William Ready

William J.
Ready is currently Chief Executive Officer & Director at Pinterest, Inc. since 2022.
He serves as Independent Director at Williams-Sonoma, Inc. since 2020 and at Visa, Inc. starting in 2025.
He is Director at Venminder LLC, Senior Advisor at Silversmith Management LP, and Senior Advisor at Brighton Park Capital Management LP since 2019.
Former roles include President-Commerce, Payments & Next Billion Users at Alphabet, Inc. and Google LLC from 2020 to 2022, Executive Vice President at PayPal Holdings, Inc. in 2019, Chief Executive Officer at Braintree Payment Solutions LLC from 2011 to 2013, President at iPay Technologies LLC from 2010 to 2011, Executives-in-Residence at Accel Partners LLC in 2011, Manager-Software & Product Development at Humana, Inc. in 2004, Principal at Netzee, Inc. from 1998 to 2001, and Independent Director at Automatic Data Processing, Inc. Education includes undergraduate studies at the University of Louisville and an MBA from Harvard Business School.