Management

Yamini Rangan is Chief Executive Officer at HubSpot. Prior to becoming CEO, Yamini served as HubSpot's first-ever Chief Customer Officer, overseeing the marketing, sales, and services teams.

A tech industry veteran, Yamini has more than 24 years of experience ranging from product marketing, sales, and strategy. Yamini previously served as Chief Customer Officer at Dropbox, where she was responsible for embedding customer focus across the organization. Before Dropbox, she was VP of Sales Strategy and Operations at Workday, where she helped quadruple revenue and scaled the sales organization. At SAP, Yamini held several customer-facing leadership roles in strategy, pre-sales and value-based selling and helped close landmark deals.

She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, a Master’s in Computer Engineering, and an MBA from Berkeley. In 2019, Yamini was recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Business by San Francisco Business Times. Yamini currently serves on the Board of Splunk, a cybersecurity company.

Brian Halligan, co-founder and executive chairperson of HubSpot, served as the company's CEO until 2021. During this time, he earned consistent recognition on Glassdoor’s and Comparably’s lists of best CEOs. 

Brian coined the term "inbound marketing" and together with Dharmesh Shah built a movement around the concept, which included organizing the INBOUND event and co-authoring the book Inbound Marketing.

Prior to HubSpot, Brian earned an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management where he continues to stay involved. Brian developed MIT’s popular Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures class, which he has taught for over a decade. In recognition of his outstanding mentorship in entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan honored Brian with the Monosson Prize in 2023. In addition to teaching on the topic of scaling, Brian tweets, writes, presents, and talks on the topic often.

As the founder of Propeller Ventures, Brian directs a $100 million climate tech venture fund, specializing in ocean innovation investments. He serves on the boards of Navier and Aquatic Labs.

A passionate fan and scholar of the Grateful Dead, Brian co-wrote Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead with Bill Walton and David Meerman Scott. As the proud owner and steward of Jerry Garcia's Wolf guitar, he continues to honor the legacy of the iconic band. Currently, Brian is working on a film that explores the life and times of John Perry Barlow. He is also a co-author of an upcoming Harvard Business Review case study on the Grateful Dead.

Brian started his career with a BSEE from the University of Vermont.  He was an early employee at PTC and rose to become an SVP of sales there over a 10-year span. Then he ran sales at Groove Networks, which was later acquired by Microsoft.

Dharmesh Shah is co-founder and CTO of HubSpot. Prior to founding HubSpot in 2006, Dharmesh was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions, which was acquired by SunGard Data Systems in 2005.

In addition to co-authoring “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs”, Dharmesh founded and writes for OnStartups.com -- a top-ranking startup blog and community with more than 700,000 members.

In 2013, Dharmesh published HubSpot’s Culture Code, which has garnered over five million views. Named an Inc. Founders 40 in 2016, he is an active member of the Boston-area entrepreneurial community, an angel investor in over 60 startups, and a frequent speaker on startups, inbound marketing, and company culture.

Dharmesh holds a BS in Computer Science from UAB and an MS in the Management of Technology from MIT.

Kate Bueker is the Chief Financial Officer at HubSpot, where she manages the company's finances, and is also the co-executive sponsor of the Women@HubSpot employee resource group. Kate has also served on the Procore Technologies, Inc. board of directors since April 2021.

Prior to HubSpot, Kate spent eleven years in finance and business development leadership roles at Akamai Technologies and most recently served as senior vice president of business finance and operations. During her tenure, Kate was instrumental in building out the finance business support capabilities and function at Akamai. Kate also spent almost 10 years in investment banking at The Blackstone Group, UBS, Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. 

Outside of work, Kate loves to travel (especially throughout Italy) and enjoys tennis and golf. Kate received her BA in mathematics from Cornell University and her MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kate currently serves on the Board of Procore and Bridge Over Troubled Waters.

Alyssa Harvey Dawson is Chief Legal Officer at HubSpot where she is responsible for overseeing the company’s legal and compliance teams. She has over 25 years of broad-based legal experience overseeing corporate governance, corporate, M&A and commercial transactions, enterprise risk management, compliance, data privacy, intellectual property, regulatory and governmental/public affairs. Alyssa was Gusto, Inc.’s Chief Legal Officer from August 2020 to November 2022. While at Gusto, Alyssa was on the executive leadership team and oversaw the company’s legal, compliance and government affairs team.

Before joining Gusto, from June 2017 to July 2020, Alyssa was General Counsel at Sidewalk Labs, where, among other things, she was responsible for developing the legal team and data privacy strategy. From August 2011 until May 2017, she was Vice President, Global Intellectual Property at Harman International Industries, Inc. Prior to Harman, Ms. Harvey Dawson held senior legal positions with Netflix and Autodesk.

Alyssa received her BA, cum laude, in Journalism from Michigan State University and was an Honors College member. She received her JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. She is a Board member of AppLovin (NASD: APP) and Make-A-Wish Connecticut.

