Joe Hurd is a Silicon Valley-based technology executive and Board Director who currently works as an Operating Partner at global venture capital firm SOSV, LLC, supporting life sciences and hardware CEOs to drive product and market expansion.
Joe has considerable professional experience and expertise in workforce engagement, data and sustainability on both US and UK listed company boards.
Joe previously worked at Linklaters and AOL before establishing himself as an entrepreneur with successful start-ups Friendster and VideoEgg. Previously, he was a Non-Executive Director of GoCo Group plc (dba GoCompare) and was the Lead Independent Director of SilverBox Engaged Merger Corp I.
From 2009 until 2012, Joe served in the Obama Administration as a political appointee at the Department of Commerce, serving on the White House Business Council. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.
