Elizabeth Schwartz

Elizabeth has spent more than 10 years optimizing business operations at high-growth companies across industries. Her expertise in moving businesses to data-driven decision making, combined with a hands-on approach, has been instrumental in helping brands successfully navigate the journey to scale, while preserving corporate culture and staying true to business values.

As the Chief Operations Officer for Square Root, Elizabeth is responsible for managing day-to-day operations across several departments, including HR, finance, product, data science, and engineering. Elizabeth joined Square Root in April 2010 as Vice President of Operations and Analytics. Before that she served as Senior Manager of Next Gen Tools at PayPal, where she managed a PMO, founded an engineering analytics team, and launched an agile development transformation. Elizabeth holds a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University.

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