Yamini Rangan

Chief Executive Officer and President HubSpot

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Yamini Rangan has been Chief Executive Officer, President and a director of HubSpot, the customer relationship management software company, since September 2021. She took over from co-founder Brian Halligan less than two years after joining as HubSpot’s first chief customer officer. Her career has been in go-to-market work rather than product engineering: customer-facing strategy and pre-sales at SAP, sales strategy and operations at Workday, and the chief customer officer role at Dropbox. She brings more than 25 years of experience across product marketing, sales and strategy.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer, President and director of HubSpot since September 2021.
• HubSpot’s first-ever chief customer officer from January 2020 to September 2021, overseeing the marketing, sales and service teams.
• Chief customer officer of Dropbox from August 2018 to January 2020, after two and a half years as its vice president of business strategy and operations.
• Vice president of sales strategy and operations at Workday from 2013 to 2015, where HubSpot says she helped quadruple revenue and scale the sales organization.
• Director of Splunk Inc. from April 2023 until Cisco acquired it in March 2024.
• Named one of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Business in 2019 and Comparably’s Best CEO for Women in 2022.

Professional Journey

Rangan studied engineering, earning a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering and a master’s in computer engineering. She then took a full-time MBA at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, graduating in 2003.

She spent the early part of her career at SAP, in several customer-facing leadership roles in strategy, pre-sales and value-based selling, where HubSpot says she helped close landmark deals. From 2013 to 2015 she was vice president of sales strategy and operations at Workday, and HubSpot credits her with helping quadruple revenue and scale the sales organisation there.

She joined Dropbox in January 2016 as vice president of business strategy and operations and became its chief customer officer in August 2018. In that role she was responsible for building customer focus across the organisation.

HubSpot hired her in January 2020 as its first chief customer officer, with the marketing, sales and service teams reporting to her. In September 2021 she succeeded Brian Halligan as Chief Executive Officer and President and joined the board. Halligan became Executive Chairperson and remains a director, and HubSpot’s board is now chaired by independent director Lorrie Norrington. The company’s other co-founder, Dharmesh Shah, remains Chief Technology Officer.

Outside HubSpot, she sat on the board of Splunk from April 2023 until Cisco completed its acquisition of the company in March 2024, and she serves on the board of the Haas School of Business at Berkeley.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Master of Business Administration (full-time MBA, 2003)

She also holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering and a master’s degree in computer engineering; the institutions are not stated in the first-party sources read.