Ofek Lavian is the co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Forage, where he oversees the day-to-day operations, leading and scaling teams, including product, operations and partnerships. Lavian’s experience building out teams and products from inception to scale is key to Forage’s mission of democratizing access to government benefits. Prior to joining Forage, Lavian led the payments and commerce product teams at Instacart, where he built the company’s core payments infrastructure and launched multiple products that drove billions in incremental impact during Instacart’s peak growth years. Before Instacart, Lavian was a product manager for payments at Uber, where he powered Uber’s global payments platform, responsible for processing tens of billions of dollars in payments volume in 60-plus countries.
