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Senior Editor Features Richard Kurovsky On the Cover: Contents Editor Business Leader of the Year Ute S. Frey 11Bob O’Donnell, BS 65, MBA 66, has Managing Editor THE PREMIER CONFERENCE ON BUSINESS AND THE ENVIRONMENT been recognized for his commitment to public Ronna Kelly, BS 92 education, including Berkeley-Haas, and his leadership in the mutual fund industry. Staff Writers Hosted by the editors of The Wall Street Journal Valerie Gilbert Jennifer Ruppert Life Saver Pamela Tom Heard from past participants: 8 Haas connections in the MBA class of 2008 help prevent the death of a baby boy. Contributing Writers Diane Anderson, Laurie Burkitt, In 10 years, you’re going Investments that are The Ultimate Car Guy Laura Counts, Mandy Erickson, Christine Fundak Rohan, Judy to see a major portion carbon heavy are poor 14 Bob Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62, has been honored Jacobs, Caroline Killmer, Bill Snyder, with the school’s Leading Through Innovation Kim Underwood of our portfolio bets. Investing is Award for driving creativity in the auto industry. move to electric about risks versus Design Cuttriss & Hambleton, Berkeley vehicles. returns. Your Haas Network 16 Profiles of Three Haas School Alumni Printer - 2009 - 2010 Joanna (Wallace) Crowley, MBA 91, Graphic Arts Center Spire Manchester Hospital Photography Jordan Kerner, MBA 76, University of North John Angerson, Jim Block, Carolina School of the Arts Alex Fradkin, Billy Hustace, | PRESIDENT & CEO | VINOD KHOSLA | MANAGING PARTNER | KHOSLA VENTURES Libby Leffler, BS 08, Facebook Fred Mertz Your Haas Network in We haven’t built a nuclear 18 Profiles of Three Haas School Alumni in Asia CalBusiness is published by The president really cares Caption Christopher Lee, MBA 95, Deutsche Bank the Haas School of Business, plant in 25 years… about energy effi ciency. Jeffrey Hine, MBA 84, CCB Financial Leasing University of California, Roy Zhou, MBA 06, Google Berkeley. For further We better get on it. Probably every third day he’s information, contact: - 2008 11 CalBusiness Editor out on a stump saying how Haas School of Business important it is. Departments University of California - 2010 Berkeley, CA 94720-1900 2 In Brief 22 Haas Worldwide Events 510-643-0259 [email protected] Twitter’s Biz Stone CalBusiness Fall 2011, Welcomes New Students 24 Alumni Notes Number 78 Haas Makes Strides JEFF IMMELT | CHAIRMAN & CEO | GENERAL ELECTRIC STEVEN CHU | US SECRETARY OF ENERGY 35 In Memoriam For change of address, email in Diversity [email protected]. 36 Personal View 6 Power of Ideas 20,000 Leagues Under Banking on Basel III? the Sea Find out what’s next at ECO:nomics 2012 20 The Campaign for Haas By Chris Welsh, BS 84 Printed on FSC-certified recycled Q&A with Marcella and paper using soy-based inks. To apply to attend, please visit ECOnomics.wsj.com or call 212.416.2300 Stuart Bernstein, BS 86, of Goldman Sachs Payne Chair Supports Real Estate Reasearch Fellowship Supports Proudly supported by Health Care Ambitions 6 The Positive Fallout of Nuclear Deregulation

© 2011 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Thank you to our partner All rights reserved. Undergrad Program Chamberlins Seed Inflation, Stock Returns, Nonverbal Cues #3 in U.S. News Online Education New Faculty Sound Off On Research Meet the new assistant professors who joined Haas this fall. Haas tied for third place with The Haas School will explore the University of Michigan Ann complementing classroom Arbor in a U.S. News & World learning with online approaches, Dana Carney Report ranking of undergraduate thanks to funding from the of Organizations News from the Haas School programs released in September. Chamberlin Family Donor Former Position: Asst. Prof., Columbia The Haas Undergraduate Designated Fund at the UC Business School InBrief Program has held the third Berkeley Foundation. PhD Social Psychology, Northeastern spot in the ranking since 2003, Steve and Susan Chamberlin, “I am interested in the incredible power of except in 2009, when it came the fund’s creators and tiny, ordinary, nonverbal cues. I am working New Students in second. The ranking is based former members of the Haas with students on some of the powerful ways in which entirely on a poll of business professional faculty, have ordinary, everyday, nonverbal behaviors can exert By the Numbers school deans and undergraduate recommended the $1 million extraordinary impact on thoughts, feelings, and choice.” program directors. CB distribution to pilot online educa- Full-time MBA tion initiatives. The funds will Yaniv Konchitchki 237 students be shared by a consortium con- Accounting Leadership Skills sisting of Haas, UC Berkeley’s Former Position: Asst. Prof., Marshall School 3,444 applicants of Business, USC at Failure’s Edge College of Engineering, the PhD, Stanford 33% international students As a former partner in a private Graduate School of Education, 37 countries represented equity firm that helped turn the School of Information, the “I specialize in financial reporting effects around such companies as School of Public Health, and of macroeconomic information—such as inflation and exchange rates—on equity prices. In one research project, Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co., UC Berkeley Extension. Evening & Weekend MBA I found that inflation effects can help predict future cash Peter Goodson knows the The distribution from the 250 students Chamberlin Family Fund will flows, although this relationship is not fully reflected in leadership skills needed to stock prices.” 85% Bay Area residents rescue a failing business. match funds being raised individually and jointly by age range That’s why Haas recruited 25 to 44 the benefitting units for the Alastair Lawrence him to teach a new course Accounting 25% women pilot program. CB called Turnarounds: Effective Ph.D., Rotman, University of Toronto Leadership in Creating Value. Undergraduate “What was different about “Some of my recent research relates to Haas Ranks High how individuals use financial disclosures. total students this course from other courses 355 Specifically, this research suggests that on leadership was that it on Startup Cred 2,064 applicants individuals tend to invest a greater concerned the leadership skills LinkedIn ranked percentage of their portfolios in firms with accessible and 93 transfer students you need to head in an entirely Haas the fourth most transparent financial disclosures and that they earn higher different direction,” Goodson entrepreneurial 3.69 average GPA, UCB returns in firms with such attributes.” students explains. “It’s like playing speed business school. chess. You have two seconds to LinkedIn created the ranking 3.81 average GPA, transfers make moves. You have to move by sifting through more than Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, because you’re about to lose 120 million public profiles and recently named a Haas Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone PhD Program the business.” analyzing tens of thousands Letters executive fellow, told new Welcomes New Students 15 students The weeklong course of startup founders’ profiles. The Business of Life MBA students that they are brought together 44 evening The firm identified more than I loved how the Summer 2011 issue revealed the scenes behind applicants at Berkeley-Haas to learn The Berkeley-Haas culture took fourth executive fellow, a 547 and weekend MBA and 130,000 entrepreneurs who the successes-—how Brendon Yahn went to research shrimp farms not only about business in Cambodia only to learn they had failed, how Eve Alexander felt center stage at orientation this part-time professional faculty 7 international students Berkeley-Columbia executive are founders or co-founders of but also about leading a year as new students gleaned position. surprised when the Saudi women remained upbeat after the arrest MBA students in July. The class, companies after 2000 that have of a female driver, how Josh Mogabgab found relationships to be meaningful life. life lessons from several keynote Stone talked about 19 to 44 age range like a failing business, was a LinkedIn company profile and a critical factor in his recommendations for revitalizing Telegraph speakers, including Twitter technology as an important intense. “The most important 2 to 200 employees. Avenue. I was particularly moved by Gordon Massie‘s words Orientation Speakers co-founder Biz Stone. tool, but said it is the human thing I learned was the necessity The MBA website Poets & about his inner conflicts during and after his time at AIG. Thanks Stone shared insights spirit that is the thrust, Full-Time MBA: of having a solid framework for Quants noted that “LinkedIn has for articles like these that expand my view of the business of life. and experiences as a serial motivator, and cause of Biz Stone, Twitter Co-founder what needs to be done to get produced the ideal ‘put up or shut Malcolm Brooks, MBA 89 entrepreneur in his talk great change. “You are Tom Kelley, MBA 83, to the bottom of a problem and up’ analysis” by ranking schools Share your views about CalBusiness by sending a letter to the editor at General Manager, IDEO CB at the Full-time Berkeley here to study business, but the courage to execute it,” says based on producing actual [email protected]. Accepted letters may be edited for clarity. MBA Program orientation. also to learn how to live Evening & Weekend: Berkeley-Columbia student Joel startup entrepreneurs. CB Stone’s keynote kicked off his a meaningful life,” he told Michael Gallagher, BS 67, Guttierez. CB appointment as the school’s students. CB MBA 68, Retired Playtex Products CEO & Haas Board Chair Undergraduate: Brad Howard, BS 79, Owner, Howard Tours

