Who are DuckDuckGo’s current executive team members (CFO, CTO, etc.) and where are they listed officially?

Checked on January 17, 2026
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Executive summary

DuckDuckGo’s founder and chief executive officer is consistently identified as Gabriel Weinberg [1] [2], but a centrally published, canonical “executive team” page on DuckDuckGo’s own site is not present in the provided reporting, so most named executives (CFO, CTO, other C‑suite roles) come from third‑party business directories whose data vary [1] [3] [4] [5].

1. What the reporting reliably confirms: the founder and CEO

Multiple sources identify Gabriel Weinberg as the company’s founder and CEO, and the company’s own “About” material references Weinberg as the founder and early sole full‑time worker, making his role the only one clearly corroborated across outlets and company pages provided [1] [2].

2. Where executive names appear — official pages versus third‑party databases

DuckDuckGo’s site contains company background and a “How we work” culture page and a team support guide, but the supplied pages do not publish a formal executive roster or titles such as CFO or CTO in the material provided here [6] [7] [2]; by contrast, third‑party business profiles and data vendors — including CB Insights, Craft, Crunchbase, RocketReach, Tracxn, PitchBook and Zippia — list additional leadership names and titles like VPs, a COO and regional counsel, though those listings are supplied and maintained by each service rather than the company itself [1] [3] [4] [5] [8] [9] [10].

3. Who these third‑party sources name and how they differ

Examples of named executives from the third‑party reporting include Zac Pappis as a VP and Prakash Swaminathan and Russell Holt among listed senior leaders on Craft [3], Mike Ferry identified as a COO on Zippia [10], and RocketReach naming Gabriel Weinberg plus regional legal and business development leads such as Shula Teare van Hagan and Will Collins [5]; CB Insights emphasizes Weinberg and notes the company’s small executive count but does not provide an extended C‑suite list in the snippet [1]. These services disagree in scope and detail, reflecting different collection methods and update cadences [3] [4] [5].

4. Why discrepancies matter — data sources, update cycles and possible agendas

Third‑party directories typically aggregate public filings, user contributions and commercial research, and therefore can be out of date or inconsistent; PitchBook and Tracxn sell deeper, paid profiles while Crunchbase and RocketReach combine public and user‑submitted entries, each creating potential for missing or stale titles — a structural limitation visible across the supplied sources [9] [8] [4] [5]. Those commercial motivations (selling updated intelligence) and reliance on crowdsourced inputs create an implicit agenda to capture and monetize leadership data, which can encourage aggressive claims about “full executive teams” even when a company’s own site does not present a formal list [9] [8].

5. How to interpret the available evidence and where to look for an official listing

Given the evidence provided, the only executive position directly corroborated by both an external business profile and DuckDuckGo’s own historical material is Gabriel Weinberg as founder/CEO [1] [2]; other named leaders appear in third‑party databases (Craft, RocketReach, Crunchbase, Tracxn, PitchBook, Zippia) and should be treated as probable but not fully verified without company confirmation [3] [5] [4] [8] [9] [10]. The most direct “official” places to check in the absence of an explicit executive page would be DuckDuckGo’s corporate pages (About, How We Work) and any company press releases or legal/regulatory filings — neither of which were shown in the reporting provided here to contain a comprehensive executive roster [6] [2] [7].

6. Bottom line and next steps for verification

The reporting confirms Gabriel Weinberg as DuckDuckGo’s founder and CEO and shows multiple third‑party services listing additional senior leaders, but no single, authoritative executive roster from DuckDuckGo is present in the supplied sources; for definitive titles such as CFO or CTO, consult DuckDuckGo’s official press releases, investor/regulatory filings or request confirmation from the company’s communications channel rather than relying solely on directory aggregators [1] [6] [7] [4].

Want to dive deeper?
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