• Max Levchin

    Max Levchin

    Founder and CEO

    Max Levchin is the founder and CEO of Affirm, the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Glow, a data-driven fertility company. Both companies were created and launched from his San Francisco based innovation lab, HVF (Hard, Valuable, Fun). Max was one of the original co-founders of PayPal where he served as the Chief Technology Officer until its acquisition by eBay in 2002. In 2002, he was named to the Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world as well as Innovator of the Year.

    Prior to HVF, Max founded and was CEO of Slide, a personal media-sharing service, which was acquired by Google in 2010. Max also helped create Yelp Inc., a consumer internet company, where he served as Chairman of its Board of Directors from its founding in 2005 until July 2015. He served on the board for Yahoo! Inc., an internet company, from 2012 until 2015.

    Max was born in Kyiv, Ukraine before moving to the United States and settling in Chicago in 1991. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he founded and led four other technology startups. Max is a serial entrepreneur, computer scientist, philanthropist and active investor in more than 100 startups.

    Max Levchin

    Founder and CEO

  • Jeremy Liew

    Jeremy Liew

    Director

    Jeremy Liew has served as a member of our Board since 2013. Mr. Liew has been a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a venture capital firm, since 2006. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Liew was an executive at Netscape, AOL, Citysearch and IAC. Mr. Liew has served on the board of The Honest Company, Inc. since 2011. Mr. Liew graduated with honors with a BSc in mathematics, and a BA in Linguistics, from the Australian National University, and with an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School.
    Chair of the Compensation Committee
    Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee

    Jeremy Liew

    Director

  • Libor

    Libor Michalek

    President

    Libor Michalek is Affirm’s President and oversees engineering, risk, operations, product and design. He previously served as Affirm's President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining Affirm, Libor was an Engineering Director at YouTube and Google where he was responsible for Application Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering across multiple sites. During this tenure, YouTube tripled in page views, hours of video watched and revenue. Earlier in his career, Libor was the Chief Technology Officer of Slide, a personal media-sharing service, which was acquired by Google in 2010. Libor also served in software architecture and management positions at Topspin (acquired by Cisco), Egroups.com (acquired by Yahoo!), Talarian (acquired by Tibco), Thinking Machines Corporation and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

    Libor earned his B.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

    Libor Michalek

    President

  • Christa S. Quarles

    Christa S. Quarles

    Director

    Christa S. Quarles has served as a member of our Board since 2018. Since September 2020, Ms. Quarles has been the Chief Executive Officer and a Board Director of Corel Corporation, a private software company. Prior to joining Corel, Ms. Quarles served as the Chief Executive Officer of OpenTable, Inc., an online restaurant reservation service, from 2015 to 2018. Before OpenTable, Ms. Quarles served as the Chief Business Officer of NextDoor, Inc., a social networking company, from 2014 to 2015. Leading up to NextDoor, Ms. Quarles held positions of increasing responsibility with The Walt Disney Company, including Senior Vice President and General Manager as well as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Operations for their Mobile and Social Games division. She came to Disney via its acquisition of Playdom Inc., where she had been its Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Quarles is a member of the board of directors of Kimberly-Clark Corporation, where she served as a member of the audit committee from 2016 to March 2021. Ms. Quarles earned her B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a M.B.A. from Harvard University.
    Member of the Compensation Committee
    Chair of the Audit Committee

    Christa S. Quarles

    Director

  • Keith Rabois

    Keith Rabois

    Director

    Keith Rabois has served as a member of our Board since 2013. Mr. Rabois has been a General Partner at Founders Fund since 2019. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Mr. Rabois served as a Managing Director at Khosla Ventures from 2013 to 2019. Mr. Rabois also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Square, an Executive Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at Slide, and as Vice President of Business & Corporate Development at LinkedIn. Mr. Rabois began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and has also practiced as an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell. Mr. Rabois earned his B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University and his J.D. from Harvard University.

