Lynne Bulens retired in 2022 as chief marketing officer for Acquia, a private software-as-a-service company. Acquia provides enterprise products, services, and technical support for the open-source web content management platform Drupal. The company reported revenue of over $200 million in 2018. Lynne oversaw all global marketing functions, including digital marketing, demand generation, operations, regional and field marketing, customer and partner marketing, events, vertical strategy, analyst relations, content, and corporate communications. She first served as Acquia’s CMO in 2009, leaving in 2011 to pursue her nonprofit work full-time. She returned to Acquia in late 2016 to lead the marketing organization into its next stage of growth.
Prior to her experience at Acquia, Lynne held various marketing leadership roles in the technology field. She served as CMO at JackBe, an enterprise mashup software company for real-time intelligence applications that Software AG acquired. She was also CMO at Systinet, which was acquired by Mercury Interactive, and VP at Lotus Development, which was later acquired by IBM.
Lynne serves on the board of directors at the Boston Children’s Hospital Trust and runs a nonprofit through the hospital. She is also a member of the advisory board for Family Services of the Merrimack Valley and the board of directors of West Parish Garden Cemetery. She is a former trustee of Pike School, a pre-K to grade 9 day school. Lynne received both a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA from Suffolk University.
Lynne and her husband, Don Bulens Jr. are the parents of Cooper Bulens BA’23, MAT’24 and Cameron Bulens.