Bethany Mayer is an experienced public company executive, CEO, and board member. She is the chair of the board of Box and serves on the boards of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lam Research, Astera Labs, Mainspring Energy, Securonix, and Celestial AI. Her past boards include Sempra, Marvell Technology, and Ixia.

She has deep technology and leadership experience scaling multi-billion-dollar enterprises as well as significant corporate governance expertise across a range of industries. Mayer is the former president and CEO of Ixia, a publicly traded global company and the market leader in test, visibility, and security solutions. During her tenure at Ixia, she drove its growth in key new markets and led the sale of Ixia to Keysight Technologies.

Prior to Ixia, Mayer was senior vice president and general manager of HP’s networking business unit, which included the former 3Com, HP ProCurve, Tipping Point, and H3C, a Chinese subsidiary. She served as senior vice president of marketing and product management for Blue Coat Systems. Previously Mayer held leadership roles in product development at Cisco Systems and Apple.

Mayer was recognized in 2022 as an NACD Directorship 100™ honoree. Her awards also include a 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award from California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), a 2017 Global Leader of the Year from Women in IT, and a 2015, 2016, and 2017 Stevie Award for Women in Business as a female executive of the year.

She holds a bachelor of science from Santa Clara University, a master of business administration from Cal State Monterey Bay, and a master of science in cybersecurity from New York University.