Updated at 6:46 p.m. on Monday, July 16: The previously "unnamed" Boston startup that Mike Volpe is joining in August as CEO is Lola, the travel startup led by Kayak co-founder Paul English. English will remain co-founder and will now be CTO.
Big "Player Personnel" moves happening at Cybereason, the SoftBank-backed cybersecurity company that raised more than $180 million in capital.
Mike Volpe, the company's chief marketing officer, will be leaving Cybereason in August to become CEO at Lola.
"This is very bittersweet, I will really miss everyone at Cybereason," Volpe wrote in an email to BostInno. "We've built a great team and I know they will continue executing well, growing fast, and building a multi-billion dollar public company."
Before his tenure at Cybereason, Volpe was one of the earliest employees at inbound marketing company HubSpot, but was fired in connection with a book written by Dan Lyons about the culture of the company.
In total, Volpe was chief marketing officer at HubSpot for four years, and held the same position at Cybereason for a little over two years, starting in June 2016.
The announced CEO role will be the first time that Volpe steps into a chief executive role's shoes, after years of experience as a marketing executive.
In June 2017, Cybereason announced the closure of a $100 million Series D round from SoftBank, which follows a $59 million Series C round that was led by the Japanese company in fall 2015. Since its start in 2012, the company has been developing and selling an endpoint detection platform for enterprise security teams.
Other upcoming top executive moves at Cybereason include CFO Scott Ward, who will be taking on new responsibilities, and Vice President and General Counsel Jonathan Shapira, who will also be leaving the company in the coming weeks to take a new role.
Both Volpe and Shapira will remain in an advisory role to Cybereason.
The executive moves at Cybereason were first reported by The Information.
