Overview
Wade holds the position of Vice President Operations at Reflection [1][3], having been hired as the first non-technical employee at the artificial intelligence company [2]. Prior to this role, Wade served as Head of Growth and Operations at Reflection from January 2025 to March 2026 [4]. Wade's career includes experience as Chief Operating Officer at Kognitos from May 2024 to January 2025 [5], and earlier roles in strategy and operations at the same company [6]. Wade previously worked at UiPath in partnership-focused positions from April 2018 through August 2021 [7][8][9], and served as a Founding GTM Leader at BuMo 3DR [10]. Wade holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth [11], an MSc in History of International Relations from the London School of Economics [12], and a BA in Political Science from Clemson University [13].
Profile introduction
Drayton is a startup veteran with experience leading teams at all stages (Pre-seed through Post-IPO). Experience with 0-1 as well as leading broad organizations across corporate and GTM functions at scale. Drayton has led fundraising at multiple startups. Reflection was founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI researchers to build American Open Super-intelligence. At Reflection Drayton was hired as the first non-technical hire, one of the first 15 employees who built and scaled the foundation of the company. As VP of Operations Drayton led negotiations and landed +$1B compute contracts, mult…
Career history
- Vice President OperationsFeb 2026 to presentReflection AI
- Head of Growth and OperationsJan 2025 to Mar 2026Reflection AI
- Chief Operating OfficerMay 2024 to Jan 2025Kognitos
- Head of Strategy & OperationsFeb 2022 to May 2024Kognitos
- Senior Director: Strategic PartnershipsDec 2020 to Aug 2021UiPath
- Director: Strategic PartnershipsNov 2018 to Dec 2020UiPath
- Manager: Growth PartnersApr 2018 to Nov 2018UiPath
- Founding GTM LeaderMay 2016 to Apr 2018BuMo 3DR
- Vice President OperationsReflection
- Head of Growth and OperationsReflection
Education
- Master of Business Administration - MBA2021 - 2023The Tuck School of Businessat Dartmouth
MSc, History of International Relations2013 - 2014The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science2010 - 2013Clemson University
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