Our People

Mr. Baszucki has served as our Founder, President, Chief Executive Officer and member of our board of directors since March 2004.

From July 1989 until December 1998, Mr. Baszucki served in various positions at Knowledge Revolution, a developer of 2D and 3D motion simulation software, which was acquired in December 1998 by MSC Software Corporation, a software company that specializes in simulation software, and which was acquired by Hexagon AB, a global technology group focused on precision measuring technologies, in February 2017. Between December 1998 and December 2000, Mr. Baszucki served in various positions at MSC Software Corporation, most recently as General Manager.

Mr. Baszucki holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Mr. Donato has served as our Chief Business Officer since December 2016. Prior to joining us, he served as Vice President of Business Development at Nextdoor.com, a social network service for neighborhoods, from September 2015 to December 2016. Between February 2013 and June 2015, he served as Vice President of Social for QVC, Inc., an online retail shopping platform. Between June 2005 and February 2013, he served as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Oodle, Inc., an online platform for buyers and sellers which was acquired by QVC in February 2015.

Mr. Donato holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Mr. Guthrie has served as our Chief Financial Officer since February 2018. Prior to joining us, he served as Chief Financial Officer of TrueCar, Inc., an automotive pricing and 135 information website, from January 2012 to February 2018.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Guthrie was a principal in the private equity firms TPG Ventures and Garnett & Helfrich Capital, and was an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Guthrie holds a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Matt Kaufman serves as Chief Systems Officer at Roblox, overseeing the product teams for Growth, Developer Tools, Analytics, Social, Apps, and International. As VP, Matt guides the company’s overall product strategy to help bring people together through play, while also building world-class experiences for the growing international community.

Matt has over 20 years of executive leadership experience building highly successful marketplace platforms, enterprise SaaS applications, and large-scale multiplayer games for companies including Crunchbase, Oodle, edgeio, and There.com.

Matt earned a BS in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from UC Davis and an MS in Aerospace Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Ms. Messing has served as our Chief Marketing and People Experience Officer since August 2020. From August 2018 to August 2019, Ms. Messing served as Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer of Walmart US, a company engaged in retail and wholesale operations.

Between February 2011 and April 2018, Ms. Messing served as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, and later Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, for TripAdvisor, Inc., an online travel company. Between April 2002 and February 2011, she served in a number of management positions at Hotwire.com, an Internet-based travel agency, including Vice President of Customer Experience and Vice President and General Manager, Travel Ticker. Ms. Messing received her BA from Northwestern University and her JD from Stanford Law School.

Ms. Messing is currently a member of the board of directors of Overstock.com, Inc., an internet retailer, Diamond Resorts International, a hospitality and vacation ownership company, and she previously served on the board of directors of XO Group, Inc., which merged with WeddingWire in December 2018.

Mr. Reinstra has served as our General Counsel since December 2019 and our Secretary since November 2020. Between June 1994 and December 2019, Mr. Reinstra was a practicing attorney with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., our outside corporate law firm, most recently as a member of the firm.

He holds a JD from Stanford Law School and BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mr. Sturman has served as our Chief Technology Officer since January 2020. Between January 2019 and January 2020, Mr. Sturman served as an advisor and consultant to several privately-held companies. He served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Support at Cloudera, Inc., an enterprise data cloud company between June 2015 and January 2019.

From April 2007 to October 2014, he served as Engineering Director and between October 2014 and May 2015, as Vice President of Engineering for Google, Inc., a multinational technology company specializing in internet related services and products. From July 1996 to March 2007, he served in various capacities with IBM Corporation, a multinational technology company, most recently as Director of the engineering department.

He holds a Ph.D. and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.