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Algolia CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Bernadette Nixon is the Algolia's CEO. Algolia has 320 employees, of which 22 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Algolia executive team is 45% female and 55% male.
  • 68% of the management team is White.
  • 8% of Algolia management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Bernadette Nixon

Chief Executive Officer

Bernadette Nixon's LinkedIn

As the CEO of Alfresco, Bernadette Nixon leads the company’s strategy for growth, customer commitment and culture. Bernadette is an experienced global leader with a proven track record of growing some of the leading companies in the market and has a wealth of experience in the process and content management industry.Before joining Alfresco, Bernadette served as President of SDL PLC., a global software and professional services company, after having grown its sales team as chief revenue officer. Prior to SDL, she held positions at OpenText, a leading ECM company, as General Manager and Senior Vice President of its BPM Business Unit & Corporate Sales. She was EVP of Sales for the Americas at Metastorm, and served in similar roles at CA Technologies, InterQuad and NCR. Bernadette also held the position of Deputy CIO for the United Nations in Geneva. Specialties: Executive leadership, GTM strategy definition & execution, product strategy, sales leadership & execution, motivating diversified teams to peak performance, P&L responsibility

Julien Lemoine

Co-Founder & CTO, Executive

Julien Lemoine's LinkedIn

Julien is a search veteran who’s been working in the search landscape for over 10 years, with work experience in Thales and Exalead. He participated in the design of three different search engines prior to co-founding Algolia with Nicolas and is the author of the different algorithms responsible for Algolia's super fast performance. Julien is also passionate about imparting knowledge and spent some time teaching at his Alma Mater, EPITA. He holds an engineering degree from the same institution.

Nicolas Dessaigne

CEO

Carlton H. Baab

Chief Financial Officer

Carlton H. Baab's LinkedIn

• Demonstrated Strategic Partner to the CEO

• Operational-centric CFO with a Unique Combination of Technical & General Management Background.

• C-level Experience - 25+ years (CEO, COO, CFO, CIO)

• Public Company Experience - 15 years

• IPO Experience with Goldman Sachs as the Lead plus Secondary Offering ($103M Total)

• Equity Funding: Managed $204M in Venture Capital and Public Equity Fund Raising

• Managed Three High Growth Companies (Lithium, CKS Group, and Alfresco)

• Extensive International Experience - Operations, Accounting and Finance

• M&A Experience: Sold Five (5) Companies and Purchased Seven (7) - Managed Integration of Acquisitions

• Successfully Managed Two Financial Turn-arounds

• Public Company Board Member - 4 years

Gaëtan Gachet

Chief Strategy Officer

Gaëtan Gachet's LinkedIn

Gaëtan is Algolia’s Chief Strategy Officer and actively works on defining, developing and executing Algolia’s business strategy. Gaetan has an international background and prior to Algolia, worked in sales and business development at Polestar in Paris and the French Trade Office in San Francisco. He is also passionate about building a team with a culture that empowers its members and is an active advocate of this philosophy at Algolia. He holds an MS degree in telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and BS in Fundamental physics from Université Paris Sud. (Paris XI)

Jim Schattin

Chief Customer Officer

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Jim Schattin is a CCO at Algolia.

Michelle Adams

Chief Revenue Officer

Michelle Adams's LinkedIn

As the Chief Revenue Officer of Algolia, Michelle is responsible for driving revenue at scale through worldwide alignment across sales, marketing, revenue management, and business development. She most recently served as SVP of Sales for the Americas at Dropbox, where she led direct sales, marketing, channel and customer success to grow its business by 10X in under four years. Prior to Dropbox, Adams was Global Head of Sales for IBM Watson, taking it from inception to nearly half a billion dollars in sales.

Piyush Patel

Chief Strategic Business Development Officer

Piyush Patel's LinkedIn

Piyush Patel has been building high-performance teams in the area of platforms focused on Digital Experience and has helped to shape and build teams at many well-recognized brands in the space holding positions in digital strategy, services delivery, channels/alliances and product strategy.

Adanech Getachew

General Counsel (Registered In-House Counsel In CA)

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Bharat Guruprakash

Chief Product Officer

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Bharat Guruprakash is a Chief Product Officer at Algolia.

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Name & TitleBio
Julien Lemoine

Co-Founder & CTO, Executive

Julien Lemoine's LinkedIn

Julien is a search veteran who’s been working in the search landscape for over 10 years, with work experience in Thales and Exalead. He participated in the design of three different search engines prior to co-founding Algolia with Nicolas and is the author of the different algorithms responsible for Algolia's super fast performance. Julien is also passionate about imparting knowledge and spent some time teaching at his Alma Mater, EPITA. He holds an engineering degree from the same institution.

