Selina Tobaccowala
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Selina Tobaccowala is an entrepreneur and software product executive. While in college, she came up with the idea for an online invitation service and she and a fellow Stanford student co-founded Evite and built the platform to scale.[1] Later she led teams at Ticketmaster upon successful exit for Evite, becoming SVP of Product and Technology at Ticketmaster, where she oversaw European engineering and product operations.
She next was VP engineering and product at SurveyMonkey joining in 2009 and becoming president and chief technology officer, leading the company to become the world’s dominant online survey platform, with 16 million surveys processed per day. She then co-founded Gixo in 2016 to improve on global health and activity rates with an innovative live workout fitness start-up. In 2019, Gixo was acquired by Openfit / Beachbody, and Tobaccowala moved from Gixo CEO to become Chief Digital Officer of Openfit, leading engineering, product, and design. Tobaccowala serves on the board of Redfin and Vital Voices. </ref>[2]
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][3][2] After managing the transition,[1] she became senior vice president of product at Ticketmaster's Europe division.[2][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]
References
- ^ a b c d e ALBANESE jr, GIOVANNI (April 16, 2008). "'Evite' Founder Selina Tobaccowala Moves on to Running Fitness Startup 'Gixo'". India West News. Retrieved February 20, 2020. Cite error: The named reference ":0" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ a b c "Vital Voices Board Members".
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) Cite error: The named reference ":1" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). - ^ "Ticketmaster Agrees to Acquire Online-Invitation Service Evite". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ "Successful Entrepreneur and Engineering Leader Selina Tobaccowala of SurveyMonkey | Hackbright Academy". 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ a b "Selina Tobaccowala: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ Arrington, Michael. "Survey Monkey Growing Like A Weed, Fills Out Exec Team". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ Albanese, Giovanni (April 6, 2018). "'Evite' Founder Selina Tobaccowala Moves on to Running Fitness Startup 'Gixo'". India West. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
- ^ tobaccowala, selina (2016-05-31). "Second Time on the Merry-Go-Round". Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ "Selina Tobaccowala: Let fires burn | Masters of Scale podcast". WaitWhat. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ^ "Company Spotlight: HubSpot - InHerSight Blog". InHerSight.com. Retrieved 2016-10-04.
- ^ "Evite co-founder, former Priceline.com CFO named to the board of Redfin". 2014-02-10. Retrieved 2016-10-04.