Blazing the path

We??™re 800+ people focused on bringing the globe together through play. Welcome to Roblox.

David Baszucki

Founder + Ceo

David Baszucki may be the founder and CEO of Roblox. Their eyesight would be to build a platform that permits provided experiences among huge amounts of users.

David had been known as certainly one of Goldman Sachs??™ 100 most entrepreneurs that are intriguing 2017 and 2018. He had been additionally detailed by Comparably among the CEOs that are top variety in 2018 and 2019. He could be frequently showcased when you look at the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Forbes, company Insider, VentureBeat, as well as other influential magazines.

Just before Roblox, David founded Knowledge Revolution, which became the amount frontrunner in academic physics and design simulation software that is mechanical. The business ended up being obtained by MSC computer software in 1998 where he served as Vice President and General Manager.

Craig Donato

Chief Company Officer

Craig Donato functions as Chief company Officer for Roblox. He leads the development of our platform on an international scale,|scale that is global} driving brand name understanding and engagement, ensuring the security and popularity of our player and designer communities, and developing a wholesome ecosystem for creators to construct immersive experiences. He oversees the ongoing company??™s brand name partnerships, care and safety, and designer relations teams.

Ahead of Roblox, Craig led company development and monetization at Nextdoor, a social system for communities. He had been additionally the CEO and co-founder of Oodle, a community that is local that ended up being acquired by QVC in 2012.

Craig graduated with an MBA from Stanford University Graduate class of company and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Mike Guthrie

Chief Financial Officer

Mike Guthrie functions as Chief Financial Officer at Roblox. He’s scaling our company on an international degree,|level that is global} determining our general monetary strategy; driving suffered, lucrative development; and securing start up business possibilities. Mike leads Roblox??™s finance, accounting, company & business development functions.

Ahead of Roblox that is joining ended up being the principle Financial Officer of TrueCar, Inc. where he led the organization through multiple rounds of personal funding and spearheaded its initial offering that is public 2014. Formerly, he was a equity that is private at TPG and Garnett and Helfrich Capital where he centered on development equity investing and center market buyouts.

Mike graduated with an MBA from Stanford University Graduate class of company and a BA in Economics through the University of Virginia.

Matt Kaufman

Chief Systems Officer

Mr. Kaufman ended up being promoted to Chief Systems Officer, effective February 2021. Formerly, he served as our VP of Product & Product Operations from September 2017 to February 2021.

Ahead of joining us, Mr. Kaufman served as President, and later mind of Operations, for Crunchbase, a platform for finding company information on personal and companies that are public between January 2013 to August 2017. Between March 2008 and January 2013, he served as SVP of Product developing at Oodle, Inc., an internet platform for purchasers and vendors that has been obtained by QVC in February 2015. A website that organizes and distributes classifieds and listings of various types between January 2006 and December 2007, he served as co-founder at Edgeio.

Mr. Kaufman holds a BS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from UC Davis and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Barbara Messing

Chief Advertising & People Experience Officer

As Chief advertising & People Experience Officer, Barbara Messing leads all aspects of advertising, communications, and worker experience operations at Roblox. This woman is in charge of overseeing the development of the company??™s worldwide brand name technique to drive innovation and continued growth and establish Roblox among the many beloved brands on the planet among young ones and teenagers.

Just before Roblox, Barbara invested the past 2 full decades serving in many different leadership functions, including Senior Vice President and Chief advertising Officer at Walmart U.S. and TripAdvisor. She currently acts from the Board of Directors for Overstock.com and Diamond Resorts, Inc.

Barbara holds a JD from Stanford Law class and a BA from Northwestern University.

Mark Reinstra

As General Counsel for Roblox, Mark Reinstra leads a group that permits and supports Roblox??™s worldwide development including its worldwide expansion, privacy and information safety, and care and security efforts.

Just before Roblox that is joining had been somebody at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he practiced business and securities law for 25 years. Mark started dealing with Roblox as the counsel that is outside in. Mark presently shows brand new Venture Finance at UC Berkeley School of Law. He additionally taught at Stanford Law class and lectured at the Haas Business School during the University of Ca, Berkeley in addition to Stanford??™s Graduate class of company.

Mark received their JD from Stanford Law class and a BS in Industrial Engineering through the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Daniel Sturman

Chief Tech Officer

As Chief tech Officer at Roblox, Dan Sturman heads up a team that is world-class of leaders inside our App, Game motor, Developer, Global, Economy, protection, and Platform Engineering teams.

Just before joining Roblox, Dan served as Vice President of Engineering & help at Cloudera, where he led a group of 600+ engineers and oversaw all pc software development and support. He formerly served as Vice President of Engineering at Bing, where he led the growth of cloud services and products including Bing Compute motor, Bing App motor, and Kubernetes, along with the cluster that is internal systems that handle Google??™s fleet of servers.

Dan holds a Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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