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Please join Women in Leadership
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Women in Finance |
| Panel Description |
The panel features successful women who have overcome obstacles and thrived in the field of Finance. Their experience covers the fields of brokerage, commercial banking and corporate treasury. Learn from their experiences and make further inroads for women in Finance. |
| Panel Lead |
Miriana Brezoeva / Cuchu Paoli |
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| Moderator |
Peter Goodson |
| Bio |
Mr. Goodson has participated in over 500 corporate assignments over the course of his 25+ year career in finance. Among his many accomplishments, is his role in founding the Mergers and Acquisitions group at Kidder, Peabody, as well as serving as co-head of the investment banking department and spearheading that firm's entrance into merchant banking. He then helped negotiate the sale of Kidder to GE. Mr. Goodson was a partner at Clayton & Dubilier, a private equity firm that purchased and managed large industrial companies. Over its 13 year history, the firm's investment record produced a compound annual return greater than 50%. Mr. Goodson currently devotes his efforts to philanthropic causes while also teaching at the Haas School of Business. |
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| Panelist 1 |
Nancy Crooks, BS '80 |
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Senior Vice President, Independent Risk Monitoring Group, Deputy Group Head - Credit; Union Bank of California |
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Ms. Crooks graduated with a BS degree from the UC Berkeley School of Business in 1980. She worked as a financial intern with the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) while in college and accepted a full time position with the OCC upon graduation. She left the Multinational Division of the OCC in 1993 to join Bank of America's Credit Review Department. At B of A, Ms. Crooks established a new unit within Credit Review which was focused on the bank's growing capital markets and investment banking activities. In 2000, Ms. Crooks joined Union Bank of California's Independent Risk Monitoring Group and was named head of the Credit Review Department within IRMG in 2001. |
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| Panelist 2 |
Ruth Jones |
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Controller, Pickup & Commercial Vehicles, Ford Motor Company |
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Ms. Jones holds a BA in physics from Wellesley College and a MS in Management of Technology from MIT Sloan School of Management. Ms. Jones' finance work experience includes 13 years with Procter & Gamble Finance in a variety of positions including Corporate Finance, Profit Forecasting, Sales Budget Analysis, Manufacturing Plant Control, New Product Launch Finance, Pricing & Marketing Analysis and Global Brand Finance. During her 5 years at Ford Finance, Ms. Jones' has worked as a Marketing & Sales Finance Manager, CFO, Diversified Consumer Services, Engineering Finance Manager and a Controller of Pickup & Commercial Vehicles. |
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| Panelist 3 |
Patti Reeder |
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Senior Manager - Domestic Marketing Finance, E&J Gallo Winery |
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Ms. Reeder's under graduate degree from the University of Virginia took her to the Fiji Islands as a 'computer volunteer' in the Peace Corps. She started a software company in Fiji before returning to the U.S. for her MBA from the University of Arizona. The E&J Gallo Winery recruited Patti into Information Services where she managed the vendor selection process for a new warehouse management system and then became the business manager of the IS department. After 3 years in IS, she moved into Finance to support the Domestic Marketing organization. Her team is responsible for New Products Financial Analysis, the Advertising & Promotions budget and the strategic and financial brand planning process. |
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| Panel |
Women in Real Estate |
| Panel Description |
In this traditionally male-dominated industry, these women have what it takes to succeed. Learn from their successes in commercial real estate, development, law and academia. |
| Panel Lead |
Putri Sugondo / Margaret Rhee |
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| Moderator |
Nancy Wallace |
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Professor of Real Estate at the Haas School of Business, Chair of the Real Estate Group, Co-Chair of the Fisher Center for Real Estate |
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Ms. Wallace teaches asset-backed securitization, real estate investment analysis, real estate strategy, and real estate finance at Haas. Her research focus includes models of residential house price dynamics, mortgage and lease contract design and pricing, and mortgage backed security pricing and hedging. Professor Wallace is the outgoing President of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and is currently a member of its Board of Directors. She is also a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Computational Finance and Real Estate Economics. |
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| Panelist 1 |
Judy V. Davidoff |
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Former President, CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) - San Francisco; Steefel, Levitt & Weiss |
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Ms. Davidoff is the former president of the San Francisco chapter of CREW. With nearly 6,000 members in the U.S. and Canada, CREW serves to advance the influence of women in commercial real estate via forums for education, leadership, and the development of business relationships. Ms. Davidoff also practices land use, environmental, and development law as part of the Real Estate Group at Steefel, Levitt & Weiss. Prior to, Ms. Davidoff was an international partner with Baker & McKenzie. Ms. Davidoff received a B.A. from the State University of New York, Albany and J.D. from Boston College. |
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| Panelist 2 |
Lynn Sedway, MBA 78 |
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Sedway Group; Executive Director, CB Richard Ellis |
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During her 21 years of practice prior to joining CB Richard Ellis, Ms. Sedway managed Sedway Group and led the firm's practice which included market studies, highest and best use studies, economic and financial analysis, and fiscal assessments which have earned the firm an unsurpassed reputation in the field. Ms. Sedway has been an adjunct professor at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Ms Sedway holds a Bachelor or Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA from Haas School of Business. |
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| Panelist 3 |
Susan T. Smartt |
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Regional VP - Development, Forest City Residential West, Inc. |
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Mrs. Smartt has over 23 years of real estate experience in development, land planning, and acquisitions for commercial, residential, and mixed use projects. She joined Forest City in 1999 and oversees their development activities in the Bay Area, including the 1,000 unit urban infill project "Uptown" in downtown Oakland. Prior to that she was a Division President for Watt Industries, where she established and ran their Northern California office. Mrs. Smartt received a B.A. in Urban Planning from the University of Washington School of Architecture and Urban Planning. |
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Women in Corporate Social Responsibility/Non-profit |
| Panel Description |
