Stevie Case

Chief Revenue Officer Vanta

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Stevie Case is Chief Revenue Officer of Vanta, the San Francisco company that automates the work of getting and staying compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and a growing list of other frameworks. She was appointed in April 2022 as the first person to hold the role, which Vanta created for her, and she has run go-to-market through the stretch in which the company reached $300 million in annual recurring revenue and a $4 billion valuation. Her route there is unlike anyone else’s in enterprise software: before Twilio, before Visa, before any of it, she was the world’s first female professional video gamer, competing at Quake under the handle KillCreek.

Career Highlights

• Vanta’s first Chief Revenue Officer, appointed 19 April 2022 into a role the company created.
• Oversees the go-to-market organisation at a company whose own press page headlines both $300 million in annual recurring revenue and a $4 billion valuation.
• At Twilio, joined as one of the first account executives and rose to VP of Mid-Market Sales, helping build the enterprise business with Fortune 500 customers to more than $400 million in annual recurring revenue while the sales team went from a dozen people to over 1,000.
• Earlier, VP of Sales and Growth at Layer and Visa’s first-ever Digital Platform Evangelist, a subject-matter role covering digital goods and global payments.
• Competed professionally at Quake in 1996-97 under the handle KillCreek, for the team Impulse 9, and signed with the Cyberathlete Professional League — one of the first esports leagues in existence.
• An angel investor and advisor to startups for more than a decade.

Professional Journey

Case took a BA in Liberal Arts at the University of Kansas and then did something that in the late 1990s had no established shape: she became a professional video game player. Competing as KillCreek, she beat Quake’s designer John Romero at his own game in a 1997 deathmatch, played for the team Impulse 9, and signed with the Cyberathlete Professional League. Vanta’s own announcement of her hiring describes her, without hedging, as the world’s first female professional gamer.

She did not stay. By her own account the daily grind of playing one title under competitive pressure did not suit her, and she moved to the other side of the screen — freelance level design done from Dallas with free downloadable tools, a level for Sin Mission Pack: Wages of Sin, a short-lived Quake II add-on through a small studio she set up with friends, three strategy guides for Prima Games, and a job at Ion Storm that began in 1997 as a tester.

The second transition, from games into technology sales, is the one that shaped her career. She was Product Development Manager at Warner Bros. before moving into sales and business development; Visa’s first-ever Digital Platform Evangelist, covering digital goods and global payments; and then Vice President, Sales and Growth at Layer, the San Francisco messaging startup.

Twilio was where the scale arrived. She joined as one of the first account executives and left as Vice President of Mid-Market Sales, having played a central part in building the company’s enterprise business with Fortune 500 customers — more than $400 million in annual recurring revenue — while the sales organisation grew from roughly a dozen people to more than a thousand. That is the specific experience Vanta hired for: not running a large sales team, but having watched one be built from almost nothing and knowing which parts of it broke at which size.

She joined Vanta in April 2022 as its first CRO, in a role created for the appointment. Vanta had been founded in 2018 in the aftermath of several high-profile data breaches, on the observation that fast-growing companies knew they needed a security foundation and had no time to build one. The year before she arrived, Vanta had more than tripled its customer base to over 2,500 businesses across 45 countries. She owns all aspects of sales — building the team, mentoring it, and setting go-to-market strategy — for a company that has since widened from compliance automation into what it now calls an Agentic Trust Platform, covering risk management, third-party risk, questionnaire automation and AI governance.

She works alongside CEO and co-founder Christina Cacioppo, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Education

University of Kansas

BA, Liberal Arts