Elias Torres is the co-founder and CTO of Drift. He previously served as the VP of Engineering at HubSpot and VP of Engineering at Lookery. In addition to starting, advising, and helping early stage companies, Elias is passionate about building winning teams and supporting Latinx entrepreneurs across the U.S. He has been featured in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and TechCrunch.
Katie Foote is the Chief Marketing Officer of Drift. With over 15 years of experience across all marketing disciplines, Katie has built her career on driving transformational change through an emphasis on relationships, momentum, and impact. She began her career in tech at the email marketing startup ExactTarget, where she held marketing leadership positions and helped the company successfully IPO. When the company was acquired by Salesforce, she continued to lead product marketing, corporate marketing, and demand generation teams, and a global go-to-market team.
Jim Kelliher is the Chief Financial Officer at Drift. Prior to Drift, he was CFO at LogMeIn, where he played a pivotal role in taking the company public in July 2009, and scaling from 50 to 1,000 employees and $10M to $250M in revenue. Jim has also held positions as CFO of Actifio and IMlogic, and VP of Finance and International CFO of PTC, a publicly traded software development company. He is currently the Chairman of the Boston College Ireland Business Council (BCIBC).
Dena Upton is the Chief People Officer at Drift where she leads the people operations team and is responsible for the company's talent development, operations, recruitment, and retention. She strives to find new and innovative ways to approach business opportunities and believes in enabling all people to reach their potential. Prior to Drift, Dena served as VP of People and Talent at LogMeIn, where under her leadership, the company was recognized for outstanding culture and talent management with nine consecutive Best Places to Work accolades from the Boston Business Journal.
Melissa Leffler is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Drift. She brings 30+ years of experience leading engineering teams, previously serving in technical leadership roles for several Boston-area firms. This includes Objective Logistics, which she joined near the time of its Series A funding. After helping scale the product infrastructure and engineering team, the company was later acquired by Carbon Black, where Melissa was a senior engineering leader up until IPO. Melissa also led engineering and business growth efforts for companies including Awareness, Liquid Machines and eRoom, which was acquired by Documentum and is still in use as an EMC product decades later.
Bart Hammond is the Chief Customer Officer at Drift where he focuses on building world-class customer experiences across onboarding, retention, professional services, and expansion. He has more than 30 years of customer-facing experience across the full spectrum of success, services, and support teams at SaaS companies, global multinational technology leaders, and consulting organizations including Ping Identity, EMC, Interlink Group, and Accenture.