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 Beebe is Principal of LIBB Advisors LLC, a governance consulting firm, where she focuses on assisting boards of directors to perform at their best. Her services include corporate governance best practices, board of directors evaluations, and stockholder relations. Lydia also serves on three public company boards of directors, EQT Corporation (Chair), Kansas City Southern and Aemetis Inc. She has more than 35 years of significant experience as an attorney and legal counsel provider.

Prior to founding LIBB Advisors,  Lydia was co-director of the Stanford Institutional Investors’ Forum. In addition, she was Senior Counsel at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for two years, following two decades as corporate secretary and chief governance officer at Chevron, and the first woman officer at the company. For the 20 years in which she held that role, she advised the board of directors and senior management on corporate governance matters and managed Chevron’s corporate governance function. In addition, Lydia directed stockholder services for Chevron and its subsidiaries, as well as served as secretary to Chevron’s board, its executive committee, and its board nominating and governance committee.

Previously, Lydia was a senior manager and attorney in Chevron’s tax department and a legislative representative for the company in Washington, D.C. She began her legal career at Chevron as a contracts attorney in 1977.

Lydia has taken on multiple leadership roles in the community, serving on various boards of directors. She currently serves as an advisory board member of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, as well as on the governing boards of the Kansas University Endowment Association, Kansas University Law Alumni, and the San Francisco Symphony.

Lydia has also served on the board of directors of the National Judicial College, to which she was appointed by the American Bar Association; the Presidio Trust, to which she was appointed by President George W. Bush; and the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, to which she was appointed by Governor Pete Wilson and for which she was recognized as a Civil Rights Hero by the state of California.

Keir Gumbs is Corporate Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. Since joining Broadridge in July 2021, Keir has overseen its legal, compliance, and physical security teams, and helps lead Broadridge’s policy efforts. He joined Broadridge from Uber Technologies, Inc., where he most recently served as Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Corporate Secretary. At Uber, Keir was responsible for a team of lawyers working in the areas of payments, M&A, executive compensation and employee benefits, marketing, finance, corporate transactions, corporate governance, capital markets and related matters.

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 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. Additionally, she is past Chair of the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee.

Ms. Sheehan currently serves on the Board of VS & Co., is a  Board Member of Cohn Robbins Holding Corp., and serves as a senior adviser to PJT Camberview. 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, as well as having served two terms on the NASDAQ Listing Council. Ms Sheehan is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware and a Member of the Advisory Board of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. Ms. Sheehan was named one of the 100 most influential people on corporate governance by Directorship magazine from 2009 until 2018.