[3] Richardson sits on several corporate boards, including BP, the British energy company [1]; Exponent,[2] a Silicon Valley–based engineering and scientific consulting company;[4] and States Title, which uses machine learning to automate real estate closings.
[11] She was on the advisory board of Proofpoint Inc., an email security and compliance products[12] provider, and served as chairwoman of the board of directors of San Francisco-based Hi5 Networks Inc.[13] from 2008 until December 2011, when the company was purchased by social networker Tagged Inc.[14] Richardson has also sat on the boards of HackerRank,[15] a technology company that develops competitive programming challenges,[16] and i2, a Silver Lake–owned developer of investigative analysis software, until the company was sold to IBM in October 2011.
[18][19][20] Richardson is a former adviser to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity investment firm.
[21] She is a former member of the board of the San Francisco Opera,[22] which she joined as part of a push by that institution to include more technology leaders.
[27] Richardson's grandfather was a farmer from Saskatchewan who graduated with a PhD in chemistry from Stanford University.