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Letter from the Dean Haas Recognizes Eight Reasons Why I Tweet Teaching Stars I wrote my first note on Twitter on July 3, 2009: Haas created two Outstanding “In today and it’s gloriously quiet. Working on InBrief New Instructor Awards and gave three-pager, ‘Berkeley-Haas: Who We Are.’ Our Earl F. Cheit Awards to seven 10 most defining characteristics. Great fun.” faculty members and three At the time, of course, I didn’t know exactly graduate school instructors to where Twitter would take me, or that the school would be fortunate enough to sign on Twitter honor teachers who excelled co-founder Biz Stone as a Haas executive fellow. in the classroom during the last Twitter was simply a fast, easy way to connect academic year. with the Haas community. New Outstanding Since then, I’ve been amazed at Twitter’s Instructor Winners: ability to foster this connection. At Haas events Lucas Davis (Full-time MBA) around the world—in , Budapest— Julie Suh (Undergraduate) alumni have come up to me and out of the blue said that they read something I wrote on Twitter. Faculty Cheit Winners: The connection power is immense. Peter Goodson Here are some other reasons why I tweet: (Berkeley-Columbia) Mark Rubinstein (Financial Engineering) As dean, I get exposed to fascinating new ideas Tweeting about upcoming events, industry Richard Sloan (Full-time MBA) every day. I enjoy broadcasting those ideas to a panels, and conferences helps me keep Terry Taylor (Weekend MBA) 1wider audience. alumni7 and donors engaged and excited about Alexei Tchistyi (PhD) their alma mater. Johan Walden (Evening MBA) Our school is breaking new ground on several Jennifer Walske fronts. Tweeting is a helpful way to get the Tweeting is a chance to (try to) be funny. But (Undergraduate) word2 out. I have learned that attempting humor in 140 characters8 is no easy task, especially if followers GSI Cheit Winners: Tweeting helps me stay in even closer touch aren’t expecting it. One day I tweeted, “I am having with our students. Not all of them follow me, to a very good hair day.” Within a couple hours, one of Samuel Jacob Snyder, MBA 11 be3 sure, but those who do often mention the added (Undergraduate) my direct reports called, seeing the source was my connection they feel. Ed Egan, PhD 13 (Full-time MBA) cell phone, and asked only half in jest if my phone James McLoughlin, PhD 12 Tweeting helps me stay in closer touch with had been stolen. (Weekend MBA) 4 other people important to the school. For Harleys, Hondas, example, long-time Berkeley-Haas Professor Dave I realize not everyone is interested in reading my Haas Makes Strides in Diversity Aaker, who recently retired. Dave just published short Twitter snippets, and I never would have and Haas with MBA Class of 2013 Exec Training in another book. I tweeted about it. As a result, he and expected that some 3,000 people would sign on I have had several Twitter exchanges that would not as “followers.” If you are interested in joining that The Haas Angels may look An even more diverse group and corporations aimed at in the first admissions cycle like a rugged motorcycle Innovation, Ethics otherwise have occurred. group, look me up on Twitter @richlyons. of Berkeley MBA students fostering diversity among since renewed Consortium gang, but they’re really Two new courses in February at Otherwise, as always, I welcome your suggestions Tweeting helps in the continuing effort to 28 MBA students who will hone their leadership graduate business students and membership. “Being part of the Center for Executive Education and comments at [email protected]. sharpen our school’s narrative. I lean into areas discovered that riding mean skills at Haas this year, thanks corporate leaders. Berkeley- this organization reinforces will focus on two important issues that5 are fundamental to our reputation. Sincerely Yours, two-wheelers makes for the to the school rejoining the Haas withdrew from The how important diversity is in today’s ideas-driven economy: perfect study break. The Graduate Consortium for Study Consortium in 2003 after 10 to Berkeley-Haas,” she says. innovation and ethics. Tweeting takes very little time. When I became group, which formed in Management and three years of membership because “We develop leaders who Mark Meaney, ethics and dean in 2008, I was encouraged to blog to get in August 2010, has raised Springworks Scholars in the of California Proposition redefine business. So we must compliance director at the my6 ideas out. But I just could not find the time to do $500 by auctioning a entering class. 209, which prohibits public have students who reflect the University of California Office so consistently. At 140 characters a pop, Twitter has six-person ride for Challenge This year’s entering full-time institutions from participating in diversity in the business world of the Regents, developed the proven to be an ideal partner. Rich Lyons 4 Charity, a fundraiser for MBA class was the first to programs that give preferential today, and we must create ethics course. The first of its kind, the Special Olympics. apply to Berkeley-Haas since treatment on the basis of race, an environment that fosters Members of the group the course will reflect the key Follow Dean Rich Lyons at twitter.com/richlyons pictured above are Mark the school re-entered The sex, color, ethnicity, or national diversity of thought.” strategic and leaderships positions Stolze, Philipp Ebert, Moritz Consortium in March 2010. origin. The school rejoined after Berkeley-Haas also welcomed that ethics and compliance Plischke, and Ramon Applications from under- The Consortium expanded its three Springworks Scholars this directors increasingly hold within Alvarez, all MBA 12; Mike represented minorities for mission to include awarding year, tying with Kellogg for the companies today. Ciccarone, MBA 13; and the class of 2013 jumped fellowships to all U.S. citizens most Scholars at any graduate Jerome Engel, founding Mateo Bueno, MBA 12. 44 percent and the percentage and permanent residents who business school: Alia Al Kasmi, executive director of the Lester Introducing... of under-represented minorities demonstrate a commitment Christina Chang, and Sherry Center for Entrepreneurship, The CalBusiness iPad App enrolled nearly doubled to to advancing diversity and Chen, all MBA 13. San Is creating the new innovation Enjoy all of the print edition’s articles on inspiring Berkeley-Haas 9.6 percent of the class— inclusion in U.S. business Francisco-based Springworks course. It will examine the roles of alumni, ground-breaking faculty research, school news, and Alumni the highest percentage in schools and companies. focuses on creating pathways the enterprise, the individual, and Notes—plus video and audio to see and hear from our students, recent years. Stephanie Fujii, executive for under-targeted groups culture in the innovation process. alumni, and faculty. The Consortium is an alliance director of full-time MBA to have a greater role in the Learn more about each class at Download it at haas.org/calbusinessipadapp. of top U.S. business schools admissions, says the school innovation community. CB executive.berkeley.edu. CB has seen “tremendous results”

4 CalBusiness Fall 2011 Fall 2011 CalBusiness 5 Power of Ideas By Pamela Tom | [email protected] Test Your Forecasting Skills for Haas Project The Positive Fallout of Nuclear Deregulation Banking on Basel III? Profs. Wolfram and Davis find operating efficiencies reduced greenhouse Profs. Jaffee and Walden find regulatory reform is almost a wash. gas emissions and saved billions of dollars.

