Catherine Bromilow helps Boards and audit committees apply leading practices and understand the impact of emerging regulations on their activities. She has worked extensively with Boards and directors from a number of countries, including the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Israel, Mexico, South Africa, the United States and Venezuela. 

Catherine co-wrote the books Audit Committee Effectiveness — What Works Best™ and Board Effectiveness — What Works Best, both published in 2011. She also coauthored Governance for Companies Going Public — What Works Best and wrote its companion publication, Going Public? Five Governance Factors to Focus On, both issued in 2013. In 2012, NACD Directorship magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in corporate governance in the United States for the sixth consecutive year. Catherine also speaks frequently at director conferences.

Catherine is a Certified Public Accountant (licensed in New Jersey) and a Chartered Professional Accountant, CPA, CA (Canada). She holds a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Waterloo.

Scott Chou has been in the venture capital industry since 1997 and was recently recognized by AlwaysOn as a Top 100 venture capitalist. He is known for his focus on disruptive technologies and for authoring the book Maxims, Morals, and Metaphors - A Primer on Venture Capital. His broad expertise in technology spans the industry, including manufacturing, software development and chip design.

Scott’s passion for early stage technology ventures extends back to high school, when he joined his first start-up as a software engineer. He has since worked for five more technology ventures, including Poqet Computer and ICE, and has held positions with world-renowned research and development organizations such as Bellcore and IBM. Scott is the creator of Oh Don't Forget!, a popular mobile app for Android and iOS devices. He completed the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program in 1999 with Onset Ventures and later joined Gabriel Venture Partners in early 2000, where he focused on research labs for fundamental innovations. Scott's first investment at Gabriel was in the seed round of NextG Networks, which eventually sold to Crown Castle for $1 billion.

Scott holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with honors from Caltech and master’s degrees from Harvard University and Stanford University.

Josh Cook is a corporate and securities partner and the head of Gunderson’s San Francisco office. He specializes in the representation of emerging growth companies as well as venture capital and private equity investment funds. Josh is also an active advisor to leading angels, incubators and institutional investors.

Josh works with technology companies in a broad range of verticals with a primary focus on consumer, digital media, mobile, e-retail, gaming and Internet infrastructure sectors. His services span the entire corporate life cycle, including strategic decisions and coaching prior to incorporation, prospective investor introductions, general corporate representation and counseling, venture capital financings, employment matters, commercial contracts, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

Josh holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Georgetown University and a bachelor of arts from The George Washington University. Josh is admitted to practice in California.

As Senior Vice President, Broker Network & Content, Sam Hayes is responsible for brokers, content and data syndication on the NASDAQ Private Market platform. He also specializes in product strategy and market development.

Before joining NASDAQ Private Market, Sam was SharesPost's founding COO and EVP, Marketplace, where he successfully closed over 30 partnerships that resulted in more than one billion dollars of transactional value, 80,000 research downloads and 120,000 market participants. Prior to SharesPost, Sam led corporate development, including mergers and acquisitions and venture investments, for the Java platform at Sun Microsystems, where he drove initiatives to grow the mobile and web businesses. Previously, Sam led business development for category leader Wine.com and start-ups now part of Akamai Technologies. Sam was also a member of the initial launch team at America Online's Classifieds Plus offering. For more than 20 years, Sam has delivered growth to firms at key stages in the entrepreneurial lifecycle – from launch to expansion to exit through acquisition – three of which were funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Sam received an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and an AB degree from Occidental College. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Kyle Holm has more than 15 years of compensation consulting experience covering executive, broad-based and Board of Director pay. His work covers all elements of compensation including base salaries, annual incentives and long-term incentives. He consults on the design of cash and stock-based compensation programs for a varied range of public and private companies with a focus on high-growth organizations in the technology and life sciences sectors. Additionally, Kyle has significant experience working with family-owned businesses.

Prior to joining Radford, Kyle held a principal position at Hay Group and was one of the three founders of Presidio Pay Advisors, where he was instrumental in developing their pre-IPO offerings.

Kyle has been an instructor for Northern California Human Resources Association's continuing education program. His work has been published in workspan magazine, and he co-authored a chapter on initial public offerings in the recently published book, Understanding Executive Compensation – A Practical Guide for Decision Makers. He earned a bachelor's degree in finance from Santa Clara University.

Julie Ray has more than 20 years of experience managing equity compensation plans for companies in the technology sector, including Cygnus, 3Com and Sybase. She currently holds the position of Stock Administrator at Twitter Inc.

Prior to joining Twitter, Julie worked at Zynga, a San Francisco-based provider of social game services, where she helped manage the company’s initial public offering. 

Julie’s experience includes responsibility for both public and private global equity plans, Section 16 and insider trading compliance, proxy preparation, mergers and acquisitions, and employee education.