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Match Group has appointed Sean Edgett as its chief legal officer & secretary [Photo: Sean Edgett]
Match Adds Ex-Twitter Exec as its Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
by Lance Murray | Sep 13, 2024
Previously, Sean Edgett was SVP and general counsel of Twitter (now X), where he spent over a decade in various executive legal roles and is currently the chief legal officer & secretary of UPSIDE Foods, a private food technology company.
by Lance Murray |
Mar 29, 2024
Veteran executives Laura Jones and Spencer Rascoff have been appointed to the Match Group’s board of directors, effective immediately.
Match Group Chairman Tom McInerney expressed enthusiasm about the new board members, highlighting the unique contributions they’re poised to bring....
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by David Seeley |
Jan 27, 2023
Match Group CEO Bernard Kim, who took the helm of the online dating giant last year, has named a new executive leadership team and outlined an organizational structure to carry the company into the future. The executive moves include hiring former Snap Inc. VP of product Will Wu as CTO.
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by David Seeley |
Jan 10, 2023
The course of true love never did run smooth. But lately it's been running downright dangerous—with dating scams emptying victims' bank accounts and leaving would-be sweethearts broken both emotionally and financially. Today Dallas-based Match Group tried to do something about it by launching a global public awareness campaign to help daters and consumers "date safer" and "stay protected against the different forms of online fraud."
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Shar Dubey (left) and Mandy Ginsberg [FIle photos courtesy of Match Group]
2 Former Match Group CEOs Join Advent International as Operating Partners
by Lance Murray | Oct 20, 2022
Shar Dubey and Mandy Ginsberg will play key roles in further building out Advent’s consumer technology practice and work collaboratively with the firm’s consumer and technology investment teams and the management teams of its portfolio companies.
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by Kevin Cummings |
May 3, 2022
Match Group CEO Shar Dubey is leaving her post May 31, but will stay on with the company as a board director and advisor. The move will allow more time for what she calls "the give back" chapter of her life.
Incoming CEO Bernard Kim currently serves as the president of mobile game maker Zynga, where he is credited with boosting Zynga’s market cap since 2016, leading to Zynga’s pending $12.7 billion acquisition by Take-Two Interactive.
Incoming CEO Bernard Kim currently serves as the president of mobile game maker Zynga, where he is credited with boosting Zynga’s market cap since 2016, leading to Zynga’s pending $12.7 billion acquisition by Take-Two Interactive.
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by Alex Edwards |
Aug 25, 2021
The newly launched cybersecurity firm is taking a re-engineered approach to incident response and recovery. With big-name backers, BreachQuest is developing a proprietary platform to solve security issues quicker and at a lower cost.
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by Bella Pinera |
Mar 15, 2021
Match Group has invested in Garbo, a first-of-its-kind background check platform, to empower people to make more informed decisions and choices about their safety. Garbo's platform will be integrated with Tinder later this year in an effort to aid adversely impacted women and marginalized communities.
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Tracey Breeden [Photo: via Twitter]
Match Group Names Former Uber Exec to Its New Role: Head of Safety And Social Advocacy
by Alex Edwards | Oct 1, 2020
Tracey Breeden joins Match Group after serving as the head of women's safety and gender-based violence operations at Uber. She brings a breadth of knowledge to the new role—Breeden has worked with more than 200 women's safety groups and advocacy organizations.
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by Riley Farrell |
Jul 30, 2020
Click connects clients who hope to upgrade their profiles with trained photographers, helping North Texans make good first impressions on dating apps.
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by Lance Murray |
Jan 28, 2020
Match Group also named Gary Swidler as chief operating officer, in addition to his role as chief financial officer.
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by Maddie Preston |
Jan 23, 2020
Match Group, the parent company of Match, Tinder, OKCupid, Hinge and several other dating apps, is investing and partnering with Noonlight to offer online daters tools to feel and stay safe during dates.
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Match Group Announces Plans to Launch New ‘Tinder Lite’ App
by India Edwards | Jun 13, 2019
Dallas-headquartered Match Group released plans to launch a new Lite version of the popular dating app Tinder. The app will be better suited for smaller areas with limited access to data and internet.
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by Lance Murray |
Feb 2, 2018
The new CEO comes to OkCupid from Audible, an Amazon company, where he was senior vice president.
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by Lance Murray |
Nov 10, 2017
Tinder added 476,000 paying members in the last quarter, and 2.5 million customers now pay for Tinder.
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by Nicholas Sakelaris |
May 4, 2017
Michelle Kennedy created the Tinder-like app specifically for mothers to connect with other mothers nearby.
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