Waifa Chau

Waifa Chau is currently the Chief Financial Officer at Nylas. Prior to their current role, Waifa served as the Chief Financial Officer at BirdEye from June 2017 to March 2021. Before that, they were the Director of Finance, Sales & Services at DocuSign from July 2015 to June 2017. Waifa Chau began their career at Walmart.com in September 2011 as the Director, FP&A, Marketing & Site/Customer Experience. Waifa then moved on to Banana Republic in December 2007 as the Manager, FP&A and Marketing. In February 2005, Waifa started their career at Gap Inc. as a Merchandiser/Production Manager for Banana Republic Factory Stores. Before that, they were a Senior Data Analyst, Reporting & Analysis at Brown & Toland Medical Group from June 2001 to February 2005.

Waifa Chau has a MBA in marketing from the University of San Francisco School of Management and a BA in mathematics and medieval/classical literature from New York University.

Waifa Chau reports to Gleb Polyakov, CEO and Co-Founder. Waifa Chau works with David Ting - SVP, Engineering, Product & CISO, Lou Salfi - Chief Revenue Officer, and Christine Spang - CTO and Co-Founder.