Mapbox Leadership

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. 

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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.  

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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.

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.

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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.

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. 

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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.

Will White is part of the founding team and currently serves as Technical Advisor to the CEO. He is leading the effort to solve problems and power a new generation of intelligent, location-aware applications, vehicles and businesses. Will leverages his 12+ years of experience at Mapbox, having worked operationally at nearly every part of the organization. His work spans initiatives from building APIs and platforms, launching new products, and spearheading marketing, sales, and recruiting. He is passionate about the mission of Mapbox to solve problems and telling compelling stories with location and data. Will has been a key contributor to Mapbox from startup to its evolution as a trusted global navigation platform.

Angela Navarro serves as Technical Advisor to the CEO. Her previous roles at Mapbox include Head of Directions Services, where she led the teams building world-class navigation experiences, and leading engineering for Mapbox Telemetry products Mapbox Traffic and Mapbox Movement.

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Prior to Mapbox, Angela spent over a decade working on engineering problems ranging from Supply Chain optimization to Natural Language Processing. Angela holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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. 

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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.

Holly currently serves as head of Marketing and Communications, overseeing content, social media, communications, PR, community and social impact, developer relations and documentation, web and graphic design. Previously at Mapbox, Holly led the Internal Communications, Learning and Talent Development, Employee Engagement, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) teams.

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Over the last 15 years, Holly has honed her expertise across diverse sectors, including technology, retail, and aviation. Her journey through notable companies such as Facebook, Gap Inc., and Virgin America has equipped her with a rich understanding of the intricacies of marketing and brand communication. Holly holds a Bachelor's degree from San Jose State, and dedicates her free time to nonprofits in the performing arts sector with marketing and communication strategic consulting.

Ali Anthes currently serves as Senior Director, Recruiting. She’s been at Mapbox for 10 years and has built sales, product, and engineering teams. Ali leverages experience from previous roles across the organization to now support, grow, and develop these teams so they can do their best work. She is responsible for talent acquisition across Mapbox globally and oversees strategies including  Her previous roles at Mapbox include VP, Customer Success and General Manager, Search. 

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Before Mapbox she was a professional pastry chef at multiple restaurants in Washington, D.C. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Arabic and The History of Science.

Kristin currently serves as the head of Human Resources and Total Rewards, overseeing critical functions including compensation, benefits, HR systems and operations, learning and development, and HR business partner activities. Kristin is a highly accomplished Human Resources leader with a rich history of over 25 years in guiding organizations to excellence through strategic People programs.

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Kristin's teams play a pivotal role in shaping the organizational culture and driving employee development and engagement. By aligning total rewards structures with the company's overarching objectives, she ensures that Mapbox attracts, retains, and motivates top-tier talent. Kristin spearheads initiatives in HR systems and operations, leveraging technology to enhance efficiency and streamline processes, creating a seamless and user-friendly experience for employees.  In the HR business partner capacity, the team fosters strong collaboration between HR and other business units, ensuring that human capital strategies are closely aligned with overall corporate goals. Prior to her role at Mapbox, Kristin held senior HR leadership roles across various industries, including fintech, insurance, biotech and medical devices. Kristin holds a Bachelor's degree and an MBA.