Kate Scolnick is a value-driven financial and corporate governance leader. She has served as a trusted advisor to many senior executives and boards, helping them strategize successful paths forward.

Scolnick joined the HG Insights team after serving as CFO of Owlet, Inc., where she played a pivotal role helping prepare the digital health company through a successful initial public offering, while establishing a public-company operating and reporting cadence, and partnering across the enterprise on financial strategy. As Owlet’s CFO, she reduced annual operating expenses by 50% and accelerated the cash conversion cycle from nearly six months to just one week.

Before Owlet, Scolnick served as Vice President of Finance at Anaplan, a leading provider of enterprise cloud software, where she led financial planning and analysis, global sales finance, and global procurement.

From 2012 to 2019, Scolnick held roles as Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Seagate Technology LLC, and later as Acting Chief Financial Officer. As SVP of Finance and Treasurer, she repositioned a $2 billion balance sheet to elevate agency ratings to investment-grade levels, while fueling a 55%+ stock price appreciation. As Acting CFO, she controlled financial operations covering a $10 billion profit and loss, managed a team of nine senior-level direct reports and a broader team of 600 staff.

Earlier in her career, Scolnick played key finance and investor relationships roles at McAfee and Intel on both sides of their $8 billion merger and acquisition deal.

She also has extensive experience serving as a board and committee member providing broad direction and oversight. Her experience includes roles as a board observer at Ripple Labs; an audit committee and board member at eASIC Corporation (through its acquisition by Intel); a member of the National Investor Relations Institute’s Silicon Valley Chapter; and audit and finance committee member for the town of Atherton, CA.