Catherine Stewart
Former COO at Shippo and former Chief Business Officer at Automattic. Ex-McKinsey and Facebook generalist who scaled go-to-market and operations across hyper-growth tech companies.
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About Catherine Stewart
Catherine Stewart spent seven years as Chief Business Officer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, before becoming COO at Shippo, the multi-carrier shipping platform. She joined Automattic at the invitation of founder Matt Mullenweg to take on the commensurate jack-of-all-trades role spanning revenue, finance, and operations.
She started her career at McKinsey, working on engagements ranging from MySpace in its early days to Pfizer clinical trials. She later joined Facebook, where she worked across product management, marketing, and finance, including authoring a three-year plan. Stewart describes her core focus as go-to-market and building businesses that generate long-term sustainable revenue, including sales, marketing, customer success, partnerships, and the operations that support them. She joined Shippo as COVID was reshaping shipping demand, with customer counts doubling and tripling almost overnight.
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