Founding Team

Meet the team building SalesEQ

SalesEQ is built by a small founding team combining AI infrastructure, go-to-market, and product engineering experience.

Trent Ballard headshot

Co-founder

Trent Ballard

SWE at Invisible Technologies, where he worked on RLHF data infrastructure for frontier AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, Amazon, and ElevenLabs. Trent brings backend engineering, CS/ML, and product-building experience to SalesEQ.

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Danny Engels headshot

Co-founder

Danny Engels

Account Executive at Gartner and a top regional seller, reaching 153% quota attainment. Danny is also a self-taught programmer who built automations to simplify the AE workflows SalesEQ now helps teams scale.

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Enriko Chavez headshot

Co-founder

Enriko Chavez

SWE at Kraken and MIT computer science graduate. Enriko previously served as technical lead on a three-person team building a blockchain-based municipal bond issuance at Goldman Sachs and brings fintech, crypto infrastructure, and product engineering experience.

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We built SalesEQ because transcript-only tools miss buyer sentiment and deal risk, and the real context from calls rarely makes it into the CRM.