Bolt's mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers' relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company's rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they've come to expect.

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Mike Byrnes is the current Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Bolt. Mike has over twenty years of experience in business development and sales. 

Byrnes started their career as an Area Leader/Account Manager at Follett Learning from March 2001 to February 2006. Mike then became the Vice President of Global Business Development & Sales at [O'Reilly Media](/org/oreilly-media) from January 2006 to February 2017. In this role, they led the global platform sales, customer success, and business development organizations. Mike was also a member of the executive management team. Byrnes then became a Mentor - Business Development & Sales at Indie.vc from January 2015 to December 2016. In this role, they were an advisor to founders in the first cohort of Indie.vc startups. Byrnes most recent role was at Amazon as the Head of Business Development - Alexa & Emerging Device Services from February 2017 to August 2021. In this role, they led business development and solution architecture teams for Alexa replenishment and some not-yet-public device hardware and service initiatives.

Mike Byrnes received their Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business with a focus in Technology Management. Mike also has a Fellowship in Master of Information Science from Dominican University. Their undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Science (BS) from the [University of Montana](/org/university-of-montana) where they studied Resource Conservation.

Some of their coworkers include Rodney Tang - Biz Ops, Barrett Barnes - Sales, and Arash Bakhshandehpour - Sales. Mike Byrnes reports to Bob Buch, Chief Business Officer.

Mike Byrnes

Anna Thipavong

Bob Gallen

Todd Scarpato

Matthew Didden is the current Director of Accounting at Bolt. Prior to joining Bolt, they held various accounting positions at Mosaic, [Clari](/org/clari), [Deloitte](/org/deloitte), and GMS Surgent CPA's & Advisors. 

Matthew Didden has over 10 years of experience in the accounting field. Matthew began their career as a Staff Accountant at GMS Surgent CPA's & Advisors in October 2009. Matthew was promoted to Senior Accountant in November 2011 and remained in that role until they left the company in July 2012. 

In July 2012, Matthew Didden joined [Deloitte](/org/deloitte) as an Audit Senior Assistant. Matthew was promoted to Audit Senior in August 2013 and remained in that role until they left the company in April 2016. 

In May 2016, Matthew Didden joined [Clari](/org/clari) as an Accounting Manager. Matthew was promoted to Assistant Controller in March 2017 and remained in that role until they left the company in November 2017. 

In November 2017, Matthew Didden joined Mosaic as a Director of Accounting. Matthew held that position until they left the company in February 2021.

Matthew Didden has a BS in Accounting and Management from [Villanova University](/org/villanova-university). Matthew is also certified by the CA Board of Accountancy as a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Matthew Didden

Richard Finnegan is currently the Senior Director of Finance at Bolt. Richard has over 10 years of experience in finance and has held various positions at [PubMatic](/org/pubmatic) and Recharge Payments. Richard has a deep understanding of Go-To-Market Finance and has played a key role in helping grow top line revenue for new and existing products. Richard is also experienced in revenue forecasting and has led the development of average lifetime value of customers. In their current role, Richard is responsible for overseeing the financial operations of Bolt and providing insights to executives on the most profitable products and initiatives.

Richard Finnegan's educational career includes a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Financial Management Services from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, as well as a Business degree from Scuola di Amministrazione Aziendale (SAA).

Richard Finnegan

Amanda Bradley is the current General Counsel at Bolt. Amanda has held this position since September of 2022. Prior to their current role, Ms. Bradley served as the AGC, Corporate at Bolt from March of 2022 until September of that year. Before their time at Bolt, Ms. Bradley was the AGC, Corporate at Spire from March of 2021 until March of 2022. 

Ms. Bradley began their legal career at O'Melveny & Myers LLP as a Counsel, Corporate/M&A from January of 2019 until December of 2019. Amanda then transitioned to an Associate role in the same department from January of 2016 until December of 2019. Ms. Bradley also spent time as the Head of Legal at Shift Technologies, Inc. from January of 2019 until December of 2021. 

In 2015, Ms. Bradley worked as a Corporate Attorney at Toyota Financial Services through a secondment from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. Amanda returned to Davis Polk in 2016 as an Associate in their M&A department where they worked until September of 2020 when they joined Bolt as their General Counsel. 

