Joining our Board: Welcome Meredith Kopit Levien and Lily Sarafan

As we focus on Instacart’s next chapter of growth, we’re always looking for new leaders with unique experience and expertise to help us realize our ambitions and drive long-term value. To that end, today we’re thrilled to share that two of those leaders — Meredith Kopit Levien and Lily Sarafan — have agreed to join our Board of Directors.

Meredith is the President and CEO of The New York Times Company, where she directs the overall business strategy and leads its global operations. She joined The Times in 2013, and helped lead its transformation to become a fast-growing, digital business. She is a seasoned executive who brings deep experience building and leading cross-functional teams to scale subscriptions and create engaging direct-to-consumer products. Meredith also spent five years at Forbes, where she held various roles including Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer. We’ll be tapping into her deep expertise in launching and scaling digital products with leading subscription models, particularly as we continue to enhance our service and deliver even more value to customers through our own membership offering, Instacart Express. 

As Co-Founder, former CEO, and now Executive Chair, Lily has led Home Care Assistance from its earliest days as a startup to its current position as an industry leader in senior care with more than 10,000 frontline workers. Lily brings a deep passion for building consumer marketplaces that infuse technology into everyday tasks to make them more accessible and affordable, as well as invaluable experience supporting a community of thousands of frontline workers. She’s done this at Home Care Assistance, which was recently recognized as one of the 50 fastest-growing women-owned companies in the world, and also as a Board member for Thumbtack.

As we focus on continuing to support all the communities we serve, we believe our teams — and our Board of Directors — must reflect the diverse community of people using Instacart. We’re excited to welcome Meredith and Lily to the Board, and look forward to being an even stronger company with them on the team.