OUR LEADERSHIP

SoFi Management Team

Combining strong expertise in financial services and the experience of seasoned entrepreneurs, our team is passionate about building a company that’s unlike any other.

Anthony Noto

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Anna Avalos

CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER

Ibrahim Dusi

SVP, INTERNATIONAL

Flori Gilroy

SVP, BUSINESS UNIT LEADER FOR CRYPTO

Anthony Noto

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Anthony Noto is the CEO of SoFi and serves on its board of directors. Before joining SoFi, he served as chief operating officer of Twitter. Prior to Twitter, Anthony spent nearly ten years at Goldman Sachs.

Tom Karniash

EVP, HEAD OF GLOBAL OPERATIONS

Kelli Keough

EVP, GROUP BUSINESS UNIT LEADER FOR SPEND, INVEST, PROTECT AND SAVE

Chris Lapointe

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Rob Lavet

GENERAL COUNSEL

Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore

PRESIDENT, TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Arun Pinto

CHIEF RISK OFFICER

Jeremy Rishel

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Eric Schuppenhauer

EVP

William Tanona

SVP

Lauren Stafford Webb

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER

Katie Wells

EVP

Board of Directors

Anthony Noto

BOARD MEMBER

Anthony Noto is the CEO of SoFi and serves on its board of directors. Before joining SoFi, he served as chief operating officer of Twitter since November 2016, and as its chief financial officer when joining the company in July 2014. Prior to Twitter, Anthony served for almost four years as co-head of global TMT investment banking at Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1999, was named partner in 2004, and served as the head of communications media and Internet equity research. Before returning to Goldman, Anthony spent almost three years as chief financial officer of the National Football League.

A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, Anthony also holds a masters of business administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

Tom Hutton

CHAIRMAN

Manages his own firm, Thompson Hutton LLC, which invests in venture capital and private equity transactions focused on financial services and associated information technology. Former CEO of White Mountains Re Group and has served as Board member of four major companies, including three public companies. Tom Hutton received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School as well as an MS in Mechanical Engineering and BA in Economics from Stanford University.

Steven Freiberg

VICE CHAIRMAN

Steven Freiberg is a long term veteran of the financial services sector, having held multiple positions at Citigroup (NYSE:C) over a 30 year period including serving as the Co-Chairman and CEO of Citigroup’s Global Consumer Group, and most recently as the CEO of E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ:ETFC) where he led the company back to profitability in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. He is the founder of Grand Vista Partners, the Freiberg Family Investment Office, a Board member of Fair Square Financial, MasterCard (NYSE:MA), OANDA, Purchasing Power, and Regional Management (NYSE:RM), and a senior advisor to several companies including The Boston Consulting Group and Verisk Analytics (NASDAQ:VRSK). Freiberg holds a BS in Finance as well as an MBA in Finance from Hofstra University.

Ruzwana Bashir

BOARD MEMBER

Ruzwana Bashir is CEO and Founder of Peek.com, building Shopify for experiences. Peek.com combines an award-winning marketplace for consumers with powerful booking/payment tools for businesses (Peek Pro). Peek.com has had over $2 billion in bookings and raised $50 million in funding from investors such as Eric Schmidt and Jack Dorsey. Forbes named the company “America’s next travel unicorn”. Ruzwana is also an angel investor and Scout for Sequoia Capital, investing in companies such as Clubhouse and Living Carbon. Ruzwana has been named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business and was a Finalist for E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year. She is a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum and previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Blackstone. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and a BA from Oxford University where she was President of the Oxford Union.

Bill Borden

BOARD MEMBER

William (Bill) Borden is the Corporate Vice President of Financial Services at Microsoft, where he leads the industry execution and business growth strategy for banking, capital markets and insurance customers. He brings over 30 years of experience in financial services and technology, having held senior strategic positions within Citi’s Chairman and Chief Executive Office, as well as leading high growth businesses at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, IBM and other global firms. He is an expert in strategy development, product commercialization and go-to market execution.

He is an active board member, volunteer and mentor in the financial services and community sectors. Bill holds a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management.

Dana Green

BOARD MEMBER

Dana Green, 58, served as Senior Vice President and as a senior bank supervisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for 32 years starting in 1991. From 2010 to early 2023, Ms. Green was in charge of supervising (in 5-year time periods) systemically important financial institutions with complex risk profiles. Ms. Green also supervised several complex institutions during times of stress. Important Federal Reserve Bank Committee assignments include serving on a subcommittee of supervisors for the Bank for International Settlement aimed at harmonizing cross jurisdictional safety and soundness approaches for emerging risks to foster financial stability. Ms. Green has also served on the Risk Committee and the Liquidity Committee for the Federal Reserve System.

John Hele

BOARD MEMBER

John Hele is Chair of Resolution Re Limited, Bermuda and he has held several senior positions in the insurance industry throughout his career. Prior to his most recent role of President, Resolution Life Group Holdings, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET). Mr. Hele was also a Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer at ING Groep NV (AEX/NYSE: ING), and Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Executive Vice President for Arch Capital Group Ltd. Bermuda (NASDAQ: ACGL), and at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the investment banking, financial institutions group. Mr. Hele holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from University of Waterloo and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Clara Liang

BOARD MEMBER

Clara Liang is Business Lead at Stripe, responsible for the consumer experience across Stripe’s products. Prior to joining Stripe, she was Vice President and General Manager at Airbnb for nearly 6 years, and held a number of responsibilities including international & commercial operations, long term stays, luxury travel, and product management. Ms. Liang has also served as Chief Product Officer at Jive Software and spent 11 years at IBM in a number of technology and professional services roles. Ms. Liang holds a BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and an MS in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin.

Gary Meltzer

BOARD MEMBER

Gary Meltzer currently serves on the boards of directors of the American Century Mutual Funds, Apollo Realty Income Solutions, Inc. (ARIS) and ExcelFin Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: XFIN), and is a Senior Advisor to Pontoro Inc., a private markets technology company. Between 1985 and September 2020, Gary Meltzer served in a variety of roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), including most recently as the Managing Partner responsible for PwC’s Bay Area and Northwest Market and as a member of PwC’s Leadership Team. Gary was a member of PwC’s Financial Services Leadership Team from 2010 to 2016, where he led the Asset and Wealth Management Sector and the Financial Services Regulatory Advisory practice.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Binghamton University School of Management and a Founding Member of the Children’s Heart Fund at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. Gary received a BS in Accounting from Binghamton University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Magdalena Yeşil

BOARD MEMBER

Magdalena Yeşil is a founder, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist of many of the world’s top technology companies, including Salesforce, where she was the first investor and founding board member. She is a former general partner at U.S. Venture Partners, where she oversaw investments in more than thirty early-stage companies and served on the boards of many. A technology pioneer, Ms. Yeşil founded three of the first companies dedicated to commercializing Internet access, e-commerce infrastructure, and electronic payments. UUnet, CyberCash, and MarketPay earned her the Entrepreneur of the Year title from Red Herring in 1997. She is a founder of Broadway Angels, a group of female venture capitalists and angel investors. Ms. Yeşil is currently working on her fourth startup, DriveInformed, a technology company bringing trust and transparency to the auto finance industry. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.

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