Mike Volpe is Chief Marketing Officer at HubSpot, a marketing software company, where he leads the company's lead generation and branding strategy through inbound marketing, including blogging, search engine optimization, video marketing, and social media. Since Mike joined HubSpot, the company has grown from about a dozen beta customers to over 9,000 customers, from 5 employees to 500 employees, and raised $65 million of venture capital in three rounds of financing.
Mike is a cutting-edge B2B inbound marketer who hosts a weekly live marketing video podcast called marketing Update, hosts webinars for thousands of marketers at a time, is one of the 10 most popular CMOs on Twitter, and blogs frequently. Under Mike's leadership, HubSpot's marketing has won more than 30 awards and been featured in over 20 marketing and business books. Both Mike and HubSpot were featured in a Harvard Business School case study "HubSpot: Marketing and Web 2.0".
Before HubSpot, Mike worked as Director, Marketing Operations at SolidWorks where he launched a number of inbound marketing initiatives such as SEO, PPC, blogging and podcasting. Mike is an MBA graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management and received his B.A. in Economics and Government, summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College. He is a Co-Founder and former Director of the Boston Scholars Program and a former Director of the Alumni Fund at Bowdoin College. Mike loves talking about marketing, and appears frequently as a marketing speaker.