Yvonne Wassenaar, CEO of Puppet talks about digital innovation, leadership and gender diversity in high-tech companies

Yvonne Wassenaar is the CEO of Puppet, a trusted enterprise provider of pervasive automation across traditional and cloud-native environments. She has more than 25 years of experience scaling companies globally and driving enterprise transformation with technology. Prior to Puppet, Yvonne served as CEO of Airware, CIO at New Relic, and held multiple leadership roles at VMware and Accenture. Yvonne currently serves on the board and audit committee for both Forrester [FORR] and Harvey Mudd College along with being an advisor to Snyk and a Sapphire Ventures Fellow. Previously Yvonne served as a board director for Airware (exit to Delair in 2018), MuleSoft [MULE] (exit to Salesforce in 2018), Bitium (exit to Google in 2017), and the Athena Alliance. Yvonne's corporate experience includes: Airware where she was CEO and proved the value of drone analytics; New Relic where she was a key player in taking the company public and later CIO; VMware where she held numerous senior leadership roles scaling and diversifying the company; and Accenture where for over 17 years she enabled clients around the globe to lead in their industries leveraging technology. Yvonne holds a BA in economics with a specialization in computing from UCLA and an MBA in strategy and operations from the university’s Anderson School of Business. Her market impact earned her recognition as a Woman of Influence in Silicon Valley; theBoardlist Top 20, SF Business Times Public Company CIO Award Winner, and as a WSJ Woman of Note. Yvonne is an avid traveler and uses her experiences abroad to deepen her understanding of human interaction and experience. In this podcast, she talks about her unique career journey, digital innovation in the new post-pandemic world, gender diversity in tech and more. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonnewassenaar/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support