Chris Hogan is the Senior Vice President, Central Operations & Corporate Strategy at HubSpot. His teams are responsible for partnering with the executive team to define HubSpot’s long-term strategy; collaborating with the product leadership team; managing pricing and packaging; and product analytics. 

Before taking on Corporate Strategy, Chris scaled HubSpot’s Product Strategy and Operations function with a push to bring a freemium go-to-market model across all product lines. He was in the first class of the company's post-MBA Accelerated Leadership Program, a two-year cross-functional rotational program. Prior to joining HubSpot, Chris worked in investment banking at Barclays, where he covered infrastructure software and small-cap SaaS. 

Chris earned his MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was a Fellow in both the Center for Digital Strategies and Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting from Boston College and is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and CPA in Massachusetts. 

Whitney Sorenson is the Chief Technology Officer of HubSpot, where he is responsible for leading HubSpot’s engineering teams and technical strategy.

Prior to his role as CTO, Whitney was the Chief Architect at HubSpot, where he led HubSpot's infrastructure team and helped build a modern, scalable platform to move fast while deploying hundreds of services and products. Whitney has worked for startups and big companies alike but has always focused on building teams and developing innovative web technologies that deliver value to customers by creating something from nothing.

Whitney is a startup investor and advisor and holds a BS in Software Engineering from RIT.

Andy Pitre is the Executive Vice President of Product at HubSpot, where he is responsible for leading product strategy and building tools that help millions of organizations grow better.

Joining HubSpot in 2009, Andy worked across many areas of the organization, including customer success and marketing, before landing on the product team. He's worked on almost every part of the HubSpot product and was on the original team that built HubSpot CRM, and helped launch Sales, Service, and Operations Hub. 

Prior to HubSpot, Andy worked in marketing, sales, and even started two small businesses, which helped to inform his approach to product strategy. He's passionate about listening and solving for customers, shipping software that adds value, and leads his team to be customer-first and to think big and iterate small. 

Andy earned his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Connecticut where he studied Anthropology. Although he didn’t plan it this way, studying anthropology and the way people work has helped him understand customers and build better products.

Christian Kinnear serves as the chief sales officer at HubSpot in Dublin, Ireland, leveraging over 25 years of expertise in driving international and global sales strategy and expansion. With a tenure exceeding eight years at HubSpot, Kinnear has been instrumental in shaping the company's sales trajectory and spearheading expansion efforts across these regions. 

Prior to his tenure at HubSpot, Kinnear held esteemed senior leadership roles at Sage, Oracle, and Google, where he led transformative sales development and demand management initiatives across diverse global markets. Beyond his professional endeavors, Kinnear actively contributes to the community, serving as a board member for CMRF Crumlin, which advocates for medical research benefiting sick children. 

Known for his strategic vision and leadership, Kinnear continues to drive innovation and customer-centricity in the sales and marketing technology space, making a lasting impact on HubSpot's global operations.

Kipp Bodnar is the chief marketing officer of HubSpot, where he sets HubSpot’s global marketing strategy to drive awareness and demand for HubSpot’s products.

Prior to his role as CMO, Kipp served as vice president of marketing at HubSpot, overseeing all demand generation activity worldwide, building out the EMEA and APAC marketing teams, and managing HubSpot’s field marketing, localization, strategic partnerships, and social media efforts.

Kipp serves as a marketing advisor for SaaS companies including SimplyMeasured, InsightSquared and Guidebook. He is also the co-author of The B2B Social Media Book: Become a Marketing Superstar by Generating Leads with Blogging, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Email, and More. Kipp is an industry-leading speaker and blogger and holds a BA in journalism from Marshall University.

Alison Elworthy is chief of staff to the CEO and executive vice president of central strategy at HubSpot, where she partners with the executive team to set and communicate HubSpot’s strategy.

Prior to her role as chief of staff and EVP of strategy, Alison led various functions at HubSpot including EVP of revenue operations, SVP of customer success, and VP of operations, helping to scale HubSpot over the past decade. Alison also serves on the board of directors at Varicent and the Posse Foundation. She holds a BS in human factors engineering from Tufts University and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Jon Dick is the senior vice president of customer success at HubSpot, where he oversees the customer experience and helps our 200,000+ customers grow better. 

Before this role, Jon led the flywheel marketing team at HubSpot, which combined product marketing, digital marketing, and customer marketing to take our products to market worldwide. During his tenure, he helped transform HubSpot’s approach to demand generation by scaling freemium, innovating on automation and AI, and delivering new global marketing models. Before joining HubSpot, Jon worked in B2C, leading marketing teams at Klout and Trunk Club.

Jon studied physics at the University of Massachusetts and Oxford University and earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he was elected co-president of the student body. He also spent a decade performing improvised comedy, but now that he’s a dad, he only tells one kind of joke.