SHEILA VASHEE
Sheila Vashee is the Chief Marketing Officer at Figma, overseeing the marketing, communications, growth and customer support teams. Prior to joining Figma, Sheila served as Chief Marketing Officer and Consumer GM at Ethos, VP of Marketing and Growth at Opendoor, and was the second marketing hire at Dropbox, scaling the team to 80 people and 1 billion in revenue. She is also currently a Venture partner at Basis Set Ventures, an early stage investing firm, advising early stage companies on growth and operations. She started her career as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and holds a BA from Stanford in Economics and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
PRAVEER MELWANI
Praveer Melwani has served as Figma’s Chief Financial Officer since March 2022, and Treasurer since February 2024. Praveer joined Figma in July 2017 and previously served as the company’s Head of Business Operations and Finance. Prior to Figma, Praveer held positions in Business Operations at NerdWallet, in Strategic Finance at Dropbox, and in investment banking at Union Square Advisors. Praveer holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Ivey Business School at Western University.
YUHKI YAMASHITA
Yuhki Yamashita is the Chief Product Officer at Figma, where he leads the product and design teams. Before joining Figma, he was at Uber for over four years, where he led the redesign of both the rider and driver apps. Prior to that, he was responsible for the YouTube app on iOS at Google and spent more than two years working on Outlook and Windows products at Microsoft. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard University.
