Linda K. Yates
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Linda K. Yates

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Linda Yates is the Founder and CEO of Mach49, the Growth Incubator for Global Businesses. She is a seasoned CEO with over 30 years of experience creating global strategy, building companies, and driving innovation for large multinationals around the world. As a native of Silicon Valley, Linda has an extensive local and global network. She has served as a bridge between Silicon Valley and the boardrooms and C-Suites of large multinational corporations throughout her career. She launched Mach49 as the first Silicon Valley Incubator / Accelerator focused on helping global enterprises leverage their talent, ideas, brands, assets, competencies, capital, and customers to drive meaningful growth. Whether Disrupting InsideOut — launching ventures, building venture factories, and seizing the Mothership advantage or Disrupting OutsideIn — building world-class corporate venture funds, helping senior executives operate as top-tier VCs, maximizing the partnership value of external startups, and providing M&A support — Linda helps global enterprises beat the startups at their own game. Focused 100% on execution, she is committed to developing the client’s capability to create a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures on their own for the long term. Linda spent a decade as a member of the Board of Directors for NYSE-traded Sybase Inc. (now SAP) and has been a Board Member and Advisor to many entrepreneurs and private companies. She was CEO of Strategos — pioneering the field of corporate innovation with Co-Founder and Chairman, Professor Gary Hamel. Prior to Strategos, Linda spent 6 years with the Mac Group / Gemini, where she was Head of the San Francisco office and Co-Head of the High-Tech practice on the West Coast and, later, Europe (based in Amsterdam). Her career began with two years at Smith Barney in corporate finance and M&A. Linda has extensive global experience, having lived, worked, or traveled to over 70 countries. Linda is a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute. She is an environmental activist who, with her best friend and husband, Paul Holland, built Tah.Mah.Lah, considered the greenest home in the US. She holds a BA in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, a MA in international relations and comparative politics from Stanford University, where she guest lectures. Linda and Paul are blessed to have three amazing daughters, Kylie, Devon, and Piper.
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