Shawna Wolverton

Shawna Wolverton joined EQT Partners in February 2026. Shawna brings over 25 years of product experience in tech. She started her career in the dot com era where she saw the dawn of the SaaS revolution. She spent 14 years in various product leadership positions at Salesforce as the company grew from 300 to 30,000 employees. She was the Executive Vice President of Product and Design for 4 years at Zendesk and spent nearly four years as Chief Product Officer at Benchling, building software that helps teams on the cutting edge of science optimise and record their drug discovery workflows. She loves the complexity of enterprise software, great design, and building teams that build great products. Shawna holds a degrees in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz.