Stuart West

Chief Financial Officer

2020 - Current

Advisor

2017 - 2023

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.

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.

Executive in Residence

2011 - 2012

Advisor to venture capital firm that provides seed, venture and growth-stage funding to top technology companies.

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.

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.

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.