David Barrett

David Barrett is the founder and CEO of Expensify. He started programming at the age of six and has been aspiring to become an expense report magnate ever since. David attended the University of Michigan where he worked in the Virtual Reality Lab before moving to Texas to write 3D graphics engines for the video game industry. Next, he moved to California to join Travis Kalanick in building Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer file transfer technology, which was acquired by Akamai in 2007.

In 2008, David left Akamai to start Expensify and has since been relieving the world’s frustrations one expense report at a time. Under David’s leadership, Expensify has grown into a platform with more than 8 million users (from solo entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies), reimbursed over 660 million expenses, and surpassed 100 billion dollars processed worldwide.

With his extensive technical and entrepreneurial background, David has been featured as a keynote speaker at prominent industry events including SaaStr, Money 20/20, FinDEVr, Finovate, UBS Global Technology Conference, and O’Reilly AI Conference, as well as television appearances on CNBC, Fox, and more.