Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (born Sukhinder Singh in 1970) is a technology executive and entrepreneur. Currently the president of StubHub, she has worked at various tech and media companies including Google, Amazon and News Corp, Yodlee (YODL), and Polyvore. In 2011, she founded JOYUS, the video shopping platform for women, and served as CEO then Chairman until 2017. Singh Cassidy is also Founder of theBoardlist. Cassidy started her career in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York. She moved to the Merrill Lynch London office 1994. She then worked as an analyst for British Sky Broadcasting.
In 1998, Cassidy moved to Silicon Valley and joined ecommerce startup Junglee (company) as Head of Business Development. Junglee was acquired by Amazon in 1998. Following the acquisition, Cassidy joined Amazon, where she led merchant business development for the first generation of Amazon marketplace. According to Bloomberg Business, she helped create “one of the company’s first programs designed to deliver shoppers to merchants that carried what the buyers were looking for.
In 2003, Cassidy joined Google as the first General Manager for Google Local & Maps, and Head of Content Acquisition for Books, Library, Scholar, Shopping and Video. There she launched Google Local and Maps, with product manager Bret Taylor and a team of engineers. In 2004, she became head of Google’s international operations in Asia Pacific (APAC) and Latin America (LATAM), becoming VP in 2005 and then President of APAC and LATAM in 2008. Singh-Cassidy is credited with building Google’s presence across 103 countries in Asia Pacific and Latin America.
