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Robin L. Washington is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Alphabet, Inc. (parent company of Google), Honeywell International, Inc., and Salesforce.com, where she currently serves as chair of the audit committee. She is also a member of the Board of Visitors, Graziadio School of Business and Management, Pepperdine University; the Presidents Council & Ross Business School Advisory Board, University of Michigan; and the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Board of Directors.

Ms. Washington served as Executive Vice President and CFO at Gilead Sciences, Inc., from May 2008–November 2019, where she oversaw Global Finance, Facilities and Operations, Investor Relations and the Information Technology organizations. Prior to Gilead, Ms. Washington was the CFO at Hyperion Solutions Inc. from 2005–2007. She also served as Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller of PeopleSoft, along with several other senior financial roles at the company from 1996–2005. Prior to PeopleSoft, Ms. Washington was Director of Finance for Tandem Computers, an Accounting Analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and a Senior Auditor for Deloitte & Touche.

Ms. Washington is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

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Ms. Gomez has served as Zendesk's Chief Financial Officer since May 2016. From July 2010 to April 2016, Ms. Gomez served in senior finance roles at Salesforce, including Senior Vice President Go To Market Distribution from July 2015 to April 2016, Vice President Sales and Support and Marketing Finance from June 2011 to June 2015, and Senior Director Marketing and General and Administrative Finance from July 2010 to June 2011. 

Prior to that, she held finance roles at Visa and Charles Schwab. Ms. Gomez holds a B.S. in business administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.

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Kate Bueker is the Chief Financial Officer at HubSpot, where she manages the company's finances and is also the co-executive sponsor of the Women@HubSpot employee resource group.

Prior to HubSpot, Kate spent eleven years in finance and business development leadership roles at Akamai Technologies and most recently served as senior vice president of business finance and operations. During her tenure, Kate was instrumental in building out the finance business support capabilities and function at Akamai. Kate also spent almost 10 years in investment banking at The Blackstone Group, UBS, Credit Suisse, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Outside of work, Kate loves to travel (especially throughout Italy) and enjoys tennis and golf. Kate received her BA in mathematics from Cornell University and her MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Jim has been a key finance and operation executive for several brand-name high-growth companies. Most notable were Jim's roles at Intuit, Netflix, and Mozilla. As one of Netflix's six co-founders, he built and managed all financial and operational functions from the company's founding in 1997. His public company experience includes Intuit, where he served in executive positions from 1991–1996 including lead roles in the company's IPO, key M&A deals, and as Divisional Controller for its +$100M QuickBooks Division.

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Bestselling author Maynard Webb is a 40-year veteran of the technology industry. An active leader in the technology and business community, Maynard serves as a board member, investor, philanthropist, and mentor to young entrepreneurs.

As the founder of the Webb Investment Network (WIN), a seed investment firm dedicated to nurturing entrepreneurs, Maynard brings his experience developing and leading high-growth companies.

Maynard currently serves on the boards of Salesforce and Visa. Previously, Maynard served as Chairman of the Board of Yahoo!, CEO of LiveOps, COO of eBay, and held executive roles at Gateway, Bay Networks, and Quantum.

Maynard has also served on several public and private boards, including Yahoo!, Gartner, Niku, Extensity, Hyperion, Peribit (acquired by Juniper Networks), Baynote, and AdMob (acquired by Google) where he was also one of the first investors.

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Airbase CEO Thejo Kote sits down with Sudhanshu Priyadarshi, a seasoned  CFO to explore his two decades of experience in the E-Commerce, Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods & Pharmaceutical industries. 

Sudhanshu is a global Finance & Operational leader with two decades of experience. He has held finance leadership roles for Walmart, PepsiCo, Flexport, and Cipla Ltd.

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Airbase CEO Thejo Kote sits down with Bill Losch the Chief Financial Officer at Okta to talk about Bill’s 20 years of corporate finance experience and best practices for managing Finance, Investor Relations, and Workplace Service teams. 

Prior to Okta, Bill served as CFO at MobiTV, the CAO at DreamWorks Animation, the VP of Finance and CAO at Yahoo! Inc., and currently serves on the board of directors of Druva, Inc.

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Alfred Lin is a Senior Partner at Sequoia Capital. He serves as its in-house consumer internet specialist. He currently sits on the board of seven companies including Airbnb, Houzz, DoorDash, Dia&Co, and Zipline International. He’s the former CFO and COO of Zappos.

Prior to joining Sequoia, Lin founded Venture Frogs, enjoying eight exits including Ask Jeeves, and OpenTable. Lin served in financial leadership roles for three companies, scaling them from founding stages to successful exits: LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft for $265M), Tellme Networks (acquired by Microsoft for $800M), and Zappos (acquired by Amazon for $1.2B).

Lin is an applied mathematician (BA Harvard) and statistician (MS Stanford). In 2013, Forbes named Lin as one of the "30 Most Influential People in Tech”.

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Join Airbase CEO Thejo Kote for a panel discussion with executive recruiters Rhoda Longhenry, the Global Head of True's Financial Offers Practice, and Jen Holmstrom, the Head of Talent at GGV Capital. 

Rhoda and Jen will share their best practices and advice for financial professionals looking to grow their careers to become CFOs. Learn how to set yourself apart from the pack in the eyes of an executive recruiter and how to connect with recruiters both in-house and investors.

Rhoda (Lau) Longhenry has over 18 years of executive search experience and leads the firm’s Financial Officers Practice.  She joined True from Heidrick & Struggles where she was Partner-in-Charge of its San Francisco office and a member of its Financial Officers Practice, Global Technology Services Practice and Private Equity and Venture Practice. Prior to her career in executive search, Rhoda was head of investor relations at DoveBid and an equity research analyst at Montgomery Securities and Merrill Lynch.

Jen Holmstrom joined GGV in 2016 and leads the firm’s talent and recruiting efforts. To support founders as their companies scale, she created Founders+Leaders, a leadership development platform that provides training, mentorship, global network and more.

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Airbase CEO Thejo Kote sat down with Salesforce President and CFO Mark Hawkins to talk about Mark’s 30-year career in finance, share advice on becoming a CFO, and best practices for leading a global finance organization.

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