10 Lyft executives
Chief Executive Officer, CTO, Chief People Officer and other senior leaders of Lyft are among these ten Lyft executives, who hold or have held C-suite and executive vice president roles there. A reader can learn how Lyft's executives lead the company's businesses and functions from people who have held the roles.
Professionals to explore
Dana Rasmussen
LinkedInExperience: Chief People Officer · Lyft
Chief People Officer of Lyft since July 2025, based in San Francisco. Their profile also lists Chief People & Culture Officer (2022–2024) and VP People & Culture (2020–2022) at Stitch Fix, and Non-Profit Board Member, Vice Chairman at The East Bay School since 2022.
David Risher
LinkedInExperience: Chief Executive Officer · Lyft
Chief Executive Officer of Lyft since April 2023, based in San Francisco, and a Board Member at Lyft since 2021. Their profile also lists Co-Founder, Tomorrow Cellars since 2024, Co-Founder and Co-Leader of #HalfMyDAF since 2020 and Board Chair at Equeum since 2019.
Jeremy Bird
LinkedInExperience: Executive Vice President, Global Growth · Lyft
Executive Vice President, Global Growth at Lyft since November 2025, based in Oakland, California. At Lyft they were also Executive Vice President, Driver Experience (2024–2025), Chief Policy Officer (2022–2024), Vice President, Deputy Chief Policy Officer (2021–2022) and Vice President, Public Engagement (2019–2021).
Kevin S. Smith
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Lyft
Chief Information Officer of Lyft since July 2023, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their profile also lists Chief Information Officer at Cloudera (2022–2023), Vice President Information Technology, CIO at Aurora (2021–2022), Vice President, Corporate Technology (CIO Scope) at Stripe (2020–2021) and Head of Information Technology (CIO Scope) at Twitch (2016–2020).
Lindsay Llewellyn
LinkedInExperience: Chief Legal & Business Officer, Corporate Secretary · Lyft
Chief Legal & Business Officer, Corporate Secretary at Lyft since July 2025, based in San Francisco. At Lyft they were also Chief Legal Officer & Interim Chief People Officer, Corporate Secretary (2024–2025), Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary (2024–2025) and EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary (2021–2024).
Logan Green
LinkedInExperience: Former Co-founder and CEO · Lyft
Former Co-founder and CEO of Lyft (2012–2023), with a profile summary describing Lyft's origins in Zimride, a long-distance ridesharing company founded in 2007. They were also Co-founder & Chairman of Lyft (2023–2025), and their profile lists Member of the Board at eBay since 2016 and at Yelp since 2025.
Michael Brous
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Lyft
Chief Financial Officer of Lyft since September 2026, based in New York. At Lyft they were also Head of Lyft Urban Solutions and Safety & Community Care (2025–2026), Head of Lyft Urban Solutions (2023–2025), Head of Strategy and Growth - Lyft Bikes & Scooters (2023) and Co-Head of Operations - Lyft Bikes & Scooters (2021–2023).
Senthil Padmanabhan
LinkedInExperience: CTO · Lyft
CTO of Lyft since July 2026, a role the profile summary describes as leading the company’s global technology organization, with responsibility for its long-term technology vision and day-to-day engineering execution. Their profile also lists VP of Engineering, Global Commerce & Developer Platform (2025–2026) and Vice President & Technical Fellow, Platform & Infrastructure Engineering (2018–2025) at eBay.
Siddharth Patil
LinkedInExperience: EVP of Data Science · Lyft
EVP of Data Science at Lyft since April 2023, a role the highlight describes as EVP of Marketplace covering engineering, data science, product, analytics and operations. At Lyft they were also Head of Rideshare Science (2020–2023) and Head of Data Science for Growth (2019–2020), and their profile lists Sr Director of Data Science, Listeners at Pandora (2018–2019).
Stephen Hope
LinkedInExperience: Chief Accounting Officer · Lyft
Chief Accounting Officer of Lyft since July 2025, based in San Francisco. Their profile also lists Sr. Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer (2023–2025), Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer (2018–2023) and Sr. Director, Assistant Corporate Controller (2015–2018) at Autodesk, and Audit Committee Member at Asian Art Museum since 2020.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01What took most of your time in your first year as an executive, and what did you wish you had known?
- 02How did you work with the rest of the leadership team when your function's priorities conflicted with theirs?
- 03Which decision in your executive role would you make differently today, and why?
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