Sapphire Ventures is a leading venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies of consequence. For nearly two decades, Sapphire has been investing capital, resources and expertise in innovative startups and technology-focused venture funds around the world. With more than $8.8B in AUM across Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport, and with team members in Austin, London, Palo Alto and San Francisco, Sapphire is well-positioned to help scale companies and venture funds, elevating them to become global category leaders.

Black Women on Boards aims to provide visibility, network access, and sponsorship for Black women and remove the invisible obstacles that Black women executives face when pursuing board membership.

Crave is a profitable start-up that makes gorgeous products built for women that are as easy to own as they are to use.-Primary early and long-time advisor to serial entrepreneur founder of intimate tech company, from concepting to funding to launch to profitability

-Advisor to Diana - - interior design, fashion, and gifting for the modern age

Founded in 2015, Wildcat Venture Partners invests in early stage entrepreneurs building systems of intelligence that enable companies to prospect, refine and monetize data - digital oil. These entrepreneurs and their companies will become the market disruptors and industry leaders of the First Intelligence Age.OUTCOMES:-Identify, nurture and maintain connections for our entrepreneurs and General Partners helping them to accelerate growth. Find opportunities for partnership and collaboration. Recent connections which drove results within the portfolio include:-Amplero, Chief Revenue Officer-The Athena Alliance (Partnership with our Traction Gap Institute)-Earnest, Chief Product Officer (Acquired by Navient for $155M)-Earnest, Head of Partnerships (Acquired by Navient for $155M)-Earnest, Chief Marketing Officer (Acquired by Navient for $155M)-KEY Concierge, Chief Technology Officer-Velocity (Partnership with our Traction Gap Institute)-Wildcat Venture Partners, Associate-Develop and strengthen key relationships with external parties (Retained recruiters, VCs, executive coaches, outsourced developers, IP attorneys, Fortune1000 companies, etc.) to swiftly broker the appropriate connections on behalf of our firm and our portfolio companies-Monitor executive search work on behalf of Wildcat Venture Partners for our portfolio companies-Created Wildcat Venture Partners' First Scholarships in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University to foster the next generation of entrepreneurs-Conceived and hosted "AI and Machine Learning: Myth Busting Hype from Reality" with Barak Turovsky, Head of Product and Design, Google Translate and Machine Learning; and "How to Differentiate with Data Science" with Eric Colson, Chief Algorithms Officer from Stitch Fix. Hand-selected expert audiences from our portfolio, Fortune1000 companies, VCs and startups to join these conversations

Founded in 1983, the Mohr Davidow Ventures' team has invested in early stage technology-based startups that redefine or create large new markets. OUTCOMES:-Recruited to Mohr Davidow Ventures to spearhead the creation of our highly successful Talent practice-Established and maintained relationships with the best and brightest executives, thought leaders and companies on behalf of the firm and its portfolio companies-Successfully placed numerous executives, advisors and engineers within the portfolio - - driving growth and optimizing outcomes including:-BuildDirect, Chief Technology Officer-Coupa, VP Sales, Central Region (IPO'ed: NASDAQ: COUP)-Coupa, Product Manager (IPO'ed: NASDAQ: COUP)-Coupa, Software Product Manager (IPO'ed: NASDAQ: COUP)-Infusionsoft, VP Partners and Business Development-PunchTab, CEO (Acquired by WalmartLabs)-Ticketfly, VP of Marketing (Acquired by Pandora for $450M)-Ticketfly, VP of Product (Acquired by Pandora for $450M)-Identified talent that could be placed within our portfolio as executives or co-founders by architecting and executing high-impact, community-building events including: -VP of Product Meet-ups -VP of Engineering | Data Science Meet-Ups-25@25: 25 Leaders at 25 Lusk Series -Startup Spotlight with Carnegie Mellon University-Codegirl Screening Party with Director Lesley Chilcott and Technovation

Visualize for ValueSelling Inc. is a global leader in sales training and the leading provider of the ValueSelling Framework®.OUTCOMES:-Led marketing and communications for global audience of 6,000+ senior level sales and marketing professionals in effective pipelining, accelerated win rates, increased deal size, improved targeting and strength of lead generation-Provided measurable value to our clients including: Avaya, Interwoven, Mercury Interactive, Motorola, newScale, Symbol, salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, and TELUS resulting in YoY revenue growth, increased average deal size per sales professional, reduction in non-sales activity-Spearheaded all aspects of reputation management, including executive communication, corporate branding, media strategy and business development

Nike, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services whose valuation is currently over $80B.OUTCOMES:-Launched community relations for NikeWomen, and executed initiatives to build the brand, increase loyalty and develop a sense of community among its customers in Northern California and nationwide.-Helped to architect Nike Women's Marathon from its inception

@Road is a leading provider of mobile resource management (MRM) services, a category of mobile software applications that helps to manage overall mobile workforce performance, reduce costs and maximize customers’ satisfaction with field services. They were acquired by Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB) for $496M.OUTCOMES:-Built and scaled a high-performing SMB team of 8 Inside Sales Representatives across North America who consistently overachieved monthly sales quotas-Led a team of 3 dynamic Marketing Programs Managers who conceived and executed a global marketing programs strategy

Clarify created software that automated corporate sales and customer service needs. They were acquired by Nortel Networks Corp for $2.1B. OUTCOMES:-Strategic Sales, including selling multi-million dollar enterprise software solutions to CxO's at Fortune 500 companies where clients included FedEx, Lucent, Hewlett-Packard, Kinko's, Boise Cascade and Convergys-Implemented new processes for territory management, forecasting and sales methodology-Found, mentored and motivated field sales representatives -Helped to grow the company's revenues from $19M to $290M in five years-Other positions I held during my tenure at Clarify include District Sales Manager, Manager of Sales Development and Sales Development Representative