About

Commercially focused technology and IT lawyer Michelle Geraghty joined HubSpot in February 2017 but is already well-acquainted with its faced paced, ever-changing and exciting environment. Coming from Afilias, the world’s second largest internet domain name registry, Geraghty concedes transitioning to the world’s leading inbound marketing and sales platform required some adjustment which was initially challenging, given the fast pace and size of the company. However, with over a decade of in-house experience to her name, her move to HubSpot is ‘without doubt the best decision [she has] made in her career’, and one that has already been transformative, highly stimulating and insightful. In her previous role as the EMEA Legal Counsel, Geraghty provided commercially focused legal advice to senior management on a broad range of issues including contract law, employment law, and commercial negotiations. At HubSpot, the scope of her role has been expanded to cover both EMEA and APAC where she supports the Sales, Services and People Operations functions. She is also the Globalisation, Localisation and Data Privacy legal business partner at HubSpot. ‘Supporting HubSpot’s international reach has been hugely rewarding, most recently with the opening of our Berlin office this summer’. The office in Berlin joins HubSpot’s EMEA headquarters in Dublin as the second office in the region and seventh office globally. ‘With this growth comes the challenge of finding innovative and effective ways to scale the provision of legal support to the relevant teams in a dynamic and ever-changing environment, but it’s a challenge that excites me and keeps me on my toes’. Michelle began her in-house career at Investment Technology Group and later moved to ION Trading Ireland before joining Afilias.