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Steve Huffman Co-Founder & CEO
Steve Huffman is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, an online community of communities. On Reddit, there is a home for everybody and a place for everyone to dive into their interests. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming from an early age and followed it through a computer science degree at the University of Virginia. He and his college roommate pitched their first start-up to then-new incubator Y Combinator in 2005. While the pair's initial idea for a food-ordering mobile app called My Mobile Menu was rejected, Y Combinator founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston invited them back to build the front page of the internet, which soon led to the creation of Reddit. After selling the company in 2006, Huffman co-founded the travel company Hipmunk and served as CTO where he was named to Inc. Magazine's “30 Under 30” list in 2011 and the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in 2012. Huffman returned to Reddit as CEO in 2015 where he has led the company through international expansion to new markets, sweeping updates to the platform’s Content Policy, and a full site redesign, while also growing Reddit to millions of daily users interacting across hundreds of thousands of communities. In the years following his return, Huffman was named in Fortune’s “40 under 40 in Tech” for 2020. In addition to his work and leadership at Reddit, Huffman is a mentor at Hackbright Academy, a San Francisco-based coding school for women. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, dancing, and browsing r/WholesomeMemes.
Jen Wong Chief Operating Officer
Jen Wong is Reddit’s Chief Operating Officer, overseeing business strategy and related teams from Reddit’s New York office. Previously, Jen was Chief Operating Officer and President of Digital at Time, Inc., where she led the company’s digital and interactive strategies as well as its operations, consumer marketing, and revenue teams. Prior to Time, she worked as Chief Business Officer for PopSugar and Global Head of Business Operations for AOL. Jen earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, her M.S. in Engineering Economic Systems & Operations from Stanford University, and her B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Yale University.
Chris Slowe Chief Technology Officer
Chris is CTO and Founding Engineer of Reddit. Though a software engineer by vocation, his first attempt at a career started with his finishing a PhD in experimental physics at Harvard where he learned about the importance of modeling, critical thinking, statistics, and (honestly) welding. He uses the first three skills regularly. The final years of his PhD were concurrent with him breaking into startups and getting accepted to the first YCombinator class, where he subsequently met Steve and Alexis and became Reddit's first employee five months into the company. After five years at Reddit, he left with Steve to work on Hipmunk as Chief Scientist. He's been back at Reddit since 2017.
Roxy Young Chief Marketing Officer
Roxy is Reddit’s Chief Marketing Officer, leading the charge to make Reddit a daily destination for more people. She has over 15 years of consumer marketing experience with brands such as Gap, Netflix, Zynga, and Hipmunk. She’s passionate about growing awareness and repeat usage for products and services that make people's lives better. Her experience spans all areas of marketing, including positioning, brand marketing, public relations, acquisition, retention, and social media. Roxy earned her bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University and her M.B.A from the University of Notre Dame.
Nellie Peshkov Chief People Officer
Nellie Peshkov is a global talent executive with a special emphasis on talent acquisition, HR business partnership, inclusion, talent management, and leadership development. She most recently served as the VP of Talent at Netflix where she led the company through massive growth over the course of five years and built workforces in more than 20 offices around the world. Prior to Netflix, Peshkov led HR and Global Talent Acquisition for Electronic Arts and Symantec.
Drew Vollero Chief Financial Officer
Drew Vollero is Reddit's Chief Financial Officer. Vollero's role includes overseeing Reddit's Finance team and developing all financial-related areas including tax, treasury, audit, financial planning, sales finance, accounting, procurement, and investor relations. He joins Reddit from Allied Universal, prior to that he served as Snap's first CFO where he led the company through its IPO process. Vollero has a B.A. in mathematics and economics from Yale University, graduating magna cum laude, and an M.S. in management from Oxford University.
Allison Miller CISO & VP, Trust
Allison Miller, CISO & VP of Trust, is an industry expert and innovator with 20 years of experience scaling teams and technology that protect people and platforms. She has also led major initiatives to engineer the defenses for core payment and e-commerce systems and deliver capabilities into key technologies that protect consumers from online threats. Miller oversees the Safety and Security teams at Reddit where she is responsible for expanding trust & safety operations and data security, as well as evolving programs to mitigate security challenges and risks.
