The Pulse Celebrates The Following Women June 13 - June 17
June 21, 2022
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This week we celebrate the following women:
The Women of Silicon Valley
excerpts from Pulse of the Valley, June 13 �" June 17
Fundings To Women
Kimiloluwa Fafowora CEO of
Gander received first funding of $4.2M. Gander makes it simple for eCommerce websites to integrate high-quality user generated content from shoppers.
Sindhu Joseph CEO & founder of
CogniCor received an undisclosed amount with total capital raised of 1M. Cognicor uses AI solutions to accelerate productivity for financial services companies.
Women on the Move
Jennifer Biry joined the team
McAfee as CFO.
Faye Feller joined the team at
Geron as Chief Medical Officer.
Maile Lesica joined the team at
Fellow as Chief Commercial Officer.
Nimisha Srivastava joined the team at
Twist Bioscience as SVP R&D.
Tracey Mullen joined the team at
Twist Bioscience as SVP Operations.
Danielle Weinblatt moved from
Entelo to
Taulia as Chief Product Officer.
Regan Cain joined the team at
Weights & Biases as Chief People Officer.
Andrea Pirzkall joined the team at
Asher Bio as Chief Medical Officer.
Karthika Purushothaman joined the team at
Gander as VP, Engineering.
Connie Chung joined the team at
Fortanix as VP Legal.
Women on Boards
Wendy Dixon, CMO of Bristol-Myers Squibb joined the board at
Iovance Biotherapeutics.
Anita Lynch Chief Data Officer of
New Relic joined the board at
Infogain.
Katie Stanton Founding Partner of
Moxxie Ventures joined the board at
Yahoo!.
Cynthia Marshall CEO of
Dallas Mavericks joined the board at
Yahoo!.
Magdalena Yesil Executive Chairman of
Informed.IQ joined the board at
Plume.
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