Awards & Recognition
★Named 'Business Leader of the Week' by International Finance magazine
★Featured in Gold House directory for business leaders
★Y Combinator alumnus (Kash, S14 batch) - prestigious startup accelerator recognition
Notable Facts
→Former COO of Shopify (Canada's second-largest public company by market cap at $260B)
→Current CEO of Opendoor Technologies with potential $2.8B compensation package tied to stock performance
→Founded payment technology company Kash, which was acquired in 2017 after Y Combinator
→Previously worked at Meta/Facebook as Product Lead for Payments and Billing
→Guest lecturer at USC Marshall School of Business
→Iranian immigrant to Canada who moved at age 12
→Former political staffer for Conservative MP Jason Kenney
→Board member of True North Centre for Public Policy
→Based salary of $800,000 at Shopify before departure in 2024
→Married with four children, previously based in the Bahamas