AppLovin's board and executive officers

analysisAt the June 3, 2026 annual meeting stockholders elected nine directors: Foroughi, Billings, Chen, Georgiadis, Messing, Morgenfeld, Valenzuela, Vivas and Webb. Valenzuela joined for the first time and Alyssa Harvey Dawson, who did not stand again, left. Stockholders approved officer exculpation under Delaware law and rejected a proposal to disclose voting results by share class. On April 2, 2026 the board had made Billings independent chair in place of Foroughi. ^{1 2 3}

analysisAt the 2021 IPO the non-employee directors were Billings, Georgiadis, Edward Oberwager, Cathy Sun and Vivas, with Foroughi and Chen as executive directors. By 2022 Harvey Dawson and Asha Sharma had joined; in 2024 stockholders elected Messing and Morgenfeld, while Oberwager remained until 2025. ^{4 5 6 7}

analysisThe 2026 proxy names four executive officers: Adam Foroughi (chief executive and co-founder), Matthew Stumpf (chief financial officer), Vasily Shikin (chief technology officer) and Victoria Valenzuela (chief administrative and legal officer). Foroughi has led AppLovin since December 2011 and chaired its board from March 2021 to April 2026; he earlier co-founded Lifestreet Media and Social Hour. ^{1 2}

analysisShikin joined in 2012 as vice president of engineering and was chief technology officer from 2020 until July 1, 2026, when he became a non-executive Distinguished Engineer, succeeded by Giovanni Ge. Valenzuela came from Machine Zone, where she had been chief legal officer, and retired on August 1, 2026, succeeded by Corina Cacovean. Stumpf, a former transaction services director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, became chief financial officer in January 2024 when Chen stepped down from the role to advise the chief executive; controller Dmitriy Dorosh became principal accounting officer. ^{1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10}

analysisChief marketing officer Katie Jansen resigned in 2025 and chief accounting officer Elena Arutunian in 2022, in both cases without any disagreement according to AppLovin. The 2023 proxy reports late Form 4 filings in 2022 by Foroughi, Andrew Karam and Vivas. ^{11 12 13 14}

analysisHerald Chen, a director since 2018, headed technology, media and telecom at KKR until 2019 and sits on the boards of GoDaddy and Internet Brands; he previously chaired BMC Software, Optiv and Epicor. Craig Billings is chief executive of Wynn Resorts and a director of Wynn Macau, and earlier chaired NYX Gaming and was chief digital officer of Aristocrat Leisure. ^{1 2 3 4 5}

analysisMargaret Georgiadis, a director since 2021, is a CEO-Partner of Flagship Pioneering and sits on McDonald's board; she ran Ancestry.com and Mattel and was president of Google Americas. Barbara Messing is an operating partner of Stripes and was Roblox's chief marketing officer. Todd Morgenfeld, a director since 2023, was Pinterest's chief financial officer and sits on the boards of Urban Outfitters and Axon. ^{1 6 7 8 9}

analysisEduardo Vivas, a director since 2018, co-founded Curated and Bright.com and was chief operating officer of Humans, Inc. until 2025. Maynard Webb, appointed in April 2025, founded Webb Investment Network, was chief operating officer of eBay and chaired Yahoo!, and sits on the boards of Salesforce and Visa. ^{1 10 11 12}

analysisEdward Oberwager, a KKR managing director, was KKR Denali's designee from November 2019 until the 2025 meeting; Cathy Sun, also of KKR, left the board in November 2021 to work at AppLovin. Asha Sharma, Instacart's chief operating officer, served from 2021 to 2023, and Alyssa Harvey Dawson, chief legal officer of HubSpot, from 2021 to 2026. ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7}

analysisIn 2020 Pinterest's former chief operating officer sued Pinterest alleging discrimination and retaliation after she complained about comments by Morgenfeld, then its chief financial officer; he was not a defendant, and Pinterest settled for $22.5 million without admitting liability. FanDuel's founders sued its directors, including Oberwager, over the 2018 merger; in 2024 New York's highest court held that their fiduciary-duty claim was adequately pleaded, which is not a finding of liability. ^{1 2}

analysisOutside AppLovin's filings, a 2014 press profile called Vivas a co-founder of Social Hour, which it said PlayPhone bought in 2012, and said Webb Investment Network backed AppLovin's seed round; an online encyclopedia says Karam co-founded Social Hour. Short sellers wrote that Foroughi worked at Gator Corporation, which they described as notorious for spyware, and that Facebook banned Social Hour for "scammy ads"; the filings confirm only Foroughi's co-founding of Lifestreet and Social Hour. Karam now advises South Park Commons; Krystynak's directory profile lists no other role. ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}