Lynne Oldham
Lynne Oldham is a highly accomplished C-suite executive with more than 25 years of demonstrated leadership driving profitable growth strategies for startups, private and public companies - domestic and international - across a variety of industries, including 10 years in investment.
Since February 2022, Lynne is Chief People Officer at a pre-IPO fintech called Stash. Prior to Stash, Lynne held the same role at Zoom (NASDAQ: ZM), having joined just prior to IPO in early 2019, to navigate continued business scaling, employee engagement and safeguard culture. Less than one year into post-IPO scaling, the pandemic fueled additional Zoom growth which amounted to an increase in daily platform participants from 30M to 300+M. Lynne has put to use her 25+ years of business AND people transformational expertise to more than triple the headcount in one year while also working in a fully remote environment. She has helped the company thrive in that COVID-assisted boom, that created emotive brand recognition, including keeping a special culture alive and well by creating and also re-inventing programs including leadership training, virtual interviewing, onboarding, employee wellness and internal communications.
Prior to Zoom, Lynne held leadership roles in a variety of industries (CP, banking, telecom, publishing, energy) in multiple geographies.
Lynne has served since 2021 as a Board Member and Chair of the Compensation Committee for Gympass, a pre-IPO company that allows companies to offer access to wellness to their employees through a network of over 50,000 gyms and studios around the world. Lynne also serves on the Advisory Board of Volition Capital Strategic Advisors IV Fund, an advisory member of the Glynn Capital 100 and a member of Greycroft Partners HR Council. Lynne is a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law and the State University of New York, College at New Paltz.
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