Andela, the skills outsourcing company that grew into a unicorn, has appointed Carrol Chang as its new CEO. Chang replaces Andela’s co-founder Jeremy Johnson who is stepping down as CEO and can remain on the corporate’s board.
Chang will join the corporate’s board on September 17. She served as the worldwide head of driver and courier operations at lunge-hailing monumental Uber and had stints at McKinsey & Firm and the Division of Native land Security.
“I am deeply grateful for the privilege to handbook Andela. It’s rare to search out a mission-driven company that also has the ability to originate a category-defining replace. I’m impressed by the manner Jeremy has led Andela up to now, and I just like the belief he and the Board now save in me to build ahead its mission,” acknowledged Chang.
Her appointment comes as the ten-twelve months-ragged company seeks to snag a bigger fragment of the worldwide skills market. Andela, which started by coaching African tool developers for jobs at US companies and someplace else, has grown into a skills marketplace. It turned a unicorn in 2021 after elevating a $200 million Sequence E funding round led by SoftBank. The identical twelve months, the corporate expanded to Latin and South The usa.
In 2023, Andela got Certified, an summary platform that certifies high engineering abilities, for an undisclosed quantity.
“After ten years, I’m deeply elated with the replace we’ve helped to catalyze. That acknowledged, it’s sure that global hiring is before all the pieces of a entire digital transformation, and Carrol is the most sensible chief each for Andela’s next stage of dispute and to succor bring in the generation of skills marketplaces,” acknowledged Johnson.
Founded in 2014, Andela grew to become a premier source for proficient developers in Africa thanks to its curriculum and coaching methodology. The corporate claims to have trained bigger than 110,000 tech abilities in Africa and helped proficient folk from over 135 international locations fabricate world class careers.
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