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Sarah Riley

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Chief Financial Officer at dbt Labs
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Sarah Riley is the Chief Financial Officer at dbt Labs, specializing in scaling high-growth SaaS companies for public offerings. Drawing on her experience at Zoom, Okta, and Salesforce, she builds world-class finance and data teams. She holds a B. S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Sarah played a key role in scaling Zoom from a few hundred million to a multi-billion dollar company in preparation for its successful 2019 IPO.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
Chief Financial Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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Scaling SaaS Companies
Her career is defined by guiding high-growth SaaS companies like Zoom, Okta, and dbt Labs through rapid scaling phases toward IPO and beyond.
IPO Readiness
She has direct, hands-on experience leading finance strategy for the successful IPOs at both Okta (2017) and Zoom (2019), a core part of her current role.
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Career

Work history

6-2024
Chief Financial Officer
dbt Labs
2-2023 - 6-2024
VP, Head of Finance & Strategy
dbt Labs
1-2022 - 2-2023
Sr. Director, Head of Finance & Strategy
dbt Labs
1-2021 - 8-2024
Advisor
Daydream
11-2020 - 1-2022
Director, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis
Zoom
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Education
2009 - 2013
B.S. Business Administration
University of Southern California
2012 - 2012
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
University of St.Gallen
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