Cheryl Contee is Chief Executive Officer at The Impact Seat Foundation, which is working to create a world in which women can succeed as business leaders. Cheryl is the Amazon bestselling author of Mechanical Bull: How You Can Achieve Startup Success.

Passionate about creating new tech and new narrative for a new era, Cheryl uses her vast experience in startup entrepreneurship and community engagement to lead our portfolio companies and funds to success, provide resources for underrepresented founders, and build the new economy. Previously, Cheryl was CEO of Fission Strategy, which brought Silicon Valley startup culture to the world’s leading causes and campaigns.

She’s the co-founder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a Black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company, the National Board Chair for Netroots Nation, and the first portfolio company board member of New Media Ventures.