Marianna Tessel is General Manager of Intuit’s Small Business and Self-Employed Group. She leads Intuit’s largest and fastest-growing business unit that delivers QuickBooks and Mailchimp to 10 million customers around the world who rely on Intuit daily to be the source of truth for their businesses, solve their biggest challenges, and help them to grow and run their business with confidence.
Marianna joined Intuit in 2017 and was previously Chief Technology Officer during which she led Intuit’s strategy to be the global AI-driven expert platform. As CTO, she reshaped the company into a world-class SaaS platform, advancing customer and product experiences while significantly accelerating the velocity of innovation. Prior to becoming CTO, she served as Chief Product Officer for Intuit’s Small Business and Self-Employed Group. Before joining Intuit, she served as Executive Vice President of Strategic Development at Docker, where she led strategic partnerships and expanded its product portfolio and open-source platform. She also held executive-level positions at VMware and engineering leadership roles at Ariba and General Magic. Marianna currently serves on Cisco’s Board of Directors.
At the beginning of her career, Marianna served as Captain for Computer Center R&D in the Israeli Army. She earned a B.S. in computer science from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and has completed coursework toward an M.S. in computer science and brain research from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.