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10 former Airbnb trust and safety leaders
These ten people led trust and safety teams or trust and safety work at Airbnb and have since left the company. A reader can learn how trust and safety work was run at a company like Airbnb from people who did it there.
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01—10Abhishek Ravi
LinkedInExperience: Former Group Product Manager - Trust & Safety · Airbnb
Former Group Product Manager - Trust & Safety at Airbnb (2023–2026), where a highlight says they led product management for Airbnb's Defense Platform in the Trust & Safety organization. Abhishek Ravi has been Head of Ecosystem Health (Trust & Safety and CX) and Payments at Grindr since 2026.
Ailís Daly
LinkedInExperience: Former Community Policy Lead EMEA · Airbnb
Former Community Policy Lead EMEA at Airbnb (2017–2021). Ailís Daly also held Global Head of Violence & Aggression Issue Policies at TikTok (2021–2024) and Policy Operations at Twitter (2014–2017), and has been Head of Trust & Safety, EMEA at WebPurify, an IntouchCX company, since 2024.
David Hafferty
LinkedInExperience: Former Product Manager, Trust and Safety · Airbnb
Former Product Manager, Trust and Safety at Airbnb (2022–2026), a role the profile tags at manager level in product. David Hafferty also held Senior Data Scientist, Trust (2018–2022) and Data Scientist, Payments (2016–2018) roles at Airbnb, and has been Founder at Unscheduled since 2026.
John B.
LinkedInExperience: Former Safety Lead · Airbnb
Former Safety Lead at Airbnb (2019–2020) in Portland, Oregon, according to a highlight, and Senior Safety Specialist at Airbnb (2015–2019). John B. most recently worked as Content Moderator at Mercari US (2020–2024), the latest role their profile lists.
Lisa Kenny
LinkedInExperience: Former Trust Operations Lead, EMEA · Airbnb
Former Trust Operations Lead, EMEA at Airbnb (2022–2026) and Trust Performance Lead at Airbnb (2024–2026), a role the profile tags at manager level. Lisa Kenny also held EMEA Regional Support Coordinator, Trust Platform Integrity Ops at Airbnb (2013–2022) and now works as Marine Research Support Officer at University College Cork.
Mike Pakdaman
LinkedInExperience: Former Head of Global Platform Integrity Operations · Airbnb
Former Head of Global Platform Integrity Operations at Airbnb (2019–2024), where a highlight says they oversaw global platform integrity operations. Mike Pakdaman was also Head of Global Trust and Safety at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2018–2019) and has worked in Trust and Safety at ByteDance since 2024.
Misha Habib, MSc., PMP
LinkedInExperience: Former Senior Program Manager, Trust · Airbnb
Former Senior Program Manager, Trust at Airbnb (2022–2024). Misha Habib also held program management roles at Walmart, including Strategic Program Manager, Walmart Marketplace (2020–2021), and has been Founder & Principal at AIwithMisha since 2024, according to their profile.
Phillip K.
LinkedInExperience: Former Community Policy Manager, Trust & Safety · Airbnb
Former Community Policy Manager, Trust & Safety at Airbnb (2018–2021), and Crisis Response, Trust & Safety at Airbnb (2015–2018). Phillip K. was also Senior Policy Manager, Trust & Safety at Upwork (2021–2025) and Director, Trust & Safety Policy at Upwork (2025–2026), and has been Director of Trust and Safety at Sniffies since 2026.
Stephanie Mitchell
LinkedInExperience: Former Product Operations Lead - Fraud & Abuse · Airbnb
Former Product Operations Lead - Fraud & Abuse at Airbnb (2023–2025), a role a highlight ties to scaled operations risk detection and mitigation for inventory integrity and content abuse. Stephanie Mitchell also held Airbnb roles in Product Operations - Content Integrity (2019–2023), Product Operations - Offline Risk (2015–2019) and as Senior Investigator (2012–2015).
Vijaya Kaza
LinkedInExperience: Former Chief Security Officer & VP of Engineering for Trust and Safety · Airbnb
Former Chief Security Officer & VP of Engineering for Trust and Safety at Airbnb (2019–2025). A highlight says that in the trust and safety engineering role Vijaya Kaza led teams responsible for the development of ML/AI models, platform and tools. Their current role is VP/GM, App & Ecosystem Trust at Google, since 2025.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's area to your question, since policy, operations, product and engineering leaders each saw a different part of trust and safety. Check the years of their Airbnb role and where they work now, because practices and tools change quickly.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How would you split trust and safety work between policy, operations and product teams at a growing marketplace?
- 02Which signals did you find most useful for catching fraud or unsafe behavior early, and how did you measure whether defenses worked?
- 03What would you set up first if you were building a trust and safety function from scratch today?
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