Sheila Lirio Marcelo

In August 2019, Care.com announced that Marcelo would transition from being CEO to being Execute Chairwoman.

The company went public January 24, 2014. From its founding in 2006 through August 2012, Care.com had raised more than $111 million in venture capital from investors, including LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman. Marcelo is one of the few female technology entrepreneurs to raise more than $35 million in venture capital funding. Today the site has more than 17.8 million members, spanning 16 countries.

Marcelo has spoken alongside President Obama at the White House Summit on Working Families (2014), with global political and business leaders at The World Economic Forum (2013, 2015), and to emerging female leaders at Harvard University (2013) and CEOs at Northeastern University (2013).

Marcelo also launched WomenUp.org, an organization that aims to increase women's role in the global economy by providing leadership training, mentorship and support to girls and women through every stage of their lives and careers. In the summer of 2013, WomenUp partnered with Care.com and The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) to run a two-week leadership camp for 7th and 8th grade girls. WomenUp and Care.com also sponsored a business plan competition for female entrepreneurs in August 2013. Women Up has also held female leadership training programs in the United States, Brazil, and the Philippines.

She is a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute (Class of 2012) and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2011. Marcelo is the youngest recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award (2014) and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from her alma mater, Mount Holyoke College.

Marcelo is a Board Trustee of the Philippine Development Foundation (formerly the Ayala Foundation), a non-profit that works with the Philippine government on education, innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives. She was a finalist judge for Harvard Business School's annual business plan competition in 2012 and was an adviser to the school's Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. In 2012, she was a mentor to the winning team in Hack2Hatch, a competition for entrepreneurs in the Philippines.

She was named one of the top 40 entrepreneurs under 40 years of age by the Boston Business Journal (2009), one of the 10 most powerful women entrepreneurs by Fortune Magazine (2009), one of the 10 most powerful women in Boston Tech by The Boston Globe, to The Aspen Institute’s 2012 Class of Henry Crown Fellows, a "Tech Luminary Innovation All-Star" by the Boston Business Journal (2012), and one of The Boston Globe's 100 Innovators of 2013. In 2010, she received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2011, Marcelo was awarded a Marshall Memorial Fellowship and named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2013, she was inducted into the Academy of Women Achievers by the YMCA.) In 2014, Marcelo received the prestigious Harvard Business School alumni award, "for her achievements as founder, chairwoman and CEO of Care.com". She is the second Filipino alum, after Jaime Zobel De Ayala, to be honored with this award. Also in 2014, she was bestowed one of the highest honors for Filipinos, the Filipino Heritage Award or Pamana ng Pilipino from President Benigno Aquino III of the Philippines for her "excellence and distinction in the pursuit of [her] work or profession." In April 2015, Marcelo received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Mt. Holyoke College.

Sheila Lirio Marcelo (born 1970) is a Filipino-American entrepreneur. She is the Founder, Chairwoman and CEO of Care.com, the world's largest online destination for finding and managing family care.