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Sarah Friar
Born (1972-12-24) 24 December 1972 (age 51)
NationalityAmerican, Irish
Alma mater
OccupationBusiness executive
Known forCEO of Nextdoor

Sarah Friar is a business executive from Northern Ireland who is CEO of American technology company Nextdoor.[1][2][3]

Biography

She grew up in the town of Sion Mills in Northern Ireland.[4] She graduated from the University of Oxford and Stanford Graduate School of Business.[5] She was an analyst for McKinsey,[6] and at Goldman Sachs before becoming Chief Financial Officer at Square,[7][8] and then joining Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods, as the CEO.

She is on the board of Slack, Walmart and ConsenSys.[7][9][10]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Rudegeair, Peter (27 February 2021). "Where Nextdoor's CEO Looks for Neighborly Advice". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Nextdoor's CEO wants to do for community what Jane Fonda did for fitness". Fortune. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Tyrone's Sarah Friar leads US Nextdoor into €3.6bn Spac deal". independent. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Sarah Friar". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Sarah Friar, the neighbour-in-chief steering Nextdoor to public markets". www.ft.com. Retrieved 24 July 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ a b "Sarah Friar". Corporate - US. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Sarah Friar". Forbes. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Sarah Friar". Corporate - US. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  10. ^ 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.