Motive Appoints Thomas Hansen as President, Go-To-Market, to Accelerate Next Phase of AI Leadership and Global Scale

Seasoned enterprise go-to-market leader joins Motive to drive revenue and scale

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Motive, the AI platform for physical operations, today announced the appointment of Thomas Hansen as President, Go-To-Market. In this newly created role, Thomas will lead Motive’s go-to-market organization, including sales, marketing, customer success, partnerships and revenue operations.

“As we scale and accelerate our next chapter of growth, I could not be more excited to welcome Thomas to the team,” said Shoaib Makani, Co-founder and CEO of Motive. “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.”

“Motive is building something unique. It is the only AI-native platform purpose-built for organizations that power the physical economy,” said 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."

Thomas joins Motive from Amplitude, a leading publicly traded AI analytics platform, where he built and scaled a high-performing global go-to-market organization. Before that, he served as CRO at UiPath and COO at Carbon Black. He also held senior leadership roles at Dropbox and Microsoft. Thomas brings deep experience leading global high-performing revenue teams, driving growth and building lasting customer relationships.

About Motive

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time, 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.

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