Kate D. Mitchell is an independent director of Fortive with over 40 years of experience in the technology industry, focused on building and investing in high-growth, innovative software companies. She has been a founding partner of Scale Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based firm investing in early-stage technology companies, since 1997.
She previously served with Bank of America from 1988 to 1996, most recently as Senior Vice President for Bank of America Online Banking. She serves as Chairman and Founder of Venture Forward, a non-profit affiliate of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), where she also served as Chair and board member from 2007 to 2016, and as a member of the board and executive committee of Silicon Valley Community Foundation and the investment committee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the Evening Program at Golden Gate University, and has attended executive programs at Harvard Business School and MIT CSAIL/Sloan.