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Alison Davis, a highly experienced corporate executive, investor, and board director, will be teaming up with Coco Brown, Founder, and CEO of Athena, to co-host an evening of engaging discussions around the topic of The Innovation Agenda - how to stay relevant in a time of unprecedented innovation.
Alison has graciously offered her home as a venue for this event, where a panel of experts, Susan Muck and Kate Mitchell, will lead a conversation on the topic of the role of a board in handling crises. Before the panel begins, Athena members will have the opportunity to socialize and connect with each other. After the discussion, there will be time at the end for questions.
There is no cost to attend, as Alison will be providing food and beverages. However, please RSVP to secure your spot. Location details will be shared after your RSVP.
If you have further questions, please contact Gaby at [email protected].
This gathering presents a wonderful chance for members to learn and connect in a meaningful way. Don't miss out!
Non-members can RSVP using the Invite Code: DAVIS PLEASE NOTE: Capacity has been met. This event is now full. Further RSVPs will be waitlisted.
Coco Brown is the Founder and CEO of Athena Alliance. Athena has helped thousands of leaders build their Portfolio of Impact and grow and advance in their executive careers. The company has also brought almost 500 women to corporate boards from growth stage private companies to name brand public companies. Coco has personally worked with hundreds of top leaders, CEOs and boards to evolve modern leadership. She’s served on ten commercial and non-profit boards and advisory boards, and has led two notable companies (Taos, acquired by IBM, and now Athena). She is part of Nasdaq's Governance Insights Council, and is often called on to share guidance to the evolving focus and breadth of responsibility within the Modern Boardroom. Coco was recently named one of the 100 Most Powerful People of Silicon Valley.
Kate is a co-founder of Scale, a Silicon Valley-based firm that invests in early-stage,intelligent software startups. Kate is past chair and board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and co-authored the IPO section of the 2012 JOBS Act and co-founded NVCA’s initiative, VentureForward, which focuses on advancing opportunities for women and underrepresented minorities in the venture ecosystem. She received the NVCA Outstanding Service Award in 2013 for her policy work in Washington, was awarded the Private Equity Trailblazer Award at the 2018 Women in PE Summit and was honored with the 2021 NVCA American Spirit Award for her community service centered around equity and diversity.
Kate currently serves on the boards of Fortive Corporation (NYSE:FTV), SVB
Financial Group and Restructuring Committee (NASDAQ:SIVB), NVCA’s Venture
Forward where she is also Chairman, and the Steering Committee for IADEI. Shealso serves on the investment committees for the Silicon Valley Community
Foundation and SFMOMA endowments. She had previously served on numerous
private, public and not-for-profit boards. She has taught courses on venture capital and governance at the Stanford Rock Center and the GSB, the Kauffman Fellows where she is also an regular mentor, the Dartmouth-Tuck Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital, UCLA Law, Berkeley Law, Boalt School of Law, MIT-Sloan, HBS and the Olin School.
Susan Muck is a partner in the San Francisco office of WilmerHale. Susan regularly handles board investigations involving disclosure and accounting issues, whistleblower allegations, insider trading, and other high-profile governance matters. She also defends companies, directors and officers in regulatory investigations, shareholder class actions, and other stockholder litigation. Her practice spans a wide range of industries, including life science, software, social media, cloud computing, energy, financial services and retail.
Susan is currently representing the independent directors of Hawaiian Electric Industries in matters arising out of the Maui wildfire. She previously represented the independent directors of Sempra Energy and its wholly owned utility, SoCal Gas, in connection with litigation arising out of the largest natural gas leak in U.S. history. Other board representations include Activision, Charles Schwab, Intel, Intuit, Microsoft, Nordstrom and Uber.
Susan has been recognized repeatedly by Chambers USA The Legal 500, Law360. Daily Journal, and Best Lawyers. She is a founding member of Women in Securities, a network for women securities litigators, and is an active member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association. She has lectured and written extensively on crisis management, board governance, and compliance, including for the Association of Corporate Counsel, Compliance Week, Law360, Northwestern University and Stanford University.
Alison Davis is Founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Coinvestors - a leading investment firm in the blockchain sector with positions in 750+ blockchain companies globally including 70+ unicorns.
She is an experienced corporate executive, public company board director, active investor in growth companies and a best selling author on the topics of technology and innovation.
Alison is currently a non-executive director of Collibra, Fiserv, Kraken, Pacaso and SIVB. She is a former director of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS - now NatWest Group) where she was chair of the Technology and Innovation Committee, at Janus Henderson Group (JHG), Ooma (OOMA), Xoom (XOOM), and LECG (XPRT) where she chaired the Audit Committees, Diamond Foods (DMND) where she chaired the Compensation Committee, and City National Bank, (CYN), First Data Corporation (FDC), Unisys (UIS) and Dispatch Management Services (DMSC). Alison is the co-author of four best selling books “*Blockchain Competitive Advantage*, *Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era*, *Build Your fortune in the Fifth Era* and *The Intelligent Investor: Silicon Valley*.
Alison was previously the Managing Partner of Belvedere Capital, a regulated bank holding company and private equity firm focused on investing in US banks and financial services firms where she worked closely with the Federal Reserve, The OCC, the FDIC and various state banking regulators.
Alison is active in the community supporting non-profits and social enterprises as a board director, fundraiser and volunteer. She is the board Chair of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center which helps thousands of low income clients start and grow their own businesses and serves on the boards of NACD Northern California and Cambridge in America. She has been frequently named a “Most Influential Women in Business” by the San Francisco Business Times.
She received a B.A. Honors and a Master’s in Economics from Cambridge University in England, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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