Ms. Hayes joined the Intevac Board of Directors in June 2019. Ms. Hayes is currently nonexecutive Chairman of the Board of Directors at First Tech Federal Credit Union, a cooperative financial institution, and brings expertise in internal audit and controllership with large global technology firms. Ms. Hayes currently serves on the board of directors and as chair of the audit committee of BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc., a software products and technology company that operationalizes artificial intelligence and machine learning at scale through its end-to-end data analytics platform. She currently also serves as a Strategic Advisor and SPAC board member for GigCapital Global, a serial SPAC issuer, and served as chair of the audit committee for the SPACs GigCapital5 and GigInternational1 from February 2021 to December 2022. Ms. Hayes was a financial executive at Intuit from 2003 until 2008, where she served as Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer and later as Chief Audit Executive. In 1999, after 10 years as a senior financial executive at Hewlett-Packard, she program-managed the spinoff of Agilent Technologies from H-P as Chief Audit Executive and continued at Agilent until 2003, serving as the company’s Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer. She came to H-P upon its 1989 acquisition of Apollo Computer, where she was Corporate Controller. She previously chaired the Audit Committee of the Vantagepoint Funds, a captive mutual fund series of ICMA-RC, and the Audit Committee for Range Fuels, a privately-held biofuels company.

Ms. Hayes holds an MS in Finance from Bentley University, and received both her MS in Business Administration and her BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.