People Directory
Executives, founders, and investors shaping the online dating industry.
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Abhinav Gandhi
Founder & CEO
WedKnott
Able Joseph
Founder & CEO
Aisle
Adam Cohen Aslatei
CEO
Three Day Rule
Adam Medros
CEO
Spark Networks
Adam Mosseri
Head of Instagram
Meta
Head of Instagram at Meta, overseeing product strategy for Instagram, Threads, and related platforms.
Alex Feldman
Founder & CEO
Veggly
Alex Kulakov
Founder & CEO
Skadate
Amanda Bradford
Founder
Match Group
Ana Kirova
CEO
Feeld
Andrea McGinty
Founder
It's Just Lunch
Andrew Sever
Co-Founder & CEO
Sumsub
Andrey Andreev
Founder
Andrey Burin
Co-Founder
Flure
Ann Mather
Board Chair
Bumble
Bumble Board Chair; Netflix board member; former Pixar CFO
Ann McDaniel
Board Director
Match Group
Media executive; Match Group governance
Antoine Argouges
Co-Founder & CEO
Bumble
Anupam Mittal
Founder & CEO
Shaadi.com
Ariel Charytan
CEO
Match Group
Arum Kang
Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Social Discovery Group
Austin Kevitch
Founder & CEO
Lox Club
Balazs Alexa
Co-Founder & CEO
DateMySchool
Bernard Kim
Former CEO
Match Group
Blake Gallagher
CEO
Brandon Wade
Founder & CEO
Seeking
Brittany LeComte
Co-Founder
Noonlight
Bryan Johnson
Founder
Braintree
Celeste Amadon
Founder & CEO
Known
Chad Cohen
Board Director & Audit Committee Chair
Grindr
Former Zillow CFO; Grindr Audit Committee Chair
Charly Lester
Co-Founder
Bumble
Christian Henschel
Co-Founder
Adjust
Christina Aguilera
Christof Wittig
Co-Founder & CEO
Hornet
Cindy Lim
Founder & Head of Brand
Daniel Gendelman
Founder & CEO
Raya
Darrell Cavens
Board Director
Match Group
Zulily co-founder; technology entrepreneur
David Khalil
Co-Founder
Spark Networks
David Minns
Founder
David Simonarson
CEO & Co-Founder
Smitten
David Vermeulen
Co-Founder & CEO
Inner Circle
Dawoon Kang
Co-Founder
Social Discovery Group
CMB co-founder; turned down $30M Shark Tank deal
Deepak Kamra
General Partner
Canaan Partners
Derek Lee
CEO & Co-Founder
Boo
Dimitri Kloper
Co-Founder & CEO
Taimi
Dmitry Volkov
Co-Founder
Social Discovery Group
Dmytro Kovalenko
Co-Founder & CEO
Hily
Edward Chen
Founder & CEO
HUD
Eric Kim
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Goodwater Capital
Eric Silverberg
Co-Founder & CEO
Perry Street Software
Faye Iosotaluno
Former CEO
Match Group
Friedrich Schwandt
Co-Founder & CEO
Statista
Gareth Mandel
COO & Managing Director
ParshipMeet Group
Gary Swidler
Former President
Match Group
Geng Le
Founder & CEO
Newborn Town
Geoff Cook
Co-Founder, The Meet Group
ParshipMeet Group
George Arison
CEO
Grindr
George Kidd
Former CEO
ODDA
George Rawlings
Co-Founder & CEO
Thursday
Glenn Schiffman
Board Director
Match Group
Fanatics CFO; former IAC CFO
Grant Langston
Former CEO
ParshipMeet Group
Haleh Gianni
Founder
Ailo
Henning Rönneberg
Former CFO & COO
ParshipMeet Group
Grew Parship revenue 8x over 15 years
Hesam Hosseini
COO (departing June 2026)
