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Who’s Leading The Leader?

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Who’s Leading The Leader? The Crucial Role Boards Will Play in an Uncertain World

Today, unprecedented times have become the norm leaving boards and executive teams constantly facing situations where a playbook simply cannot exist. Expectations from stakeholders are increasing, as are the number of significant challenges with which boards are contending including the effects of a global pandemic, severe weather events, social and political unrest, supply chain upheaval, cyber-attacks, talent shifts, inflation and economic volatility, and the war in Ukraine, to name a few. As the complexity and volume of these challenges compound, business leaders are in need of more thoughtful guidance than ever before. And every great board director knows that his or her job is to bring the right level of oversight, insight and foresight to the table, but what does that look like in the current environment?


Dr. Anita Sands

Boards of ServiceNow, Softbank & Khosla Ventures SPACs

Anita is an expert in enterprise transformation and innovation. Anita has advised management teams on a broad range of business and governance issues including IPOs, SPACs, hyper-growth and scaling, M&A, divestitures, private equity and activist investors, multiple CEO transitions, operational restructuring, regulatory requirements and investigations.

Anita currently serves on the Board of Directors of ServiceNow, Nubank, Unqork, Circle and JumpCloud. Anita is a SPAC Director of the Vision Fund for SoftBank and was a Director of Khosla Ventures Acquisition Corp II. She also is a Venture Partner at NEA. Anita has previously served on the Boards of Pure Storage, Thoughtworks, Symantec and others.

She was previously a James Wei Visiting Professor in Female Entrepreneurship at Princeton University. Anita held the roles of Chief Operating Officer and Head of Change Leadership at UBS. Her career spans roles in finance at Citigroup, RBC and CIBC. Anita earned a PhD in Atomic and Molecular Physics and a MPP from Carnegie Mellon University.

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