OYO Hotels & Home announced the appointment of Betsy Atkins, CEO, and founder of Baja Corporation, as an independent director on the company’s board of directors.
She will join the board that has Industry experts like Mark Schwartz, Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific, Munish Varma, Managing Partner, SoftBank Vision Fund, Bejul Somaia, Partner, Lightspeed India Partners Advisors, and Mohit Bhatnagar, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India Advisor, making it a powerful, diverse, and truly global combination.
As an independent member of the Board, Betsy will play a supervisory role and provide guidance to the Founder and the management on key business decisions. She will add value to the board through her strong experience on several aspects of the business, which include, corporate governance, driving tech-enabled efficiencies in business operations as well as ensuring strong business economics. She will also play a prominent role in building a culture that promotes and nurtures ‘diversity and inclusion’, an area that she is passionate about.
At Baja Corporation, she has built 3 early-stage funds and made early seed investments in consumer and enterprise software companies. Prior to Baja Corporation, she co-founded enterprise software companies in multiple industries including energy, healthcare, and networking. She is an expert at scaling companies through the hyper-growth stage and leading them to successful access to the public markets and acquisitions, which makes her a great addition to OYO, as the company moves towards its next phase of growth. She is currently the Chairman of the board at a private company, GlobalLogic and serves as Board Member at Wynn Resorts, SL Green Realty, and Volvo.
