Katie Jacobs Stanton
Katie Jacobs Stanton is an American executive. She is the Founder and General Partner of . Prior to starting Moxxie Ventures, Stanton was the CMO of Color Genomics and the Vice President of Global Media at Twitter. She worked at Twitter from July 2010 through January 2016. Stanton sits on the Board of Directors for Vivendi and Time.
She lives in San Francisco, California, with her three children.
In January 2010 she was appointed the Special Advisor to the Office of Innovation at the U.S. State Department, where she made extensive use of Twitter. Previously, Barack Obama appointed her to the newly created Director of Citizen Participation position. Stanton is a veteran of Google, where her work has included Google Moderator, Google Finance, and the Open Social initiative. Previously, she was a producer for Yahoo! Finance.
Stanton graduated of Rhodes College with a B.A. in political science in 1991 and received a MIA master's degree in 1995 from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She graduated from Hendrick Hudson High School of Montrose, New York, in 1987.
