Designer
IDEO
Bob Adams focuses on the intersection of design and sustainability at IDEO. Trained in mechanical engineering, product design, and agronomy, Bob has been working on the integration of the design process with principles of sustainable development since 2001, when he joined The Natural Step to develop their Sustainable Design Services Initiative. He came to IDEO in 2003 to further develop these ideas, and to put them into practice in real-world business-focused applications. Bob has worked in the field of design for 20 years, with corporate experience that includes Hewlett-Packard, Interval Research Corporation, and J.N. Marshall Pvt. Ltd. (Pune, India).
Since 1987, Bob has taught at Stanford University, London’s Royal College of Art, and the University of California at Davis, developing and teaching courses in product design, technology and aesthetics, human-computer interaction, music, and viticulture. He holds six patents in human-computer interface design, and has been the recipient of several international design awards. Bob owns and operates a farm in the Sacramento Valley of California and his long-standing interest in sustainable agricultural practices led him to his current work in the field of sustainability. He is convinced that the potential for “redesigning design” is tremendous, and lies in a new integration of systems thinking, knowledge of the life sciences, principles of sustainability, and design process.
Bob recently completed a master’s degree in horticulture and agronomy at the University of California at Davis, to further increase his ability to innovate on a systems level. His previous education includes BS and MS degrees from Stanford University in mechanical engineering and product design.
Sanaz Ahari
Lead Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Bio forthcoming.
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Fernando Alvarez
Vice President
Community Capital Associates, Inc.
Bio forthcoming.
Asad Anwer
Area Business Banking Manager
Citibank
Bio forthcoming.
Rick Aubry, Ph.D.
President
Rubicon Programs, Inc.
Rick Aubry, Ph.D., is the President of Rubicon Programs Inc. in Richmond, California, a non-profit organization that provides services to over 3,000 people annually who are homeless, very low income and living with disabilities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Rick has been at Rubicon since 1986, overseeing the growth of the agency from $980,000 to over $16 million in annual revenues in 2007.
Rick is an adjunct faculty member and Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he is a faculty affiliate of Stanford’s Center for Social Innovation. He is one of the co-authors of Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income (Jossey Bass, 2004) Rick’s work at Rubicon has been cited in the Harvard Business Review, the Brookings Institute Journal, and the New York Times.
Rick served as the chair of the Contra Costa Contractors Alliance, representing non-profit agencies, as vice-president of the California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies, as a leadership board member of the United Way of the Bay Area, and is a founding board member of the West County Business Development Center.
Rick worked as a therapist, clinical supervisor and program manager in Georgia and California before Rubicon Programs. Rick is a New York Regents Scholar, earned his BA from Syracuse University, MA in Psychology from West Georgia University, and Ph.D. in Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. Rick is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Program for Nonprofit Leaders.
Catherine Bailey
Creative Director
Heath Ceramics
In her current role, Catherine guides Heath’s product direction and public communications. As senior designer for Nike, Catherine worked with New York and European trend forecasters to develop color and trend recommendations that were implemented across all Nike products, as well as designing signature Nike products. She also developed color and material strategies for Apple, Fila, and K2. In 1995, Catherine founded a product design consultancy - One & Co. and grew the company from 1 person to an 11-person staff. As CEO, Catherine oversaw the product strategy division and contributed her experience and insight to day-to-day operations. Her clients included Microsoft and Palm amongst others.
She brings her creative eye to Heath’s new concepts and design direction while honoring the history and craft of Heath Ceramics. In addition to overseeing all design, PR, and marketing activities at Heath she also shares responsibility for setting the overall company direction and vision. Her direction in these areas has brought Heath Ceramics recognition as a design leader and important figure in the history of American design.
Catherine is on the board of the Center for Architecture and Design which supports public design involvement in the Bay Area. She holds a Bachelor of industrial design from Syracuse University, and also has studied environmental design and fine arts.
Jim Baird
CEO
Bay Area Development Company
James Baird is the CEO and Founder of Bay Area Development Company of Walnut Creek, California. Bay Area Development Company provides SBA 504 financing to small and mid-sized companies throughout Northern California. Since 1981 Bay Area Development Company has arranged in excess of $1.75 billion of 504 project financing for over 1,200 Northern California companies assisting them in creating over 12,000 jobs.
He is a Director for the California Environmental Redevelopment Fund, which is a $45MM multi-bank loan fund that makes financing available to remediate environmentally impaired properties in California.
He is as a Director of The East Bay Leadership Foundation, which mentors, provides internships and scholarships to at-risk high school students from the four poorest school districts in the East Bay.
Mr. Baird is a Director and past President of NADCO, the national trade association for the nation's CDCs, and has served terms as NADCO's Vice President of Technical Issues, and Vice President of Congressional Relations. He is one of only 12 recipients of NADCO's "Hall of Fame" award. Other recipients include Members of Congress and senior administration officials, and several CDC executives.
He has previously served as Director and President of California Statewide CDC, and on loan committees for the state’s Small City Economic Development Loan Program, Cal-EPA’s recycling loan program, and the Oakland Business Development Corporation’s Micro Loan advisory committee.
He is a prior SBA Financial Advocate of the Year for Northern California, holds an MBA degree from St. Mary's College in Moraga and a BA degree in Public Administration from California State University at Chico.
Steve Bangs
Lead Lender Relations Specialist
U. S. Small Business Administration
Bio forthcoming.
Alex Bard
Founder and CEO
Goowy Media
Alex Bard is the President and CEO of goowy media, inc where he is responsible for the corporate vision, product strategy, and marketing / business development initiatives. Goowy Media develops innovative online products and services that provide simple, intuitive tools for communicating and sharing on the Web. Its two consumer services, yourminis and the Goowy Webtop, have received high acclaim and are being used by people from all over the world to manage their digital lifestyle.
Ann Barlow
Partner/President, West Coast
Peppercom
Over the past two decades, Ann Barlow has counseled executives at companies such as GE, Tyco, TIAA-CREF, Panasonic and C.R. Bard, leading hundreds of branding and re-branding, corporate reputation and issues-related campaigns targeted to consumers, business and government. She has also provided crisis counsel for numerous public and private companies on product recalls (including Class I) financial malfeasance, workplace and consumer issues, and medical malpractice.
As a partner and senior director at Peppercom Strategic Communications, Ann is responsible for helping to set agency direction, grow the business, create new offerings, service clients and manage teams in the New York and San Francisco offices. Before joining Peppercom four years ago, she led the New York office of Interpublic Group-owned Mindstorm Communications. There, she oversaw operations, client services for companies such as Sony and Cablevision, as well as new business development and a staff of 50.
A graduate of the University of Illinois, Ann began her career in New York with Waring & LaRosa public relations and advertising, where she worked on Prince Racquets, Perrier and Sony. After moving to Toronto in 1985, she joined GCI, where she developed and executed campaigns and crisis management for clients such as Mattel, Ayerst, Procter & Gamble and the Jamaican government.
Upon returning to the New York area, she joined Berry Associates, working in investor relations, internal communications, and crisis management for such companies as The CIT Group, Philips Lighting and C.R. Bard. Later, she served as public relations and marketing director for an $800 million health system, where she managed public, community, internal and crisis communications. In 1994, Ann went to work for Spector & Associates, where she managed campaigns for the federal government, the Bank of New York, AT&T and the International Olympic Committee sponsorship organization. She left to form her own consulting practice in 1996 specializing in health care delivery and reimbursement communications. She provided counsel to a health system facing union strikes, a Medicare HMO charged with fraud and a consortium of health insurance companies confronting protests over coverage.
Ann lives in San Ramon, California, with her husband and two children.
Sara Beckman, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Haas School of Business
University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Sara Beckman teaches new product development and operations management at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Since joining the Haas School faculty in 1987, she has developed, institutionalized, and directed the school's Management of Technology Program; initiated new courses on design, entrepreneurship in biotechnology, new product development, and work and workspace design; won four awards from MBA students for excellence in teaching; and received the Berkeley campus Distinguished Teaching Award. Her present research interests lie in the general area of innovation management, with specific explorations of the role of design in business, environmental supply management, and development of operations strategy.
Sara has also taught in Stanford University's Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management; in 1994 and 1999 she was a visiting faculty member at MIT, where she taught in the Leaders for Manufacturing (LFM) Program. She continues to supervise master's thesis fieldwork for LFM students.
Prior to and concurrent with her involvement at the Haas School, Sara worked for the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), most recently as director of the Product Generation Change Management Team. This group was responsible for supporting strategic decision making; workforce planning and design; manufacturing education and training; and environmental, health, and safety management throughout the company. She also managed the corporatewide Surface Mount Technology program that was responsible for the rollout of new standard board-assembly processes at HP.
Before joining HP and the Haas School, Sara worked in the Operations Management Services practice at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she had an opportunity to develop manufacturing strategy with a number of diverse companies in industries from pharmaceuticals to aerospace. She serves on the boards of the Building Materials Holding Corporation and the Corporate Design Foundation.
Gordon Bell
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research
Gordon Bell is a principal researcher in Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, working in the San Francisco Laboratory.
