Braze announced the appointment of Yvonne Wassenaar to its Board of Directors and as a member of its Audit Committee. As a tenured cloud and SaaS technology executive, Yvonne brings a wealth of expertise in scaling enterprise software companies to the board. Yvonne will replace Doug Pepper, who joined Braze's board in August of 2014, and who will remain as a Board Observer.

For over 30 years, Yvonne has advised leaders on scaling, diversifying, and transforming their businesses throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. She served as Chief Executive Officer of Puppet, Inc., an IT automation software company, from January 2019 to May 2022. From June 2017 to September 2018, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Airware, an enterprise drone solutions company.

From August 2014 to May 2017, Yvonne served in various roles at New Relic, Inc. and prior to that she held various senior positions at VMware, Inc. and served as a partner at Accenture plc. Yvonne currently serves on the board of directors of Arista Networks, Inc., a public cloud networking company, Forrester Research, Inc., a public research and advisory company, InfoBlox, a cloud networking and security services company, JFrog Ltd., a public software supply chain platform provider, and Rubrik, Inc., a public zero trust data management company.