Sandra Taylor
Director of Finance/CFO at Playground Global
Profile
Sandy Taylor is the CFO for Playground Global.
An entrepreneurial-minded finance executive with decades of startup experience, Sandy brings her passion for building high-performance teams and leading organizations through significant growth to the firm and its portfolio companies.
Drawn to tech from an early age, Sandy moved to Silicon Valley in the late 1990s to realize her dream.
She first worked at Oracle as Director of Finance and Strategic Planning, where she relished the opportunity to build a new team at an established organization and developed a keen interest in early technology.
After spending time at early online marketplace Respond Networks, Sandy linked up with her future Playground colleagues at Danger, Inc. With Sandy in the VP of Finance role, Danger’s subscriber base grew from 60,000 to nearly 1.4 million.
She helped secure funding from the likes of Redpoint Ventures and Softbank, and played a key role in the negotiation and execution of Microsoft’s $500M+ acquisition of the business.
Sandy stayed at Microsoft for another two years before assuming the CFO role at Zong, later leading PayPal’s acquisition of the firm.
Sandy stayed on as CFO of PayPal after the deal, where she was responsible for the Finance and Operational Excellence for PayPal Mobile and the integration of Zong business functions into PayPal and eBay.
rried with one daughter and lives in Palo Alto, CA, where she spends most of her spare time working on the constant remodeling of her 100+-year-old home.
Sandra Taylor active positions
| Companies | Position | Start |
|---|---|---|
Playground Global
 Playground Global Investment ManagersFinance Playground Global (Playground Global) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Director of Finance/CFO | 2018-03-31 |
Former positions of Sandra Taylor
| Companies | Position | End |
|---|---|---|
Mocana Corp.
 Mocana Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Mocana Corp. develops security software solutions. It mobilizes enterprise data and protects millions of the smart connected devices that comprise the Internet of Things. The firm’s enterprise mobile app security platform provides organizations with an easy way to deliver business-critical mobile apps, with a end user experience, tap-and-go simplicity and strong security, for internal and external users. It also unlocks the extended mobile enterprise and simplifies wide-scale deployments by securing apps automatically, in seconds. The company was founded by Adrian Turner and James Andrew Blaisdell in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Director of Finance/CFO | 2017-06-30 |
| Respond Networks, Inc. | Director of Finance/CFO | 2002-12-31 |
| ORACLE CORPORATION | Director of Finance/CFO | 1999-12-31 |
KPMG LLP
 KPMG LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
| MICROSOFT CORPORATION | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Training of Sandra Taylor
| The University of New Mexico | Undergraduate Degree |
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| Listed companies | 2 |
|---|---|
| ORACLE CORPORATION | Technology Services |
| MICROSOFT CORPORATION | Technology Services |
| Private companies | 8 |
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Danger, Inc.
 Danger, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Danger, Inc. provides wireless communication services. The company's services include enabling wireless operators to offer mobile data products to consumers such as web enabled cell phone features, including internet browsing and messaging capabilities. The company was founded in 1999 and is located in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
| Respond Networks, Inc. | |
Zong, Inc.
 Zong, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Zong, Inc. provides online mobile payment services for online gaming and social networking sites. It leverages direct connections with mobile network operators around the world to provide consumers, merchants and publishers a secure payment solution. The company was founded by David A. Marcus in 2008 and is headquartered in Laguna Hills, CA. | Technology Services |
Work4 Labs, Inc.
 Work4 Labs, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Work4 Labs, Inc. develops Facebook recruitment application software. It helps companies leverage social media to find, engage, and hire candidates. It also provides social recruiting and human resources. The company was founded by Stéphane Le Viet, Matthew Brown, and Gautier Machelon in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
PayPal, Inc.
 PayPal, Inc. Finance/Rental/LeasingFinance PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Finance |
KPMG LLP
KPMG LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY. | Commercial Services |
Mocana Corp.
Mocana Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Mocana Corp. develops security software solutions. It mobilizes enterprise data and protects millions of the smart connected devices that comprise the Internet of Things. The firm’s enterprise mobile app security platform provides organizations with an easy way to deliver business-critical mobile apps, with a end user experience, tap-and-go simplicity and strong security, for internal and external users. It also unlocks the extended mobile enterprise and simplifies wide-scale deployments by securing apps automatically, in seconds. The company was founded by Adrian Turner and James Andrew Blaisdell in 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Technology Services |
Playground Global
Playground Global Investment ManagersFinance Playground Global (Playground Global) is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Andy Rubin. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | Finance |
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