Brandon McAllister

Chief Revenue Officer ETQ (now part of Octave)

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Brandon McAllister is a career revenue leader who took over as chief revenue officer of ETQ in the first quarter of 2025. ETQ builds ETQ Reliance, an integrated platform for quality management, health, safety and environmental compliance used by manufacturers — a category where the software’s job is to make audit trails, corrective actions and supplier quality provable rather than merely documented. His remit covers the whole commercial function: sales operations, new account acquisition, customer account management and the indirect channel. He arrived with roughly two decades of go-to-market leadership behind him, including the chief revenue officer role at the education technology company GoGuardian and responsibility for North American enterprise sales at the critical-event management company Everbridge. ETQ has since moved out of Hexagon and into Octave, the spun-off software business, and no longer operates its own website.

Career Highlights

• Appointed chief revenue officer of ETQ in the first quarter of 2025, responsible for all sales operations, new account acquisition, customer account management and indirect sales channels.
• ETQ Reliance took eight G2 Winter 2025 software awards during his first quarter, including Leader for Enterprise and Midmarket and Best Usability for Enterprise.
• Chief revenue officer of GoGuardian from March 2021, hired to drive growth as K-12 schools came out of pandemic disruption.
• Vice president of enterprise sales for North America at Everbridge, where he is credited with contributing to a tripling of annual recurring revenue.
• Executive positions earlier at Monster, PowerReviews, LinkedIn and CareerBuilder.

Professional Journey

McAllister built his career in enterprise sales leadership across a sequence of high-growth software companies rather than by rising inside one. His early executive roles were at CareerBuilder, Monster, LinkedIn and PowerReviews — recruitment marketplaces and consumer-review software, both categories where the product is sold on measurable commercial outcomes rather than on features. None of those roles is documented with a title in any source available.

The first well-documented stage is Everbridge, where he was vice president of enterprise sales for North America. Everbridge sells critical-event management software — mass notification and emergency communications for enterprises and public agencies — and was scaling hard during his tenure. When GoGuardian announced his appointment in March 2021, it credited him with having helped triple Everbridge’s annual recurring revenue.

At GoGuardian he became chief revenue officer, joining a K-12 education technology company at an unusual moment: schools had just been through a year of emergency remote learning, and the question facing every edtech vendor was which of the resulting deployments would survive contact with a normal school year. GoGuardian’s chief executive framed the hire around exactly that transition. McAllister described the appeal in terms of continuity with his earlier work — a career spent, as he put it, growing businesses that help people unlock their potential.

He then served as chief revenue officer at Learning Pool, the workplace learning technology company, a role that is consistent with the rest of the sequence but which I could not corroborate outside contact-data aggregators; Learning Pool has itself since rebranded.

In the first quarter of 2025 he joined ETQ, then part of Hexagon, as chief revenue officer. ETQ’s results release of 1 May 2025 announced the appointment alongside a quarter in which the company met its revenue and profit targets, won eight G2 awards for Reliance, and added customers including Ace International, RCA and Discovery while deepening engagement with existing accounts at 3M, Emerson Electric and PPG.

The corporate ground has shifted since. Hexagon spun off the software business as Octave, whose executive team took post around September 2025. ETQ’s website now redirects into Octave’s product pages, where Reliance is sold as part of Octave’s asset performance management line, and Octave’s own leadership page names a different chief revenue officer at group level. Whether McAllister continues to lead ETQ’s commercial organisation within that structure is not established by any source available.

Education

No education could be established. The GoGuardian appointment release, which carries the fullest biography of him in public, gives none, and neither ETQ release mentions any. A previously recorded Cleveland State University entry rested on a single aggregator listing with no degree attached and has been removed rather than carried forward unverified.