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Guardant Health: Vijaya Gadde

Jun 19, 2020

Guardant Health has appointed Vijaya Gadde to serve on its Board of Directors. Gadde is Twitter's chief legal officer leading its legal, public policy, and trust and safety teams globally. Prior to joining Twitter in 2011, she was senior director, legal at Juniper Networks. Before that, she worked for nearly a decade at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Gadde serves on the Board of Trustees of NYU Law School and the Board of Directors of Mercy Corps. She is also a co-founder of #Angels, an investment collective focused on funding diverse and ambitious founders pursuing bold ideas. She earned a JD from New York University School of Law and a BS in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University.

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