Elena Gomez is the chief financial officer at help desk software company, Zendesk, a role she’s held since 2016.
Upon taking the role of CFO, Gomez was tasked with bringing Zendesk to $1 billion in revenue by 2020. She achieved that milestone by ensuring that finance was thoroughly integrated into every aspect of the business.
With over two decades of finance experience, Gomez has proven expertise in building world-class finance operations and managing global growth and scaling. She also has significant experience working with the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model.
Prior to Zendesk, Gomez led Salesforce’s finance and strategy teams from 2010 to 2016. Her previous finance experience includes Fortune 500 companies, such as Visa, where she was the senior business leader of enterprise planning and Charles Schwab, where she held a variety of VP and director roles.
Gomez is Zendesk’s first female CFO, and she works closely with the company’s director of diversity and inclusion, sponsoring the Women at Zendesk program, as well as Fireside Chats, a panel of female executives from other organizations. She also previously served on the board of Spark, a nonprofit providing mentoring to middle-school children from underserved communities.
Gomez currently sits on the boards of software company, Smartsheet, and cloud computing company, PagerDuty.
She holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
What is Elena Gomez's net worth?
The estimated net worth of Elena Gomez is at least $12.37 million as of November 4th, 2024. Ms. Gomez owns 159,615 shares of Zendesk stock worth more than $12,366,970 as of December 18th. This net worth approximation does not reflect any other investments that Ms. Gomez may own. Learn More about Elena Gomez's net worth.
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Has Elena Gomez been buying or selling shares of Zendesk?
Elena Gomez has not been actively trading shares of Zendesk over the course of the past ninety days. Most recently, Elena Gomez sold 6,500 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Thursday, April 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $150.00, for a transaction totalling $975,000.00. Following the completion of the sale, the chief financial officer now directly owns 6,326 shares of the company's stock, valued at $948,900. Learn More on Elena Gomez's trading history.
Who are Zendesk's active insiders?
Zendesk's insider roster includes Soren Abildgaard (EVP), Archana Agrawal (Director), Carl Bass (Director), Marc Cabi (CFO), Norman Gennaro (Insider), John Geschke (Insider), Elena Gomez (CFO), InaMarie Johnson (Insider), Ying Liu (CAO), Caryn Marooney (Director), Adrian McDermott (Insider), Mikkel Svane (Founder Emeritus), Jeffrey Titterton (COO), and L. Wilson (Director). Learn More on Zendesk's active insiders.