Executive profiles

Christine Flores is the General Counsel of Pinterest, where she is responsible for managing Pinterest’s legal, compliance and public policy teams. Previously, Christine was a Vice President of Legal at Google, where she led legal teams focused on M&A, securities and corporate governance, real estate, compliance and legal operations. Earlier in her career, she was an attorney at the law firms of Proskauer Rose and Skadden Arps, where she advised public and private companies on a wide range of transactional matters. Christine has a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Southern California.

Naveen Gavini is the SVP of Products at Pinterest, where he oversees all design and product efforts for both consumer and advertiser products. He is incredibly passionate about building great user experiences and creating environments that stimulate creativity and innovative thinking. Prior to this role Naveen led both the design and engineering functions and was one of Pinterest’s earliest engineers, joining in 2012. Since then, he played a critical role in scaling the engineering team, and was involved in almost every major new product initiative the company has developed for users.

Jon Kaplan is the Head of Global Partnerships / Chief Revenue Officer at Pinterest, where he oversees all aspects of the company's global sales and operations organization. His team works with both large and small clients, agencies and technology partners across the full range of Pinterest's advertising solutions. Prior to Pinterest, Jon spent 12 years at Google, most recently serving as Vice President, US Sales where he was responsible for search, display, YouTube and DoubleClick programmatic solutions across a range of industries. Earlier in his career, he was the first business hire at Economist.com, worked at the PGA of America and represented athletes at SFX Sports. Jon is on the board of NYC and Company, and is an Advisor to Metamorphic Ventures.

Jeremy King is Senior Vice President of Engineering at Pinterest, where he leads the company’s technical direction and oversees the entire Engineering team building deeply technical products, platforms and machine learning systems. Previously, he was the CTO of Walmart, where he led the digital transformation effort of the company including customer technology, merchant technology and supply chain technology that covered all Walmart U.S. stores and eCommerce. Prior to that, King was Executive Vice President of technology at LiveOps, and Vice President of engineering and software development at eBay. He holds a bachelor’s degree in information technology from San Jose State University, and is an advisory board member for the CTO Forum, an organization that brings together senior leaders across the technology industry to collaborate on key issues and accelerate innovation across organizations.

Waleed Ojeil is the Head of Monetization Engineering including Ads, Shopping and Measurement at Pinterest. Waleed has spent more than two decades in Silicon Valley working at the forefront of complex technologies including databases, search and ads. Upon graduating from his masters degree in Engineering at Stanford, Waleed began his career at Oracle, then spent more than fourteen years at Google, where he headed engineering teams in Search, including Crawl and Indexing -- where he built Union: a unified indexing infrastructure of all of Google’s data. More recently, Waleed led Engineering for analytics, attribution and measurement products, including Google Analytics, where he released a series of highly publicized and acclaimed changes, including the unification of Web and App Analytics -- doubling the business.

Tyi McCray joined Pinterest as our new Global Head of Inclusion & Diversity. Tyi is a scientist turned diversity and inclusion leader with more than twelve years experience working with scientists, engineers and business leaders. Prior to joining Pinterest, Tyi was at Airbnb where she was responsible for Diversity Strategy, and most recently was leading Government Affairs and Strategic Partnerships working with civil rights and disability advocacy groups. Before Airbnb, Tyi helped organizations in a range of industries develop tailored diversity strategies and engaging workshops.

Tyi also completed an 11-year tenure at Cornell University including serving as Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. Tyi has worked in Germany, across South America, and in South Africa, has a PhD in Plant Biology, and is certified by the Coaches Training Institute.

Andréa Mallard is Chief Marketing Officer at Pinterest where she oversees the global marketing, insights and creative teams responsible for telling the Pinterest story to Pinners, Creators and Businesses all over the world.

Most recently she was CMO at Gap Inc.’s apparel brand Athleta. She also served as CMO of Omada Health, a digital health company and spent nearly a decade with IDEO, where she led the global brand strategy practice as a Design Director in the US and Europe. She's also on the board of Unu Motors, an electric scooter company in Europe.

A published author and in-demand speaker at TEDx and conferences around the globe, she speaks and writes enthusiastically about brand strategy, entrepreneurialism, product innovation, and design thinking. Her work has been published in Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and more.

Andréa has lived and worked in multiple cities, including Paris, London, Toronto, San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Munich. She earned a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. Andréa is the recipient of the 2018 CMO Award for Creativity & Storytelling. She lives in Mill Valley with her three children. 

Todd Morgenfeld is the Chief Financial Officer at Pinterest and oversees global sales, marketing, communications, business and corporate development, finance, accounting, and community ops. Previously, he was VP of Finance at Twitter and served as an armor officer in the United States Army. Todd holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he graduated first in his class.

Evan Sharp has served as a Director of Pinterest since March 2019. Mr. Sharp is a Co-Founder of Pinterest and serves as our Chief Design & Creative Officer. Since joining Pinterest, he has overseen the creative, product and design teams. He was previously a product designer at Facebook from 2010 to 2011. Mr. Sharp studied Architecture at Columbia University and holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Chicago.

Benjamin Silbermann is chairman of the board of directors, and the Co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pinterest. Prior to co-founding Pinterest, Mr. Silbermann worked at Google from 2006 to 2008. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University.

Tse Li (Lily) Yang has served as the Chief Accounting Officer of Pinterest since June 2017. Prior to joining Pinterest, she served as the Vice President of Finance and Accounting at Medivation from 2015 to 2017 and was an employee of Gilead Sciences, where she held several roles including Vice President and Corporate Controller, from 2003 to 2015. Ms. Yang holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Managerial Information Systems from Boston University and is a certified public accountant.