Joanna Rees
Executive Chairman at West Global
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Executive Chairman
2023 - Current
Member Board of Directors - Leadership Development and Compensation Committee Chair
2015
FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading analytics software company, helping businesses in 90+ countries make better decisions that drive higher levels of growth, profitability and customer satisfaction. The company’s groundbreaking use of Big Data and mathematical algorithms to predict consumer behavior has transformed entire industries.
Fair Isaac Corporation enables businesses to automate, improve, and connect decisions to enhance business performance.
Member Board of Directors
2016
A tech enabled company improving patient experience through an ecosystem of fertility brands.
Member Board of Directors
2021
Altro is a credit service helping people build credit through recurring payments and subscriptions.
Altro is a financial platform that helps people to build credit through recurring payments.
Global Board of Directors
2008
Endeavor is a non-profit organization headquartered in New York City pioneering the concept of high-impact entrepreneurship in growth markets around the world. Its mission is to select, mentor and accelerate the best High-Impact Entrepreneurs around the world.
Managing Director
2013 - 2015
Endeavor is leading high impact entrepreneurship around the world. Endeavor Catalyst is an impact investment fund that invests in leading Endeavor entrepreneurs to create returns on capital to fuel Endeavors growth.
Endeavor supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. Endeavor Catalyst is the rules-based, co-investment fund of Endeavor.
Raised $130,000,000.00 from Nour Nouf.
Board Chair
2017
The Representation Project inspires individuals and communities to challenge and overcome limiting stereotypes so that everyone, regardless of gender, race, class, age, sexual orientation, or circumstance, can fulfill their human potential. Using film as a catalyst for cultural transformation, The Representation Project has produced two award winning films to highlight the power of limiting gender stereotypes.
Chair of the Board of Directors
2020
Accelerating diversity on for-profit boards
Him For Her is a social venture that accelerates the diversity on corporate boards.
Member Board of Directors
2022
A cohort-driven learning series designed for new board directors and CEOs of private companies.
Illumyn creates boardroom excellence and opportunities for historically underrepresented corporate executives.
Henry Crown Fellow
2002
The Henry Crown Fellowship seeks to develop the next generation of community-centered and global leaders, providing them with the tools necessary to meet the challenges of business and civic leadership in the 21st century. The program is a unique mix of seminars designed to broaden the perspectives of the participants and hone their skills in values-centered leadership. It honors the memory of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990), whose legendary career was marked by a lifelong commitment to honor, integrity, industry and philanthropy. Fellows are members of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. The Aspen Global Leadership Network is comprised of highly successful entrepreneurial leaders focused on values and on creating a more sustainable society. In being a part of a global network with access to some of the most talented and like-minded individuals around the world and with the support of the Aspen Institute, these leaders help each other to become more deliberate and impactful in their communities, societies, and the world.
Leadership Seminar Moderator
2012
Senior seminar Moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) including the Health Innovators Fellowship, the Pahara Fellows and the Aspen Seminar. The AGLN is a worldwide community of successful, high-integrity, entrepreneurial leaders, called "Aspen Global Leadership Fellows".
Aspen-HP Digital Equity Accelerator is an accelerator that fuels innovation by investing in not-for-profit organizations and NGOs.
Member Board Of Advisors
2016