Nicolas Dessaigne

CEO

Algolia board members

Name & TitleBio
Bernadette Nixon

Chief Executive Officer

Bernadette Nixon's LinkedIn

As the CEO of Alfresco, Bernadette Nixon leads the company’s strategy for growth, customer commitment and culture. Bernadette is an experienced global leader with a proven track record of growing some of the leading companies in the market and has a wealth of experience in the process and content management industry.Before joining Alfresco, Bernadette served as President of SDL PLC., a global software and professional services company, after having grown its sales team as chief revenue officer. Prior to SDL, she held positions at OpenText, a leading ECM company, as General Manager and Senior Vice President of its BPM Business Unit & Corporate Sales. She was EVP of Sales for the Americas at Metastorm, and served in similar roles at CA Technologies, InterQuad and NCR. Bernadette also held the position of Deputy CIO for the United Nations in Geneva. Specialties: Executive leadership, GTM strategy definition & execution, product strategy, sales leadership & execution, motivating diversified teams to peak performance, P&L responsibility

Julien Lemoine

Co-Founder & CTO, Executive

Julien Lemoine's LinkedIn

Julien is a search veteran who’s been working in the search landscape for over 10 years, with work experience in Thales and Exalead. He participated in the design of three different search engines prior to co-founding Algolia with Nicolas and is the author of the different algorithms responsible for Algolia's super fast performance. Julien is also passionate about imparting knowledge and spent some time teaching at his Alma Mater, EPITA. He holds an engineering degree from the same institution.

Carlton H. Baab

Chief Financial Officer

Carlton H. Baab's LinkedIn

• Demonstrated Strategic Partner to the CEO

• Operational-centric CFO with a Unique Combination of Technical & General Management Background.

• C-level Experience - 25+ years (CEO, COO, CFO, CIO)

• Public Company Experience - 15 years

• IPO Experience with Goldman Sachs as the Lead plus Secondary Offering ($103M Total)

• Equity Funding: Managed $204M in Venture Capital and Public Equity Fund Raising

• Managed Three High Growth Companies (Lithium, CKS Group, and Alfresco)

• Extensive International Experience - Operations, Accounting and Finance

• M&A Experience: Sold Five (5) Companies and Purchased Seven (7) - Managed Integration of Acquisitions

• Successfully Managed Two Financial Turn-arounds

• Public Company Board Member - 4 years

Gaëtan Gachet

Chief Strategy Officer

Gaëtan Gachet's LinkedIn

Gaëtan is Algolia’s Chief Strategy Officer and actively works on defining, developing and executing Algolia’s business strategy. Gaetan has an international background and prior to Algolia, worked in sales and business development at Polestar in Paris and the French Trade Office in San Francisco. He is also passionate about building a team with a culture that empowers its members and is an active advocate of this philosophy at Algolia. He holds an MS degree in telecommunications from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and BS in Fundamental physics from Université Paris Sud. (Paris XI)

Michelle Adams

Chief Revenue Officer

Michelle Adams's LinkedIn

As the Chief Revenue Officer of Algolia, Michelle is responsible for driving revenue at scale through worldwide alignment across sales, marketing, revenue management, and business development. She most recently served as SVP of Sales for the Americas at Dropbox, where she led direct sales, marketing, channel and customer success to grow its business by 10X in under four years. Prior to Dropbox, Adams was Global Head of Sales for IBM Watson, taking it from inception to nearly half a billion dollars in sales.

Piyush Patel

Chief Strategic Business Development Officer

Piyush Patel's LinkedIn

Piyush Patel has been building high-performance teams in the area of platforms focused on Digital Experience and has helped to shape and build teams at many well-recognized brands in the space holding positions in digital strategy, services delivery, channels/alliances and product strategy.

Adanech Getachew

General Counsel (Registered In-House Counsel In CA)

Adanech Getachew's LinkedIn

Kristie Rodenbush

Chief Human Resources Officer

Kristie leads People & Places globally for Algolia, including HR, recruiting and real estate & workplace. She has 20 years experience in HR, with public & private tech companies in Silicon Valley as well as in HR strategy consulting. She's helped companies, including Alphabet, Imperva, HP and Yahoo!, leverage people & culture to both grow and transform their business. Her B.A. is in Psychology from University of California, San Diego.

Kendall Collins

Board Member

Alex Kayyal

Board Member

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