Intui: Jimena Almendares

Jimena Almendares is the VP of Global Expansion at Intuit, makers of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mint. She also serves as the CEO and President of Intuit Payments Inc, a subsidiary that owns the money transmission licenses for money movement across Mint and QuickBooks, and the Executive Sponsor of Intuit’s Latinos Connect employee group. Before joining Intuit, she was the Chief Product Officer at OkCupid and one of two C-level executives heading the company through its IPO as part of the Match Group. Jimena has worked in 16 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, at companies including Meetup, Zynga, Facebook, and Eventbrite. Jimena graduated from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris with a BA and MA in International Business and later received an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A three-time national ice-skating champion, Jimena has lived in eight countries, traveled to 44 and speaks five languages.