Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Angel

Michelle Wilson is a director and helped with the initial public offerings at Pinterest, Inc. (NYSE:PINS), Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), and Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE:ZEN). At Pinterest, Michelle acts as lead director, chairs the Compensation Committee and serves on the Audit Committee. Michelle chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees at Okta and Zendesk. Michelle also serves on the Okta Compensation Committee and the Zendesk Audit Committee. She was previously a director and served on the Audit Committee at Stripe, Inc.

Michelle previously was a senior executive at Amazon.com for thirteen years, acting as general counsel from 1999 to 2012 and head of human resources from 2001 to 2003. She was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2001 and participated in operating and strategic decisions across the company’s retail, cloud computing, content, and hardware businesses.

Her areas of expertise include scaling and management in hyper growth, proactive customer service and engagement, international expansion, talent acquisition, public and government relations strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic relationships.

Prior to Amazon, Michelle was a partner at Perkins Coie LLP and a member of the firm's executive committee. She directed the legal teams for acquisitions, public offerings, and venture capital financings and advised boards of directors on corporate governance.

Michelle received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Chicago School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (Finance), summa cum laude, from the University of Washington.