Gillian Catrambone

Chief Operating Officer Tulip Interfaces

Last Reviewed: September 27, 2026

Executive Summary

Gillian Catrambone is Chief Operating Officer of Tulip Interfaces, the Somerville, Massachusetts company whose no-code platform lets manufacturers digitise frontline processes, collect real-time data and use AI on the shop floor. Tulip says she has more than a decade in industrial software and that she links strategy to execution across its global teams, while also shaping the company’s culture and operating principles. Before Tulip she was Chief of Staff at the industrial AI company Uptake, and her earlier career covered diplomacy, civic programming and teaching.

Career Highlights

• Chief Operating Officer of Tulip Interfaces, responsible for operational efficiency and alignment across its teams in the United States, Europe and Asia.
• Spoke for Tulip in January 2026 when it was named to Built In’s 100 Best Places to Work and 100 Best Midsize Places to Work in Boston for 2026.
• Co-hosts Behind the Ops, a podcast published by Tulip.
• Previously Chief of Staff at Uptake, an industrial AI company.
• Earlier advised on diplomacy and strategic partnerships at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa and led initiatives at Chicago Ideas.

Professional Journey

Catrambone started her career as a teacher with Teach for America. She then led initiatives at Chicago Ideas and advised on diplomacy and strategic partnerships at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa. Tulip’s biography of her does not give dates or titles for these roles.

She moved into industrial software as Chief of Staff at Uptake, an industrial AI company. She then joined Tulip, which was founded by engineers from the MIT Media Lab. Tulip’s platform is used by manufacturers to digitise processes, collect real-time data and drive continuous improvement without writing code. The company is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, and has offices in Munich, Budapest, Singapore, Tel Aviv and Tokyo.

As Chief Operating Officer, she works on operational efficiency and alignment across those offices. Tulip also says she has a central role in its culture and operating principles. In January 2026, when Built In named Tulip to its 2026 Boston best-places-to-work lists, she said the award reflected “the growth of the culture we’ve built and scaled at Tulip”. She also co-hosts Behind the Ops, Tulip’s podcast about operations. Tulip has not published the date of her appointment as COO.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party source. An unsourced search-engine summary of her degrees could not be traced to a primary source and is not repeated here.