Solmaz Shahalizadeh
Director/Board Member at Natural Partners Fullscript
Profile
Solmaz Shahalizadeh is an operating advisor at Bessemer, an executive and advisor in data and product, and a founding partner of Backbone Angels, a collective focused on funding more diverse and women-founded companies.
Most recently, she was the Vice President and Head of Data at Shopify, helping it grow from 100k to over 1.75 million merchants from 2013 to 2022.
In her role, Solmaz was the voice of data in the senior leadership team and evangelized a culture of being data informed across the company.
She spent her early years building the company’s financial data warehouse and analytics, and played a critical role in their successful IPO.
With a passion to create experiences powered by data, she started and scaled Shopify’s portfolio of data products such as Shopify’s order fraud detection that runs in real-time on every order placed across Shopify platform, and Shopify Capital that has funded over 3B$ in cash advances to merchants based on machine learning models.
As the leader of the data team and discipline, she grew Shopify’s data team to over 500 data scientists, engineers and product managers, and additionally took on leading the suite of merchant-facing analytical products to give Shopify merchants best-in-class analytical experiences.
Solmaz Shahalizadeh active positions
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Natural Partners Fullscript
Natural Partners Fullscript Internet RetailRetail Trade Natural Partners Fullscript operates as a nutraceutical prescribing platform for healthcare practitioners. The firm focuses on scaling its online technology platform Fullscript, that enables healthcare practitioners in the U.S. and Canada to dispense professional-grade nutritional supplements to patients through an e-prescribing platform. The company was founded by Tye Smith in 1995 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ. | Director/Board Member | 2022-08-03 |
Deer Management Co. LLC
Deer Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Consultant / Advisor | 2022-10-31 |
Training of Solmaz Shahalizadeh
McGill University | Graduate Degree |
Chalmers University of Technology | Graduate Degree |
University of Tehran | Undergraduate Degree |
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Natural Partners Fullscript
Natural Partners Fullscript Internet RetailRetail Trade Natural Partners Fullscript operates as a nutraceutical prescribing platform for healthcare practitioners. The firm focuses on scaling its online technology platform Fullscript, that enables healthcare practitioners in the U.S. and Canada to dispense professional-grade nutritional supplements to patients through an e-prescribing platform. The company was founded by Tye Smith in 1995 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ. | Retail Trade |
Deer Management Co. LLC
Deer Management Co. LLC Investment ManagersFinance Deer Management Co. LLC (Bessemer Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1911. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
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