Match Group
Longest-serving Match Group executive; led multiple brands
J. Michael Gearon Jr.
Lead Independent Director
Grindr
Grindr Lead Independent Director; cell tower industry pioneer
Jackie Jantos
Chief Executive Officer
Match Group
Jacob Eiting
Co-Founder & CEO
RevenueCat
Jacqueline Child
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Dateability
James Preece
Contributing Expert
Global Dating Insights
Jamie Johnston
CEO & Co-Founder
Mattr
Jasveer Singh
Co-Founder & CEO
Knot.dating
Jay Gould
Co-Founder & CEO
YourMove.ai
Jean Meyer
Co-Founder & CEO
Dating.com Group
Jessica Alderson
Co-Founder & CEO
So Syncd
Joe Shapira
Founder
Spark Networks
John North
Chief Financial Officer
Grindr
Grindr CFO; veteran public company finance leader
Jonathan Kirkland
Head of Marketing & Brand, BLK
Match Group
Joris van Doorninck
CEO & Co-Founder
Breeze
Julie Griggs
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Fourplay
Justin Davis
Co-Founder & CEO
Spectrum Labs
Justin McLeod
Founder & CEO
Overtone
Built Hinge into a $691M revenue business, departed Dec 2025 to launch Overtone
Karima Ben Abdelmalek
CEO & President
Hello Group
Kathryn Kosmides
Founder & CEO
Garbo
Kaushik Banerjee
Co-Founder & CEO
Flutrr
Kell Rakowski
Founder
9count
Kenneth Shaw
Co-Founder & CEO
Tawkify
Kevin Cook
Chief Financial Officer
Bumble
Bumble CFO; former Cloudera CFO
Kevin Guo
Co-Founder & CEO
Hive Moderation
Keyan Kazemian
Co-Founder & CEO
222
Khalil Jessa
Founder & CEO, Salaam Swipe
Kim Kaplan
Founder & CEO
Volar
KJ Dhaliwal
Founder & CEO
CERCA
Laura Matter
founder
Lidiane Jones
Former CEO
Bumble
Louis Tremolieres
Co-Founder, Fruitz (acquired by Bumble)
Bumble
Madonna
Malgosia Green
CEO
Match Group
Leading POF's repositioning under Match Group umbrella
Manuel Bronstein
Board Member, Match Group
Match Group
Ex-CPO of Roblox (2021-2025), scaled bookings from $2B to $6B+. VP Product at Google.
Marc Andreessen
Co-Founder & General Partner
Andreessen Horowitz
Marc Schachtel
Former CEO
ParshipMeet Group
Led ParshipMeet Group through major M&A integration period
Maria Agapova
CEO
Dating.com Group
Marina Anderson
Co-Founder
RAW
Mark Brooks
Founder & Editor
Online Personals Watch
Longest-running dating industry analyst, OPW founder
Martin Hu
Co-Founder & CEO
Ditto
Mary Richardson
CEO & Co-Founder
Bindr
Matthew Gain
Chief Executive Officer
ParshipMeet Group
Mayumi Sato
Founder
Ysos
Michael Cluzel
co-founder
Michael O'Sullivan
Founder & CEO
HubPeople
Founded HubPeople in 2009 in Dublin. AI dating software platform powering apps with a combined 100M+ users globally. Mark Brooks (Online Personals Watch) joined the board in February 2026.
Mike Pinsky
Co-Founder & COO
Boo
Mike Sherrill
co-founder
Murugavel Janakiraman
Founder & CEO
Matrimony.com
Nathan Richardson
Board Director
Grindr
Joffre Capital partner; early Grindr board member
Neil Shah
Chief Business Officer
Bumble
Leading Bumble's strategic transformation; former Slack COO
Nick Saris
Founder & CEO
DuoDate
Nicole Lee
Founder
Teaser AI
Oliver Yeh
Co-Founder & CEO
Sensor Tower
Patrick Collison
Co-Founder & CEO
Stripe
Pawan Gupta
Co-Founder & CEO
Betterhalf.ai
Phil Ruthven
Founder
IBISWorld
Pieter Reuse
CEO
BeeDee
Quincy Yang
CEO, US & Canada
Social Discovery Group
Leading CMB's US operations; finance-to-CEO trajectory
Raina Moskowitz
CEO, The Knot Worldwide
The Knot Worldwide
Ex-COO of Etsy. Appointed to Match Group board in 2026.
