David Pearson Chair of the Audit Committee David Pearson Director David Pearson has been a member of our board of directors since March 2022. He has served on the board of directors of Lee Enterprises Inc., a public media company listed on Nasdaq, since February 2020, and is also a member of Lee’s audit committee. He has also served on the board of directors of Potbelly Corporation, a Nasdaq listed company, since April 2022, where he is the chair of the audit committee. Mr. Pearson was Chief Financial Officer of Vonage Holdings Corp., a public cloud technology company, from May 2013 until August 2020. Before Mr. Pearson joined Vonage, he spent over nine years with Deutsche Bank Securities as a Managing Director and Global Media & Telecom Group Head. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Mr. Pearson served in various roles at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice for over nine years, including as Managing Director from 2002 to 2003. Mr. Pearson started his career at Coopers & Lybrand and holds a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in Political Science and Organizational Behavior from Brown University. Mr. Pearson brings to the board an expertise in capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and public company accounting, controls and financial reporting, as well as significant operational experience as a public company executive. Financial Expert
Diane Yu Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee Diane Yu Director Diane Yu has been a member of our board of directors since March 2022. She is currently the co-founder and CEO of TidalWave Tech Inc., a loan origination platform facilitated by GPT powered chatbot. She served as the Chief Technology Officer of Better Holdco, Inc., which operates Better.com, an online platform for mortgage origination and related services, from January 2021 to April 2022, and she currently serves as an advisor to Better. Ms. Yu is the Co-Founder of FreeWheel Media, Inc., which provides a technology platform for the management and monetization of digital television advertising, and served as its Chief Technology Officer from 2007 to 2014, when FreeWheel was acquired by Comcast. Following the sale, Ms. Yu served as Chief Technology Officer of Comcast’s Advanced Advertising Division. Prior to co-founding FreeWheel, Ms. Yu spent over nine years at DoubleClick, where she served as the Vice President of engineering from 2005 until 2007. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Peking University in 1995 and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Ohio University in 1998. Ms. Yu brings to the board extensive experience building, leading and scaling engineering teams for large digital advertising technology companies.
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