More than Institute, analyzed 103 reactors over The new regula- “It is not going to have negative 10 years after a 40-year period from 1970 to 2009 tory banking effects but it is not going to make sig- electricity using monthly operating efficiency standards called nificant positive differences either,” says deregulation, data compiled by the U.S. Department “Basel III” slightly Jaffee, who argues the findings for the the nuclear of Energy’s Power Plant Report. They decrease but do Swedish economy are important to Test Your Prediction power industry determined a strong correlation not eliminate the U.S. economy. “The U.S. financial has decreased between deregulation and operational systemic risk systems remain highly exposed to a Skills greenhouse gas efficiency by tracking nuclear units that in the banking future systemic crisis, and looking to for Haas Research emissions by were sold after deregulation. The sold system, according other economies, like Sweden’s, may Project nearly 40 million units went from below-average to above- to research by be helpful.” metric tons of average efficiency shortly after being Professor Dwight Jaffee and Walden forecast that Basel Did you predict a wave of carbon dioxide sold. Jaffee and III will influence borrowing rates and rebellion in the Middle East Associate Prof. over that decade Deregulation began in the late Prof. Dwight Jaffee Assistant Prof. gross domestic product growth by less like the recent Arab Spring? Catherine Wolfram and saved $2.5 1990s, and today, three companies con- Johan Walden. than one percent. Or perhaps you forecast the billion a year as a result of trol one-third of the country’s nuclear Furthermore, Jaffee and Walden “Banks will have higher capital ratios, which measures how much equity the 2008 financial meltdown? operating more efficiently. capacity: Exelon, Entergy, and NextEra. find that successful mortgage markets in If you have a knack for correctly seeing Those were the unexpected There have been no nuclear reactors Western provide useful models bank has compared to how much debt. into the future on world events, then but positive findings of Professors built since the mid- 1990s because they for mortgage reform in the U.S. Because A higher ratio leads to lower risk, but Associate Professor Don Moore wants you. Lucas Davis and Catherine are cost prohibitive. The research docu- these healthier markets do not contain it might also lead to higher borrowing Moore is leading a Haas team in a national Wolfram in their recent ments a trend in which power opera- public lenders such as Fannie Mae rates for customers because swapping competition that will test who can make working paper “Deregulation, tors became dependent on the existing and Freddie Mac, Jaffee proposes the debt into capital reduces the tax shield the best forecasts of global trends and Consolidation, and Efficiency: infrastructure; they learned how to elimination of Fannie Mae and Freddie benefit of the debt,” says Walden. events over the next four years. Volunteers Evidence from U.S. Nuclear increase reactor generation efficiency Mac as a critical step toward healing the “When we did the numbers, it just came will work with state-of-the-art techniques Power.” Wolfram and Davis’ mainly by reducing the frequency and domestic economy. out that the effect in terms of raising designed to augment accuracy and receive results have implications for the duration of reactor outages. The Financial Markets interest rates and reducing feedback on predictions. future of U.S. nuclear power Prior to deregulation, nuclear plant Committee in Stockholm, GDP growth will be very, Find out more at policy as well as climate change, operators had little incentive to improve Sweden, commissioned the “The U.S. financial very small.” goodjudgmentproject.blogspot.com. energy security, and fossil fuel their level of performance because study of Basel III, which is Because new prices. “cost-of-service” regulation rates were a framework of global regu- systems remain regulations will be “One of the most interesting set to allow utility companies to recover latory standards aimed at highly exposed implemented over a mortgages and how they would be long period of time points the research makes is recurring operating expenses from making the banking system to a future treated by the banks. And I hope that as that a policy that had nothing to customers. In a deregulated market, more resilient and therefore (through 2018), any the U.S. reforms our mortgage market, do with the environment led to independent power producers sell more resistant to systemic systemic crisis.” “supply shocks” on bank regulators will take that into account,” greater carbon reductions than power in competitive wholesale mar- risks. Jaffee, co-chair of the lending will be minimal, — Prof. Dwight Jaffee says Jaffee. all the wind and solar generation kets; increased efficiency equates to Fisher Center for Real Estate the pair finds. Also, the “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have combined,” says Wolfram, asso- increased profits. and Urban Economics, new regulations do not proven to be a serious detriment to the ciate professor and co-director of “In 2009, U.S. nuclear reactors and Walden sought to completely eliminate the U.S. mortgage market,” Jaffee adds. “We the Energy Institute at Haas. “It’s produced about 20 percent of total understand the effects of Basel III on key sources of systemic risk for Sweden’s need to remove Fannie and Freddie possible that there are other sim- domestic electricity generation,” consumer lending rates and determine small open economy, namely, mortgage and build up a regulatory structure that ilar opportunities to improve the says Davis. “The three main nuclear whether the regulatory standards would risk and the inevitable influences anticipates a greater volume of mort- efficiency of our existing system power companies are earning $120,000 mitigate systemic risks that caused the of changes in the global economy. gage lending going through the banks. in ways that would substantially per hour in revenues, and it’s almost 2008 financial crisis. Finally, as Swedish banks and insurers You need strong Basel III requirements benefit the environment.” all profit.” In their report, The Impact of Basel pass increased costs to customers, and very good regulators overseeing it.” Wolfram and Davis, an III and Solvency 2 on Swedish Banks customers will seek alternative financial assistant professor and fellow and Insurers—An Equilibrium Analysis, suppliers, supporting an expansion researcher in the Energy Read the full paper at Jaffee and Walden determine the of new markets—a positive result, the haas.org/nuclearpaper. banking and insurance regulatory researchers conclude. Watch a video on the Basel III reforms produce minimal effects—at “Basel III does put in some findings on Haas Insights at least in Sweden. additional requirements concerning insights.haasalumni.org.

