Dr. Amy Gershkoff Bolles is a technology executive with experience as a founder, CEO, COO, advisor, investor, and public company Board Director. She has a proven track record of building and leading high performing teams, unlocking growth and margin, and driving successful exits. As an operating executive, she led 2 growth stage companies to successful exit, including an ecommerce company in which she executed a complete turnaround of the company and facilitated an acquisition. Previously, she led the turnaround at Zynga (NYSE: ZNGA), where she was responsible for the largest P&L in the company, representing more than 90% of the company’s revenue. She also served as Founder & CEO of her own technology startup, which she bootstrapped and led from inception through to exit.

She has held senior executive roles with eBay (NYSE: EBAY), where she led global media planning & buying, data science, and customer insights, Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE: LEVI), where she led global digital strategy, and WPP (NYSE: WPP), where she launched and led WPP’s analytics business. Dr. Bolles previously led all media planning and buying for Obama’s 2012 campaign. Dr. Bolles has also held Board Advisory positions with growth businesses including Havenly, CleanCapital, Boats Group, and with investment firms including Nassau Street Ventures and Serendipity Capital.

Dr. Bolles has been named “Who’s Who in America,” to the Global Top 100 Innovators list and the Top 10 Women Leaders of 2020 list as well as one of the Top 15 Women in AI by Forbes. She was also named one of the Top 50 Women to Watch in Tech and one of San Francisco's Most Influential Women in Business by the San Francisco Business Times. Her articles have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, TechCrunch, and Business Insider, and she has been a commentator on NPR, Bloomberg News, ABC, CSPAN, and for various print media outlets including the New York Times. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.