American businesswoman
Therese Tucker is an American businesswoman, the chairman, CEO and founder of BlackLine , an enterprise software company with a market cap of $2.17 billion as of 2018.[ 2]
Early life
She has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Illinois .[ 1]
Career
Tucker's first job was with Hughes Aircraft as an engineer building fault detection firmware for surface ship sonar.[ 3]
Tucker was the chief technology officer (CTO) at SunGard Treasury Systems .[ 4] [ 1]
In 2001, Tucker founded BlackLine , an enterprise software company.[ 3] She took BlackLine public in 2016 . Tucker served as chairman and CEO until she stepped down in August, 2020.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
Following the BlackLine IPO in October 2016,[ 2] [ 9] [ 10]
Award
Personal life
Tucker is married, with two children, and her husband works as a hospital chaplain.[ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
References
^ a b c "Therese Tucker: Executive Profile & Biography" . Bloomberg. Retrieved 2017-05-06 .^ a b Wells, Jane (2018-05-25). "The pink-haired CEO of a $2 billion tech company talks glass ceilings, #MeToo and equal pay" . CNBC . Retrieved 2020-04-27 . ^ a b "Therese Tucker of BlackLine" . FinTech Profile. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2017-05-06 .^ "Therese Tucker: Bring on the Saas - CSQ | Magazine, Events, Community" . CSQ | Magazine, Events, Community . 2017-04-01. Retrieved 2017-05-10 .^ Dave, Paresh (October 28, 2016). "L.A.'s latest $1-billion tech company has a female CEO" . The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved May 6, 2017 . ^ "BlackLine to install new CEO, founder Therese Tucker to step down" . Accounting Today . 2020-08-06. Retrieved 2021-09-21 .^ "Why BlackLine founder-CEO Therese Tucker—who broke some of tech's toughest gender barriers—is stepping down" . www.yahoo.com . 15 August 2020. Retrieved 2021-09-21 .^ "Board of Directors | BlackLine, Inc" . investors.blackline.com . Retrieved 2021-09-21 .^ Enterprise (2016-10-28). "BlackLine's Therese Tucker made history and millions with her IPO - Business Insider" . Uk.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2017-05-06 . ^ "Therese Tucker" . Forbes . Retrieved 2020-04-27 .^ "Therese Tucker" . Forbes ^ "INTERVIEW WITH THERESE TUCKER CEO AND FOUNDER OF BLACKLINE SYSTEMS – Global Banking And Finance Review Magazine – Financial & Business Insights" . www.globalbankingandfinance.com . Global Banking an Finance review. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2017 .^ "First Female CEO to Lead a Venture-Capital-Backed Startup to IPO Shares Secret of Her Success" . Hfma.org. February 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-06 .^ "Can You Do It All? BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker (Part 1)" . Sramana Mitra. 2010-09-13. Retrieved 2017-05-06 .
