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Joe Hurd*
Nominated member
Appointed 10 May 2023
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the ESG Committee
Member of the Risk Committee
Member of the Technology & Transformation Advisory Panel
Joe Hurd is a Silicon Valley-based technology executive and public company board director. Having begun his career practising securities law in London at Linklaters, he went on to join AOL/Time Warner, where he built business development teams in Japan and Australia, before moving to Silicon Valley to lead international expansion at two venture-backed companies. Mr Hurd later served at the United States Department of Commerce under the administration of President Barack Obama, implementing the National Export Initiative and serving on the White House Business Council.
Mr Hurd is currently CEO and managing partner of the Katama Group LLC (Los Altos, California), an operating partner of SOSV Investments LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) and a non-executive director of Trustpilot Group plc (Audit, Nominations, Trust & Transparency committees) and Hays plc (Audit, Nominations, Remuneration committees). He is a Trustee of Menlo College and the Computer History Museum, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum Class XXXIX, and a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Private Directors Association and the National Association of Corporate Directors.
* Considered to be an independent Non-Executive Director
Joe Hurd*
Nominated member
Appointed 10 May 2023
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the ESG Committee
Member of the Risk Committee
Member of the Technology & Transformation Advisory Panel
Joe Hurd is a Silicon Valley-based technology executive and public company board director. Having begun his career practising securities law in London at Linklaters, he went on to join AOL/Time Warner, where he built business development teams in Japan and Australia, before moving to Silicon Valley to lead international expansion at two venture-backed companies. Mr Hurd later served at the United States Department of Commerce under the administration of President Barack Obama, implementing the National Export Initiative and serving on the White House Business Council.
Mr Hurd is currently CEO and managing partner of the Katama Group LLC (Los Altos, California), an operating partner of SOSV Investments LLC (Princeton, New Jersey) and a non-executive director of Trustpilot Group plc (Audit, Nominations, Trust & Transparency committees) and Hays plc (Audit, Nominations, Remuneration committees). He is a Trustee of Menlo College and the Computer History Museum, a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum Class XXXIX, and a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Private Directors Association and the National Association of Corporate Directors.
* Considered to be an independent Non-Executive Director