Selina Tobaccowala
Selina Tobaccowala is an entrepreneur and software product executive. She cofounded Evite and led teams at Ticketmaster and SurveyMonkey. She then co-founded Gixo, a company that was acquired by Openfit / Beachbody in 2019, and serves on the board of Redfin.Career
Selina Tobaccowala attended Stanford University in Stanford, California and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science. While in college, she and fellow Stanford student Al Leib founded Evite in 1997. She served as vice president of engineering at Evite until 2001, when Evite was acquired by Ticketmaster. After managing the transition, she became senior vice president of product at Ticketmaster's Europe division.
Tobaccowala joined SurveyMonkey in 2009 as vice president of product and engineering, before becoming president and chief technology officer.
In 2016, Tobaccowala joined with her Evite co-founder, Al Lieb, to start Gixo, a fitness app that streams live exercise classes to mobile devices. Gixo was acquired by Openfit / Beachbody in 2019 .
She has served on the board of Tugboat Yards. She currently serves on the board of Redfin, and on the advisory board to HubSpot.
