PCNSE - Key Persons
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- Executive
- Training Manager
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- Vice President, Investor Relations
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- the Complete 2021 Web Development Bootcamp
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- Founder
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Audit Committee
Eren Bali co-founded Udemy in January 2010 and has served as a member of Udemy's board of directors since then. Mr. Bali also served as Udemy's Chief Executive Officer from January 2010 to April 2014. Mr. Bali currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Carbon Health, a technology-enabled healthcare provider, which he co-founded in October 2015. Mr. Bali serves on the boards of directors of various private companies. Mr. Bali received a B.S. in computer engineering and mathematics from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Member of the Audit Committee
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- Member of the Management Team
- President, Udemy Business
Greg Brown has served as the President, Udemy Business since December 2020. Prior to joining Udemy, Mr. Brown served as the Chief Executive Officer of Reflektive, a performance, engagement and analytics solution platform, from August 2019 until December 2020. Prior to Reflektive, Mr. Brown was the Senior Vice President of International Business at Blackhawk Network, a global payments provider, from August 2017 to August 2019. Before that, Mr. Brown served as Chief Revenue Officer for Achievers Solutions, a developer of cloud-based employee engagement software, from February 2013 to August 2017, and as Chief Revenue Officer for Extole, a developer of an online advocate marketing platform, from April 2011 to February 2013. Mr. Brown received a B.S. in business administration from California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo.
Gregg Coccari - CEO, Chairman, President
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- Chairman of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Management Team
- President
Gregg Coccari has served as Udemy's President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors since February 2019, and as our Chairperson of the board of directors since May 2021. From November 2015 to March 2017, Mr. Coccari served as Chief Executive Officer of Stella & Chewy's, a pet food company specializing in raw, natural pet foods, before pursuing non-professional interests from April 2017 to January 2019. Before Stella & Chewy's, Mr. Coccari served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Futuredontics, a provider of dental marketing services and software, from 2010 to 2012, as President and Chief Executive Officer of NetQuote, an online insurance quote marketplace, from 2006 to 2009, and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Teleflora, an online flower delivery network, from 1992 to 2004. Mr. Coccari received a B.S. in psychology from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Audit Committee
- Managing Partner of Black Ops Ventures
- Member of Udemy 's Board of Directors
Heather Hiles has served as a member of Udemy's board of directors since August 2020. Mx. Hiles currently serves as the managing partner of Black Ops Ventures, a seed-stage venture firm funding Black founders. Mx. Hiles previously served as the founding Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of Calbright College, an online community college focused on preparation for jobs in the technology industry, from January 2019 to March 2020. Prior to that, Mx. Hiles was the Deputy Director of Postsecondary Success Solutions at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world, from October 2016 to November 2017. Mx. Hiles previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Pathbrite, a digital portfolio platform used by colleges and universities, from their founding of Pathbrite in February 2012 until Pathbrite's sale to Cengage Learning in November 2015. Before that, Mx. Hiles served as Chief Executive Officer of SFWorks, a nonprofit they founded that trained and placed people on welfare into living-wage jobs, from 1997 to 2001. Mx. Hiles currently serves on the boards of directors for several private companies, including Black Girls Code. Mx. Hiles received a B.A. in development studies and ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A from Yale University.
Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
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- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Compensation Committee
- Member of Udemy 's Board of Directors
Jeffrey Lieberman has served as a member of Udemy's board of directors since February 2015. Since 1998, Mr. Lieberman has worked at Insight Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm, where he currently serves as managing director. Mr. Lieberman previously served on the boards of directors of HelloFresh SE from 2014 to 2021, Qualtrics International from 2017 to 2019, Shutterstock from 2007 to 2016, Mimecast from 2012 to 2020, and Cvent from 2011 to 2016. Mr. Lieberman received a B.S. in systems engineering and finance from the University of Pennsylvania.
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- General Counsel
- Member of the Management Team
- Senior Vice President, Operations
Ken Hirschman has served as Udemy's Senior Vice President, Operations & General Counsel since 2019. Mr. Hirschman previously served as Udemy's Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & General Counsel from 2018 to 2019. Before joining Udemy, Mr. Hirschman served as VP of Corporate Development and General Counsel of Ebates, which was acquired by Rakuten, from 2011 to 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Hirschman held business development and legal leadership roles at software and technology firms Mindjet, Goodmail Systems, and Acxiom Digital, and spent several years as an associate in the New York and California offices of Shearman & Sterling. Mr. Hirschman holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Cornell Law School.
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- Python a - Z: Python for Data Science With Real Exercises
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- Member of the Management Team
- Senior Vice President, Marketing
Llibert Argerich has served as Udemy's Senior Vice President, Marketing since August 2020. Mr. Argerich previously served as Udemy's Vice President, Marketing from June 2018 to August 2020. Prior to joining Udemy, Mr. Argerich spent eight years at eBay, Inc., where he held multiple roles from 2010 until May 2018, including Global Director, Performance & Digital Marketing from January 2017 to May 2018 and Global Director, Social & Influencer Marketing from January 2015 to December 2016. Mr. Argerich received a B.S. in economics and business from the Universitée des sciences Sociales de Toulouse.
