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Deborah C. Hopkins

Board Member

Ms. Hopkins was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Citi Ventures and served as Citigroup’s first Chief Innovation Officer. Previously at Citi she was Chief Operations and Technology Officer of the company, Chief Information Security Officer and Senior Advisor to the Corporate and Investment Bank. She retired at the end of 2016. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2003 as Head of Corporate Strategy and M&A, she was Chief Financial Officer of Lucent Technologies and The Boeing Company and held senior-level positions at General Motors in the U.S. and Zurich and at Unisys Corporation, after starting her career at Ford. Ms. Hopkins was twice named to Fortune’s 10 most powerful women in business and was on Institutional Investor’s Top 50 list every year from 2011 until she retired. She is a director of Union Pacific Corporation and privately-held cybersecurity company, Deep Instinct. She is a former director of Bridge Investment Group, Compass Digital Acquisition Corporation, Virtusa Corporation, Qlik Technologies, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company and Dendrite International. Ms. Hopkins holds honorary doctorate degrees from Westminster College and Walsh College and a B.A. in Accounting from Walsh College.