- Newbreed announced that Jim O’Neill and Vipul Shah joined the board of directors
Jim O’Neill and Vipul Shah announced they have joined the board of directors for New Breed, which is a B2B marketing, sales, and customer success company that partners with SaaS companies.
“Both Jim and Vipul have an undoubtedly strong background with high-growth companies and truly understand our world,” said New Breed CEO Patrick Biddiscombe. “With Jim’s deep understanding of the HubSpot ecosystem and scaling SaaS businesses, combined with Vipul’s experience investing in, running and scaling high-growth companies, we truly feel like together we can revolutionize the way companies grow.”
O’Neill was a founding member of HubSpot and helped the company grow from 5 employees to over 1,500 and from 10 customers to over 25,000.
“I look forward to truly being helpful to New Breed as they look to further tech-enable their services and offerings,” added O’Neill. “We can bring a tech operators perspective and a product mindset to New Breed’s growth. They already have the technology and the focus on helping their clients scale sustainably. We look forward to working with them to solve everything from the front office to the back office.”
Shah co-founded and successfully scaled Pyramid Digital Solutions (acquired by SunGard Data Systems), a publicly-traded company on the NASDAQ. And subsequently, Shah spent over 10 years investing in high-growth companies while working for investment firms, including Goldman Sachs Private Equity.
“I have evaluated numerous companies and have seen some pretty amazing cultures, New Breed’s truly stands out,” explained Shah. “Every time we met someone new from the team, our confidence in New Breed grew because of the authenticity of their people and their thought leadership in the SaaS Industry.”
