Leadership Team

Andrew Paradise is the CEO and founder of Skillz. Prior to Skillz, Andrew founded AisleBuyer, which was best known for pioneering mobile self-checkout prior to its sale to Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) in 2012. Andrew has been the founding inventor behind companies in different technology sectors ranging from eCommerce to image recognition to HR technology. Andrew was named to the San Francisco Times’ 40 under 40 class of 2018.

Casey Chafkin is the Chief Revenue Officer and co-founder of Skillz. Prior to Skillz, Casey was the VP of Business Development for AisleBuyer (now Intuit GoPayment). Casey received his B.S. in economics from Duke University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Miriam Aguirre is the Chief Technology Officer at Skillz. Miriam is committed to fostering a strong and diverse engineering team, earning recognition from publications including VentureBeat and CIO Magazine for her passion and efforts to bring diversity to gaming and technology. A seasoned software engineer, she has also worked at companies including Financial Engines and Hewlett-Packard after earning her B.S. in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ian Lee serves as Chief Financial Officer of Skillz. Prior to joining Skillz, Mr. Lee served as Head of Investor Relations at Airbnb, Inc., a global marketplace where hosts offer guests stays and experiences on its platform, from 2019 to 2021. Prior to Airbnb, Mr. Lee served as Vice President, Investor Relations at Atlassian Corporation Plc, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, from 2015 to 2019. Mr. Lee also held senior investor relations positions at Trulia, Inc., HP Inc. and Omnicom Group Inc., as well as investment banking roles with Morgan Stanley & Co LLC and UBS Investment Bank.

Mr. Lee holds an MBA (Finance) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Communication Studies from the Auckland University of Technology.