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 the Lead Independent Director of our Board of Directors since February 2020 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.

The Honorable 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, Oportun Financial Corporation, a financial services company, and Stride, Inc., a for-profit education company. 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, and PacifiCare Health Systems, Inc. Ms. Álvarez is the founding Chair of the Latino Community Foundation. Ms. Álvarez holds a B.A. from Harvard College.

Todd Nightingale is the Chief Executive Officer at Fastly. Previously, Todd led the Enterprise Networking and Cloud business at Cisco as Executive Vice President and General Manager, where he managed business strategy and development efforts for Cisco's multi-billion-dollar networking portfolio. Nightingale is known for his passionate technology leadership and his vision of powerful, simple solutions for businesses, schools, and governments. Nightingale also held prior roles as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco's Meraki business. 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. 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.

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, and as CFO and a member of the Board of Directors for Enterprise 4.0, a special purpose acquisition Corporation. Mr. Paisley previously served as a director of Fitbit, Inc. from January 2015 to May 2020, 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, and as a director of of Fortinet, Inc., a cybersecurity software company, from 2004 until May 2021.  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 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 also serves on the Value Reporting Foundation Board which oversees the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. Ms. Loop holds a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. We believe that Ms. Loop is qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors because of her significant experience working with boards and audit committees across multiple markets and industry sectors on governance, accounting, sustainability and SEC reporting matters.

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 Global Go-to-Market at ServiceNow, 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 in 2020, where he was most recently Executive Vice President & CIO. He serves on the Boards of Silicon Valley Bank 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. Mr. Daniels holds a B.A.Sc. in Business Administration and Management from Texas State University.