How to you balance money, social impact and other factors when leaving corporate careers to pursue socially responsible careers. What do you give up? What do you gain? Hear from women whose careers have spanned the spectrum from traditional careers to nonprofits, social ventures or CSR. |
| Panel Lead(s) |
Sonali Joshi |
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| Moderator |
Kellie McElhaney |
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Director Center for Responsible Business, Haas School of Business |
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Dr. McElhaney teaches courses in strategic corporate social responsibility to MBA and undergraduate students, as well as in Executive Education programs. Along with her teaching and research, she has developed and launched the new Center for Responsible Business in January, 2003 at Haas. The Center substantively focuses on Social Performance Metrics, Corporate Engagement & Governance, Environmental Innovation, and Social Enterprise . Functionally, the Center focuses on research, teaching, experiential learning, and dissemination & outreach. |
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| Panelist 1 |
Barbara Waugh |
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Co-Founder e-inclusion, Hewlett-Packard. |
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A longtime radical activist, Barabara Waugh joined HP 20 years ago and helped transform HP's corporate culture. Determined from the beginning to put teeth into the idea of "doing well by doing good," Barbara developed HP's breakthrough programs for women and minority recruiting, as well as co-founded HP's Sustainability Network and e-Inclusion, a business initiative and program to provide the four billion people at the bottom of the global economic pyramid access to the social and economic opportunities of technology. |
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| Panelist 2 |
Barbara Gee |
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Director of Programs and Operations, Huckleberry Youth Programs |
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Ms. Gee's diverse career has provided her insights into multiple sectors. After receiving a BS from UC Berkeley, Barb worked as a computer engineer at Hewlett Packard. Then went to Sloan for her MBA, where she had her first nonprofit board experience. After graduating, Barb joined a startup, Silicon Graphics. After 4 1/2 years, Barb started her own consulting practice (high tech, non-profit), where she gained a 12-year cross sector. In 2004, Barb joined Huckleberry. She continues to on consulting projects as time permits. |
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| Panelist 3 |
Villy Wang |
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President & CEO, BAYCAT |
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Ms. Wang has an extensive and unique 20-year background in education, arts programming, nonprofit business and law. Prior to joining BAYCAT as a co-founding team member, Ms. Wang was an elementary school teacher in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) for three years Ms. Wang currently trains SFUSD administrators, teachers and staff as a consultant. Prior to her nonprofit work, Ms. Wang was an attorney at Morrison & Foerster, Adjunct Law Professor at New College School and served as a commercial and investment. |
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Women in Consumer Products and Marketing |
| Panel Description |
Through marketing, these women have created industry-leading products and brands. Come learn their secrets and how they market not only their products, but also themselves. |
| Panel Lead(s) |
Kelli Chester / Tatiana Mendoza |
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| Moderator |
Heather Rascher (MBA 2004) |
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Associate Marketing Manager, The Clorox Company |
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Ms. Rascher is currently an Associate Marketing Manager at The Clorox Company, a position she has held since graduating from Haas in 2004. During and prior to business school, Mrs. Rascher worked for her own company, SportsEconomics, providing market research, economic impact, and a broad range of consulting services to the sports business community. Before her entrepreneurial venture, Mrs. Rascher served as an Equity Research Associate covering the Communications Components and Semiconductor sectors, and also spent time as an Analyst in Litigation and Economic consulting. Heather holds an M.B.A, as well as undergraduate degrees in Economics and English, from U.C. Berkeley. |
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| Panelist 1 |
Lynda Firey-Oldroyd |
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VP, Consumer Insights, Gap Inc. |
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Ms. Firey-Oldroyd is a pioneer in the evolution of marketing research to marketplace insights within organizations and is focused on the integration of those insights into every facet of a company's business practice. Lynda began her career at R.J. Reynolds after earning her bachelors and MBA degrees from Virginia Tech. She later moved to Frito-Lay where she held positions with PepsiCo, including Pepsi-Cola, and became the first woman to reach senior staff at Taco Bell. At Levi-Strauss and Co. she established a marketplace insight practice that participated at the highest levels of decision-making within the company. Currently, Lynda is establishing Consumer Insight capabilities across Gap Inc. |
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| Panelist 2 |
Meghan Cast |
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Campaigns Marketing Manager, Walmart.com |
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Ms. Cast is the category marketing manager covering Electronics, Sports and Media at Walmart.com, where she has been since 2003. In the past year Meghan has managed the brand identity creation and marketing launch of Wal-Mart Music Downloads as well as Wal-Mart Digital Photo Center's 1-Hour online service. Prior to Walmart.com, Meghan worked in marketing and business development for 3 years at Liquid Audio, an early Internet music company. While at Liquid Audio, she launched the first music download on Amazon.com in April of 1999. She received a BA in English and a Minor in Theater at the University of Virginia. She received her MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business. |
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| Panelist 3 |
Kathleen Campisano |
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VP, Marketing, Leapfrog |
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Ms. Campisano is currently Vice President Marketing at Leapfrog Enterprises where she has been attributed for much of the company's pre and post IPO successes. Kathleen combines classic consumer product marketing expertise with an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit for product development. Prior to Leapfrog, Campisano led the marketing and product development effort for Fisher-Price's core business divisions, first Infant Toddler and later Preschool. Kathleen started her career at Realty One, 2 nd Street Advertising, and Century Products. Campisano earned an Executive MBA from the University of Buffalo (while employed by Fisher-Price) and a BS in Marketing Communications from Xavier University. |
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Beth Springer |
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Group VP of Specialty Division, Clorox |
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Ms. Springer is group vice president at The Clorox Company. In this role, she has overall responsibility for the Glad ® joint venture with the Procter & Gamble Company and the company's cat litter, Kingsford ® charcoal and food products businesses. Ms. Springer joined Clorox in 1990 as associate marketing manager for household products, and subsequently held marketing positions of increasing responsibility in the company's cat litter, household cleaning, laundry and Glad ® businesses. Prior to joining Clorox, Ms. Springer worked for Braxton Associates/Deloitte in management consulting. Ms. Springer holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Bryn Mawr College and an MBA from Harvard University. |