Gordon has long evangelized scalable systems starting with his interest in multiprocessors (mP) beginning in 1965 with the design of Digital's PDP-6, PDP-10's antecedent, one of the first mPs and the first timesharing computer. He continues this interest with various talks about trends in future supercomputing and especially clustered systems formed from cost-effective “personal computers”. As Digital's VP of R&D he was responsible for the VAX Computing Environment. In 1987, he led the cross-agency group as head of NSF's Computing Directorate that made "the plan" for the National Research and Education Network (NREN) aka the Internet.
When joining Microsoft in 1995, Gordon had started focusing on the use of computers and the necessity of telepresence: being there without really being there, then. "There" can be a different place, right now, or a compressed and different time (a presentation or recording of an earlier event). In 1999 this project was extended to include multimedia in the home.
He is putting all of his atom- and electron-based bits in his local Cyberspace. It is called by MyLifeBits the successor to the Cyber All project. This includes everything he has accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owns (e.g. CDs). In February 2005 an epiphany occurred with the realization that MyLifeBits goes beyond Vannevar Bush's "memex" and is a personal transaction processing database for everything described in June 14, 2005 SIGMOD Keynote. The MyLifeBits project with Jim Gemmell is described in an article by us in the March 2007 Scientific American. Alec Wilkinson described Gordon and the MyLifeBits effort in the 28 May 2007 issue of the New Yorker.
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Nathan Bennett
Owner
Summit Financial Group, LLC
Providing solutions that allow clients to realize their goals and live an enriched life is the focus of Nathan Bennett’s practice. Nathan’s clients include the owners of privately held businesses, executives, professionals, and their families. Nathan helps clients through a planning process that creates a roadmap integrating all financial aspects with their unique goals. In addition to his insurance and securities registrations, Nathan holds the Certified Financial Plannertm, Chartered Financial Consultant, Chartered Life Underwriter, and Certified Fund Specialist designations. Away from the office, Nathan enjoys fly fishing and scenic environments. Being former college athletes, both Nathan and his wife Melissa, enjoy college and professional sporting events. They live in Pleasanton with their daughter Paige.
Nathan Bennett is an Investment Advisor Representative and Registered Representative with Securian Financial Services.
Georgette Bhathena
Community Relations Officer
Citibank
Georgette Bhathena is the Community Relations Officer of the East Bay for Citibank. Her main responsibility is to create strategic partnerships with nonprofit organizations in the areas of small business/economic development, affordable housing, community development, and financial education. Prior to joining Citibank, Ms. Bhathena worked as a Compliance Consultant in the Affordable Housing Program at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco.
Ms. Bhathena volunteers as a trainer to immigrant professionals at a San Francisco-based nonprofit called Upwardly Global. She also serves on the Board of Directors for West Contra Costa Business Development Center in Richmond, CA.
Ms. Bhathena graduated with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Finance and Economics from the University of Washington. She received her Master in Public Policy with a concentration in housing, urban development, and transportation from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2004.
Seth Bindernagel
Project Manager
Mozilla Corporation
Seth works for the Mozilla Corporation as a project manager, helping to empower the key contributors and volunteers of the Mozilla project by making leveraged resources available to its open source community.
Prior to Mozilla, Seth attended the University of California, Berkeley where he received his Masters in Business Administration. He focused on socially responsible business while he was a student at Berkeley and took leadership roles in the Berkeley Net Impact Club and the Global Social Venture Competition.
Prior to Berkeley, Seth worked at Ashoka, which is a global nonprofit organization that focuses on advancing the field of social entrepreneurship by building a global community of Ashoka Fellows. He has also served as a Legislative Fellow for the Senate Finance Committee and worked on a presidential campaign in 2004.
Seth attended Cornell University as an undergraduate and grew up in Cleveland, OH.
Steve Bishop
Global Lead, Sustainability Domain
IDEO
Steve Bishop is a global lead of the Sustainability Domain at IDEO. In this role, he focuses on applying design thinking to the issues of sustainability for IDEO clients as well as IDEO itself. Having lead several projects in both product and interaction design, Steve's experience ranges across several industries including automotive, consumer products, and medical devices. He's helped design high end award-winning office furniture, packaging, instrument panels for hybrid electric vehicles, and medical injection devices, for which he holds patents.
Since earning a Masters in Product Design from Stanford University, Steve has returned to teach design engineering. In 2007, he launched a new course at Stanford on sustainable design and is developing a sustainable design program for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the "d.school"). He regularly speaks on sustainability at conferences, universities and other events.
Steve holds a BA in Film and Media from the University of Texas, Austin and a Master's Degree in Product Design from Stanford.
Francine Boards
Senior Vice President and SBA Division Officer
One California Bank
Francine Boards is Senior Vice President and SBA Division Officer for One California Bank. She formerly served as Vice President of SBA Lending at The Mechanics Bank headquartered in Richmond, California. Ms. Boards has more than 20 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry. She has spent the past 15 years specializing in the development, implementation, and management of SBA programs and departments for community and established banks in the greater northern California region. Her experience in establishing Preferred Lender Program (PLP) status for banks facilitates strategies and offerings that serve new small business growth and helps existing businesses with access to capital.
Ms. Boards has served the banking and financial services industry in several capacities. She has held previous roles such as board of director, president, secretary, and treasurer of the Bay Area Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders Association (BAAGGL). In her positions with BAAGGL, she has teamed with professionals to establish and implement various economic initiatives such as the SBA San Francisco Entrepreneur Center, the San Jose Entrepreneur Center, and the Micro Loan Program for the Oakland Business Development Center. She has also previously served as a board of director for Northern California Small Business, and as an advisory board member to Bay Area Development Company. Ms. Boards started her banking career as a Bank Officer with Australian New Zealand (ANZ) Banking Group in Auckland, New Zealand.
Ms. Boards received her Master Business Administration degree from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, CA and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Chaminade University of Honolulu, Hawaii. She also received her Pacific Coast Banking Diploma from the Graduate Business School, University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
Robert Borden
Acting Deputy District Director
U. S. Small Business Administration
Robert A. Borden currently serves as the acting deputy director for SBA’s San Francisco District Office, as well as Regional Communications Director for Region IX (California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and Guam).
A journalism graduate of San Jose State University, Borden has served in public affairs positions for most of his federal career, though he was also involved with purchasing, contracting and grants management with the U.S. Public Health Service in San Francisco while pursuing an MBA degree at Golden Gate University.
A four-year veteran of the U.S. Navy with another 20 years of service in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, Borden has been honored as both a Federal Employee of the Year and a Coast Guard Reservist of the Year. He’s also a graduate of the DOD’s Defense Information School.
Bio forthcoming.
Darren Bouton
Manager, Sustainable Communities
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Darren Bouton is the Manager of Sustainable Communities for the Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E). He is currently leading the development of PG&E's strategy for assisting communities with implementing sustainability goals and climate change action plans. Darren's team is developing a comprehensive suite of products and services that will include education, incentives, and technical services for builders, developers, and local governments who want to go green.
Darren also acts as a strategic advisor to PG&E's executive leadership team and Corporate Real Estate Department on green building and sustainability issues, and coordinates and teaches solar and green building educational programs for PG&E's Pacific Energy Center.
Before coming to PG&E, Darren was the manager of Green Building Services for KEMA Inc., where he led a team that provided consulting services in the areas of green (LEED™) project management, eco-charrette facilitation, design assistance, workshops and training, and green building policy/program support.
Darren was also the City of San José's first Green Building Coordinator, where he managed the operations of the City's Green Building Program.
He holds an M.S. in Environmental and Energy Policy from the University of Delaware and a B.S. in Economics from Santa Clara University.
Dennis Boyle is an IDEO principal and works in IDEO’s Palo Alto office. Since joining the company in 1980, Dennis has been a project leader and client advocate on numerous projects and programs. Dennis has helped to build and nurture a number of long-term key client relationships including Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Palm Computing, Handspring, and Procter & Gamble. Dennis is now helping to lead the Health and Wellness practice at IDEO which covers a range of work from medical device and consumer product design to healthcare environments, workflow transformation and strategy.
Dennis was instrumental in the foundations of IDEO U, a program consisting of workshops in various aspects of design innovation and creativity. Dennis helped to originate the Tech Box, a collection of materials, components, and products used in creative problem-solving, research, and in communication inside and outside the company. He has recently helped start the “Green Room”, a collection of resources, materials, and products that are used for inspiration and information in the area of design for sustainability. Throughout the course of his work at IDEO, Dennis has been granted over fifty patents.
Dennis has an appointment as a part-time assistant professor at Stanford University, where he has taught various design, engineering creativity, human factors and design for sustainability courses. Dennis has also helped in the formation of a number of after-school programs to enable high school and grade school students to experience and solve engineering problems through design and build projects.
Dennis holds a BS in mechanical engineering and industrial design from the University of Notre Dame and an MS in product design from Stanford University.
Nancy Brimhall
Principal
Brimhall & Associates
Nancy Brimhall, established her fundraising consulting practice in 1990 in Boston and for over ten years serviced organizations in the Northeast that encompassed healthcare, education, the arts and community-based organizations. In the Fall of 2004, after completing a five year $55M campaign as Vice President for Development at COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts in California’s Napa Valley (founded by icons Robert Mondavi and Julia Child) she re-established a consulting practice, now based in Los Angeles and Boston.
