AJ Balance is the Chief Product Officer of Grindr, Inc. Mr. Balance has served as the Chief Product Officer of Grindr since December 2021. Prior to joining Grindr, Mr. Balance was the lead product manager of the Driving Team at Uber Technologies, Inc., a transportation technology company that offers services through mobile applications and websites, where he worked from September 2016 to December 2019, and the co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dispatcher, Inc., a logistics technology platform for long-haul truckers and freight shippers, from November 2013 to August 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Balance was a product manager at Gigwalk, a software solutions company, from 2011 to 2013 and an analyst in corporate strategy and business development at The Walt Disney Company, a multinational entertainment and media conglomerate, from 2009 to 2011. Mr. Balance received an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.