Claire Hughes Johnson

Claire Hughes Johnson currently serves as a corporate officer and advisor for Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Johnson previously served as Stripe’s Chief Operating Officer from 2014 to 2021, where she helped the company grow from less than 200 employees to more than 6,000. At various times, she led business operations, sales, marketing, customer support, risk, real estate and all of the people functions, including recruiting and HR. She is the author of The Wall Street Journal best-seller Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, published in March 2023.

Prior to Stripe, Johnson spent ten years at Google leading a number of business teams including overseeing Consumer Operations and serving as a Vice President for Adwords Online Sales & Operations, Google Offers and Google's self-driving car project.

Johnson has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and an MBA from Yale University. Johnson currently serves on the boards of HubSpot, The Atlantic, Aurora Innovation, and Ameresco. She is also President of the Board of Trustees at Milton Academy, a member of the Brown University Corporation and has served as a Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Johnson currently lives outside of Boston, MA with her husband, two children and two neurotic dachshunds.