By: Roy Ng
John Bonney is joining Mapbox as our Chief Financial Officer. His time as a finance leader/CFO at both public and private companies shows a track record of repeated success, having led all aspects of finance — Accounting, FP&A, Investor Relations, and M&A — which will allow him to be a core business partner across all of our teams.
When I shared details on what the team is building, John immediately grasped both the strategic and financial value of our location data platform. We dove deep into details around our financials, business, and operations — from our long-tail developer self-serve metrics, to our telemetry data processing, to our use of Spot with AWS. Then we jumped right back to business strategy going into areas like Auto, AR/VR, then on to people and organizational development.
During conversations with the team and board, John showed not only a mastery of running a finance organization at high growth, but also a sincere appreciation of our business, our strategy, and our people and organizational dynamics. Most importantly, John is genuine, passionate, and prioritizes people growth and development, demonstrated by the number of folks John hired and mentored previously on his teams who are now CFOs at various companies.
John was previously CFO at FinancialForce for over three years, driving the growth of the company from ~200 employees and ~$35M in revenue, to over 650 employees doing ~$100M in revenue. During his time at FinancialForce, he helped raise over $180M in equity and debt. Before FinancialForce, John was the Global VP of Finance and Divisional CFO of SAP Cloud, a $1B SaaS business, which he joined through the sale of Ariba to SAP. During his time at Ariba, he saw the business grow from $150M to over $350M in less than four years. He also played a key role in the $4.3B sale of Ariba to SAP.
John is excited to be a part of the team, saying:
“I could not be more thrilled and honored to be joining the amazing team here at Mapbox. The availability of real-time location data has never been more important in our increasingly data-intensive and on-demand world. Mapbox is already helping thousands of companies across multiple industries radically improve their own businesses by leveraging the feature-rich and data-rich Mapbox platform. I look forward to working with the entire Mapbox team to help the company scale to new heights while continuing the hyper-growth trajectory and fantastic culture.”
Welcome aboard, John!
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