Read previewNew Bumble CEO Lidiane Jones has hired at least three high-level employees from Slack, where she had been chief executive for about a year until joining the dating app company in January.
chief product officer Ali Rayl, chief people officer David Ard, and vice president of global communications Gabrielle Ferree.
Rayl, who until recently served as Slack's senior vice president of product, had been at the workplace messaging app for over 11 years.
Ard had served as its senior vice president of employee success, while Ferree was its senior communications director.
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Persons:
—, Lidiane Jones, Bumble, Jones, Ali Rayl, David Ard, Gabrielle Ferree, Ard, Ferree, Slack, Jones's, Stewart Butterfield, Slack's, Tamar Yehoshua, Jonathan Prince, Butterfield, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Denise Dresser, Cal Henderson, Fortune, Parker Harris, Salesforce, MuleSoft, Antoine Leblond, Selby Drummond, Ellen Thomas
Organizations:
Service, Slack, Business, Elliott Management, Sonos, Microsoft
Locations:
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