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Yvonne Wassenaar is a Senior Advisor and Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where she guides enterprise, B2B, and artificial intelligence founders across the United States, India, and Southeast Asia. Before joining the firm, she accumulated over two decades of operational experience, serving as the Chief Executive Officer of Puppet, Chief Information Officer at New Relic, and Vice President of Strategy at VMware. She began her career in the 1990s at the Silicon Valley offices of Accenture and has since developed extensive international expertise in scaling cloud infrastructure and enterprise software companies. Wassenaar also maintains a significant corporate governance portfolio, holding board of director positions at prominent technology firms including Arista Networks, Braze, JFrog, and Anaplan. Her current focus centers on leveraging her executive background to advise founders on international expansion, organizational scaling, and strategic business development.
