ZIFF DAVIS INC (ZD)
Sector: Communication
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Sector: Communication
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
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Director information for ZD
| Ticker | Position | Age | Qualifications and Experience | Committee Memberships | Filing Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZD | Former Global Audit Sector Leader for the Technology Industry, KPMG. Director, Robert Half Inc. | 62 | ["Prior Public Company Board", "Executive Leadership", "Finance/Audit", "Risk Management", "Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)", "Mergers and Acquisitions", "Strategy/Business Development", "Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies", "Technology/Software", "37 years of experience in public accounting serving the software, internet, and services sectors", "Expertise in IPOs, international expansion, and M&A transactions", "Led KPMG\u2019s U.S. Technology Industry for Audit", "Extensive financial and audit expertise", "Advised former firm\u2019s largest technology clients on complex revenue recognition matters", "Experience serving high-growth, global technology organizations", "Chair of Audit Committee"] | ["Audit"] | 2026 |
Biography sourced from the proxy statement filing.
Former Partner and Global Audit Sector Leader for Technology Industry, KPMG Age: 62 Director since: 2023 Committees: Audit PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Partner and Global Audit Sector Leader for Technology Industry, KPMG, 2007 to 2023 Led KPMG s U.S. Technology Industry for Audit, 2007 to 2022 Partner, Arthur Andersen LLP, 1986 to 2002 OTHER COMPANY DIRECTORSHIPS Public Director, Robert Half Inc., 2023 to Present Private Director, Peninsula Open Space Trust, 2025 to Present Director, Housing Trust, Silicon Valley, 2023 to Present Director, Girl Scouts of Northern California, 2019 to Present SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS Ms. Barsten brings to Ziff Davis 37 years of experience in public accounting serving the software, internet and services sectors, with expertise in IPOs, international expansion, and M&A transactions. Her strategic business knowledge as a trusted advisor to executive leaders enables her to provide our Board of Directors and the company s portfolio of brands with insight into navigating growth and change across all phases of a business life cycle. Ms. Barsten s 21 years at KPMG, most recently serving as Global Audit Sector Leader for KPMG s Technology Industry practice and as a member of KPMG s Global TMT Board, enables her to provide Ziff Davis with extensive financial and audit expertise, having advised her former firm s largest technology clients on complex revenue recognition matters, accounting rules, acquisitions, divestitures, and financings, including debt and equity offerings. With her wealth of experience serving high-growth, global technology organizations, Ms. Barsten brings valuable accounting and M&A expertise to the Board of Directors and as Chair of its Audit Committee. She also makes valuable contributions to the Board on ESG matters, informed by her experience as a director on the Board of Girl Scouts of Northern California, the Board of the Housing Trust, Silicon Valley, which seeks to increase affordable housing for the region's workforce, seniors, special needs individuals, and people facing homelessness, and the Board of the Peninsula Open Space Trust, an environmental nonprofit that protects open space in northern California s Peninsula and South Bay.