Michelle Reynolds Chief Accounting Officer
Michelle Reynolds is the Chief Accounting Officer at Reddit where she oversees the operational and reporting processes across the accounting and compliance organization. Reynolds brings more than 15 years of experience with a special emphasis on technical accounting, management reporting, SEC reporting, financial close and consolidations, and business process development. She most recently served as the Director of Controllership Accounting Snap Inc. Prior to that, she led accounting functions at Procter & Gamble and Ernst & Young LLP. Reynolds holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Miami University and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Pali Bhat Chief Product Officer
Pali Bhat is Chief Product Officer at Reddit. He also brings more than 15 years of expertise in leading teams and products across consumer services, developer platforms, fintech, and cloud, including a number of Google’s flagship services. Previously at Google, Pali was Vice President of Product Management leading Google’s payment products globally, across both consumer experiences such as Google Pay and a large-scale payments platform that powered monetization across Google’s services. Pali’s passion for developer solutions also resulted in his leading product for Actions on Google, which enabled the developer community to extend the functionality of Google’s innovative consumer services including Google Assistant. Prior to Google, Pali held leadership positions at SAP Labs and McKinsey & Co. He holds an MS in CS from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and an MBA from Duke University.
Ben Lee EVP & General Counsel
Ben is EVP and General Counsel at Reddit. Most recently, he was General Counsel and Head of Legal and Compliance at Plaid Inc. Prior to that, Ben was Deputy General Counsel, Product at Airbnb, and VP, Legal and Deputy General Counsel at Twitter, Inc., leading the litigation, product counsel, and IP teams at Twitter. Prior to joining Twitter, Ben was Senior Counsel at Google and has worked in-house at AT&T Corp. and NEC Laboratories America, as well as taught as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. Ben has a B.S. degree in both physics and economics from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Saad Rehmani EVP, Engineering
Saad Rehmani is EVP of Engineering at Reddit, Inc. He joined the company in 2019 to scale the engineering organization in support of Reddit’s mission to bring community to everyone. Before joining Reddit, Saad was Vice President of Engineering at GrubHub, where he focused on driving large scale efficiency. Prior to that, Saad was CTO of Kapow, an online platform for booking and managing events, and Director of Architecture at Redbox. Saad holds a number of patents for technologies that solve problems from optimizing search engines to creating new systems for currency conversions. Born in Saudi Arabia, Rehmani received a Masters of Science in Information Technology (Software Engineering) from the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and son.
Harold Klaje EVP & President, Advertising
Harold is an EVP and President of Advertising at Reddit. His role includes growing Reddit’s global advertising partner base, building out our sales team and internal operations, and working closely with cross-functional partners on products, campaign support, and marketing programs across the business. His depth of experience, operational savvy, and strategic vision are huge assets not only for the Sales org, but for all of Reddit.
Alex Le EVP, Strategy & Special Projects
Alex Le is EVP of Strategy and Special Projects where he oversees Reddit's long-term strategy for high-impact projects including direct-to-consumer projects, creators, and Crypto. He started his career as a search engineer at IBM, AT&T Interactive, and Powerset / Bing, and pivoted to the games industry first as an entrepreneur building games for the Facebook Platform, and then as Executive Producer and Director of Product for the popular gaming app, CityVille by Zynga. Most recently, Alex was an Expert-in-Residence at First Round Capital as well as an independent advisor and investor. Alex earned a degree in computer science from the University of California Irvine.
Shariq Rizvi EVP, Ads Monetization
Shariq Rizvi is the EVP of Ads Monetization at Reddit, where he oversees the Monetization and Ads Product teams. Prior to joining Reddit, Shariq was a Director of Engineering at Twitter, where he led efforts to scale the company’s early advertising operation into a multi-billion dollar business. Between 2012-2016, Shariq co-launched the company’s performance ads business, built out hundred-person engineering teams from the ground up and helped steer the company through its IPO. Rizvi has also had a highly successful track record as an independent entrepreneur. In 2008, he co-founded Dasient, an enterprise startup backed by Google Ventures, Floodgate Fund, Benhamou Global Ventures, Radar Partners and Reese Schonfeld, the co-founder of CNN. In 2012, Twitter acquired Dasient to power the security for its own online advertising system. Shariq was also a co-founder of enterprise startup Netsil, which was acquired by Nutanix in 2018 to complement the company’s Enterprise Cloud Operating System. Shariq began his career as an engineer at Google, helping to build web search, App Engine and the Google Calculator. Rizvi holds an MS in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley and a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering from the India Institute of Technology. His undergraduate research in database research has made him one of the youngest published authors in the field.
