Meet the GoFundMe Executive Team

Tim Cadogan

Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Board of Directors

Tim became CEO of GoFundMe in March 2020 and is focused on accelerating the company’s mission to help people help each other. Since its launch, GoFundMe has enabled people to raise over $40 billion for themselves and their loved ones, their communities, and the non-profit organizations they care about.

Tim brings a wide range of consumer and B2B experience, along with a long-standing commitment to service. Before joining GoFundMe, he was CEO of OpenX, which he built into one of the world’s largest ad exchanges. At Yahoo, he led the global advertising business and previously ran the consumer search division. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group in London.

He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics, an MPhil from Oxford University, and an MBA from Stanford University. He has served as a Search & Rescue volunteer since 2010.

Tim is a widely recognized voice in the media on giving and innovation, being recognized as a leading innovator in TIME’s 2025 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He has been profiled by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The Financial Times.

Arnie Katz

Chief Product and Technology Officer

Arnie leads product, design, data and technology at GoFundMe. Throughout his career, Arnie has relied on data-driven and customer-focused decision making, with an emphasis on modernizing platforms and increasing development velocity. In a prior role as CPTO of StubHub, he was part of the team that successfully sold the business out of eBay. At Walmart, Arnie served as Vice President of International eCommerce, where he was responsible for product, technology, and design, and led a global team developing eight eCommerce platforms. Before Walmart, Arnie was Co-Founder and President of Relay Foods, an online grocery company focused on healthy, responsibly sourced groceries. Arnie holds an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Technion in Israel.

Greg Mrva

Chief Financial Officer

Greg Mrva joined GoFundMe as Chief Financial Officer in 2022, responsible for leading GoFundMe’s finance, accounting, business operations and corporate development functions which includes Classy, a leading software platform for nonprofits. Greg has more than 25 years of experience leading finance, strategy, and operating teams for technology businesses and leading investment banking teams advising global technology companies. Prior to GoFundMe, he was the President of TPG Pace Tech Opportunities where he led the organization’s successful Business Combination with Nerdy Inc. (NYSE: NRDY), where he now serves on the Nerdy Board of Directors. Greg was previously the Chief Financial Officer of StubHub, where he sat on both the StubHub and eBay finance leadership teams leading financial planning, analysis and forecasting, controllership, financial operations and strategic planning. Greg has also held leadership positions at Morgan Stanley, Barclays and Yahoo! focusing on advising consumer internet companies on capital markets and strategic acquisition transactions.

Margaret Richardson

Chief Marketing and Corporate Affairs Officer

Margaret leads Global Marketing, Corporate Affairs and Customer Success at GoFundMe and leads a team responsible for public policy, communications, brand and creative, product marketing, customer success and community engagement. The mission of her team is to tell the extraordinary stories of GoFundMe and its community of customers around the world and to use these stories to help more people help each other. Margaret also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for GoFundMe.org, the strategic nonprofit partner to GoFundMe. Previously, Margaret led Trust and Safety and teams at Apple and Airbnb. Prior to leading Trust at Airbnb, she led the Airbnb Global Policy team as it scaled globally. Prior to joining the private sector, Margaret served as Chief of Staff and Counselor to Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. in the U.S. Department of Justice. She holds a BA from the University of Virginia, a JD from U.C. Berkeley Law School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.

Margaret has been featured on national radio shows including Marketplace, and has offered her expertise in national news outlets including Axios, the New York Times, NBC News, Axios and MarketWatch.

Stephanie Cunningham

SVP People

Stephanie oversees global people operations, recruiting, total rewards, learning and development and facilities. With over two decades of experience, she brings expertise and passion for building and scaling the full employee experience and workplace environment. Most recently she was at Polyvore, a technology platform, where she built and managed the employee experience and facilities as the company grew, eventually being acquired by Yahoo! Prior to this she managed human resources, facilities and culture at AdMob, a high growth start-up. After Admob’s acquisition by Google, she spent two years at Google supporting the Global Mobile Sales and Strategy team’s employee experience. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Notre Dame de Namur University, summa cum laude, and has completed Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Talent Leaders program.

Paul Tkachuk

SVP of Finance and Data Insights

Paul joined GoFundMe to help the company realize its mission of becoming the giving layer of the internet for individuals and charities. He is responsible for financial planning, operations management, data insights and reporting. Paul brings a breadth of business experience from fast-growth startups as well as from large public companies in the technology space. Most recently, he was at Facebook helping scale the finance operations functions throughout the IPO/hyper-growth phase. Prior to that, he led financial planning and operations functions at Unisfair (acquired by InterCall) and SideStep (merged with Kayak). In addition, he was at Covad, Deloitte, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Paul earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Accounting from the University of Southern California.

Kim Wilford

Chief Legal Officer

Kim joined GoFundMe in 2018 and leads the Company’s global legal, compliance, trust and safety, information security, and enterprise risk functions. She advises the executive team and board on corporate governance, regulatory matters and risk strategy.

In addition to her executive role, she served as Chairman of GoFundMe.org, an independent charity, from 2018 to 2024, and currently serves as Chairman of the GoFundMe Giving Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity and Donor-Advised Fund sponsor focused on expanding access to charitable giving.Previously, she was SVP, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary at WageWorks, Inc., where she led the legal function through its IPO and growth, overseeing M&A, regulatory compliance, investor relations, employment law, and cybersecurity. She also founded and led the company’s 60-member social responsibility committee.

