Kinsta Names Jon Penland New CEO and Matt Reid as CMO

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kinsta, a leading managed hosting provider for WordPress, has named Jon Penland as chief executive officer to double down on the company’s exceptional product and award-winning customer-centric growth strategy. Kinsta has also named Matt Reid, former senior vice president at BigCommerce, as its new chief marketing officer.

Kinsta has a longstanding record of providing feature-rich, comprehensive hosting services coupled with extraordinary customer experience for more than a decade. Penland and Reid will lead the company’s mission to support website owners and developers.

Penland started at Kinsta as a support engineer about nine years ago and rose through the ranks through a number of roles in sales, operations and customer success, up to chief operating officer before being named CEO. He strongly believes in Kinsta’s culture of combining quality, service and value to the industry.

The CEO transition is not expected to bring major shifts, as Penland has already been involved in the company’s leadership. Over the past six years on the board of directors, he has been deeply involved in guiding Kinsta’s most important decisions.

“I joined Kinsta nine years ago because I was impressed by its reputation for industry-leading performance and high quality support,” Penland said. “We have since built on those qualities and gotten stronger over time. I believe we are the best in the world at what we do. But we can be even better. There’s a lot of room for us to grow. We see tremendous opportunity to help customers adapt to massive shifts in how the world discovers, consumes and drives web traffic. The sky is the limit.”

“Jon is the perfect person to lead Kinsta in its new stage of growth. He knows the company as well as anyone — having worked across the organization to build it to what it is today,” said former Kinsta CEO Mark Gavalda, who is staying with the company as founder, chairman and board member. “With Jon’s steady leadership, Kinsta will remain committed to making sure our incentives are aligned with our customers’ success.”

Reid was hired to bring his strong background effectively marketing to small, enterprise and agency customers, and to accelerate Kinsta’s growth and go-to-market strategy. He has a unique mix of experience reaching top agencies and companies of all sizes.

“I’m thrilled to be joining Kinsta at this exciting stage of expansion,” Reid said. “The company’s impressive track record of revenue growth and profitability, world-class service and product innovation is a recipe for success. I look forward to working with the team to broaden our global impact even further.”

“Matt’s deep understanding of the entire funnel will supercharge our marketing and partnership efforts,” Penland said. “I’m excited to see how he guides Kinsta as we move into our new phase of growth.”

About Kinsta

Kinsta is a premium managed hosting for WordPress solution - designed for all types of businesses, agencies and high-traffic ecommerce stores. In highly competitive markets Kinsta holds the top G2 score of any solution and is the overall #1 leader for market presence and customer satisfaction within multiple industry categories. Serving small companies to Fortune 500 enterprises, Kinsta supports more than 140,000 customers across 128 countries and brought on nearly 40,000 new sites in 2024 alone. Kinsta offers 24/7 support 365 days a year — in ten languages — from its team of expert engineers.

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