Glen Coates

Glen is the VP of Product, Core, leading the development of Shopify’s core commerce platform: the storefront, checkout, backoffice, marketing and analytics tools that all merchants get “in the box”. He also oversees the core developer platform that Shopify’s theme and app developers build the future of commerce on and Shopify’s partner ecosystem, which includes over 10,000 publicly available apps in the Shopify App Store.

Glen’s work at Shopify is the culmination of a career in software engineering, commerce, and entrepreneurship. Originally a CompSci grad who cut his teeth in video game development, he moved from Sydney to San Diego in 2008 to run US distribution and ecommerce for an Australian eco products company. In 2010, he attended Columbia Business School for one whole day before quitting to start Handshake, a SaaS B2B ecommerce platform headquartered in New York.

Glen joined Shopify in May 2019 when the company acquired Handshake. Glen has been in the Vice President role since October 2020.