Wade Foster

Wade Foster is a technology executive with over 15 years of experience who serves as CEO at Zapier, the automation platform he co-founded to help teams connect their apps and automate work without writing code. Tasked with growing Zapier from a tool for small teams and individual power users into an enterprise business, he leads a company whose platform supports thousands of app integrations. The role matters now because Zapier is positioning itself as the orchestration layer between AI models, agents, and the apps where work actually happens.

At Zapier, Wade drives the company's push into AI agents and enterprise governance. A Y Combinator alumnus with a background in customer development and degrees in industrial engineering and business administration from the University of Missouri-Columbia, Wade specializes in making automation the connective layer for AI agents, and works with teams across go-to-market, finance, HR, and operations on how they adopt it.