6 CalBusiness Fall 2011 Fall 2011 CalBusiness 7 Power of the Network: How One Alumnus Saved the Life of a Classmate‘s Life Baby Boy By Mandy Erickson Saver While attending the Evening & Weekend a pregnancy test, and Petkova boarded a plane for MBA Program, Vera Petkova and Michael Jamaica after learning minutes earlier that she was Black, both MBA 08, collaborated on a pregnant. Petkova was 20 weeks along when she underwent project for their Financial Model Design a routine sonogram, looking forward to learning class. They needed to employ Excel, and the sex of her baby. But she heard unexpected Black, a pediatric heart surgeon, apolo- news: The fetus had a serious heart defect known gized for not knowing how to use it. as transposition of the great arteries. The two main arteries leaving his heart were reversed, changing Petkova, then working as an accounting manager, the way blood circulated through his body. The con- responded with a playful jab. “Yeah, Michael,” she dition was not a problem as long as he was in utero, said, “you only know how to do heart surgery.” but once he was born, it would create a shortage Years later, as she cuddles her 1-year-old son, of oxygen in his blood. Without surgery soon after Christo, in her San Francisco apartment, Petkova birth, he would not survive. remembers how Black would get paged while they “We had the typical shocked reaction,” Hristov were studying and have to head for the hospital. recalls. “There was the ‘Why me?’ and ‘Did we do any- Running her hand over her son’s soft curls, she adds, thing to cause this?’ Finally, we realized that none of “I never thought I’d be needing him.” that matters; what we need to focus on is finding the Petkova enrolled at Haas in 2005, while she best options.” was working at Quality Planning Corp., a company They began to think about where they should have that helps auto insurers identify ratings errors and the surgery and started looking at the local teaching recover lost premiums. “I wanted to grow,” she says. hospitals—Stanford and UC San Francisco. But soon “I knew numbers, but I wanted to expand on that.” after learning the diagnosis, Hristov said, Petkova A graduate of San Francisco State University woke up in the middle of the night remembering that with a degree in international business, Petkova had her old grad school chum, Michael Black, was a physi- moved to California from Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1997. cian who specialized in children’s thoracic surgery. Her high school sweetheart, Lubomir Hristov, MBA Black was operating on tiny hearts at California 14, soon followed and enrolled at Golden Gate Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco when he University, eventually earning a master’s in software decided to attend business school. “I’m limited in engineering. The two married in 1998. what I can do to help human life,” Black explains. A After graduating from Haas with a concentra- surgeon can fit in only about 5,000 operations during tion in global management, Petkova took a job at his or her career, he notes, but an innovative device consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal. For two years, she can save multitudes more. spent two-thirds of her time in the Caribbean, where Black had invented a few devices, including one she helped the region’s telecom company with a to save patients from paralysis after an accident. reorganization. He had patents for his inventions and had started One day, Petkova was on her way to San Francisco a couple of businesses. But he was frustrated by his International Airport when she told her husband inability to market his products. “As a physician, I Dr. Michael Black (left), MBA 08, she felt odd. He hightailed it to a drug store to buy had authenticity in the medical world, but I didn’t performed life-saving heart surgery on Christo after his birth. Parents Lubo Hristov, MBA 14, and Vera Petkova, MBA 08, watch as Christo, now 1, almost takes his first step.

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speak business lingo,” he says. Petkova did well on her assignment: Christo Hristov was He spent his business school years constantly driving born Aug. 7, 2010, two days before his due date, weighing a between his home in Palo Alto, his work in San Francisco, healthy 7 pounds, 11 ounces. He was “a bit purplish,” recalls and his classes in Berkeley. He didn’t tell anyone at work his father—a result of low oxygen in his blood. what he was up to, and initially didn’t own up to his day The California Pacific neonatal team immediately put job at school either. But word soon got out at Haas, and him on an IV to keep the connection between the arteries he became the go-to guy for medical questions. “I was the open and help the low-oxygen blood mix with high-oxygen Ann Landers of the school,” he says. blood. Black graduated valedictorian of his class, specializing Four days later, Christo underwent the surgery. While in entrepreneurship, and started moving forward with his Black detached Christo’s arteries and reattached them to the proper heart chambers, Petkova and Hristov spent a inventions while still performing surgeries. stressful five hours in the hospital, glad to receive regular When he received a call from Petkova about her updates that the surgery was going smoothly. Finally, the unborn son’s heart condition, he says, “It was tough. The procedure was over. last thing I wanted to do was try to keep them from going “It’s a beautiful operation, if you can call an operation to another surgeon. What if something went wrong? She beautiful,” Black says. “You take a kid who’s maroon in had to feel confident I was the right one.” color, and you hand back a baby who’s pink.” “If the surgery didn’t go well, I would be a bad memory “But with Christo, it was especially rewarding, because I for her at every Haas event.” knew Vera,” he adds. “I’m grateful that they chose me.” Purple Baby Continuing the Haas Tradition Petkova and Hristov did their research, interviewing other Nearly a year after his surgery, Christo is cruising the furni- Bob O’Donnell, doctors and reviewing the success rates for heart surgery ture around his toy-filled Diamond Heights apartment. A at the local hospitals. Eventually, they decided to go with friendly boy with big, brown eyes, he throws a ball, crawls Black. after it, and smiles when a stranger rolls it toward him. BS 65, MBA 66: “Dr. Black is a specialist and a very good one, and we His prognosis is excellent: “He can participate in sports were assured that he was skilled,” Hristov says, “but the per- and do everything a normal kid does,” Petkova says. sonal friendship really helped. It helped assure us that we And now it’s Hristov’s turn to attend Haas: This fall were really being taken care of, not just part of the system.” he started the Evening & Weekend MBA Program while The expectant parents waited out the pregnancy; until working as a quality assurance manager at Symantec. Lifelong their son arrived, the only thing they could do was to ensure Petkova quit her job at Alvarez & Marsal in June and plans that he be born as big and healthy as possible, which would to seek work in finance. make surgery easier. Petkova needed to eat well and stay “I’m forever grateful I went to Haas,” she says. “You just Learning, relaxed so she wouldn’t deliver early. It wasn’t easy, she says, don’t know how your connections will help you—at work but “Michael was very reassuring that the surgery would be and elsewhere.” CB successful.” Lifelong Giving

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early every year, between Elise Singer, MBA 10, Chief Medical Officer, California Health Information Twenty years ago, midway into one to four doctors come Partnership and Services Organization, Oakland, Calif. Several years out of his career as a mutual fund to Haas to complement medical school, Singer found that her career had shifted into administration, overseeing manager, Robert G. O’Donnell, their medical training with a the transition to electronic health records at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, N.J. “I went into the accountant’s office and asked, ‘How do you do a spreadsheet?’” she says. BS 65, MBA 66, began meeting business education from the school’s an inspiring group of future EveningN & Weekend MBA and “I realized I didn’t know anything that wasn’t health care.” Now, with her MBA, she says, “I Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA have much more of an idea of how to operate. I know how to be innovative.” UC Berkeley students. One programs. Daniel Pine, MBA 02, Emergency Room Physician, Kaiser Permanente, had lived on the streets for Thirteen doctors have graduated from Vallejo, Calif. Pine became interested in running businesses on the side while working years before graduating from in medicine. Since graduating from Haas, he has invested in real estate, grape growing, the Berkeley-Columbia Program since high school. Another student and wine. “My degree has returned the tuition dollars many times over in fun and breadth who O’Donnell didn’t think its inception in 2002, and 13 doctors of work life,” he says. have graduated from the Evening & would make it at Cal ended Weekend Program since 2003, the Michael Black, MBA 08, Medical Director, Pediatric and Congenital up graduating with honors Open Heart Program, Children’s Hospital at St. Mary’s, West Palm Beach, first year the program began keeping in biology, going to Harvard such records. Fla. A desire to take his medical innovations to the market led Black to Haas. “I’m very entrepreneurial and have patented many devices, but I was ineffective in getting Medical School, and becoming Read on to learn why three of them launched,” says Black. Since earning his MBA, Black has formed new biomedical a doctor. those 26 MDs pursued an MBA: companies and is pursuing funding and clinical trials. “I’m much better at it,” he says, All of the students had adding modestly, “but I’m not a brilliant businessman yet.” participated in a program that gave full scholarships and support to one economically

