Intuit Executive Team
 

Lara Balazs is a global marketing executive with a proven track record of building world-class businesses and brands. She has held multiple marketing leadership roles at companies such as Amazon, Visa, Nike, Gap, Prophet Brand Strategy and General Mills.

Most recently, as Vice President, Worldwide Prime and Amazon North America Marketing, Lara was responsible for driving growth of the Prime membership program globally, running all paid, owned and operated channels to optimize go-to-market performance. She also led end to end marketing for Amazon across channels and categories for the North America region.

Prior to Amazon, Lara held a variety of roles at Visa including as SVP, Head of Visa North America Marketing. In this role, she was responsible for all aspects of marketing in Visa’s largest revenue-driving region. As a key driver in Visa’s transformation to digital payment leadership, Lara oversaw marketing and communications for all digital product launches including Visa Checkout and Apple Pay. At Visa, she also led global marketing strategy and planning, global product marketing and innovation marketing.

Lara holds a Pre-Law undergraduate degree from University of Washington from which she graduated magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa distinction. She has an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business at Northwestern University.

Alex Chriss is Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intuit's Small Business and Self-Employed Group. Appointed to the role in January 2019, he leads a 4,500+ person organization that’s focused on powering prosperity around the world for small businesses and the self-employed by unlocking the power of millions of customers for the prosperity of each and every one.

Alex has a proven track record of innovating inside Intuit over the last 14 years - launching and leading Intuit’s self-employed business unit, as well as Intuit’s platform-as-a-service strategy and the QuickBooks App Store, all of which are thriving today. QuickBooks Self-Employed helps hundreds of thousands of self-employed individuals manage their expenses and tax obligations, the partner platform allows independent developers to create and deploy products that work in conjunction with QuickBooks, while the app store enables small businesses to discover and consume hundreds of apps that integrate with QuickBooks. He’s also led Intuit’s QuickBooks Financing business, providing lower rates, an easier application and faster delivery of capital to millions of small businesses.

Prior to Intuit, he was a successful entrepreneur, founding two companies, including CollegeWeb, an online community for college students that was sold in 1999. Alex holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University.

Laura leads Intuit’s People and Places organization, responsible for attracting and retaining the world’s top talent and building a safe, inclusive and ethical work environment where employees can do the best work of their lives.

With a widely-recognized track record of exceptional leadership, Laura served as Intuit’s General Counsel for 14 years. She started her career with the company leading the legal organization and later expanded her role to include the stewardship of many other teams critical to Intuit’s growth, including security, compliance, data science and engineering and government relations.

Laura is a board member of the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum and also serves as the president of the Intuit Foundation board of directors, guiding the company’s philanthropic initiatives to power prosperity for those who need it most.

Prior to joining Intuit, Laura was vice president of corporate legal resources and acting general counsel for Sun Microsystems. Laura has a law degree from Santa Clara University and a bachelor's degree in business administration from California State University, Chico.

Anton makes sure that our strategy is your strategy. That means we look at what you want to accomplish, and then build the products to help. Anton’s corporate development and integration teams have been working tirelessly on your behalf since he rejoined Intuit in 2016.

Before returning to Intuit, Anton was the head of corporate development at Square. He also served as the financing lead for Square Capital, where he secured investments for Square's small business loan offering.

Anton’s first position at Intuit was vice president of corporate development. It was a great fit, where he built on his experience in venture capital, corporate development, and strategy. From 2011-2014, he redesigned the company’s acquisition playbook, and drove acquisition activity to a total value of over $2 billion.

Anton holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His bachelor’s degree is in marketing and finance, from Washington University in St. Louis.

Al Ko serves as Intuit’s Senior Vice President and Chief Transformation Officer. Appointed to this role in 2017, Al drives Intuit’s operating rhythm and oversees the cross-company transformational change initiatives that allow Intuit to re-imagine and re-invent itself in order to best serve our customers.

Al joined Intuit in 2006 and has held numerous leadership positions, most recently as the General Manager of Mint. Previously, he led product management for Intuit’s Small Business Group, where he was responsible for the global expansion of QuickBooks, Payments, and Payroll.

Before joining Intuit, Al was a management consultant at both the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey where he advised technology and industrial clients on strategy, organizational effectiveness, and supply chain management. Al holds a B.A. in History and International Studies from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Rob defines the public persona that distinguishes our brand. Media relations, executive positioning, analyst relations, customer relations, financial communications, event management and crisis communications. It’s all been up to Rob since 2002.

"Intuit’s goal is to help people—through products and socially responsible programs and values. Reaching out to the world through channels such as social media is an ideal way to share the amazing value that we provide. "

Rob has delivered award-winning communications programs at Intuit. That’s no surprise. His life before Intuit revolved around communications. He was an executive for Ketchum Public Relations and Corporate Technology Communications. He is also an experienced print and broadcast journalist, holding various media relations and employee communications positions.  

Rob has a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Michigan.

Before joining Intuit in 2002, CeCe was responsible for sales of all products and professional services at WebTone Technologies. She also served as senior vice president for retail lending with Fortis, and spent 15 years in a variety of positions with John H. Hartland Co.

CeCe is a graduate of North Dakota State University, where she majored in economics and business administration, and she attended the University of Chicago Booth’s executive development program.

CeCe is responsible for identifying and integrating strategic partners into Intuit’s global platform in order to deliver the benefits that matter the most in our customers’ lives.

Previously, she led the ProConnect Group, Intuit’s accountant division, as well as Intuit Financial Services, the business unit that provided digital banking solutions for banks and credit unions.

Your Intuit experience starts with how we create products that delight you. That’s Diego’s responsibility. He guides the design and delivery of Intuit’s product ecosystem and works with its product management and design communities to forge best practices and deliver awesome customer experiences.

Before Intuit, Diego was a Partner at IDEO. As Global Managing Director and Partner, he led the creation of IDEO's growth ventures, including IDEO U, CoLab, and Creative Difference. Prior to this role, Diego was the Managing Director of IDEO Bay Area for many years, and also founded and scaled a new IDEO discipline called Business Design, which has since become a core part of the firm’s offering.

A founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (aka "the d.school"), Diego is committed to educating future innovators. He is currently a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and a Professor of the Practice at Boise State University. He was previously a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School.

Early in his career, Diego developed leading-edge products as an R&D engineer at HP and as a marketer at Intuit. He earned bachelor’s degrees with honors in engineering and humanities from Stanford, and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Marianna oversees Intuit’s technology strategy and leads all of Intuit’s product engineering, data science, information technology and information security teams worldwide, harnessing advanced technology that helps power prosperity for our customers and partners around the world.

With more than twenty-five years of experience, Marianna joined Intuit in 2017 to lead product development for the Small Business and Self-Employed Group, responsible for Intuit’s QuickBooks product family. Previously, she served as executive vice president of Strategic Development at Docker, developing strategic partnerships and expanding its product portfolio and open source platform. Prior to Docker, she held engineering leadership roles at VMware, Ariba, and General Magic, working at the forefront of significant technology transformations, including virtualization, cloud, and DevOps.

At the beginning of her career, Marianna served as Captain for Computer Center R&D in the Israeli Army. She earned a B.S. in computer science from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and has coursework toward an M.S. in computer science and brain research from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.