Sukhinder Singh Cassidy   Sukhinder Singh Cassidy joined Accel Partners as CEO-in-Residence in April 2009, where she is responsible for evaluating new venture and growth equity opportunities in partnership with Accel in addition to working with companies in Accel’s digital media and advertising portfolio. Ms. Singh Cassidy joins Accel from Google where she served most recently as President for Asia-Pacific & Latin American Operations from 2005 to 2009. In this role, she was responsible for all of Google’s commercial operations in both regions, and built the company’s presence from inception to its current scale as a multi-billion dollar business serving users, advertisers and partners across 40 domains and 103 different countries throughout APAC and Latin America. Prior to running Asia Pacific and Latin America, Ms. Singh Cassidy joined Google in 2003 as the first General Manager for Google Local & Maps, helping to launch these innovative new services, then expanding her responsibilities to lead the company’s strategic partnerships for Google Books, Scholar, and Video. Previously Sukhinder drove sales and business development with leading internet companies in the consumer and financial services sectors. From 1999 -2003, Sukhinder was Co-founder and Senior Vice President of Business Development for Yodlee.com Inc., a leading solutions provider to the global financial services industry. Ms Singh Cassidy started her Internet career in strategy and business development, working for Amazon.com and interactive TV provider OpenTV. For her work in the Internet industry, Ms. Singh Cassidy has been profiled in numerous publications globally, including Fortune, Business Week, Canada Post, India Today, and the book, Innovation Nation, profiling Canada’s most innovative business leaders. Sukhinder previously worked in strategy for leading British Pay TV provider, BSkyB, a division of News Corporation, and in investment banking for Merrill Lynch in both New York and London. Sukhinder is a board member of J. Crew Group Inc. (JCG), and also serves on the Advisory Board for A Woman’s Nation, a project led by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress (CAP) in partnership with USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, focused on the economic shift for women in America. In addition, Sukhinder is a member of the board of directors of Jobtrain, an organization focused on vocational training for troubled youth and adults, and is a graduate of the Ivey School of Business Administration at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is married with three children. Stay in touch with Accel news, jobs, and events through Facebook at www.facebook.com/Accel