Fran Maier

Fran Maier is the Executive Director and President of TRUSTe, the leading brand in online privacy. Fran brings 15+ years of experience building consumer brands and enhancing consumer trust. She is known for her expertise in online privacy, online marketing best practices, and marketing to women. As a co-founder of Match.com she established credibility, safety and trust in online dating, making Match.com the favorite dating site for single women. In executive marketing roles at Women.com and Kmart’s BlueLight.com subsidiary Fran has both established new start-up online brands and brought blue-chip offline brands onto the Internet.

Fran holds a BA and MBA from Stanford University. She lives in Alameda, CA with her husband and two sons.