, is one of our founders. Mr. McLean founded Silicon Valley Data Capital in 2012, an early-stage venture fund focused on transformative data companies, where he is currently Managing Member. In addition to founding Silicon Valley Data Capital, Mr. McLean is a
co-founder
of Silicon Valley Data Science (2013), a big data and data science consulting company, 365 Data Centers (2012), a leading provider of cloud, connectivity and data center services, and SiteSmith, Inc. (1999), a provider of Internet infrastructure management services. He serves on the advisory boards of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Pathfinder.org and previously served on several advisory boards for Stanford University. Mr. McLean holds a S.B. Engineering Sciences from Harvard University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
, is a member of our board of directors. Ms. Benko has been a board member of NIKE, Inc., a publicly-traded company on the NYSE that designs, develops, markets and sells athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services worldwide, since July 2018, and is a former Vice Chairman and Managing Principal of Deloitte LLP (“Deloitte”), an organization that, through its subsidiaries and network of member firms, provides audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to clients globally. During her nearly
30-year
career with Deloitte, Ms. Benko held many leadership rolls, several concurrent with her appointment as Vice Chairman and Managing Principal in 2011. From 2015 until 2018, Ms. Benko served as Senior Partner working within Deloitte’s “Digital Giants” practice where she was the senior advisory partner for several digital-native companies and from 2010 until 2014, she served as the Chief Digital, Brand and Communications Officer of Deloitte. Previous to her role as Chief Digital, Brand, and Communications Officer, Ms. Benko held multiple technology and talent management roles, including serving as Deloitte’s first Vice Chairman and Chief Talent Officer from 2006 until 2010, its Chief Inclusion Officer from 2008 until 2010, and as Managing Principal of Deloitte’s Initiative for the Retention and Advancement of Women, from 2003 until 2009. Ms. Benko led Deloitte’s technology sector form 2003 until 2007 and was previously Deloitte’s first Global
e-Business
Leader, a position she held from 1998 until 2002. Ms. Benko is chair of a Harvard Business School/NC Advisory Council and a member of the board of directors of nonprofit organizations, including Stanford’s Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, American Corporate Partners, National Association of Corporate Directors and the International Women’s Forum. Ms. Benko earned a B.S. from Ramapo College of New Jersey where she was awarded the President’s Award of Merit, the school’s highest distinction, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
We believe that Ms. Benko is qualified to serve as a director based on her extensive business and senior leadership and financial experience.
, is a member of the board of directors. Mr. Crockett is the former Vice President and Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at Western Digital having served in that role from November 2018 to August 2021. Prior to Western Digital, Mr. Crockett was a Senior Partner at a diversity and inclusion training and consulting firm, InQUEST Consulting, from January 2017 to November 2018. Mr. Crockett also founded and served as President of R.O. Crockett Leadership Advisory, which provides strategic advice to senior leaders of companies seeking to enhance their thought leadership portfolio, from April 2010 until December 2016 and
co-founded
Global Performance Partners Inc., a research-based company focused on diversity and inclusion for senior executives, in January 2016. Mr. Crockett also serves on the Board of Advisors to Upkey Corp, an education and career development software service for underrepresented students, and he is the former Vice Chairman of Saint Xavier University’s Board of Trustees. Mr. Crockett is a former Chicago Deputy Bureau Chief for BusinessWeek Magazine from 1997 to 2009, where he wrote award-winning articles about business and diversity. Mr. Crockett holds a BA in English Literature from UCLA and a Master’s in Journalism with an emphasis on business from Columbia University.
We believe that Mr. Crockett is qualified to serve as a director based on his extensive industry experience including his experience with diversity and inclusion.
, is a member of our board of directors. Mr. Doll is the 2021 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award from the US National Venture Capital Association. Mr. Doll is the
Co-Founder
and Partner Emeritus of DCM Ventures, formerly Doll Capital Management, an early-stage global venture capital firm, which he
co-founded
in 1996 and was a Senior Advisor for Impact Venture Capital, a venture capital firm, from 2016 until 2020. In the
mid-1980’s,
Mr. Doll also
co-founded
the venture capital industry’s first fund focused exclusively on telecommunication opportunities, Accel Partners. Additionally, he served on the board of directors of DirecTV, which was a publicly-traded company and a leading provider of digital television entertainment services, from 2011 through 2015, prior to its acquisition by AT&T and was elected to the Board of the U.S. National Venture Capital Association in 2005, serving on the Executive Committee and as Chairman in 2008-2009. Mr. Doll currently serves as the Vice Chairman of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Mr. Doll also serves on the boards of the University of San Francisco, chairing its Investment Committee, the San Francisco Opera and the Papal Foundation Board, serving on the Investment Committees for both entities, and on the Investment Advisory Board for Amadeus Capital (UK), a venture capital firm. Mr. Doll received his B.S. degree (cum laude) from Kansas State University plus M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where he was a National Science Foundation scholar.
We believe that Mr. Doll is qualified to serve as a director based on his more than
30-years
business experience, including as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, company founder and consultant and his service as a director of public and private companies.