Ellen Pao Biography

Ellen Pao is a long-time entrepreneur and tech investor and a more recent activist who co-founded the award-winning diversity and inclusion nonprofit organization Project Include. She was previously a partner at Kapor Capital and the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Kapor Center for Social Impact before leaving in 2018 to focus on her role as Project Include's CEO. Pao also served as the interim CEO at Reddit where she notably implemented changes to the site and company to address harassment including banning revenge porn unauthorized nude photos and several harassing subreddits. She previously ran its mobile growth and business development efforts. Ellen has written and spoken extensively about diversity and inclusion in tech and is one of the co-founders of Project Include an Oakland non-profit providing practical effective diversity and inclusion recommendations for tech startups.
Prior to reddit Ellen helped build startups for seven years as a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where she served on the boards of Flipboard Datameer and Lehigh and worked closely with RPX and Jive. She started her tech career in business development roles at early-stage startups Tellme Networks and Danger Research and at WebTV and BEA Systems. Before moving into tech Ellen practiced corporate law in New York and Hong Kong for Cravath Swaine & Moore. She received an MBA from Harvard Business School a JD from Harvard Law School and a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University where she also received a certificate in public policy. Ellen is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow.

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