VotingWorks Strengthens Board with Two New Appointments
VotingWorks, a nonpartisan nonprofit maker of voting technology, today announced the appointment of Paul Grewal, Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase, Inc., and Raylene Yung, Board Member for the SolarAPP Foundation and U.S. Digital Response, to its Board of Directors.
VotingWorks is growing – 30% of New Hampshire now uses the VotingWorks system. The VotingWorks system is in process of achieving the latest federal certification for voting systems, a standard endorsed by both Democrats and Republicans. At a time when the American public demands elections that are fully open to scrutiny, VotingWorks is particularly well positioned to help as the only open-source voting system in America.
To support further growth, two appointments have been made to the Board of Directors, to provide deep public sector, program management, and legal expertise: Paul Grewal and Raylene Yung. These new members will complement the founding board members with expertise in advanced product development and security: John Lilly and Ben Adida.
“The response from election administrators to VotingWorks has been overwhelmingly positive, as many look to upgrade to a voting system their voters can trust. Now is the time to expand the expertise in our Board so we can continue to grow sustainably and provide better voting equipment across America.”
- Ben Adida, VotingWorks Executive Director
About Paul Grewal:
Paul Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer of Coinbase Global, Inc., where he is responsible for Coinbase’s legal, compliance, global intelligence and government relations groups. Before joining Coinbase, Paul was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Facebook and served as United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Paul was previously a partner at Howrey LLP. He received his JD from the University of Chicago Law School and his SB from MIT.
About Raylene Yung:
Raylene Yung is an executive who has worked across private and public sectors. Yung served in the U.S. federal government, leading investment programs managing over $27 billion to modernize government technology and accelerate clean energy deployment. Yung serves as a Board Member for the SolarAPP Foundation and U.S. Digital Response, where she was also the founding CEO. Yung also led the development of large-scale software systems in Engineering and Product executive roles at Facebook and Stripe. Yung holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
About John Lilly:
John Lilly has served on our board since our inception in 2019. John has served as a General Partner and Venture Partner at Greylock Partners since January 2011. Prior to joining Greylock Partners, John held roles of increasing seniority at Mozilla from 2005 to 2010, including as Chief Executive Officer from January 2008 to December 2010. Prior to joining Mozilla, he co-founded and held executive leadership positions at Reactivity, which was acquired by Cisco in August 2007. Previously, he held staff positions at Apple, Sun Microsystems, and Trilogy Software. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Duolingo, Figma, Aside, Nuro and Clockwise. John is also a Lecturer at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
About Ben Adida:
Ben Adida is VotingWorks’s Executive Director and Co-Founder. Prior to founding VotingWorks in 2019, Ben led security and privacy-focused product & engineering teams in Silicon Valley at Clever, Square, and Mozilla. He was previously on the Research Faculty at Harvard Medical School / Children's Hospital Boston, and a research fellow with the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard. Ben has been working on voting technology for more than 25 years, and received his PhD from MIT's Cryptography and Information Security group, with a focus in election security.
About VotingWorks:
VotingWorks is a nonpartisan non-profit maker of open-source voting technology. VotingWorks is on a mission to make elections every American can trust– by providing the most transparent, easy-to-use, and secure solution in the market.
Visit https://voting.works to learn more, or reach out at hello@voting.works.
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Mary Leigh Mackie
ml@voting.works