Scott Friend
Scott Friend has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2009 and as our lead independent director since October 2021. Mr. Friend has been a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, the venture capital division of Bain Capital, a multi-asset alternative investment firm, since September 2006. Mr. Friend currently serves on the board of directors of Persado, an AI-generated language platform; Attentive, a mobile marketing platform; Fermat Commerce, Inc., a marketing technology software company that creates landing pages from paid social ads;; Mirakl, a cloud-based e-commerce company which provides online marketplace software to retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers; and mParticle, a customer data platform. Mr. Friend holds a B.A. in Engineering and Economics from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.