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| Panelist 5 |
Maria Beatriz Rodriguez |
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General Manager, Proctor & Gamble Colombia & Ecuador |
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Ms. Rodriguez is currently the General Manager of the Procter & Gamble Company Colombia and Ecuador. Her background includes over 15 years at P&G where she held a variety of key positions in several countries of Latin America and in the US, including the role of Marketing Director in the Paper and Laundry Categories for the Puerto Rican and US Hispanic Markets and also Marketing Director for the Health and Beauty Care Categories for the Andean Countries, where she led the integration of new businesses after P&G's acquisition of the Clairol and Wella's product divisions. Maria Beatriz is originally from Venezuela where she graduated from Universidad Metropolitana in 1990 obtaining a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration. |
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Women in Technology |
| Panel Description |
Women are increasingly prominent in the historically male-dominated high-tech industry. Panelists will identify the stereotypes and other obstacles faced by female technology professionals, discuss the changing perception of women's contribution to this fast-paced industry, and provide insight into their respective abilities to sustain successful technology-focused careers. |
| Panel Lead(s) |
Regina Eberhart / Carolyn Wales |
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Regina Eberhart, MBA '05 |
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MBA Candidate, 2005 |
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Ms. Eberhart has ten year's experience in various fields of technology and finance. Since 2002, Regina has worked as an independent consultant, advising technology companies on strategic finance decisions ranging from market entry analysis to M&A deal negotiation. From 1998-2002, she worked in CSFB's Equity Research department, covering specialty semiconductor companies, where she was promoted to Vice President in 2000. Prior to CSFB, she was an investment banker for the DMG Technology Group, and spent three years as a technology analyst at a hedge fund. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from U.C. Berkeley, and is currently an MBA Candidate at the Haas School of Business. |
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| Panelist 1 |
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy |
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Google: GM for Local, 3rd Party, and Content Partnerships |
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Ms. Cassidy is a GM for Google's APAC and Latin America Operations, responsible for sales ops in these regions. She is also responsible for growing Google's local search business globally. Prior to Google, Sukhinder served as SVP-Business Development at Yodlee, the leading provider of account aggregation software to the global financial services industry, which she also co-founded. Prior to Yodlee, Sukhinder worked in strategy and business development for Amazon.com, Junglee Corp, and OpenTV. Previously, Sukhinder worked in strategy and corporate development for News Corp's BSkyB. She began her career in investment banking for the financial services sector with Merrill Lynch. |
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Debra Martucci |
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VP/CIO, Synopsys |
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Ms. Martucci is the Vice President of Information Technology. The group's mission is to lead all issues related to change and growth for both the Corporate Infrastructure and Engineering Development Environment, thereby establishing a strategic advantage for Synopsys. Debra has been with Synopsys over 10 years and has contributed to the success of many mergers and acquisitions in her role both as VP of IT as well responsibilities in managing the Release Engineering functions and driving the Porting and Licensing teams. Prior to her time at Synopsys, Debra worked in areas of Software Simulation which included positions within NASA in the Space Shuttle Training Division. She holds a Masters in Physics from the University of Houston. |
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Suzanne Stout, VP, Cisco Development Office, Cisco |
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VP, Cisco Development Office, Cisco |
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Ms. Stout is the senior director of operations for the Cisco Development Organization. CDO Operations develops appropriate standards, processes and metrics in pursuit of quality, productivity, and execution. Prior to running operations, she headed the Cisco Quality Initiative program management office and has run various functions with engineering operations. Prior to Cisco, Suzanne was a professor at INSEAD in France. She has also taught at the University of Texas, University of Washington, and University of California. She holds a bachelors degree in Physics from the University of Texas, an MBA from Southern Methodist University, and a PhD in Management from Stanford University. |
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| Panelist 4 |
Nahzin Zarghamee |
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CMO of Hyperion |
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Ms. Zarghamee, CMO at Hyperion, is responsible for Hyperion's global marketing strategy. Prior to Hyperion, Nazhin served as Documentum's VP-WW Marketing where she transformed the company to one of the leading enterprise content management companies. Prior to Documentum, Nazhin was senior director of WW marketing at Oracle and led the company's global e-business campaign. She established Oracle's Americas Applications Marketing group, developing markets for enterprise application products for direct and indirect channels. Nazhin holds master's degrees in electrical engineering and engineering management from Stanford University. She received her bachelor's degree from MIT. |
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Jill Huchital |
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Director of Engineering, TiVo, Inc. |
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Jill Huchital joined TiVo® in 1999. As Director of Engineering of TiVo Studios, she drives updates to the TiVo Service, including the award-winning Home Media Option(TM) and the recently-introduced TiVoToGo(TM) functionality. Her responsibilities also include software infrastructure and support for companies developing applications for the TiVo platform. Before joining TiVo, Jill developed computer graphics systems and interactive TV products at SGI, and computer animation software at Xaos Tools. She holds an A.B. in computer science from Brown University. |
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Writing your Business Plan for Life with Bonnie Wild |
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Bonnie Wild, a successful career leader and corporate executive with a Fortune 100 Health Care Corporation, will lead the group through a step by step plan to facilitate your journey to and through success. Every woman needs to develop life goals and to write a business plan for life so that she can control her own destiny. This workshop will help get you started on planning for success. |
| Panel Lead |
Pamela Joneja |
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Bonnie Wild |