Suren Samarchyan VP, Economy & Special Projects
Suren Samarchyan is the VP of Economy & Special Projects at Reddit where he oversees both teams, respectively. His responsibilities include leading the Economy team into developing fun monetization products that enrich the user experience, and focusing on re-decentralizing the Internet and empowering users through crypto efforts on the Special Projects team. Prior to Reddit, Suren has been an entrepreneur and engineer. He led a gaming company from an early startup stage to a leading operator of MMORPG games in Europe. Suren also led an AI startup aiming to streamline scientific discoveries - a big futuristic bet that didn't work out. He has a PhD in math and MBA from Stanford.
Vaibhav Sahgal VP, Product Management
Vaibhav Sahgal is the VP of Product Management at Reddit where he oversees product efforts across Content, Growth, Safety, Core UX, and ML teams. Vaibhav is a seasoned product leader with over 10 years of experience working in the social consumer space. Notably, he started his career as an engineer but quickly moved to Product Management as he discovered his passion for facilitating the software development process. He then launched his product career at Zynga where he led product teams at several different studios and successfully drove the Words With Friends business over a four-year stint. At Reddit, Vaibhav started as Head of Growth and played a key role in scaling the Growth team from five to 60+ people over three years alongside overseeing a period of impressive traffic growth for the platform. He loves eating spicy food and is a sports fanatic.
Jack Hanlon VP, Data
Jack Hanlon is the VP of Data at Reddit where he is responsible for leveraging the unique value of Reddit's data to create amazing experiences for redditors and advertisers. This includes overseeing the Machine Learning, Feeds and Search, Data Science, and Data Platform teams. Jack was previously VP of Analytics at Jet.com which he helped scale from pre-launch to its record-breaking $3.3B acquisition from Walmart, where he then took on a VP role. Previously he co-founded Kinetic Social and worked at Google as well as several startups in the eCom and AdTech space. Jack is also a Professor at NYU Stern where he teaches Strategy and consults for global retail brands. He has a B.A. in Music from The College of the Holy Cross and an M.S. from NYU.
Laura Nestler VP, Community
Laura Nestler, Reddit's VP of Community, is a global leader with a 15-year track record of building strategic, high-impact teams and scalable community systems at growth-stage startups. Nestler leads Reddit’s Community Operations team where she is responsible for defining our international community strategy, driving key initiatives for community development, evolving Reddit’s community governance model, and transitioning the team into a global organization. Prior to Reddit, she served as Global Head of Community at Duolingo, working across product, marketing, and strategy to develop community products and programs.
Jonathan Flesher VP of Business Development
Jonathan is Reddit’s VP of Business Development and leads the leads Partnerships, Business, and Corporate Development teams responsible for strengthening relationships across the Reddit ecosystem. Jonathan brings over 25 years of experience and unique background in investment banking, gaming, and, most importantly, community to his role at Reddit. Prior to Reddit, he worked at Discord where he led business development and partnerships with Sony PlayStation, Google, YouTube, and Microsoft Xbox. Jonathan holds a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Pomona College and an MBA in finance and entrepreneurship from UCLA. He also serves on the board of directors and advisory boards for a number of technology and gaming startups.
Timo Pelz VP, Business Marketing
Timo Pelz is Reddit's VP of Business Marketing. Pelz's role includes setting the go-to-market strategy for demonstrating the power of Reddit’s advertising offering and leading the team that connects Reddit’s Sales organization with the wider industry, giving voice to the value of Reddit’s 100,000+ communities for advertisers. He has more than 15 years of experience in business marketing, most recently from Instagram where he led global business marketing across brand and product for the company‘s business and advertising solutions.
Anna Soellner VP of Communications
Anna Soellner leads communications for Reddit, the home of thousands of communities and endless conversation. Previously, she was VP for corporate communications at the Motion Picture Association. She also led communications at the Center for American Progress (CAP), the progressive think tank. Anna was a Luce Scholar in Hong Kong and worked for Martin Lee, a leader of the pro-democracy movement. Anna also served in the Treasury Department and the U.S. Senate. In 2016, she co-founded a GOTV effort called My Ride To Vote which funded ride-sharing to the polls for underrepresented communities. She is on the boards of Internews, an NGO that develops independent media around the world and Feel Good Action, a non-profit that harnesses the power of micro-influencers to encourage voting.
