Join theBoardlist, Amazon Web Services and Howard Fischer Associates for an informative and interactive event hosted by First Republic Bank for startup entrepreneurs/CEOs and VCs that will deliver an insider's view of how to leverage boards for strategic advantage. The event will feature two sessions of interest to high-performing startupers, including information on building and managing an effective Board of Directors and special guest speaker from Amazon Web Services.
During this engaging and interactive session, you'll learn:
- what great boards have in common
- how strong boards navigate change and conflict
- the value of independent board members for startups
- what technology issues boards should be conscious of in building companies ahead of an exit event
Seating for this program is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Click below to register.
Matthew Bellows is Founder and CEO of Yesware. Yesware serves almost 1 million salespeople at companies like IBM, Groupon, Salesforce, Twilio and Yelp.'
Prior to Yesware, Matthew was the Vice President of Sales at Vivox. Before that, he served as General Manager at Floodgate (acquired by Zynga), as Founder/CEO of WGR Media (acquired by CNET Networks), and as VP Sales and Marketing of Interstep (acquired by Flycast/CMGI).
Matthew earned his B.A from Naropa University and his M.B.A. magna cum laude from The Olin School for Business at Babson College.
Julie M. B. Bradley, CPA, is the former Chief Financial Officer at TripAdvisor Inc., where she also held the roles of Chief Accounting Officer, Senior Vice President and Treasurer. At TripAdvisor, Bradley oversaw corporate finance, investor relations, accounting, corporate development, human resources and real estate.
Prior to TripAdvisor, Julie served as Chief Financial Officer of Art Technology Group Inc., and as VP of Finance for Akamai Technologies, Inc. Prior to Akamai, Bradley served for over seven years at Deloitte & Touche LLP, specializing in multi-national corporate taxation.
Julie is currently on the Boards of Constant Contact, Inc., Wayfair Inc. and Blue Apron, Inc. She also serves as a Director of TripAdvisor Charitable Foundation. Previously, she served as an Independent Director at ExactTarget, Inc. She was named 2010 CFO of the Year Award Honoree by the Boston Business Journal. Julie is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.A. in Economics from Wheaton College.
Michael George has over 25 years of experience in starting, building and leading world-class technology companies. He has served as CEO at Continuum since 2011, ensuring the company provides its thousands of Managed Services Provider (MSP) partners who serve the SMB markets around the globe with the platform and tools they need to capture their portion of the growing $241 billion managed IT services market. He previously served as CEO at OATSystems, Bowstreet and Interlynx, and held executive leadership positions at TALX Corporation and DEKA Corporation.
Michael founded the Continuum Veterans Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing financial support to local and national charities that focus on helping veterans find jobs in IT and serves on its Board of Directors. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including ITEX, CMIT, Technology Assurance Group (TAG), Business Technology Association (BTA) and Navigate by Continuum, among others.
Michael is a graduate of Suffolk University where he served as a Trustee for 10 years and completed MIT's Birthing of Giants Executive MBA Program.
Allison Mnookin most recently served as CEO of QuickBase Inc., a low-code cloud platform which allows business users to build custom applications. Prior to serving as QuickBase CEO, Mnookin held several positions at Intuit, including General Manager in the Small Business Division where she was responsible for leading a $500M portfolio of businesses including QuickBooks. Prior to joining Intuit in 1998, she held several sales and product marketing positions with Oracle Corporation.
Allison has been a Non-Executive Director of Fleetmatics Group PLC (NYSE: FLTX) since March 2014. Allison received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Harvard College.
Jeff DiSandro leads the Boston and NYC offices for Howard Fischer Associates International (HFA) and directly leading Board, CEO and SVP/VP level searches for technology companies; both established and emerging start-ups backed by top tier Venture Capital and Private Equity firms.
Jeff's areas of expertise include Consumer Internet (e-commerce, digital media, mobile, search and advertising), Enterprise Technology (SaaS, h/w, systems and network), and Telecommunications (wireless, wireline, cable).
Jeff has over twenty years of executive search experience combined with a prior background in corporate finance to both large, small and multinational companies. Jeff is a graduate of Colby College.
Paul Underwood is an Austin, Texas based Solutions Architect dedicated to startups. Paul works with portfolio companies of some of the most premier domestic and international accelerators, incubators, and venture capital firms to help startups build scalable, resilient, and high performing architectures on AWS.
Before joining AWS, Paul was a consultant and spent several years identifying and integrating innovative startup technologies into the enterprise. Paul has traveled extensively internationally to promote digital strategy and innovation as a speaker at conferences in Korea, Mexico, Germany, Morocco, the UK, and Canada
Todd Rassiger leads First Republic’s East Coast Business Banking team which specializes in working with financial services firms, nonprofits, professional services firms and tech companies. Prior to First Republic, Todd helped build a successful nonprofit practice for a Boston-based bank and served in the Investment Banking Group at MassDevelopment, issuing more than $500 million in tax-exempt bonds. Todd also served as a banking analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
In addition to his work at First Republic, Todd serves as Board Chair of Strike Out Cancer, Board Member of the Weston Education Enrichment Fund and a Committee Member of City Year Boston’s Seven Generations Board.
Todd received his MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, BA from Fordham University and completed the Executive Education Program at Stanford University.
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.