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disadvantaged graduate from each of the more in San Jose this fall. In June, Summit Prep was Investment Management in 1972 and stayed when history and economics are unpredictable. A “black UC-qualified San Francisco public schools. When named one of America’s ten most transformative that company was purchased by Capital Research swan” has become Wall Street shorthand for an O’Donnell first found out about the program, he and public high schools by Newsweek magazine. three years later. unexpected event that moves markets. his wife, Sue, donated money and then O’Donnell “Bob has been instrumental in developing our During his time as an investment manager, Taleb is one of the thinkers featured in the 500- served on the search committee. strategy,” Summit CEO Diane Tavenner says of O’Donnell evaluated thousands of companies with page reader that O’Donnell prepared for Berkeley The experience was “a reprise for me of what O’Donnell, whom she describes as “passionate about an unbiased eye, looking for the story behind the MBA students in his Investment Strategies and Berkeley can do,” says O’Donnell, who was the first in public education.” At a time when all nonprofits face numbers. Jeff Lager, a senior vice president, recalls Styles class. “I want to drive home to my students his family to attend college. a challenging funding environment, Tavenner adds, a meeting with the CEO of a hot Silicon Valley firm the power of uncertainty,” O’Donnell says. “They “I came from a suburban middle-class “Bob has used his financial knowledge to navigate looking for investors. After listening quietly as the have a difficult time when dealing with opposing background,” O’Donnell explains. “Berkeley was an that landscape.” executive outlined growth targets, O’Donnell spoke points of view. They want clear takeaways.” eye-opening experience for me because the university At Cal, O’Donnell is most proud of his accom- up: “You’ve never done that before. offered so much. It broadened my horizons and plishments leading the UC Berkeley Foundation What makes you think you can achieve made me a more complete person.” Board of Trustees, which he continues to serve as an that now?” He adds, “I feel both love and a sense of emeritus board member. In addition to fundraising The CEO argued, but as always, “Bob obligation to the university to give something back and overseeing a nearly $900 million endowment, had the facts and the numbers on his and maintain its preeminent position. I want future the board advises the chancellor and campus overall. side,” Lager says. The Capital team left students to have the same opportunities I had.” When O’Donnell led the foundation as vice chair without investing, in retrospect the right So give he has. Since his initial involvement in and then chair from 2003 to 2007, he focused on decision since the company’s stock has the San Francisco program, O’Donnell has gone on improving coordination between the foundation’s yet to do well. to serve on the UC Berkeley Foundation and UC trustees and campus deans. That performance was vintage Berkeley Library Advisory Board. “Sometimes the deans and others working in the O’Donnell. “You wouldn’t want to walk A strong believer in educational opportuni- units have too insular a view of how their priorities into his office with a half-baked idea. ties for all, O’Donnell also is involved in a charter translate to the outside world,” explains O’Donnell. You always wanted to be on your game; school; the Young “One thing we tried to do was to get the deans, the if not, he’d call you on it,” says Lager. Entrepreneurs at chancellor, and the provost to understand donors’ “He read everything and if line 20 had a “Berkeley was an eye- Haas program for priorities and then figure out how to get donors typo, he was the guy that would catch it.” economically disad- more invested, not just financially, in the goals of the Indeed, colleagues say they looked to opening experience for vantaged middle- campus units.” O’Donnell as a teacher and mentor. and high-school Indeed, during his tenure, O’Donnell greatly “Bob made me a better analyst,” says me because the university students; and of increased the connections between the trustees and Anne-Marie Peterson, a vice president course Haas, where campus academic leaders, says Biddy, who also serves at Capital. “Most folks would offer a offered so much. It as a lecturer he as president of the UC Berkeley Foundation. “Bob’s generic ‘great report’ or ‘I disagree.’ broadened my horizons.” shares his 39 years thoughtful leadership, along with his willingness to Bob’s feedback was always rich—it of money manage- listen and to collaborate, allowed him to bring deans was insightful and specific and almost — Bob O’Donnell, BS 65, MBA 66 ment experience and donors together in true partnership.” always asked another question that was with MBA students. In addition to giving his time to Cal, O’Donnell critical to the investment case. This In recognition has made substantial gifts to support athletics, Doe would cause me to do more digging and of his tireless com- Library, Young Entrepreneurs at Haas, and Cal’s led to a greater understanding of the mitment to extending to others the same opportuni- Incentive Awards Program for low-income students. companies and investing.” ties he enjoyed at Cal, the Haas School is honoring Despite an impressive track record, Teaching at Haas O’Donnell as Business Leader of the Year this year. however, O’Donnell’s dedication to the Teacher and Mentor Bob O‘Donnell, BS, 65, MBA 66, shares his experience from a successful “Bob O’Donnell has been a true leader in his pro- O’Donnell also has come to campus regularly for long view keeps him from evaluating his 39-year career in money management with MBA students in his Investment fession, in philanthropy, and in his volunteer roles the past nine years in another capacity: as a Haas own career too highly. Strategies and Styles course. at UC Berkeley,” says Scott Biddy, vice chancellor of lecturer sharing his insights and lessons from a “We’ll see how the fund does over UC Berkeley University Relations. “He has a deep successful career in investment management. In the next five years before judging,” understanding and appreciation of UC Berkeley’s April, he retired as senior vice president and director O’Donnell says, referring to the $50 billion Teaching and philanthropy are just two of mission, and he has contributed his time, his talent, of Capital Research and Management Company after American Balanced Fund he oversaw for Capital the ways that O’Donnell will use his free time in his wisdom, and his funds towards ensuring that this working there nearly four decades and leading the Research. He neglects to say, until pressed, that the retirement. An advocate of lifelong learning and mission will be sustained into the future.” management of a $50 billion mutual fund. fund enjoyed a compound annual return of 10.8 history buff, he started a master’s degree program Teaching was actually O’Donnell’s first job after percent, with much less volatility than the overall in the liberal arts at Stanford this fall. Developing Strategies in Education earning an MBA. He was in ROTC at Cal and, after market, during the 35 years he helped manage it. For his Stanford application, O’Donnell wrote A list of O’Donnell’s volunteer activities takes up receiving his MBA and commission, was assigned an essay on the battle of Gettysburg and how it is nearly half a page of his C.V. They include serving to teach accounting to Army personnel. While The Black Swan remembered. as a director of the Sequoia Hospital Foundation; a well prepared for that assignment, little in life had Now on his 10th year teaching at Berkeley-Haas, Does he have any misgivings about enrolling at member of the San Francisco Symphony’s Planned readied him for his next duty: notifying families that O’Donnell notes that investing is less of an exact Cal’s longtime rival? “No, I’ve gotten through that,” Giving Committee; and a member of the Investment loved ones had been killed in . “It’s the sort science than today’s math-oriented “quants” might laughs O’Donnell, who lives near the university. Committee for the Irvine Foundation. of thing that does focus the mind,” he recalls. argue. “Stanford is three miles down the road, so it’s He also is a director of the nonprofit Summit After discharge, O’Donnell landed his first “We are often fooled by randomness,” says certainly convenient. But I’ll still be wearing blue Public Schools, which started two charter high schools professional job, a senior accountant for Arthur O’Donnell, a fan of Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author and gold in the third week of November.” CB in Redwood City, in 2003 and 2009, and opened two Andersen & Co. He joined American Express of The Black Swan, which holds that many events in

