Baseten Names Former Figma CMO Sheila Vashee Chief Marketing Officer
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Vashee is the fifth senior executive Baseten has added in 2026, following its $1.5B Series F and reported 20x year-on-year revenue growth. Baseten, the San Francisco-based AI inference company, has appointed Sheila Vashee as Chief Marketing Officer. Vashee joins from Figma, where she most recently served as CMO, and brings two decades of experience building and scaling marketing, growth and go-to-market functions at Figma, Ethos, Opendoor and Dropbox. The hire continues a year of senior additions at Baseten. Vashee joins an executive team that has taken on Matt Slagle as Chief Revenue Officer, Gabe Stern as Chief Legal Officer, Sameer Paranjpye as Head of Engineering and Vivek Patel as Head of Compute, all of whom arrived earlier in 2026. According to the company, Baseten works with thousands of customers, processes 40 to 50 trillion tokens per day across infrastructure spanning 90 clusters and 20 clouds, and reported 20x year-on-year revenue growth in June 2026. Its customers include Cursor, Harvey, HubSpot, Lovable, Notion, Vercel and Wayfair. "Sheila is a proven leader with an incredible track record of elevating beloved, product-led technology companies into defining market leaders. The growth and scale she's seen in spades, together with her mastery of community, brand, and growth will be a major accelerant as we increasingly become the de facto inference provider...
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