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Ms. Wild's experience covers 20 years of Fortune 100 work and includes sales management, marketing, recruiting, motivation, career coaching and raising a family. She has held many key positions at Johnson & Johnson, launching several new J&J franchises and managing a $225MM sales portfolio. She currently works with Universities assisting students to align their goals with opportunities. Bonnie has developed insights and strategies to help individuals translate education and experience into successful personal or career opportunities and to present themselves in a confident, secure manner. |
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Women in Entrepreneurship |
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Interested in getting a venture off the ground? Learn from women entrepreneurs and women in venture capital as they share their real-world perspectives. |
| Panel Lead(s) |
Camille Landis |
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Camille Landis |
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MBA 2005 |
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Ms. Landis has been an active member in the Haas entrepreneurial community, serving on the judging Committee for Berkeley Business Plan Competition, judging the first round for Global Social Venture Competition, and recently moving on to the national Venture Capital Investment Competition finals. Camille currently consults for Affymax, a small biotechnology company, as a business development analyst and a product manager. Prior to Haas, Camille was a healthcare consultant at Front Line Strategic Management Consulting. Prior to that, Camille worked at U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray as a healthcare investment banking analyst. Camille started her career at Genentech and holds a bachelor of science in biology from the University of St. Thomas, where she graduated magna cum laude. |
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| Panelist 1 |
Esme de Guzman Vos |
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Founder, Lemon Cloud BV |
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Ms. de Guzman Vos is the founder of Muniwireless.com, the portal for news and information about municipal wireless broadband projects worldwide and wide-area wireless broadband applications. Since its launch in June 2003, Muniwireless.com has become the primary resource for cities, consultants, hardware and software vendors, and wireless ISPs who wish to find out about developments in citywide and regional Wi-Fi networks. Esme is an intellectual property lawyer and runs her own company, Lemon Cloud BV, which is based in Amsterdam. |
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Bronwyn Syiek |
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COO, Quinstreet |
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Ms. Syiek has over eighteen years of unparalleled entrepreneurial and operating experience and success. At QuinStreet, she has been responsible for building the organization from inception to its position as the leading provider of full service lead generation and customer acquisition programs online. Previously, she served on the management committee of De La Rue, a major European provider of on and off-line security products and services with over $1 billion in annual turnover. She has also been a consultant with McKinsey & Company, Inc. and co-founder of an investment banking boutique. |
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| Panelist 3 |
Dana Settle |
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Partner, Venture Strategy Partners |
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Ms. Settle is a partner at Venture Strategy Partners (VSP). Most recently a Venture Partner at Mayfield, Dana primarily focused on wireless and application software markets. She advised for several portfolio companies, including Inphi, MobileStar (sold to TMobile(DT)), Qtera (sold to NT), Revenue Science, T-RAM and Trigo (sold to IBM). Prior to Mayfield, Dana worked at Lehman Brothers's where she focused on corporate financings and M&A. Dana also worked as an International Development and Operations Analyst at McCaw Cellular Communications, where she managed McCaw's winning bids for cellular licenses in India, and was actively involved the company's activities in Latin America. |
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Women in Healthcare and Biobusiness: what inspires them? |
| Panel Description |
Inspiration - things and people who have inspired their professional/personal values. How have they been able to maintain their professional/personal values in building their careers in such a highly competitive industry. |
| Panel Lead(s) |
Helen Chan / Doris Chang |
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Stefanie Fenton, MBA/MPH '98 |
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Director, New Product Development, BENU |
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Ms. Fenton has worked with hospitals, health plans, pharmaceutical companies, and technology firms for over 14 years. She is the Director of New Product Development at BENU, a venture-backed firm managing joint ventures for health insurance companies wanting to bring innovative insurance options to cost-conscious, middle-sized companies. Prior to BENU, she worked in the Strategic Services Group at Accenture and Epocrates. When she is not working in our 'ever-too-complex' healthcare system, Stefanie spends her time skiing, SCUBA diving, and volunteering in San Francisco. She holds an MBA and MPH from Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley and BA from Wesleyan University. |
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LISA DAMKROGER |
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Director Marketing & Sales for Cardiac Surgery, Guidant |
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Ms. Damkroger is VP of Sales & Marketing for Guidant Cardiac Surgery, responsible for managing the US sales force as well as strategic planning, new product planning, market research, product marketing, training and customer service for Guidant's Cardiac Surgery products worldwide. Lisa joined Guidant in 1996 and held various sales and marketing positions in Cardiac Rhythm Management before joining Cardiac Surgery in 2002 as the National Sales Director and promoted to VP of Sales and Marketing in 2004. Prior to Guidant, Lisa was an operations and strategy consultant with CSC Global Health Solutions. Lisa holds an MBA from Kellogg and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford . |
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JENNIFER COOK, MBA '98 |
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Senior Director, Market Development, Genentech |
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Ms. Cook is responsible for helping lead Genentech's Market Planning, Forecasting and Business Analysis, Pricing Strategy, Global Alliances and Operations, and Commercial Communications functions. Cook first joined Genentech in 1987 as a research associate, participating in the development of numerous products. Cook left Genentech in 1992 to join Prizm Pharmaceuticals, a San Diego-based biotechnology start-up, rejoining Genentech in 1997. Cook received both a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degree in biology from Stanford University. She also received a Master of Business Administration degree from Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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MARGARET LAWS |
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Director, Public Financing & Policy Program, California Healthcare Foundation |
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Ms. Laws is Director of Public Financing and Policy at the California HealthCare Foundation, a private non-profit foundation based in Oakland. Her previous professional experience includes positions in management consulting, international development, non-profit management and international development. |
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Ms. Laws holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and an A.B. in English Literature from Princeton University. |
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Judy Smythe |
