Sarah Friar

OBE
Born
Sarah Jane Friar

(1972-12-24) 24 December 1972
Sion Mills, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
NationalityAmerican, Irish
Alma mater
OccupationBusiness executive
Known forCEO of Nextdoor

Sarah Jane Friar (born 24 December 1972[1]) is a business executive from Northern Ireland who is CEO of American technology company Nextdoor.[2][3][4]

Biography

Born in 1972, Friar grew up in the town of Sion Mills in Northern Ireland.[5][1] She attended Strabane Grammar School.[6] She graduated from the University of Oxford and Stanford Graduate School of Business.[7] She was an analyst for McKinsey,[8] a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and a senior vice president of finance and strategy at Salesforce[9] before becoming Chief Financial Officer at Square,[10][11] and then joining Nextdoor, a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods, as the CEO.

She is on the board of Slack, Walmart and ConsenSys.[10][12][13]

She received a honorary Doctor of Science degree from Ulster University in 2018.[14] In 2019, she was granted an Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II for her commitment to entrepreneurship and financial services.[15][16]

Friar is married to a hedge fund partner.[9] The couple has a daughter and son.[17] She lives in Marin County, California.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Nimmo, Jamie (23 January 2022). "Nextdoor chief Sarah Friar: I grew up with bombs, so I don't want to spread hate". The Times. Archived from the original on 23 January 2022.
  2. ↑ Gelles, David (13 August 2020). "A Lifetime of Seeing the Good and the Bad Between Neighbors". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  3. ↑ Rudegeair, Peter (27 February 2021). "Where Nextdoor's CEO Looks for Neighborly Advice". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "Nextdoor's CEO wants to do for community what Jane Fonda did for fitness". Fortune. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Tyrone's Sarah Friar leads US Nextdoor into €3.6bn Spac deal". independent. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  6. ↑ Campbell, John (5 June 2017). "Sarah Friar: From Sion Mills to Silicon Valley". BBC News.
  7. ↑ "Sarah Friar". Stanford Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  8. ↑ "Sarah Friar, the neighbour-in-chief steering Nextdoor to public markets". Financial Times. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  9. 1 2 Cook, James (13 May 2019). "From Sion Mills to Silicon Valley: How Sarah Friar became one of the most prominent women in technology". The Daily Telegraph.
  10. 1 2 "Sarah Friar". Corporate - US. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  11. ↑ "Sarah Friar". Forbes. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  12. ↑ "Sarah Friar". Corporate - US. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  13. ↑ Hinchliffe, Emma; Mcglauflin, Paige (8 April 2022). "The Broadsheet: a daily newsletter for and about the world's most powerful women". Forbes. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022.
  14. ↑ "Ulster University graduations results: Honour for Silicon Valley boss Sarah Friar". Belfast Telegraph. 9 July 2018.
  15. ↑ Hughes, David (23 June 2019). "Queen's birthday honours list 2019: full list of everyone being recognised this year". i.
  16. ↑ "Sion Mills native awarded an OBE in Queen's Birthday Honours". Strabane Weekly News. 21 June 2019.
  17. ↑ Canning, Margaret (28 February 2020). "Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar: My business has taken off in Northern Ireland as people here are so neighbourly". Belfast Telegraph.


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