Magdalena Yesil Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000

Magdalena is a serial entrepreneur and investor in many of the world’s top technology companies, including Salesforce, where she was the first investor and a founding board member. She also served on the board of the company after its IPO. Magdalena is a technology pioneer who began her career as a semiconductor design engineer. Her career spans multiple decades in Silicon Valley, evolving with the technology industry and covering semiconductors, computers, software, online services, Internet access, e-commerce infrastructure, SaaS, and consumer Internet. Magdalena founded three companies in succession, focusing on commercializing Internet access, e-commerce infrastructure, and electronic payments. Her entrepreneurial efforts with UUnet, Cybercash, and MarketPay earned her the Entrepreneur of the Year title from Red Herring Magazine. She later joined US Venture Partners as a general partner and established Broadway Angels, an angel group of female investors. Magdalena currently serves on the boards of SoFi, Zuora, and Smartsheet. She received the 2017 Fearless Leader award from WomenOnBoards. Her book Power UP! How Smart Women Win in the New Economy, where she shares her insights for success in the technology industry, has been a bestseller since November 2017. She is also one of the four female venture capitalists featured in Julian Guthrie’s Alpha Girls, released in May 2019 and slated for a television series under the same name in 2020. An immigrant to the United States from Istanbul, Turkey, Magdalena is of Armenian heritage. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Management Science and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, both from Stanford University.