Our Team
We're making Gazelle the best and most trusted reCommerce site in the world. It starts with our team.
Management Team
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Israel Ganot
President, Co-founder and CEO
Israel Ganot is the cofounder, president and CEO of Gazelle. But it's the intangibles he brings to the company ‒ his passion for recycling and reCommerce, his devotion to customer service, and his personal touch with employees ‒ that make the difference. Israel was born in Peru, raised in Israel, and came of age in America, where he's spent two decades in online and offline retail. During six years at eBay and PayPal he was instrumental in the company's expansion to Europe, Latin America and Asia. Israel also served as Director of Finance & Operations at eBay UK Ltd., helping to scale that local business to $300 million. From Gazelle's start, Israel's intent has been to unlock the value in everyday objects and help the world rethink what it means to buy, own and sell electronics. Since he became President and CEO in 2008, Gazelle has grown into America's largest reCommerce service, with more than 1 million electronic tradeins. Boston Business Journal chose him as Emerging Leader for its Best Green Practices awards in 2012 and Ernst & Young named him a 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year finalist for his early accomplishments at Gazelle. Israel has been quoted as a reCommerce expert in Forbes, CNN and The Wall Street Journal. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and a B.S. from the Stern School at New York University.
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Chris Sullivan
Chief Financial Officer
Chris joined Gazelle in 2010 after more than two decades of financial leadership roles in private technology startups and large public multinationals. As CFO, his ability to focus simultaneously on the strategic and tactical needs of the business along with strong M&A expertise and leadership skills helped drive strong revenue and improved profitability at companies Pegasystems, Event Zero, HR Access and Fidelity’s Institutional Brokerage Business. Chris also held senior finance and Strategy roles at DEC, Compaq and Fisher Scientific. He has overseen a variety of other functions including, Human Resources, IT, Legal, Sales and Operations. The Boston Business Journal named him its CFO of the Year for midsized private companies in 2012. Chris earned both his B.S. and M.B.A. from Babson College. For fun, he likes to write music, play guitar and ski.
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Sarah Welch
Chief Marketing Officer
Sarah joined Gazelle after six years at TripAdvisor, where she helped the company grow from a small dotcom into the world's most visited travel site. She now leads all aspects of Gazelle's end-to-end customer experience – marketing, product, and customer care, bringing to the job her passion for building strong teams and trusted brands. Sarah's roles at TripAdvisor included VP of Marketing and VP of the TripAdvisor Media Group, where she drove synergies across the company's large portfolio of travel brands. Earlier she worked for BabyCenter, Johnson & Johnson's popular site for pregnant women and new parents. Sarah holds an M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Brown University. Outside work, she is passionate about her two kids, a good read and a great meal, whether haute cuisine or quality cheap eats.
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Ben Katz
Chief Technology Officer
Ben leads the Engineering & Operations teams, who develop the technology to make sure our customer's have a great experience when they engage with Gazelle. Before joining Gazelle in 2010, Ben was CIO of Rue La La, the leading "private sale" ecommerce site. Earlier he was VP of Innovation at Allurent, where he led user experience projects from inception through deployment. Ben also ran the global delivery organization at Professional Access (where he built ecommerce retail sites like Anthropologie.com) and served as Director of Technology at ATG, where he ran projects that delivered e-commerce sites for J.Crew, Sun and others. Ben started his career as an engineer in the aerospace industry, developing hardware & software to control commercial and military jet aircraft. Ben, a keen photographer and cyclist, hails from England, where he graduated with a First Class Honors degree in Computer Science from The Polytechnic Wolverhampton.
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Susan M. McCuaig
Chief Talent Officer
Susan joined Gazelle in 2013 after building world-class organizations, from small e-commerce start-ups, large international manufacturing companies, pre-IPO organizations and established public companies. Most recently, she led Human Resources for DavidsTea, Inc. Prior to that, she served for six years as Vice President, Human Resources for CIRCOR International, Inc., a global manufacturer of highly engineered products for the industrial, aerospace and energy markets. Previously, Susan held executive HR positions at State Street Corporation, Radius Capital Partners, Color Kinetics Incorporated and Website000 LLC, a business specializing in strategic and organizational development of start-up and emerging growth companies. Prior to that, she held senior HR roles at Send.com, The Stride Rite Corporation and MAST Industries, Inc., a wholly owned division of The Limited, Inc. Susan has an M.B.A. from Suffolk University and also serves on their Management Advisory Board. In her free time, Susan is an avid snowboarder, she plays golf and ice hockey and spends time with her children.
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Strategic Advisors
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Lorrie Norrington
Lorrie's remarkable career covers 30 years of operations in the worlds of technology, software, and the Internet. She is an advisor to Gazelle and serves on the boards of DIRECTV, Lucasfilm, Autodesk and TaskRabbit. Lorrie's six years at eBay (20052011) included the role of President of eBay Marketplaces, in which she led all eBay businesses in 39 countries. She was earlier an officer at Intuit, where she led the Quicken and QuickBooks brands and later became an executive vice president in the office of the CEO. In 20 years at General Electric she worked in the full range of the company's industries; her final position was as an officer of GE and CEO of GE FANUC. She was named to Fortune's list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Lorrie received her M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and her B.S. from the University of Maryland.
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Henry Ancona
As an advisor to Gazelle, Henry brings over 30 years of operational experience in both large and small technology companies in Europe and North America. He is currently a partner at CommonAngels, a venture investment group and serves as board member, advisor, business leader, and angel investor for a variety of companies. He has served on the boards of both private and public companies, helping several to successful M&A transactions. He currently serves on the boards of Qumas and Signiant (Chairman). Past private boards include CommonAngels, EZPrints, Visible Measures, Sentillion, Active Endpoints and Inframetrics. Past publicly traded boards include Pegasystems, Computervision and OneSource Information Services. He was President of Pegasystems (NASDAQ: PEGA), a rules- based business process management software company and Chairman and CEO of Evidian, a security and telecom management software company, which he founded through an equity carve-out. Earlier, Henry held management positions at Digital Equipment, including leading the company's office applications software business from start-up to a billion dollar business. Henry holds an M.B.A from Harvard Business School, and B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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