Press release
Intuit Names Marianna Tessel General Manager of Small Business and Self-Employed Group
Leader of Intuit’s customer and product experiences to oversee company’s largest and fastest growing business unit Alex Balazs promoted to Chief Technology
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nLeader of Intuit’s customer and product experiences to oversee company’s largest and fastest growing business unit\n\n\nAlex Balazs promoted to Chief Technology Officer\n\n\n MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nIntuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, named Marianna Tessel General Manager of its Small Business and Self-Employed Group, Intuit’s largest and fastest growing business. Effective September 5, 2023, Tessel will be stepping into the position previously held by Alex Chriss, who has been named the new CEO of PayPal. Intuit also announced that Alex Balazs will succeed Tessel as the company’s new Chief Technology Officer, also effective September 5, 2023.\n\n\nTessel is a proven transformational leader who joined Intuit in 2017 and has served as Intuit’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for nearly five years. As CTO, Tessel has accelerated Intuit’s growth as the key driver of its strategy to be the global AI-driven expert platform, in service to the company’s mission of powering prosperity around the world. She has reshaped the company into a world-class innovative SaaS platform, advancing Intuit’s customer and product experiences while significantly accelerating velocity of innovation. Tessel has overseen the development of Intuit’s groundbreaking GenOS, the company’s generative AI operating system, on which all of Intuit's GenAI innovations are built to fuel best-in class customer experiences across the platform. Prior to becoming CTO, she served as Chief Product Development Officer for the Small Business and Self-Employed Group, leading the expansion of Intuit’s small business product offerings, leveraging technology and data to accelerate the growth of small businesses. Before joining Intuit, she helped build businesses from the ground up, serving as Executive Vice President of Strategic Development at Docker, where she led strategic partnerships and expanded its product portfolio and open source platform. She also held executive level positions at VMware, where she led industry partnerships. Tessel currently serves on Cisco’s Board of Directors.\n\n\n“Marianna is a bold leader who has been integral to accelerating Intuit’s innovation to drive growth. She has a deep commitment to powering small businesses’ prosperity t...