CircleCI Appoints Judson Griffin as Chief Revenue Officer

New regional leadership hires include Adrian Shaw as General Manager of EMEA and Naobumi Umezawa as General Manager of JAPAC

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CircleCI, a leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, today announced the appointment of Judson Griffin as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Griffin is joined by two regional leadership hires, Adrian Shaw, General Manager (GM) of EMEA and Naobumi Umezawa, GM of JAPAC, both responsible for driving customer adoption and expansion across these strategic regions.

“Adding Judson, Adrian, and Nao to our team underpins our commitment to delivering best-in-class value and innovation to our customers across the globe,” said Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI. “They each bring invaluable leadership qualities and impressive track records for engaging customers at all stages of their respective growth stage, and a unique passion for helping engineering teams solve the complex problems they’re up against today.”

• Based in San Francisco, Judson Griffin joins CircleCI from Lattice as its CRO. Griffin brings over 20 years of sales and revenue leadership experience. He offers a deep understanding of the DevOps space from his time at Browser Stack, Intercom, and SAP. Griffin is responsible for leading CircleCI’s global revenue team.
• Based in London, Adrian Shaw joins CircleCI from Splunk as its new GM of EMEA. Shaw brings more than 20 years of extensive sales leadership and a talent for building highly-engaged, collaborative, and customer-centric teams. Shaw is responsible for expansion in key EMEA markets.
• Based in Tokyo, Naobumi Umezawa joins CircleCI from AWS Japan as GM of JAPAC. Umezawa brings over a decade of extensive sales and leadership knowledge in the region. Umezawa will be instrumental in helping CircleCI further expand its presence in the region.

Gone are the days where writing good code is going to cut it. In today’s dynamic tech landscape, how teams deliver software must be viewed as a strategic advantage or they risk getting left behind. Forward-thinking teams that embrace this are shifting away from code-centric CI tools (CI 1.0) and turning to CI 2.0 platforms like CircleCI that are purpose-built to validate change across all parts of the application. Upleveling their ability to deliver innovation and greater application experiences for their users.

This month CircleCI celebrated over 1B workflows and over 5B jobs run by customers, equating to nearly 15B build minutes since 2019. These figures reflect a massive uptick in software development activity but more importantly reinforce the business-criticality of CircleCI for enabling customers to more effectively build and deliver software at scale.

“With a proven track record as the most powerful offering on the market, it’s clear that CircleCI gives software teams an edge,” shared Judson Griffin, CRO at CircleCI. “I’m excited to work with Adrian, Nao and the entire go-to-market team to extend CircleCI as the preferred solution to more software teams who are looking to move quickly and confidently in this increasingly challenging space.”

About CircleCI

CircleCI is a leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling more than two million global users on elite engineering teams like Okta, Hinge, and Hugging Face to rapidly build, test, deploy, and monitor software they can trust. Through powerful pipeline automation, CircleCI manages limitless complexity at scale through unmatched flexibility and reliability, reducing the time from build to delivery by 3x the industry average. For more information about CircleCI, visit www.circleci.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.