Intuit Executive Team
 

Lara Balazs is Intuit’s Chief Marketing Officer, and she is also the General Manager of Strategic Partnerships Group. Lara joined in 2018 to lead Intuit’s Marketing and Communications community, responsible for driving company growth and building Intuit’s brands and corporate reputation in support of Intuit’s mission to power prosperity around the world. In 2020, Lara’s role expanded to include General Manager of Strategic Partnerships Group for which she is responsible for identifying and integrating strategic partners into Intuit’s global platform to deliver the benefits that matter the most to our customers.

With deep experience building world-class businesses and brands, Lara has held multiple leadership roles across tech, retail and consumer packaged goods. Before joining Intuit, Lara was Vice President, Worldwide Prime and Amazon North America Marketing, where she was responsible for driving growth of the Prime membership program globally. Additionally, Lara held a variety of roles at Visa including Senior Vice President, head of Visa North America Marketing where she was responsible for all aspects of marketing in Visa’s largest revenue-driving region.

Lara holds a Pre-Law undergraduate degree from the 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.

Michelle leads Intuit’s global financial team as it supports the company’s mission of powering prosperity around the world. She manages the financial strategy and operations across the company, including Treasury, Procurement, Investor Relations and Finance Operations.

Michelle has been with Intuit since 2003 and has held various senior financial management positions across the business. She previously was Senior Vice President for Intuit’s Consumer Tax Group and Small Business Group, and Vice President of Finance for the Accounting Professionals Division and Intuit Healthcare.

Prior to Intuit, Michelle held various financial management roles at General Electric. Before that, she was a financial litigation consultant at The Barrington Consulting Group.

Michelle holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce with a concentration in Finance from the University of Virginia.

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.

Mark is a seasoned veteran with 20 years’ experience in the technology industry. Before joining Intuit, he held leadership positions at NCR Corp, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard. Mark earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from Michigan State University.

Mark Notarainni is responsible for ensuring the success of customers across all their interactions with the Intuit ecosystem. Previously, he spent over eight years as vice president of Customer Care and Services for Intuit’s Consumer Tax Group, transforming customer care through a world-class team providing the highest quality service to millions of taxpayers every year. Mark joined Intuit in 2009 as a director of contact centers.

Diego Rodriguez is Executive Vice President, Chief Product and Design Officer at Intuit. He guides the design and delivery of Intuit’s ecosystem experiences and works with its product management and design communities to forge best practices and deliver seamless, end-to-end customer journeys.

Before Intuit, Diego was a Partner at IDEO. As Global Managing Director, he led the creation of IDEO's growth ventures, including IDEO U, CoLab, and Creative Difference. Prior to this, Diego was the Managing Director of IDEO Bay Area 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 Professor of the Practice at Boise State University and a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers. He was previously an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School.

His influential blog Metacool is an opinion leader on business, technology, and innovation. Fast Company calls it “a must-read for anyone who wants to incorporate design thinking into their work”. Diego has received many accolades, including a Chicago Athenaeum Good Design Award, and he holds multiple patents. In 2010, Fortune named him one of “The Smartest People in Tech.”

Earlier 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.