Hillary Ashton

Hillary Ashton is the Chief Product Officer for Teradata. In this capacity, Hillary leads the Global Products organization, a diverse team responsible for innovation, product management, engineering, and quality, ensuring that our hybrid multi-cloud platform delivers differentiated value to our customers and future customers. Her organization focuses on end-to-end oversight of all technology innovations at Teradata, including defining strategic direction for our hybrid cloud platform portfolio, engineering this strategic direction into high-quality products for our customers and delivering a world-class user experience. With a strong grounding in analytics, cloud, and leading-edge technologies, Hillary has proven contributions to expanding market share and increasing revenue. 

Prior to Teradata, Hillary served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of PTC’s Augmented Reality (AR) business unit. In this role, she was responsible for all operational aspects of the Vuforia SaaS business and its product lines, including executive leadership and vision, strategy, product management, engineering, and sales and marketing. Other roles include serving as SVP of Analytics SaaS solutions at Manthan and as Director, Customer Intelligence at SAS. In each of these roles, Hillary has contributed to expanding market share and increasing revenue. 

A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Government, Hillary has been quoted in the press extensively and has spoken at various conferences and events worldwide. In 2019 she was named to the National Diversity Council’s (NDC) annual list of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.