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Board of Directors

Board of Directors

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    Nirav Tolia

    CEO, President, Chairperson of the Board of Directors and Co-Founder of Nextdoor

    Nirav Tolia is the CEO, President, Chairperson of the Board of Directors and Co-Founder of Nextdoor. Prior to Nextdoor, Nirav was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital, Chief Operating Officer of Shopping.com, and Co-Founder and CEO of Epinions.com. Nirav also serves as Non-Executive Chair of Hedosophia and is a co-founding director of the William S. Spears Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership in SMU’s Cox School of Business.

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    Bill Gurley

    General Partner, Benchmark

    Bill Gurley has spent over 20 years as a general partner at Benchmark. In addition to serving on Nextdoor’s board of directors, Bill serves on the board of Stitch Fix and Zillow Group as well as several other private companies.

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    Jason Pressman

    Managing Director, Shasta Ventures

    Jason Pressman is a managing director at Shasta Ventures and AZ-VC, both venture capital firms. Jason serves on the boards of several other companies including Zuora.

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    David Sze

    General Partner, Greylock Partners

    David Sze is a partner at Greylock Partners. Prior to Greylock Partners, David was senior vice president of product strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home, and an early investor in LinkedIn, Facebook, Pandora, and Roblox. David is a member of the Board of Trustees at Yale University and Rockefeller University.

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    Chris Varelas

    Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Riverwood Capital

    Chris Varelas is a co-founder and managing partner of Riverwood Capital. Prior to establishing Riverwood, he was managing director at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. He also sits on the boards of Elemental Cognition and MotionPoint, and the Advisory Boards for Streamlined Ventures, Global Ventures and the RAND Corporation’s Center for Global Risk and Security.

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    Dana Evan

    Independent Director, Box, Inc., Farfetch, Motive, and Pendo

    Dana Evan currently serves as an independent director at Box, Inc., Motive, and Pendo. She previously spent over a decade as the founding Chief Financial Officer of Verisign Inc. and also served as a Venture Partner at Icon Ventures.

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    Niraj Shah

    Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wayfair, Inc.

    Niraj Shah is co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Wayfair Inc. Prior to co-founding Wayfair in 2002, Mr. Shah served as Chief Executive Officer for Simplify Mobile Corporation, and Entrepreneur‑in‑Residence at Greylock Partners. Mr. Shah currently serves on the Board of the Shah Charitable Foundation, the Cornell Tech Council and the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership.

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    Marissa Mayer

    CEO & Founder of Sunshine Products, Inc.

    Marissa Mayer is CEO & Founder of Sunshine Products, Inc.  Prior to Sunshine, she was CEO & President of Yahoo! and also spent 13 years at Google, Inc., where she held various roles of increasing responsibility including Vice President, Local, Maps and Locations Services, and Vice President, Search Products and User Experience. Ms. Mayer also serves on the boards of Walmart and AT&T.

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    Robert Hohman

    Founder, Glassdoor, Inc.

    Mr. Hohman founded Glassdoor, Inc. in 2007 and has served as its Chairman since January 2020. Prior to his service as Chairman, Mr. Hohman was Glassdoor’s CEO. Mr. Hohman also currently serves as an advisor to Riot Games, Inc., and previously served on the audit committee and the board of directors of OpenTable, Inc. from 2012 to 2014. Prior to founding Glassdoor in 2007, Mr. Hohman served in management roles at Hotwire, Inc. and Expedia Group, Inc.

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    Elisa Steele

    Board Director: Amplitude (AMPL), Bumble (BMBL), JFrog (FROG), Procore (PCOR), people.ai

    Elisa Steele currently serves on the board of directors of several publicly held technology companies including Amplitude (AMPL), Bumble (BMBL), JFrog (FROG) and Procore Technologies (PCOR). She formerly served on the boards of Splunk (SPLK), acquired by Cisco; Cornerstone (CSOD) and the Global Advisory Board for Salesforce (CRM). Elisa served as CEO & Chair of the board at Namely, previously serving as CEO at Jive (JIVE). Prior to Jive, Elisa was CVP & CMO of consumer apps and services at Microsoft, CMO at Skype, EVP & CMO at Yahoo! and SVP of Marketing at NetApp.