Selina Tobaccowala

Selina Tobaccowala is an entrepreneur and software product executive. She cofounded Evite and led teams at Ticketmaster and SurveyMonkey. She then co-founded Gixo, a company that was acquired by Openfit / Beachbody in 2019, and serves on the board of Redfin.

Selina Tobaccowala

Career

Selina Tobaccowala attended Stanford University in Stanford, California and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science.[1] While in college, she and fellow Stanford student Al Leib founded Evite in 1997.[1] She served as vice president of engineering at Evite until 2001, when Evite was acquired by Ticketmaster.[1][2][3] After managing the transition,[1] she became senior vice president of product at Ticketmaster's Europe division.[3][4]

Tobaccowala joined SurveyMonkey in 2009 as vice president of product and engineering,[5][6] before becoming president and chief technology officer.[7]

In 2016, Tobaccowala joined with her Evite co-founder, Al Lieb, to start Gixo, a fitness app that streams live exercise classes to mobile devices.[8][9] Gixo was acquired by Openfit / Beachbody in 2019 tobaccowala, selina (2017-11-07). "Goodbye Gixo. Hello Openfit". Retrieved 2020-03-09.</ref>.

She has served on the board of Tugboat Yards.[5] She currently serves on the board of Redfin, and on the advisory board to HubSpot.[10][11]

gollark: Hi. Mostly just doing random-internet-browsing now.
gollark: Well, this is bizarre, it's only slow if I access it in the browser and not through curl.
gollark: Caddy.
gollark: It's weirdly high-latency for some reason, but it's up.
gollark: Hey, that did fix it, neat!

References
  1. Delevett, Peter (November 8, 2013). "Evite co-founder Al Lieb is back in the startup game as CEO of ClearSlide". The Mercury News. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  2. "Ticketmaster Agrees to Acquire Online-Invitation Service Evite". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  3. "Selina Tobaccowala | Grace Hopper - GHC Schedule". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  4. "Successful Entrepreneur and Engineering Leader Selina Tobaccowala of SurveyMonkey | Hackbright Academy". 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  5. "Selina Tobaccowala: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  6. Arrington, Michael. "Survey Monkey Growing Like A Weed, Fills Out Exec Team". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  7. Albanese, Giovanni (April 6, 2018). "'Evite' Founder Selina Tobaccowala Moves on to Running Fitness Startup 'Gixo'". India West. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  8. tobaccowala, selina (2016-05-31). "Second Time on the Merry-Go-Round". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  9. "Selina Tobaccowala: Let fires burn | Masters of Scale podcast". WaitWhat. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  10. "Company Spotlight: HubSpot - InHerSight Blog". InHerSight.com. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
  11. "Evite co-founder, former Priceline.com CFO named to the board of Redfin". 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
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