Quora Names Autumn Besselman as Chief People Officer

Mountain View, CA, February 14, 2022 – FlemingMartin is pleased to announce that Quora, the world’s knowledge leader with more than 300 million monthly users, has hired Autumn Besselman to be their new Chief People Officer.

Autumn will serve on the leadership team as Quora continues to grow and enter new phases. She will be responsible for effectively inspiring, coaching, and developing a growth-focused and culture-driven team as well as driving strategy and shaping operations.

Autumn is an extremely bright People leader who excels at attracting and retaining top talent. She offers more than 25 years of experience and has spent the majority of her career at McKinsey in various roles. These roles include Partner, Director of Strategy, People, and Operations, Global Director of Partner Personnel, and (most recently) Global COO of McKinsey Digital. At the outset of her career, Autumn worked for NASA JPL, a scientific laboratory owned by Cal Tech. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Cornell and an MBA from Wharton.

Founded in 2009, Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge . With more than 300 million monthly users, Quora is a remote-first company that has raised $285 million in Venture Capital funding from investors including BlackRock, Valor Equity Partners, and Collaborative Fund. Quora is valued at $1.8 billion and enables people from all over the world to come together to share and learn across millions of common interests. The Company also creates original content.

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