2. from a female => from a female what? Alpaca? Oh human? We have a word for that, it's woman
3. social inept key staff => get past the idea that the only people who can get things done are Neanderthals that have to be catered at the cost of the safety of women
Female by itself is known to imply female human. When people say they have a kid, do you think they have goats at home?
Or you could hire a female CTO maybe.
... business could be torpedoed.
Your CTO could be hit by a bus at any moment and your business could be torpedoed, and if that wasn't in the back of your mind all the time already, why not?
You know what kind of business depends entirely on a single personality? A cult.
Multiple accusations or more definitive evidence should likely put the accused into a troubling situation.
These are all your problems, not someone else's.
"If found to be valid, we will request an immediate termination of the harasser, regardless of job position."
So now if my CTO gets drunk and does something stupid, there is zero tolerance and my investors will demand his termination. This would be in the back of my head every time I sat across the interview table from a female. That if any of my social inept key staff make one mistake my business could be torpedoed.