Mailchimp Leadership

Ben Chestnut is co-founder and CEO of Mailchimp, the leading marketing platform for small businesses. Headquartered in Ben’s hometown of Atlanta since 2001, Mailchimp is privately held and profitable, with nearly 1,000 employees and millions of global users. In 2017, Mailchimp was named Company of the Year by Inc. Magazine and recognized as one of the world’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. Ben is a dedicated leader whose mantra for employees is “listen hard, change fast.” He has a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Georgia Tech and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2016.

Rick leads Mailchimp’s finance, planning, and investment functions. Prior to Mailchimp, he was a founding partner of TechCXO and served as interim CFO or M&A advisor to high-growth SaaS and marketing-tech firms. He’s also held executive positions with VueMedia, Hewlett Packard, VeriFone, and GTECH, and began his career as a CPA with Arthur Andersen & Company. He received a business degree from The Citadel and an MBA from Georgia State University’s Executive Program.

Accomplished global senior HR executive with depth and breadth of exposure to leading edge HR practice, and a passion for progressive organizational consulting focusing on contemporary ways of enabling leaders, teams and organizations to create and deliver value.

As Chief Customer Officer at Mailchimp, I oversee the company’s award-winning Customer Support team, VIP services, and the Service Partner Program to ensure that new and current customers are successful and have an outstanding experience. I’m an innovative and customer-centric executive with 20+ years of experience contributing to multi-billion-dollar revenues and operating globally and at scale in the advertising, SaaS, operations, finance, product development, and post sales functions and/or industries. I’m an award-winning leader focused on building inclusive teams, aligning purpose to industry, and keeping customers at the center of business success.

Eric Muntz is Mailchimp's Chief Technology Officer responsible for the engineering teams that design, implement, and maintain Mailchimp's products and infrastructure. He is passionate about applying technology to deliver connected customer experiences that drive business success. During his career, Eric has helped create web, desktop, and mobile applications for early-stage startups, small businesses, and the federal government. He has a degree in applied mathematics from Auburn University and also practices and teaches krav maga.

Joe Uhl leads Mailchimp’s Infrastructure, IT, Security, Delivery, Data, and Reliability Engineering teams, which support our product development groups and protect the company. He was Mailchimp’s sixth engineering hire and 60th employee. Before joining Mailchimp, Joe founded and worked at a number of software startups serving customers big and small. He has a computer science degree from Georgia Tech.

Simon Malkowski is a Chief Strategy Officer at Mailchimp.

Currently the Chief Information Security Officer for MailChimp. Versatile IT executive with global CIO and CISO experience. Proven ability to transform and lead enterprise IT organizations to drive company growth and performance. Numerous successes developing high performing teams, transforming IT strategy and delivery, establishing innovation programs, as well as designing and implementing complex IT solutions. Experience establishing and running global CISO organizations. Grounded leadership, focused on stable infrastructure and financial stewardship while also nurturing innovation. •Leveraged 20+ years of organizational, financial, consulting and technology experience to significantly transform Coca-Cola Enterprises European IT organization as the London-based CIO. •Known for strong business partnership and quality solution delivery that drives business performance.•Experienced leader that drives employee engagement and develops innovative people solutions to source IT resources. •Developed the evolving digital transformation strategy for Coca-Cola Enterprises, designed to leverage technology advances in cloud, mobile, social and big data.•Global CISO experience at Coca-Cola Enterprises and McKesson Corp., responsible for strategy, security architecture, security engineering, NIST maturity, security operations centers, threat vulnerability management, regulatory compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, PII, PCI), data protection, disaster recovery & business continuity, security programs (Insider Threat, Awareness), GRC. Responsible for regular updates to the BOD and Audit Committee.•Opened a successful, ‘showcase’ agile innovation office in partnership with Georgia Tech in Tech Square in Atlanta. Incubated over 40 technology innovations ultimately leveraged by CCE Commercial Teams. Realized a $3M business benefit from tax incentives and student employment, making the center self-funded.

Ben Chestnut is co-founder and CEO of Mailchimp, the leading marketing platform for small businesses. Headquartered in Ben’s hometown of Atlanta since 2001, Mailchimp is privately held and profitable, with nearly 1,000 employees and millions of global users. In 2017, Mailchimp was named Company of the Year by Inc. Magazine and recognized as one of the world’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. Ben is a dedicated leader whose mantra for employees is “listen hard, change fast.” He has a bachelor’s degree in industrial design from Georgia Tech and was named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2016.