Roelof F. Botha

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Roelof F. Botha, Lead Independent Director

Mr. Botha has served as a member of our board of directors since 2007. Mr. Botha has been with Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm, since 2003, and has been a managing member of Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC since 2007. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Botha served in a number of roles at PayPal, Inc., ultimately as the chief financial officer. Mr. Botha currently serves on the board of directors of Block, Inc. (formerly Square, Inc.), a provider of payments, financial and marketing services; MongoDB, Inc., a document-oriented database program developer; Unity, Inc., a 3D and VR content development platform; and a number of private companies. Mr. Botha has previously served on the board of directors of 23andme, a personal genetics company, from September 2017 through September 2024; Bird Global, a last-mile electric vehicle sharing company, from May 2018 through December 2022; and Eventbrite, Inc., an event management and ticketing platform, from October 2009 through June 2022. Mr. Botha holds a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.