Peter Sirota
Chief Executive Officer
Young Hahn
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer
Scott Hill
Chief Financial Officer
Laurel Finch
General Counsel and Secretary
Garrett Miller
Global Vice President, Customer Engagement
Alex Barth
Vice President, Automotive
Toru Tataka
Vice President, Asia Pacific Japan (APJ)
Chief Executive Officer
Before stepping into his role as Chief Executive Officer in March 2021, Peter served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Mapbox. He focused on defining and building search, map, navigation, and logistic services, building scalable distributed systems, and operating services at a large scale.
Prior to Mapbox, Peter was a Senior Vice President of Engineering at Quantcast, where he helped to build a large automated advertising platform. He founded and served as a General Manager for Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a cloud big data platform for processing Petabyte-scale data using open source tools such as Apache Spark and Hadoop that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts and developers to build sophisticated machine learning and data processing solutions. He has held other leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Quantcast. Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in Boston.
Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer
Young Hahn is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Mapbox, leading engineers, designers, and product leaders across the US and Europe to deliver all visual aspects of the platform. In recent years under Young's leadership, Maps services have driven innovation in industry-leading proprietary Mapbox rendering technology, revolutionized its offering into 3D in Automotive and Navigation, and launched a powerful data processing platform to bring the power of custom mapmaking to all Mapbox customers.
Young was the lead designer and product engineer at Development Seed for five years before launching Mapbox in 2012 with the original founding team. He led the architecture and development of the core parts of the Mapbox platform including rendering, resource types, data distribution and processing, cloud infrastructure, and has helped shape the core specifications that power Mapbox's product portfolio.
Chief Financial Officer
As Chief Financial Officer, Scott Hill leads the company’s finance and enterprise technology organizations, including finance, accounting, tax, treasury, enterprise application, IT and security. As a strategic and operational finance executive, Scott brings more than 25 years of experience across numerous roles in the technology sector.
Prior to Mapbox, Scott served as CFO for MobileIron, a publicly-traded leader in mobile device security. At MobileIron, Scott led the company’s transition from on-premises management software to SaaS-based security services. Before MobileIron, Scott held several senior leadership roles at Symantec and J.P. Morgan. Scott began his career as a design engineer for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Scott holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Akron, an MS in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
General Counsel and Secretary
Laurel Finch joined Mapbox in April 2021 as General Counsel and Secretary and is in charge of all legal matters for Mapbox. She has over 25 years of experience working with high growth technology companies, including as General Counsel of CrowdStrike and MobileIron, where she helped take the company public and scale 4x revenue growth in her five year tenure. She was also Deputy General Counsel of Visa USA, where she led a team of lawyers responsible for all commercial, corporate, product, regulatory and intellectual property legal activities. She was also the lead internal corporate lawyer on Visa’s complex corporate reorganization and subsequent $19.1 billion IPO. Prior to Visa, she was a partner at Venture Law Group and Heller Ehrman.
Laurel has a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, an A.B. degree from Stanford University, and a Masters in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Global Vice President, Customer Engagement
Garrett Miller leads the Customer Engagement organization overseeing Mapbox Sales and Support teams globally. Previously, Garrett has led Navigation, Search and data quality for Mapbox, building the products, technologies and businesses that power our customers’ ability to explore and navigate the world around them.
Garrett joined Mapbox from Verra Mobility, a publicly traded smart transportation company, where he served as the EVP and GM for the smart city business unit. Before that, Garrett served as the Chief Digital Officer at a GE division where he built businesses targeting the smart building and smart cities markets. Prior to GE, Garrett held a series of senior leadership roles throughout his career with SAP where he had proven success in building and scaling high-performing global teams, products and commercialization strategies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and Master’s degree from Yale University.
Vice President, Automotive
Alex Barth leads the automotive business development at Mapbox. He has spearheaded partnerships to launch major automotive manufacturers on Mapbox, helped shape Mapbox’ automotive product strategy and assembled a team of business developers to help build the future of maps in auto.
Prior to Mapbox, Alex led business development and engineering engagements in the boutique consulting firm Development Seed, implementing location driven data strategies for multilateral partners like the World Bank and the United Nations. Alex holds a masters degree in Media Technology and Design from the University of Applied Sciences, Upper Austria.
Vice President, Asia Pacific Japan (APJ)
Toru Tataka leads the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region of Mapbox business. He oversees sales, support, product, and engineering for Ads, finance, accounting, HR, IT, and legal within the region.
Toru served as an Executive in investment and business development divisions within Softbank and its subsidiary as VP of Softbank, SVP of Yahoo Japan, and CEO of Z Corporation (venture capital arm of Yahoo Japan). He has managed investment and partnerships with global and Japanese companies including Treasure Data, Criteo, BuzzFeed, and Mapbox. He served as a Board member of several companies where he also led the investment.
Prior to his role in business development, he led the Advertising Business of Yahoo Japan as Chief Product Officer where he managed 600+ people and led product management, R&D, Marketing, operations, and was responsible for P&L of search, display ads, and data products which was the largest revenue and profit stream for Yahoo Japan.
