Grammarly Welcomes Mark Schaaf and Navam Welihinda

I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve employed two distinctive leaders to affix Grammarly: Mark Schaaf as Chief Expertise Officer and Navam Welihinda as Chief Monetary Officer. Each deliver intensive expertise in guiding companies via transformative intervals. Their arrivals mark an thrilling new chapter in our dedication to innovation and excellence.

Mark brings deep expertise as an engineering chief throughout many levels of firm constructing. Earlier than becoming a member of Grammarly, Mark was the CTO at Instacart. He led a formidable engineering crew that helped develop the enterprise tenfold in 4 years and construct the product’s technical basis forward of the corporate’s preliminary public providing. Beforehand, he additionally served because the CTO at Thumbtack and held management roles at Google, AdMob, and Retool.

Navam has a confirmed monitor document of main finance and company improvement in scaling organizations. He joins Grammarly after serving because the CFO of HashiCorp, the place he led the finance group in the course of the firm’s profitable preliminary public providing in December 2021. Previous to his time scaling expertise corporations, he labored on the funding aspect at Perception Enterprise Companions, American Capital Methods, and Sierra Ventures.

Folks depend on Grammarly to assist elevate their communication regardless of the place and the way they work. We take the belief individuals place in Grammarly very critically. Mark and Navam’s management might be instrumental in serving to us obtain our bold targets—the alternatives forward of us are limitless. In at this time’s AI-driven world, displaying up as your finest self at work is important; with Grammarly, that splendid turns into a actuality.