Harvard’s Frei, a Former Uber Executive, Joins Robinhood Board

Robinhood Markets Inc. appointed Frances Frei, a Harvard Business School professor and former Uber Technologies Inc. executive, to the brokerage’s board and said that Jan Hammer plans to step down as a director.

Frei, 58, who has experience working with troubled companies, started this week, according to a statement Tuesday, and is the third woman to join Robinhood’s board.

“She regularly advises organizations embarking on large-scale change initiatives, including embracing diversity and inclusion as a lever for significantly improving performance,” Menlo Park, California-based Robinhood said in the statement.

Frances Frei

Source: Robinhood Markets Inc.

Hammer, a partner at venture capital firm Index Ventures, will ...