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During the live event, each candidate will take the virtual stage to introduce themselves and share what they're looking for in a board role. theBoardlist team will provide each candidate's LinkedIn and theBoardlist profile links in real time to make connecting post-event easy.

Cohort II.

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chief customer officer, entrust
Harini is a global business leader accelerating innovation, transformation, and value realization for customers ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to startups. In her two decades of leadership roles at Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS), she has built industry-defining customer experience models and successfully scaled organizations in hypergrowth environments.
Nadia is an experienced CIO, board member, and recognized regulatory compliance leader who brings two decades of enterprise technology experience building a wide range of global products, teams, and operations in both public and private entities. As a board member, she helps mission-driven organizations and highly regulated companies modernize digital initiatives to increase loyalty and revenue.
Jenn is the trusted voice at the table for companies at the leading edge of healthcare innovation. She has protected and transformed corporate reputations throughout her career, both in her current role as an executive at a high-growth publicly traded healthcare company, and as a Washington-based consultant to Fortune 50 company clients.
Lavanya started her career with the Nalli Group – a $100M national retail chain – focusing on new business development and growth opportunities, retail store operations, and private-label. Launched a sub-brand that penetrated untapped markets, and incubated a venture that empowered artisanal communities by bringing design-led products to market. During Lavanya's tenure, Nalli doubled its revenues, and expanded from 14 to 21 stores.
Jenny leverages deep cross-sectoral insights acquired over her 20 year board and governance career. With governance expertise spanning billion dollar budgets, geographically dispersed and diverse workforces in highly regulated environments, Jennifer is a highly experienced board Chair and Director with a track record in sectors which include construction, financial services, maritime, defence, and fire and emergency services.
Rachel advises CEOs, senior executives, and entrepreneurs on scaling rapidly growing businesses in both large and small organizations. She brings deep expertise in driving value in businesses at the intersection of strategy and operational excellence. Over the last decade at Google, Rachel led teams in some of the highest growth business units including Augmented Reality, Health, and Commerce, working with teams from conception to 1500+.
Kirstine is a widely-recognized and accomplished executive known for her ability to lead transformation in both legacy and growth industries. Kirstine was the Vice-President of Media at Twitter, overseeing North American partnerships across all verticals, including television, sports, gaming, news and music with added responsibility for Vine. She was the Founding Managing Director for Twitter Canada, leading operations as well as advertising business and partnerships, building its Canadian business from the ground up.

Cohort I.

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Chief People Officer at Spring Health
Karishma is a seasoned executive with 15 years of experience in both turnarounds and transformational change across e-commerce, healthcare, and financial services sectors. She has scaled companies from $100M to $400M in revenue growth and from start-up to IPO leading the transition from private to public companies practices including standing up Compensation Committees and governance frameworks. Over the course of her career, Karishma has led global teams of 100+ and advised CEOs in hiring and developing C-level executives globally as well as leading CEO succession in partnership with public companies Boards.
Wendy is a Growth and Innovation-Minded Technology Executive with a background as a Company Founder, Board Chair and Advisor, Start-Up/Early-Stage Executive, and Innovation Leader at Fortune 100 companies. She is a recognized Thought Leader and Speaker enabling businesses to establish a strong commercial market position through product strategy, roadmap design, distribution channel development, and go-to market execution.
Linda has transformed global companies by creating foundational direct-to-consumer businesses built for longevity. She launched flagship stores and e-commerce sites for the National Basketball Association and Herman Miller Inc. broadening the reach of these iconic companies. As the P&L owner, she scaled these channels from start-up stage into globally recognized standalone brands that deepened connections with customers. Through her advisory work with established companies and start-ups, Linda continues to champion long-term operational sustainability while evangelizing for brand integrity to promote customer affinity and achieve marketplace differentiation.
Majda is an internationally respected and influential sustainability leader, co-founder, international public policy expert and attorney with a 15-year track record driving sustainable growth for businesses across all geographies, sectors, and stages (from start-ups to F500/G500 companies). Majda’s focus is on supporting businesses navigate the rapidly evolving global sustainability challenges and building resilient companies that are economically viable over the long-term.
Brittany is a Human Capital executive who scaled Shopify (NYSE : SHOP) from 20 to 10,000 employees with a revenue of over $4.6B. As Chief Talent Officer, she led the organisation’s growth and scale of its people and culture function and was a critical member of the executive team to take Shopify public in 2015. Disrupting the usual IPO playbook by taking a culture first approach to going public. Prior to leaving Shopify, she led the transformation of an in person work environment to a digital first environment and culture.
An experienced go-to-market strategist, Shalini is an expert in understanding market trends and leveraging data driven insights in order to define and operationalize a path for products to scale. She has delivered bottom line results for billion dollar companies by launching solutions that inspire. Shalini can add value to boards of companies that are seeking to transform their businesses using data and digital technologies.
Accomplished in delivering brand and go-to-market solutions, Annette is a leader of transformation at scale for high growth, global companies aiming to redefine their categories. Grounded in all aspects of the customer experience, she has architected vital brand and marketing practices for Fortune 500 consumer product, retail, e-commerce, and financial services companies. Her career experience is in building world class digitally native and omnichannel brands.
Brenda is an experienced advisor supporting businesses that are navigating change. She has successfully guided companies through internal organizational changes, through market-disrupting changes to products and services, and through changes and transition following an exit. As a board member, she helps privately held companies flourish through high velocity growth and evolution, and guides them in leveraging the power of human capital internally and as a product and business model.
Antwane is a Boston Consulting Group trained Multinational Tech Executive with deep experience spanning start-up and multi-billion dollar companies across diverse industries, including: Retail, Tech, Financial Services, Professional Services, Airlines, Education and Hospitality, including a long track record of success in driving business strategy, transformation, planning, growth, profit maximization, and cost control/rationalization. Utilizing strong business acumen, a focus on data-centric decision making, and ability to look around corners to recognize critical issues and their implications to quickly formulate and execute tactical solutions, financial controls/mechanisms and systems that ensure scalable organizational growth and expansion, even in ambiguous and tumultuous market and business conditions.

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