Guild Holdings Company announced the appointment of Gioia Messinger to its board of directors, effective July 1, 2022. This brings the number of board members to seven. Ms. Messinger has more than three decades of executive experience as a founder, chief executive officer, board member, and venture capital advisor.

Since 2012, she has served as founder and principal of LinkedObjects Inc., a strategic advisory services business focused on digital transformation. From 2004 to 2012, Ms. Messinger served as founder and chief executive officer of Avaak Inc., now Arlo Technologies, a leading home security systems company. Currently, Ms. Messinger is an advisor to several startups and serves on the board of One Stop Systems, a provider of high-performance computing used for artificial intelligence (AI), Indyme Solutions, LLC, a provider of AI solutions for the world's retailers and CARI Health Inc., a developer of innovative personalized healthcare solutions.

She is a member of the dean's council of advisors at the University of California San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering. She is a member of the Latino Corporate Directors Association. Ms. Messinger obtained her MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California Irvine and her B.S. in Computer Engineering from UC San Diego.