Lisa Edwards

Lisa Edwards serves on the Board of Directors of Colgate-Palmolive, Qualtrics, ZEDEDA, and logicMonitor. She holds a MBA from Harvard Business School, a BA from Stanford University, and is an alumna of the MS in Cybersecurity Risk & Strategy Class of 2024.

Lisa is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of Diligent Corporation, where she was responsible for commercial growth and performance, including global sales, marketing, customer success, and 24/7/365 worldwide support.

She previously served as EVP of Strategic Business Operations at Salesforce after running Global Corporate Services (GCS) and serving as CPO. Prior to Salesforce, Lisa led global strategic partnerships for Visa, Inc. as SVP/Head of Global Strategic Alliances and Global IP Strategy and earlier served in an operations role as Head of Global Corporate Services. Earlier in her career, Lisa served as CEO of KnowledgeX, a database startup which she led in a sale to IBM and co-founded Valubond, an online fixed income exchange and subscription service, and served as President, COO, and head of the ATS (Alternative Trading System) prior to its acquisition by Knight Capital.