Arthur Rock (chairman)

Arthur Rock is Principal of Arthur Rock & Co. and was a partner in Davis & Rock from 1961 to 1968, both venture capital firms. He was Chairman of the Board of Scientific Data Systems and a member of the Board of Directors of Teledyne Inc., Xerox, Argonaut Insurance, Apple Computer, AirTouch, the Nasdaq Stock Market, and Echelon Corporation. Mr. Rock was a founder of Intel Corporation and served as Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Executive Committee and lead director.

Mr. Rock has also served as trustee of the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Business School, the California Institute of Technology, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Opera. He is a recipient of the Medal of Achievement of the American Electronics Association and the American Academy of Achievement, the Arents Pioneer Medal of Syracuse University, the Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship & Innovation Award from the University of California, the Northern California Business Leader of the Year from the Harvard Business School Association, and the Commonwealth Club’s Distinguished Citizen Award. He has been inducted into the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame, the California Business Hall of Fame, the Bay Area Business Council Hall of Fame, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

He founded the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, and he and his wife Toni founded the Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. Mr. Rock was co-founder and past president of The Basic Fund which gives scholarships to inner city children to attend K-8 private schools. He is also on the board of Teach for America and Children’s Scholarship Fund and an active funder of KIPP. Mr. Rock received a BS degree in Political Science and Finance from Syracuse University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Lydia I. Beebe is a corporate governance expert, serving on two corporate boards of directors and advising companies, boards and directors on governance issues. She provides advice on governance matters through LIBB Advisors, LLC, the firm she founded. Lydia is a director of EQT Corporation (NYSE:EQT) and Aemetis Inc. (Nasdaq:AMTX). She chairs EQT’s board and is a member of its Corporate Governance and Management Development and Compensation Committees, and she chairs Aemetis’ Governance, Compensation and Nominating Committee. She was a director of Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU until December 2021; then held in Voting Trust until approval of its acquisition by Canadian Pacific in April 2023) from May 2017 until April 2023, and of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCC), serving as chair of its Nominating and Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee, until its acquisition by Tokio Marine in late 2015. Lydia served on Kansas City Southern’s Nominating and Corporate Governance and its Compensation and Organization Committees.

In April 2015, Lydia retired as corporate secretary and chief governance officer of Chevron Corporation, a position she held since 1995 when she was elected Chevron’s first woman corporate officer. She was Senior of Counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati from June 2015 until July 2017.

Throughout her career, Lydia has been active on many public and non-profit governing boards. In addition to being an advisory board member for the Rock Center, she is Chair of the Kansas University Endowment Association Board of Trustees. She served on the University of Delaware Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance Advisory Board until 2020 and was chair of the board of directors of the Northern California Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors in 2016 and 2017, having served on its board since 2009. In 2003, President George W. Bush appointed her to the board of directors of the Presidio Trust, where she served until 2008. Governor Pete Wilson appointed Lydia to the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission in 1991, where she served until 1999 and chaired the Commission for the final five years. In recognition of the accomplishments made during her tenure leading the Commission, she was honored in 2009 as a Civil Rights Hero by the State of California.

Edward Jones Principal Keir Gumbs is general counsel, responsible for leading all associates who provide legal support to the firm and for compliance. He joined the firm in 2023 with more than 24 years of experience, having most recently spent the last two years as the Chief Legal Officer for Broadridge Financial Solutions. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing the Legal, Compliance and Physical Security teams. In addition, Keir co-led the regulatory and government affairs activities on behalf of Broadridge and served as the primary legal advisor for senior management and the Board of Directors on all legal and regulatory aspects of the Broadridge business strategy. Keir served as an executive member of Broadridge’s ESG Committee and its Executive Diversity Council, while he also served as a trustee of Broadridge’s charitable foundation, member of the Board of Directors for Broadridge’s Political Action Committee and executive sponsor of Broadridge’s Women’s Leadership Forum.

Prior to his experience at Broadridge, Keir served three years as the Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Corporate Secretary at Uber, was a Partner and Co-chair of the Securities Practice for 13 years at Covington & Burling and served six years with the SEC, including serving as Counsel to an SEC Commissioner, Special Counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel and staff attorney in the SEC’s division of Corporate Finance.

Keir earned his bachelor’s in international relations from Ohio State University and a juris doctorate from University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Keir is married and has a teenage daughter. He is an avid fan of Ohio State, where he ran track as an undergraduate. His hobbies include running, cycling, swimming and, of course, watching college football.

Before Uber, Keir was a partner for nearly a decade at Covington & Burling LLP, where he represented a cross-section of constituencies in securities and governance matters, including companies ranging in size from Fortune 50 companies to venture-backed firms, as well as public pension funds, hedge funds, faith-based investors and trade associations.

Prior to Covington, he was a lawyer in the Division of Corporate Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission, including serving as Counsel to SEC Commissioner Roel C. Campos. In that position, he advised the Commissioner on a variety of matters arising under federal securities law with an emphasis on corporate finance issues under the Securities Act of 1933, issuer reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, corporate governance developments and SEC enforcement actions. Prior to serving as Counsel to Commissioner Campos, Keir spent five years as a staff attorney and later a Special Counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance.

Anne Sheehan has a long and distinguished career in the field of corporate governance. She currently serves on the Board of Victoria’s Secret where she chairs the Nominating and Governance Committee and is a Board Member at Janus Henderson Group where she serves on the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Audit Committee. She also serves as a senior adviser to PJT Camberview. Ms Sheehan served for two years on the Board of L Brands prior to the spin-off of Victoria’s Secret and served on the Board of Cohn Robbins Holding Corp. from 2020 to 2023.

Ms. Sheehan is the former Director of Corporate Governance for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the largest educator-only public pension fund in the world, where she was responsible for overseeing all corporate governance activities for the fund including proxy voting, company engagements and managing over $4 billion placed with activists and ESG managers. Ms. Sheehan is past Chair of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee. Prior to CalSTRS, she served as Chief Deputy Director for Policy at the California Department of Finance. During her tenure at Finance, Ms. Sheehan served on both the CalSTRS and CalPERS Boards as well as serving as the Executive Director of the Governor’s Post-Employment Benefits Commission. Ms. Sheehan served as the Chair of the Council of Institutional Investors for two years. She was a founding Member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), as well as having served two terms on the NASDAQ Listing Council. In addition to being on the Advisory Board of the Rock Center, Ms Sheehan is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. Ms. Sheehan was named one of the 100 most influential people on corporate governance by Directorship magazine from 2009 til 2018.