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VP Sales Operations, McKesson |
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Ms. Smythe is Vice President of Sales Operations within McKesson's Pharmaceutical group. Judy provides leadership to the sales and service functions, with primary responsibility for customer care, customer relations, and sales processes. Judy joined McKesson to lead program management within McKesson's Pharmaceutical Marketing, with responsibility for developing programs that create value for McKesson and its customers. She spent more than 10 years at Visa, where she oversaw product development and marketing for new programs. She holds a BA from Xavier University and a Masters of International Management from the Thunderbird School of International Management. |
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Ethics in Business |
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Professionals in all industries face discrete ethical challenges. This panel will explore applied ethics in three industry segments: medical diagnostics, the print media, and high tech/financial services. Join us for a lively discussion on how these women tackle ethical dilemmas in their careers. |
| Panel Lead(s) |
Tara Davis, Libby Reder |
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Maria Nondorf |
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Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business |
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Ms. Nondorf joined the Haas faculty in July 2003 upon receiving her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to receiving her Ph.D., she spent nine years as an accountant and senior manager in corporate finance at PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she had plenty of opportunity to observe how companies stretched the rules regarding financial accounting without technically breaking the law. At Haas, she focuses on understanding the economic effects of structuring transactions to achieve particular accounting results. Her research agenda includes the examination of highly-debated financial accounting topics such as acquisitions and employee stock options. |
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Mary Huss |
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Publisher, SF Business Times |
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Ms. Huss has been publisher of the SF Business Times, serving >60,000 readers, since 1991. Mary was part of the startup team that launched several regional business journals. She was circulation & marketing director of St. Louis's for 5 years & then advertising sales director & later publisher of Philadelphia's. While at the SF Business Times, Mary has initiated business award programs including Women in Leadership awards, Women Entrepreneur Awards & the Corporate Philanthropy Awards. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the Univ of Missouri-Columbia. She is active on many Bay Area boards, is 2004 Board Chair of the SF Chamber of Commerce & past President of Professional BusinessWomen of CA. |
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Tita Forrest |
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Senior Global Marketing Manager, Roche Molecular Systems |
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Ms. Forrest heads up worldwide commercial marketing efforts for clinical genomics & oncology at Roche Molecular Diagnostics. She is responsible for strategy & implementation of all global marketing efforts for new chip based products in the exciting area of "personalized medicine". Prior to this, she spent 7+ years with Eli Lilly in brand marketing, managed care marketing, sales mgmt. & leadership & career development roles, focusing on neuroscience, women's health, & diabetes products. She received her bachelor's degree from UVA & her Doctorate in Pharmacy at Butler Univ. During her doctoral program, she worked at Kaiser Permanente in clinical pharmacy. She earned her MBA from Pepperdine Univ. |
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Tess Koleczek |
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Chief Privacy Officer for ELoan |
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Ms. Koleczek was one of the first privacy professionals in Silicon Valley, working for Netscape as their Website Data Protection Manager until 1999. She also worked for Zero Knowledge Systems in Montreal, where she advised companies on privacy best practices and compliance with Canada's strict data protection laws. Tess has worked for E-LOAN since December of 2002. She regularly speaks on privacy-related topics including financial privacy laws and outsourcing. |
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Workplace Diversity: Building Networks, Bridging Networks |
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This panel will discuss networks-building strategies for women and people of color. Where do the challenges faced by women and people of color of overlap and diverge? How does one choose employers that really value diversity? Are start-ups more progressive? This panel will candidly explore the gains and distance yet to go in removing barriers to full participation in the workplace. |
| Panel Lead(s) |
Zach Gentry |
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Freada Klein Kapor, Ph.D. (Berkeley BA 74) |
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Chairperson of the Board, Level Playing Field Institute |
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Ms. Klein Kapor has been working on issues of discrimination and diversity since the early 1970's and co-founded the first group on sexual harassment in the U.S. Her small, international consulting practice focuses on building respectful and inclusive work environments. Much of her time is currently spent with the non-profit she co-founded, Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI). LPFI promotes fairness in higher education and the workplace through innovative programs and research. Freada holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy & Research from Brandeis and a bachelor's degree in Criminology from UC-Berkeley. |
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| Panelist 1 |
Kim Farnham (Berkeley BA 79) |
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HR Planning Director, Safeway |
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Ms. Farnham provides strategic leadership for Safeway's Diversity Initiative and Succession Planning program. Under her leadership, Fortune Magazine has recognized Safeways Diversity program by naming the grocery chain on their 2003 and 2004 lists of Best Companies for Minorities. Ms. Farnham has an undergraduate degree from UC-Berkeley and a graduate degree in Human Resources from Golden Gate University. She has taught graduate students in Chapman University's Human Resources Master's program. |
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Rebecca Chapa |
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Wine Consultant, Tanin Management |
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Ms. Chapa attended Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. In New York, Chapa worked at Windows on the World, NY Vista Hotel, Montrachet, Nobu, and Tribeca Grill. After moving to California, she worked at Rubicon and then as wine director of Jardiniere. Chapa launched Tannin Management, a consulting firm, in 1999 and began teaching wine classes in 2001 with another venture, Wine by the Class. She is currently a respected wine educator at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone and UC Berkeley extension and is also an international wine judge and freelance writer. |
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Leroy Barnes |
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Vice President & Treasurer, PG&E Corporation |
