The Regular Team

Brandolon Barnett - Founder, Chief Product & Strategy Officer

Brandolon started The Regular after a long career within the tech and social impact space as an author, speaker, innovator, angel investor, and entrepreneur. He has worked as the Chief Product Officer for Deed, a Y-Combinator backed startup with offices in New York, Berlin, & San Francisco. Previous experience also roles as a Director of Product Management & Product Strategy lead within Salesforce and Salesforce.org, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of goARTful.com, and the first leader of the Growfund donor advised fund platform. Brandolon is author of the book Dreams Deferred: Recession, Struggle, and the Quest for a Better World and is a respected speaker on topics related to diversity in philanthropy, impact measurement, impact investing, giving trends, corporate responsibility, product management, and social innovation. He has appeared in numerous radio and podcast interviews and spoken at venues ranging from SXSW, 2017 SOCAP, 2022 Social Innovation Summit, and more. He is also active as a volunteer serving as an elected official in Washington, DC, and loves his hometown NBA team the Dallas Mavericks.

Ishmael Herod - Chief Community Officer

Ishmael Herod is a guru in Recruitment. He has a passion for being able to sell people on work that fulfills their dreams in a place that truly inspires them. Ish leads Community building at The Regular. This includes sales, our internal member operations for The Regular owned communities like United Karaoke, and partner success. Ish for years led the United Karaoke league operations and has previously held roles  as a Senior Manager in Recruitment for Greenpeace USA. He is currently the Director of Talent Acquisition for Community Change.

The Regular Advisors

Ann Canela - Advisor

Ann is an Advisor to The Regular. Ann has spent the most recent part of her career scaling up important and unique organizations for success. She has deep expertise in start up philanthropic and technology organization, fundraising across multiple platforms and types, strategic panning budgeting and the legal complexities of global operations having served as Chief Operation Officer with the Sequoia Fund, VP within Global Impact, and having also led global marketing campaigns expanding awareness, thought leadership and public engagement for various private sector brans. She is skilled in leading the development and stewardship of relationships between investors, funding partners, and internal teams.