She brings more than 30 years of experience in capital campaigns, major gifts, feasibility studies, development audits, and development executive search.
Her major consulting clients have included diverse regional, national and international organizations, such as The ACLU of Southern California, The ACLU of Massachusetts, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Boston, MA), The Center for Responsible Genetics (Boston, MA), Community Resources for Justice (Boston, MA), Dublin School (NH), Hospice of Cambridge (MA), Hospice of Napa Valley (CA), Institute for Child and Adolescent Development (Wellesley, MA), The Forsyth School (St. Louis, MO), Landmark School (Prides Crossing, MA), Lawrence and Memorial Hospital (New London, CT), Minority Law Review (Boston, MA), Oxfam America (Boston, MA), The Population Council (NYC), and Wellspring House (Gloucester, MA), among others.
Immediately prior to her tenure at COPIA, she was the Chief Development Officer for Harvard Medical Schools’ Schepens Eye Research Institute, where she oversaw a $5M annual fund and a $65M+ capital campaign. Previously she worked for several noted Boston institutions, including the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she served as Director of Development and worked to integrate two development offices during a hospital merger, designed and supervised significant programs and provided operations oversight to a substantial staff engaged in a capital campaign of $57M and provided planning for post-campaign and a new $125M+ campaign for medical education.
A California native, she has lived in remote regions of Alaska and for many years in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Alaska she conceived of and implemented a highly successful state-wide conference series to support artisans in the areas of law and marketing and was selected to become the first executive director of the Institute of Native Alaskan Arts.
She currently serves on the board of an inner-city after school program in LA, the Center for Lifelong Learners, and on the California state board’s development committee of the Hospice Federation. She is twice a former board member of Women in Development of Greater Boston (the largest fundraising organization in New England), and has served on senior planning committees numerous times for fundraising organizations, including serving as the 1998 vice chair of Massachusetts Assn. of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) conference.
She has been a frequent mentor, lecturer and presenter on both coasts. She was among the first to be recognized as a “Certified Fund Raising Executive” in 1985. She has a B.A. in English and Art and a California lifetime teaching certificate.
Jessica Bronesky
Manager, Online Sales and Operations
Google Inc.
Bio forthcoming.
Elliott Brown
President
Springboard Forward
After graduating from Stanford University, Elliott decided to dedicate his life to systems change. His early career encompassed experiences in Corporate Giving at Sun Microsystems and at several nonprofits in East Palo Alto, CA, including designing and directing the Bayshore Workers Youth Employment Program. Elliott began a consulting firm in the 1990s focusing on new models for workforce development and nonprofit effectiveness. In 1997, he founded a for-profit staffing firm with a social mission, to try out an alternative approach to the traditional government and nonprofit employment programs for low-income communities. After four years, he started Springboard Forward, a nonprofit, to continue the market-driven approach to employment and workforce development. Elliott’s vision is to fundamentally change the relationship between businesses and their entry-level workers. Springboard Forward’s Workplace Services model is being adopted and paid for by large retail and hospitality businesses. Elliott was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2005 for his innovative approach to addressing poverty in the U.S.
Mark Carlson
CEO
SimpleFeed, Inc.
For the last 11 years, Mr. Carlson has been a senior manager at public and private software companies. Previously he was CFO at First to File, an enterprise software company he sold to MarkMonitor. Prior to First to File Mr. Carlson was General Manager of the Internet Security Group of CyberMedia, a public company later acquired by Network Associates. Mr. Carlson came to CyberMedia as a result of its acquisition of Walk Softly, Inc., where he was Founder and CEO. At Walk Softly Mr. Carlson lead marketing and development of Guard Dog, an Internet privacy and security product that became a PC Data Top 10 product. Prior to Walk Softly, Mr. Carlson was CFO and Vice President of Business Development at Digital Pictures. Mr. Carlson began his career in the technology investment banking departments of Montgomery Securities and PaineWebber. Mr. Carlson graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Hon. Keith Carson
Alameda County Supervisor, District 5
County of Alameda Board of Supervisors
Keith Carson was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1992, on a platform dedicated to inclusive and accessible government. He represents the 5th District which includes: Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont and large portions of Oakland, namely West Oakland, North Oakland (Rockridge and Montclair), and portions of the Fruitvale, Dimond, and San Antonio Districts. Supervisor Carson works to bring together people who have a wealth of talent and creative resources to address our shared problems within the numerous areas including access to health care, ending poverty, homelessness, crime, improving business retention, and addressing the scarcity of jobs in our communities.
Supervisor Carson is Chair of the Alameda County East Bay Economic Development Alliance (East Bay EDA) and is a member of the Alameda County Employees' Retirement Association (ACERA). Supervisor Carson serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the California State Association of counties (CSAC) - a 58 county statewide supervisors organization, he is also a member of the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority (ACTIA), and a member of the Alameda County Waste Management Authority.
Keith serves as Chair of the Finance Committee for the Bay Area World Trade Center (BAWTC) and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Economic Forum.
Assemblymember Wilma Chan (ret.)
Legislator-in-Residence
UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies
Assemblymember Wilma Chan joined U. C. Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies as a Legislator-in-Residence in January 2007, after leaving the California Legislature. She will spend a year at the Institute, where she will teach the spring-term class required for participants in the Cal-in-Sacramento Platinum Fellowship program.
Ms. Chan has represented Alameda County in the California Assembly since 2000, and from 2002 to 2004 was the first woman to serve as Assembly Majority Leader. Previously, she served six years on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, and was the first chair of the Alameda County Children and Families Commission. She holds degrees from Wellesley College and Stanford University.
Michael Chang
Supplier Diversity/Programs
Lockheed Martin Space Systems-CA
Michael Chang has been working as a Small Business Advocate in the Lockheed Martin Supplier Programs Office for 2 years. He enjoys working with small businesses find their opportunities to obtain that elusive 1st purchase order! Michael has been a resident of Santa Clara County also known as Silicon Valley for 25 years. He has worked for TRW, Applied Materials and Lockheed Martin in the following areas: Procurement, Planning and Scheduling, Subcontract Administration, Contact Negotiations, Finance / Business Operations, and Software Licensing and Auditing. Michael obtained his undergraduate business degree in 1980 from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and his MBA in 1988 from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is also a Certified Software Manager from the Software and Information Industry Association based in Washington, DC.
Joyce Chung
Managing Director
Garage Technology Ventures
Joyce Chung has over 10 years of operating experience in technology companies and 10 years of venture capital investing experience. She was a founding partner of Cardinal Venture Capital, a $125 million early stage venture fund. At Cardinal, Joyce was responsible for investments in Chipcon (acquired by Texas Instruments), Mobilygen, Valista, and Zilliant. She continues to co-manage the current Cardinal portfolio. Prior to forming Cardinal Venture Capital, Joyce managed venture investments for Adobe Ventures. Her portfolio companies included Vignette (Nasdaq: VIGN), DigitalThink, Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC), and Virage. Joyce also held operating roles at Adobe Systems, Sony Corporation, and Cambridge Technology Group. She received an S.B. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Joyce is active at the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and is on the board of the Association of MIT Alumnae (AMITA), Chair of the Northern California chapter of AMITA and Member of the Executive Council of Astia.
Patrick Ciccarelli
CEO
Varsity Technologies
Patrick Ciccarelli is the CEO of Varsity Technologies. Before founding the company, he spent several years in the classroom as a teacher and university lecturer. Patrick was one of the first regional instructors for the Cisco Networking Academy, an international program that prepares individuals for a career in networking.
Patrick holds an M.A. in Instructional Technology as well as technical certifications from Microsoft and Cisco.
Patrick is also co-author of Networking Foundations, CCNA Jumpstart, CCDP Exam Notes, and MCSE Jumpstart from Sybex, Inc.
John Cimral
CEO
Kapow Technologies, Inc.
John Cimral is a seasoned, serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience leading successful enterprise software businesses. He was the CEO of ProSight, a startup that pioneered IT portfolio management and IT governance systems. ProSight was the Inc. 500’s fourth fastest growing private software company in 2004. John also led INTERSOLV’s PVCS business and Symantec’s security products business. Earlier in his career, John ran product development at Bachman Information Systems and Datalogix. He has been awarded ten international and U.S. software patents. John holds a bachelor’s degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point, a M.A. in human resources management from Pepperdine University, and a M.S. in computer science from M.I.T.
Denise Coley
Director, Supplier Diversity Business Development
Cisco Systems, Inc.
As Director of Supplier Diversity Business Development at Cisco Systems, Inc., Denise Coley drives the initiatives of the Supplier Diversity Program by facilitating relationships between diverse businesses and Cisco. The mission of the program is to increase customer satisfaction and improve sourcing through diversification of Cisco's suppliers. One of her primary responsibilities is to enhance Cisco's competitive position in the marketplace, thereby advancing the corporation's business success.
