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Leadership

Meet the team.

Portrait of Cordero Davis

Cordero Davis

Founder and CEO

Vision · Product · Design and engineering

Cordero has been leading for more than twenty years. It started as student council president, then student government in college, along with DECA and 4‑H, and as HBCU King. He was in the very first class of Dell Scholars and the first in his family to graduate from college.

That leadership has moved between boardrooms and community halls ever since. He built people and culture infrastructure at Meta, Airbnb, Indeed and Visa, living and leading in Silicon Valley, Shanghai and Singapore, while opening doors for students and emerging leaders. His work has reached people in more than 100 countries.

Both rooms want the same thing: to know their people are seen. Cord is that life’s work made into a product, built for both. Hospitality turned into infrastructure.

Corporate

  • Meta
  • Airbnb
  • Indeed
  • Visa

Student and community leadership

  • Student Government
  • DECA
  • 4-H
  • HBCU King
  • First Generation Grad
  • Dell Scholars
  • UNCF
  • Urban League
  • Forbes
Portrait of Clinton Rease

Clinton Rease

Cofounder and Head of Growth

Growth · Revenue · Operations

Clinton has spent his whole life seeing people.

It started in student leadership, organizing and showing up for his peers. He carried it into fire service, where you account for every person before anyone goes home, and into coaching, where he noticed who showed up, who was struggling and who had not come back. Leading run clubs and workout classes, he turned strangers into a community.

As Cofounder and Head of Growth, Clinton owns how Cord grows and how it runs: revenue, operations, and every customer from the first pilot to the renewal. He starts where he has always been, in gyms, run clubs, schools and sports communities, and turns what Cord proves there into the playbook that makes it the go to people platform for enterprise.

Portrait of Odera Ani

Odera Ani

Head of Partnerships and Brand

Enterprise partnerships · Brand · Events and conferences

Odera has spent her whole life connecting the dots.

As a venture scout trained through VC University at the Venture Institute, she learned to spot strong founders early and see exactly where they fit. She made a habit of putting the right people in the right rooms, linking founders to the investors, events and partners that move them forward.

At Cord she connects those dots at scale, leading enterprise partnerships, the brand, and the stages where the world meets Cord.

Our culture code

Three values guide how our team works with each other and how we build Cord for the people who use it. Each one comes from words our founding team wrote on the whiteboard together.

Care

Our team pays attention to people before they have to ask for help. We lead with warmth, and we show respect by treating every member’s privacy as theirs to keep. A leader using Cord sees who could use a call this week, and a leader never sees what a member wrote.

Curiosity

We stay engaged with the communities we serve and ask questions before we assume, and that is where our innovation comes from. A new member finds their way in on their first day, and a leader gets one clear next step in place of a pile of reports.

Courage

We act with integrity, telling each other what is true even when a softer answer would be easier, and we only promise what Cord can do today. Staying sharp means a leader gets an honest read on how their community is doing, so they can act early and with confidence.

Our partners

Founding Resident

Atlanta Tech Village

Entrepreneurship Program Spotlight

University of Georgia

Our purpose

Touch every city, and bring people back together.

Our mission

30%

Raise engagement thirty percent around the world by 2030.

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