Board Member & Advisor, Forrester, Arista Networks, and Harvey Mudd College

Yvonne Wassenaar is a seasoned C-level executive with broad experience scaling, diversifying, and transforming businesses throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia.   She has over 30 years of experience as a leader in the technology sector, including being CEO of Puppet, CEO of Airware, CIO at New Relic, and holding multiple leadership roles at VMware and Accenture.

Yvonne is a board director for Forrester Research, Arista Networks, JFrog, Rubrik, Isovalent, and Harvey Mudd College.  She is also an advisor to the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, NextRoll, EndGame, SGNL.ai, BlueSky Data, and Fika Ventures. Previously Yvonne served as a board director for Anaplan, MuleSoft, and Bitum. She was also an early-stage advisor to Snyk and StackHawk.

Yvonne is the mother of three teenagers and is passionate about empowering leaders and teams to do great work with purpose. She is an avid traveler and uses her experiences abroad to deepen her empathy and understanding of human interaction.