Emily C. White is an American technology executive and

president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

of Anthos Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm focused on consumer-oriented companies. She is the former

chief operating officer A chief operating officer or chief operations officer, also called a COO, is one of the highest-ranking executive positions in an organization, composing part of the "C-suite". The COO is usually the second-in-command at the firm, especially if t ...

of Snapchat Inc and former director of business operations at

Instagram Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can ...

. White served as the COO of Snapchat from 2013 to 2015, when she stepped down to work on other projects. In 2016, White founded Mave, a personal concierge startup. She has served as a board member of

Hyperloop One Hyperloop One (known from October 2017 to November 2022 as Virgin Hyperloop or Virgin Hyperloop One) is an American transportation technology company that works to commercialize the high-speed travel concept called the Hyperloop, a variant of t ...

, a transportation technology company.

Career

White obtained her bachelor's degree at

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

in 2000. White spent the first nine years of her career at

Google Inc Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. I ...

. She left Google in late 2010 to join

Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...

. In 2013, she became the director of business operations at Instagram, which was acquired by

the previous year. Her boardroom appointments have included

Lululemon lululemon athletica inc. (; styled in all lowercase) is a Canadian multinational athletic apparel retailer headquartered in British Columbia and incorporated in Delaware, United States. It was founded in 1998 as a retailer of yoga pants and ot ...

Athletica Inc. and the

National Center for Women & Information Technology The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works to increase the meaningful participation of girls and women in computing. NCWIT was founded in 2004 by Lucinda (Lucy) Sanders, Dr. T ...

. In September 2015, Emily joined

as a board observer. In 2016, White created a personal concierge startup called Mave. As of March 2016, the company was only an invite-only beta.

Snapchat

White was hired by Snapchat Inc. as a business

strategist A strategist is a person with responsibility for the formulation and implementation of a strategy. Strategy generally involves setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the actions. A strategy ...

and advisor. She served as the COO from 2013 until March 2015. In 2014, she oversaw the rollout of Snapchat’s first revenue stream, “Brand Story,” ads. A month later, Snapchat debuted a stream of posts from the

American Music Awards The American Music Awards (AMAs) is an annual American music awards show, generally held in the fall, created by Dick Clark in 1973 for ABC when the network's contract to air the Grammy Awards expired, and currently produced by Dick Clark Produc ...

, sponsored by

Samsung The Samsung Group (or simply Samsung) ( ko, 삼성 ) is a South Korean multinational manufacturing conglomerate headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea. It comprises numerous affiliated businesses, most of them united under the ...

. In 2015, Snapchat acquired a $200 million investment from Alibaba Group and White stepped down as COO. According to sources, the move was precipitated with the realization by co-founder and CEO

Evan Spiegel Evan Thomas Spiegel (born June 4, 1990) is an American businessman, co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Spiegel was the youngest billionaire in the world in 2015. Early life and education Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California, to lawyers J ...

that he wanted to be a more hands-on and operational CEO.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American women computer scientists American computer scientists American chief operating officers Vanderbilt University alumni Women corporate executives American women business executives Facebook employees Google employees American corporate directors Women corporate directors Castilleja School alumni {{US-business-bio-stub