Ezra Financial
Micah Berman is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Ezra Financial, a company focused on enhancing financial security for hourly workers through emergency savings accounts. Prior to this role, Micah served as the Lead Product Manager for Android Platform Safety at Google, where responsibility included overseeing safety strategies for over 3 billion users. Additional experience at Google.org involved co-founding and managing a team dedicated to responsible AI and product grantmaking, leading the flagship Impact Challenge program, and overseeing a substantial budget for philanthropic initiatives. Micah's career at Google also encompassed work in strategy and engineering analysis aimed at combating webspam. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College and a certificate in Product Management from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Ezra Financial
We envision a world where employee benefits work for everyone, making companies and their workers more financially resilient. Financial systems today aren’t built for the majority of workers paid at hourly rates, leaving more than 78 million workers stranded to figure out how to save, manage debt, and plan for their futures - on their own. It’s a lot to juggle. So when something unexpected occurs like a flat tire on the way to work, it can quickly spiral out of control with punitive penalties and fees along the way. In most cases, the overburdened worker quits, which incurs an even greater financial burden to the business. Turnover costs up to 200% of an employee’s annual salary so depending on the role and industry, billions of dollars are lost each year to employee attrition, and the subsequent replacement and retraining costs. At Ezra, we help talent-focused employers retain their workers through emergency savings accounts. The return on investment is simple: helping employees save pays back dividends to the bottom-line. We give companies a reliable, research-proven way to reduce attrition while improving financial resiliency across its workforce, the first step towards a financial system that works for all of us. Ezra is backed by Better Tomorrow Ventures. To learn more, visit www.tryezra.com.