LA Tech ‘Moves’: Aspiration Gains New CEO, Serve Robotics Taps DoorDash Exec
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Sustainable financial services company Aspiration promoted Olivia Albrecht from chief sustainability officer to CEO.
Real estate industry veteran Christian Coleman joined online housing marketplace platform Homepie as chief revenue officer. Coleman recently served as the chief real estate officer at Reali.
Serve Robotics, a provider of self-driving robots, appointed former DoorDash executive Prahar Shah as chief revenue officer.
Developer of project management platform ClickUp named Will May as chief revenue officer, Gaurav Agarwal as chief growth officer and Marshall Tyler as chief strategy officer. May recently served as Zscaler’s Global Vice President, while Agarwal came from Freedom Financial Network as its SVP of growth. Tyler previously worked at ServiceNow where he was VP and global head of industry solutions.
Allen Media Group hired Oliver De La Hoz as chief financial officer. De La Hoz's most recent position was CFO of ITV Studios U.S. (ITV).
Edtech company GoGuardian welcomed Dionna Smith as the company's first chief diversity officer. Smith previously served as Thumbtack's global head of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Fundraising platform Classy named Soraya Alexander as president. Prior to this role, Alexander served as the company’s COO.
Veteran consumer analyst Gerald Pascarelli joined Wedbush Securities as senior vice president.
Biotechnology company Acadia Pharmaceuticals added Adora Ndu to its board of directors. Most recently, Ndu served as group vice president, head of worldwide research and development strategy, scientific collaborations and policy at BioMarin Pharmaceutical.
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Decerry Donato is a reporter at dot.LA. Prior to that, she was an editorial fellow at the company. Decerry received her bachelor's degree in literary journalism from the University of California, Irvine. She continues to write stories to inform the community about issues or events that take place in the L.A. area. On the weekends, she can be found hiking in the Angeles National forest or sifting through racks at your local thrift store.
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