Leadership - Coursera Blog

Chair of the Board and Co-Founder of Coursera
Andrew Ng is one of our co-founders and served as Co-CEO until 2014. He has served as our Chairman of the Board since our inception in 2014. Dr. Ng is a leading voice in artificial intelligence (AI) and online education. In 2013, he was named in the Time100 list of the most influential people in the world. Dr. Ng has served as Managing General Partner of AI Fund, a venture studio that supports entrepreneurs in building AI companies, since January 2018. Dr. Ng also has led DeepLearning.AI, an education technology company he founded to provide AI training, since June 2017. Dr. Ng is also the Founder of LandingAI, which provides visual AI solutions, where he has served as Executive Chairman since August 2024 and previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman from October 2017 to August 2024. Dr. Ng has also served as the Managing Partner of AI Aspire, an advisory firm for AI strategy, since its formation in July 2025. Dr. Ng currently also serves as an adjunct professor in Computer Science at Stanford University. From April 2017 to May 2024, he was Chief Scientist at Baidu, Inc., a multinational technology company, where he led the company’s global AI strategy and infrastructure. Dr. Ng was the founding lead of the Google Brain team from 2011 to 2012. In 2011, Dr. Ng led the development of Stanford’s first massive open online course (MOOC) platform and launched an online machine learning class that reached over 100,000 students—an initiative that inspired the creation of Coursera. Since April 2024, Dr. Ng has served on the board of Amazon.com, Inc. In addition, Dr. Ng is a board member of several privately-held companies engaged in AI. Dr. Ng has authored or co-authored over 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics, and related fields. He holds degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, MIT, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Chief Executive Officer and President
Greg Hart joined Coursera as President and CEO, and a member of the Board in February 2025, bringing over 25 years of leadership in technology-driven innovation and operational excellence. Greg previously served as Chief Operating Officer at Compass, Inc., a real estate technology company, from May 2022 to December 2023, and as its Chief Product Officer from April 2020 to April 2022. Prior to that, Greg held various leadership positions at Amazon.com, Inc., where he served for 23 years, including leading Amazon Prime Video, leading the creation and launch of Amazon Alexa and Echo, and serving as Technical Advisor to Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and Chief Executive Officer. Since December 2024, he has served as a member of the board of directors of Bose Corporation. Greg holds a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College and is an inventor or co-inventor on 71 US patents.
SVP, Chief Content Officer
Marni Baker Stein is Coursera’s Senior Vice President, Chief Content Officer, where she oversees the company’s content and credential strategy and partner relationships. Marni has more than 25 years of experience in producing and scaling online and hybrid education programs. Prior to joining Coursera, she was Chief Academic Officer and Provost at Western Governors University, where she led its four colleges serving more than 135,000 students with programs that improved access and affordability without compromising academic quality. Before that, Marni held several leadership positions focused on access, student success, and program design at institutions such as the University of Texas, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her PhD in Educational Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania.
SVP, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Tom Savage has served as Coursera’s Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary since September 2026. Prior to joining Coursera, Savage held various legal leadership roles at Red Hat over nearly a decade, from November 2017 to May 2026, most recently as Vice President and General Counsel for Red Hat at IBM. Earlier in his career, he served as General Counsel at Marvell Technology, Inc. and as a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. He holds a J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. in Government from Harvard College.
SVP, Chief Financial Officer
Mike Foley has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer since November 2025. Prior to joining Coursera, Mike served as Venture Advisor to AI and technology companies at NEA from June 2024 to December 2025. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Branch Metrics, Inc., a mobile linking and attribution platform, from March 2023 to April 2024. Previously, from January 2019 to July 2021, he was the Head of Finance for Emerging Hardware and Services at Alphabet, Inc. Before his time at Google, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Unity Software, Inc. from January 2015 to September 2018. Mike also previously served as SVP, Strategic Planning and Corporate Development at Electronic Arts, Inc. and as director of Corporate Development at Microsoft, Corp. He previously served as Assistant Director, Lead Advisory at Ernst & Young London. Mike holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an honors degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, and an honorary doctorate in Engineering from the Glasgow Caledonian University. He is a Qualified Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
SVP, Chief Technology Officer
Mustafa Furniturewala is the Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer at Coursera. With oversight of infrastructure, data, and information technology teams, he ensures the Coursera platform operates at scale while driving innovation and efficiency in learning technology. Prior to joining Coursera in 2014, Mustafa held various engineering roles at Twitter, Evernote, and Citrix Systems. He received his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Roche