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Mr. Barnes is Vice President and Treasurer of PG&E Corporation, an energy-based holding company. Prior to assuming his current position in 2001, Mr. Barnes was Vice President and Treasurer of Gap, Inc., where he was responsible for all of the company's financing, cash management, international finance, investor relations, and risk management. Mr. Barnes earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University, and his MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was a Rockefeller Foundation Finance and Management Fellow. |
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Sex at Work: How Gender Manifests in Professional Environments |
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For years women have been driven to gain equal footing, respect, and recognition in the workplace. This panel explores both the triumphs and struggles of overcoming gender inequality in the professional environment. We explore the progress and future of this issue from an academic, cultural and political perspective. |
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Katherine Evans |
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Ellen Peterson, M.A. |
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Instructor of Psychology of Women |
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Ms. Peterson currently teaches Psychology of Women at Diablo Valley College. In 1983 she started The Nurture Company, a non-profit parent education organization whose model and programs have been adopted by Contra Costa County for child abuse prevention. She is a co-author of Help! For Parents of Infants 0-6 months, published by Harper and Row in 1986. She was named the City of Lafayette's Citizen of the Year in 1998 for her community activism in the arena of adolescent alcohol/drug abuse prevention. She has been an educator, leading and facilitating groups of many kinds, for 35 years. |
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Emilie Cortes, MBA '02 |
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Assistant Vice President at Marsh McLennan Securities; Co-president of the Association of Women MBAs |
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Ms. Cortes works for Marsh McLennan Securities as an Assistant Vice President in the Financial Risk Solutions Group. The securities group specializes in alternative risk transfer that employs capital markets approaches to solve insurance problems. Emilie received her MBA in 2002 from the Haas School of Business. Previously, she spent four years as an Associate with The Geneva Companies, a middle-market M&A broker in Southern California. Emilie is also Co-President of the Association of Women MBAs. She serves on the Board of the Haas Alumni Network San Francisco Chapter and is a member of the Financial Womens Association of SF, Bay Area Net Impact, and the Sierra Club. |
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Charis Thompson |
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Assistant Professor, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
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Ms. Thompson is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies and Rhetoric Feminist Theory; Science and Technology Studies; Reproductive and Genetic Technologies; Transnational Comparative Studies of Reproduction, Population , Biodiversity and Environment. Professor Thompson is currently teaching Gender, Race, and Science; Environmental Ethics; The Body in Contemporary Culture; Medicine as Identity, Expertise, and Governance; Population and Reproduction in Transnational Perspective; Science and Technology Studies; Feminist Theory. She is currently working on a book, Ontological Choreography: Reproductive Technologies and their Subjectivities and Economies, with MIT Press. |
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Marni von Wilpert |
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Vice President, NOW, UC-Berkeley chapter |
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Ms. Wilpert has been a member of the chapter of NOW at the University of California at Berkeley for three years and is currently serving as the Vice-President of the chapter. Through her involvement in NOW she has been actively involved in actions protesting Wal Mart's discrimination against women, organizing feminist consciousness raising events on campus such as women's health nights, and has helped to strengthen the young feminist movements at the university level. |
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Bill Sonnenschein |
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Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; Principal, i.e. communication |
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Mr. Sonnenschein teaches leadership and diversity courses for Haas MBA, Executive Development, and the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program classes. His books include The Diversity Toolkit and Workforce Diversity . As the principal of i.e. communication, he consults on current issues in communication, specializing in leadership, diversity, gender communication, intercultural communication, team building, and managing conflict. His love of meeting people, understanding different cultures, and eating good food has led him to a lifetime of adventure and travel. |
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Angela Williams |
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Vice-President of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women |
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Ms. Williams is currently the Vice President of the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. She currently works for the California State Automobile Association (AAA) within the Human Resources department. Ms. Williams holds both a BA (Economics) and an MBA (Management) from Howard University located in Washington, DC. Recently, she completed a 2 year term as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Family Service Agency of San Francisco, one of the oldest non-sectarian non-profits in San Francisco with a focus on child development and mental health for all ages. Ms. Williams has worked for the United States Department of Commerce, Prudential, Ford Motor Company, General Electric and Gap Inc. |
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Mentors and Allies |
| Panel Description |
Trump the Old Boys' Network and catapult your career by connecting with mentors and creating allies. What every professional woman should know about this powerful tool to success. |
| Panel Lead |
Beth O'Donnell / Christine Chun |
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Dolores Bernardo |
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Senior Associate, Western Region, Catalyst |
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Ms. Bernardo brings Catalyst expertise and services to companies and women in the Western Region. Her areas of focus include mentoring, career path flexibility, and Catalyst's research on women of color in corporate leadership. Ms. Bernardo has several years of experience in organizational development and consulting at Brience, a wireless software company and Accenture. She received her B.S. in Business Administration from the California Polytechnic State University where she studied International Relations with an emphasis on Intercultural Communications at the University of Costa Rica. |
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Debbie Kristofferson |
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Senior Director, User Experience, Walmart.com |
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As Senior Director of User Experience for Wal-Mart's successful online channel, Walmart.com, Ms. Kristofferson is responsible for the UE department, the team that makes it easy for customers to find, buy and research hundreds of thousands of products online. The various branches of her team - more than 40 people - include professionals in editorial, design, production, imagery and information architecture. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she is married and has two children, 5 and 6. Previous creative management roles include positions at Excite and The Discovery Channel. |
