Executive Officers

Michael Thompson, 44
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and Director nominee

Michael Thompson has been the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since December 2020 and a director since May 2021. He also is a co-founding member of Reinvent Capital. Mr. Thompson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and a director of RTP, RTPZ and RTPY. Mr. Thompson was previously co-founder, managing member, and portfolio manager for BHR Capital, which managed as much as $1.9 billion of special situations funds from 2009-2016. Mr. Thompson played an active role in several of BHR Capital’s portfolio companies, developing operating and financing strategies alongside management. While managing BHR Capital, Mr. Thompson was responsible for all portfolio construction, security selection, and risk management activities and oversaw the firm’s investment team. He also led several investments in which BHR Capital took active protagonist roles. Additionally, since the early 2010s, he has made dozens of private investments. He has experience as a board member and regularly advises companies on business and financial matters. Mr. Thompson graduated magna cum laude with a B.B.A. in International Finance from the Honors Program at the University of Georgia, where he received Alumni, Governor’s, and Hope Scholarships.

David Cohen, 42
Secretary

David Cohen has been the Secretary since December 2020. Mr. Cohen is also the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of Reinvent Capital. His areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, public and private corporate and securities transactions, special situation investing, asset management, and reinventions. Mr. Cohen joined Reinvent Capital in 2018 as part of the founding team. Mr. Cohen currently serves as Secretary of RTP, RTPZ and RTPY. Since 2017, he has also worked as general counsel of certain of Mr. Pincus’s business entities. From 2015 to 2017, Mr. Cohen served as Associate General Counsel of Zynga and led the legal team responsible for mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and securities and finance matters. Prior to this, he spent nine years in private legal practice, most recently as Senior Counsel in Proskauer’s corporate and private equity groups. Mr. Cohen received an A.B. from Middlebury College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Board of Directors

Jennifer Pahlka, 51
Independent Director Nominee

Ms. Pahlka is the founder and former executive director of Code for America, a national nonprofit. She previously served as U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer from June 2013 to June 2014 and helped found the United States Digital Service. Previously, she spent eight years at CMP Media where she led the Game Group, responsible for GDC, Game Developer magazine, and Gamasutra.com; there she also launched the Independent Games Festival and served as executive director of the International Game Developers Association. She is a graduate of Yale University.

Joanna Rees, 59
Independent Director Nominee

Ms. Rees is a Managing Partner at West, a venture studio which works with partner companies including Twitter, Square, Impossible Foods, Prelude Fertility, Chegg, Proxy and New Front. Ms. Rees currently serves on the corporate board of FICO, Tentrr, Prelude Fertility, Boon Supply and HimForHer. Ms. Rees has served on the board of Care.com, Leapfrog, Quinstreet, Sabrix, Danger, Posit Science, Account Now, Post, The Coppola Company, National Venture Capital Association, NFTE, Endeavor, New Schools Venture Fund and as a Senior Partner of the B Team. Ms. Rees led the formation and capital raise for Endeavor Catalyst. She was also a candidate for Mayor of San Francisco in November 2011. She has significant experience in venture capital, finance and investment banking as the Founder of VSP Capital, along with roles at BA Securities and Vrolyk & Co. Ms. Rees previously worked in marketing and branding, having held several senior marketing leadership positions with Groupe Danone and DMB&B. She was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute, where she also serves as a seminar moderator. Ms. Rees is the Board Chair of The Representation Project. She earned her M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.S. from Duke University.

Alison Rosenthal, 44
Independent Director Nominee

Ms. Rosenthal is founding partner of Leadout Capital Management LLC, a venture capital firm. Since March 2017, she has served as an advisor to Wealthfront, Inc., an automated investment service. From September 2014 to January 2017, she served as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Wealthfront, Inc. From July 2013 until August 2014, Ms. Rosenthal served as Chief Operating Officer of MessageMe (acq. by Yahoo!), a company that developed and offered a multimedia messaging application for mobile devices. She served as Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners from December 2011 until February 2013. From February 2006 until January 2011, Ms. Rosenthal led various initiatives in the Business Development Department at Facebook, Inc., where she served as Senior Manager from February 2006 until July 2008 and as Head of the Global Operator Program, Mobile from July 2008 until January 2011. Ms. Rosenthal served as an associate at General Atlantic Partners, LLC, a global private equity fund focused on growth stage information technology investing, from February 2001 until June 2003 and as an analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from July 1998 until July 2000. Ms. Rosenthal also served as a director for Autonation, Inc. from 2011 to 2019. Ms. Rosenthal is a graduate of Brown University (B.A.) and The Stanford Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.), where she is also a member of the teaching staff.