These are the fearless leaders of Drift

Elias Torres is the co-founder and strategic advisor of Drift. He previously served as the VP of Engineering at HubSpot and VP of Engineering at Lookery. In addition to starting, advising, and helping early stage companies, Elias is passionate about building winning teams and supporting Latinx entrepreneurs across the U.S. He has been featured in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and TechCrunch.

Tim is the chief financial officer at Drift, where he leads the team responsible for global finance, IT and business systems, reporting, internal controls, operations and pricing. Tim has significant experience leveraging finance to drive business improvement, decision support, performance management and growth. Prior to Drift, he held progressive finance roles as SVP, EVP and CFO for Access, where he led the company’s global finance, accounting, real estate and pricing teams. Tim supported significant organic and acquisitive revenue and EBITDA growth, almost doubling the revenue and EBITDA. Prior to Access, he held senior finance and management roles with Skillsoft over his 15-year tenure. Tim was a major player on the team that helped to grow the company from approximately $50M in revenue to over $600M, with profit margins north of 35%. Tim holds an MBA from the University of New Hampshire, a B.S. in Finance from Linfield College and is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School General Management Program.

Diana is the chief people officer of Drift, where she leads the people team and is responsible for global talent acquisition, people operations, employee engagement and talent development. Diana is passionate about creating an inclusive company culture that bolsters leadership alignment and accelerates growth. Over the past two decades, her leadership roles have spanned the global tech, digital media and advertising industries with extensive experience helping companies adopt modern organizational structures and evolve go-to-market teams for scale. In her prior role as CHRO of Avid Technology, she led the People and Places team as the organization launched a multi-year digital and cultural transformation. As an entrepreneur, she built an HR consulting business that delivered human capital solutions, enabling organizations to acquire, engage and develop the talent required to thrive and grow.

Bart Hammond is the Chief Customer Officer at Drift where he focuses on building world-class customer experiences across onboarding, retention, professional services, and expansion. He has more than 30 years of customer-facing experience across the full spectrum of success, services, and support teams at SaaS companies, global multinational technology leaders, and consulting organizations including Ping Identity, EMC, Interlink Group, and Accenture.

Melissa Leffler is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Drift. She brings 30+ years of experience leading engineering teams, previously serving in technical leadership roles for several Boston-area firms. This includes Objective Logistics, which she joined near the time of its Series A funding. After helping scale the product infrastructure and engineering team, the company was later acquired by Carbon Black, where Melissa was a senior engineering leader up until IPO. Melissa also led engineering and business growth efforts for companies including Awareness, Liquid Machines and eRoom, which was acquired by Documentum and is still in use as an EMC product decades later.