Board of Directors

Vlad Tenev is Chief Executive Officer and President of Robinhood Markets and Chair of Robinhood’s Board of Directors. In 2013, he co-founded Robinhood with Baiju Bhatt to democratize finance for all. From 2013 to November 2020, Vlad served alongside Baiju as Co-CEO and Co-President. Before Robinhood, he started two finance companies in New York City. Vlad holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University, an M.S. in Mathematics from UCLA, and FINRA Series 3, 7, and 63 licenses.

Baiju Bhatt is a Co-Founder of Robinhood and has served as a member of our board of directors since our founding. In 2013, Mr. Bhatt co-founded Robinhood with Mr. Tenev to democratize finance. From 2013 to November 2020, Mr. Bhatt served alongside Mr. Tenev as our co-CEO and co-President. From 2021 to March 2024, Mr. Bhatt served as Chief Creative Officer of Robinhood Markets, Inc. Before Robinhood, Mr. Bhatt started two finance companies in New York City. Mr. Bhatt holds a B.S. in Physics and an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University.

John Hegeman has been a member of our Board of Directors since March 2025. He currently serves as the Chief Revenue Officer at Meta, where he oversees the company's global monetization strategy. John joined Meta in 2007 as an engineering leader on the company's ads system, a role he held for seven years. In 2016, he transitioned to the Facebook app, where he spent five years leading key aspects of the core product experience, including Feed, Stories, notifications, and integrity efforts. In 2021, he returned to the ads business as the Product Group Lead, and in 2022, he was appointed Head of Monetization, driving innovation and growth across Meta's advertising ecosystem. Originally from Iowa, John moved to California to attend Stanford University, where he earned a degree in mathematics and economics. In addition to his role at Meta, he serves on the Board of Directors for Jio Platforms Limited and the Center for Election Science.

Paula Loop has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2021. Ms. Loop was most recently a Partner at PwC where she led PwC’s Governance Insights Center, a position from which she retired in June 2021. Ms. Loop has extensive experience in governance, technical accounting and SEC and financial reporting matters. Ms. Loop previously served as PwC’s New York Metro Regional Assurance Leader and prior to that as the U.S. and Global Talent Leader. She also previously served on PwC’s Board of Partners and on the firm’s Governance, Risk and Quality and Executive Compensation Committees. Ms. Loop also currently serves on the boards of directors of APi Group, Inc., a construction engineering company, and Fastly, Inc., a cloud computing services provider. Ms. Loop is a Certified Public Accountant. Ms. Loop holds a B.S. from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. Malka is the founder and managing partner of Ribbit Capital, a venture capital fund focused on investing in innovative companies in the financial services sector, a position he has held since May 2012. Mr. Malka has more than 25 years of experience building and investing in technology and financial services across the US, Europe, and Latin America. Mr. Malka currently serves on the board of directors of several private companies. In 1991, at the age of 18, Mr. Malka co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and U.S. markets, where he served as chief operating officer. In 1998, Mr. Malka developed the online brokerage Patagon.com, Inc., which became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet-based financial services portal and dealer until its acquisition in March 2000 by Banco Santander. In 2003, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population, which went on to become one of the largest private microfinance institutions in Brazil, until 2009 when it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. From 2008 to 2011, Mr. Malka co-founded and was co-chief executive officer of Bling Nation Ltd., a mobile payments company, which later evolved into Lemon Inc., a mobile wallet company that was acquired in 2013. Mr. Malka graduated with a degree in economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela in 1996.

Christopher Payne has served as a member of our Board of Directors since December 2024. He previously served as President and Chief Operating Officer of DoorDash from 2016 to 2023, where he oversaw the company's rapid expansion and operational growth. With more than three decades of experience, Mr. Payne has extensive expertise in consumer and retail software, and mobile and internet platforms, along with a deep understanding of both digital ecosystems. Before DoorDash, he was CEO of Tinder and Senior Vice President at eBay, a role he assumed after eBay acquired his company, Positronic, in 2008. Earlier in Mr. Payne's career, he held leadership positions at Microsoft and Amazon, contributing to product innovation and platform development. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Gogo Inc, a leading in-flight internet service provider and Hims & Hers Health, Inc. Mr. Payne holds a B.A. in U.S. History from Dartmouth College.

Jonathan Rubinstein has served as lead independent director of our board of directors since May 2021. Mr. Rubinstein is a Senior Advisor at PDT Partners. He has held several prominent positions across technology and financial services over the course of his career. Mr. Rubinstein was a Senior Vice President and also General Manager of the iPod Division at Apple; Co-CEO at Bridgewater Associates from 2016 to 2017; Senior Vice President, Product Innovation, for the Personal Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard; and the Chairman and CEO of Palm. Mr. Rubinstein is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He currently serves as a director on the board of directors of Amazon (where he previously served as lead independent director) and previously served as a director on the board of directors of Qualcomm. Mr. Rubinstein holds an M.Eng. and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Cornell University. Mr. Rubinstein also holds an M.S. in computer science from Colorado State University.

Susan Segal was appointed as President and CEO of Americas Society and Council of the Americas (“AS/COA”) in 2003. Prior to joining AS/COA, Ms. Segal founded an investment advisory firm focused on Latin America and the U.S. Hispanic market. She was also a partner and head of the Latin American Group at JPMorgan Partners/Chase Capital Partners, where she pioneered early-stage venture capital investing in Latin America. She currently serves on the boards of Vista Energy, S.A.B. de C.V. and MercadoLibre, Inc. Ms.Segal received a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College.

Dara Treseder has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2021. Ms. Treseder is Chief Marketing Officer at Autodesk, a provider of 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software and services, a position she has held since October 2022. From 2020 to 2022, she served as Senior Vice President, Head of Global Marketing & Communications at Peloton, an interactive fitness platform. From 2018 to 2020, she served as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Carbon, a 3D printing technology company. Previously, Ms. Treseder was Chief Marketing Officer at GE Business Innovations and GE Ventures from 2017 to 2018, and held various positions at Apple from 2013 to 2017, most recently as Global Head of Demand Generation, Filemaker. She also served in a FINRA-registered position at Goldman Sachs & Co., an investment banking firm, from 2010 to 2012. Ms. Treseder currently serves on the board of directors of the Public Health Institute, a non-profit organization, which she joined in 2017, and previously served on the board of directors of PG&E Corporation, a large natural gas and electric utility, from 2020 to 2021. Ms. Treseder holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University, and an A.B. from Harvard University.

Robert Zoellick has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2021. Mr. Zoellick is a Senior Fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University and Senior Counselor at the Brunswick Group. He served in various posts in the public sector, including President of the World Bank from 2007 to 2012, U.S. Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005, Deputy Secretary of State from 2005 to 2006, Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, and Deputy Chief of Staff at the White House from 1992 to 1993. Mr. Zoellick has also chaired the board at AllianceBernstein and held senior posts at Goldman Sachs, Fannie Mae and the U.S. Naval Academy. He serves on the board of Temasek, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. Mr. Zoellick also chairs the International Advisory Council of Standard Chartered Bank and serves on the Strategic Council of Swiss Re. He is a member of the boards of the Carnegie Endowment, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. Mr. Zoellick holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.P.P. from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.