| Vijaya Kaza |
Vijaya is the Chief Security Officer and Head of Trust Engineering & Data Science at Airbnb, responsible for Information Security and Trust Technology to protect Airbnb’s community and platform.
Vijaya was named as one of the Top 25 Women in SaaS for 2018, and Top Revolutionary Women in Security 2019. Vijaya Kaza brings over 20 years of broad executive leadership experience having led Engineering, Product Management, Information Security and Data Science organizations ranging startups to large companies both in Enterprise and Consumer spaces.
Prior to joining Airbnb, Vijaya was the Chief Development Officer at Lookout Inc., a SaaS cybersecurity startup for the post perimeter world. At Lookout, Vijaya was responsible?for all aspects of product development including engineering, infrastructure & cloud operations, threat research and Information Security. Before that, Vijaya served as Senior Vice President of Cloud Products & Engineering at FireEye, building FireEye’s SaaS offerings while transitioning the Company’s traditional on-premise business to the cloud. Prior to FireEye, Vijaya served for 17 years in multiple executive and leadership roles at Cisco, where she led product development for a broad portfolio of security products that generated more than $1B in annual revenue.
During her time at these companies, Vijaya led due diligence, as well as product and team integrations for multiple acquisitions, and was instrumental in setting up and scaling offshore teams. Vijaya enjoys working with entrepreneurs and is on the advisory board of some of the leading VC firms. |
| Tara Bunch |
Tara Bunch is currently the Head-Global Operations at Airbnb, Inc. Prior to this, she worked as the Vice President-AppleCare Products at Apple, Inc. and as the Senior Vice President at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. from 1997 to 2012. She holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. |
| David E. Stephenson |
David E. Stephenson is currently the Director at Lyft, Inc. since 2023 and the Chief Business Officer at Airbnb, Inc. since 2019. Previously, he worked at Amazon.com, Inc. as the VP & CFO-Worldwide Consumer Organization from 2013 to 2018, and at Big Fish Games, Inc. as the President & Chief Financial Officer from 2012 to 2013. Mr. Stephenson holds an undergraduate degree from Montana State University and an MBA from the University of Iowa. |
| Ellie Mertz |
Ellie Mertz is currently a Director at DoorDash, Inc. and Faire Wholesale, Inc. She previously worked as the Chief Financial & Business Officer at Airbnb, Inc. Ms. Mertz also held the position of Vice President-Finance & Investor Relations at Netflix, Inc. from 2006 to 2013. She has a graduate degree from The Trustees of Columbia University in The City of New York and undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University. Additionally, Ms. Mertz holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. |
| Brian Chesky |
Brian Chesky is the founder and currently holds the position of Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Head-Community at Airbnb, Inc. which is founded in 2007. He graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with an undergraduate degree in 2004. |
| Ronald Alan Klain |
Ronald Alan Klain currently works at BrainScope Co., Inc., as Director from 2018, Grove Farm Co., Inc., as Director, Inspirato LLC, as Director, and Airbnb, Inc., as Chief Legal Officer from 2024. Mr. Klain also formerly worked at Exclusive Resorts LLC, as Director, Revolution Health Group LLC, as Director, Government of the United States of America, as Chief of Staff from 2021 to 2023, and Revolution LLC, as Executive Vice President. Mr. Klain received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and undergraduate degree in 1983 from Georgetown University. |
| David C. Bernstein |
David C. Bernstein is currently working as the Chief Accounting Officer at Airbnb, Inc. He previously worked as the Vice President-Finance at Macromedia, Inc. and as the Chief Accounting Officer & SVP-Finance at CBS Interactive, Inc. Mr. Bernstein completed his undergraduate degree at Santa Clara University. |
| Aristotle N. Balogh |
Aristotle N. Balogh is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Airbnb, Inc. He previously worked as the Vice President of Engineering at Alphabet, Inc. from 2011 to 2018, the Chief Technology Officer and EVP-Products at Yahoo!, Inc. from 2009 to 2010, and the CTO, EVP & Head-Global Product Design at VeriSign, Inc. from 1999 to 2011. He also served as the Vice President of Engineering at StumbleUpon, Inc. Mr. Balogh received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University. |