12 CalBusiness Fall 2011 Fall 2011 CalBusiness 13 The Volt's Uphill 2011 Leading Through Innovation Award Battle at GM This is an excerpt from Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the recalls in his book. “They were being granted Soul of American Business by Haas the freedom to create the world’s most alumnus and longtime automobile desirable, affordable sports roadster, with no list executive Bob Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62. of hundreds of ‘requirements’ to hog-tie them.” The car, the Solstice, nabbed “Best Concept” at n about 2005, I had the thought that somebody out in California with the show. The Ultimate of creating a fully electric far more battery experience than we prototype as a show car. It had obviously decided that lithium-ion Taking Aim at the MBA would be an aerodynamic four- would work and was betting a lot Car Guy Another key ingredient to fostering innovation, seater using very advanced of money on it. How could we, the says Lutz, is a razor-sharp focus on the customer. (but unproven) lithium-ion batteries, world’s largest and, arguably, most Bob Lutz, BS 61, And that’s where he takes issue with MBAs and giving it a claimed range per charge technologically capable car company business schools, which he slams in his book for Iof roughly two hundred miles. in the world, declare the lithium-ion MBA 62, revs up focusing too much on math and a scientific A California high-tech idea and battery not feasible for motor vehicles creativity in the approach to optimizing the business structure. prototype company by the name of when some outfit run by a couple “I find the really successful companies have Applied Minds assured me it could of dot-com billionaires was making auto industry this burning passion to please the customer,” build a running car. Excitedly, I shared it work? Lutz says. But “I have never heard of a course or this idea with my peers (and CEO This time, the meeting got me seen a case where the problem is we just aren’t ) at an Automotive the very tentative permission to doing well enough on our product Strategy Board meeting, only to be investigate a lithium-ion EV as a B y R onna K elly development. ... Business schools are teaching cruelly shot down. concept. It was, in retrospect, less techniques as opposed to overarching business.” First, it wasn’t known, feasible permission than the absence of So what does he think about his time at Cal? technology. Second, it would send prohibition. Whatever . . . I ran with it. “I feel I got an optimal business education out mixed signals: did GM believe in fuel This might be called the germination of UC Berkeley,” Lutz says. The tendency to cells, or did we believe in EVs? Third, of the Volt. Bob Lutz, BS 61, MBA 62, was sick question the status quo was definitely in the air our prior experience with EV1 should Hours after the meeting, I sat in and tired of hearing about the Prius. when he was a student. And thanks to Berkeley’s have convinced us that no market my office with Jon Lauckner, now multidisciplinary approach, Lutz says, he took exists. And finally, the dreaded legal overseeing all vehicle line executives “Toyota was the most technologically courses in engineering and psychology that advanced, the company that cares about advice: we were engaged, along with globally. We schemed about creating “served me incredibly well when I got out into most other car producers, in a lawsuit the GM “reputational shock therapy” the environment.” Lutz says, recalling the real world.” against the state of California over vehicle we had both sought after for the mood when he was vice chairman of Despite his b-school criticisms, Lutz says he is that state’s “EV mandates,” which so long. . “It was like a bunch of a believer in leadership education—teaching were to force a certain percentage Lauckner listened, not so patiently, saints were running the Toyota company.” the do’s and don’ts of good leadership and of vehicles sold in California to be to my all-electric dream. When Jon Electrifying the Team behavior to spur people to follow a leader. electric. How could we fight the has a thought that simply has to So Lutz started asking himself what his next act would Lutz, recently rehired by GM as a consultant and adviser, has “If you are teaching leadership, the mandate and dangle an EV in front of get out, he starts banging his knees be if he were leading his rival, Toyota. His conclusion: grabbed headlines all year with his new book, Car Guys vs. Bean innovation part follows automatically,” he the public at the same time? together repeatedly. Banging them an all- run on a lithium-ion battery. And Counters. In his book, Lutz describes his return to GM as vice explains. “If a person merely leads the now, he said, “Look, I know you’ve got that’s what Lutz pushed GM to develop—and pushed and chairman of product development in 2001 after launching organization along the path it’s already on, she your heart set on an all-electric, but let pushed, until he stopped getting no for an answer. his career with the automaker in 1963. becomes an administrator of the status quo but I brought up the idea several more me show you why that’s a bad idea. “I wanted to head Toyota off at the pass,” says Lutz, Lutz returned to a radically different company, one not a leader. The definition of a good leader is a times, and was always silenced With lithium-ion, you get, assuming describing the genesis of the Chevy Volt. “As it happened, mired by a culture of bureaucracy and mediocrity. The change agent: Leaders drive change.” primarily by the argument that an efficient car, 5 miles per kilowatt/ the Prius was a one-time stroke of innovation and genius result was a lackluster lineup of boring , or what Lutz lithium-ion would not work. hour. So to get a 100-mile range, you out of Toyota. They never did anything like that before, called “a horror show.” Powertrain and GM Research sent need 20 kilowatt/hours. But since and it’s highly probable they won’t do it again.” A former Marine pilot, Lutz jumped in to change the a series of battery engineers to my you never want to drain the whole The Volt, meanwhile, has hardly been the only stroke culture and re-energize the design troops. He distributed office to explain to me in no uncertain battery because it impacts battery of innovation for the famously outspoken Lutz. Though ten “Strongly Held Beliefs.” which began, “Happy, contented terms the severe limitations of life, we’d want a 30-kilowatt battery. Lutz considers the Volt his “crowning achievement,” he employees, and an environment where nobody argues or lithium-ion chemistry. They just about That’s huge. And even if we got the successfully drove innovation and creativity at four dif- Win a Chevy Volt! disagrees, and everyone compromises because the other had me convinced when the California world’s best price on a lithium battery, ferent major automakers during his 47-year career. His Buy a raffle ticket for a chance to win a person has goals, are usually not the culture that produces startup Tesla Motors announced you’d be talking $1,000 per kilowatt, accomplishments also include overseeing development Chevy Volt. The Volt raffle benefits Young great shareholder value.” the creation of the Lotus Elise-based or a $30,000 battery pack. And you of America’s best-selling car in the early- and mid-1990s Entrepreneurs at Haas, the only year-round To generate more lively debate, he handed out stickers two-seat roadster, powered by 6,835 don’t even have a car around it. And (Ford Taurus) and the most powerful and most expensive program in the nation designed to support that said “Sez Who?” To improve product quality, he held students from economically disadvantaged laptop batteries, with a top speed of you’d still only have a 100-mile range American car ( Viper). meetings every Friday with engineers to analyze vehicles at school districts who will be the first in their 140 mph, acceleration time of zero on a good day!” He paused, and then In recognition of his long track record of successfully each step in the pipeline for crooked seams, clunky knobs, families to go to college. to 60 in four seconds, and a range of continued: “Now, here’s my idea.” steering innovation in the automobile industry, Lutz has and gaps between parts. 200 miles. been selected to receive the Haas School’s 2011 Leading With that, on a lined pad and using Lutz then challenged the company’s Design group to Support Young Entrepreneurs at Haas Naturally this gave me the lever I Through Innovation Award. The annual award celebrates and buy your ticket today. Visit his expensive, gold-nibbed fountain develop a new concept car four short months before an needed. Armed with the Tesla press Haas alumni who embody the school’s emphasis on inno- voltraffle.com or call (510) 642-9651. pen, Jon laid out what was to become international auto show. clips, I once again harangued the vative leadership. the Volt. “The effect on the Design group was electrifying,” he Automotive Strategy Board, arguing Published by Portfolio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright 2011 by Bob Lutz.

