Jared Grusd
Jared has led some of the world’s most innovative organizations. Currently, he is chief strategy officer of Snap, the parent company of Snapchat. He serves on the board of directors of SoulCycle. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and a member of the University of Chicago Law School Advisory Council.
Previously, Jared was global head of news and information at Verizon Media (fka Oath). There, he served as chief executive officer of HuffPost, and also led many of Verizon’s internet brands, including, Yahoo News and the Yahoo and AOL homepages. Before that, he was general counsel and global head of corporate development of Spotify. He also had successful tenures as chief strategy and business development officer of AOL and as a key member of the executive team for Google's business in the Americas. Jared co-founded Shake, a venture-backed legal technology company that sold to Legal Shield. He served on the board of directors of Newsela.
Jared has earned numerous industry accolades. He was named, three times, as one of the coolest and most influential people in the New York technology ecosystem by Business Insider and was recognized as one of the five most powerful technology lawyers by Fortune.
He received a MBA from Columbia Business School, a JD, with Honors, from the University of Chicago Law School, and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.