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Monica Ohara

Chief Marketing Officer at Fivetran

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Overview

Monica Ohara serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Fivetran as of April 2025[1][3]. Ohara has held senior marketing leadership roles at multiple technology companies, including Chief Marketing Officer positions at WordPress.com under Automattic from 2019 to 2022[6] and at HackerRank from 2022 to 2023[5], followed by a role as VP Growth Marketing at Shopify from July 2023 to November 2024[4]. Earlier in their career, Ohara co-founded and served as CEO of DataScore Inc. from 2013 to 2017, which was subsequently acquired by Lyft[9]. Ohara has completed four exits to date, including one IPO[2]. Ohara holds a degree in English from UCLA[11] and completed coursework in Principles of Engineering Design through Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth[12].

Profile introduction
Source excerptLinkedIn [2]

Passionate about helping companies grow. Previously founded a company and sold it to a unicorn for a total of 4 exits to date, including 1 IPO.

Career history

  1. Chief Marketing OfficerApr 2025 to presentFivetran
  2. VP Growth MarketingJul 2023 to Nov 2024Shopify
  3. Chief Marketing Officer2022 to 2023HackerRank
  4. Chief Marketing Officer, WordPress.com2019 to 2022Automattic
  5. Head of Acquisition, Driver & Rider Growth2017 to 2019Lyft
  6. Growth Advisor2016 to 2017Lyft
  7. CEO & Co-Founder2013 to 2017DataScore Inc. (Acquired by Lyft)
  8. General Manager and Vice President of Marketing2010 to 2013SpeedDate.com (Acquired by Match.com/IAC)

Education

  1. EnglishUCLA
  2. Principles of Engineering Design, Center for Talented YouthThe Johns Hopkins University

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