Thrive Global CEO and leadership

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (born Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, , on July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books. She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.

Jack Friend is a Chief of Staff at Thrive Global.

Danny spent over ten years at The Huffington Post, where he helped build the company from a startup into the world’s leading online publication. As Editorial Director, he oversaw the site’s expansion into video and led high-impact editorial initiatives, including HuffPost Rise, the solutions journalism video series, HuffPost’s presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos and its WorldPost conference in London. In his time at HuffPost, he executed several high-profile launches including HuffPost Live, where he oversaw eight hours of daily live news programming, HuffPost France, the site’s first foreign-language edition, and the site’s presence on new platforms. He began his career there as Media Editor, covering the media industry. He has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business Week and on NBC’s “Today” show and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” He graduated with honors from Princeton University, where he studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

David has spent the last 20+ years working with a variety of organizations focusing on measurably improving the health and wellbeing of the workforce. Since joining Walmart in 2012, David has been responsible for designing and delivering offerings that improve the wellbeing of the Walmart workforce. Under his leadership, Walmart co-developed the ZP Challenge, introduced EVEN to address financial wellbeing and developed many other services that improve the lives of Walmart associates and their families. David’s history in the industry includes work with the University of Kentucky, Dupont and Lifebridge Health System. David served as a Co-Chair of the Institute for Innovation in Workforce Well-being at the National Business Group on Health, serves on the Board of Health eVillages and was awarded the Health Value Award as Outstanding Benefit Professional in 2018 by the Validation Institute & World Health Care Congress.

Computer engineer (B.Eng.) and system architect with over 10 years experience. Specialised in cloud platforms, informationsecurity, developer operations, embedded systems, wireless, and mobile. Experienced team leader,excellent communicator, published researcher, Unix, Kafka expert. Developer in Python, Java, C, SQL, Go/Golang. Checkout my Kafka Summit talk: https://www.confluent.io/kafka-summit-sf18/kafka-on-zfs

Joey is the Director of Trainings at Thrive Global. He has dedicated the last 30 years to coaching and facilitating motivational seminars to assist individuals and professional organizations in improving their lives, their careers and their businesses all over the world. Joey was recently Executive Consultant and Partner for McGhee Productivity, which provides consulting and educational services to businesses to increase productivity, communication, and quality of life. Raised in urban Los Angeles, Joey rose above the challenges of the area to receive a football scholarship at UCLA and attend UCSD. He has completed Masters in Psychology and Theology. Following college he began his career as a motivational speaker and performance enhancement coach.

Amy Vezzetti is a Chief People Officer at Thrive Global.

Anne Sachs is Thrive Global's Chief Content Officer. Prior to joining the Thrive team, Anne managed a dual role at Condé Nast, where she served as both Executive Digital Director at W Magazine and the Editorial Director of Product Partnerships, working across product and content strategy. She also launched Conde Nast's Social News Desk, a central news hub for the company; served as interim Digital Director at Vogue; and was the Digital Director at Glamour. Before starting at Conde Nast, she worked in editorial for a wide range of brands, including ELLEgirl, MTV Networks, and The Gallup Poll.

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (born Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, , on July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books. She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.

Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington (born Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou, , on July 15, 1950) is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of fifteen books. She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.