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Priya Haji, MBA '03 |
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CEO, World of Good |
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Ms. Haji, Haas MBA 2003, is the co-founder and CEO of World of Good, an innovative start-up company developing a new brand and distribution company for fair trade gifts and accessories into mainstream retail stores benefitting artisan cooperatives in 30 countries. While completing her undergraduate at Stanford University, Priya co-founded her first social enterprise which she lead for six years: Free at Last, a substance abuse prevention and treatment organization serving 3,000 people per year with annual operations of $2.5million. Priya has numerous local and national awards for her work and has been recognized by Do Something Foundation as one of America's 10 Most Promising Young Leaders. |
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Meme Scherr |
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Director of Client Service, Mellon Capital Management |
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Ms. Scherr is a Director of Client Service at Mellon Capital Management here in San Francisco. Prior to Mellon Capital, Meme was with Goldman Sachs in the International Equities Group, both in New York and San Francisco. She lives in Marin County with her two beautiful children Hannah and James and a husband, Peter. Meme is a Board member for Slide Ranch, a non profit facility in Marin County which provides environmental education for under privileged, urban children. She is also active with the Room to Read, a non profit organization which builds schools in needy countries around the world. |
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Cindy Mascheroni |
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Executive Coach |
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Ms. Mascheroni works with business leaders to achieve breakthrough results and grow personally and professionally. Cindy does this through her executive coaching practice, Tangerine Coaching, and TEC International, a global organization for CEOs and key executives. Cindy has over 20 years of experience, primarily in high tech. As a senior executive at Intraware, Cindy managed its business from start-up through IPO, to over $85 million in revenue. She lives in Moraga with her husband and three preteens. Cindy completed her MBA at Kellogg Graduate School of Business, Northwestern and BA at UCLA. |
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Unpaid and Powerful: Volunteering for Success |
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Many very successful career individuals still find the time to volunteer. This panel will explore why volunteering is important not only for the served community, but also the individual volunteering. The panelists will discuss how volunteering has changed their lives. |
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Monica Wiese |
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Nora Silver |
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Director of the Nonprofit and Public Management Program, Haas School of Business |
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Ms. Silver is a Lecturer and Director of the Nonprofit and Public Management Program at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. An organizational development consultant, Silver has worked with more than 200 nonprofits, businesses, governments, foundations and universities worldwide. She has consulted on organizational planning and strategy, collaborations and mergers, community involvement, and board and executive development. She has a Ph.D. in organizational and clinical psychology, and is the author of At The Heart:The New Volunteer Challenge to Community Agencies . |
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Tanir Ami, MBA 01 |
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Philanthropy Consultant |
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Ms. Amir, a self-employed philanthropy consultant, helps foundations, community benefit departments and individuals understand how to launch strategic giving programs. For the past four years, she helped start the Blue Shield of California Foundation. While at Blue Shield, she launched the Executive Social Investment initiative, a unique program that enabled senior executives to volunteer at organizations. Before getting her MBA with a certificate in Health Services Management from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley, she worked at Planned Parenthood of Shasta-Diablo. |
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Laura Traxler |
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Quality & Productivity Deployment Executive, Bank of America |
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Ms. Traxler is Managing Director and Quality & Productivity Deployment Executive for the Bank of America Global Corporate and Investment Bank (GCIB). Laura has been a leader in Bank of America's internal and external community efforts. She played a key role in establishing the Bank's Bay Area Women's Group - a networking, mentoring and industry group for senior women at Bank of America. She is in her second year of chairing the Bank's Bay Area Achievement Awards competition and scholarship event. |
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Joanne Fedeyko |
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Executive Director, Girls on the Run, San Francisco |
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Before joining Girls on the Run San Francisco in January 2003, Ms. Fedeyko spent ten years in finance and consulting. She worked for a large construction company in Canada before joining Deloitte & Touché in Calgary, Alberta. In 1999, she joined a Telecom startup in Sonoma County. She was introduced to Girls on the Run by a magazine article several years previously. The day she left the corporate world to focus on something more fulfilling, she pulled out the folder with the Girls on the Run article in it and placed a phone call. Joanne received her Certified Management Accountant designation in 1995. |
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Negotiating with Power |
| Panel Description |
Learn how to get a leg up in life. Holly Schroth's interactive session will help you assess your strengths and weaknesses and hone valuable negotiating skills. |
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Holly Schroth |
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Senior Lecturer, Haas School of Business |
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Ms. Schroth is a Senior Lecturer of Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations at the Haas School. She received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from UC Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, she was a visiting scholar at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. She has also been an adjunct professor in the MBA programs at Saint Mary's College of Moraga and Santa Clara University. Her areas of research focus are in Procedural Justice and Emotions in Negotiations. In addition to her teaching and research activities, Ms. Schroth conducts executive seminars, training and consulting for public agencies, city government, health care, small business and Fortune 500 corporations in the area of negotiation skills and organizational behavior. Some of her clients include Kaiser Permanente, Intel, Google and Applied Materials. |
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Wild Women |
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They rarely do what they're told. They're unabashed and unconventional. They break new ground and rewrite the rules. They blaze their own paths and encourage others to follow. They bring passion, charisma and boundless energy to their work. They have sass, humility, grace and courage. They don't take no for an answer. Prepare to meet some Wild Women. |
