Dennis Woodside
CEO & President at Freshworks
Scaling global enterprise software growth at Freshworks
Last updated May 31, 2026 by the ATDb Editorial Team · Connections updated May 31, 2026
Dennis Woodside is CEO and President of Freshworks, the cloud-based customer and employee engagement software company. He brings extensive operational leadership experience from his prior roles as COO at Dropbox, President and CEO of Motorola Mobility, and nearly a decade at Google where he served as President of Americas and helped scale the company's advertising and commercial operations during a pivotal era in digital media. Woodside is recognized for translating deep expertise in high-growth technology businesses into enterprise-scale leadership.
Chief Operating Officer
Dropbox (2014-2016)
President and CEO
Motorola Mobility (2012-2014)
President, Americas
Google (2003-2012)
- JD, Harvard Law School
- BA, Dartmouth College
- Led Google Americas operations during the period when Google's advertising revenue scaled from hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars
- Oversaw operational integration of DoubleClick following Google's $3.1 billion acquisition, a defining moment in programmatic advertising history
- Helped establish YouTube's advertising monetization framework as part of Google's broader ad platform strategy
- Led Motorola Mobility through Google's acquisition and subsequent $2.91 billion sale to Lenovo