InMotion Hosting is recruiting a president and COO to run the company day to day and own its profit and loss, with a target start in the first quarter of 2027. Its founding president, Todd Robinson, who started the company with Sunil Saxena, will move to chief executive. According to the job posting, he will support the transition and then focus on go-to-market sales, product, strategy, board duties and his other companies. The base salary starts at $300,000, plus performance-based incentives.
Robinson, who also leads OpenMetal and MyaiOne, announced the search on LinkedIn in a video. In it, he puts the aim plainly: to “double the size of the business.” What holds the company back, in his account, is “some missing execution fundamentals and also myself just being spread a bit too thin.” The posting describes the starting point as a profitable, recurring-revenue company with more than 200 people, serving small and mid-sized businesses, 25 years after its founding.
Key facts
- The job: run InMotion day to day, own revenue, EBITDA and OKR targets, and execute the existing plan for the first one to two years.
- The handover: about four months, from shadowing to co-running to a handoff around month four, after which the CEO moves to monthly or quarterly board-level review.
- The candidate: a senior operator from a recurring-revenue business in or near InMotion’s market, with “PE-backed or PE-style experience: hold periods, hard targets, regular Board reporting.”
- The footprint: Robinson describes four data center locations, two in the United States, one in the Netherlands and one in Singapore, where InMotion has yet to launch its web hosting plans.
Execution First, Then Strategy
The board has set its 2027 goals, according to the job posting, “based on what we believe the market will support once our execution has improved.” The new president is meant to supply that execution: chairing the KPI and OKR meetings, enforcing the company’s operating system, deciding which roles and people the plan needs, and pulling Robinson back when he drifts into product, engineering or sales. InMotion runs on OKRs only partly, in his description, and has brought in a coach and assigned a lead to fix that.
Robinson describes the board as homegrown and open to help with its own execution. The company’s website lists four directors, all of them with executive titles: Robinson, vice president Sunil Saxena, chief administrative officer Ray Meyers, who chairs the board, and chief revenue officer Dan Cunningham.
Hosting Drives Revenue, Cloud Is Expected to Grow Faster
The posting is open about where the company sees growth. Hosting “brings in a large share of our revenue,” and AI is opening new ways to grow it, but InMotion expects “Cloud and Infrastructure to grow faster.” It sells bare metal and cloud from its data centers, runs AI on its own GPUs and sells AI infrastructure. Robinson names a global sales strategy as a gap to close, and the posting puts global sales and support that follow the sun among the role’s longer-term tasks.
On AI, the line for the role is that it “should raise what our people can do, not replace them.” Robinson’s own version in the video: “AI is an enablement. It is not meant to replace.”
A Succession Plan for the Founders
The posting also looks beyond the first two years. In the first year, the new president builds a view of which parts of the business are underfunded or overfunded and presents recommendations to the board, and the 2028 plan is to be developed jointly with the board in the fourth quarter of 2027. Further out, InMotion has “an organized succession plan for our founders,” and the posting promises “a clear path for executive advancement” to a candidate who grows the business substantially over several years.
