Discord executive team & leadership

Updated Data as of September 2026

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Discord's executive team includes 6 tracked leaders as of September 2026, led by Humam Sakhnini (Chief Executive Officer). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.

Discord executive team overview

Discord has 8 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, technology strategy and engineering, financial strategy, marketing (as of September 2026). Discord is a voice, video, and text communication platform used by over 200 million people every month to talk and hang out with their communities and friends. Originally built around gaming, Discord organizes conversation into servers and channels, and today more than half of its communities span interests well beyond games, including education, developer ecosystems, and creators. Discord's mission is to give people the power to create belonging in their lives.

Discord executive team org chart

HSHumam SakhniniChief Executive Officer

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Employees by management level

Profiles by management levelEstimated
Profiles by management level
NameProfilesShare
C-level120.2%
VP551.1%
Director2404.9%
Manager70014%
Individual contributor3,90880%

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Leadership team

LeaderLocationEmailProfile
HSHumam SakhniniChief Executive Officer San Francisco, California ••••@discord.com
SVStanislav VishnevskiyCo-Founder and Chief Technology Officer San Francisco, California ••••@discord.com
TMTomasz MarcinkowskiChief Financial Officer San Francisco, California ••••@discord.com
CSClint SmithChief Legal Officer San Francisco, California ••••@discord.com
RRRenee RodriguezChief Accounting Officer San Francisco, California ••••@discord.com
JCJason CitronJason CitronCo-Founder, Board Member and Advisor to the CEO San Francisco, California ••••@discord.com

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Discord leadership history

Leaders who have held a tracked role at Discord and moved on. Their profiles stay published at the same address.

NameFormer rolePeriodProfile
Tesa AragonesChief Marketing Officer2020 - 2021
Heather SullivanChief People Officer2019 - 2022

Discord executive team roles

Humam Sakhnini · full profile →

Chief Executive Officer

Humam Sakhnini is the Chief Executive Officer of Discord, a role he began on April 28, 2025. He brings more than 15 years of senior leadership in the gaming industry, having previously served as Chief Strategy Officer at Activision Blizzard and as President of King Digital Entertainment, the maker of Candy Crush. He succeeded founder Jason Citron, who moved to the Board of Directors and serves as Advisor to the CEO.

Stanislav Vishnevskiy · full profile →

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Stanislav Vishnevskiy is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Discord, which he started with Jason Citron in 2015. He leads the company's engineering, product, design, and data organizations, and has guided the technical architecture that lets Discord serve hundreds of millions of users in real time.

Tomasz Marcinkowski · full profile →

Chief Financial Officer

Tomasz Marcinkowski joined Discord in March 2021 as the company's first Chief Financial Officer. Before Discord, he spent five years as Head of Finance at Pinterest. Earlier he worked for almost a decade in technology investment banking at Goldman Sachs, advising clients such as Square, Yahoo!, Yelp and Hewlett-Packard on financing and M&A deals.

Clint Smith · full profile →

Chief Legal Officer

Clint Smith joined Discord in 2020 as its first Chief Legal Officer. He oversees law, policy and online safety, which covers the Law & Policy team, Trust & Safety and Corporate Security. He chairs the board of ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools), a non-profit that builds open-source safety tools. He began his career as an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Washington DC.

Renee Rodriguez · full profile →

Chief Accounting Officer

Renee Rodriguez has been Chief Accounting Officer at Discord since February 2022. Before Discord, she spent about 13 years at Netflix, most recently as VP, Corporate Controller. Earlier in her career she was an audit senior manager at KPMG, focused on software and high-technology clients.

Jason Citron · full profile →

Co-Founder, Board Member and Advisor to the CEO

Jason Citron is the co-founder of Discord and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 2015 until April 2025, when he transitioned to the Board of Directors and became Advisor to the CEO. Before Discord, he founded the game studio and social platform OpenFeint, which was acquired by GREE in 2011.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Who leads Discord?

Discord is led by Humam Sakhnini, its Chief Executive Officer, alongside 5 other tracked leaders such as Stanislav Vishnevskiy (Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer) and Tomasz Marcinkowski (Chief Financial Officer) (as of September 2026).

Who is part of Discord's executive team?

Discord's tracked executive team includes Humam Sakhnini (Chief Executive Officer), Stanislav Vishnevskiy (Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer), Tomasz Marcinkowski (Chief Financial Officer), Clint Smith (Chief Legal Officer), Renee Rodriguez (Chief Accounting Officer), Jason Citron (Co-Founder, Board Member and Advisor to the CEO) (as of September 2026). See the full list and org chart above.

How many executives does Discord have?

Discord has 6 tracked executives as of September 2026. The company has around 4,915 tracked employee profiles in total.

What roles are on Discord's leadership team?

Discord's leadership roles include Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Accounting Officer, Co-Founder, Board Member and Advisor to the CEO (as of September 2026).

How can I contact Discord's executives?

You can find and verify each leader's professional email and direct phone number with Derrick, from its web app or Google Sheets. Addresses generally follow the first.last@discord.com pattern, but individual addresses are not published here, so confirm before reaching out.