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- Development and Engagement Director
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- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Audit Committee
- Chief Financial Officer of OLX Group
- Member of Udemy 's Board of Directors
Lydia Paterson has served as a member of Udemy's board of directors since December 2019. Ms. Paterson is currently the Chief Financial Officer of OLX Group, a global online classifieds marketplace and a subsidiary of Prosus. Prior to that, Ms. Paterson served as the Vice President, Global Finance and Corporate FP&A for PayPal, an online payments company, from August 2012 to May 2016, and in various finance executive roles at eBay, a multinational e-commerce platform, from March 1999 to August 2012. Ms. Paterson currently serves on the boards of directors of several private companies. Ms. Paterson received a B.B.A. from Simon Fraser University.
Chair of the Audit Committee
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- Chairman of the Compensation Committee
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Compensation Committee / Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
- Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer of Advance Auto Parts
- Member of Udemy 's Board of Directors
Natalie Rothman has served as a member of Udemy's board of directors since May 2022. Ms. Rothman is currently Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer of Advance Auto Parts, a leading automotive aftermarket parts provider. Prior to joining Advance, Ms. Rothman served in a series of ascending human resources leadership roles at PepsiCo from 2006 to 2016. Ms. Rothman previously worked as an employment attorney with the law firm Brown Raysman from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, she served in recruiting and talent management roles with The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. from 2001 to 2003 and Gundersen Partners, LLC, from 1995 to 2000. She currently sits on the boards of the Advance Auto Parts Foundation, the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and the Human Resources Advisory Board for the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University. Ms. Rothman received a B.A. in speech communication and rhetoric from Ithaca College, an M.A. in human resources and international communication from American University, and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School.
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee
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- Member of the Management Team
- Senior Vice President, Product
Prasad Gune has served as Udemy's Senior Vice President, Product, since December 2019. Before joining Udemy, Mr. Gune served as Senior Vice President, Product for Signifyd, an e-commerce fraud protection platform, from January 2019 to December 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Gune worked at OpenTable, an online restaurant-reservation service company, where he served as Senior Vice President, Product from October 2017 to June 2018 and Senior Vice President, Restaurant Product Management from May 2016 to September 2017. Before OpenTable, Mr. Gune worked in various leadership roles at LinkedIn, a professional networking company, Bain & Company, a management consultancy, Oracle, a database management company, and Siebel Systems, a customer relationship management software developer. Mr. Gune received a B.E. in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, Pune in Pune, India, an M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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- Member of the Management Team
- President of New Ventures
Rich Qiu has served as Udemy's President of New Ventures since May 2022. Mr. Qiu previously served as Udemy's Senior Vice President of New Ventures from January 2021 to April 2022; Senior Vice President, Global Business Development from May 2018 to December 2020; and Udemy's Vice President, Global Business Development from February 2014 to October 2018. Prior to joining Udemy, he was the Vice President, Business Development and Head of International at TrustArc from April 2012 to August 2014. Before TrustArc, Mr. Qiu held various leadership positions at 4INFO, Fanbox, and Nuance Communications. He holds an undergraduate degree from Zhejiang University, an M.B.A. from University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Vanderbilt University.
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Management Team
Sarah Blanchard has served as Udemy's Chief Financial Officer since April 2021. Prior to joining Udemy, Ms. Blanchard served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Omada Health, a digital healthcare platform focused on sustainable lifestyle changes, from March 2019 to April 2021, and as Omada Health's Chief Financial Officer from August 2014 to March 2019. Ms. Blanchard previously served as Chief Financial Officer of CoreOS, a developer of Kubernetes and container-native software solutions, from October 2017 until CoreOS's acquisition by Red Hat in January 2018. Before that, Ms. Blanchard served as Vice President, Finance of Silver Spring Networks, a smart grid products provider, from 2009 to 2014. Ms. Blanchard received a B.A. in accounting from Michigan State University and an M.B.A from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Member of the Management Team
- Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
- Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Communications
Stacey Zolt Hara has served as Udemy's Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Communications since April 2022. She has spent the past two decades helping some of the world's largest organizations support business goals through purpose-driven communications and stakeholder engagement. Prior to joining Udemy, Zolt Hara served as Visa's Global Head of Employee and Executive Communications, and, previously, as Global Head of Corporate Reputation and Public Affairs. Earlier, she held a variety of leadership roles at Edelman, Ogilvy Public Relations and Quintiles, including several years based in Asia Pacific. She began her career as a reporter covering the United States Congress and went on to serve as a communications advisor to U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and other politicians. Zolt Hara earned a B.A. in Journalism and Political Science from Indiana University and an M.A. in Political Management from The George Washington University.
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- Senior Manager of HR Development
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- Chief Technology Officer
- Member of the Management Team
Venu Venugopal has served as Udemy's Chief Technology Officer since May 2019. Before joining Udemy, Mr. Venugopal spent over six years at Vrbo.com, a division of Expedia Group, an online travel shopping company, where he held multiple roles from December 2012 to April 2019, including Vice President of Engineering from December 2015 to April 2019. Before that, Mr. Venugopal served in various engineering and product development roles at Adobe, a computer software company, from 2005 to 2011 and, prior to its acquisition by Adobe, at Macromedia, a graphics, multimedia and web development software company, from 2000 to 2005. Mr. Venugopal received a B.E. in mechanical engineering from Madras University, as well as an M.S. in computer science and an M.Eng. in mechanical engineering from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.