John V. Roos

John V. Roos has served as a Director since September 2013. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 2009 to 2013. Ambassador Roos currently serves as Co-Founding Partner of Geodesic Capital, a mid-late stage venture capital firm he started in 2015. Ambassador Roos has also served as Senior Advisor to Centerview Partners, an international investment banking advisory firm, since April 2014 and as an advisor for the Toyota Research Institute since January 2016. From 1985 to 2009, Ambassador Roos practiced corporate and securities law at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C., where he held the position of CEO. Ambassador Roos currently serves on the board of directors of Rakuten Group, Inc. and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. Within the past five years, Ambassador Roos also served on the board of directors of Sony Corporation and the global advisory board of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. Ambassador Roos received his A.B. in political science from Stanford University and his J.D. from Stanford Law School.