Yvonne Wassenaar

Yvonne Wassenaar is an advisor at Fika Ventures. Yvonne was previously a board member at Anaplan from November 2019 to June 2022, and the CEO of Puppet from January 2019 to May 2022.

At Puppet, Yvonne was responsible for empowering people through automation. Yvonne oversaw the company's portfolio of continuous automation solutions, which accelerate the building and deployment of applications, as well as the discovery, provisioning, and management of the infrastructure they run on. Under their leadership, the company removed all of the manual, error-prone, and soul-crushing parts of people's jobs, and replaced them with automated ones.

At Anaplan, Yvonne was responsible for pioneering the category of Connected Planning. Yvonne helped large global enterprises use Anaplan's solution to connect people, data, and plans in order to enable real-time planning and decision-making in rapidly changing business environments. This gave our customers a competitive advantage.

Yvonne Wassenaar has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, with a focus in strategy and operations. Yvonne also holds a B.A. in economics from University of California, Los Angeles, where they specialized in computing. In addition, Yvonne has studied abroad at both Oxford University in the UK and Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands.