Management Team

Mr. Risher has served as our Chief Executive Officer since April 2023 and as a member of our board of directors since July 2021. Mr. Risher co-founded Worldreader, a non-profit organization, and has served as its Chief Executive Officer from November 2009 until April 2023 and as Board President since March 2010. Prior to Worldreader, Mr. Risher served as Senior Vice President, US Retail at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior to joining Amazon, he served as a General Manager at Microsoft Corporation, a software company. Mr. Risher currently serves on the boards of directors of a number of privately-held and non-profit companies. Mr. Risher holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an honorary Ph.D. from Wilson College.

Ms. Brewer has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July 2023. From May 2020 to October 2022, Ms. Brewer served as Managing Director Enterprise Finance at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., a financial services company. From September 2018 to April 2020, Ms. Brewer served as Head of Strategy and Finance at Atlassian Corporation, a software development company. Previously, Ms. Brewer served in a variety of roles for McKesson Corporation from August 2005 to July 2018, most recently as EVP and Chief Accounting Officer from 2016 to 2018 and before that in a variety of senior investor relations, financial planning and analysis, and finance roles. Ms. Brewer also served as a board member for McKesson Ventures from 2016 to 2018. Ms. Brewer holds a B.S. in Accounting from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.