Meet the GoFundMe Executive Team
Tim Cadogan
Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Directors
Tim joined GoFundMe as CEO in March 2020 to accelerate GoFundMe’s mission of changing the way the world gives. Tim brings a range of consumer and B2B expertise in addition to hands-on volunteer experience. Before GoFundMe, Tim was CEO of OpenX, a pioneer of programmatic advertising technology. At Yahoo Tim led the ad business and, previously, the consumer search business. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Cadogan was VP of Search at Overture and a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey. He has a BSc from London School of Economics, an MPhil from Oxford University, and an MBA from Stanford University. Tim serves on the boards of Liveramp (NYSE: RAMP), Slickdeals and OpenX. Alongside his professional work, Tim was a volunteer for Sierra Madre Search and Rescue for 7 years, completing a wide range of SAR operations in the mountains of Southern California and the Sierra Nevada.
Arnie Katz
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Arnie leads product, design, and technology at GoFundMe. Throughout his career, Arnie has relied on data-driven and customer-focused decision making, with an emphasis on modernizing platforms and increasing development velocity. In a prior role as CPTO of StubHub, he was part of the team that successfully sold the business out of eBay. At Walmart, Arnie served as Vice President of International eCommerce, where he was responsible for product, technology, and design, and led a global team developing eight eCommerce platforms. Before Walmart, Arnie was Co-Founder and President of Relay Foods, an online grocery company focused on healthy, responsibly sourced groceries. Arnie holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Technion in Israel.
Soraya Alexander
Chief Operating Officer
Soraya Alexander is the Chief Operating Officer at GoFundMe and President of Classy, a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits. Prior to being named President, Soraya was the COO of Classy, building system and processes for the teams responsible for customer engagement, retention, growth, and success, in addition to driving awareness and interest of the Classy platform. Previously, Soraya led customer retention and engagement, direct marketing, and omnichannel experience for DICK’S Sporting Goods, and also spent time on the Consumer Marketing Strategy team at Time Inc. Soraya sits on the Board of Directors at Social Ventures Partners San Diego, whose mission is to empower individuals and organizations to accelerate positive social change in San Diego. She has a BA from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Greg Mrva
Chief Financial Officer
Greg Mrva joined GoFundMe as Chief Financial Officer in 2022. Greg has 25 years of experience leading finance, strategy, and operating teams for technology businesses and leading investment banking teams advising global technology companies. Prior to GoFundMe, he was the President of TPG Pace Tech Opportunities where he led the organization’s successful Business Combination with Nerdy Inc. (NYSE: NRDY), where he now serves on their board of directors. Greg was previously the Chief Financial Officer of StubHub, where he sat on both the StubHub and eBay finance leadership teams leading financial planning, analysis and forecasting, controllership, financial operations and strategic planning. Greg has also held leadership positions at Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Yahoo! focusing on advising consumer internet companies on capital markets and strategic acquisition transactions.
Margaret Richardson
Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
Margaret joined GoFundMe in May 2022 to lead a newly established corporate affairs team responsible for government relations, public policy, and corporate communications. Previously, Margaret led Trust and Safety teams at Apple and Airbnb responsible for preventing, detecting, and responding to fraud and abuse and led Airbnb’s Global Policy team as it scaled globally. Prior to Airbnb, Margaret served as Chief of Staff and Counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. in the U.S. Department of Justice, where she refined her creative problem solving and consensus-building skills. Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Justice, Margaret developed an innovative legal services program that advocated for more equitable criminal justice representation approaches. She holds a BA from the University of Virginia, a JD from U.C. Berkeley Law School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.
Stephanie Cunningham
SVP People
Stephanie oversees global people operations, recruiting, total rewards, learning and development and facilities. With over two decades of experience, she brings expertise and passion for building and scaling the full employee experience and workplace environment. Most recently she was at Polyvore, a technology platform, where she built and managed the employee experience and facilities as the company grew, eventually being acquired by Yahoo! Prior to this she managed human resources, facilities and culture at AdMob, a high growth start-up. After Admob’s acquisition by Google, she spent two years at Google supporting the Global Mobile Sales and Strategy team’s employee experience. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Notre Dame de Namur University, summa cum laude, and has completed Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Talent Leaders program.
Paul Tkachuk
SVP of Finance and Data Insights
Paul joined GoFundMe to help the company realize its mission of becoming the giving layer of the internet for individuals and charities. He is responsible for financial planning, operations management, data insights and reporting. Paul brings a breadth of business experience from fast-growth startups as well as from large public companies in the technology space. Most recently, he was at Facebook helping scale the finance operations functions throughout the IPO/hyper-growth phase. Prior to that, he led financial planning and operations functions at Unisfair (acquired by InterCall) and SideStep (merged with Kayak). In addition, he was at Covad, Deloitte, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Paul earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Accounting from the University of Southern California.
