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Facebook just named two women to its board as it seeks gender parity - here are 13 tech companies that have recently diversified their boardrooms

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Facebook just named two women to its board as it seeks gender parity - here are 13 tech companies that have recently diversified their boardrooms

Airbnb

Airbnb

Airbnb recruited former Apple retail chief Angela Ahrendts to its board last May.

Alphabet

Alphabet

Google parent company Alphabet brought on former Gilead Sciences executive Robin Washington last April and, in his first big move as CEO, Sundar Pichai appointed Nobel-winning scientist Frances Arnold.

Amazon

Amazon

Last February, Amazon named Starbucks chief operating officer Rosalind Brewer to its board as well as former Pepsi chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi.

Dropbox

Dropbox

Dropbox appointed Autodesk chief marketing officer Lisa Campbell and Intercom chief operating officer Karen Peacock to its board last August.

HP

HP

HP named former Google and Apple executive Yoky Matsuoka to its board last January. It has one of the most diverse boards of all publicly trade companies in the US, according to Refinitiv's diversity and inclusion index.

Netgear

Netgear

Netgear appointed venture capitalist and tech executive Janice Roberts to its board in February 2019 as well as former Polycom executive Laura Durr in January of this year, making four of the company's nine directors women.

PayPal

PayPal

PayPal announced last January that Deborah Messemer, a former managing director at KPMG, had joined its board.

ServiceNow

ServiceNow

ServiceNow appointed Deloitte's top San Francisco executive, Teresa Briggs, and Slack's chief product officer, Tamar Yehoshua, to its board last March.

Slack

Slack

Slack added Sheila Jordan, now chief digital technology officer at Honeywell, to its board in September.

Square

Square

Square appointed the National Basketball Association's chief innovation officer, Amy Brooks, to its board last October.

TiVo

TiVo

When California's law passed, TiVo was one of the companies with an all-male board. But last April, TiVo brought on Laura Durr (the same former Polycom executive who joined Netgear's board this year) as well as Loria Yeadon, CEO of YMCA Seattle and a longtime intellectual property expert.

Upwork

Upwork

Upwork announced last July that SurveyMonkey chief marketing officer Leela Srinivasan was joining its board.


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