Vanessa has over 30 years of experience managing technology, security, privacy, and risk teams in a variety of verticals, giving her a unique perspective as a business leader and in serving on corporate boards. Enabled by her operational experience and ability to execute, she has been successful in leading companies through their technology and risk challenges. She has accomplished this through the definition of effective strategy and by building high performance teams to respond to the dynamic business environment.

Vanessa brings strong interpersonal skills and is recognized for her ability to promote open communication and inspire collaboration. Her empowering and decisive leadership style, coupled with her business acumen, have enabled a solid track record of constructively and successfully addressing difficult situations. She has broad experience working at a global level with start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies. Vanessa understands highly structured and regulated cultures as well as more dynamic and innovative cultures. She has held roles in engineering, sales, product development, IT, and operations within financial services, telecommunications, eComm, and SaaS companies including Sprint, AT&T Wireless, US Bank, Expedia, DocuSign, and OneLogin. At DocuSign, she led the team through a hyper growth period - including the company’s IPO - ensuring that the pillar of security was a key differentiator in the marketplace. Her understanding of the international regulatory environment has allowed her to lead and develop effective global security and compliance teams.

Vanessa has audit committee experience with both Carbon Black and BECU, and is a board member of Prisid.io and a board observer for Vouched.id. As a former board member of Carbon Black, she was a part of the $2.1B sale of Carbon Black to VMware where she gained valuable M&A experience. Vanessa is a venture partner at Flying Fish Partners, a VC firm focusing on AI/ML early-stage companies. She is a past advisory board member for Cybereason (currently valued over $3B). In addition to her public/private board work, Vanessa has also served on the board of the Washington Technology Industry Association, the University of Washington's master of science in information management program, and on the board nominating committee at the Washington Trails Association, the nation's largest state-based hiking nonprofit organization.