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Libby Leffler, BS 06 Business Lead to COO, Facebook Palo Alto, Calif. Your Haas Network Talk about a social networking butterfly: Since graduation, Libby Leffler, BS 06, has gone on to work at two of the hottest Silicon Valley tech companies— Joanna Wallace, MBA 91 Google and Facebook—after serving as president of Tri Delta and serving as Hospital Director, Spire Manchester Hospital its national spokesperson while at Cal. Leffler’s current role as business lead to Manchester, England Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has taken her to the World Economic Forum in Davos and empowered her to become an advocate for women in business. Joanna Wallace, MBA 91, enters the “out” door of Spire “I love that today my work impacts the experience of millions of people Manchester Hospital and navigates service corridors to reach who communicate and connect,” Leffler says. her office. Though her circuitous route is temporary while the After graduating from Berkeley-Haas and a short stint in consulting, Leffler hospital undergoes a four-month facelift, it befits this health care realized she wanted to work in a fast-growing technology company and play an leader who came into her career in a circuitous way, too. integral role in developing a meaningful brand. She spent months interviewing “My bachelor’s degree was in architecture and planning, so at Google before landing a job there helping to strategize sales operations. people expected me to design things, which I didn’t want to do,” About a year later, she interviewed for a position at Facebook. Leffler was says Wallace, running venture capital-owned Spire Manchester offered a job in sales, but declined. “I was afraid of taking the risk of leaving (the largest of Spire’s 37 UK hospitals) since 2009. “My first my comfortable job at a large, established company for something new and consultancy job, in London, made me much more interested in unfamiliar,” she explains. the organizations within buildings than in buildings themselves.” Then Leffler had second thoughts. After sleepless nights thinking about how British-born Wallace reasoned that a U.S. qualification could compelling Facebook was and worrying she was too risk averse, Leffler called help dispel her architect image while affording cross-cultural the recruiter to see if the position was still available. It was, and she got the job. opportunities. “UK MBAs were uncommon, and I needed Jordan Kerner, MBA/JD 76 While working in sales, Leffler interviewed to be the right hand to a loan,” she explains. “My bank would only loan for London Movie Producer and Dean, School of Filmmaking, Sandberg, who Forbes recently ranked the fifth most powerful woman in the Business School, UCLA, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and Berkeley.” University of North Carolina School of the Arts world. Sandberg hired Leffler on the strength of a sample executive briefing. Wallace ruled out Stanford because it was too pricey and East Winston-Salem, N.C. “Libby’s work was just outstanding and stood out above all of the others,” Coast schools because she thought the region was too similar As a movie producer, Jordan Kerner, MBA/JD 76, chooses projects Sandberg says. “She cares deeply about our company mission.” to England. That left Berkeley and UCLA: “I tossed a coin, and that can enlighten as well as entertain. It’s a philosophy that has Leffler loves that Facebook makes a difference in people’s lives. “One Haas won.” guided virtually all of the movies he has worked on, from Less Than Facebook user’s sick son baffled her doctors,” says Leffler. “After the woman Her gamble paid off. Kaiser Permanente Northern California Zero to his latest production, The Smurfs. posted pictures of his condition on Facebook, she figured out what was wrong hired her as a regional planning manager. Four years later, “I hope viewers come out of the theater fully entertained, and I and got help, advice, and support. That’s what makes this job really rewarding.” Wallace’s U.S. experience opened doors to the National Health hope that five years later all the messages resonate inside of them,” In her current role, Leffler has earned “a seat at the table” of influential busi- Service (NHS), the UK’s publicly funded health care system. says Kerner. nesswomen, including Sandberg, her mentor, who reviewed her notes before “In the U.S., I realized how strongly committed I felt to free In addition to producing movies, Kerner has led the School of Leffler spoke in Munich at a women’s conference. Leffler’s message to other health care,” Wallace says. “In the UK, I took it for granted, until I Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts as young women? Dream bigger and take risks. Like she does. saw the impact of not having it on Americans’ lives.” dean since 2007. Blending his film-making career with education, Follow Leffler on Facebook at facebook.com/libby and on At 31, Wallace became he UK’s youngest NHS chief Kerner ensures students study and work with professionals. While Twitter @libbyleffler. —Diane Anderson executive, at St. Helens and Knowsley Health Authority, which producing The Smurfs, Kerner enabled more than 50 students to oversaw health care providers in the Liverpool area and operated shadow the director, cinematographer, and others creating the $110 with a budget of £235 million ($400 million). Her bigger million movie, which opened in July and has grossed over half a achievement came in 2000, when she became CEO of Christie billion dollars in worldwide receipts. Hospital NHS Trust, Europe’s largest cancer research and As dean, Kerner also is focusing his lens on multidisciplinary treatment center, with 1,800 employees. entertainment business jobs, collaborating with UNC-Chapel Hill and “We had an undeniable need for critical care beds,” says N.C. State to craft a joint degree program. He traces the idea to his Wallace. “Institutionally, however, they were considered a waste experiences with the University of California. In 1972, he entered of money for cancer patients. I work in health care because UC’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Wanting to I’m committed to the patients, so I spent five years—and all expand his studies to include business and public policy, he created a my political capital—getting a much-needed intensive care proposal for a joint degree with what is now the Haas School. unit there.” While in school, Kerner founded Comm/Ent, a journal concen- Her goal achieved, Wallace left Christie in 2005 and decided trating on communications and entertainment law. After passing the to test her business skills in the private sector. bar, he worked in the motion-picture department of a Beverly Hills law After three years starting up a UK unit of biopharma firm and then for CBS, Universal, and ABC before co-founding a pro- company Astra Zeneca. Wallace moved to long-neglected duction company in 1986 that is now called Kerner Entertainment. Spire Manchester. The private hospital offers everything from In the late 1990s, Kerner started talking with the family of Peyo, orthopedic surgery to laser hair removal for a fee. the Belgian cartoonist who created the Smurfs, about making a movie, “Fewer than 12 percent of UK residents have private health promising to be faithful to the characters. Kerner’s respectful approach insurance, so our challenge is creating new services and to Charlotte’s Web (2006), convinced the family to sell him film rights. engaging customers in new ways,” Wallace says. When developing scripts, Kerner shares his ideas about pertinent “But health care has commonalities wherever you go because lessons with the screenwriters. His films have explored the impor- it’s a profession—those in it have a very strong professional identity tance of nurturing friendships and combating bias against sexual and ethic. How managers need to behave to succeed is similar preference (Fried Green Tomatoes); the impact of substance abuse across the board: It’s about how we build relationships and our (When A Man Loves A Woman); and treating those who are different ability to lead. It’s that simple.” –Christine Fundak Rohan with respect (The Smurfs). “In The Smurfs, that permeates the film,” Kerner says. “I think 16 CalBusiness Fall 2011 these are really important lessons.”—Kim Underwood Fall 2011 CalBusiness 17

