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Cheryl Porro

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Investor at FirsthandVC

San Francisco, California

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

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About

Cheryl Porro is Chief Product & Technology Officer at Betterworks. Previously, she held executive roles at Salesforce, where she grew the nonprofit and education business to hundreds of millions in revenue and scaled the platform quality engineering division, and at healthcare startups Curve Health and Thrive Global, where she brought products to market and scaled operations across multiple facilities. Porro also works as a certified executive coach and serves on the board of directors at Amplify, an organization focused on increasing representation of historically excluded voices in technology.

Experience

  1. BetterworksChief Product & Technology Officercurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. BetterworksSenior Vice President of Engineering2023 — 2024
  3. Cheryl Porro CoachingCEO Advisor / Executive Coach / Diversity Advocatecurrent2020 — present
  4. Firsthand AllianceLimited Partnercurrent2021 — present
  5. DevynProduct and Technology Advisor2020 — 2022
  6. Curve HealthChief Technology Officer2020 — 2022
  7. Thrive GlobalChief Technology Officer / Board Advisor2018 — 2019
  8. SalesforceSenior Vice President, Technology and Products2014 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
  9. SalesforceVice President, Agility, Innovation, and Culture2012 — 2014
  10. SalesforceVP, Platform Quality Engineering2011 — 2012
  11. SalesforceLead Quality Engineer to Senior Director Platform Quality Engineering2005 — 2011
  12. Convergys CorporationSr. Manager, Quality Engineering2001 — 2005
  13. Alexa Internet (Amazon.com Subsidiary)Lead QA Engineer2000 — 2001
  14. Amazon.comLead QA Engineer1998 — 2000

Skills & more

Cloud Computing62SaaS55Enterprise Software99Program Management34Team Leadership18Product Management17Agile Methodologies87Software Development19Salesforce.com61PaaS13Scrum19Go-to-market Strategy2
+12 moreCRMBusiness IntelligenceScalabilityJavaDatabasesQuality AssuranceManagementWeb ServicesIntegrationTrainingAgile Project ManagementMobile Devices
  • Certified Executive Coach — Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute
  • Data-driven Decision Making — Coursera Course Certificates

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Akshay Sharma
Partner at FirsthandVC
Dessie Sadrzadeh
Angel at FirsthandVC
Ludovic Ulrich
Partner at FirsthandVC
Mike Kreaden
Partner at FirsthandVC
Phil Calvin
Investor at FirsthandVC
Samuel Yuk Lai Suen
Partner at FirsthandVC
Simon Chan
Managing Partner at FirsthandVC
Tatyana Mamut
Partner at FirsthandVC

Frequently asked questions

Who is Cheryl Porro?
Cheryl Porro is Chief Product & Technology Officer at Betterworks. Previously, she held executive roles at Salesforce, where she grew the nonprofit and education business to hundreds of millions in revenue and scaled the platform quality engineering division, and at healthcare startups Curve Health and Thrive Global, where she brought products to market and scaled operations across multiple facilities. Porro also works as a certified executive coach and serves on the board of directors at Amplify, an organization focused on increasing representation of historically excluded voices in technology.
Where does Cheryl Porro work?
Cheryl Porro is Investor at FirsthandVC.
What check size does Cheryl Porro write?
Cheryl Porro typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
Where did Cheryl Porro go to school?
Cheryl Porro studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (BS, Chemical Engineering); Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley (Executive Education, High Impact Leadership and Strategic Persuasive Communication).

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