Chime Strengthens C-Suite with Key Leadership Hires
2024年7月23日 - 9:00PM
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Chime Expands Technology Organization with Jeff
Currier as Chief Technology Officer, Barkha Saxena as Chief Data
Officer and Sarah Wagener as Chief People Officer
Chime®, the #1 Most Loved Banking App1, today announced the
addition of three key executives to its leadership team. The new
leadership will help strengthen the company and its product
portfolio as Chime continues on its mission to help everyday people
unlock financial progress.TM
Chime has appointed fintech industry veteran Jeff Currier as
Chief Technology Officer to lead the Company’s technology
organization and innovation initiatives and Barkha Saxena as Chief
Data Officer to lead and expand the Company’s data and AI
initiatives. Each will report to Chime co-founder Ryan King. These
new hires follow the addition of Sarah Wagener to the role of Chief
People Officer earlier this year. Wagener previously served as
Chief People Officer at DoorDash, and Vice President of Human
Resources at Pandora. Wagener also held recruiting leadership roles
at Facebook and Genentech.
“As we enter the next chapter of Chime’s technical growth and
maturity, we’re focused on strengthening our full technology stack
and driving innovative data and AI programs to ensure top-line
growth and operational efficiency, all while better serving our
members’ most pressing needs at scale,” said Ryan King, Chime
co-founder. “Jeff brings great knowledge, perspective, and
expertise from his experience leading engineering teams at some of
the world’s most innovative tech companies, and we are thrilled to
have him leading our engineering organization.”
King continued, “Barkha’s expertise and experience spearheading
high impact data organizations will help ingrain a data-driven
culture and approach to innovation across our entire organization.
At a foundational level, this work will help us stay focused on
improving our growth strategy and operational efficiencies,
enabling every part of our organization to better serve our
members.”
As Chief Technology Officer, Currier will lead Chime’s
engineering organization, focusing on building and deploying
innovative new products. Currier will partner closely with Madhu
Muthukumar, Chime’s Chief Product Officer, to deliver new and
enhanced products that enrich the member experience. Currier joins
Chime from Galileo Financial Technologies, a SoFi company, where he
served as Chief Technology Officer and led the Company’s technical
transformation to the cloud. Prior to that, he was Vice President
of Engineering at SoFi and also led engineering teams at Amazon Web
Services (DynamoDB), Twitter and Microsoft. He also was one of the
founding members of Microsoft's Azure team.
As Chief Data Officer, Saxena will lead the Data Engineering,
Data Analytics, Data Science and Machine Learning teams at Chime,
setting the Company’s vision, strategy and execution for data and
AI initiatives. Previously, she served as Global Chief Data Officer
at McKinsey, where she spearheaded the development of scalable data
platforms and capabilities, orchestrated a comprehensive data
strategy, and guided a cross-functional global team on the data
strategy for the firm's first GenAI initiative. Before McKinsey,
Saxena was the Chief Data Officer at Poshmark, where she built the
Company’s data function and led a comprehensive AI strategy,
contributing to the Company’s journey from Series B to a successful
IPO.
About Chime
Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank, founded on
the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, easy,
and free. Chime builds products that allow us to succeed when our
customers do and has a business model that doesn’t rely on
overdraft, monthly service, or minimum balance fees. For additional
information: www.chime.com.
Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking
services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A. or Stride Bank, N.A.,
Members FDIC.
1Chime is recommended by more of its users than that of any
brand per 2023 Qualtrics® NPS score.
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