Prior to joining Cisco, Ms. Coley was the Purchasing Operations Manager at SGI, managing the Supplier Diversity program and the Corporate Purchasing Operations Group. During her career with SGI, Ms. Coley was Program Manager of University Relations and responsible for developing strategic relationships between universities and Silicon Graphics, Inc. Her accomplished objectives resulted in the diversity of college hires and collaborative partnerships. She also developed an acculturation program to help college hires through their transition into the corporate environment.
Ms. Coley earned her BA in Speech Pathology and Audiology from the George Washington University, her MA in Speech Pathology from the University of the Pacific, and her MBA from the University of Phoenix. Ms. Coley and her family reside in Palo Alto, California. www.cisco.com
Chip Conley
Founder and CEO
Joie de Vivre Hospitality
Chip Conley is the founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, California’s largest boutique hotel company, consisting of 40 unique hotels, restaurants and spas. A respected leader and author, Chip is regularly consulted for his opinions, guidance and wisdom on building and maintaining a successful and innovative enterprise—involving areas such as organizational leadership, creative business development, corporate social responsibility and spirit in business. He is the author of The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business, where Sir Richard Branson wrote in the foreword, “God bless the rebels....business can be the greatest vehicle for social change {and} this book serves as a handbook for people who want to make a difference.” Chip’s new book, Marketing that Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World is part of the Social Venture Network’s series on socially responsible business. In his next book, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow, Chip shares his unique prescription for success based on the famed psychologist’s theories on human motivation. PEAK will be published by Jossey-Bass in September 2007.
Chip has received numerous hospitality industry awards and has been recognized as a committed and creative philanthropist. He is a member of the Global Business Network and Young President’s Organization and received his BA and MBA from Stanford University.
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Roberto Costa
Lending Officer
OBDC Small Business Finance
Bio forthcoming.
Ulysses Cozart
Associate Director
San Francisco SBDC
Bio forthcoming.
Cheryl Dahle
Contributing Writer
Fast Company
Cheryl Dahle is an author and journalist who writes about the intersection of business and social change. Currently, she is the West Coast bureau chief of Blue Egg (www.blueegg.com), a media company that introduces sustainable and green living to mainstream consumers.
Previously, Dahle founded and managed Fast Company magazine’s Social Capitalist awards, a special issue devoted to recognizing top social entrepreneurs. She was a senior writer and contributing writer for the magazine for nine years. Prior to that, Dahle wrote and edited for several business and technology publications, including CIO, where she was a features editor.
Her book, No Horizon is So Far (Da Capo 2003), chronicles the story of the first two women in history to cross Antarctica on foot—a feat the former schoolteachers tackled as a way to inspire children to follow their dreams.
Dahle started her journalism career working for daily newspapers, including The Miami Herald and The Louisville Courier Journal. She also worked for two years investigating a wrongful conviction case with professor David Protess, founder of The Innocence Project at the Medill School of Journalism.
Dahle holds a BSJ from Medill at Northwestern University
Bio forthcoming.
Sushma Dhulipala
Commercial Toxics Reduction Coordinator
San Francisco Department of the Environment
Bio forthcoming.
Steve Doize
Senior Manager, Commercial Segment Marketing
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Bio forthcoming.
Paul Donald
Founder and President
Branch
In 2005, Paul Donald founded Branch: Sustainable Design for Living, a trail-blazing business geared to show that environmental responsibility coupled with excellence in design equals success -- both in terms of profit and the planet.
With an online retail store and a growing line of carefully sourced products, Branch offers high-design housewares, gifts, and furniture, all made using sustainable materials and practices.
Prior to founding Branch, Paul spent 12 years in the publishing industry and practicing graphic design. Living and working in New York and then San Francisco, he helped craft the look and feel of such titles as Spy, Wired, The Industry Standard and Sunset. He has been a staff designer for Alexander Isley Design; his freelance clients included Chronicle Books and the Long Now Foundation, among others.
Despite his big-city experience, Paul is a Midwesterner at heart -- he grew up in small-town Iowa, and his deep appreciation for nature is a result of the many summers he spent working in area cornfields.
Michael Dorsey
Managing Director
JPMorgan
Michael C. Dorsey is a Managing Director at JPMorgan. He co-heads JPMorgan’s Bay Area Equity Fund, a double bottom line private equity fund intended to generate market rates of return by investing in emerging growth companies located in or near lower-income neighborhoods of the Bay Area. The Bay Area Equity Fund is bringing together traditional venture capitalists with community and government leaders to improve the overall sustainability of the Bay Area region by extending venture capital’s reach.
Prior to his affiliation with the Bay Area Equity Fund, Mr. Dorsey worked for 20 years as an investment banker to technology companies. Mr. Dorsey served as Head of Technology Investment Banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Cowen & Co., primarily operating out of their Bay Area offices.
Mr. Dorsey has been a resident of the Bay Area for 29 of the past 34 years. Mr. Dorsey received an A.B. in History from Stanford University, and an MBA from Yale University. He serves as a Director of the United Way of the Bay Area, co-head of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society, on the Parents Advisory Board and Athletic Board of Stanford University, and on the Parents Advisory Board of Duke University. He is married with three children, and lives in Woodside, California.
Asa Dotzler
Director of Community Development
Mozilla Corporation
Bio forthcoming.
Rich Dryden
Executive Director
California DVBE Alliance
Rich Dryden retired from the Navy in 1994, after 24 years of Service. He then worked in small businesses in California for 8 years, one of which was a Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise (DVBE). In July of 2005 Rich became the Executive Director for the California Disabled Veteran Business Alliance in Sacramento.
Over the past 2 years Rich has been instrumental in growing the Alliance in corporate sponsorship, outreach and training for disabled veteran businesses, training and oversight of state legislation to support DVBE.
Rich has also been the Committee Chairman for the annual Alliance symposium, Keeping the Promise (KTP).
KTP has grown over the past 14 years from a small luncheon event in Sacramento to a two day expo in Anaheim where over 2200 business matchmaking interviews have been conducted matching corporate and government procurement professionals with DVBE.
Rich flew helicopters in Viet Nam, and is a Service Disabled Veteran.
Rick DuBois
Assistant Vice President
Community Bank of the Bay
Rick DuBois is Assistant Vice President of SBA Loans at Community Bank of the Bay. Before joining Community Bank of the Bay, Rick was a business banker for Wells Fargo. Rick has been active in the Bay Area business community for many years, specializing in financing for small businesses. Rick grew up in Fremont, and is a graduate of San Jose State University.
Jimmy Duvall
Director, E-Commerce Products
Yahoo! Small Business
Jimmy Duvall is the Director, E-Commerce Products for Yahoo! Small Business. Mr. Duvall joined Yahoo! in 2003 and is responsible for the development and management of Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, a comprehensive e-commerce solution that enables small businesses to build, manage, and market professional online stores. Yahoo! Merchant Solutions is the e-commerce platform for 1 out of 8 online stores and enables billions of dollars in transactions annually.
Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Duvall held Product Management positions at Good Technology, and at Homestead Technologies, where he oversaw the company's strategy to move from a free advertising-based business model to a subscription-services model. Mr. Duvall also spent six years at Lotus/IBM in various Product Marketing and technology roles.
smallbusiness.yahoo.com/merchant
Michael Elkin
Assistant District Director for Entrepreneurial Development
U. S. Small Business Administration
Michael Elkin is the Assistant District Director for Entrepreneurial Development at the U.S. Small Business Administration in San Francisco. Mr. Elkin is responsible for managing the SBA's counseling and training programs delivered through the California Small Business Development Center, SCORE and Entrepreneur Centers. Prior to becoming the Assistant director for Entrepreneurial Development, he managed the Oakland One Stop Capital Shop and was the Regional Manager for SBA's International Trade. Mr. Elkin served as an U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya from 1986-1988 providing management consulting to small businesses in the Mt. Kenya region. Mr. Elkin continues to stay involved in international economic development issues and has worked as a consultant for the International Labour Organization most recently assisting the organization in the development of a new initiative to target growth oriented enterprises throughout East and Southern Africa and in Southern Asia.
Travis Engstrom
Owner
North Star Precision Mapping
Bio forthcoming.
Joe Fabris
Senior Director, Wireless Solutions
Palm, Inc.
Joe Fabris has 23 years of experience in the high-tech market, serving in a variety of positions with leading companies in the industry. He joined Palm through the merger of Handspring and Palm in 2003. At Palm, he is responsible for the marketing of the wireless line of the company’s solutions to the business audience, including email and infrastructure products as well as productivity applications.
Before working in the smartphone world, Joe spent 10 years at Microsoft. He held positions as a systems engineer, sales executive, marketing manager, education and government sales manager, and Western Region marketing director. In 1992, he was awarded the Chairman’s Award by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates as the nation’s top sales executive. In 1997, he was again recognized as the nation’s top field manager.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe spent five years at IBM, where he was a mechanical engineer at the San Jose disk drive facility before attaining his MBA and becoming an IBM marketing representative.
Joe is a member of the board of directors of The Tech Museum of Innovation, where in 2002 he launched a Video Game Fundraiser called Maxgames, which utilizes the Tech’s IMAX Dome as a playing venue. He is a graduate of San Jose City College and Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo.
Robyn Fisher
President
R. T. Fisher & Associates
Bio forthcoming.
Joe Foos
Director of Sales and Marketing
Lanlogic, Inc.
