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 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.
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.
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