SPMB Completes CFO Searches for Contentsquare and Dragos
November 27, 2024 – SPMB Executive Search has recruited Marcela Martin as CFO of Contentsquare in New York City and Mark Matheos as CFO of Dragos in Washington, D.C. Both assignments were led by partner Steven Popper.
“I am delighted to welcome Marcela Martin as chief financial officer,” said Jonathan Cherki, founder and CEO of Contentsquare. “With over three decades of leadership experience, she has a proven track record of scaling major global companies. Her expertise in guiding companies to key corporate milestones will be invaluable as we continue on our journey of growth and innovation.”
Ms. Martin brings more than 30 years of executive leadership in finance, tech and media. Prior to joining Contentsquare, she served as president of Buzzfeed Inc., a global leader in digital media. She also held CFO roles at Booking.com and Squarespace, where she led the company through its initial public offering. Before that, Ms. Martin spent three years as executive vice president, CFO, and chief administrative officer at National Geographic Partners and held numerous leadership roles at Fox International Channels, including as EVP and CFO, during an 18-year tenure.
“I’m truly impressed by the innovation that has been coming out of Contentsquare and by the company’s trajectory of the past few years,” said Ms. Martin. “Contentsquare is redefining the analytics market and completely changing the game for customer understanding with its AI-powered platform, and I’m thrilled to be joining the company at such a transformative moment. I look forward to playing a role in scaling the company and maximizing its potential as we lead the charge in advancing customer experience intelligence.”
Contentsquare is a provider of digital analytics, empowering businesses of all sizes with the insights they need to understand customers and deliver seamless experiences at scale. More than 1.3 million websites worldwide use Contentsquare’s AI-powered platform to grow their business, drive customer loyalty, and operate with greater efficiency.
Dragos Search
Mr. Matheos brings a track record of finance and accounting leadership as a public company CFO and will drive organizational-wide efforts to prepare Dragos for its next chapter. He joins the company from Appian, where he oversaw the growth of the company from 500 employees to over 2,000, and helped drive the company successfully through the IPO process. He began his career at Ernst & Young and served in various finance leadership roles at large public technology companies.
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In his new position with Dragos, Mr. Matheos is responsible for overseeing the company’s financial strategy and operations. “Dragos is in an exciting, fast-growing market, has an undeniably strong company culture, and most importantly, a mission so clearly important that I am honored to be a part of it,” he said. “Building out a company’s financial strategy for the growth and scale needed to reach its next phase is my wheelhouse, and I am excited for what’s to come.”
SPMB Recruits Chief Revenue Officer for ChargePoint
Todd Greenhalgh and Nick Hoffmire of SPMB Executive Search have placed David Vice as the new chief revenue officer of ChargePoint. “Congratulates our longtime client ChargePoint on the appointment of David Vice as chief revenue officer,” SPMB said in a LinkedIn post. “David’s proven leadership and deep expertise in scaling global sales and go-to-market orgs will be pivotal in shaping ChargePoint’s next phase of growth as a leader in the EV charging space. It is always a pleasure to collaborate with the ChargePoint team on these strategic placements, and we’re excited to see David drive continued innovation and success for the company.”
Dragos provides OT cybersecurity technology for industrial and critical infrastructure to deliver on its global mission: to safeguard civilization. The Dragos platform provides visibility and monitoring of OT environments for asset identification, vulnerability management, and threat detection with continuous insights generated by the industry’s most experienced OT threat intelligence and services team.
For over 40 years, SPMB Executive Search has worked alongside its clients to build executive teams that ensure venture capital and private equity-backed game-changers achieve scale, and position multi-billion-dollar public companies to unlock innovation. Specializing in technology and innovation, SPMB recruits upper management and board members to growth-oriented companies in tech, consumer, and sustainability industries. SPMB has also placed dozens of senior executives at the portfolio companies of leading private equity firm partners including Blackstone, KKR, and TPG.
Mr. Popper joined SPMB in 2007 from Howard Fischer Associates and has since become an integral part of the leadership team. The same year he joined SPMB, Mr. Popper founded its CFO practice which recruits accomplished, company-shaping financial executives to public, VC-backed, and PE-funded companies in software, fintech, biotech, consumer technology, and sustainability. Since inception, the CFO practice has completed over 200 searches across all segments. Mr. Popper’s clients include the portfolio companies of IVP, Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital, Warburg Pincus, a16z, Spectrum Equity, KPCB, and many more.
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Contributed by Scott A. Scanlon, Editor-in-Chief and Dale M. Zupsansky, Executive Editor – Hunt Scanlon Media