Chief Executive Officer
Before stepping into his role as Chief Executive Officer in March 2021, Peter served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Mapbox. He focused on defining and building search, map, navigation, and logistic services, building scalable distributed systems, and operating services at a large scale.
Prior to Mapbox, Peter was a Senior Vice President of Engineering at Quantcast, where he helped to build a large automated advertising platform. He founded and served as a General Manager for Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a cloud big data platform for processing Petabyte-scale data using open source tools such as Apache Spark and Hadoop that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts and developers to build sophisticated machine learning and data processing solutions. He has held other leadership roles at Amazon Web Services and Quantcast. Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University in Boston.
Founder and Managing Partner, DBL Partners
Ira is a recognized leader in the venture capital industry, having served on the Board, Executive Committee, and as Annual Meeting Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). He currently serves as the President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC) and as the Chairman of the VCNetwork, the largest and most active California venture capital organization.
Ira was recently awarded the 2018 NACD Directorship 100 for being “one of the most influential leaders in the boardroom and corporate governance community.” In 2007, he was named one of the “Top 50 Most Influential Men Under 45″ and in 2014 was inducted into the International Green Industry Hall of Fame.
Ira has invested in a wide range of companies, including SpaceX, and serves on the board of Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) and numerous other companies.
Ira has served as the Chairman of the Silicon Valley Technology Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum (SVIEF) in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. He is the Founder and Chairman of one of the most prominent energy innovation industry events, the World Energy Innovation Forum (WEIF), which convenes the who’s-who in the industry to discuss the important energy issues and opportunities of our time. Ira also served for many years on the Advisory Board of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE).
Ira is also an active leader at Stanford University, where he has served on the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School and is currently an advisory board member of the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE) Advisory Council and the Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP).
Ira received his JD/MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, where he was an Associate Editor of Stanford Law Review. He holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude.
Founder and Partner, Foundry
Brad Feld has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over 35 years, since founding his first company, Feld Technologies, in college. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars and, with his wife Amy Batchelor, runs the Anchor Point Foundation.
Brad has written several books on entrepreneurship and venture capital and started blogging in 2004 before VC Twitter existed.
Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an art collector and long-distance runner who enjoys wandering around alone in the mountains for hours at a time.
Founder and Partner, DFJ Growth
Randy co-founded DFJ Growth to partner with entrepreneurs who are building truly innovative companies that have achieved market validation and are scaling rapidly.
Current portfolio companies include emerging leaders like Alchemy, Cohesity, Commonwealth Fusion, DataStax, Mapbox, Neocis, Neuralink, NotCo, Planet, Sisense, SpaceX, Splice, Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO), The Boring Company, and Yellowbrick Data. Past investments include Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN), Box (NYSE: BOX), Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Innovium (Marvell), Performics (DoubleClick/Google), Ring (Amazon), Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA), TicketsNow (TicketMaster), Tumblr (Yahoo!), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), Unity (NYSE: U), Yammer (Microsoft), and Yodle (Web.com).
Randy takes advantage of his background as a longtime venture investor with DFJ Growth, Tribune Ventures, and Hughes New Ventures, where he participated in the founding investments for DIRECTV, Motient, and XM Radio. He also leverages his experiences as CFO of FeedBurner (Google), a business development executive at DIRECTV during its startup and early growth, and a systems engineer at Hughes Space & Communications and Martin Marietta.
Randy earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and a BSEE with high honors from the University of Florida. Randy was awarded the University of Florida Gator Engineering Innovation Award in 2013. Randy has been named to Forbes Midas List five times, most recently in 2018 and 2019. He was also named one of the world’s top venture capitalists each of the past four years by New York Times/CB Insights. Randy is a million-mile flyer and has visited six continents.
Founder and Chairman, Mapbox
Eric founded Mapbox to create tools that make location data powerful and available to everyone. Previously, he co-founded Development Seed, a consultancy that developed open source tools for international development agencies and nonprofits to map the world.
He holds a Master’s Degree in International Development and a dual Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and International Relations from American University.
Managing Partner – Americas, SoftBank Vision Fund
Vikas is actively involved in evaluating investing opportunities in the semiconductor, software, big data/artificial intelligence, and Internet of things landscape. Since joining SoftBank Investment Advisers, he has worked with Arm, WeWork, OSIsoft, Grofers, Mapbox, Slack, Cohesity and Nauto, among other investments.
Prior to joining SoftBank Investment Advisers, Vikas was a principal in Boston Consulting Group’s San Francisco and Mumbai offices. He was a core member of BCG’s Corporate Development practice area and has extensive corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions experience. He has advised clients in the semiconductor, consumer goods, and energy industries. Vikas also has worked at KKR, where he focused on strategic initiatives for portfolio companies in the technology and media sectors.
Vikas has an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a George F. Baker Scholar and was awarded first- and second-year honors. He also has an MS in electrical and computer engineering, and a BS with highest honors in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.