Bio forthcoming.
Walter Freeman
Procurement Manager
Apple Inc.
Bio forthcoming.
Adam Frey
Co-Founder
Wikispaces
Adam Frey is co-founder of Wikispaces, a provider of easy to use and easy to adopt hosted wikis. Wikispaces provides public and private wikis for small groups, and private label wiki environments for organizations such as schools and non-profits.
Prior to founding Wikispaces, Mr. Frey founded and managed the SourceForge line of business at VA Linux Systems (later VA Software). SourceForge.net is the world's largest Open Source software development web site and SourceForge Enterprise Edition is an enterprise solution for optimizing distributed software development.
Mr. Frey holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors from Monash University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Brenda Gambardella
Assistant District Director, 8(a) Business Development
U. S. Small Business Administration
Brenda J. Gambardella is currently the Assistant District Director for the 8(a) Business Development Program in the San Francisco District Office of the Small Business Administration.
The 8(a) Business Development Program is named for that section of the Small Business Act created to help small disadvantaged businesses compete in the American economy and access the federal procurement market.
Brenda’s federal service started more than 25 years ago in the Federal Government contracting arena with the Environmental Protection Agency. She has held various positions in Federal Government contracting including technician, contract specialist, instructor, procurement and business analysis, team leader and supervisor. Before coming to the U.S. Small Business Administration, she was a contract specialist/instructor with the General Services Administration in Washington, DC.
Brenda graduated from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA in l977 with a B.S. in Education.
Bonnie Nixon Gardiner
Global Program Manager, Supply Chain Social & Environmental Responsibility
Hewlett-Packard Company
At HP, Bonnie Nixon Gardiner is responsible for: strategy and management of HP’s worldwide Supply Chain Social and Environmental Responsibility Program; playing a leadership role with major competitors and suppliers on a common industry code of conduct and implementation tools including risk assessment, self assessment, auditing and reporting tools; and overseeing a worldwide audit program with 600 suppliers and providing ongoing audit training to 70 staff located in Mexico, South America, Eastern Europe, India, China and Southeast Asia.
Prior to joining HP, as Vice President of an Environmental Communications Firm, Ms. Gardiner managed more than 200 public and private sector projects with business, government, community and non-governmental entities. Her 23 years of experience spans across several industries including technology, biotech, financial, water, natural resource protection and utilities, food processing and transportation. Bonnie Nixon Gardiner began her career as the lead for Public Relations on the Boston Harbor Clean-up Project. She obtained her degree from Pennsylvania State University and completed advanced studies in environmental mediation and conflict resolution.
Raj George
Director
Cal State East Bay SBDC
Raj George is the founding Director of the Cal State East Bay SBDC. As Director, he is also the lead organizer for Cal State East Bay SBDC's nationally recognized annual Economic Summit, focused on building sustainable, socially responsible small businesses.
Mr. George has extensive experience in business development and brand strategy, including working with the Alliance for Downtown New York (Business Improvement District for Lower Manhattan), Moët Hennessy USA, Diageo, the Penn Center for Community Partnerships, the Hispanic Federation of New York City, the Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia), Medsite Publishing, and Livet Reichard Company, Inc.
Mr. George serves as an advisor to the Intuit Small Business Center and Bay Area Development Company. He is a member of the PG&E Community Advisory Group and Turner Construction/Port of Oakland Mentor Protégé Committee. He was recently selected to the East Bay Business Times annual "40 Under 40" list of emerging business leaders.
Mr. George earned his B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA in Marketing and Brand Management from Columbia Business School.
Brian Glazebrook
Manager, Supply Chain Social Responsibility
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Brian Glazebrook is Manager of Supply Chain Social Responsibility at Cisco Systems, Inc. He joined Cisco in 2006 to develop and lead the company’s program managing environmental, labor, health, safety and ethical performance of its suppliers. In this role, Brian is Cisco’s representative in the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct (EICC) and Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) industry organizations.
Prior to joining Cisco, Brian spent over 10 years as a management consultant focusing on corporate sustainability issues. He is a recognized expert on Life Cycle Assessment and has worked with a number of Fortune 500 firms on design for environment, life-cycle management, green buildings, climate change and sustainability reporting projects. He was involved in the development of the first draft of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and has supported the U.S. and Canadian governments in developing standards for evaluating the environmental footprint of “green” projects and products.
Brian has a Master of Arts Degree in Public Policy and a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Science from Indiana University.
Audrey Goins Brichi
Manager, Strategy, Planning and Coordination, Midstream Procurement
Chevron Corporation
Audrey Goins Brichi is Manager of Strategy, Planning and Coordination, Midstream Procurement for Chevron Corporation.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Ms. Goins Brichi attended Auburn University on the William Crawford Gorgas Scholarship for outstanding science students in Alabama, graduating with B. S. and M. S. degrees in biological sciences. She is also a graduate of the WP Carey School of Business at Arizona State University with a Masters of Business Administration in Supply Chain Management.
Ms. Goins Brichi has held positions including environmental specialist at Chevron’s Pascagoula, Mississippi and Richmond, California refineries and ecological specialist with the corporation’s environmental affairs group. She was responsible for Public Affairs’ liaison with national environmental and consumer affairs organizations and managed the community programs’ staff. Following an assignment coordinating contributions and community development for Chevron’s international external affairs group, she joined Corporate Procurement and assumed her current position.
Ms. Goins Brichi serves on the Board of Directors for Inner City Advisors, the Northern California Supplier Development Council and the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council. She was named NCSDC 2001 Corporate Coordinator of the Year. She chairs the National Minority Supplier Development Council’s (NMSDC’s) Petrochemical and Energy Industry Group, is a member of the Institute for Supply Management and participates in the Department of Defense’s Western Regional Council for Education and Advocacy and the Industry Council for Small Business Development.
Anita Stephens Graham
Principal
Opportunity Capital Partners
Anita Stephens Graham has more than 20 years of experience at management levels within the private equity and banking industries and joined OCP in 1996. Ms. Graham has managed OCP's affairs with respect to its investments in several companies. She currently serves on the board of directors of the National Association of Investment Companies. She is also a board member of Pacific Community Ventures and a member of the Cornell University Entrepreneurial Advisory Council. Ms. Graham holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Cornell University and an Executive MBA from Golden Gate University.
www.opportunitycapitalpartners.com
Paula Groves
Consultant
Cal State East Bay SBDC
Paula Groves is Managing Partner of 4Front Partners, a venture capital fund-in-formation focusing on the convergence of technology, telecommunications and healthcare in the western US. Most recently, Ms. Groves-Hawthorne was Managing Member of Axxon Capital, one of the largest woman led, woman and minority targeted funds in the country with over $50 million under management. Prior to founding Axxon, she was a partner with Triumph Capital, where she completed more than $115 million of investments for a range of companies.
As a 14-year venture capital and private equity professional, Ms. Groves is well versed in working with entrepreneurs, having held several board and observation seats of rapidly growing young businesses. She has assisted companies with: (1) raising money by focusing on business plan development, articulation and presentation; (2) developing financial analysis including cash flow sensitivities, exit valuations, return on investment, and merger and acquisition synergies; (3) understanding investment term sheets and documentation; (3) setting strategic direction in the context of market competition and customer acquisition strategies; (4) assessing revenue and growth opportunities; and (5) effectively operating the business and managing costs. As an industry veteran, she speaks frequently about private equity and has made television appearances on CNNfn and The Money Gang.
Ms. Groves has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Stanford University.
Madison Gunter III
Business Development Manager, Supplier Diversity
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Madison Gunter III has 15 plus years of experience in the WAN networking industry (TDM, ATM, Frame Relay, and IP). His roles at Cisco have primarily been in solutions/applications engineering, technical marketing, and service provider solutions marketing manager for Integrated Access, Optical, Storage Transport, and Ethernet technologies. As of two years ago Madison received the opportunity to work as a business development manager with the supplier diversity organization. This position has given him the best of both worlds. One to use his technical experience and secondly to satisfy his passion for serving small and diverse business. Madison primarily interfaces with IT, marketing, and work place resource suppliers.
Madison received a bachelor degree from California State University Chico, is certified as a Telecommunications Engineer from University California, Berkeley, and is currently a MBA candidate at University of Santa Clara.
Scott Hahn
Principal
Rogan/Loomstate
Scott Hahn was raised on Fire Island, New York where his family managed the Sailors Haven Marina at the Sunken Forest. Hahn’s environmentalism grew from his family’s role in one of the most dynamic national parks in the Northeast. He learned the skills of balancing unorthodox business management while nurturing and protecting our eco-system. After graduating from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1994, Hahn engaged in numerous entrepreneurial projects in the worlds of art, entertainment and communication. With a finely tuned mind for business, Hahn developed a foundation for his paradigm of conscious commerce.
Hahn met artist Rogan Gregory on an East Village rooftop in 1998. His string of entrepreneurial ventures, including Clydesdale Communications, thewomb.com and Artware made him the ideal partner to Gregory’s inherent design talent. In 2001, the two launched ROGAN, a revolutionary line of premium denim with Hahn’s longtime business partner Kevin Ryan.
