Selina Tobaccowala

Selina Tobaccowala is an American entrepreneur and software product executive. She is known for co-founding the company Evite.^[2][3]

Selina Tobaccowala
Born	1977 (age 47–48)[1] Saddle River, New Jersey[1]
Education	Stanford University
Occupation(s)	entrepreneur, software product executive
Years active	1997 - present
Known for	Co-founding Evite

Early life and education

Selina Tobaccowala attended Ramsey High School in New Jersey.^[1] When she was 14 years old, Tobaccowala spent 6 days volunteering at the Mother Teresa Asha daan, a shelter for the mentally and physically disabled that is affiliated with the Missionaries of Charity in India.^[1] Tobaccowala later attended Stanford University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in computer science.^[4]

Career

While in college, Tobaccowala and fellow Stanford student Al Leib founded Evite in 1997.^[4] She served as vice president of engineering at Evite until 2001, when Evite was acquired by Ticketmaster.^{[4][5][6][better source needed]} After managing the transition,^[4] she became senior vice president of product at Ticketmaster's Europe division.^{[6][7][better source needed]}

Tobaccowala joined SurveyMonkey in 2009 as vice president of product and engineering,^{[8][better source needed]} before becoming president and chief technology officer.^[2]

In 2016, Tobaccowala joined with Evite co-founder, Al Lieb, to start Gixo, a fitness app that streams live exercise classes to mobile devices.^{[9][better source needed]} Gixo was acquired in 2019 by Openfit, a subsidiary of the Beachbody Company.^[10] Tobaccowala has served as Openfit's chief digital officer.^[11]

Tobaccowala serves on the board of Redfin^[12] and Vital Voices.^{[13][better source needed]} She previously served on the board of Tugboat Yards and the advisory board of HubSpot.^{[8][14][better source needed]}