Mary Ann Belliveau VP of Large Customer Sales for North America
Mary Ann is Vice President of Large Customer Sales for North America at Reddit. Mary Ann's team works closely with Fortune 500 companies and their advertising agencies to develop creative, scalable, and impactful marketing strategies. She is a digital media veteran, with 20+ years of business development and operational experience. She specializes in developing sales, organizational and operational strategies for companies. Mary Ann most recently spent four years at Twitter, as a Managing Director for Large Customer Sales. Mary Ann spent 10+ years at Google where she was a founding member of Google's Industry Development and Marketing Team. Mary Ann holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Fordham University. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.
Carla McIntosh VP of Global Talent Acquisition
Carla McIntosh is VP of Global Talent Acquisition at Reddit where she is responsible for strengthening and scaling operational processes for its global workforce. With more than 22 years of experience leading talent organizations, Carla brings to Reddit a genuine passion for people and a proven record of building world-class recruiting practices and teams. She most recently served as the U.S. Head of Talent Acquisition for Google’s first-ever U.S. Operations Center and also previously held several roles across People Operations. Carla is also a U.S. Air Force veteran and was the founder of a technical recruitment firm.
Suchit Dash VP of Consumer & Contributor
Suchit Dash currently serves as VP of Consumer & Contributor at Reddit where he is responsible for defining Reddit’s core experiences including the Reddit Feed, Discover, Media, Conversation and creation experiences. Prior to Reddit, Suchit was co-founder and president of Dubsmash, a short video application that elevates underrepresented creators and helped them earn a living that was acquired by Reddit in 2020. He previously held executive roles at Soundcloud, AVARI, and PayPal, while also cofounding Ifeelgoods, a digital rewards company. Suchit graduated with a BSE in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Northwestern University.
Steve Huffman Co-Founder & CEO
Steve Huffman is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, an online community of communities. On Reddit, there is a home for everybody and a place for everyone to dive into their interests. Raised in northern Virginia, Huffman pursued his passion for programming from an early age and followed it through a computer science degree at the University of Virginia. He and his college roommate pitched their first start-up to then-new incubator Y Combinator in 2005. While the pair's initial idea for a food-ordering mobile app called My Mobile Menu was rejected, Y Combinator founders Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston invited them back to build the front page of the internet, which soon led to the creation of Reddit. After selling the company in 2006, Huffman co-founded the travel company Hipmunk and served as CTO where he was named to Inc. Magazine's “30 Under 30” list in 2011 and the Forbes “30 Under 30” list in 2012. Huffman returned to Reddit as CEO in 2015 where he has led the company through international expansion to new markets, sweeping updates to the platform’s Content Policy, and a full site redesign, while also growing Reddit to millions of daily users interacting across hundreds of thousands of communities. In the years following his return, Huffman was named in Fortune’s “40 under 40 in Tech” for 2020. In addition to his work and leadership at Reddit, Huffman is a mentor at Hackbright Academy, a San Francisco-based coding school for women. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, dancing, and browsing r/WholesomeMemes.
Bob Sauerberg
Bob Sauerberg is former President/CEO of Condé Nast. Prior to this position, he was Group President of the company's Consumer Marketing division, which he joined in 2005. Bob also held several leadership roles at Fairchild Fashion Media and spent 18 years with The New York Times Company, eventually becoming CFO of its magazine group.
Porter Gale
Porter Gale currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Personal Capital and is an established executive, advisor, and author with more than 20 years of direct-to-consumer marketing for brands spanning AdTech, FinTech, Gaming, CPG, and e-commerce industries. She joined Reddit's Board of Directors in May 2019.
Michael Seibel
Michael Seibel is a Partner at Y Combinator and CEO of the YC startup accelerator program, which first helped launch Reddit in 2005. He’s also the co-founder of Justin.tv/Twitch and Socialcam. Michael joined Reddit's Board of Directors in June 2020.
Paula Price
Paula Price has served on the board of six public companies, including multinational corporations like Accenture and Western Digital. Over the past 30 years, she has worked as a company operator for large brands across a wide range of industries, building a career in financial leadership along the way as Chief Accounting Officer of CVS Caremark and Chief Financial Officer of Ahold USA and Macy’s. She joined Reddit's Board of Directors in November 2020.
Patricia Fili-Krushel
Patricia Fili-Krushel serves on the boards of two public companies including Dollar General Corporation and Chipotle Mexican Grill. She previously served as Chair of the NBCUniversal News Group, EVP, Administration at Time Warner Inc., CEO of WebMD, and President of both the ABC Television Network and ABC Daytime. More recently, she was the founding Co-Chair and served as CEO of Coqual, a global think tank and advisory service. She joined Reddit’s Board of Directors in January 2022.