Outside of their corporate legal experience, Ms. Bradley has also served as a [Cornell University](/org/cornell-university) Judicial Codes Counselor from January of 2011 until December of 2013 and as a Teacher/Tutor at Stepping Stones to Learning, LLC from January of 2010 until December of that year. Ms. Bradley is also a Co-Founder of BrewJacket, Inc., a company they started

Amanda Bradley completed their undergraduate studies at [Boston College](/org/boston-college), where they earned a BA in Honors Philosophy (cum laude). Amanda then went on to complete a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at [Cornell University](/org/cornell-university)'s S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management. Finally, they earned a Doctor of Law (JD) from Cornell Law School.

They are on a team with Scott Stockberger - SVP, Finance, Greg Greiner - SVP, Product, and Hilary Neve - VP, Communications. A direct report to Amanda Bradley is and Måns Byröd - Corporate Legal Counsel. Their manager is Maju Kuruvilla, CEO.

Amanda Bradley

Måns Byröd

Xiao Guo is currently the SVP of Engineering at Bolt. Prior to this, they were the Head of Growth Engineering at [Instacart](/org/instacart) from January 2019 to August 2021. Xiao was responsible for acquisition, SEO, merchandising, referrals, gifting, social, home/landing pages, activation, authentication, engagement, retention, incentives product & platform, messaging channels & targeting, paid marketing, partnership & affiliates, and growth platform. From January 2015 to December 2019, they were an engineering leader at [Uber](/org/uber) where they led several areas across mobile, backend, web, and machine learning engineers. Xiao was a part of the ATG SF office founding leadership team and launched the first version of the freight app and marketplace. Xiao also started the remote assistance team for self-driving vehicles. In addition, they led teams to apply AI to customer support problems for [Uber](/org/uber)'s all Lines of Business globally (Rider, Driver, Eats, Freight, Bikes, Business), supporting teams across SF, PA, and Bangalore. Xiao is also the Co-Chair for Women in Engineering (LadyEng) at [Uber](/org/uber).

Xiao Guo currently is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at [Harvard University](/org/harvard). Xiao has also taken strategy courses as part of [Uber](/org/uber)'s partnership with Harvard Business School Executive Education. Her previous educational experiences include a Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics from [Harvard University](/org/harvard) and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from [Fudan University](/org/fudan-university). Xiao also has certifications from [Coursera](/org/coursera) in Machine Learning and from MIT Professional Education in Tackling the Challenges of Big Data.

Their manager is Maju Kuruvilla, CEO. Roopak Venkatakrishnan - Director of Engineering, Venkatesh Arivazhagan - Staff Software Engineer, and Lakshmi Venkateswaran - Software Engineer report to Xiao Guo. Some of their coworkers include Adam McBain - VP, People, Joanne Bradford - Chief Marketing Officer, and Greg Greiner - SVP, Product.

Xiao Guo

Cathy is the Director of Financial Products at Bolt, driving product strategy, operations, and GTM for the Bolt Approve offering. Previously, she worked in technology private equity at [Silver Lake](/org/silver-lake), where she was first introduced to ecommerce fraud via online gift card sales while working on the Blackhawk transaction. She also spent time at the Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco serving financial services clients.

Cathy Liu

Clare manages all things accounting at Bolt. Prior to joining Bolt, she worked at [LendUp](/org/lendup) scaling processes for their loan operations and has experience with startups across industries in public accounting.



Clare Louie

Vivek is the Head of Talent at Bolt. He brings over 10 years of running talent teams at companies like [Kforce](/org/kforce), and [Zuora](/org/zuora). At [Zuora](/org/zuora), he scaled the team from 500 employees to over 1500 employees from pre-IPO to post-IPO.

Vivek Punjabi

Stephanie Tan

Rebecca leads internal communications at Bolt. For the past several years, Rebecca has supported c-suite executives in meeting their operational and strategic goals as Chief of Staff at ABC News, [Bridgewater Associates](/org/bridgewater-associates) & Leap Motion.

Rebecca Bossange

Lainie graduated from [Wake Forest University](/org/wake-forest-university) with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and English.

Lainie Noonan

Barrett offers over 5 years of experience leading teams in sales and operations at companies such as [Yelp](/org/yelp) and Bubblews. He also co-founded [Sweeble](/org/sweeble).

