Step Up: HG United 2024

Step Up at HG United

HG Insights came together this week for the annual HG United event on the Santa Barbara shoreline. Overlooking the Pacific, teams from around the world — Ukraine, Brazil, India, and Britain, to name a few — met, strategized, and learned about what’s in store in 2024 for HG.

Across three days the entire company met at Santa Barbara for exciting news, activities, and inspiration. This year’s theme was Step Up and many great guests and presentations did just that! In addition to the HG executive team unveiling the exciting things in store for HG in 2023 — through priority objectives and key results, transformation strategies, and data deep dives.

Of course, the company kickoff was a wonderful time of making connections with remote colleagues, delicious meals, and exciting company events at various venues around Santa Barbara!

HG Insights Company Awards 2023

HG United 2024 culminated with a look back on the amazing achievements made in 2023. None of this could have been accomplished without the impact of our phenomenal, ever-growing team! The award recipients are recognized for their impactful contributions and embodying the HG’s core values.

CEO Elizabeth Cholawsky and HG leaders presented awards to recognize the tireless contributions made by our people to HG’s purpose, vision, and mission!

HG Insights Award Winners! **From left:** Melissa Webb, Maria Hernandez-Venegas, David Garcia Thomas, Archie Moore, Augie Buettner

HG Company Award Winners

Department	Team	Name of Award	Recipient	Job Title
Data Solutions	Data Operations	Above and Beyond	Ramon Conopio	Data Analyst
	Customer Solutions	Above and Beyond	Wynham Guillemot	Sr. Customer Solution Engineer
Customer Success	Customer Success	CSM of the Year	Laurie Crosby	Manager, Customer Success
Product	Product	Above and Beyond	Garrett Kocher	Sr. Product Manager
	Product Marketing	Steady as a Rock	Maria Hernandez-Venegas	Product Marketing Manager
Engineering Management	Engineering	Jaguar Engineer	Lincoln Rodriguez	Senior Software Engineer
	Engineering	Above and Beyond	Andrew Combs	Senior Software Engineer, R&D
Finance	Finance	Steady as a Rock	John Goodwin	Sr. Financial Analyst
Human Resources	Human Resources	Above and Beyond	Laura Koffman	People Ops Coordinator
Sales	Sales Development	SDR of the Year	Fabian Oseguera	Account Executive
	Sales Development	SDR MVP	Giselle Valero	SDR
	Sales	Rising Star	David Garcia Thomas	Manager, Sales
	Sales	New Logo King	Ziad Amira	Sr. Enterprise Account Executive
	Sales	Salesperson of the Year	Augie Buettner	Sr. Account Executive
	Growth Marketing	Above and Beyond	Julia Brocato	Sr. Marketing Program Manager
Revenue Operations	Revenue Operations	Above & Beyond	Claire Shuman	Sr. Revenue Operations Manager
Sales Engineering	Sales Engineering	Sales Engineering MVP	Gavin Padden	Sales Engineer
All Departments	Product	‘The Marco’ All Company MVP Award	Melissa Webb	Sr. Product Manager
Various	Kickoff Team	Special Thanks	Katherine Steele Julia Brocato Mannie Singh Yannely Elizarraraz Laura Koffman Allen Licha Vince Colvin Brooke Doyle Taylor Viens Jon Martin	HG United Events Team

The MVP All-Company Award, “The Marco” is a company-wide accolade presented to the HGer who best embodies the HG core values. Honoring a special member of the HG family, Marco Merlina, The Marco celebrates a not-forgotten member of the team from HG’s early days.

HG Insights Award Winners! ***Top***: *Fabian, Laura, John, Claire, Gavin, Augie, Maria, Laurie, Garrett; **Below**: Wynham, Ziad, Lincoln, Andrew, Gisele, Melissa; **Front**: David Garcia Thomas; not pictured: Ramon, Julia*

In addition to planning the upcoming year, HG United is also a time to reflect on our accomplishments over the previous year. With winning 27 industry awards, several new product launches, and our invaluable new market reports there is a lot to celebrate.