Bumble Inc. announced a leadership succession plan for the Company?s next chapter of growth. Following a comprehensive search process, Lidiane Jones, who currently serves as Chief Executive Officer at Slack, will succeed Whitney Wolfe Herd as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 2, 2024. Wolfe Herd founded Bumble in 2014 with the goal of creating an empowering online dating space for women.

Under Wolfe Herd?s leadership, Bumble has become one of the world?s leading networking apps, enabling members to connect with confidence whether dating, networking or meeting friends online. Bumble Inc. has also become known as a global brand that champions women?s safety online. Jones has more than two decades of experience as a product and business innovator across some of the world?s most prominent consumer and business technology brands.

She has led teams and brought products to life across productivity, enterprise scalability and machine learning, always with a keen focus on reimagining and elevating the consumer experience. Her background, passion and values make Jones perfectly suited to lead Bumble Inc. forward and accelerate the Company?s vision to embrace AI innovation across its portfolio of applications in pursuit of facilitating human connection safely. Before taking the helm as CEO at Slack, Jones was the EVP and GM for Salesforce Digital Experiences (including Marketing and Commerce Cloud).

Prior to Salesforce, Jones led Sonos? software product team and spent nearly 13 years at Microsoft as a leader in a variety of products. Jones holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

She is a mom, personally drawn to the mission of creating a more equitable world, an avid reader and a lifelong learner of everything tech, economics, leadership and policy making. Jones will remain at Slack until the end of the year.