Yvonne Wassenaar
Board Member at Braze
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Member Board of Directors
2024 - Current
Braze is a leading customer engagement platform that powers lasting connections between consumers and brands they love. Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty.
Braze is a customer engagement platform that enables customer-centric interactions between brands and consumers.
Raised $175,100,000.00 from Snowflake.
Member Board of Directors
2024
Alation is the leader in enterprise data intelligence solutions, enabling self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI-ready data. More than 550 enterprises build data culture and improve data-driven decision-making with Alation, including Cisco, Nasdaq, Pfizer, Salesforce, and Virgin Australia.
Alation is a data intelligence platform for banks, retailers, and government agencies.
Raised $314,950,000.00 from NTT DOCOMO Ventures.
Member Board of Directors
2022
JFrog is on a mission to power all the world’s software updates, driven by a “Liquid Software” vision to allow the seamless, secure flow of binaries from developers to the edge and connected devices. The JFrog Platform enables software creators to power their entire software supply chain throughout the full binary lifecycle, so they can build, secure, distribute, and connect any source with any production environment. Once you leap forward, you won’t go back.
JFrog provides software developers with a binary repository management solution.
Raised $226,500,000.00 from Poalim Equity.
Member Board of Directors
2022
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. Arista's award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack.
Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Raised $7,400,092.00 from Summit Partners and Saidler & Co. Capital.
Member Board of Directors
2021
Rubrik is a cybersecurity company with a mission is to secure the world’s data. As the pioneer of Zero Trust Data Security™ , Rubrik helps organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions.
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT.
Raised $554,300,000.00 from Spellman Investment Group, SharesPro, Raison, Red Lions Capital, MS&AD Ventures and Irving Investors.
Member Board of Directors
2017
Forrester is one of the most influential research and advisory firms in the world. Through proprietary research, data, custom consulting, exclusive executive peer groups, and events, the Forrester experience is about a singular and powerful purpose: to challenge the thinking of our clients to help them lead change in their organizations.
Member Board of Directors
2023 - 2024
Isovalent, founded by the creators of Cilium and co-maintainers of eBPF, builds open-source software and enterprise solutions for cloud-native service connectivity, security, and observability. Cilium is the choice of leading global organizations, including Adobe, AWS, Bell Canada, Capital One, Datadog, Google, and many more. Isovalent is a globally distributed company with headquarters in both Cupertino (United States) and Zurich (Switzerland) and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Google, Cisco, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), and Grafana Labs. Acquired by Cisco in April 2024.
Isovalent builds open-source networking, service mesh, security, and observability software for modern cloud-native infrastructure
Raised $69,000,000.00 from Mirae Asset Capital, Cisco, Grafana Accelerator Program, Andreessen Horowitz, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Mango Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Google.
Board of Trustees
2016 - 2023
Harvey Mudd College seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities and the social sciences so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the impact of their work on society. With a focus on unsurpassed excellence and diversity at all levels, Harvey Mudd is developing innovative ways to move the needle at an accelerate pace and sharing these learnings externally for the betterment of the world around us.
Advisor
2020 - 2022
Modern Dynamic Application Security Testing. StackHawk tests your running applications, services, and APIs for security vulnerabilities that your team has introduced as well as exploitable open source security bugs.
StackHawk is a SaaS company focused on helping organizations find and fix exploitable API security issues as part of their CI/CD workflows.
Raised $35,325,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Foundry Group, Costanoa Ventures and Ride Home Fund.
Member Board of Directors
2019 - 2022
Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE: PLAN) is pioneering the category of Connected Planning. Anaplan's platform, powered by its proprietary HyperblockR technology, purpose-built for Connected Planning, enables dynamic, collaborative, and intelligent planning. Large global enterprises use Anaplan's solution to connect people, data, and plans to enable real-time planning and decision-making in rapidly changing business environments to give our customers a competitive advantage.
Anaplan is a business planning software company that develops a cloud platform for decision-making with connected planning modeling.
Raised $299,900,000.00 from Alta Park Capital and Irving Investors.
Education
MBA
1995 - 1996
B.A. Economics; specialization in computing
1986 - 1990