Leadership · Head of Americas
Kate Jensen
A biomedical engineer who built sales teams at Stripe for seven years before joining in 2023.
- Role
- Head of Americas
- Joined Anthropic
- 2023
- Before Anthropic
- Stripe
Career
- Anthropic
- Head of AmericasAug 2025 – present
- Head of Sales + PartnershipsAug 2023 – Aug 2025
- Stripe
- Head of Platform Sales2019 – Aug 2023
- Head of Outbound SalesFeb 2017 – Jul 2019
- Head of Growth & Mid-Market Sales2016 – Sep 2019
- Google for Work
- Team Lead - Assist (SMB Online Sales)Feb 2014 – Sep 2014
- Sales Operations & StrategyAug 2012 – Feb 2014
- Peterstow Aquapower
- Sales & Product DevelopmentJul 2010 – Sep 2012
- Oakham School
- Graduate Science FellowAug 2009 – Jul 2010
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Education
- BS, Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
- Stanford University Graduate School of Business
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Lesser-known facts
- Studied biomedical engineering at Yale, then business at Stanford.
- Worked at a water-hydraulic mining equipment startup in southern Africa and the UK.
- Led a small-business online sales team at Google for Work before her MBA.
- Manages Anthropic's major cloud partnerships with Amazon and Google.
- Said in 2026: "2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed the enterprise, but the hype turned out to be mostly premature."
