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Hubspot appoints female CEO to succeed its founder

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HubSpot, the customer relationship management (CRM) platform, announced the appointment of Yamini Rangan, to the CEO role. Current CEO and co-founder, Brian Halligan will step into the role of Executive Chairman of HubSpot’s Board of Directors as of September 7, 2021.

“Since the day she arrived, Yamini has made HubSpot better,” stated Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot. “From reducing friction for our customers, to leading the company with clarity and empathy, Yamini has proven she is ready to take on the role of CEO to help both HubSpot and our customers grow better”.
“I’m deeply humbled, grateful and excited to take on this new opportunity in partnership with Brian, Dharmesh, and the entire HubSpot team,” said Rangan.
Rangan 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 and before that, at SAP, she held several customer-facing leadership roles in strategy, pre-sales and value-based selling.

Hubspot has reported for Q2 2021 a total revenue of $310.8 million, up 53% compared to Q2’20. Subscription revenue was $300.4 million, up 53% compared to Q2’20; professional services and other revenue was $10.4 million, up 44% compared to Q2’20.

HubSpot was founded in 2005, went public in 2014 long with Wayfair and is considered one of the big success stories to come out of the Boston startup scene.

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