Athena.LA Dinner Hosted by Magento - Getting to the C-Suite

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Date and Time

Tue, June 19, 2018

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT

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Location

Magento

3640 Holdrege Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90016

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Adobe recently agreed to acquire Magento for $1.68 billion. Read more here.

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Join Athena.LA + Magento for an evening of networking with women in tech and start-ups at the Magento LA offices. Meet fellow women in engineering, data science, product management, marketing, sales, and operations over Beyoncé tunes & rosé wine. Magento's CMO, Andrea Ward, and General Counsel, Aparna Bawa will join us for a fireside chat where they will discuss the key turning points in their career that helped elevate them to the vaunted C-Suite.

Athena.LA is a clique free zone. We facilitate a supportive, welcoming environment, so feel free to come solo or with a friend! Please note that we are a completely inclusive community and all gender affiliations are welcome and encouraged at Athena.LA events. We also welcome those who are pursuing careers in technology.

Come for the party, stay for the raffle. Bring your business cards to enter into our raffle!

The details

We will be stand-up networking over wine, LaCroix, and Italian themed heavy appetizers/fingers foods . Don't forget your business cards and bring your networking game face (wearing comfy shoes won't hurt, either)! Street parking is available on Jefferson, Holdrege Ave, and the nearby side streets. Event is ages 21+ only.

About Magento

Magento is the leading platform for open commerce innovation, working hand-in-hand with the world’s biggest retailers, brands, and branded manufacturers across B2C and B2B industries to handle over $50 billion in gross merchandise volume annually. Magento helps brands delight their customers by successfully integrating digital and physical shopping experiences, and is supported by a vast global network of 300+ solution and technology partners and by a highly active global community of more than 150,000 developers.

About Andrea

A marketing veteran, Andrea Ward has spent over 20 years growing and leading high-performing global marketing teams. Andrea joined Magento from Oracle, where she served as Global Vice President of Marketing for Oracle Marketing Cloud. In this role, Andrea was responsible for the product’s global launch, messaging, and demand strategy. She was also instrumental in driving the category creation and leadership for Oracle in the marketing technology space. Prior to joining Oracle, Andrea held a number of marketing leadership and financial management positions at high technology and pharmaceutical companies. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

About Aparna

Aparna Bawa is the SVP, General Counsel of Magento Commerce and has extensive experience in building sustainable infrastructure to support rapidly growing technology companies. Aparna comes to Magento from Nimble Storage, where she was VP, General Counsel and Secretary. She helped take Nimble public in 2013 and eventually sell to HPE in 2017. Prior to Nimble, Aparna led the legal and corporate development functions for Inphi Corp, which she also helped to take public in 2010. Earlier in her career, Aparna covered technology companies as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank, where she executed multiple IPO and M&A transactions for her clients. She was also a corporate and securities attorney for Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati. This unique experience helps her make practical and critical business decisions for growing technology companies every day.