Shannon Gordon has spent her career building and scaling innovative customer experiences at retail and logistics companies and now as CEO of theBoardlist. She is currently focused on building technology that brings access and transparency to the expansive pipeline of board-ready women. 

Before joining theBoardlist, Shannon was SVP Operations and Customer Experience at Shyp, a San Francisco startup that helped small businesses with their shipping needs. She also spent five years as the VP of Customer Experience at Walmart.com where she scaled Walmart's order online/ pickup in store business from a several store pilot to a billion dollar business. Prior to her time at Walmart.com, Shannon worked at McKinsey & Company in Chicago where she served clients in the retail and pharmaceutical industries.

 
Shannon has a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  

Asmau is a senior executive at X (formerly Google X), Alphabet’s innovation factory. She sits on the boards of CAA (Creative Artists Agency, a TPG owned company) and Quinstreet (NASDAQ: QNST), and serves as an advisor to the Yale Entrepreneurship Society and to Walmart’s C-level leaders (as one of seven members on the Opportunity Leadership Council).

Asmau has a strong foundation in Engineering and Finance and over 20 years of experience as a venture-funded CEO, operating executive, and management consultant. She has led over $10B in digitally enabled innovations and operations spanning multiple industries including technology, consumer retail, manufacturing, and financial services. She is sought-after for her expertise at balancing disruptive innovation with operational, fiscal, risk management and regulatory compliance
rigor.

Prior to joining X, Asmau was Managing Director of Business and Technology at Bank of America where she worked with senior leaders and CEOs of Bank of America, Citi, JPMC, BNYM, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, State Street, and Morgan Stanley - collective known as the US SIBs, to design and implement industry-wide technology solutions to the industry’s most pressing challenges. Asmau served as General Manager and co-navigator to $1B+ portfolio of projects. She led the
programs global operations and influenced the strategy and models for engagement across all the geographies and banks. She formed strategic collaborations with start-ups and top-tier consulting companies to synthesize ideas, develop business plans, run pilots, and eventually launch standalone independent entities. The program has successfully launched Cyber Security, Business Continuity, and Third Party Risk Management companies and has built a strong pipeline of next-generation solutions including a $20B digital consumer solution, a regulatory-technology consortium, and several technologyenabled modernizations of the most complex operations. Asmau also led the development of Bank of America’s Technology Roadmap for the Consumer and Wealth Management businesses.

At Capital One, Asmau ran Payments and Customer Intelligence. She led a team of product managers, engineers, and business analysts in building payment solutions and leading end-to-end large scale digital transformations, serving 60 million customers. Her work in synchronizing bank-wide customer data across 30 digital and agent channels, from acquisition to servicing, was instrumental in the banks transition to cloud services. She also built a pipeline of innovations at the intersection of payment, life-planning and retail.

Before Capital One, she served clients as a Management Consultant at Deloitte, where she co-led Rapid-IP, the firms innovation lab. She helped build the CFO practice covering North America, and established a strong track record of conducting post-M&A integration engagements for companies with market capitalizations of over $50B, and financial institutions with AUM of over $1 trillion. She worked on the merger of Bank of New York Mellon, where her team was responsible for a
$700M asset rationalization.

Asmau served as the Founder, CEO and Engineer of Plum Perfect, a venture-funded visual search company embraced by millions of consumers and top brands such as Target, Cover FX, IMAN and the Home Shopping Network. Asmau provided fiscal, strategic, sales, and operational leadership, and became the 9th black woman in the US to exceed $1M in venture
funding.

Asmau has been recognized as a “Top Woman in Digital" by Cynopsis Media; “Black Business and Tech Professionals Changing the Game” by Huffington Post; and one of “26 Women Of Color Diversifying Entrepreneurship In Silicon Valley, Media, And Beyond” by Vanity Fair.

She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS with Honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. Asmau is a mother to two children. Her most recent passion project, inspired by her son, involves finding solutions to integrate special needs children into mainstream classrooms and camps.

Mandy is a seasoned Finance Executive with a passion for innovating and driving change. She has served in leadership roles at some of the country’s top retail and consumer companies, in both private and public settings.

Mandy is currently Chief Financial Officer at e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE: ELF). e.l.f.’s mission is to bring the best of beauty to every eye, lip and face. Under her leadership, e.l.f. has seen 9 consecutive quarters of topline growth, as well as gross margin expansion. Driving the business forward through profitable top line growth is her main priority at e.l.f., while ensuring a scalable infrastructure is in place to support the long-term vision of evolving from a single-brand to a multi-brand beauty company. Progress has already been made in that evolution with the acquisition of W3LL PEOPLE in February 2020 and the recent launch of Keys Soulcare, a lifestyle beauty brand created with Alicia Keys.

Prior to e.lf. Beauty, Mandy served as Chief Financial Officer at BevMo! the #1 specialty beverage retailer on the West Coast. In her time with BevMo! she optimized working capital, obtained additional liquidity to support the company’s supply chain transformation, and expanded her scope within the organization to include the operational functions of Pricing and Inventory Management. Prior to BevMo! Mandy was Vice President of Finance & Analytics for Albertsons Companies, managing the P&L of the company’s $13 billion dollar multi-brand private label portfolio.

In addition to her CFO credentials, Mandy also serves as Audit Committee Chair on the Board of Directors for Allbirds, a mission driven lifestyle brand focused on sustainable footwear and beyond.
Mandy started her career on Wall Street in Investment Banking with JPMorgan and she received her degree in Finance from Indiana University, Kelley School of Business.

A widely recognized leader, Mandy has recently been the recipient of the following awards and
acknowledgments: 2020 Women Worth Watching by Diversity Journal, Diablo Magazine’s 40 under 40 (2018), 2018 CFO of the Year (Non Public company, San Francisco Business Times), and named a Top Woman in Bay Area Business (2017).

Shehnaaz Suliman (M.D., MPhil, M.B.A) is a physician, drug developer and deal-maker that has been delivering transformative value for patients and investors over the past 25 years. Dr. Suliman is currently the President and COO of Alector, a leading immuno-neurology company developing novel treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and serves as an Independent Director on the Boards of Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. (NASDAQ: RARE) and 10x Genomics (NASDAQ: TXG).

Dr. Suliman has previously run Corporate Development and Strategy at Theravance Biopharma, and has been responsible for early development programs at Genentech across multiple therapeutic franchises. At Roche she served as VP and Global Head of Partnering across Immunology,  infectious diseases and specialty care from June 2015 to July 2017.

Dr. Suliman held various management roles of increasing responsibility at Gilead Sciences, Inc. between January 2005 and September 2010 and played a significant role in forward-integrating Gilead into new therapeutic areas through a creative merger and acquisition strategy.

Dr. Suliman received her M.D. (MB, ChB) at the UCT Medical School, South Africa, and holds an M.B.A, with distinction, and M.Phil. degrees from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

She was named as one of 2017 Fiercest Women in Life Sciences and as one of 2021 National Diversity Council’s Power 50 in 2021 (Most Influential Women in Business) and currently serves as the Chair of Executive Women in Bio.