Shopify CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of Shopify?

The CEO of Shopify is Tobias Lutke.

Q: Who is the founder of Shopify?

Tobias Lutke, Daniel Weinand, Harley Michael Finkelstein, Brittany Forsyth and Scott Lake founded Shopify.

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Shopify CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Tobias Lutke is the Shopify's CEO. Shopify has 7,001 employees, of which 33 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The Shopify executive team is 33% female and 67% male.
57% of the management team is White.
13% of Shopify management is Hispanic or Latino.
10% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Tobias Lutke

Founder & CEO

Tobias "Tobi" Lütke is a German-Canadian billionaire entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of Shopify, a company based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has been part of the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created open source libraries such as Active Merchant.

Daniel Weinand

Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer

Harley Michael Finkelstein

President

Brittany Forsyth

SVP of HR

Brittany Forsyth is the Chief Talent Officer at Shopify and has been in this role since 2014. She has been with the company since 2010 and previously served as the Director of HR. Brittany is actively involved with a number of HR organizations across North America.

Brittany obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree at Carleton University.

Scott Lake

Founder

Robert Ashe

Board Member

Gail Goodman

Board Member

Jeremy Levine

Board Member

John Phillips

Board Member

Amish Jani

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio

Tobias Lutke

Founder & CEO

Daniel Weinand

Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer

Harley Michael Finkelstein

President

Brittany Forsyth

SVP of HR

Scott Lake

Founder

Shopify board members

Name & TitleBio

Tobias Lutke

Founder & CEO

Robert Ashe

Board Member

Gail Goodman

Board Member

Jeremy Levine

Board Member

John Phillips

Board Member

Amish Jani

Board Member

Aydin Senkut

Board Member

Colleen Johnston

Board Member

Jim Orlando

Board Member

Fidji Simo

Board Member

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Updated November 18, 2022

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