Donna Wells

Donna Wells has been a member of the Board since March 2021 and serves on the Audit Committee (Chairman) and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Ms. Wells is chief executive officer of Valencia Ventures, LLC, a strategic consulting and corporate governance firm which she founded. From 2010-2017, Ms. Wells served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mindflash Technologies, Inc., an innovative, venture-backed enterprise software company that provided a cloud-based training platform for businesses. From 2007-2009, Ms. Wells was Chief Marketing Officer at Mint Software, Inc. (“Mint”) where she led the growth strategy for this mobile personal finance software company from product launch to the company’s acquisition by Intuit.

Prior to Mint, Ms. Wells led US marketing for Intuit and the Expedia Group, roles which drew on her 20-years’ experience in strategic consumer and product marketing with leading brands including The American Express Company and The Charles Schwab Corporation. Ms. Wells is a member of the board of directors of Mitek Systems, Inc., a publicly traded software development company, where she serves as a member of the nominating and corporate governance and compensation committees and Apex Technology Acquisition Corporation, a publicly traded special acquisition company, where she serves as a member of the audit committee. She also serves on the boards of two private FinTech innovators: Betterment, an independent digital investment advisor; and Happy Money, an online personal lending company.In September 2019, Ms. Wells was appointed by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business as a Lecturer in Management.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master’s in Business Administration from Stanford University.