Sarah Friar

Sarah Friar (born 24 December 1972[1]) is a business executive from Northern Ireland who is CEO of American technology company Nextdoor.[2][3][4]

Sarah Friar
Born (1972-12-24) 24 December 1972
Sion Mills, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
NationalityAmerican, Irish
Alma mater
OccupationBusiness executive
Known forCEO of Nextdoor

Biography

She grew up in the town of Sion Mills in Northern Ireland.[5] She graduated from the University of Oxford and Stanford Graduate School of Business.[6] She was an analyst for McKinsey,[7] and at Goldman Sachs before becoming Chief Financial Officer at Square,[8][9] and then joining Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods, as the CEO.

She is on the board of Slack, Walmart and ConsenSys.[8][10][11]

References
  1. Nimmo, Jamie (23 January 2022). "Nextdoor chief Sarah Friar: I grew up with bombs, so I don't want to spread hate". The Times. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022.
  2. Gelles, David (13 August 2020). "A Lifetime of Seeing the Good and the Bad Between Neighbors". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  3. Rudegeair, Peter (27 February 2021). "Where Nextdoor's CEO Looks for Neighborly Advice". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  4. "Nextdoor's CEO wants to do for community what Jane Fonda did for fitness". Fortune. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  5. "Tyrone's Sarah Friar leads US Nextdoor into €3.6bn Spac deal". independent. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  6. "Sarah Friar". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  7. "Sarah Friar, the neighbour-in-chief steering Nextdoor to public markets". Financial Times. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  8. "Sarah Friar". Corporate - US. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  9. "Sarah Friar". Forbes. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  10. "Sarah Friar". Corporate - US. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  11. Hinchliffe, Emma; Mcglauflin, Paige (8 April 2022). "The Broadsheet: a daily newsletter for and about the world's most powerful women". Forbes. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022.


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