Artico Search Assists Fleetio with Chief Marketing Officer Search
December 10, 2025 – Artico Search has assisted in the recruitment of Leslie Henthorn as the new chief marketing officer of private equity-backed Fleetio. Mercedes Chatfield-Taylor, CEO and co-founder of Artico Search, led the assignment.
“From my first conversations, I knew Fleetio was special—a company built on authentic customer love, a clear mission, and a team dedicated to earning the right to serve its customers,” Ms. Henthorn said in a LinkedIn post. “Fleetio is quickly evolving from a system of record to a dynamic platform. With a leadership team that has decades of industry experience, an employee base that prioritizes listening, and a product designed beautifully for scale, we are positioned to deliver real value.”
“The opportunity ahead is immense, but what I love most is the culture: contagious, extremely smart, low egos, and high curiosity,” Ms. Henthorn continued. “I appreciate walking into rooms with folks who are experts in fleet management and are genuinely willing to teach, collaborate, and partner with Marketing to help us all iterate, learn, and win—together. What excites me most is the path forward: turning focused bets into scalable growth through our product vision and GTM strategy, and amplifying the story of how Fleetio helps customers turn insight into action. I’m grateful to Jon Meachin and the entire Fleetio team for the warm welcome. I can’t wait to build this next era together.”
With over 20 years in high-tech marketing, Ms. Henthorn has built high-performing teams from the ground up during transformation and hypergrowth. Most recently, she served as chief marketing officer of Ironclad. Prior to this, Ms. Henthorn spent over eight years with Twilio, serving lastly as senior vice president of corporate marketing.
Fleetio, a fleet optimization platform, provides comprehensive solutions and resources to run, repair and optimize vehicles and assets. Founded in 2012, the company’s cloud-based platform and mobile app arm fleets with the tools they need to stay on top of preventive maintenance, extend the life of business assets, reduce downtime and maximize the utilization of service vehicles. Fleetio powers more than 7,500 public and private fleets of all sizes in more than 100 countries across a wide array of industries.
The company recently announced the successful closing of over $450 million to finance the acquisition, valuing the combined business at over $1.5 billion. The round was co-led by existing Fleetio investor Elephant and new investor Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives.
With offices in San Francisco, New York, and Austin, Artico has been off to one of the fastest starts among boutique search firms in recent memory. Given the billions of dollars flowing into venture capital and private equity investments, as well as the ever-present threat of cybersecurity breaches, the founders expect continued growth ahead.
Ms. Chatfield-Taylor has completed over 75 CEO searches as well as partner, principal, and other CXO level assignments for the world’s most successful global investors. Her team focuses on executive-level search for scale-up venture capital and private equity-firms and their portfolios. The team has deep expertise in AI, software, data and emerging technology businesses.
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A pioneer in the development of the cybersecurity recruiting industry, Matt Comyns co-founded Artico Search with Ms. Chatfield-Taylor to lead the team helping companies protect against cyberwarfare. He built the original cybersecurity search practices at two global firms — Russell Reynolds Associates and Caldwell Partners — completing more than 300 executive-level searches in a hyper-competitive market by serving as a trusted advisor for chief information security officers. He developed his vast network as founding CEO and sales executive at tech and media companies in New York, San Francisco, and Beijing.
Past Assignment
Earlier this year, Artico helped to recruit Amol Naik as chief operating officer of financial technology company Capitolis. “Capitolis has been growing rapidly, and we have been looking for the right operational leader to help us scale and support further growth in our business,” said Gil Mandelzis, founder and CEO. “Amol has a proven track record of delivering impact and innovation in the financial industry, and his extensive experience in financial resource optimization and in building and scaling a fintech company will be invaluable as we continue our rapid growth. We are excited to have Amol join our team, and I look forward to his contributions to Capitolis.”
Mr. Naik is a seasoned financial services leader and a builder of world-class teams, bringing over 25 years of experience in strategic, operational, financial, and risk management roles across private and public fintech and global financial services firms. Most recently, he served as COO at Pagaya, where he helped build and scale the company through a successful public company transaction.
Headquartered in New York City, Capitolis is the technology company creating safer and more vibrant financial markets by unlocking capital constraints and enabling greater access to more diversified capital and investment opportunities. Capitolis is backed by world class venture capital firms, including Canapi Ventures, 9Yards Capital, SVB Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Spark Capital, and S Capital, as well as leading global banks such as J.P. Morgan, Citi and State Street.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
