Sheila Marcelo

Sheila Lirio Marcelo has more than 20 years of leadership experience in internet consumer marketplace businesses, including as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Proof of Learn, a nextgen learning and jobs platform with a mission to unlock accessible, high-quality education across the world. She currently serves as a Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and is a founding board member of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF). Ms. Marcelo previously founded Care.com in 2006 and took it public in 2014, where she was Chairwoman and CEO until early 2020, when the company was sold to IAC.

Ms. Marcelo has been honored with numerous accolades. She was just named on Forbes 50 Over 50 and recently received the 2022 Helen G. Drinan Visionary Leader Award from Simmons University. She was one of Fortune magazine's "Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs" and appeared at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit. She is a Henry Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute, a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellowship awardee, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ms. Marcelo earned a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, which also conferred upon her an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in 2015. She has a J.D. and M.B.A. with honors from Harvard University. In 2014, Marcelo became the youngest recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award.