The Corporation of Brown University
Claire Hughes Johnson
Trustee (2024-30)
Biography
| Claire Hughes Johnson, a Class of 1994 Brown graduate, is a corporate officer and adviser for Stripe, a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Johnson previously served as Stripe's chief operating officer from 2014 to 2021, where she helped the company grow from less than 200 employees to more than 6,000. At various times, she led business operations, sales, marketing, customer support, risk, real estate and all of the people functions, including recruiting and human resources. She is the author of the Wall Street Journal best-seller "Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building," published in 2023, and recently served as a visiting faculty member (executive fellow) at Harvard Business School. Prior to Stripe, Johnson spent 10 years at Google leading a number of business teams including overseeing consumer operations and serving as a vice president for Adwords online sales and operations, Google Offers and Google's self-driving car project. Johnson earned a bachelor's degree with honors in English and American literature from Brown and an MBA from Yale University. She currently serves on the boards of HubSpot, the Atlantic, Aurora Innovation, and Ameresco, and is president of the Board of Trustees at Milton Academy. |