Kate Bueker

Chief Financial Officer HubSpot

Last Reviewed: September 18, 2026

Executive Summary

Kate Bueker is Chief Financial Officer of HubSpot, the publicly traded customer platform company, a position she has held since June 2018. Her career has an unusually clean two-act structure: almost a decade on Wall Street, at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Credit Suisse, UBS and The Blackstone Group, followed by eleven years inside Akamai Technologies learning how a technology business actually runs, finishing as Senior Vice President of Business Finance and Operations. She arrived at HubSpot with both halves — the capital markets fluency of a banker and the operating discipline of someone who has owned business finance for a large infrastructure company — and has held the finance chair through HubSpot’s growth into a multi-product platform. She has also sat on Procore Technologies’ board since April 2021, where she serves on the audit committee.

Career Highlights

• Chief Financial Officer of HubSpot since June 2018, confirmed in post by SEC filings she signed as recently as 5 August 2026.
• Signed the 5 August 2026 Form 8-K reporting HubSpot’s second-quarter 2026 results and a 1.0 billion dollar share repurchase authorisation with a 24-month horizon.
• Director of Procore Technologies since April 2021, a member of its Audit Committee, standing for election as a Class II director in the 2026 proxy.
• Eleven years in financial leadership at Akamai Technologies, culminating as Senior Vice President of Business Finance and Operations.
• Almost a decade in investment banking at The Blackstone Group, UBS, Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
• Serves on the board of Bridge Over Troubled Waters, a Boston nonprofit, and is co-executive sponsor of the Women@HubSpot employee resource group.

Professional Journey

Bueker read mathematics at Cornell and went into investment banking, starting at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and continuing through Credit Suisse, UBS and The Blackstone Group across almost a decade. That is a long apprenticeship in valuation, deal structuring and the mechanics of public and private capital, and it is the foundation most technology chief financial officers who come from banking never fully build on.

She did build on it. Moving to Akamai Technologies, she spent eleven years in financial leadership roles at the content delivery and cloud services company — a business with heavy infrastructure, complex unit economics and a large enterprise sales motion. She finished as Senior Vice President of Business Finance and Operations, a role that sits closer to the operating line than to the treasury, and which is where she learned to partner with business units rather than merely report on them.

HubSpot appointed her Chief Financial Officer effective June 2018. The company was then well into its transition from an inbound marketing tool into a broader customer platform, a shift that put continual pressure on the shape of its revenue, the economics of its freemium funnel and the pace at which it could invest. Eight years on, she remains in the seat, signing the company’s periodic filings; the 8-K she signed on 5 August 2026 reported second-quarter results alongside a 1.0 billion dollar buyback authorisation, a use of capital that says something about where the company now sits in its life cycle.

In April 2021 Procore Technologies appointed her to its board of directors, where she serves on the audit committee — a natural fit for a sitting software CFO, and one she has held through Procore’s own growth as a public company. She stands for re-election as a Class II director in Procore’s 2026 proxy. Outside her corporate roles she serves on the board of Bridge Over Troubled Waters, a Boston nonprofit, and is co-executive sponsor of HubSpot’s Women@HubSpot employee resource group.

Education

Cornell University

BA, Mathematics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MBA