Erica Gessert

Erica Gessert is Chief Financial Officer at Upwork, where she oversees Upwork’s global finance team and operations.

Erica has more than 20 years of finance, operations, analytics and investor relations experience supporting technology companies. Prior to joining Upwork, Erica served in a number of senior executive finance roles for PayPal, most recently Chief Transformation Officer, reporting to the CEO. Previously, Erica held finance and investor relations leadership positions at Sprint Corporation and Virgin Mobile USA.

Erica studied economics and philosophy at Reed College.