Welcoming Marcelo Modica as Coursera’s New Chief Individuals Officer

By Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO Coursera

Right this moment, I’m excited to announce that Marcelo Modica has joined Coursera as our new Chief Individuals Officer. On this crucial position, Marcelo will spearhead our human assets, expertise, office expertise, social influence, and DE&I methods as we proceed to advance our efforts to create a high-performing and inclusive office. His experience shall be invaluable to rising and increasing our groups world wide.

Marcelo has over 30 years of expertise constructing people-centric organizations throughout world expertise, consulting, and finance industries. His spectacular profession spans key roles at Robinhood, Mercer, JPMorgan Chase, Uncover Monetary Providers, Morgan Stanley, and Prudential Securities. At Robinhood, he aligned the folks technique with the corporate’s mission and strategic values, considerably enhancing the worker expertise. His tenure at Mercer concerned managing a complete folks technique for over 25,000 colleagues in additional than 40 nations.

Marcelo holds a grasp’s diploma in Organizational Psychology from Columbia College and a bachelor’s diploma in Psychology from Siena Faculty. His observe report of driving profession improvement and the well-being of the workforce carefully aligns with Coursera’s objective of making an surroundings the place expertise can thrive and make a worldwide influence.

On a associated be aware, as introduced internally in July, Wealthy Jacquet, our Chief Individuals Officer for the previous 5 years, has determined to retire. Wealthy has been instrumental in guiding Coursera via transformative intervals, particularly through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and vital phases of development. His management helped us embrace the shift to a remote-first firm, permitting us to dwell our mission extra absolutely by tapping into expertise in all places and bringing various views to work.

Please be part of me in welcoming Marcelo Modica to Coursera and expressing our heartfelt gratitude to Wealthy Jacquet for his unimaginable service.