Kim Wilford
Chief Legal Officer
Kim oversees the legal, risk & compliance, platform integrity and information security obligations for the world’s largest social fundraising platform. She is also the Chairman of the Board of GoFundMe.org, one of the company’s most significant partners in delivering help around the world. With almost 30 years of experience helping start-up to publicly-traded company leaders drive innovation and growth, she is a business-minded problem solver with significant experience in commercial transactions, mergers & acquisitions, regulatory compliance, public policy, data privacy, security and charitable giving. Prior to joining GoFundMe, Kim was the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of WageWorks, Inc. where she helped build and take public the venture-backed consumer directed benefits business. She has a B.A. in Political Science, with an International Relations Concentration, from U.C. Santa Barbara and a J.D. from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific.
Board of Directors
Andy Ballester
Member of the Board of Directors
Andy is a co-founder of GoFundMe. He has a passion for creating products that drive change on a massive scale. Prior to GoFundMe, Andy served in senior product and technology management in previous startups. He has also volunteered as a Mentor with the Techstars Anywhere, EvoNexus, and Ad Astra incubators. He has helped multiple startups and their founders navigate product development and grow their businesses, since 2017. Andy currently shares a board seat with co-founder, Brad Damphousse.
Sharda Caro Del Castillo
Member of the Board of Directors
Sharda has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, payments, and digital commerce. Most recently, Sharda served as Chief Legal Officer at Affirm, where she co-led the company’s initial public offering (IPO). Prior to Affirm, Sharda served as the global Head of Airbnb’s Payments platform and General Counsel for Airbnb’s multiple payments entities, Payments Counsel and Head of Payments Platform at Square, Director of Product and Regulatory Counsel at PayPal, and held in-house counsel roles at Wells Fargo Bank and Silicon Valley Bank.
John Locke
Member of the Board of Directors
John Locke joined Accel in 2010 and helps lead the firm’s growth fund. Over the last decade, John has led or worked closely on Accel’s investments in Braintree/Venmo (acquired by PayPal), Crowdstrike (CRWD), Galileo, GoFundMe, Lightspeed (LSPD), Monzo, QMC Telecom, The Zebra, Tenable (TENB), WorldRemit, and Xero (XRO), as well as a number of other companies. John grew up in Ashland, Ohio and graduated from Princeton.
Woody Marshall
Member of the Board of Directors
Woody joined TCV in 2008 and has been working in the venture capital industry since 1995. He focuses on investments in the FinTech, internet, and digital media & entertainment industries. Woody has been recognized by Forbes on its Midas List as one of the industry’s top technology investors. Prior to joining TCV, Woody spent 12 years at Trident Capital, a venture capital and private equity firm, where he focused on the payments, internet, and mobile markets. Woody currently serves on the boards of directors of GoFundMe, Newsela, Payoneer, Retail Merchant Services, Sojern, Spotify, and Varsity Tutors. Woody earned his B.A. from Hamilton College and his M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is also on the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College.
Depelsha McGruder
Member of the Board of Directors
Depelsha McGruder is the chief operating officer and treasurer for the Ford Foundation, where she oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Prior to joining the foundation in 2020, she served as COO of New York Public Radio (NYPR), overseeing internal operations and strategic planning for WNYC, WQXR, Gothamist.com, The Greene Space, and New Jersey Public Radio since 2018. Before her tenure at NYPR, Depelsha spent 17 years at Viacom in senior leadership positions at both MTV and BET Networks. She started her career as a broadcast journalist, working as an on-air reporter, anchor, and producer for two commercial television stations in Georgia and subsequently spent time as a strategy consultant at Accenture in the media, telecommunications and high technology practice.
Monique Meche
Member of the Board of Directors
Monique has over 25 years of experience in Corporate Affairs, Public Policy and Investment and has built and led teams around the world for some of the most innovative global technology companies. Most recently, Monique served as Twitter’s Vice President of Global Public Policy and Philanthropy. Prior to Twitter, Monique worked as head of Public Policy for Waymo and Netflix. While leading Amazon’s international public policy work from 2013-2017, Monique helped to grow the company’s commercial footprint in over 50 countries. Monique spent her early career at Intel, Intel Capital and Cisco in Europe and Asia. Monique also served as Chair of the Operating Board of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, which brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.
James Slavet
Member of the Board of Directors
A Greylock partner since 2006, James currently sits on the board of companies including CreativeLive (creative education), GoFundMe (crowdfunding), Grand Rounds (health care navigation), Lyra Health (mental health care), Redfin (residential real estate) and Solv (convenient health care). James has partnered with company founders at their earliest stages and helped them scale to hundreds of millions of annual revenue. Prior to Greylock, James worked at Yahoo!, where he was a VP/GM in the Search and Marketplace business unit. Previously, he worked in product and operating roles in several early-stage consumer technology companies including Drugstore.com (acquired by Walgreens), Guru (acquired by Unicru) and Wired (acquired by Conde Nast). James is on the Board of Fast Forward, an accelerator for technology nonprofits. He has been named several times to the Forbes Midas list. He grew up in the Boston area and graduated from Brown University and Harvard Business School.
Scott Wagner
Member of the Board of Directors
Scott helps a series of technology businesses grow at scale in his role as advisor and/or investor. He served as Chief Executive Officer of GoDaddy from 2018 to 2019, after helping lead the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2015 in his role as President and Chief Operating Officer of GoDaddy for more than four years. Prior to GoDaddy, Scott spent 13 years as Operating Partner at private investment company KKR, where he served as Member and Head of KKR Capstone North America.