Asana Recruits Its New COO From Its Board of Directors

Asana, a leading work management platform for teams, has revealed that Anne Raimondi will succeed Chris Farinacci as its next COO. Farinacci had held the position since 2015 and will retire at the end of the current fiscal year on January 31, 2022.

Raimondi, who has served on Asana’s Board of Directors since 2019, will report to CEO Dustin Moskovitz and be responsible for the company’s growth and global business operations and go-to-market units. This includes the tech company’s sales, marketing, customer success and support, and business development teams.

“Anne has been an instrumental voice on our board for the past two years and knows our business and culture well, which will enable her to seamlessly transition into the organization and start co-creating with our teams,” Moskovitz said in his company’s press release.

Raimondi brings almost 20 years of experience to her new role and had most recently served as the Chief Customer Officer at Guru. Before that she spent four years as the SVP of Operations at Zendesk and just under a year as the Chief Revenue Officer at TaskRabbit. She also spent time as SurveyMonkey’s VP of Marketing, Zazzle’s Head of Product, and eBay’s Director of Product Management and Marketing.

She is also currently a Lecturer in Management at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and serves on the boards of Gusto and Patreon.

Raimondi has joined Asana full-time shortly after it, along with Twilio, have comitted to be listed on the Long-Term Stock Exchange, a new stock exchange that emerged out of Silicon Valley.