Earlier, she held senior legal roles at KLA-Tencor, a Fortune 1000 semiconductor company, advising on governance, SEC compliance, and corporate transactions.

She has a B.A. in Political Science, with an International Relations Concentration, from U.C. Santa Barbara and a J.D. from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific and has been a member of the California Bar since 1994.

Board of Directors

Andy Ballester

Member of the Board of Directors

Andy is a co-founder of GoFundMe. He has a passion for creating products that drive change on a massive scale. Prior to GoFundMe, Andy served in senior product and technology management in previous startups. He has also volunteered as a Mentor with the Techstars Anywhere, EvoNexus, and Ad Astra incubators. He has helped multiple startups and their founders navigate product development and grow their businesses, since 2017. Andy currently shares a board seat with co-founder, Brad Damphousse.

Sharda Caro Del Castillo

Member of the Board of Directors

Sharda has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, payments, and digital commerce. Most recently, Sharda served as Chief Legal Officer at Affirm, where she co-led the company’s initial public offering (IPO). Prior to Affirm, Sharda served as the global Head of Airbnb’s Payments platform and General Counsel for Airbnb’s multiple payments entities, Payments Counsel and Head of Payments Platform at Square, Director of Product and Regulatory Counsel at PayPal, and held in-house counsel roles at Wells Fargo Bank and Silicon Valley Bank.

John Locke

Member of the Board of Directors

John Locke joined Accel in 2010 and helps lead the firm’s growth fund. Over the last decade, John has led or worked closely on Accel’s investments in Braintree/Venmo (acquired by PayPal), Crowdstrike (CRWD), Galileo, GoFundMe, Lightspeed (LSPD), Monzo, QMC Telecom, The Zebra, Tenable (TENB), WorldRemit, and Xero (XRO), as well as a number of other companies. John grew up in Ashland, Ohio and graduated from Princeton.

Woody Marshall

Member of the Board of Directors

Woody joined TCV in 2008 and has been working in the venture capital industry since 1995. He focuses on investments in the FinTech, internet, and digital media & entertainment industries. Woody has been recognized by Forbes on its Midas List as one of the industry’s top technology investors. Prior to joining TCV, Woody spent 12 years at Trident Capital, a venture capital and private equity firm, where he focused on the payments, internet, and mobile markets. Woody currently serves on the boards of directors of GoFundMe, Newsela, Payoneer, Retail Merchant Services, Sojern, Spotify, and Varsity Tutors. Woody earned his B.A. from Hamilton College and his M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He is also on the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College.

Depelsha McGruder

Member of the Board of Directors

Depelsha McGruder is the chief operating officer and treasurer for the Ford Foundation, where she oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Prior to joining the foundation in 2020, she served as COO of New York Public Radio (NYPR), overseeing internal operations and strategic planning for WNYC, WQXR, Gothamist.com, The Greene Space, and New Jersey Public Radio since 2018. Before her tenure at NYPR, Depelsha spent 17 years at Viacom in senior leadership positions at both MTV and BET Networks. She started her career as a broadcast journalist, working as an on-air reporter, anchor, and producer for two commercial television stations in Georgia and subsequently spent time as a strategy consultant at Accenture in the media, telecommunications and high technology practice.

Monique Meche

Member of the Board of Directors

Monique has over 25 years of experience in Corporate Affairs, Public Policy and Investment and has built and led teams around the world for some of the most innovative global technology companies. Most recently, Monique served as Twitter’s Vice President of Global Public Policy and Philanthropy. Prior to Twitter, Monique worked as head of Public Policy for Waymo and Netflix. While leading Amazon’s international public policy work from 2013-2017, Monique helped to grow the company’s commercial footprint in over 50 countries. Monique spent her early career at Intel, Intel Capital and Cisco in Europe and Asia. Monique also served as Chair of the Operating Board of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, which brings together the technology industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration and information-sharing to counter terrorist and violent extremist activity online.

James Slavet

Member of the Board of Directors

A Greylock partner since 2006, James currently sits on the board of companies including CreativeLive (creative education), GoFundMe (crowdfunding), Grand Rounds (health care navigation), Lyra Health (mental health care), Redfin (residential real estate) and Solv (convenient health care). James has partnered with company founders at their earliest stages and helped them scale to hundreds of millions of annual revenue. Prior to Greylock, James worked at Yahoo!, where he was a VP/GM in the Search and Marketplace business unit. Previously, he worked in product and operating roles in several early-stage consumer technology companies including Drugstore.com (acquired by Walgreens), Guru (acquired by Unicru) and Wired (acquired by Conde Nast). James is on the Board of Fast Forward, an accelerator for technology nonprofits. He has been named several times to the Forbes Midas list. He grew up in the Boston area and graduated from Brown University and Harvard Business School.

Scott Wagner

Member of the Board of Directors

Scott helps a series of technology businesses grow at scale in his role as advisor and/or investor. He served as Chief Executive Officer of GoDaddy from 2018 to 2019, after helping lead the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2015 in his role as President and Chief Operating Officer of GoDaddy for more than four years. Prior to GoDaddy, Scott spent 13 years as Operating Partner at private investment company KKR, where he served as Member and Head of KKR Capstone North America.

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