The committed environmentalists learned the devastating effects of conventionally grown cotton and decided to re-evaluate their methods of production. Hahn applied the ROGAN business model of a design-led brand to engineer a new supply chain in the fashion industry, insuring that product quality and appeal was center stage to their sustainability commitment. Within a year, the pioneers founded LOOMSTATE, a life style clothing brand constructed of 100% organic cotton that promised to source and promote sustainable agriculture and responsible production methods.
Loomstate’s aesthetic was inspired by pre-industrial American manufacturing processes, a time when craftsmanship was customary and pesticides did not threaten the earth’s sensitive eco-system. By aligning with a committed factory willing to engineer certified organic cotton denim, Loomstate was soon making waves, spawning a new perspective on “green” apparel and the fashion community. Loomstate, under Hahn’s watchful eye, continues to re-define production standards and sustainable fashion both within the clothing industry and in the public eye.
www.rogannyc.com
www.loomstate.org
Mike Hannigan
President and Co-Founder
Give Something Back
Michael Hannigan is the President and Co-founder of Give Something Back, Inc., California’s largest independent business to business office supply company. His company was started in 1991 modeled on Newman’s Own food company. Profits earned by Give Something Back are donated to non-profit organizations selected by customers and employees in a balloting process.
Mike Hannigan graduated from UC San Diego with a degree in Philosophy, and received his graduate degree from UC Berkeley in Criminology. He worked for Xerox, Friden-Alcatel and numerous other office products companies before starting Give Something Back in 1991. The company has been on the Inc 500 fastest growing private companies list and the Inc Inner City 100 Company list numerous times. Give Something Back was named Corporate Grantmaker of the Year in 2003 for Northern California and Small Business of the Year in 2005 by the US Small Business Administration. Give Something Back, Inc is headquartered in Oakland. Mike Hannigan lives in Berkeley and currently serves as the Chair of the Oakland Workforce Investment Board.
Cynthia Hansen
Attorney
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP
Cynthia Hansen, who joined Wendel Rosen's business practice group as an associate in April 2006, provides general corporate advice for a diverse clientele in connection with financings, private offerings of securities, buy/sell agreements, mergers and acquisitions, entity formation (including partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations), strategic alliances, sponsorship/marketing agreements, technology licensing agreements and various other corporate matters and transactions. In particular, she supports the corporate legal needs of the firm's green business clients. In addition, Cynthia has a background in representing institutional lenders and sponsors in major international project financings. In 2002, she successfully provided pro bono representation for a Rwandan asylum seeker and his family in all phases of their asylum application process and proceedings in immigration court.
Jacob Harold
Program Officer
Hewlett Foundation
Jacob Harold joined the Foundation from The Bridgespan Group--a nonprofit spin-off of Bain and Company--where he advised a variety of nonprofit and foundation clients on programmatic and organizational strategy. Harold has worked as an climate change consultant in New Delhi, India for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and as a climate change campaigner for Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace USA. Before that, he was the organizing director for Citizen Works, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit focused on corporate governance issues, and spent a year as a grassroots organizer with Green Corps, where he led campaigns on climate change, forest protection and tobacco control in cities across the country.
Harold received a BA from Duke University, where he designed his own major in ethics and intellectual history, and earned an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He trained in business strategy with Bain and Company and studied complex systems science in Beijing at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Harold was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his parents ran small community-based nonprofit organizations.
Kristine Haskett
Director of Development
San Jose Jazz
Kristine Haskett comes to SJJS from Loyola University New Orleans. Working with university staff and faculty to develop a stronger grants program, Kristine has developed and submitted grants ranging from $20,000 to $2,000,000 to government agencies and local and national foundations and corporations. Kristine also brings to the organizations more than five years experience in the nonprofit sector, particularly involving foundations and museums, and an M.A. in Philanthropic Studies from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Kristine has also earned a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from Indiana University and a B.A. in Spanish and French from Loyola University New Orleans.
Jeffrey Hatchell
President and CEO
Over the Top Coaching
Jeffrey David Hatchell is a 20-year business professional and award winner with a track record of exceeding goals and living a purpose driven life. He is using the experience to develop the innate ability in others to do the same.
Hatchell is president and founder of “Over The Top Coaching”, a company he began to help people uncover and maximize their talents, natural abilities, and skills. Through motivational speaking, communication skills workshops, and personal coaching, this passionate professional brings out the best in others to help them realize their full potential and to live more fulfilled lives.
Over the Top Coaching is owned by JD Hatchell Enterprises, Inc. It is a certified minority company through the Northern California Supplier Development Council.
Jeffrey has coached entrepreneurs, career changers, and executives as well as led leadership workshops with Fortune 500 organizations such as PG&E, American Express, and Wells Fargo.
Hatchell cultivated his coaching and training expertise as a Certified Corporate Trainer and Coach in Executive Presentations Skills with Communispond; a global performance improvement company. While at Communispond, Hatchell helped many mid and senior level executives from Fortune 500 organizations and students at colleges and business schools improve their ability to communicate more effectively. Hatchell also sharpened his public speaking and leadership skills while serving as the President of Impact 21 Toastmasters Club where he created and led career development workshops that helped job seekers improve their communication, positioning them to obtain new jobs. Hatchell has also received an Advanced Toastmasters Award and won a series of speech contests with Toastmasters International.
Hatchell, held the position of Vice President and Business Banking Manager with Wells Fargo. In this role he led and coached a team of business bankers focused on providing financial service solutions to small businesses. Jeff was the only manager in this capacity that had 100% retention of a 10 member team over a 13 month period. Hatchell started with Wells Fargo as a Strategic Business Manager for California Business Banking Bay Division. In this capacity, Hatchell developed and executed business plans, sales initiatives, and enhanced internal partnering. His efforts increased sales and improved cross-sell results. In addition, Hatchell is a member of the Wells Fargo African American Strategic Board of Directors.
Hatchell worked over six years with American Express in a variety of areas. As National Sales Director responsible for new business development, Hatchell successfully established new distribution channels that resulted in gaining new business partners in non-traditional vertical industries. As a Manager of Regional Accounts, Hatchell exceeded sales goals by 192%, ranking second out of thirty managers in North America. As a result he received the American Express Grand Achievers Award. As a Manager of National Accounts, Hatchell led marketing efforts for a $1 billion portfolio of national financial service accounts that resulted in obtaining the most significant sales improvement for all national account teams.
This Coach U graduate received his Masters of Business Administration degree (GPA: 3.7) from Nova Southeastern University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing degree from Howard University. He is a recipient of “Who’s Who in American Junior Colleges” award. Jeffrey is also the Vice President of Administration for the National Black MBA Association San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and an active member of 100 Black Men Inc.
Jeffrey Hatchell is married for 13 years to his college sweetheart Michelle. He is the proud parent of 3 children. A 7-year old daughter named, Jenay, a 4-year old son named Justin, and a 2-year old daughter named McKayla. Jeff is an avid reader of motivational books, plays golf and tennis, and is an active member and leader of his church, World Conquerors in Oakland, CA.
Michael Hill
Area Business Banking Manager
Citibank
Bio forthcoming.
Stan Howell
Small Business Program Office
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Since 2001 Stan has managed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Small Business Program Office (SBPO) which includes the Supplier Management Office and the Procurement Quality Assurance function. LLNL is a premier research and development institution for science and technology applied to national security. Starting October 1, 2007, LLNL will be managed by the Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Since 2004 LLNL has awarded approximately $1 Billion dollars in contracts to Small Businesses, and has a 2008 Fiscal Year Small Business goal of 45%. Prior to his current role, Stan has spent approximately 20 years in Federal, State and Municipal Law Enforcement and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice Administration from the California State University at Hayward and a Juris Doctor degree from the John F. Kennedy University, School of Law. He also holds professional certificates in Labor and Employment Law.
Evelyn Huang
Microloan Program Director
Lenders for Community Development
Evelyn Huang is the Microloan Program Director at Lenders for Community Development. Lenders for Community Development is a not-for-profit financial institution providing small business loans to low and moderate income business owners in the Bay Area. Evelyn has worked at Lenders for Community Development for the past two years, overseeing the direct lending, portfolio management, and sales and marketing for the program. Previously she worked as an Associate at Summit Partners, a growth venture capital firm. Evelyn graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Public Policy.
Kelly Huang
Consultant
Cal State East Bay SBDC
Kelly Huang has been actively working with small businesses in the past ten years in management and consultant capacities. Beginning with a Silicon Valley medical software start-up, she developed the initial marketing plan for Asia. Then, she worked with a number of start-up companies looking to launch technology products in new markets. Most recently she worked with SBA/SCORE in San Diego to provide pro bono consulting to small business owners. With 15 years of experience in the high-tech industry, she is well-versed in deploying internet-based technology to enhance business operations.
Ms. Huang has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Computer Engineering from Brown University. In addition, she had also completed management and sales training at IBM and Monsanto. She currently serves on the board of an investment fund, and is active at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
Kristin Johnson
Director
Northern California SBDC Regional Network
Bio forthcoming.
Clay Jones
President
New Resource Bank
Clay Jones is the president of New Resource Bank, an innovative community bank in San Francisco that is setting a new standard in customer service while financing efficient and sustainable resources in its community. Prior to joining New Resource Bank, Clay was the Chief Operating Officer and Acting President of Cupertino National Bank, a $1.5 billion bank in the heart of Silicon Valley. Before he was promoted to run Cupertino National, Clay was the group manager and head of the bank’s Technology Banking Group. Prior to Cupertino National, Clay held leadership and marketing positions at Comerica Bank and Silicon Valley Bank. Clay is an Executive Board Member and Finance Committee Chairman of the Episcopal Charities of San Francisco. He is a business advisor and member of the Business Roundtable for Pacific Community Ventures, and an active supporter of many local charities and non-profit organizations.
Greg Jones
Administrative Services Supervisor
State Farm Insurance
Greg Jones been with State Farm Insurance for the past 21 years. His titles have including Purchasing, Maintenance, Mail Center, Leasing & Contracts, Construction, Field Facilities, Word Processing and Supplier Diversity Supervisor. He is currently responsible for Leasing/Contracts/Construction, Word Processing and Supplier Diversity for State Farm in California.
His mission is to identify and encourage equal opportunities for minority, woman, and physically-challenged owned businesses to contribute to State Farm's overall goal of providing quality products and services to meet their customer's business needs at competitive prices. The limited participation of any group in our economic system is a lost opportunity for business. Bringing diversity to State Farm's supplier base allows them to gain a complete perspective of communities they do business in. Providing opportunities for minority-run businesses has a positive impact in the communities in which they live. In addition, as taxpayers we benefit when all segments of the economy have an opportunity to be successful.
Kevin Jones
Principal
Good Capital
Kevin has extensive entrepreneurial and private investment experience in a range of technology and social enterprises. Kevin’s former positions include CEO of Net Market Makers, an $18 million revenue online community, research and events company, which was sold to Jupiter Media Metrix in 2000, having built Net Market Makers into the largest brand in business-to-business internet commerce. His previous six businesses all achieved market dominance before he left or sold them. In addition to starting businesses from scratch, Kevin is also adept at turnarounds. One, the Mississippi Business Journal had failed five times and was losing money in the face of two better-funded and more powerful rivals. Within three years, both rivals were out of business and the franchise was extended into local television, syndicated radio, trade shows and conferences. In addition, Kevin has been a columnist for Forbes and Business 2.0.
Kevin has been on the boards of Social Enterprise Alliance, the association of non profit social enterprises, and Social Venture Partners International, a network of engaged philanthropy circles. Kevin also led a malaria project in Zwaziland and Mozambique, working with Jeff Sachs of The Earth Institute at Columbia University. Finally, during his 20 year business career in Mississippi he worked with his wife to build the largest per capita chapter of Habitat for Humanity in the U.S., building more than 300 houses and creating a revolving, no-interest loan for bank participation that became a national model.
Christian Juhl
Client Services Vice President
Avenue A | Razorfish
Christian Juhl is the Vice President of client services at Avenue A | Razorfish. He runs client service and business development for the company’s California offices. He sits on several advisory boards in the Bay Area, participates in industry forums, and speaks regularly as an expert on digital marketing. Over his eight year tenure at Avenue A | Razorfish, Christian has led the digital marketing efforts for major brands such as Smith & Hawken, Washington Mutual, Road Runner Sports, Saturn, Red Bull, AT&T, Visa, and Symantec. Currently, Christian is working on new digital strategies for several major publishers, high tech companies, and entertainment portals.
Martin Kan
Relationship Manager, Western Division Emerging Technology Practice
Silicon Valley Bank
Martin Kan is currently a Relationship Manager at Silicon Valley Bank in the Emerging Technologies Practice. He specializes in working with pre-Series A/pre-venture-back companies in the software, hardware and life science sectors. Besides providing banking services for these companies, Martin has collaborated with entrepreneurs in their need for venture capital by leveraging the bank's resources and network into the venture capital community. In addition, he previously managed a portfolio of venture-backed companies and has extensively underwritten credit facilities to these companies.
Prior to Silicon Valley Bank, Martin held several project management and engineering positions at TRW (now Northrop Grumman). While at TRW, he worked on such strategic missile projects such as MX/Peacekeeper and Minuteman III weapon systems and on various Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) programs.
Martin is a graduate of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in aerospace engineering and earned his MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.
Rick Kapur
Area Manager
Citibank
Rick Kapur is a Senior Vice President and Area Manager for Citibank. He has been with Citibank since 1991 and has held various positions in different geographies within California, including Los Angeles, San Diego and Bay Area. Currently, he manages all the Citibank Financial Centers in Contra Costa County and some of Financial Centers in Alameda, Solano and San Joaquin counties.
Rick has been an adjunct professor of Corporate Finance and Marketing at University of Phoenix in Los Angeles. He holds his Master Business Administration degree from University of Southern California and his Bachelor in Management degree from Pepperdine University, Malibu California.
Jeff Karras
General Partner
Levensohn Venture Partners
Jeff Karras specializes in enterprise software, communications and wireless technologies, with particular interests in security, business analytics, and new Internet media. Before joining LVP, Jeff was a Group Product Marketing Manager at Sun Microsystems, where he was a key strategic driver behind their Portal Server product line. Prior to Sun Microsystems, Jeff was a Principal Consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers' Strategic Change Group, where he provided strategic guidance across a variety of industries including telecommunications, software, energy and financial services.
Currently Jeff works closely with a number of LVP portfolio companies including Informative, KnowNow, Rapt, Radiance, Reconnex, ShotSpotter and Veraz Networks. In addition, he previously held a board seat at Covigo, which was acquired by Symbol Technologies in 2003.
Jeff received a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Jeff is also an active member of the Board of Trustees for Astia (formerly the Women's Technology Cluster).
Jennifer Kass
Sustainable Partnerships
SF Environment
A native Californian, Jennifer Kass’ work at the Department of the Environment encompasses a broad range of public/private initiatives, including spearheading the formation of the Business Council on Climate Change and participating in the creation of the Sustainability Plan for the Treasure Island re-development. Ms. Kass has worked on a variety of policy areas, including transportation, energy and international trade. Before returning to the Bay Area, she spent seven years in Washington, DC. Ms. Kass has a unique perspective on public service, having extensive experience at all levels of government – local, state and federal.
Barbara Kaufman
Director, San Francisco Regional Office
Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Barbara Kaufman was appointed Director of the San Francisco Regional Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in November, 2004.
Ms. Kaufman returns to public service after serving in city government since 1992, when she was elected to San Francisco Board of Supervisors. In her eight years on the Board, she had many legislative achievements, including numerous fiscal reforms, promotion of job growth through New Jobs Tax Credits, and the creation of the Department of Neighborhood Services. She is most known for re-writing the City's Charter, which was overwhelming approved by the voters in 1995. It was during her second bid for the Board of Supervisors that she was the top vote-getter city wide, automatically making her the President of the Board of Supervisors.
Prior to taking public office, Ms. Kaufman was the founder and co-director of KCBS radio's Call for Action, an all volunteer run consumer advocacy public service. This off-air "action line" helped consumers solve problems with their automobiles, housing, insurance, banks, warranties, taxes and more. KCBS management subsequently created a broadcast that became Ms. Kaufman's own hour-long, live daily call-in show that eventually became the top-rated program at KCBS.
During this period at KCBS, she served on the Federal Reserve Board's Consumer Advisory Council. Additionally, Mrs. Kaufman is the author of two consumer books, Barbara Kaufman's Consumer Action Guide: Your Right from A to Z (NOLO Press, 1991).and a Pocket Guide to Consumer Rights, (NOLO Press, 1994).
Ms. Kaufman most recently served as the Chairwoman of the Bay Conservative and Development Commission (BCDC) and was a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC).
The San Francisco Business Times has recognized Ms. Kaufman as a leader; she has been the recipient of the "San Francisco's Most Influential Women in San Francisco" award for 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Ms. Kaufman has a B.S. from the University of San Francisco. She is married to Ron Kaufman and is the mother of three children and four grandchildren.
Alex Kazaks
Innovation Practice Lead
McKinsey and Company
Consulting Associate Professor
Institute of Design at Stanford
Either Alex Kazaks is embarrassingly unaware of what is acceptable to say out loud, or he has not yet developed the jaded realism that makes the following sound trite: Alex wants to change the world.
That said, he believes that the question of how each of us can change the world and what changing the world means is up for debate. Maybe it is THE debate. Alex believes that a better experience at an ATM in San Francisco and better water in Soweto are both valid change-the-world pursuits. He also believes that the individuals, teams, and organizations who change the world share some common methods and capabilities. It is these foundations that Alex is seeking to learn, practice, and teach at the d.school.
Alex was born in Kingston, Ontario, and raised in La Crosse Wisconsin. He has Biology and Product Design degrees from Stanford, and an MBA from Harvard. He has held a dozen jobs from genetic engineer to toy inventor, but has done his best work as an innovator at IDEO, founder and COO of SparkCharge, and consultant at McKinsey, where he works with the strategy, innovation, and customer insights practices to help high tech and consumer companies innovate and grow.
