Motive has appointed Thomas Hansen as President, Go-To-Market. In this newly created role, Thomas will lead Motive’s go-to-market organisation, including sales, marketing, customer success, partnerships and revenue operations.
With Motive company personnel from safety, operations, and finance teams can manage their workers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in a single system. Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers from small businesses to Fortune 500 enterprises such as Halliburton, KONE, Komatsu, NBC Universal, and Maersk across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, waste services, and the public sector.
Shoaib Makani, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Motive, is delighted with Hansen’s appointment, and has commented:
“As we scale and accelerate our next chapter of growth, I could not be more excited to welcome Thomas to the team. Thomas brings deep experience leading global high-performing teams, driving growth and building lasting customer relationships. His customer-centric approach and operational rigor will help take our go-to-market strategy to the next level.”
Thomas joins Motive from Amplitude, a leading publicly traded AI analytics platform on NASDAQ, where he built and scaled a high-performing global go-to-market organisation. Before that, he served as CHief Revenue Officer at UiPath and Chief Operating Officer at Carbon Black. He has also held senior leadership roles at Dropbox and Microsoft.
“Motive is building something unique. It is the only AI-native platform purpose-built for organizations that power the physical economy,” stated Thomas Hansen, President, Go-To-Market at Motive. “The market opportunity is substantial, the product is industry-leading, and the team is exceptional. I am excited to get to work.”
