Matternet Appoints Starbucks EVP Sanjay Shah to Board of Directors

Developer of commercial drone delivery systems for urban and suburban environments

CEO/founder Andreas Raptopoulos: M.A. in Industrial Design Engineering; Diploma of Imperial College in Industrial Design Engineering; Diploma in Mechanical Engineering

Chris Dawson: M.B.A. from INSEAD.

Sanjay Kotte: B.B.A. in finance and management; M.B.A. and J.D.

Laurence Marton, M.D.: expert in drug development, polyamine metabolism, and cancer research,

Saurabh Ranjan: certification in human resource and law; M.A. and M.B.A.

No female directors or executives but now a second Sanjay: IN OR OUT

Sanjay Shah: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering

Starbucks Chief Supply Chain Officer

SVP of Operations, Gopuff

COO, Beyond Meat

SVP, Tesla

VP of North American Customer Fulfillment, Amazon

AAON Increases Board Size and Appoints Robert L. Buttermore III, and Patrick J. Jermain as Independent Directors

Before 2/9 F now 2/11 F

AAON manufactures heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment for commercial and industrial indoor environments

IN OR OUT: Robert L. Buttermore III: BS mechanical engineering

Chief Supply Chain Officer of Rockwell Automation, one of the world’s leading industrial automation and digital transformation companies

previously led Rockwell’s Power Control business and oversaw strategic expansion initiatives supporting industrial, semiconductor, energy, HVAC, and data center customers.

IN OR OUT: Patrick J. Jermain: MBA

Former CFO Plexus

Administration and Management: 100%. The others:

Caron A. Lawhorn: former CFO, ONE Gas, Inc.

Stephen O. LeClair: MBA, Chair/former CEO, Core & Main

Bruce Ware: MBA, CEO, One America Bancorp Inc., a financial institution that he founded to provide niche financial and banking services

Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’

IN OR OUT on the board skillset: Consumer and Digital Experience: “Background in the development and improvement of consumer experiences with a company’s products, services, and brand, including through a digital interface.” AND Sustainability and Human Capital Management: “Experience in corporate responsibility, human capital management, and managing sustainability initiatives.”

Who is in BOTH?

Arora: CEO, Palo Alto Networks (cybersecurity); Softbank

Burns: Former CEO/Chair Xerox; currently invests in tech

Eckert: Partner at PE firm; former CEO Mattel

Ginsberg: Partner at PE firm; former CEO Match Group

Khosrowshahi: CEO; former CEO Expedia

Sugar: Former CEO Northrop Grumman (war); Apple: Foxconn suicide machine

Wynaendts: former CEO Aegon (life insurance); Deutsche bank

IN OR OUT on Chief Legal Officer Tony West: “Why safety is personal to me”

Uses past public service as a human shield for his current corporate ruthlessness: West spends roughly a third of the statement reciting his resume (prosecuting child exploitation, doing pro bono work for domestic violence survivors, and overseeing the Office on Violence Against Women under Obama) which is why “I would never support or condone conduct—inside or outside a courtroom—that fails to treat women and survivors with dignity and respect”

West was a chief architect and defender of Uber's ruthless campaign to pass Proposition 22 in California. Uber and other gig companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars to exempt themselves from state labor laws, ensuring their drivers remained classified as independent contractors without a minimum wage, healthcare, or sick leave.

Blames “the system:” “I’ll be the first to say that our adversarial legal system can be particularly tough for survivors. By its nature, the trial process is designed to extract facts ... And the fact that all of this occurs in public view makes it all the more difficult …”

“The system" isn't asking victims what they were wearing—Uber’s highly paid defense attorneys are

West is shifting the blame from his own legal department's aggressive, victim-blaming litigation strategies onto the abstract concept of the "adversarial legal system."

the New York Times and unsealed court documents from the multidistrict litigation (MDL) reveal, once a survivor steps into a courtroom, Uber’s high-priced defense lawyers resort to classic, traumatizing victim-blaming. Asking women what they were wearing or weaponizing their personal histories to discredit them is a deliberate strategy to minimize corporate payouts

Cherry picks one favorable moment: West quotes a single federal judge from a February trial who praised Uber’s attorneys, saying they did not engage in "the slightest bit of shaming" and that he wanted it "clear on the record."

one favorable quote from one judge in one specific trial: "Look, this one guy said we're nice, so the New York Times must be lying."

Bullshits the bigger picture: “Uber was among the first companies to end forced arbitration and mandatory confidentiality agreements in matters involving sexual assault and sexual harassment”

Yes, they ended individual forced arbitration, but they fought ruthlessly to ensure survivors still cannot form class-action l...