Join theBoardlist and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for our first in a series of informative and interactive working sessions to prepare you for private board service.
In an intimate and hands-on setting, learn how boards operate, what CEOs are looking for in board members, and what you can do to be successful as a board director.
Seating for our first program is limited to 45 and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please register today.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is Founder of theBoardlist and Founder & CEO of Joyus, a fashion & lifestyle video ecommerce site. Prior to Joyus, she spent almost 20 years as a leading consumer internet and media executive at global and early stage companies including Google, Amazon, Polyvore, Yodlee, and News Corporation. In addition to her role at Joyus, Sukhinder currently serves on the boards of TripAdvisor and Ericsson.
Donna Petkanics is a partner in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati where she focuses on growth companies, particularly corporate and securities issues. Donna represents both privately held and public companies across multiple industries, including telecommunications, Internet infrastructure, networking, life sciences, software and hardware, clean technology and energy, and electronics.
Jeff leads Greylock’s executive talent team, focusing on managing executive talent relationships both in and outside of the portfolio. Prior to Greylock, Jeff was the managing partner of the global Venture Capital practice for Heidrick & Struggles where, during his tenure, he doubled the revenues of the practice. Jeff was also a partner and member of the executive committee of a national recruiting firm.
For over two decades, Jana has partnered with leading companies at all stages of growth, from early stage to Fortune 500 companies, including Airbnb, Eventbrite, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Netflix, Pinterest, Square, Uber, and Warby Parker. Jana serves on the Forbes Executive Women’s Board and is a director of the Stanford Business School Women’s Initiative Network.
Amy Chang is the Founder and CEO of Accompany, an early stage company focused on relationship intelligence. She serves on the Board of Directors for Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK), Digital Advisory Council of Target (NYSE: TGT) and is on the advisory boards of Optimizely, ClearSlide, BloomReach, Skyhigh Networks, Origami Logic, and Datorama. She served on Informatica's board from 2012-2015, when it was taken private for $5 Bn. Prior to Accompany, Amy was an executive at Google, leading Google Analytics and ads measurement efforts. She's credited with helping scale the Google Analytics product to serve 70% of the entire web. Amy has a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Sue Siegel is CEO of GE Ventures, GE’s growth and innovation business comprised of GE Ventures, GE Licensing, and New Business Creation (NBC). As a Silicon Valley-based financial VC, Sue led investments and served as Board member of companies in personalized medicine, digital health, and life sciences. Sue led Affymetrix as President and Board Member, where she drove the company from a pre-revenue start up to a global, multi-billion dollar market cap genomics leader.
Blair Christie served as the Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Cisco Systems, Inc. since January 2011. Blair has been an Independent Director at MINDBODY, Inc. since March 2015 and serves on the Advisory Boards of AirGrub and US2020. She has also been a Director of National Investor Relations Institute since March 2005 and is a member of the 2015 Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.
Bud Colligan is Founder and CEO of South Swell Ventures, a private investment firm in Santa Cruz, CA, and partner at Accel Partners, a global venture capital firm. Bud sits on the board of directors of lynda.com and Yodlee and is an investor in and adviser to Days of Wonder, Wheelhouse and NextSpace. Bud was an investor and Board Member at CNET Networks, acquired by CBS; Brightmail, acquired by Symantec; and S3 Corporation, acquired by Via Technologies. In 2013, Bud was honored as an Outstanding Director by the Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business Times.
Ali Rosenthal is Vice President Strategic Partnerships at Wealthfront, Inc., an automated investment service and currently serves on the board of AutoNation. In May 2015, Ali was appointed by President Obama as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. From July 2013 until August 2014, Ali served as Chief Operating Officer of MessageMe, a company that develops and offers a multimedia messaging application for mobile devices.
Emily White is the former Chief Operating Officer at Snapchat, Inc., a photo messaging application. Prior to Snapchat, Emily held several key operational roles at Facebook and at Google, where she ran online sales and operations for the North America and Asia Pacific & Latin America regions. She serves on the boards of lululemon athletica and the National Center for Women in I.T., a non-profit coalition working to increase the participation of girls and women in computing and technology.
Barry Crist has more than 20 years of experience in driving enterprise customer success and adoption with both open source and DevOps software solutions. Currently CEO of Chef Software, Barry was previously an Executive-in-Residence at Ignition Partners, CEO of Likewise, and VP of the Application Management group at Mercury, now a division of HP. Barry also led enterprise sales organizations at Network Associates (now McAfee) and was in various sales, technical, and international roles at Apple.
After serving as co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Trulia, Pete Flint now sits on the Board of Zillow Group after Zillow's acquisition of Trulia for $3.5Bn. Pete is an angel investor, advisor and board member to a number of marketplace and e-commerce businesses. As a product guy at heart he's focuses on how to build compelling and unique experiences at scale. Pete is a frequent technology and real estate conferences and regularly appears on CNBC, FOX, Bloomberg, WSJ, and the NY Times.
Selina Tobaccowala is President and Chief Technology Officer at Survey Monkey. Previously she was Senior Vice President of Product and Technology at Ticketmaster's Europe division and was Vice President of Online Product and Technology at Entertainment Publications. Prior to joining Entertainment, Tobaccowala founded Evite.com, an online invitation service that lets users organize an offline event online, and which currently sends over three million invitations per month.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other growth enterprises worldwide. We represent companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them. The firm's broad range of services and practice areas are focused on addressing the principal challenges faced by the management, boards of directors, shareholders, and in-house counsel of our clients.
theBoardlist is a curated talent marketplace for the tech community to recommend, discover and connect highly qualified women leaders with great tech board opportunities at scale.
Our vision is that 100% of tech company boards use gender diversity as an opportunity to realize greater company performance. By our estimate, 75-78% of private funded tech company boards have no women. Yet we know that board diversity is a proven driver of business performance. We also know that creating diversity earlier in a company's development allows us to create a more diverse and productive culture now, not later.
