12 Facts About Shar Dubey

Shar Dubey serves as a board director of Match Group, Naspers, and Prosus.

Previously, Dubey served as the chief executive officer of Match Group from March 2020 to May 2022.

Shar Dubey earned a bachelor's degree in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1993.

Shar Dubey was the only woman metallurgical engineer that year and Sundar Pichai was a classmate, and said she almost quit in her first week.

Shar Dubey began her career in 1998, as an engineer for Texas Instruments, before joining supply chain management software company i2 technologies, where she worked with Mandy Ginsberg and served as director of product until 2006.

Shar Dubey continued to serve in multiple roles, including EVP of The Princeton Review and Tutor.

In 2017, Shar Dubey briefly served as the chief operating officer of Tinder and led the launch of Tinder Gold.

In January 2018, Shar Dubey was appointed President of Match Group and joined its board of directors in 2019.

In March 2020, Shar Dubey became CEO of Match Group, succeeding Mandy Ginsberg who stepped down for personal reasons.

Shar Dubey began her tenure as CEO for Match Group just as the COVID-19 pandemic was hitting the US and three months before the company spun off from IAC.

In May 2022, Shar Dubey stepped down as CEO of Match Group and was succeeded by Bernard Kim.

Shar Dubey made clear that this was a personal fund, and not on behalf of Match Group.