Bernadette is an entrepreneurial & driven CEO with a strong track record of growing and scaling global businesses and is focused on doing that at Algolia. Prior to Algolia, she served as CEO at Alfresco where she led the open source content services provider in redefining its go-to-market strategy, launching strategic new products and building a world-class team to scale the company’s growth. Bernadette has also held leadership positions at SDL PLC., OpenText, Metastorm, CA Technologies, InterQuad, NCR, and the United Nations in Geneva. Bernadette received her BA in Business Studies and Marketing from the University of Hertfordshire.

Julien is a search veteran who’s been working in the search landscape for over 10 years, with work experience in Thales and Exalead. He participated in the design of three different search engines prior to co-founding Algolia with Nicolas and is the author of the different algorithms responsible for Algolia’s super fast performance. Julien is also passionate about imparting knowledge and spent some time teaching at his Alma Mater, EPITA. He holds an engineering degree from the same institution.

As the Chief Revenue Officer of Algolia, Michelle is responsible for driving revenue at scale through worldwide alignment across sales, marketing, revenue management, and business development. She most recently served as SVP of Sales for the Americas at Dropbox, where she led direct sales, marketing, channel and customer success to grow its business by 10X in under four years. Prior to Dropbox, Adams was Global Head of Sales for IBM Watson, taking it from inception to nearly half a billion dollars in sales.

Carlton Baab is Algolia’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer. He plays a key role in managing the financial strategy, global finance organization, procurement, and mergers/ acquisitions and integrations. He also ensures that Algolia has the right systems in place to execute its business strategy.Prior to joining Algolia, Baab shepherded Lithium, CKS Group and Alfresco through periods of explosive growth in revenue and customer acquisition as well as managed the IPO of CKS Group, with Goldman Sachs as the lead underwriter. A Harvard Business School and University of Southern California graduate, Baab brings significant M&A experience having managed the sale of five companies and seven acquisitions.

Adanech is our General Counsel/Registered In-House Counsel in CA. Adanech leverages her vast experience in negotiating complex commercial transactions, securities laws compliance, corporate governance, international expansion, protection of IP rights and HR matters to lead Algolia’s legal and compliance operations. Before Algolia, Adanech served as the Assistant General Counsel of Fastly, Inc./Registered In-House Counsel in CA and, before that, as General Counsel of Response Genetics, Inc. (RGDX). Before going in-house, Adanech represented corporate and commercial clients through her affiliation with Berger Legal LLC and as a corporate and financial services associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Adanech holds a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She is a member of the New York State Bar and registered as in-house counsel in California.

Benoit has more than twenty years of leadership experience in engineering teams across a spectrum of enterprises, emphasizing lean execution and technical excellence. Prior to his tenure at Algolia, Benoit spent four years at Criteo, where he led the charge in establishing the Continuous Deployment Software Factory, streamlining deployment tools and development practices. Before that, he spent eleven years at Dassault Systèmes, culminating in his role as CTO for the Core Technology department. There, he shaped the vision for teams delivering 3D modeling and visualization kernels, along with the real-time applicative framework. Benoit earned his MS in Computer Science, specializing in Scientific Computation and Artificial Intelligence, from EPITA (École Pour I’Informatique et les Techniques Avancées).

Xavier boasts a decade of experience in engineering software projects, having led numerous initiatives in this domain. He became an integral part of Algolia's journey from its early days when the team comprised only four members. As the most seasoned software engineer, Xavier has played a pivotal role in the continuous evolution of Algolia's Search platform. In addition to his contributions at Algolia, he serves as a trainer at Pollen, where he indulges his passion for imparting knowledge and equipping individuals with the essential skills required for the challenges of the modern economy. Xavier holds a BSc in Computer Science and engaged in various projects during his studies at EPITA (École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées).

With more than 20+ years of product and engineering experience, Bharat leads Algolia’s product organization and provides customers with an expansive platform of APIs to create composable applications that empower them to deliver rich, personalized, and dynamic digital experiences in real time to end consumers. Prior to Algolia, Bharat was at cloud communications platform leader, Twilio. Most recently, he served as general manager of Twilio account security, the upstack authentication and verification business for Twilio. Bharat also held leadership roles at Bitcasa, Samsung and Digit International.

As the Senior Vice President of People at Algolia, Rachel assumes the crucial role of defining and supervising the implementation of Algolia's comprehensive people and workplace strategy. Previously, she held the position of VP of People & Workplace Operations at EZ Texting, where she spearheaded the company's evolution into a fully remote organization, transitioning its function from operational to strategic. Rachel brings extensive experience from her tenure as Senior People Business Partner at Dropbox and Evernote, as well as from various leadership positions within the education sector.

As the Chief Strategic Business Development Officer of Algolia, Piyush oversees alliances with leading software and services companies to drive transformational digital experiences for customers. He has years of experience and broad market perspective, previously serving as global head of SapientNitro’s CMS business, where he drove triple-digit growth. He also managed global alliances for OpenText and assisted with expansion into North America for French DXP company Jahia.

As the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Algolia, Laura oversees the creation and execution of marketing strategies, as well as the development of innovative campaigns aimed at driving revenue growth and establishing competitive advantages. Before joining Algolia, Laura held various leadership positions in revenue marketing within SaaS, Security, and Technology sectors across diverse industries. Notably, she played a pivotal role in boosting pipeline growth at SailPoint Technologies, a prominent Enterprise identity security provider.