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Whitney Wolfe Herd

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Whitney Wolfe Herd, Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder of Bumble app and our Chief Executive Officer, and has served as a member of our Board of Directors since January 2020. From January 2024 to March 2025, she served as our Executive Chair. Before assuming the Executive Chair role, Ms. Wolfe Herd served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company from January 2020 to January 2024. She resumed her role as Chief Executive Officer in March 2025. Prior to founding Bumble app in 2014, Ms. Wolfe Herd was a co-founder of Tinder, a dating application, where she served as Vice President of Marketing from May 2012 to April 2014. Currently, Ms. Wolfe Herd serves on the board of directors of Imagine Entertainment as well as the executive board at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences, where she graduated with a B.A. in International Studies.

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