Board of directors

Artur Bergman has served as our Chief Architect since February 2020. He served as our Chief Executive Officer from Fastly’s founding in March 2011 until February 2020, Chairperson of the Board of Directors from February 2020 to April 2023, and as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2011. 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 Ltd., 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 the Chairperson of our Board of Directors since April 2023, Lead Independent Director of our Board of Directors from February 2020 to April 2023, and as a member of our Board of Directors since February 2013. Mr. Hornik has been a partner at Lobby Capital and August Capital, venture capital funds, since 2021 and 2000, respectively. 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. Mr. Hornik has served as a member of the board of directors of Bill.com, a cloud-based software company that automates back-office financial operations, since May 2016. 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.

Aida Álvarez has served as a member of our Board of Directors since August 2019. Ms. Álvarez has led important financial and government agencies and served in the cabinet of U.S. President William J. Clinton as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Ms. Álvarez serves on the board of directors of HP Inc., a technology company, Stride, Inc., a for-profit education company, and Bill.com Holdings, Inc., a provider of automated, cloud-based software for financial operations. She has previously served on the board of directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., a retail company, MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation, a banking corporation, Zoosk, an online dating company, PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc., and Oportun Financial Corporation, a financial services company. Ms. Álvarez is the founding Chair of the Latino Community Foundation. Ms. Álvarez holds a B.A. from Harvard College.

Todd Nightingale has served as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board of Directors since September 2022. Mr. Nightingale previously served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of  Enterprise Networking and Cloud at Cisco Systems, Inc. since March 2020. Mr. Nightingale is known for his passionate technology leadership and his vision of powerful, simple solutions for businesses, schools, and governments. From June 2016 to March 2020, Mr. Nightingale served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Meraki. His focus on delivering a simple, secure, digital workplace led to the expansion and growth of the Meraki portfolio, making it the largest cloud-managed networking platform in the world. Mr. Nightingale joined Cisco with the Meraki acquisition in 2012. He previously held engineering and senior management positions at AirDefense, where he was responsible for product development and guided the company through a successful acquisition by Motorola. Mr. Nightingale holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  

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 Ambarella, Inc., a developer of low-power, high-definition video compression and image processing semiconductors. Mr. Paisley previously served as a director of Fitbit, Inc. from January 2015 to May 2020, as a director of Fortinet, Inc., a cybersecurity software company from 2004 until May 2021, and as Chief Financial Officer and a director of Enterprise 4.0 Technology Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition corporation from May 2021 to March 2023. 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 has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2021. Ms. Loop previously served as an Assurance Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an international professional services accounting firm, where her career spanned over 30 years. At PwC she served on the Board of Partners as the Risk and Quality Committee chair and was the leader of PwC’s Governance Insights Center. She was also previously the New York Metro Regional Assurance Leader leading one of PwC’s largest Assurance practices. She has served as a director of APi Group, a construction equipment and services company, since March 2022 and Robinhood Markets, a financial services company, since June 2021. Ms. Loop holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Charles Meyers has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2021. Mr. 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. Mr. 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. Mr. Meyers holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder, an M.S. in Engineering Management from Northwestern University, and an M.B.A. in Marketing, Strategy from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Vanessa Smith has served as a member of our Board of Directors since November 2021. Since September 2020, Ms. Smith has served as Senior Vice President of Industries at ServiceNow, Inc., a software company. From October 2004 to August 2020, Ms. Smith served in a variety of go-to-market roles, most recently Regional Vice President, Strategic Customers and Senior Vice President, Human Capital Management LOB, for SAP, a software company. She holds a B.S. in Commerce from The McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from The Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.

Richard Daniels has served as a member of our Board of Directors since November 2021. Mr. Daniels retired from Kaiser Permanente, an integrated managed care consortium, in 2020, where he was most recently Executive Vice President & CIO. He serves on the Board of  CSAA Insurance Group and is on the Board of the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation. Mr. Daniels previously served on the Board of SVB Financial Group from October 2020 to March 2023 and on the Board of Playworks from December 2015 to January 2023. Before Kaiser Permanente, Mr. Daniels held technology leadership roles at Capital One and JPMorgan. Mr. Daniels holds a B.A.Sc. in Business Administration and Management from Texas State University.