| Jeffrey D. Jordan |
Jeffrey D. Jordan is the founder of Lendio, Inc. (founded in 2005). He currently holds the position of Director at Lookout, Inc. and serves as an Independent Director at Pinterest, Inc., Accolade, Inc., Airbnb, Inc., OfferUp, Inc., and AH Capital Management LLC. He is also a Director at Walker & Co. LLP, Fab Commerce & Design, Inc., 500px, Inc., Maplebear, Inc., Wonderschool, Inc., Incredible Health, Inc., Neighbor Storage, Inc., Shef, Inc., and DAPER Investment Fund. Mr. Jordan has held former positions as a Director at Pure Digital Technologies, Inc., LiveOps, Inc., Residual Pumpkin Entity LLC, Booyah, Inc., Hawthorne Labs, Inc., OpenTable, Inc., Metaweb Technologies, Inc., Zoosk, Inc., Wealthfront Corp., Hatch Loyalty, Inc., Tilt.com, Inc., and Neutron Holdings, Inc. He was also the Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President at The Walt Disney Co. from 1990 to 1998, the Chief Financial Officer at Hollywood Entertainment Corp. from 1998 to 1999, the Senior Vice President & GM-North America Region at eBay, Inc. from 1999 to 2004, and the President at PayPal Holdings, Inc. from 2004 to 2006. Additionally, he worked as a Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. and served as the President at Reel.com, Inc. and The Disney Store LLC. Mr. Jordan completed his undergraduate degree at Amherst College in 1981 and obtained an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1987. |
| Alfred Lin |
Alfred Lin was the founder of Venture Frogs LLC (founded in 1999) where he held the position of General Manager from 1999 to 2014. He is currently a Director at ZipLine Medical, Inc., Airbnb, Inc., Stella & Dot LLC, Houzz, Inc., DoorDash, Inc., Dia Styling Co., Code.org, Cobalt Robotics, Inc., Kalshi, Inc., Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, Next Trucking, Inc., and Zethos, Inc. He held the position of Chairman & Chief Financial Officer at Zappos.com LLC from 2005 to 2010 and was a Director at Humble Bundle, Inc. from 2011 to 2017. He was also a Vice President at LinkExchange, Inc. from 1996 to 1998 and at Tellme Networks, Inc. from 2001 to 2005. He served as a Board Member at Achievers Corp. from 2011 to 2015 and at Kiwi, Inc. from 2011 to 2015. He was a Board Member at Shopular, Inc. from 2015 to 2016. Mr. Lin received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1994 and his graduate degree from Stanford University in 1996. |
| Amrita Ahuja |
Amrita Ahuja is currently a Director at the Center for Global Development. She is also an Independent Director at Airbnb, Inc., a Director at Discord, Inc., and the Chief Operating & Financial Officer at Block, Inc. Ms. Ahuja previously worked as the Director of Business Development at Fox Networks Group, Inc. and as the Head of Strategic Planning at The Walt Disney Co. She also served as the Chief Financial Officer at Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. and as the Senior Vice President of Investor Relations at Activision Blizzard, Inc. Ms. Ahuja holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
| Angela J. Ahrendts |
Angela J. Ahrendts is currently serving as the Chairman of Save the Children International. She is also an Independent Director at Ralph Lauren Corp., a Non-Executive Director at WPP LLC, an Independent Director at Airbnb, Inc., a Senior Independent Non-Executive Director at WPP Plc, a Director at Charity Water, Saïd Business School, and The HOW Institute For Society, and a Senior Operating Adviser at SKKY Partners, LP starting in 2023. In her former positions, Ms. Ahrendts served as the Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at Burberry Group Plc from 2010 to 2014. She then became the Senior Vice President-Retail & Online Stores at Apple, Inc. from 2014 to 2019. Prior to that, she was the Executive Vice President at Kate Spade & Co. LLC in 2006, the Executive Vice President-Henri Bendel at Bath & Body Works, Inc. from 1996 to 1998, and the President at Donna Karan International LLC from 1989 to 1996. She also held positions as the Executive Vice President at Henri Bendel LLC and Executive Vice President at Liz Claiborne, Inc.Ms. Ahrendts obtained her undergraduate degree from Ball State University (Indiana). |
