Freshworks Appoints Chief Product Officer of Cloudflare to the Board of Directors
September 29 2021 - 8:03AM
Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH), a leading software company
empowering businesses to delight their customers and employees,
announced the appointment of Jennifer Taylor, senior vice president
and chief product officer at Cloudflare, and former product
executive at Salesforce and Adobe, as a new independent member of
the board of directors.
“Jennifer brings a unique combination of skills to Freshworks,
from shaping product innovation to leading the reinvention of
network security for the modern cloud era. I’m excited to welcome
her to the Freshworks board and leverage her experience in building
outstanding customer-centric SaaS products,” said
Freshworks CEO and Founder Girish
Mathrubootham.
Ms. Taylor said, “Freshworks’ intuitive approach to business
software is exactly what the market needs and what all customers
deserve. Having built products for IT, customer service, sales
teams and marketers, over the last two decades, I see a huge
opportunity ahead of Freshworks to change the way businesses can
deliver better customer and employee experiences.”
Ms. Taylor previously served as Senior Vice President of Product
Management for Salesforce’s Data.com where she helped customers
sell faster and smarter using a foundation of intelligent insights
and Salesforce Chatter, where she shaped the direction of this
powerful collaboration software. Prior to joining Salesforce, she
held a variety of senior product management and marketing roles –
including Manager of Platform Product Marketing at Facebook and
Senior Director of Product Management for Rich Media Solutions at
Adobe. Earlier in her career, Ms. Taylor was a product manager at
Macromedia (acquired by Adobe) and an associate at Vector Capital.
She holds a BA in Public Policy from Brown University and an MBA
from Harvard Business School.
Ms. Taylor joins the other members of the Freshworks Board of
Directors, namely Roxanne Austin, former COO of DIRECTV; Sameer
Gandhi, Partner at Accel; Randy Gottfried, former CFO of
AppDynamics; Johanna Flower, former CMO at CrowdStrike; Girish
Mathrubootham, CEO and Founder of Freshworks; Zach Nelson, former
CEO at Netsuite; and Barry Padgett, former CRO of Stripe.
About FreshworksFreshworks makes it fast and
easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. We do
this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software
that is affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end
user. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Freshworks has a
dedicated team operating from 13 global offices to serve 52,000+
customers including Bridgestone, Chargebee, DeliveryHero, ITV,
Klarna, Multichoice, OfficeMax, TaylorMade and Vice Media. For more
information visit www.freshworks.com.
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companies.
Media Contact: Jayne Gonzalezpr@freshworks.com 408-348-1087
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