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Magdalena Yesil has joined the Zuora board

By TechTaffy Desk

Magdalena Yesil, founder of Broadway Angels and the founding board member and first investor in Salesforce, has joined the Zuora board of directors. Her appointment follows that of Ken Goldman, chief financial officer at Yahoo, who joined Zuora’s board of directors as an independent director in March.

Most recently, Ms. Yesil spent eight years as a general partner at the venture capital firm US Venture Partners. She started her career as a semiconductor design engineer at Advanced Micro Devices.

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