Barrett Barnes

Adam McBain

Hilary Neve

Meg Ciarallo

Zainab Albedawi

Shirley Zhou

Chelsea works on the product marketing team in San Francisco. Prior to joining Bolt, she worked as an Associate Product Manager at [Feedzai](/org/feedzai) and as a Lead Product Specialist at [Naehas](/org/naehas). Chelsea graduated from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley) with a Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science.

Chelsea Ortiz

Betty leads product marketing at Bolt. She joined with the goal of growing Bolt's vibrant merchant community and sharing the amazing stories from customers. She joined with 20 years of experience in bringing enterprise products to market. Previously, she led partner GTM and ecosystem marketing for DigitalOcean Marketplace. Prior to that, she led marketing at H20.ai and ran worldwide product marketing for SafeNet's $200 data protection business ahead of its acquisition by Gemalto for $890M. Her experience in security was in bringing complex encryption products to market and adoption by the world's leading companies in the Payment Card Industry.

Betty Candel

Scott leads finance, accounting, and corporate development functions at Bolt. Prior to joining Bolt, he led the corporate development and strategic finance teams at [Yapstone](/org/yapstone) through a period of hyper-growth, scaling to $18B* in annual GMV, 400 people, and operations globally.

Scott Stockberger

Tina helps lead Customer Teams at Bolt with a focus on Customer Experience. She is a technology executive and customer enthusiast with expertise in selling and leading customer solutions, creating and mentoring high performing teams, and growing a business.

Tina Fan

Ryan transitioned from CEO to Executive Chairman in January 2022. Ryan is passionate about perfecting the purchase, and follows the evolving ecommerce landscape closely.

Ryan Breslow

Leilei works on the operations and talent team in Toronto. Prior to joining Bolt, she worked in the HR department at Witmart, as a Technical Recruiter at Release2 and as an Office Administrator at Korbitec.



Leilei Sun

Jason Rosenberg joined Bolt as the Head of Creative in July 2022. Jason has over 12 years of experience bringing to life brand stories through traditional and integrated advertising, working on various brands across different industries. Most recently, Jason was a Creative Director at Pereira O'Dell.

Jason Rosenberg

Greg leads product at Bolt. Before Bolt, Greg worked at [Uber](/org/uber) for over four years where he led the [Uber](/org/uber) for Business product team. Greg helped build out the [Uber](/org/uber) for Business team from scratch into a business unit of over 100 people within [Uber](/org/uber).

Greg Greiner

Elizabeth (Izzy) works on the operations team in San Francisco. She brings over 6 years of operations and management experience working at companies such as [Elevate Labs](/org/elevate-labs), [MixRank](/org/mixrank), Sooska, and more. Izzy graduated from [The College of Wooster](/org/the-college-of-wooster) with a Bachelor of Arts.



Elizabeth Friedman

Mary works on the people operations team in Salt Lake City. She brings over 7 years of people and operations management experience working for companies such as [Patagonia](/org/patagonia), Outside PR, and [Backroads](/org/backroads).



Mary Gossel

Tom is the Vice President of Marketing at Bolt. He brings over 20 years of experience leading digital marketing teams in the SaaS information security industries at companies such as [DigitalOcean](/org/digitalocean), Progress Software, [Iron Mountain](/org/iron-mountain), and SafeNet.

Tom Berger

Simon Chen

Joanne Bradford

Maju Kuruvilla transitioned from COO to CEO in January 2022. 

Maju Kuruvilla

Brett Stanton

Roopak Venkatakrishnan

Amol Walvekar

Venkatesh Arivazhagan

Lakshmi Venkateswaran

Ivan leads marketing operations at Bolt. He brings over a decade of experience in a wide array of marketing activities including marketing automation systems administration, demand generation, account-based marketing, content/video asset production, visual design, social media marketing, SEO / SEM, field events, website management, and more.

Ivan Gaal

Wilson Yu is the Senior Director of Customer Success & Customer Analytics at Bolt. Prior to joining Bolt, Wilson worked at [Zendesk](/org/zendesk) where he supported their CCO (Chief Customer Officer) in operations and strategic initiatives.

Wilson Yu

The executive team at Bolt has a history of working in various industries, including financial services, marketing, and e-commerce. They have also held leadership positions at companies such as SoFi, Rakuten Marketing, and Instacart. In addition, the team has a strong educational background, with members holding degrees from prestigious institutions such as UCLA, Harvard University, and San Diego State University.

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