Shopify

Tobi Lütke , ,

Tobias Lütke co-founded Shopify in September 2004, and has served as a member of our board of directors since that time. Mr. Lütke has served as our Chief Executive Officer since April 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Lütke acted as our Chief Technology Officer between September 2004 and April 2008. Mr. Lütke worked on the core team of the Ruby on Rails framework and has created many popular open source libraries such as Active Merchant. Mr. Lütke currently serves on the board of Coinbase (Nasdaq).

Robert Ashe , ,

Robert Ashe has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2014 and as our Lead Independent Director since May 2015. Over 24 years, Mr. Ashe held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility at Cognos Incorporated, a business intelligence and performance management software company.

Mr. Ashe ultimately served as Chief Executive Officer of Cognos Incorporated from 2005 to 2008 before the company was acquired by IBM.

Mr. Ashe remained with IBM as a general manager of business analytics from 2008 to 2012. Mr. Ashe currently serves on the board of directors of MSCI Inc. (NYSE).

Mr. Ashe holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.

Gail Goodman , ,

Gail Goodman has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2016. Ms. Goodman previously served as the Chief Product Officer at Pepperlane from March, 2019 to March, 2021. Prior to Pepperlane, Ms. Goodman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Constant Contact, a software company providing small businesses with online marketing tools to grow their businesses, for over 16 years. Over that time Ms. Goodman served as a director and chairwoman of the board and led Constant Contact through its initial public offering and for eight years as a publicly traded company, until its acquisition by Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ) in February 2016. Ms. Goodman currently serves on the board of directors of a number of private companies and non-profits.

Ms. Goodman holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Colleen Johnston , ,

Ms. Johnston has served as a member of our board of directors since January 2019. Ms. Johnston is the former Chief Financial Officer of Toronto-Dominion Bank. Prior to her retirement in 2018 Colleen spent 14 years at TD, ten of which she spent as Group Head, Finance, Sourcing, Corporate Communications and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to TD, Ms. Johnston held senior leadership roles at Scotiabank over the course of 15 years, including as CFO of Scotia Capital.

Ms. Johnston currently serves on the board of directors of Q4 (TSX), as well as a number of private companies and non-profits, including her role as Chair of the Unity Health Toronto board of directors.

Ms. Johnston holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from York University’s Schulich School of Business and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.

Jeremy Levine , ,

Jeremy Levine has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2011. Since January 2007, Mr. Levine has been a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, a venture capital firm he joined in May 2001. Mr. Levine currently serves on the board of directors of Pinterest (NYSE) and on the boards of a number of privately held companies.

Mr. Levine holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Duke University.

Fidji Simo , ,

Fidji Simo has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2021. Ms. Simo is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Instacart. Prior to joining Instacart, Fidji held a variety of positions over 10 years with increasing responsibility at Meta, ultimately serving as Vice President and Head of the Facebook app.

Ms. Simo began her career as a strategy manager at eBay.

Fidji also serves as co-founder of Metrodora and President of the Metrodora Foundation, and is the co-founder of Women in Product, a non-profit organization.

Fidji holds a Master of Management from HEC Paris.

Toby Shannan , ,

Toby Shannan has served as a member of our board of directors since January, 2023. Mr. Shannan is the former Chief Operating Officer of Shopify and spent 12 years leading Shopify’s global operations as well as its customer support and service strategy. Prior to joining Shopify, Mr. Shannan also held the role of Vice President, Sales and Marketing, at DNA Genotek. Mr. Shannan is a board member and trustee at the Santa Fe Institute.

Bret Taylor , ,

Bret Taylor is the former Co-Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce, a cloud-based customer relationship management company, where he served in that role and as Vice Chair of the company's board of directors from November 2021 to January 2023. Prior to November 2021, Mr. Taylor held a number of leadership roles at Salesforce, including President and Chief Operating Officer from December 2019 to November 2021, President and Chief Product Officer from November 2017 to December 2019, and President, Quip from August 2016 to November 2017.

Mr. Taylor joined Salesforce through the acquisition of Quip, a business collaboration software company, where he was cofounder and served as Chief Executive Officer from 2012 to 2016. Prior to launching Quip, he served as Chief Technology Officer of Facebook from 2009 to 2012 and Chief Executive Officer of FriendFeed from 2007 to 2009. Prior to 2007, Mr. Taylor served as Group Product Manager at Google, where he co-created Google Maps and the Google Maps API. Mr. Taylor has previously served as a director of Salesforce (NYSE), Axon Enterprise (NASDAQ) and Twitter.

Mr. Taylor holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is currently in the process of launching a private company in the artificial intelligence space.

Shareholders may contact the Board about issues or questions about Shopify by sending a letter to:

Shopify Inc.
151 O’Connor Street, Ground floor
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2L8
Canada
Attn: Board of Directors

If a shareholder wishes to contact the independent members of the Board, he or she should address such communication to the attention of the Lead Independent Director at the address above.