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Aug 12, 2016

11 Outstanding Finance Leaders from theBoardlist

We’ve already covered Engineering and Product leaders, now it’s time to introduce you to the ladies who will keep an eye on your company’s bottom line and effortlessly tackle all things audit — the Finance Leaders.

Our community of global business leaders have done the heavy lifting for you by curating a list of 1200 (and counting) board-ready female candidates to make sourcing your next board member easy.

Keep reading for our totally unscientific list of 11 outstanding finance leaders in tech.

Kim Jabal (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Kim is currently the CFO of Weebly, where she leads finance, people ops, analytics, facilities, and customer success. Before Weebly, she was CFO/VP Finance at Lytro and spent 8 years at Google in multiple finance leadership positions — overseeing online sales finance, investor relations, and engineering finance. Earlier in her career, she worked at both Goldman Sachs and Accenture. She has a B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

Stephanie Tilenius (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Stephanie is currently CEO & Co-Founder of Vida Health. Before Vida, she was Executive-in-Residence at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and VP of Global Commerce and Payments at Google. Previously, Stephanie spent 9 years at eBay in senior executive roles, including SVP/GM of eBay.com and VP/GM of Merchant Services at PayPal. Earlier in her career, she co-founded PlanetRx.com. She’s a Director on Seagate Technology, Coach, Tradesy, and RedBubble’s boards and is the Advisory Board Chair of Harvard Business School’s California Research Center. Stephanie holds a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in International Finance from Brandeis University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

Lisa Wardell (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Lisa is currently the CEO & President of DeVry Education Group, where she has served as board of director since 2008. Previously, she was EVP/COO for The RLJ Companies, where she was responsible for managing The RLJ Companies portfolio — including partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, business strategy, operations and finance. Earlier in her career, Lisa was a Principal at Katalyst Venture Partners and a Consultant at Accenture. She has served on multiple boards including DeVry, Ross Uni. School of Medicine Board of Trustees, Ross Uni. School of Veterinary Medicine Board of Trustees, Christopher and Banks, RLJ Entertainment, and RML Automotive. Additionally, she is a director of the American International Automobile Dealers Association. Lisa has a Bachelor’s from Vassar College, a J.D. from Stanford Law, and an M.B.A. from Wharton.

Sarah Friar (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Sarah is currently the CFO & Operations Lead at Square. Prior to that, she was the SVP of Finance & Strategy for Salesforce and spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs in various roles, including Managing Director, Business Unit Leader for Technology and Senior Software Analyst. Earlier in her career, she was a Business Analyst for McKinsey. Sarah has been on New Relic’s board since 2013 and was previously a board member of Model N. In addition, she serves as a Member of Business Advisory Council at Illuminate Ventures. Sarah holds an M.B.A. from Stanford and a M.Eng in Metallurgy, Economics, and Management from Oxford.

Kathleen Philips (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Kathleen is currently the CFO for Zillow, where she’s been since 2010, previously as general counsel and COO. In her current role, she oversees finance, treasury and accounting as well as legal operations and corporate development. Before joining Zillow, Kathleen served as General Counsel of Hotwire, StubHub (where she was also a SVP), Flip Video camera maker Pure Digital Technologies, and FanSnap. She currently serves on the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School. Kathleen has a bachelor’s degree with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Lisa Serwin (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Currently, Lisa is Co-Founder of C-Sweetener and a Member of the Life Science Angels. Most recently, she was CFO at VentureBeat, CEO at AppMedicine and COO at Xfire. Before that, she was the COO for MPQ Acquisition Corp., CFO of The PlumpJack Group, and the Exec. Director of the Nevada Commission on Medical Education, Research and Training. Lisa has also served as the SVP of Strategic Planning for 20th Century Fox, VP of Corporate Dev. for TicketMaster Online-Citysearch, VP of Corporate Finance for UniMed Management Company. She’s also served on several for- and not-for-profit boards. In 2009, she wrote the book: “So Many Shoes, So Little Money: A Girl’s Guide to Finance.” She has a bachelor’s degree from UCLA and an M.B.A. from Loyola Marymount University.

Nisha Kumar (LinkedIn)
Nisha is currently the CFO & Managing Director at Greenbriar, where she’s worked since 2011. Before Greenbriar, she was CFO Rent the Runway and EVP and CFO of AOL. Before that, Nisha was VP, Operations and VP M+A at Time Warner, and VP Corporate Development at Priceline.com. Earlier in her career, she worked at Morgan Stanley. She serves on the Leadership Council of the Harvard School of Public Health and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Nisha has an A.B. from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and an MBA from Harvard.

Ashley Fieglein Johnson (LinkedIn)
Ashley has served as Wealthfront’s CFO & COO since 2013 and was their SVP of Finance prior to that. She also spent several years as CFO, acting CEO and CCO at ServiceSource. Previously, she was a co-founder of GreenAtom and Director of Strategy and Corporate Development for Ariba. Earlier in her career, Ashley was an investment banker in the technology corporate finance division of Morgan Stanley. In addition to her technology work, Ashley is also the Co-Founder of Vista Guapa Surf Camp in Costa Rica. She has both a B.A. and an M.A. in International Relations from Stanford.

Barbara Landes (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Currently, Barbara is the CFO, Treasurer & SVP at PBS. Prior to joining PBS, Barbara held two senior executive roles at AOL. Earlier experience includes EVP/CFO at Averstar; VP/CFO of Watson Wyatt Worldwide; CFO/Treasurer of Pinelands; and CFO/SVP, Prod. & Op. for WWOR-TV. She’s also held key roles at MCA/Universal, NBC and CBS. Additionally, Barbara is Treasurer of the PBS Foundation and Chair of the PBS Retirement Committee. She serves on the boards of PBS Enterprises; Public Media Distribution; National Datacast; Update Logic and as chair of the Audit Committee of the Children’s Network. She’s on the Investment Committee of Girls Inc. and the National Council of the Gephardt Institute of Public Service. Barbara has a B.A. from Washington University an M.B.A. from Wharton.

Elaine Paul (LinkedIn, Twitter)
Elaine is the current CFO of Hulu, a role she’s held since 2013. Previously, she served as SVP of Corporate Strategy at the Walt Disney Company, where she held multiple roles including VP of Business Development for the Walt Disney Internet Group where she also worked on various M&A, strategy, and growth initiatives, including Disney’s investment in Hulu and the merger of Disney-owned joint ventures A&E and Lifetime. Before Disney, Elaine worked as an Associate at McKinsey & Company and a Financial Analyst at Morgan Stanley & Company. She holds a degree in economics from Stanford and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

Anna Baird (LinkedIn)
Anna is currently CFO of Livongo Health since earlier this year. Prior to that she was the CFO and President of RadiumOne. Previously, she served as CFO and Head of Operations of SAY Media and as SVP of Governance, Risk and Compliance at McAfee. Earlier in her career, she spent more than 17 years as a Partner at KPMG where, among other things, she was the Global Lead Partner for Google and worked with tech companies including Symantec, Oracle and Intuit. She was also the National Chair of the Women’s Advisory Board at KPMG, which had over 35,000 employees. She has a B.S. in Accounting from CSU Fresno.

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