Shellye L Archambeau

After climbing the ranks at IBM in the 80s and 90s and becoming president of Blockbuster.com, she took over an enterprise software company now known as MetricStream and ran it for 15 years—in the process becoming one of the first (and still very few) Black women to be CEO of a Silicon Valley tech company. After stepping down as MetricStream CEO in early 2018, Archambeau embarked on what she calls her “phase two.” She’s now serving on the boards of Verizon, Nordstrom, Okta, and Roper Technologies, where she’s involved in directing those companies’ responses to the coronavirus pandemic and the sweeping national reckoning over racism. MetricStream Inc. is a global provider of governance, risk, compliance and quality management solutions. Previously, she was chief marketing officer and EVP of Sales of Loudcloud Inc., chief marketing officer of NorthPoint Communications, and president of Blockbuster Inc.'s e-commerce division.