Board of directors

Artur Bergman has served as our Chief Architect and Executive Chairperson and Chairperson of the Board of Directors since February 2020. He served as our CEO from Fastly’s founding in March 2011 until February 2020. From September 2007 to June 2011, Mr. Bergman served as Manager, Vice President, then Chief Technology Officer of Wikia, Inc., a global community knowledge-sharing platform. From November 2005 to March 2007, Mr. Bergman served as Engineering Manager for SixApart, a social networking service. From the second half of 2003 to August 2005, Mr. Bergman served as Engineering Manager of Fotango, Ltd., a subsidiary of Canon Europe.

David M. Hornik has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2013, and as Lead Independent Director since February 2020. Since May 2016 Mr. Hornik has served on the board of directors of Bill.com Holdings, Inc., a financial technology company. Since 2000, Mr. Hornik has been a partner at August Capital, a venture capital firm. From August 2004 to September 2017, Mr. Hornik served as a member of the board of directors of Splunk, Inc, a software and data solutions company. Prior to joining August Capital, Mr. Hornik was an intellectual property and corporate attorney at the law firms of Venture Law Group and Perkins Coie LLP, and a litigator at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Mr. Hornik holds an A.B. from Stanford University, an M.Phil from Cambridge University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

The Honorable Aida Álvarez serves on the boards of Hewlett Packard, Inc., K12 Inc., and Oportun. She has also been a Director on the boards of PacifiCare Health Systems, MUFG Union Bank, Zoosk and Walmart. Álvarez was a member of President Clinton’s Cabinet, the first Latina to serve in any U.S. President’s Cabinet. She was Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Prior to her government service, Álvarez was a successful investment banker at First Boston and Bear Stearns. She was also an award-winning journalist, recognized with a Front Page Award, an Emmy nomination and an Associated Press Award for journalistic excellence. A Harvard graduate, Álvarez served on the Harvard Board of Overseers and holds honorary doctorates from several colleges and universities. Currently, she is Chair Emerita of the Latino Community Foundation, a Commissioner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and a Governor on the Board of the San Francisco Symphony.

Joshua Bixby has served as our CEO since February 2020 and served as our President from May 2017 to February 2020. He has been on the executive leadership team at Fastly since December 2015 and served in a part-time advisory role since 2013. From February 2013 to August 2013, Mr. Bixby served as Vice President of Acceleration at Radware Ltd., a cybersecurity and application delivery solutions company. Mr. Bixby served as President and co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, a web application acceleration solutions company, from June 2006 until its acquisition by Radware in February 2013. From October 2002 to April 2006, Mr. Bixby was a co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of IronPoint Technology, Inc., a content management software solutions company. Mr. Bixby is the founder of Stanley Park Ventures, an early stage foundry based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mr. Bixby earned his B.A. in Management and Business Economics from the University of Toronto.

Christopher B. Paisley has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2018. Since January 2001, Mr. Paisley has served as the Dean’s Executive Professor of Accounting at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Mr. Paisley also serves as lead independent director of Equinix, Inc., a provider of network colocation, interconnection, and managed services, as a member of the board of Fortinet, Inc., a cybersecurity software company, a member of the board of directors of Fitbit, Inc., a connected health and fitness company, and a member of the board of directors of Ambarella, Inc., a developer of low-power, high-definition video compression and image processing semiconductors. Mr. Paisley previously served as a director of Bridge Bank from August 2011 until June 2015, a director of Control4, a home automation company, from May 2006 until August 2015, and a director of YuMe, Inc., a provider of digital video brand advertising solutions, from November 2012 until its acquisition by RhythmOne plc in February 2018. Mr. Paisley holds a B.A. in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Paula Loop spent more than 20 years as an Assurance Partner at PwC where she most recently led PwC’s Governance Insights Center and was a member of PwC's Board of Partners. Prior to that she led PwC's New York Metro Assurance Practice and was also PwC's US and Global Talent Leader. She currently serves on the board of Robinhood Markets and is also on the board of the Value Reporting Foundation. Ms. Loop is a Certified Public Accountant and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a B.S. in Business Administration. 

Charles Meyers is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Equinix, the world’s digital infrastructure company™. He previously served as President, Strategy, Services & Innovation, as well as Chief Operating Officer, after joining Equinix in 2010 as President, Americas Region. Meyers also previously held senior operating roles at Level 3 Communications and Verisign and was a member of the pre-IPO executive team at Internet Security Systems.

Vanessa Smith is a digital technology leader with more than 20 years of experience. She joined ServiceNow in 2020 as Senior Vice President of Global Go-to-Market to oversee the company’s strategic customer engagement functions after 16 years at SAP. Vanessa serves on the Board of Teach for America, Greater Philadelphia region, and is a member of Jack and Jill of America. She previously held senior customer engagement roles at SAP and GE Global Exchange Services (GXS, now OpenText).

Richard Daniels retired from Kaiser Permanente in 2020, where he was most recently Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer. He serves on the Boards of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and CSAA Insurance Group and is active in the community as Board Chair of Playworks and on the Board of the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation. Before Kaiser Permanente, Richard held technology leadership roles at Capital One and JPMorgan.