Alex aspires to teach design thinking the way Julia Child taught French cooking – with passion, humor, and elbows deep in real work. He has taught design at Stanford since 1998.
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Marty Keller
Director, Office of the Small Business Advocate
California Governor's Office of Planning and Research
Marty Keller was appointed Director of the Office of Small Business Advocate by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in May, 2007.
Prior to joining the Governor’s Office, Keller served for five years as executive director of the California Automotive Business Coalition (CalABC). In that capacity he helped auto repair shops deal with the state’s regulatory environment and with strategies to improve the automotive repair market. He also served for four years as CalABC’s representative on the Board of Directors of the California Small Business Association, and was elected its Secretary in 2006. From 1999 to 2001, Keller was president of Greenslip, Inc., an independent automotive inspection service in Silicon Valley. From 1995 to 1999, Keller served in the administration of Governor Pete Wilson as chief of the Bureau of Automotive Repair. In Governor Wilson’s first term, Keller served as chief of the Bureau of Home Furnishings and Thermal Insulation and of the Bureau of Electronic and Appliance Repair. During the 1980s, Keller was sales manager for Pacific Financial Printing, a small business in San Francisco.
Joan Kerr
Executive Director, Supplier Diversity
AT&T
Joan Namahana Kerr is the Executive Director of AT&T’s Supplier Diversity Programs. She received a JD degree from the University of California at Davis, a Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) degree from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Science degrees in comparative religions and psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Joining Pacific Bell in 1985, Kerr served as legal counsel to Pacific Bell’s marketing and procurement organizations for many years. Before SBC Communications, Inc. completed the acquisition of AT&T Corporation, Kerr was Executive Director of SBC’s Supplier Diversity Programs, playing a key role in the success of the company’s supplier diversity initiatives. Under her leadership, the former SBC’s supplier diversity programs have received numerous prestigious recognitions in recent years, including Corporation of the Year from the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC), as well as local Minority Supplier Development Councils in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, St. Louis and Connecticut; being named one of America’s Top Corporations for Women’s Business Enterprises by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC); being named one of the Top 10 Companies for Supplier Diversity by DiversityInc and earning placement in the DiversityInc Hall of Fame; being named one of the 50 Top Employers for Minorities by Fortune; and being named one of the Top Corporations for Multicultural Business Opportunities by DiversityBusiness.com. Other supplier diversity honors received include the Patriot Partner Award (Association for Service Disabled Veterans) and the John K. Lopez Award (California DVBE Alliance).
Kerr’s leadership in supplier diversity has been recognized through her receipt of the California DVBE Alliance's "Keeping the Promise” award and her two-time receipt of the NMSDC’s “MBE Corporate Coordinator of the Year” award. She was also recognized with the Corporate Leadership Award by Asians for Corporate and Community Action, an employee-initiated organization of the former SBC Communications.
Grace Kim
Senior Product Marketing Manager
WebEx
Grace Kim is the Senior Manager of Product Marketing at WebEx, now part of Cisco. She is responsible for on-demand web applications for sales, marketing, support and training. WebEx is the leader in web collaboration with a strong presence in the small business market. In addition to her experience at WebEx, Grace has an extensive marketing background in CRM and Business Analytics, working for both enterprise and startup companies. Grace, a Seattle native, is a graduate of Haas School of Business, Berkeley.
Hon. Yoriko Kishimoto
Mayor
City of Palo Alto
Mayor Yoriko Kishimoto is pleased to be able to combine her business and technical background with a lifelong passion for the environment and walkable communities in her city council service. Mayor Kishimoto's vision for 2007 is "Building a Green Economy through Innovation".
She was born in Japan, went to college at Wesleyan University and earned her MBA degree at Stanford University. Her professional life includes 20 years of running a US-Japan business consulting firm and co-authoring an internationally published book (The Third Century: America’s Resurgence in the Asian Era).
Mayor Kishimoto is married to Lee Collins and has two college-age daughters.
Mark Klaiman
Senior Counselor
Pet Camp
In 1998 Pet Camp, an overnight and day care facility for dogs and cats opened in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. When it opened, Pet Camp had no employees and Virginia Donohue and Mark Klaiman (the owners and wife and husband) rotated nights sleeping there. Today, Pet Camp occupies just under 20,000 square feet and has 20 camp counselors. Pet Camp is proud that all of their camp counselors who work at least 21 hours a week receive comprehensive health insurance, a 401(k) plan with an employer contribution and profit sharing. This fall Pet Camp will be opening Pet Camp’s Cat Safari – a cat only facility in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights neighborhood.
In 2004 Pet Camp was awarded a Green Business Certification by the City and County of San Francisco. This award substantiated Pet Camp’s view that you can be a good business and a good environmental steward. Pet Camp has installed a 33-kW solar power system (the largest privately financed system in San Francisco); 2 High Volume Low Speed 20-foot diameter ceiling fans; converted all lighting (including high bay fixtures) to T-8 fluorescent bulbs; and diverts more than 75% of its waste stream (including dog poop) from land fills.
Pet Camp has also been recognized for its work in the City: in 2007 the Bay Guardian presented Pet Camp with its 2007 Small Business Community Activist Award; in 2006 San Francisco Small Business Commission recognized Pet Camp as the Most Innovative Entrepreneur in the Service Sector; in 2005 San Francisco Small Business Advocates recognized Pet Camp as the Small Business Advocate of the Year; and also in 2005 the San Francisco Building Owners Association named Pet Camp as the Most Improved Commercial Recycler.
Virginia and Mark along with their 4 children and 3 dogs live in San Francisco.
Andrew Krumholz
Founder
Escama
Andy Krumholz is the founder of Escama, a small business that produces fashion accessories in partnership with two artist cooperatives in Brazil. Escama’s products – made of recycled aluminum pull-tabs and hand crocheted in economically depressed communities outside of Brasilia, Brazil – have been embraced by design shops in Rotterdam, Tokyo, Sydney and are currently sold at the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Royal Academy of Art London. Along with Escama co-founder, Socorro Leal Schwiderski, Krumholz is exploring ways to improve the livelihood of the groups that produce Escama’s products not only through increased trade but also through the support of the private sector. Krumholz has a sales and marketing background and worked in China and Taiwan for over 14 years. He received a BA in Chinese language from Ohio State University.
Emma Kuevor
Affirmative Action Officer
County of Contra Costa
Emma Kuevor is the Affirmative Action Officer for Contra Costa County. The County is a government agency with 25 departments and a number of special districts. The County employs more than 8,000 employees and is known as the “Employer of Choice. “ It also provides a large number of services, programs, and activities to the public.
In addition to having responsibility for the County’s Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Program and Contracting Programs, Emma continues to work with businesses and assist County departments implement the various contracting programs. The County has adopted an Outreach (1998) and Small Business Enterprise (1999) Programs, Local Bid Preference Program for Purchasing Contracts/Transacts (2005), and the e-Outreach Purchasing Program (2006). The County awarded more than $7 million in Purchasing contracts, $10 million in service contracts and over $360,000 in construction contracts in 2006.
Emma holds a BA in Psychology from California State University at Los Angeles and a MA in Public Administration from San Jose State University.
Kraig Kurucz
Environmental Health and Safety Manager
Intel Corporation
Kraig Kurucz is the Environmental Health and Safety Manager for Intel’s operations in CA and managed Environmental Programs for America for the past 2 years. Kraig led the CA operations of Intel to become the first ISO 14000 registered part of Intel in the U.S. This was accomplished without any findings. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering and Master Degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a specialization in Air Pollution Control and has earned the Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) designation. He is in his sixth year serving on the Advisory Council to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and was the chair for 2006. Prior to joining Intel, Kraig sat on an EPA technology verification panel for paint arrestors and has done environmental consulting, air quality source testing, and performed clean combustion research on EPA and DOE grants on pilot systems and full size utility boilers.
Justin Label
Partner
Bessemer Venture Partners
Justin Label is a Partner in Bessemer’s Menlo Park office, focusing on Cleantech investments. He has been with Bessemer since 2001.
Justin initiated Bessemer's Cleantech practice in 2005. His Cleantech investments include Silicon Valley Solar and Exclara, and he is also involved in Bessemer's other Cleantech portfolio companies Miasolé and Shriram EPC.
Prior to developing Bessemer's Cleantech practice, Justin focused on Internet and software investing. He helped make the firm's investments in Postini (acquired by Google), Cyota (acquired by RSA), Netli (acquired by Akamai), Trigo (acquired by IBM), Flock, and Nominum, as well as in Delivery Agent and Tripwire, where he continues to serve as a Director.
Prior to joining Bessemer, Justin worked with the Valent Group, a venture fund focused on supply chain software, and The Boston Consulting Group. Justin holds an A.B. from Harvard University in Applied Mathematics.
Justin blogs about Cleantech and other interests at ventureagain.blogspot.com.
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Lucy Leahy
Founder and CEO
Glow Beverages
Lucy Leahy is the founder and CEO of Glow Beverages, a lifestyle beverage company marketing premium, unique, functional drinks to health conscious women. She has led the company through the research, planning and prototype phases and is currently focused on funding and launch.
Ms. Leahy has over 10 years experience in the consumer products industry, firstly designing and managing plants as an engineer, and then d