Anita Samojednik

Anita Samojednik is the Chief Executive Officer at Paro, a Chicago-based startup disrupting the way companies access on-demand financial expertise. Since joining the company, Anita has leveraged artificial intelligence to redirect Paro’s focus to investments that drive predictable growth, while leading integrated operations as the company scales. Anita came to Paro with more than 20 years of executive leadership experience at Groupon, Ladders and Vonage, where she ran multinational two-sided marketplaces and e-commerce enterprises while using cutting-edge machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques. Anita serves as a member of the advisory board at the Columbia Business School, Deming Center.