Carson Hostetter
An 8 year veteran of RingCentral, Carson Hostetter serves as General Manager, Midmarket & Enterprise where he is accountable for the entire customer experience from lead generation to retention and driving sustainable revenue growth and profitability for this customer segment. With over 25 years of industry experience, Hostetter is focused on building a strong customer-centric team that enables RingCentral’s customers to thrive.
Previously, Hostetter was Chief Revenue Officer of RingCentral where he led the company's global sales, channel, and services organization. During his 3 year tenure as CRO, the company grew from $1.4B to $2.4B ARR (annual recurring revenue).
Prior to becoming CRO, he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Sales. In this position, he led RingCentral’s worldwide field teams including field sales for the enterprise and commercial segments, solutions engineering, and contact center sales. Hostetter built a world-class enterprise business taking it from $5 million to $500 million in five years. The Enterprise business continues to thrive and is now over $1B.
Prior to joining RingCentral in 2016, Hostetter worked at Avaya for seven years, holding several VP-level sales positions with revenue responsibilities up to $1B annually. He moved to Avaya after 10 years at Nortel Networks.
As an industry veteran, Hostetter has seen it all in the unified communications and contact center space and is passionate about using that knowledge to help customers transition to the cloud and leverage RingCentral’s trusted AI communications solutions.
Hostetter holds a bachelor's degree in material science and engineering from North Carolina State University. He resides in Atlanta, GA, home of the world’s busiest airport, which he often uses to visit customers, partners, and team members around the world.
Hostetter has been happily married for over 15 years to Julie and has two daughters. He holds a third-degree black belt and sensei title in Shuri Ryu karate and enjoys teaching his girls martial arts.