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Our Leadership

Auren Hoffman

CEO

Auren founded SafeGraph in 2016. He is the former CEO and founder of LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP) -- the largest middleware provider in marketing technology. He is an investor in over 120 active technology companies. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley ... and spends way too much time on Twitter. He unwinds by losing to his wife and kids at various board games.

Evan Barry

VP of Marketing

Evan is the VP of Growth and Marketing at SafeGraph. A native to San Diego, Evan was the first marketing hire at both Raken and Branch, successfully managing these companies through multiple growth phases into industry leaders. Evan holds a B.S. and M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, where he was a National Champion and All-American as a member of the Men's Volleyball Team.

Nicole Berger

VP of Operations

Nicole is the VP of Operations at SafeGraph. Prior to joining, she ran Operations at Slyce, an industry-leading visual search and image recognition company. Nicole holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. In her free time, she enjoys accumulating points & miles and failing to keep up with her one year old daughter Annie (who is actually the cutest girl in the world).

Felix Cheung

VP of Engineering

Felix is the VP of Engineering at SafeGraph, bringing over 20 years of engineering and 7 years of data experience. He led teams in Uber's Data Platform and was pivotal in rebuilding their open-source program. Previously he spent time at Microsoft and startups. Felix is a proponent of open-source; as a Member of the ASF, he works on Apache Spark (data), Apache Zeppelin (notebook), and also helps mentor 6 projects in the Apache Incubator and leading Apache Superset (visualization) to graduate.

Jason Cook

SVP of Revenue

Jason Cook is Senior Vice President of Revenue at SafeGraph and has been with the company since 2016. Most recently, Jason was the first Customer Success hire at Radius Intelligence, building a team that managed dozens of Fortune 500 customers & helped raise over $84MM of venture capital. Jason holds a B.S. in Economics & B.S. in Political Science from Santa Clara University. Jason is an overly enthusiastic supporter of the 49ers, Trail Blazers, Spicy Food, and his daughters Callie and Kora.

Ross Epstein

VP of New Projects

Ross is the VP of New Projects at SafeGraph. Prior to SafeGraph, he was the CEO and co-founder of sales engagement platform Sendbloom, later acquired by LinkedIn. Ross holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University. His outside interests include rugby, competitive eating (2010 Tater Tot Champion of Evanston), goldendoodles (can he dogsit?), and trying to explain what he does at SafeGraph.

Karissa Paddie

VP of Corporate Strategy

Karissa is the VP of Corporate Strategy at SafeGraph. After graduating from Stanford, Karissa started her career as CEO and founder of a startup growth consultancy that was featured in Forbes. Following that, she held Head of Growth Roles at Polarr, a startup she scaled from thousands to tens of millions of users, and at Bolt, where she was employee #12 and scaled the company to hundreds of employees and its first billion-dollar customer. In her free time, she likes reading, and keeping houseplants alive.

Ravi Patel

VP of Finance

Ravi is the VP of Finance & Corporate Development at SafeGraph. Prior to SafeGraph, he was an investor at Luminate Capital where he focused on enterprise software buyouts. Ravi holds a B.S. in Economics from Northwestern University. Fun fact: he was once a professional golfer and competed across four countries and six tours. Ravi is also a Chicago sports enthusiast (for better or worse) and loves spending time with his pup, Wrigley.

Jason Richman

VP of Enterprise Sales

Jason is the VP of Enterprise Sales at SafeGraph. Prior to SafeGraph, he was a sales leader at Metamarkets, a SaaS analytics startup that was acquired by Snap Inc. Jason holds a B.S. in Finance from Indiana University. Jason is an avid foodie and in his free time enjoys travel and tennis.

Lauren Spiegel

SVP of Product

Lauren is the Senior Vice President of Product at SafeGraph. Prior to becoming a product leader innovating in data as a service, Lauren was a tech lead/software engineer at Scality - building petabyte-scale data storage solutions. Before coming to her senses, Lauren was an attorney and partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP and began her legal career at O'Melveny & Myers, LLP. Her interests include yoga, coding, and degree collecting: B.A and M.A. in Philosophy from Stanford and a J.D. from NYU.

Ryan Weisert

VP of Customer Success

Ryan is the VP of Customer Success at SafeGraph. Prior to joining, he was the VP of Client Success at MomentFeed and General Manager at OceanX where he led the launch of the company’s first SaaS product. Before starting in tech, Ryan worked as an NBA blogger for ESPN and a biotech researcher. When he's not working, Ryan is either climbing rocks with his daughter, drinking wine with his wife, or watching all the sports under the sun. Please don’t hold his Dallas Cowboys fandom against him.

Jonathan Wolf

VP of Partnerships

Jonathan is the VP of Partnerships at SafeGraph. Prior to SafeGraph, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of TXN Solutions, which was acquired by Envestnet | Yodlee. He holds a Computer Science degree from MIT. A Miami native and Denver resident, Jonathan is a diehard Miami Heat fan and a proud Denver Nuggets season ticketholder. No offense, but his daughter Sophia is the cutest girl in the world.

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