Ravi Mittal
Founder & CEO
QuackQuack
Ray Zage
Largest Shareholder
Grindr
Largest shareholder of Grindr, subject to 18-month standstill agreement.
Rick Song
Co-Founder & CEO
Persona
Rob Curtis
Former Managing Director
Gaydar
Former Gaydar MD; serial LGBTQ+ tech founder
Robert Prigge
CEO
Jumio
Robin Tombs
Co-Founder & CEO
Yoti
Robyn Exton
Founder & CEO
Match Group
Ross Williams
Founder & Former Chairman
Venntro Media Group
Founded Venntro Media Group (White Label Dating) in 2003, powering 5,000+ niche dating sites. Company entered administration August 2024 after 21 years; now runs Fortitude Foundation.
Ruby Rare
educator
Sachin J. Bavishi
Board Director
Bumble
Blackstone Private Equity; key Bumble investor representative
Sam Altman
OpenAI chief
Sean Edgett
Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
Match Group
Sergey Sigitov
CEO
Harmonizer
Shahzad Younas
Founder & CEO
Muzz
Shani Dhanda
Founder
Table for Six
Shervin Talieh
Co-Founder & CEO
PartnerHero
Shn Juay
CEO, International
Social Discovery Group
Leading CMB international expansion; Asian dating market expert
Sigurd Vedal
Founder & CEO
Simon Corbett
CEO
Global Dating Insights
Simon Newman
Chief Executive Officer
ODDA
Snehil Khanor
Co-Founder & CEO
TrulyMadly
Spencer Rascoff
CEO
Match Group
Former Zillow CEO, appointed Match Group CEO 2024
Stan Kos
Founder & CEO
YouMatch
Stefan Schulze
CFO, Dating North America
ParshipMeet Group
eharmony CFO; key finance leader in ParshipMeet portfolio
Steve Pammenter
Owner & Managing Director
Gaydar
Acquired Gaydar in 2022. Co-founder of Venntro Media Group.
Steve Schwarzman
Co-Founder & CEO
Blackstone
Steven Bailey
CFO
Match Group
Steven Bartlett
Investor / Dragon
hati
Founder of Social Chain, Dragons' Den investor, host of Diary of a CEO podcast.
Sunny Khurana
CEO
Talia Goldstein
Founder & CEO
Three Day Rule
Tamika Young
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Match Group
Tariq Shaukat
President
Bumble
Teddy Truchot
Co-Founder
Thomas J. McInerney
Chairman of the Board
Match Group
Match Group Chairman; former IAC CFO
Thomas Kuschel
co-founder
Tim Schiffers
Former CEO
ParshipMeet Group
Tim Sullivan
Board Director
Match Group
Former Match.com and Ancestry.com CEO
Timothy Sheehan
Co-Founder & CEO
Greenlight
Tobias Kormind
co-founder
Tom Doyal
Founder
WPDating
Tracey Breeden
Head of Safety & Social Advocacy
Match Group
Leads trust & safety across all Match Group brands
Tristan Pineiro
Chief Marketing Officer
Grindr
Grindr CMO; former Badoo and Netflix marketing leader
Valon Asani
Founder & CEO
Dua.com
Vidya Madhavan
Founder & CEO
Schmooze
Viktor Karpenko
Co-Founder & CEO
Qonversion
Violet Lim
CEO & Co-Founder
Lunch Actually
Vitaly Davydov
Co-Founder & CEO
Adapty
Vivek Sagi
Chief Product & Technology Officer
Bumble
Vlad Shmunis
Investor (not dating industry executive)
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Founder & CEO
Bumble
Will Wu
Former CTO
Match Group
Led Match Group's AI-first technology transformation
Yan Tang
Co-Founder & CEO
Hello Group
Yoel Roth
Trust and Safety lead
Match Group
Zaahirah Adam
Founder & CEO
hati
Founder and CEO of hati, a dating app focused on reducing ghosting culture.
Zac Katz
Chief Legal Officer & Head of Global Affairs
Grindr
White House legal background; leading Grindr regulatory strategy
Zachary Zelen
Co-Founder & CEO
Rizz
Zackary Bhafti
Co-Founder & CEO
Iris Dating
Zia Hayat
Founder & CEO
Callsign