Joe Hurd

Joe Hurd is a public and non-profit board director, early-stage investor, and strategic advisor. He currently serves as an independent director of SilverBox Engaged Merger Corp 1 (NASDAQ: SBEAU), a special purpose acquisition company, and recently stepped down as a non-executive director of GoCo Group plc (LSE: GOCO). He is also on the Menlo College Board of Trustees (Development Committee), the Computer History Museum Board of Trustees; and the American Swiss Foundation Board of Directors.

As an operating executive, Joe is the Operating Partner at SOSV, LLC, an $850M early-stage venture fund, where he leads strategy and business development efforts for the fund’s life sciences, deep tech hardware, and mobile portfolio companies. He is also a Venture Partner for Good Growth Capital, a female-led venture fund, and advises numerous innovative Silicon Valley-based pre-seed and seed stage startups on go-to-market strategy, revenue models, and international expansion, with a particular emphasis on diverse founders.