Chief Executive Officer, Bluehost Group
Leading Bluehost Group’s AI-native vision to reimagine the web for businesses and creators.
Overview
Sachin Puri brings an unmatched passion for growth and success, accompanied by decades of deep industry expertise and a distinguished career history of leading strategy for major enterprises in the tech space. Sachin Puri is the Chief Executive Officer of Bluehost Group, where he leads a powerhouse portfolio of digital brands including Bluehost, Yoast, YITH, HostGator, and more. Under his leadership, Bluehost’s mission is to reimagine the web for the AI era by making it easier for people to build and grow their online businesses, whether that’s creating content, running a store, or being discovered online. He has built his career at the intersection of SaaS, hosting, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and digital commerce, helping companies accelerate innovation and deliver customer-centric digital experiences. He is a transformation-driven technology executive known for scaling global SaaS, hosting, and ecommerce businesses, with a background spanning AI, cloud infrastructure, marketing, and product strategy that has enabled him to lead companies through high-velocity growth, platform modernization, and customer-centric innovation, and he is widely recognized for his ability to unite product, engineering, sales, and marketing into one execution engine to create durable enterprise value.
Role & Vision
Sachin oversees the company’s AI-forward product vision and multi-brand platform strategy. Under his leadership, Bluehost is reimagining the web for the AI era by making it easier for people to build and grow their online businesses, whether that’s creating content, running a store, or being discovered online. His focus includes modernizing the company’s global infrastructure through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and strengthening the open web ecosystem that supports millions of creators, entrepreneurs, and small businesses. His vision is to build an AI-powered platform that unifies content, commerce, and discovery to help customers grow with speed and simplicity. As CEO of Bluehost Group, Sachin leads a multi-brand portfolio serving millions of SMBs, creators, and developers, driving an AI-forward strategy to build a modern, unified digital platform that integrates infrastructure, content, commerce, and discovery for SMB success.
Priorities include:
- Accelerating product velocity and innovation through AI
- Modernizing infrastructure via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- Expanding global performance footprint
- Strengthening the open-web ecosystem through partnerships
- Enabling SMBs, MSPs, ISVs, and creators to grow with speed, simplicity, and confidence
- Driving operational excellence and long-term enterprise value
Experience & Leadership
With over 20 years of experience spanning SaaS, eCommerce, cybersecurity, and digital infrastructure, Sachin has held senior leadership roles at globally recognized companies such as WP Engine, McAfee, eBay, StubHub, HP, and Liquid Web. Across these roles, he has led initiatives that accelerated growth, transformed customer experience, drove product innovation and elevated brand impact. He is passionate about using AI and smart tools to make the web work better for creators, entrepreneurs, and small businesses around the world.
His leadership philosophy combines strategic precision with customer empathy, rallying teams around purpose, performance, and long-term value. At Bluehost Group, he is championing AI-native innovation, platform expansion, and customer-first digital experiences. From flexibility to frictionless, Sachin and his team are on the mission to help millions of people get online and thrive.
Earlier in his career, Sachin held roles at Keystone Strategy, Mentor Graphics, and National Instruments, building a strong foundation in technology, strategy, and customer-focused innovation.
Professional Journey
- Bluehost Group — Chief Executive Officer (May 2025 – Present)
- Liquid Web — Chief Growth Officer (April 2024 – April 2025)
- WP Engine — Chief Marketing Officer (August 2022 – March 2024)
- McAfee — Vice President, Marketing (September 2019 – August 2022)
- StubHub — Senior Director, Performance Marketing (November 2017 – August 2019)
- HP — Director, Digital, Media & Data Science Strategy & Operations (September 2013 – November 2017)
- Keystone Strategy — Senior Strategy Consultant (June 2011 – September 2013)
- Mentor Graphics — Senior Account Manager (July 2005 – June 2009)
- National Instruments — Field Sales Engineer (July 2002 – July 2005)
Education
- MBA, Business Administration & Management — University of Michigan Ross School of Business
- Inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma honor society
- McKinsey Marketing & Finance Scholar
- B.S., Electrical Engineering — Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- Merit in Academic Excellence Award
Recognition & Thought Leadership
- Top 40 under 40, Brand Innovator 2019
- Major conferences or keynotes you'd like to highlight:
- Keynote, CloudFest USA
- Keynote, AdExchanger’s Programmatic I/O
- Media Publications representing Bluehost thus far:
Public profiles & links
Media Mentions
- TechRadar Pro
- HostingJournalist
- WebHosting Today
- MarTechCube
- AdExchanger
- MarTech360
- Localogy – Part 1
- Localogy – Part 2
Personal Interests
Outside of work, Sachin is passionate about emerging technologies and mentoring rising leaders and advancing AI accessibility. He enjoys music, wellness, and spending time outdoors.
Additional Publications & Industry Leadership
- Interview: Building Customer Journey with The Techstars Alumni community Nov 2023
- Panel: Crafted Future: 2024 On Your Radar with The Webby’s Awards Nov 2023
- Interview: How to supercharge your website & build a personalized customer journey at scale with Sequel.io Oct’23
- Panel: Revolutionizing marketing with AI - Opportunities and challenges for CMOs, with CMO Alliance Sep 2023
- Panel and white paper: Validation of Performance Measurement Models 2022
- Interview: 6 Ways to Manage Your Teen's Privacy and Safety Online 2022
- Interview: How to Spot Impostors on Facebook Messenger and Instagram 2022
- Interview: C-Suite Marketing Leadership: McAfee & My Code Featured Fireside Chat 2022
- Interview: Digital Marketing Innovation: McAfee & Turtl Featured Webinar2021
- Panel: Trade Marketing Fireside Chat: Growing your B2B Brand 2021
- Interview: C-Suite and Marketing Leadership by Brand Innovator and Stirista, September 2021
- Fireside Chat: Growing your B2B Brand by Brand Innovator, March 2021
- Fireside Chat: TrendWatch by Brand Innovator, March 2021
- SXSW TrendWatch Fireside chat: Digital Transformation And Globalization Strategy with Brand Innovator and EJ Freni, Chief Revenue Officer, Claravine , March 2021
- Innovator Interviews: “Approach to growth marketing, digital marketing, and 2021 predictions” with Brand Innovators, December 2020
- Academic Panel: The McCarthy Institute Series: Competing for Consumers in the Digital Era, December 2020
- Case Study Interview, Insider chat: “How two McAfee marketers are thinking about personalization and a cookieless future” at LiveIntent, November 2020
- Keynote Speaker: Personalization with Turtl CEO, September 2020
- Fireside Chat: Growth Marketing: McAfee & White Ops, September 2020
- Author, “The 5 Pillars Of Running Experiments At Scale” at BrandAware by AdExchanger, May 2020
- Author, “How The Humble Corporate Website Can Fuel Audience-Centric Performance Marketing” at BrandAware by AdExchanger, March 2020
- The McCarthy Institute Series: Competing for Consumers in the Digital Era with Golden Gate Univ, December 2020
- Author, “The Reality Of Machine Learning In Marketing”, at BrandAware by AdExchanger September 2019
- Author, “Performance Marketing And Measurement: A New Beginning Amid Ever-Evolving Privacy Restrictions” at BrandAware by AdExchanger, August 2019
- Interview, “StubHub Scales Its Video Campaigns With Automated Creative” by Smartly and AdExchanger, July 2019
- Podcast Speaker, “Making machine-driven marketing work” with McKinsey & YouTube, June 2019
- Keynote Speaker, “Cross-Platform Data: The Path To Better ROI” at Programmatic I/O Conference by AdExchanger, San Francisco, CA, May 2019
- Author, “Is First-Party Data Collateral Damage For Stricter Third-Party Privacy Policies?” at BrandAware by AdExchanger, May 2019
- Panel Speaker, “Best Practices In Mobile Growth” at Mobile Venture Summit, February 2019
- Case Study Interview, “Inside HP’s ‘Incredibly Powerful’ Marketing Insights Machine” by Amobee, May 2017
- Speaker, “Leverages Data and Technology to Engage Customers” Interview by BuzzFeed News, April 2017
- Panel Speaker, “Building High Performance Marketing Engine” at CMO Council, March 2015
- Member, AdExchange Brand Aware, BI Labs - Innovation Advisory Council, Forbes Communication Council
- Panel Judge, 2019 Web Awards, International Performance Marketing Awards, Digiday Awards, Webby’s Award/ International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), 2020 The Adexchanger Awards
- Top 40 under 40 Brand Innovator Award, 2019