05-16 (https://cameronbrain.com/articles/the-roi-of-advocacy-in-2025); originally published on LinkedIn, May 16, 2025
- The Future Is Unevenly Distributed — article, 2025-04-08 (https://cameronbrain.com/articles/the-future-is-unevenly-distributed); originally published on LinkedIn, April 8, 2025
- How & Why B2C Brands Are Leveraging Employee Advocacy — article, 2024-06-14 (https://cameronbrain.com/articles/how-and-why-b2c-brands-are-leveraging-employee-advocacy); originally published on LinkedIn, June 14, 2024
- How to Build Trust on Social Media in 2024 — article, 2024-01-03 (https://cameronbrain.com/articles/how-to-build-trust-on-social-media-in-2024); originally published on LinkedIn, January 3, 2024
- Three Reasons Why Marketers DON'T Invest In Brand Advocacy — article, 2023-10-06 (https://cameronbrain.com/articles/three-reasons-why-marketers-dont-invest-in-brand-advocacy); originally published on LinkedIn, October 6, 2023
- Traditional Content Marketing Doesn’t Work. Here’s What Does. — article, 2023-09-29 (https://cameronbrain.com/articles/traditional-content-marketing-doesnt-work-heres-what-does); originally published on LinkedIn, September 29, 2023
- Top 4 reasons why CMOs are making employee advocacy a pillar of their marketing strategies right now — article, 2023-04-28 (https://cameronbrain.com/articles/top-4-reasons-why-cmos-are-making-employee-advocacy-a-pillar-of-their-marketing-strategies-right-now); originally published on LinkedIn, April 28, 2023

## Patents

- User interface methods and systems for device-independent media transactions — US 7600243, filed 2006-03, granted (https://patents.google.com/patent/US7600243)
- Method and system for device-independent media transactions — US application 11/392,260, filed 2006-03 (http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=2WSlAAAAEBAJ&dq=intitle:device+intitle:independent+media)
- Media transaction system — US application 11/392,261, filed 2006-03 (http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=yyuaAAAAEBAJ&dq=Cameron+W.+Brain+et+al)

## Projects

- XYDO (https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/07/xydo-raises-1-25-million-for-a-more-personalized-social-news-experience)
  Social news side project that ranked news and blog articles by what people were sharing and liking on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious and other networks.
- Curate.me (http://curate.me/)
  Precursor to EveryoneSocial: a consumer app that emailed each user personalized news and social posts matched to their interest graph.
- RedditRecap (http://www.redditrecap.com/)
  Weekly newsletter highlighting some of the most interesting posts on Reddit.

## Open to

- Meeting with customers, prospects and partners — Always open to meeting EveryoneSocial customers, prospects and partners, and it's a priority for me. Reach out anytime. (until 2027-09-26)
- Open to speaking on: employee advocacy, social compliance, AI-native product building (until 2027-09-26)
- Looking for collaborators: Connecting with other startup founders (until 2027-09-26)

## Recent activity

- 2026-09-30 · Speaking: Delivered the NAMLS keynote: the brand is the smallest voice in the building — Day-2 keynote on the state of employee advocacy — executive activation, employees out-engaging brand accounts, proving advocacy ROI, and governance and risk. Great conversations afterward with customers, prospects and partners.
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- 2026-09-26 · Hiring: EveryoneSocial is hiring across all roles — Small, remote-first, AI-native team. See open roles. (https://everyonesocial.com/jobs/)
- 2026-09-24 · Speaking: Presented at XLoD Global New York — Presented a case-study session to chief compliance and risk officers on social media as both a compliance risk and an opportunity for financial institutions.
- 2026-09-13 · Hiring: Welcomed Greg Ah Sue as Head of Marketing
- 2026-09-09 · Hiring: Welcomed Coleem Chestnut as Head of Compliance Solutions

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronbrain/
- X: https://x.com/cameronbrain
- GitHub: https://github.com/cameronbrain
- EveryoneSocial: https://everyonesocial.com
- Website: http://cameronbrain.com/

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