Nirav Tolia

Nirav Tolia has been at the forefront of creating, scaling, and leading innovative consumer internet companies for over twenty years. Nirav is the CEO, President, Chairperson of the Board of Directors, and Co-Founder of Nextdoor, the essential neighborhood app, where community and camaraderie come together across 11 countries. Nirav also serves as Non-Executive Chair of Hedosophia, has appeared as a Guest Shark on ABC’s Shark Tank, and is a co-founding director of the William S. Spears Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership in SMU’s Cox School of Business. Nirav previously led Nextdoor as CEO from 2010 through the end of 2018 – expanding Nextdoor’s footprint throughout the US (encompassing 90% of American neighborhoods), UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, and Australia. Before founding and serving as Nextdoor’s CEO, Nirav was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital and COO of Shopping.com, an organization he founded via a merger between Dealtime and Epinions, which later went public and sold to eBay for $620 million. Tolia Co-Founded and served as CEO of Epinions.com following the beginning of his career as the 84th employee at Yahoo.