SVB Advantage, SVB Catalyst 2045 and Him for Her are teaming up to bring you a dynamic discussion around the “How” and “Why” of building a diverse board, and how intentionally doing so can lead to improved business outcomes. Jocelyn Mangan, founder of Him For Her, will sit down with Garrett Smallwood, CEO of Wag, and Shirley Collado, President & CEO of College Track; President Emerita, Ithaca College; Board Director, StarRez, to discuss their personal experiences and key learnings as both board builders and board members.
Conversation topics will include:
- Why fill independent board seats?
- How does diversity in the boardroom lead to better business outcomes?
- When is a good time to add a new Board Director?
- Tactical takeaways for connecting with board-ready talent
Don’t miss this informative and actionable discussion. Register today to reserve your spot for this much anticipated virtual event.
About SVB Advantage: SVB Advantage is a select network that positions North America’s top CFOs to share insights and support each other as their companies scale.
About SVB Catalyst 2045: Catalyst 2045 is a company-wide effort to bring the benefits of SVB to Women, Black and Latinx individuals in the innovation ecosystem.
About Him For Her: Him For Her is a social impact venture aimed at accelerating diversity on corporate boards
Questions?
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Jocelyn Mangan is a visionary leader with a mission to solve board diversity in the next ten years. Her work is at the forefront of building better companies - and therefore a better future - impacting the most influential lever for change: the boardroom. Jocelyn is the CEO and Founder of two social impact ventures: Him For Her, which is accelerating diversity on corporate boards, and illumyn, which is bridging the gap between boardroom opportunities and historically underrepresented executive talent ready for board service.
Jocelyn currently serves on the boards of Papa John’s International, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA), ChowNow, and Wag! (NASDAQ: PET) and is an advisor to Homebase. She is a part-time moderator for the Netflix Leadership Program. She has over two decades of technology experience building iconic global mobile apps and market-leading software products at some of the world’s best local, consumer, and marketplace companies, including CitySearch, Ticketmaster, OpenTable and Snagajob. Jocelyn is a Clinton Global Initiative Commitment Maker, a TEDx speaker, a member of the 2016 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute and was a global ambassador for the Vital Voices Global Partnership. She was named one of the San Francisco Business Times “Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business” in 2023, and was one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” in 2015.
Garrett Smallwood is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of Wag! (NASDAQ: PET). Mr. Smallwood was CEO and co-founder at Finrise (acquired by Wag!), a healthcare insurance financing company, from 2015 to 2017; VP of Operations at Pillow (acquired by Expedia via Home Away Group), a short-term multifamily property rental platform, from 2014 to 2015; and Product Manager at Redbeacon (acquired by The Home Depot), a platform that connects homeowners with home improvement professionals, from 2010 to 2015. He also serves as a board member of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Smallwood was an active investor and advisor as well as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at NFX, an $875 million Seed Stage fund located in San Francisco, California.
Shirley M. Collado joined College Track in January 2022 as President & Chief Executive Officer. Throughout her career, Dr. Collado has leveraged her leadership to advocate for equity in all forms, pushing toward real change by activating an awareness of-and working toward the deconstruction of-existing structures that prevent full participation, whether on campuses or in communities at large. Prior to her leadership at College Track, Dr. Collado served as the ninth president of Ithaca College and, at the conclusion of her tenure, was named President Emerita. She was the first person of color to be named president at Ithaca College, and the first Dominican-American in the U.S. to serve as president of a four-year institution. She is known nationally for designing and implementing innovative approaches in higher education and the not-for-profit sector that expand student access and success.
A skillful and dynamic leader, Dr. Collado has previously served as executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer at Rutgers University-Newark; dean of the college and vice president for student affairs at Middlebury; and as the executive vice president of The Posse Foundation, where she scaled its operations nationally. Dr. Collado is the Brooklyn-born daughter of Dominican immigrants, and a first-generation college graduate. She is a member of Posse's inaugural class of students, the first Posse scholar to receive a doctoral degree, and the first to become a trustee of a higher education institution.
Among her commitments to serving her communities, Dr. Collado is a board member of the ACT, Excelencia in Education, a founding member of Presidents' Alliance on Higher
Education and Immigration, and a member of the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust. She resides in Oakland with her husband, A. Van Jordan, an award-winning poet, and their dogs Frida and Melba.
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