Stuart West
Chief Financial Officer at Grammarly
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Financial Officer
2020 - Current
Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity.
Raised $400,000,000.00 from Baillie Gifford and BlackRock.
Advisor
2017 - 2023
Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle.
Raised $73,500,000.00 from Y Combinator, S28 Capital, Battery Ventures and Redpoint.
SVP of Operations and CFO
2012 - 2020
Business lead responsible for finance ($460 million of primary and $250 million of secondary financings with financial and strategic investors, 10+ U.S. and cross-border acquisitions including Tumblr, six years of audits including first audit), business intelligence (including hands-on development of React/Hadoop/PHP metrics system), HR (scaled from 100 to over 1100 staff in 70+ countries), marketing (including first advertising campaigns), legal, international, for a subscription / SaaS / freemium business. Part-time software developer and manager of dev teams.
Automattic is a global tech company that offers WordPress, WooCommerce, and other web solutions.
Raised $985,900,000.00 from Avant Global, BlackRock, Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, Aglaé Ventures, ICONIQ Growth, ICONIQ Capital, Wellington Partners and Alta Park Capital.
Board member
2008 - 2015
Long-term member of the 10-person governing board of the international non-profit behind Wikipedia, which through a 100,000-person global community provides online educational resources in 285 languages to over 500 million people worldwide each month. Served in various board roles including Vice-Chair of the Board, Treasurer, Audit Committee Chair.
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
Raised $158,980,000.00 from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Google.org, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Executive in Residence
2011 - 2012
Advisor to venture capital firm that provides seed, venture and growth-stage funding to top technology companies.
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Chief Financial Officer
2010 - 2011
Drove finance and business for digital textbook startup with $75 million of venture capital funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Raised $40 million strategic round from Intel Capital to fund major strategic shift.
Chief Strategy Officer, Head of Corporate Development/M&A
2008 - 2009
Led corporate strategy at publicly-traded internet search distribution company with $200 million revenue.
Vice President
2006 - 2008
Led business operations and finance for products including Mail, Messenger, and the Yahoo home page at global internet leader.
Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.
Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.
Acting Chief Financial Officer / VP Finance
2000 - 2006
Progressively increasing leadership roles at publicly-traded leader in digital video recorders during team growth from 85 to 500 people, paid subscriber growth from 73,000 to 4.4 million, and revenue growth from $4 to $260 million. Raised over $250 million in five public equity offerings and three debt transactions.
TiVo Corporation provides digital entertainment technology solutions for the discovery and management of entertainment content.
VP of Business Development
1999 - 2000
Led strategic partnerships and revenue generation at online invitations startup backed by VCs Mayfield Fund and Institutional Venture Partners.