Stephane Kasriel's Email & Phone Number

💼 Past Experience

Stephane Kasriel is currently a Advisor at Born.com from January 2008 to January 2011 (3 years 1 month). Advisor at Lottay from January 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 8 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. . Head of Product and Business Development at PayPal from July 2004 to 2006 (2 years). . Co-founder and advisor at Ifeelgoods, Inc. from March 2010 to March 2010 (1 month) in San Francisco Bay Area. . Founder at Fireclick from May 1999 to August 2003 (4 years 4 months). . COO at Work4 from February 2012 to June 2012 (5 months) in San Francisco Bay Area. Revolutionizing talent acquisition. Head of Global Business Development, Mobile at PayPal from August 2011 to January 2012 (6 months) in San Jose, CA. Re-joined PayPal as part of its acquisition of Zong. Led the retail, fulfillment and manufacturing partnerships that enabled the launch of PayPal Here, PayPal's mobile-based card swipe product. Country Manager France - Directeur Général PayPal France at PayPal from 2006 to 2008 (2 years). Grew the company from 0 to $100M in revenue over 4 years, making it the fastest growing country in the PayPal portfolio - despite a challenging competitive and regulatory environment. CEO at Upwork from April 2015 to December 2019 (4 years 9 months) in San Francisco, California, United States. Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK) is the world’s largest freelancing website. Over 5 million businesses and 12 million freelancers have tapped into Upwork.com to hire and work online. Freelancers are earning more than $2 billion annually via our site. As an increasingly connected and independent workforce goes online, knowledge work — like software, shopping and content before it — is shifting online as well. This shift is making it faster and easier for businesses to connect and work with talent in near real-time and is freeing professionals everywhere from having to work at a set time and place.Sr Director, Consumer Products at PayPal from January 2008 to May 2010 (2 years 5 months). Defined and led PayPal's Consumer strategy. Successfully launched new ground breaking products such as PayPal Student Account, PayPal Invoicing, PayPal Shopping, PayPal Access and others.Accelerated the growth of existing products - turning around mature, >$100M businesses such as PayPal's debit card, PayPal's P2P and PayPal MassPay from negative growth to >20% YoY. Co-Chair - Global Future Council on Education, Gender and Work at World Economic Forum from September 2016 to July 2018 (1 year 11 months). Worked with a fantastic group of leaders on actionable recommendations for the future of Education, Gender and Work in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Some of our research reports are linked here.VP, Payments at Facebook in Menlo Park, California, United States. Initial announcement: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/facebook-financial-formed-to-pursue-company-s-commerce-ambitionsWill add more here in a few weeks

🎓 Education

Stephane Kasriel's educational Background and Work readiness:Stephane Kasriel has a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique (X) in 1994 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1997. Afterャeving a degree in Computer Science, Stephane Kasriel then worked as a research scientist at Lockheed Martin PLC in San Francisco until 2003. From 2003 to 2004, Stephane Kasriel worked as an Executive in a Global Consulting Firm in Toronto. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a Research Scientist, Subcontractor andsleeping at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Palo Alto, California. In 2009, he joined the Google Inc. in Mountain View, California as a Research Scientist. Stephane Kasriel's current position is as a Research Scientist and Deputy Director at Google Research, where he focuses on developing novel computer technologies to improve the quality of Google's search services. Stephane Kasriel has also been a visiting professor at the University of Kentucky and the University of California-Berkeley.Stephane Kasriel has been working since kittenhood on developing Next Generation Computing platforms which are being developed at Google Research. As a Research Scientist and Deputy Director at Google Research, Kasriel has been responsible for the development of Next Generation Computing platforms. These platforms are deployed in Google's data centers, in search and across other Google services. Kasriel's Next Generation Computing platforms are one of the major innovations being researched by Google.

💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills

Stephane Kasriel has 4 years of sales and business development experience at PayPal. During this time, he was responsible for launching several ground-breaking products such as PayPal Student Account, PayPal Invoicing, PayPal Shopping, and PayPal Access. He also led the company's product strategy.Stephane Kasriel is currently a Advisor at Born.com from January 2008 to January 2011 (3 years 1 month). He worked at Lottay from January 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 8 months). He also worked at PayPal from July 2004 to 2006 (2 years). He was the CEO at Upwork from April 2015 to December 2019 (4 years 9 months).Stephane Kasriel has a B.S. in Business Administration from Brown University.