Mr. Sheehan was a Partner of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm, from 2007 until February 2021. Mr. Sheehan has served on the Board of Directors of Yext, Inc. (NYSE: YEXT), a publicly held technology company, since May 2008 and on the Board of Directors of Quinstreet (Nasdaq: QNST), a publicly held marketing technology company, since February 2017. Mr. Sheehan also serves on the board of directors of a number of privately-held companies in the technology industry. Mr. Sheehan holds a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School.
Claire Johnson, one of our directors, is a technology executive, team builder, investor and advisor with nearly 20 years of experience is sales, product strategy, marketing and operational scaling. Claire has been the Chief Operating Officer at Stripe since October 2014. She is responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide operations to meet the needs of its rapidly growing user base. From 2004 to 2014, Claire led various business, product and operations teams at Google, most recently for the Self-Driving Cars project at Google[x]. She also managed the business and operational teams behind the launches of Gmail, Google Checkout, and Google Apps. In 2012 and 2013, Claire led the product, engineering and sales teams of Google Offers. She also served as co-lead and executive Sponsor of the Global Women@Google Network, building the organization to over 4,000 active members during her tenure. Before that, Claire worked on Google’s advertising sales team, ultimately leading the Global Online Sales organization. She also created the Consumer Operations team that today supports all of Google’s users. Prior to Google, Claire served in management consulting roles, and began her career in Massachusetts state politics, running state and local campaigns. She served on the board of Hallmark Cards, Inc. from 2012 to 2018 and has been a Trustee of Milton Academy since 2011. She earned a bachelor’s degree with honors from Brown University and an MBA from Yale School of Management.
Obinna Onyeagoro, one of our directors, has been a consultant with Egon Zehnder since March 2019 and is active in the firm’s Financial Services, Technology Enabled Businesses and Board Practices helping clients develop their Leadership Strategy. Obinna’s focus is to build close, trusted relationships advising senior executives on their leadership challenges across multiple sectors including private-equity, private-credit firms, infrastructure funds and technology & media organizations. Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, Obinna was a strategic advisor from July 2017 to February 2019 and headed the Financial Sponsors Group, EMEA at Standard Chartered Bank from December 2013 to June 2017. He previously served as an investment banker with Deutsche Bank Securities in New York on the Leveraged Finance team and began his career as a consultant at Accenture in 1999. Obinna earned a BS in electrical engineering from Boston University, a Master’s in education with a technology focus from Harvard University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
In addition to our experienced and highly qualified management team and board, we have the support and guidance of the following board advisors:
Howard Andrew (Andy) Fisher, one of our board advisors, was Head of Technology Equity Capital Markets at Goldman Sachs where he worked from 2005-2016. From 1982 to 2005, Andy worked at Credit Suisse as well as its predecessors, The First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse First Boston. Since 1999, Andy was the lead capital markets professional responsible for executing and pricing over 125 IPOs for companies such as Atlassian Corporation Plc, Square, Zendesk, RingCentral, Yelp, Tesla, Inc., Baidu, Inc. and Google. Andy’s tech sector experience includes software, internet, networking, semiconductor, cleantech and IT Services primarily in the U.S. and China. Andy graduated from Yale University in 1979 with a BA in Economics.
Stacy Brown-Philpot, one of our board advisors, has more than 15 years of consumer technology experience. She served as the Chief Executive Officer of TaskRabbit and, after their sale to IKEA Group in 2017, went on to serve as a senior executive on the IKEA team. Prior to TaskRabbit, Stacy served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Google Ventures, leading strategic expertise to the firm’s portfolio companies. Prior to that, she spent nearly a decade at Google where she held senior roles in Search, Chrome, Google+, AdWords and served as the Head of Online Sales & Operations in India. She also brings financial experience from her days working at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Stacy is on the Investment committee at Softbank Opportunity Fund, a $100 million fund established to invest in Black, Latinx, and Native American founders. She serves on the board of directors for HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ), Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN), Black Girls Code, and The Urban Institute and was a founding member of SoftBank’s $100 million Opportunity Fund. She holds a B.S. in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Gokul Rajaram, one of our board advisors, has served on the executive team at DoorDash since November 2019, after Doordash acquired Square’s food delivery business, Caviar. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President at DoorDash. Prior to DoorDash, he worked as the Product Engineering Lead from July 2013 to October 2019 at Square, where he led several product development teams and served on Square’s executive team. Prior to Square, he served as Product Director of Ads from August 2010 to July 2013 at Facebook, where he helped Facebook transition its advertising business to become mobile-first. Earlier in his career, Gokul served as a