Breaking through the glass ceiling in Silicon Valley: the power of mentoring and coaching
with Geri Weinfeld
Geri Weinfeld joins me on the Leaders Who Love What They Do podcast to talk about her highly successful career in the male dominated worlds of finance and tech. Geri talks openly about the highs and the lows and in particular her strategies she has found helpful to progress and bring others, especially other women, with her. She is also committed to leveraging the power of large corporations to address broader environmental and social issues and is leading strategy development in this area for her company.
Her vision for the future is inspiring and her pragmatic approach makes it all feel very possible! Tune in to hear more about her leadership journey.
Geri Weinfeld is Vice President of Investor Relations at Xperi Holding Corporation. Geri has over 25 years of experience in investor relations, finance and corporate communications. Prior to Xperi, she ran investor relations for DTS, an audio technology company, which was subsequently acquired by Tessera in December 2016.
Following the acquisition, the company was renamed Xperi Corporation. In December 2019, Geri led the communications around the merger of Xperi with TiVo Corporation and now runs investor relations for the combined company, Xperi Holding Corporation.
From 2011 to 2014, she worked as an Investor Relations consultant for Nexon Co. Ltd., a free-to-play online gaming company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and helped bring the company public in 2011, raising $1.2 billion. Prior to working with Nexon, Geri was Senior Manager of Investor Relations at Activision Blizzard from 2004-2009, Director of Investor Relations at Autobytel.com and Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at Buy.com.
She started her career as a NASDAQ market maker working at a full-service brokerage firm in Washington, DC. Geri holds a bachelor’s degree in international business and master’s in business administration from The George Washington University and has earned her CFA Level 1.
Geri also sits on the Board of The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute.
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