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Our Mission

The NIRI Silicon Valley Chapter was formed to advance the practice of investor relations within the local business environment. In keeping with this mission, the Chapter focuses on IR education, mentoring, and networking with the broad professional community. Our goal is to further the skills of our members, to expand their business opportunities, to increase Chapter membership, and to foster an environment that promotes IR learning for all.

The NIRI Silicon Valley Chapter was formed to advance the practice of investor relations within the local business environment.

Events

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May 08 2025 12:00 PM PST
NIRI Silicon Valley: Lunch & Learn: The IPO Navan Headquarters - 3045 Park Blvd, Palo Alto, CA

NIRI Silicon Valley Presents:

Lunch & Learn: The IPO

Investor Relations leading up to, and through, the Initial Public Offering (IPO)

 

NIRI Silicon Valley is pleased to invite you to Navan’s Global Headquarters in Palo Alto for an engaging Lunch & Learn discussion featuring two IR veterans who are each well known for the high profile IPO’s they’ve worked on.

Jane Penner is currently head of IR at Discord. She also headed IR at Pinterest, Alibaba and Google. Catherine Buan is currently Head of IR at Armis. She also headed IR at Asana, Lyft, Okta and Docusign.

Whether you are responsible for Investor Relations at a company on the IPO track, or have general interest in learning about the IPO process, we hope you can join us to discuss Catherine and Jane’s collective experience and lessons learned from taking public some of the highest profile companies of the past decade.

 

Event Details:

Thursday, May 8, 2025

12:00pm: Arrival and Registration

12:30pm - 1:30pm: Program and Q&A 

Location: Navan Headquarters - 3045 Park Blvd, Palo Alto, CA

 

 

Jun 12 2025 04:30 PM PST
NIRI San Francisco and Silicon Valley Topgolf Membership Appreciation Event Topgolf - Burlingame

Join fellow NIRI San Francisco and Silicon Valley IR professionals for some fun competition, great food, and drinks at our combined annual membership appreciation networking event on Thursday, June 12, 2025, from 4:30pm – 7:30pm PT. Dinner, golf, and two drinks are on us!

 

Date: Thursday, June 12th

Time:  4:30pm – 7:30pm PT

Location:  Topgolf Burlingame 258 Anza Blvd Right off US-101freeway near Burlingame. Or take Caltrain/Bart to Millbrae and a 5 min Lyft ride.

Fees: Free to all NIRI members. Guest fee is $25

 

We hope you can join us for this networking social with our friends and colleagues!

 

For additional information, please contact:

Alex Porter (Alexander.porter@nasdaq.com) or

Victoria Hyde-Dunn (vhydedunn@informatica.com)

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Excited and interested in joining a group of talented investor relations professionals in Silicon Valley for educational events and networking opportunities? NIRI Silicon Valley’s membership includes corporate investor relations officers, strategic investor relations counselors, and innovative IR related vendors. Our member companies cover all market caps and a broad range of industries. We’d love to hear from you!

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News

December 10, 2024
December 2024

To our NIRI Silicon Valley and NorCal Members: As we head into the Holiday Season and reflect on 2024, I am confident in saying it was a transformative year for NIRI Silicon Valley. Elevated board leadership, partnerships, and programming have helped us attract amazing new members and reinvest in adding more value to you all in 2025. Highlights from this past year: Partnership with CFA Society of San Francisco for career development programs Addition of Lunch & Learn events, most recently featuring Coinbase , Airbnb , and Former Tesla Heads of IR In-person events at AMD , Palo Alto Networks , Russell Reynolds Associates , Top Golf , and Fieldwork Partnership with NIRI Virtual Chapter for free access to their monthly content driven webinars To that end, all of our efforts are in the spirit of helping you (our members) thrive, and we sincerely value your input. So please reach out if you: Have event, content, or program ideas that can help us add more value ...

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