Ellen Kangru Pao was born in 1970 and from New Jersey, USA. She is an American investor and activist who co-founded the diversity consulting, the former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao has come under fire for a tweet on July 6 saying she had prior knowledge Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked underage girls for sex.
The former CEO of Reddit drew criticism this week after revealing that she and several others at a ritzy 2011 Silicon Valley Christmas party attended by Ghislaine Maxwell “knew” or “suspected” that she was allegedly supplying underage girls to Jeffrey Epstein but did not call her out. Ellen Pao, the former CEO of Reddit, said in the tweet posted Monday that Maxwell was at the party hosted by Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital giant where she worked as a partner. “She was at the Kleiner holiday party in 2011, but I had no desire to meet her much less have a photo taken with her,” Pao wrote in a tweet on Monday. “We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex, but I guess that was fine with the ‘cool’ people who managed the tightly controlled guest list,” she added. In a second tweet, she clarified that media reports had implicated Maxwell in sex trafficking – but the accused madame had not been charged criminally at the time. “To be clear, the press had described her as supplying underage girls for sex, but she had not been charged so I guess it would be more accurate to say we ‘suspected’ v ‘knew,'” she wrote. Maxwell was arrested last week in New Hampshire and hit with a six-count indictment for allegedly trafficking underage girls for pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and lying about the alleged crimes under oath. At the time of the 2011 party, Epstein had been convicted of sex trafficking in Florida and ordered to register as a sex offender.
In the tweet, she replied to a tweet from Cyan “I used to be kinda sad that I wasn’t ever ‘cool’ enough to get invited to some parties that people I know were invited to, but now, I’m super thankful that I’ve never accidentally had a photo of me taken with Ghislaine.”
Ellen wrote “she was at the Kleiner holiday party in 2011, but I had no desire to meet her much less have a photo taken with her. We knew about her supplying underage girls for sex, but I guess that was fine with the ‘cool’ people who managed the tightly controlled guest list.”
Ellen Pao CAREER
She is a lawyer who founded a “diversity consulting nonprofit,” and previously a partner at Kapor Capital and the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the Kapor Center until 2018.For filing a gender discrimination suit against former employer Kleiner Perkins in 2012, Pao has expressed vocal criticism of the hiring and promotion practices in Silicon Valley
- She filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against her employer, Kleiner Perkins on 10th May 2012, and the lawsuit alleged workplace retaliation by a male junior partner, resulting from his and Pao’s romantic affair. It went to trial in late February 2015. The trial, lasting 24 days, resulted in a favorable verdict for Kleiner Perkins.
- She also worked at several companies in Silicon Valley including BEA Systems as Senior Director of Corporate Business Development from 2001 until 2005.
- After that, she joined Kleiner Perkins, an established venture capital firm in San Francisco, as technical chief of staff for John Doerr, a senior partner, a job that required degrees in engineering, law, and business and experience in enterprise software. It was in the year 2005
- Ellen Pao began her career from the year 1994 by working as a corporate attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore till 1996, and later she began working at WebTV in the year 1998.
- Additionally, she was appointed a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute on the recommendation of Doerr, a trustee in the year 2007.
- She became a junior investing partner with Ted Schlein as her boss in the year 2007.
- While the trial was taking place, a gender discrimination suit was filed against Twitter by Tina Huang, and a suit alleging sexual and racial discrimination was filed against Facebook by Chia Hong.
- Following the trial, Kleiner Perkins sought $972,814 in legal costs and offered to withdraw the fee if Pao declined to appeal the verdict.
- On 5th June, Kleiner Perkins claimed that Pao wanted $2.7 million to not appeal, an amount which they called “improper and excessive”.
- She later claimed that she was terminated abruptly while Kleiner Perkins claimed that she was given a month to accept a paid five-month transition to an operating role.
- She also worked at several companies in Silicon Valley including BEA Systems as Senior Director of Corporate Business Development from 2001 until 2005.
- After that, she joined Kleiner Perkins, an established venture capital firm in San Francisco, as technical chief of staff for John Doerr, a senior partner, a job that required degrees in engineering, law, and business and experience in enterprise software. It was in the year 2005.
- Additionally, she was appointed a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute on the recommendation of Doerr, a trustee in the year 2007.
- She became a junior investing partner with Ted Schlein as her boss in the year 2007.
- She filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against her employer, Kleiner Perkins on 10th May 2012, and the lawsuit alleged workplace retaliation by a male junior partner, resulting from his and Pao’s romantic affair. It went to trial in late February 2015. The trial, lasting 24 days, resulted in a favorable verdict for Kleiner Perkins.
- While the trial was taking place, a gender discrimination suit was filed against Twitter by Tina Huang, and a suit alleging sexual and racial discrimination was filed against Facebook by Chia Hong.
- Following the trial, Kleiner Perkins sought $972,814 in legal costs and offered to withdraw the fee if Pao declined to appeal the verdict.
- On 5th June, Kleiner Perkins claimed that Pao wanted $2.7 million to not appeal, an amount which they called “improper and excessive”.
- She later claimed that she was terminated abruptly while Kleiner Perkins claimed that she was given a month to accept a paid five-month transition to an operating role.
- She filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against her employer, Kleiner Perkins on 10th May 2012, and the lawsuit alleged workplace retaliation by a male junior partner, resulting from his and Pao’s romantic affair. It went to trial in late February 2015. The trial, lasting 24 days, resulted in a favorable verdict for Kleiner Perkins.
- She also worked at several companies in Silicon Valley including BEA Systems as Senior Director of Corporate Business Development from 2001 until 2005.
- After that, she joined Kleiner Perkins, an established venture capital firm in San Francisco, as technical chief of staff for John Doerr, a senior partner, a job that required degrees in engineering, law, and business and experience in enterprise software. It was in the year 2005
- Ellen Pao began her career from the year 1994 by working as a corporate attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore till 1996, and later she began working at WebTV in the year 1998.
- Additionally, she was appointed a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute on the recommendation of Doerr, a trustee in the year 2007.
- She became a junior investing partner with Ted Schlein as her boss in the year 2007.
- While the trial was taking place, a gender discrimination suit was filed against Twitter by Tina Huang, and a suit alleging sexual and racial discrimination was filed against Facebook by Chia Hong.
- Following the trial, Kleiner Perkins sought $972,814 in legal costs and offered to withdraw the fee if Pao declined to appeal the verdict.
- On 5th June, Kleiner Perkins claimed that Pao wanted $2.7 million to not appeal, an amount which they called “improper and excessive”.
- She later claimed that she was terminated abruptly while Kleiner Perkins claimed that she was given a month to accept a paid five-month transition to an operating role.
- Ellen Pao began her career from the year 1994 by working as a corporate attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore till 1996, and later she began working at WebTV in the year 1998.
- Additionally, she was appointed a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute on the recommendation of Doerr, a trustee in the year 2007.
- She became a junior investing partner with Ted Schlein as her boss in the year 2007.
- While the trial was taking place, a gender discrimination suit was filed against Twitter by Tina Huang, and a suit alleging sexual and racial discrimination was filed against Facebook by Chia Hong.
- Following the trial, Kleiner Perkins sought $972,814 in legal costs and offered to withdraw the fee if Pao declined to appeal the verdict.
- On 5th June, Kleiner Perkins claimed that Pao wanted $2.7 million to not appeal, an amount which they called “improper and excessive”.