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Leah Sutton |
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Leah Sutton |
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Second-year Haas MBA student |
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Ms. Sutton is a second-year MBA student at the Haas School of Business. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BA in Anthropology and then served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali. After returning from West Africa, she worked in marketing for The Away Network, a group of active travel and outdoor lifestyle websites. Her passions outside of school include gourmet cooking and wine, reading, politics, and adventure travel. |
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Ami Zins |
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Film Coordinator, Oakland Film Commission |
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Ms. Zins has been Film Coordinator of the Oakland Film Office since 1998 when she resuscitated a previously dormant office. Before that she worked as a free lance theater director at local colleges as well as producing and directing projects for target audiences; taught acting at local colleges; and created and directed corporate interactive role play programs. She also taught Acting and Directing for the Camera at Laney College for 5 years. Appreciating quality movies of many genres, Ami particularly loves documentaries, and dreams of someday creating her own. |
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Joani Blank |
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Author, Founder of Good Vibrations |
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Ms. Blank is an entrepreneur, author, educator and the founder of Good Vibrations, a "friendly, clean well-lighted alternative to adult bookstores." She started Down There Press in 1975 to fill the need for books on sexuality for her clients and the public that were not available through mainstream bookstores and publishers and continued to educate and promote positive sexuality with the opening of the first Good Vibrations store in the Mission District in 1977. |
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Barbara Carey |
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The Dittie Company |
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Over the past 20 years, Ms. Carey has brought over 100 products to market, launched 7 companies, and been awarded a dozen patents. Based on lessons learned from each new venture, Barbara has developed what she calls, "The Formula," a corporate dogma that encompasses criteria for product development, manufacturing, and marketing. Most recently, Barbara implemented "The Formula" to design, create and manufacture Dittie, the first brand of feminine protection that is as fun and stylish as it is reliable and trustworthy. |
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The New Gold Medal: Women in Sports Careers |
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Whether you're a professional athlete, sport reporter or someone who works behind the scenes in sports administration the media spotlight has had a tendency to shine a bit brighter for men in this male-dominated field. Come find out what led these women to be successful in their careers in an industry with high barriers, vague recognition and minimal respect. Hear what they have to say about the great strides women have made in their field and what keeps them motivated and advancing in their roles. |
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Nicole Kim |
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Nicole Olszewski |
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Consultant / Owner, Professional Reflections |
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Ms. Olszewski is a consultant assisting companies in executing their initiatives. Nicole's business focuses on the marketplace need for short-term highly talented project managers that can assist company executives in managing mission critical tasks when the appropriate internal resources are lacking. Nicole has held positions as Division President, Director of Strategic Operations, Product Development Manager and Account Executive for large direct marketing organizations. Nicole received her BS in Graphic Comm. from Cal Poly and will receive a Master's degree in Sport Management from the Univ. of San Francisco this Spring. |
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Lynn Armstrong |
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Pro Extreme Sports Athlete |
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Ms. Armstrong will tell you what it takes to get started and to finish these incredible races. She raced Pro in 2002 in the Xterra National Championship series and placed Top 5 Overall Amateur at the 2001, 2002 at the 2003 Xterra National Championships. Lynn raced on the Elite level in Adventure Racing and has raced with the internationally ranked Team Earthlink. She competed in the Eco-Challenge Fiji in 2002 and in over 8 Cal-Eco 24hr Adventure Races placing First in the point series in 2002 as a member of Team Earthlink. In addition to competing, she holds clinics for adventure racing and off-road triathlons. She coaches athletes for Xterra (off-road triathlons), swimming (open water & pool), mountain biking, and adventure racing, both 24hr and multi-day. |
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Cheryl Kruse Shwe |
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Founder/Coach, Run 4 Life, LLC |
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Ms. Shwe has coached tens of thousands of runners and triathletes of all ages and abilitites since 1991. Cheryl founded Run 4 Life, LLC in 1998 and soon became known as a pre-eminent women's running and triathon coach in San Francisco. Although Cheryl now coaches both men & women, she is valued for her women's specific training perspective. In 2004, Cheryl worked with Nike training thousands for the inaugaural Nike 26.2, a marathon for women. Cheryl holds a B.A. from Cal State University, Hayward, and a California Teaching Credential from St. Mary's College in Moraga. |
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Ilisa Kessler |
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Sports/Business Management |
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Ms. Kessler teaches Event Operations for the Sport Management Graduate Program at USF and is the News Business Operations Manager for KGO-TV, ABC/Disney. She played a key role in event management as Director of Operations, SJ CyberRays, Bay Area staff and accreditation manager for the 1999 Women's World Cup and was involved with Silicon Valley Football Classic, Stanford Athletics, Spartan Stadium, CONCACAF Champions Cup, ABL, and the Modern Pentathlon World Championships. Ilisa has a MA in Sport Management from USF and a BA from UC Santa Cruz in Economics and Theater Arts. |
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Christine Halsey |
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Senior Woman Administrator and Coordinator of Compliance, California Collegiate Athletic Association |
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Ms. Halsey is the Senior Woman Administrator and Coordinator of Compliance for the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA), a NCAA Division II athletics conference. Prior to the CCAA, she worked in various capacities for the following organizations: West Coast Conference, Stanford University Athletics, USA Track & Field Local Organizing Committee, San Francisco Giants, Oakland Athletics, Golden State Warriors, Seattle Mariners, Seattle Sonics and Storm, and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Halsey graduated from Vanderbilt University where she competed in cross country and track & field, and earned her master's degree in Sport Management from the University of San Francisco. |
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