Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Gerri Elliott has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2015.

She currently serves on the boards of directors of leading retail companies, including Bed, Bath and Beyond, Inc., Whirlpool Corporation and Charlotte Russe. Gerri was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer of Juniper Networks where she also held various executive management roles from 2009 to 2014.

Prior to joining Juniper, Gerri held a series of senior executive positions at Microsoft from 2001 to 2009. In her most recent role as Vice President, World Wide Public Sector, she led teams of more than 2,000 sales and marketing professionals in the government, education and healthcare sectors across more than 100 countries where she grew the business by almost 100 percent in three years.

Before joining Microsoft, she spent 22 years at IBM Corporation, where she held executive and management positions spanning sales, services, consulting, strategy development, and product management in both North America and the Asia Pacific region.

Gerri is on the Advisory Board for BoardList, the Silicon Valley initiative to increase the number of women on tech boards, and is the founder of Broadrooms, a website dedicated to women who serve or want to serve on corporate boards.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from New York University.