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Yelp CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Jeremy Stoppelman is the Yelp's CEO. Yelp has 3,900 employees, of which 45 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Yelp executive team is 38% female and 62% male.
  • 69% of the management team is White.
  • 10% of Yelp management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Jeremy Stoppelman

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

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Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1999. After briefly working for @Home Network, he worked at X.com and later became the VP of Engineering after the company was renamed PayPal. Stoppelman left PayPal to attend Harvard Business School. During a summer internship at MRL Ventures, he and others came up with the idea for Yelp Inc. He turned down an acquisition offer by Google and took the company public in 2012.

Russel Simmons

Founder

David A. Schwarzbach

Chief Financial Officer

David A. Schwarzbach's LinkedIn

Mr. Schwarzbach joins Yelp from Optimizely, where he most recently served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. He is a seasoned finance expert who brings extensive experience in driving growth at consumer data and marketplace companies. He will be replacing James Miln, who has been serving as interim CFO since September 2019. Mr. Miln will resume his role leading Financial Planning and Analysis at Yelp.

Diane M. Irvine

Chairman

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Sam Eaton

Senior Vice President of Engineering

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Fred D. Anderson

Board Member

Christine Barone

Board Member

Daniel Kimball

SVP Marketing

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George Hu

Board Member

Jed Nachman

Chief Operating Officer

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Jed joined Yelp in 2007 to lead the company’s sales team. He became Chief Operating Officer in 2016, after serving as Yelp’s Chief Revenue Officer and Senior Vice President of Revenue. He oversees the company’s business operations including sales, marketing and administration. Prior to Yelp, Jed spent seven years in senior sales roles for Yahoo! HotJobs, most recently as Director of Corporate Sales for the Western Region. He began his career in the Venture Services Group of investment bank Robertson Stephens. Jed holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Colorado.

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Name & TitleBio
Jeremy Stoppelman

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jeremy Stoppelman's LinkedIn

Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1999. After briefly working for @Home Network, he worked at X.com and later became the VP of Engineering after the company was renamed PayPal. Stoppelman left PayPal to attend Harvard Business School. During a summer internship at MRL Ventures, he and others came up with the idea for Yelp Inc. He turned down an acquisition offer by Google and took the company public in 2012.

Russel Simmons

Founder

Yelp board members

Name & TitleBio
Jeremy Stoppelman

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jeremy Stoppelman's LinkedIn

Jeremy Stoppelman (born November 10, 1977) is an American business executive. He is the CEO of Yelp, which he co-founded in 2004. Stoppelman obtained a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1999. After briefly working for @Home Network, he worked at X.com and later became the VP of Engineering after the company was renamed PayPal. Stoppelman left PayPal to attend Harvard Business School. During a summer internship at MRL Ventures, he and others came up with the idea for Yelp Inc. He turned down an acquisition offer by Google and took the company public in 2012.

Diane M. Irvine

Chairman

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Fred D. Anderson

Board Member

Christine Barone

Board Member

George Hu

Board Member

Robert Lane Gibbs

Board Member

Sharon Rothstein

Board Member

Christopher S. Terrill

Board Member

Royce Anthony Wells

Board Member

Brian Sharples

Board Member

Yelp leadership demographics

Yelp gender distribution in management team

  • The Yelp executive team is 38% female and 62% male.
  • Yelp is 50% female and 50% male company-wide.
Male
Male
62%
Company-wide: 50%
Female
Female
38%
Company-wide: 50%

Yelp executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Yelp executive officers is White.
  • 69% of the management team is White.
  • 11% of Yelp's management is Black or African American.
  • 10% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 56% of employees are White.
  • 20% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
  • 11% of employees are Asian.
  • Management team
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What employees say about the executives at Yelp

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Pros of working at Yelp

Great benefits, culture, training and management

Cons of working at Yelp

aggressive sales tactics, buy or die style, micromanagement at times

Yelp benefits

medical, dental, vision fully employer paid

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