Liderando el camino hacia un mejor internet

Co-founder & VP of Engineering

Jean started imagining a better internet with his Dashlane co-founders while studying at École Centrale Paris. He graduated not just with an advanced degree in Engineering, but also a budding tech startup that’s transformed into the international, venture-backed tech company Dashlane is today. Originally from Brittany, France, Jean has worked as a software architect at Dashlane Paris and has since moved to Dashlane New York, where he’s now VP of Engineering and focuses on building the Engineering team and culture.

Co-founder & VP of Engineering

Guillaume met his co-founders while finishing his master's degree in Engineering at Ecole Centrale Paris. With Alexis Fogel, Jean Guillou and Bernard Liautaud, he started the company few months after graduating. Guillaume wants to build a sustainable company based on strong human values and continuous improvement of management practices. Passionate about innovation and problem solving, he is working with the engineering team to try and innovate on core Dashlane technologies. His favorite topic is DashIQ™, the proprietary, semantic technology that powers all the online activities that Dashlane helps users within the web browser, thanks to machine learning. Guillaume also has a strong focus on security, and helps to ensure that Dashlane's zero-knowledge architecture, which protects Dashlane user data, is always up-to-date.

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Emmanuel Schalit is the CEO and a co-founder of Dashlane, the world’s leading password manager and online protection app that makes controlling digital identity simple—so life online is easier, safer, and more accessible.

At Dashlane, Emmanuel oversees a global team of more than 200 in New York, Paris, and Lisbon, dedicated to solving the digital identity crisis by giving people greater control over how they store and share data and transact online. Emmanuel has steered the business from its inception in 2011 into one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America while developing Dashlane into a solution that has earned more than 50,000 five-star reviews across the iOS and Android app stores.

Emmanuel brings to Dashlane more than 20 years of experience across the technology, cybersecurity, and media industries. As the CEO of CBS Outdoor in France, Emmanuel introduced technology-centric solutions to the company’s portfolio, opening the door to new content opportunities. Emmanuel was also the Founder and CEO of Flipside.com, a leader in online games, and held multiple executive positions at Vivendi Universal Games (today Activision Blizzard).

Chief Technology Officer

Frederic Rivain is a passionate CTO, who joined Dashlane after several years working in Gaming, Gambling and eCommerce. He is eager to learn, innovate and have fun with his team, so that Engineering can efficiently support the Dashlane business and offer the best service to Dashlane users. Outside of work, he always keeps very busy, being the proud father of 3 daughters. He needs his frequent dose of sport, as he likes to practice French boxing and trail running.

Chief Financial Officer

David is a seasoned executive of venture-backed startups with over 12 years leading finance, human resources, customer support, IT, legal affairs and business operations at a variety of ventures in the US and Europe. He was most recently CFO and SVP Business Operations at MakeSpace, a NYC-based company aiming to disrupt the physical self-storage market. Previously, David was CFO at Fab.com (acquired by PCH International), KickApps (acquired by Piksel) and BuildOnline (acquired by Sword Group). During his tenure in startups, David led his companies through a number of rounds of equity and debt funding, as well as both buy and sell side M&A activity. He started his career in strategic consulting with The Parthenon Group then moving to venture capital with Upfront Ventures (previously, Global Retail Partners).

David grew up in New York and graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania too many years ago to admit. He is originally from Belgium, which explains his French skills, love of food and dry sense of humour, which he complements with an affinity for Scotch and great wine. He lives in Long Island with his wife, children, and 3-year-old dog, Pablo, with whom he shares his passions for cooking, jazz, post-war contemporary art (especially the CoBrA movement) and scuba diving.

Chief People Officer

Ciara is passionate about ensuring people are happy and growing while they collaborate to achieve great things. She has over 15 years of People (Human Resources) experience. Prior to Dashlane, Ciara led a team of 12 for Compass, a quickly scaling tech start-up where the team built the full scope of tech HR practices for the company, from Recruiting to Performance Management. Previously, Ciara held international HR roles at GE for 6 years, and worked in HR at a healthcare start-up for 4 years. She is highly active in the New York Tech HR community.

Ciara grew up in New York, studied Psychology at the State University of New York at Geneseo and earned her MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She enjoys restaurants and taking walks in cities with her husband, following her virtual pets at Elephant Nature Park on facebook, exchanging thoughts and learning anything new.

Chief Product Officer

As Chief Product Officer, Derek Snyder is responsible for Dashlane’s product strategy. With over 15 years of experience at companies such as Microsoft, Skype, Getty Images, and TrackMaven – Derek has led teams of all shapes and sizes across B2B and B2C, with a variety of business models including e-commerce, SaaS, and direct-to-consumer apps. At Dashlane, Derek’s goal is to solve problems for customers by recruiting, developing, and empowering great people who learn by shipping and are committed to getting things done.

Chief Marketing Officer

Joy Howard has built iconic brands, scaled disruptive technology, and led two unicorns through the transformation required to become successful public companies. She joins Dashlane from Lyft, where she executed a flawless IPO, reinvigorated the brand’s commitment to social enterprise, and re-ignited its share growth. At Sonos, the partnerships she developed across big tech (Amazon), streaming services (Spotify), and design partners (IKEA) ensured the successful navigation of an industry transformed by voice AI and positioned them for sustainable, profitable growth.

Prior to joining Sonos, she led global marketing for Patagonia where she reinvigorated the brand, accelerated the growth of their direct business, and pioneered new forms of consumer engagement for which she was featured in Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business. She joined Patagonia from NIKE, where she was the global VP of Marketing for Converse All Star, the world’s largest and most iconic footwear franchise and beloved youth culture brand.

Her early career was spent in fast moving consumer goods, where she focused on global innovation and new category development within the Coca-Cola Company and Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products Company.

Prior to her career in marketing, Joy was a recording artist with Seely, the first American band signed to the 90’s Britpop powerhouse label Too Pure. She has an MBA from UNC-Chapel Hill and a Bachelor’s degree from Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia.