{"id":797902,"date":"2025-01-06T08:05:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/bumble-inc-appoints-michael-affronti-chief-product-officer\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T08:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T13:05:20","slug":"bumble-inc-appoints-michael-affronti-chief-product-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/bumble-inc-appoints-michael-affronti-chief-product-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumble Inc. Appoints Michael Affronti Chief Product Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bumble Inc. Appoints Michael Affronti Chief Product Officer<\/b><\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–
\nBumble Inc. (NASDAQ: BMBL) today announced the appointment of Michael Affronti to Chief Product Officer (\u201cCPO\u201d). In this key executive leadership position, Michael will oversee innovation and user experience across the Company\u2019s product portfolio and will lead the Product, Safety, Research and Customer Care teams. His appointment is effective immediately.<\/p>\n

\nMichael comes to Bumble Inc. from Salesforce, where he served as SVP and General Manager of Commerce Cloud. In that role, he led Salesforce\u2019s multi-billion-dollar global e-commerce business to success, driving innovation and operational scale for businesses serving more than two billion consumers around the globe annually. He previously built product-led growth offerings leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning as SVP of Product at Dataminr and Fuze. Earlier in his career, Michael spent a decade at Microsoft, where he contributed to the product development and strategy of marquee consumer and business applications, including Office and Outlook, which serve more than half a billion global users. Michael will assume the product leadership responsibilities of former CPO, Ali Rayl, who left the Company last year.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cWith an exceptional track record of driving innovation, delivering product vision and scaling platforms, Michael is uniquely positioned to lead our product team in building on the early steps we have taken to re-imagine the Bumble experience,\u201d said Lidiane Jones, Chief Executive Officer of Bumble Inc. \u201cI am excited about the momentum we are building, and with an increasingly bold set of product innovations on tap in 2025, now\u2019s the right time to bring Michael\u2019s significant skillsets to Bumble to guide our outstanding team.\u201d<\/p>\n

About Bumble<\/b><\/p>\n

\nBumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Bumble For Friends, Badoo, Fruitz, and Official. The Bumble platform enables people to build healthy and equitable relationships, through Kind Connections. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Date mode), friendship (BFF Mode) and professional networking (Bizz mode). Bumble For Friends app is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections. Badoo, which was founded in 2006, was one of the pioneers of web and mobile free-to-use dating products. Fruitz, founded in 2017, encourages honesty and transparency by sharing dating intentions from the first touch point. Official, founded in 2020, is an app that is intended to help couples build healthy and lasting habits in their romantic relationships.<\/p>\n

\nFor more information about Bumble, please visit www.bumble.com<\/a> and follow @Bumble on social platforms.<\/p>\n

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Bumble Inc. Appoints Michael Affronti Chief Product Officer AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Bumble Inc. (NASDAQ: BMBL) today announced the appointment of Michael Affronti to Chief Product Officer (\u201cCPO\u201d). In this key executive leadership position, Michael will oversee innovation and user experience across the Company\u2019s product portfolio and will lead the Product, Safety, Research and Customer Care teams. His appointment is effective immediately. Michael comes to Bumble Inc. from Salesforce, where he served as SVP and General Manager of Commerce Cloud. In that role, he led Salesforce\u2019s multi-billion-dollar global e-commerce business to success, driving innovation and operational scale for businesses serving more than two billion consumers around the globe annually. He previously built product-led growth offerings leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning … <\/p>\n

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