Biography

Debra Chrapaty has served as a member of Udemy’s board of directors since December 2024. Ms. Chrapaty currently is the Chief Technology Officer of Toast, a restaurant technology and end-to-end cloud platform company, since 2022. Before Toast, Ms. Chrapaty served as the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Amazon Alexa from 2020 to 2022. Prior to Amazon, Ms. Chrapaty served in multiple leadership roles at Wells Fargo from 2018 to 2020, including Chief Technology Officer. From 2014 to 2018, Ms. Chrapaty served as Chief Operating Officer at Declara, a transformational learning company that uses AI and machine learning to accelerate skills development. Earlier in her career, Ms. Chrapaty also held leadership positions at Cisco, Microsoft, and Zynga. Ms. Chrapaty currently serves on the board of Forge Global Holdings, Inc. She received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Temple University, an MBA in Information Systems from New York University's Stern School of Business, and participated in the Director’s Consortium, a post-graduate education program for directors serving on public company boards at Stanford University.