Lisa Stone

Lisa Stone is the Managing Director at WestRiver Group. Lisa has also served as the Chief Strategy Officer at Ellevest from August 2017 to April 2019. Prior to that, they were the Entrepreneur in Residence at Trinity Ventures from January 2016 to April 2016.

Lisa has over 15 years of experience in the media industry. Lisa co-founded and served as the CEO of BlogHer from February 2005 to December 2015. During their time at BlogHer, Lisa grew the company into the #1 women's social media publisher with a reach of 127+ million and $30 million in revenues. In 2014, Lisa sold BlogHer to SheKnows Media.

After their time at BlogHer, Lisa served as the Chief Community Officer at SheKnows Media from November 2014 to December 2015. In this role, Lisa created an ecosystem for winning by Black founders of beauty and wellness companies.

Prior to their work in the media industry, Lisa was a Strategist and Journalist at The New York Times, LATimes.com, PressThink.org, and ALM Media from January 2004 to December 2005.

Lisa Stone is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and the first internet journalist to be awarded this fellowship. Lisa has a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Wellesley College and a minor in Spanish. Lisa is also a visiting scholar at St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford in the Politics, Philosophy and Economics field.

They are on a team with Mikaela Rice - Operations, Deepa Prasad - Managing Director, and Marta Polishchuk - Operations. Their manager is Erik Anderson, Founder & CEO.