Sue Bostrom

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ABOUT SUE BOSTROM

Sue Bostrom has served on the boards of over a dozen technology companies over the last two decades. Currently, she is a board member of three public companies: ServiceNow, GitLab, and Samsara. Sue is Lead Independent Director at ServiceNow and chairs the compensation committees for ServiceNow and GitLab. She was recently named to the WSJ’s list of Top 250 Board Directors and is a 2025 NACD Directorship 100 honoree. Sue also serves on the boards of 2 private companies, Outreach and Webflow.Sue served for more than a decade on the boards of two public companies, Varian Medical Systems and Cadence Design Systems. In addition, she was on the boards of Anaplan and Nutanix for over 4 years and on the boards of Marketo and Rocket Fuel through their IPOs and subsequent acquisitions.Sue is the former EVP and chief marketing officer at Cisco Systems. With almost 14 years at the company in a variety of roles, she was responsible for developing and communicating Cisco’s vision and strategy through positioning, branding, advertising, and product marketing. Sue also had responsibility for Cisco’s Worldwide Government Affairs and Small Business Council.Prior to her role as Cisco’s CMO, Sue built and led the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), bringing vertical expertise and Internet business best practices to global Fortune 500 companies and heads of state. In addition, she served as the executive sponsor of the Women’s Initiative at Cisco. Previously, Sue held leadership positions at FTP Software and National Semiconductor. She also served for seven years at McKinsey & Company as a leader in the electronics practice.Sue served on the board and chaired the compensation committee of Stanford Children\'s Health. She was formerly on the Stanford Hospital Board, Stanford Medicine Advisory Council, the advisory board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and Georgetown University’s board of directors.Ms. Bostrom received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and served on its Management and Advisory Boards. She received a Bachelor of Science in business from the University of Illinois, graduating as a Bronze Tablet Scholar.