Laurel Hodge

Laurel Hodge is the current Global Head of Marketing for Confluence Cloud & Work Management Solutions at Atlassian. Laurel has extensive experience in marketing, having served as the Senior Director, Head of Creative Strategy at Imgur and the Senior Director, Marketing at HBUS.

At Imgur, Laurel was responsible for leading the marketing department and helped transform Imgur from a simple image sharer to a community powered entertainment destination. Laurel guided the leadership team through a brand repositioning initiative and led the update of all touchpoints to reflect the new positioning. Laurel also partner with product management to concept, design, launch & refine new features and products.

At HBUS, Laurel headed up marketing, creative, and communications to grow Huobi Marketplace in the United States. During their brief tenure in the wild world of crypto, they saw quadruple digit growth in signups.

Laurel Hodge attended San Francisco State University and majored in political science. Laurel had a GPA of 3.8. Laurel then attended UC Berkeley Extension and researched marketing.

Their manager is Robert Chatwani, Chief Marketing Officer. Some of their coworkers include Paul Blackwell - Head of Global Channel Marketing, Amy Walter - Head of Global Event Strategy, and Ami Sheth - Head of Cloud Lifecycle Marketing.