Overview

Shellye Archambeau is an experienced CEO and Fortune 500 board member with a track record of accomplishments in building brands, high-performance teams, and organizations. She is the former CEO of MetricStream, a Silicon Valley-based governance, risk, and compliance software company that enables corporations to improve their business operations through better risk management across the enterprise. She is the author of Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers and Create Success on Your Own Terms (Published by HBG Grand Central 10/2020), a book that helps professionals achieve their aspirations and create the life they want and was featured as one of the best business books of 2020 by Fortune.

Career History

During her tenure as CEO of MetricStream, Archambeau built the company into a global market leader with over 1200 employees serving customers around the world. Under her leadership, MetricStream was recognized for growth and innovation over the years and was named in the top 10 of the “Deloitte Technology Fast 50” and named a global leader in GRC by leading independent analyst firms for nine consecutive years.

Archambeau has over 30 years of experience in technology-leading organizations focused on business-to-business as well as business-to-consumer. She is a recognized expert in marketing and co-authored Marketing That Works: How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Profits to Any Sized Company. She has held EVP of Sales and Chief Marketing Officer roles for two public companies and as President of Blockbuster.com, launched the entertainment retailer’s first online presence.

In addition to her work at The ExCo Group, Archambeau currently serves on the boards of Verizon [NYSE: VZ], Roper Technologies [NYSE: ROP], Okta [NASDAQ: OKTA] and Lineage [NASDAQ: LINE]. She also serves on the boards of two national non-profits, Catalyst and Braven. Archambeau is a sought-after speaker on governance, risk, compliance, marketing, and entrepreneurship and has guest lectured at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and The Wharton School of Business. She is the protagonist in the Harvard Business School case study “Becoming a CEO”. She is a Forbes contributor and has been featured or referenced in major media such as MSNBC, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.

Personal

She was named the second most influential African American in IT by Business Insider. She was ranked one of the “100 Most Influential Business Leaders in America” by Newsmax. That same year she received the NCWIT Symons Innovator Award from The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). In her spare time Shellye enjoys exercising, the performing arts, entertaining and cooking.