Nearly half, 45 %, of the new directors are first - time independent directors, serving on
their first public company board, up from 32 % last year.
Not exact matches
Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director,
Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject;
Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debby Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health;
Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner,
First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising;
Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker &
Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..
According to the Thirty Percent Coalition, which aims for women to hold 30 % of
board seats in
public companies, there were about 25
board diversity resolutions filed in the
first half of 2015.
Eric Ries, Entrepreneur & Author, The Lean Startup Justin Rosenstein, Co-Founder, Asana Alec Ross, Author, The Industries of the Future Javier Saade, Venture Capitalist; Former Associate Administrator, SBA Chris Sacca, Founder / Chairman, Lowercase Capital Dave Samuel, Co-Founder, Freestyle Capital Julie Samuels, Executive Director, Tech: NYC Reshma Saujani, Founder, Girls Who Code Chris Schroeder, Venture Investor; Author, Startup Rising Jake Schwartz, Co - Founder / CEO, General Assembly Robert Scoble, Entrepreneur in Residence and Futurist, Upload VR Kim Malone Scott, CEO, Candor, Inc; Former Director, Google Tina Sharkey, Partner, Sherpa Foundry & Sherpa Capital Clara Shih, Co - Founder / CEO, Hearsay Social Shivani Siroya, Founder / CEO, InVenture Steve Smith, Executive Director,
Public Policy Institute, Government Relations & Telecommunications Project, Rainbow PUSH Coalition Jonathan Spalter, Chair, Mobile Future DeShuna Spencer, CEO, kweliTV Katie Stanton, CMO, Color Genomics; Former VP of Global Media, Twitter Jenny Stefanotti, Co-Founder, OneProject;
Board of Directors, Ushahidi Debbie Sterling, Founder / CEO, Goldiblox Seth Sternberg, Co - Founder / CEO, Honor Margaret Stewart, Vice President of Product Design, Facebook Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO, Yelp Michael Stoppelman, SVP, Engineering, Yelp Baratunde Thurston, Former supervising producer, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah; Co-Founder, Cultivated Wit Stephanie Tilenius, Founder / CEO, Vida Health;
Board of Directors, Seagate Technology Richard D. Titus, Entrepreneur; SVP, Samsung Anne Toth, VP of Policy & Compliance, Slack Bill Trenchard, Partner,
First Round Capital April Underwood, VP of Product, Slack Max Ventilla, Founder / CEO, AltSchool Tabreez Verjee, Co - Founder / Partner Uprising;
Board Director Kiva.org Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Hunter Walk, Partner, Homebrew VC; Former Director of Product Management, Google Tristan Walker, Founder / CEO, Walker &
Company Brands, Inc.; Founder / Chairman, Code 2040 Ari Wallach, CEO, Synthesis Corp..
Theresia serves on the
boards of several private and
public companies and led the
first investment rounds in the Consumer Internet / Mobile sector (Birchbox, HotelTonight, LearnVest, Trulia, Joyus) and Security sector (Imperva, ForeScout, TRUSTe).
Facebook
board member Reed Hastings offered his
first public comments on the scandal that has gripped Facebook over the last month — and cast the concerns about Facebook's algorithms and data as part of how any young
company matures over time.
Clemons is not only a founding
Board Member of the recently opened New Haven Montessori Charter School and served, up until last year, as a
Board Member of one of the Achievement
First, Inc. charter schools in New Haven, Clemons's
company was given a no - bid contract that was approved and funded by the Connecticut
Board of Education, a contract that has already netted Clemons»
company more than $ 500,000 with a lot more
public funds to come.
The coalition includes ConnCAN (the charter school advocacy group formed by Achievement
First, the charter school management
company that will end up the biggest winner under Malloy's bill), the Connecticut Business and Industry Association, the Connecticut Association of Schools, the Connecticut Council for Education Reform, the Connecticut Association of
Public School Superintendents and the Connecticut Association of
Boards of Education.
Bridgeport's Democratic Primary to select
Board of Education candidates will be held tomorrow and campaign finance reports filed last week reveal that Achievement
First Inc., the charter school management
company co-founded by Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, continues to play a dominant role in the effort to control Bridgeport's
public education system.