    Keith Rabois

    Director

  • Jacqueline D. Reses

    Jacqueline D. Reses

    Director

    Jacqueline D. Reses has served as a member of our Board since January 2021. Ms. Reses has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Post House Capital LLC, a private investment firm focused on consumer and financial technology, since 2021. She previously served as the Square Capital Lead of Square, Inc., a financial services and technology company, and Executive Chairman of its proposed bank, Square Financial Services, from October 2015 to October 2020. From September 2012 to October 2015, Ms. Reses served as Chief Development Officer of Yahoo! Inc., a technology company. Prior to Yahoo, Ms. Reses served as the head of the U.S. media group at Apax Partners Worldwide LLP, a private equity firm, which she joined in 2001. Ms. Reses also spent seven years at Goldman Sachs in mergers and acquisitions and the principal investment area. Ms. Reses is currently Executive Chair of ContextLogic Inc. and on the board of directors of Endeavor Group Holdings Inc., Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, Ltd. and TaskUS, Inc. She previously served on the board of directors of Alibaba Group Holdings Limited, Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. and Social Capital Hedosophia III. Ms. Reses is also the Chair of the Economic Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and sits on the Wharton School Board of Advisors. Ms. Reses received a bachelor’s degree in economics with honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
    Member of the Compensation Committee

    Jacqueline D. Reses

    Director

  • Manolo Sanchez

    Manuel "Manolo" Sánchez

    Director

    Mr. Sánchez has served as a member of our Board since November 2023. Mr. Sánchez is adjunct professor at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University and was president and CEO of Compass Bank, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (“BBVA“) from 2008-2017, during which time he served as director of the American Bankers Association, the Institute of International Bankers and the Greater Houston Partnership. Mr. Sánchez joined BBVA in 1990. Mr. Sánchez was selected to serve on our Board due to his experience in the banking industry, including in risk management, real estate, community, corporate and investment banking. Mr. Sánchez currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Fannie Mae and Stewart Information Services Corporation.

    Member of the Audit Committee
    Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee

    Manuel "Manolo" Sánchez

    Director

  • Noel Watson

    Noel Watson

    Director

    Noel Watson has served as a member of our Board since September 2022. Mr. Watson has served as the Chief Financial Officer of LegalZoom, an online platform for legal and compliance solutions, since November 2020. Prior to joining LegalZoom, Mr. Watson served as Chief Financial Officer at TrueCar, Inc from June 2019 to November 2020. From April 2006 to June 2019, Mr. Watson served in roles of increasing responsibility at TripAdvisor, Inc., including as Vice President - Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Watson previously served as member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Zynga Inc. Mr. Watson holds a B.S. in accounting from Bryant University.
    Member of the Audit Committee

    Noel Watson

    Director

  • James D. White

    James D. White

    Director

    James D. White has served as a member of our Board since February 2021 and as our Lead Independent Director since September 2021. Mr. White served for eight years, from 2008 to 2016, as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jamba Inc. Prior to that, from 2005 to 2008, Mr. White was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Safeway, Inc., a U.S. supermarket chain. From 1983 to 2005 Mr. White held management roles at Gillette, Nestle Purina and Coca-Cola. Additionally, Mr. White currently serves on the board of directors of The Honest Company, Inc., Medallia, Inc. and The Simply Good Foods Company. He previously served on the board of directors of Adtalem Global Education, Bradshaw Home, CallidusCloud, Daymon Worldwide, Hillshire Brands, Keane Inc, Panera Bread Company-JAB Holdings and Schnucks. His non- profit board experience includes Directors Academy, where he is a founding member and currently Board Chairman, as well as Board Chairman for Fair Trade USA. He previously served on the non-profit boards of the NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center, The Organic Center and the Network of Executive Women. Mr. White received a B.S. degree, with a major in marketing, from The University of Missouri and an MBA from Fontbonne University. He is also a graduate of the Cornell University Food Executive Program and was a Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute Fellow in 2018.
    Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee
    Member of the Compensation Committee

    James D. White

    Director

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