Roy Zhou, MBA 06 President, Yoyi Your Haas Network in Roy Zhou, MBA 06, did not intend to return to immediately upon graduating from Haas, but Google had other plans. The Internet giant recruited Zhou right out of school and dispatched him back to Beijing to build a team from the ground up to help expand Google’s advertising partnerships in “the fastest growing industry in the fastest growing market.” Now hundreds of thousands of websites in China use Google’s AdSense products, which include ads based on Web content and a Google search Christopher Lee, BS 90 (Mech. Eng.), bar embedded on a Web page. MBA 95 Such success depended on localizing Google’s services for a Chinese audi- ence while still keeping the product consistent, Zhou says. Head of Global Markets Investment Products “In the U.S., the Internet is very content- or information-centric, while Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong in China it’s very entertainment-centric,” he says. Consequently, Zhou When Christopher Lee, BS 90 (Mech. Eng.), MBA 95, then a expanded AdSense services into video and gaming websites frequented newly minted Berkeley MBA, started work at Merrill Lynch in by so many young Chinese. Zhou also launched road shows to introduce 1995, the world of investment banking was barely recognizable: AdSense to potential partners unfamiliar with Google’s products. Hardly anyone outside the business had heard of derivatives and “We saw a huge jump in partner signups to our network, leading to a huge the opportunities for Asian Americans on Wall Street were few increase in our business in China,” Zhou says, noting that Google later dupli- and far between. “I was the only yellow face on the trading desk,” cated the road-show approach in the U.S. and Europe. Lee recalls in a matter-of-fact tone. In September Zhou left Google for Yoyi, whose video and rich media adver- Now, of course, derivatives are well-known, if poorly understood, tising platforms are used in China by such companies as Audi, Microsoft, and financial instruments, Asian Americans hold C-level positions Jeffrey Hine, MBA 84 Nokia. As president, Zhou oversees sales, marketing, finance, and investor rela- throughout the economy, and Lee himself has headed key units tions at the 500-employee startup. Chief Operating Officer of two major investment banks-—UBS and now Deutsche Bank, It’s all a far cry from Zhou’s scenic hometown of “Thousand Island Lake” in CCB Financial Leasing Corp., Beijing which he joined in mid-2010. In his current role, he serves as a the country’s southeast, and his undergraduate studies at Hohai University in Hong Kong-based managing director and head of global markets After a 30-mile bike ride one morning in 2007, Jeffrey Hine, MBA nearby Nanjing, where he earned his computer engineering degree. As investment products. 84, received a call that effectively pulled him out of retirement, he developed an interest in business, Zhou worked for Sun Microsystems Lee, who speaks fluent Cantonese, has made the most of a uprooted him from his home in Benicia, Calif., and replanted him and 3Com. Yet for all his real-world experience, Zhou felt the need for a formal multicultural upbringing. He lived in Albany, Calif., while attending where he is today: Beijing. business education. Cal and stayed close to his relatives in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Hine is now the chief operating officer of CCB Financial Leasing “I’m a typical tech guy. I come from a very strong IT background,” he He says he’s more comfortable in Hong Kong, where he has lived Corp., where he has spent the last three years building from scratch says. “I loved the way Haas has a focus on technology innovation to change for eight years and is raising a family, than he was in New York. a between China Construction Bank and Bank of people’s worlds.” The convergence of business and technology His passion for continuous learning and curiosity about other America. Along the way, he has helped create a growing leasing a stone’s throw from Silicon Valley sealed the deal. cultures are key assets for an executive who runs a complex busi- practice in a country where, just years ago, leasing was virtually Zhou credits his accomplishments in tech to his time at Berkeley-Haas: ness across seven diverse Asian nations, including India, China, nonexistent. The joint venture leases new and used equipment and “Without the Haas experience, I don’t think I could have achieved so much and Singapore. “In the U.S. we’ve got a common language and facilities to entities such as China’s power-generating firms and to its or have been so successful in all the things I’ve done so far.” one set of rules,” he says. But Asia, of course, is far from homoge- rail industries. —Caroline Killmer nous, and Lee says that Western firms must have local roots on the The experience of operating in a different country and across ground to make a business succeed. cultures has made Hine feel like a pioneer, he says. The California Lee took risks and made successful bets on new products native has assembled, from ground up, a team of nearly 100 based on derivatives while at UBS, and expects to follow a similar employees who are now comfortable approaching him with their strategy at Deutsche, where he foresees that derivatives will be own opinions and their own advice. That, in China’s traditional busi- sold to mainstream institutional investors. Lee heads the group ness world, is a rarity, Hine says. that is developing and selling those new products, along with a “The education system in China has taught many to interact with technical team developing a platform to deliver them. While authority figures only by listening, but in business it’s most important acknowledging that derivatives are controversial, he says “the for those at the top to be the listeners,” Hine says. The most frequent good stories are often forgotten.” Major companies like Microsoft question he asks on the job: “What do you think?” use derivatives as a hedge against currency fluctuations and the Earning trust and empowering employees to use their own risk of investing in new companies, he notes. analytical skills and judgment have been among Hine’s biggest Despite making Asia his home, Lee hasn’t forgotten his East challenges. But they have made the job rewarding, he says, adding Bay roots. He’s a member of the Dean’s Advisory Circle at Haas that taking this post has flexed his brainpower far more than the daily and a trustee of the Oakland Museum of California. —Bill Snyder crossword puzzle ever did during his three-year retirement. In 2004, after working for 20 years at Bank of America, heading the commercial aircraft leasing group and working as a leasing portfolio manager, Hine dreamed of days filled with hours of exer- cise instead of sifting through email, of mornings relaxing instead of racing off to meetings. What he found was that no book or puzzle engaged him the way that working in business did and that relaxing for a few weeks was sufficient. This and the opportunity to work in China, where his wife (also a Cal grad) was born, were ultimately the reasons he returned to the daily hustle and bustle. Hine jokes, “Coming back has allowed me to 18 CalBusiness Fall 2011 exercise the gray matter of my brain.” —Laurie Burkitt Fall 2011 CalBusiness 19 The Campaign for Haas Your Investments at Work

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The creation of BECI will allow Haas Celebration at Gap and venture capital firm Jackson Street Partners. for clean technology and renewables clients and invested the university to bring together the necessary scientific and Headquarters In a Department of Energy-funded project with Lawrence Berkeley more than $3 billion in clean energy and economic resources with the ecosystem of the San Francisco Prof. Nancy Wallace, Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate National Laboratory, Wallace is developing a suite of financial models Berkeley environmentally beneficial projects. Bay Area. and Urban Economics that explicitly includes energy efficiency metrics in the commercial mort- February 1 In addition to being a mother of three, Q: What is the vision for BECI? gage valuation and underwriting process. In another study, Wallace is Latin American Business Marcella Bernstein has realized three impres- Conference Stuart: The university has many outstanding schools of examining the role of the mortgage and credit markets in job creation in sive careers–as an astrophysicist at Lockheed firms with 10 to 499 employees. Wallace, who predicted the mortgage academic study. At BECI, we hope to connect those valuable Silicon Valley Martin and the Harvard Center for Astrophysics, resources so that Berkeley can better coordinate and engage crisis months before it erupted, has co-chaired the Fisher Center for Real a veterinarian, and a jewelry designer. Her work is Estate and Urban Economics since 2001 and has twice received the February 29 with the Bay Area’s vibrant venture capital community, talented 13th Annual Menlo Circus Club showcased at galleries in Palo Alto and Sundance entrepreneurs and executives, and cleantech companies. Earl F. Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award. and has attracted some high-profile clients. Berkeley Q: How will BECI benefit the Haas School of Business? March 3 The Bernsteins made a significant Fellowship Supports Health Care Ambitions contribution this summer to create Stuart: Our commitment to BECI is specifically directed to the 16th Annual Women in Leadership Energy Institute at Haas and the Cleantech to Market Program When Abi Ridgway, MBA/MPH 11, completes her two graduate Conference an endowment for the Berkeley at the Haas School of Business. We hope others will be encour- degrees in business and public health this December, she will bring a Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute aged to give to BECI, which can help support research across fresh perspective to some of the most pressing problems in the U.S. March 28-29 (BECI), a campus-wide institute the university, including at the business school. health care system. Ridgway wants to find new ways to improve the that provides a coordinating hub Economist Innovation Conference: quality and equity of health care. She is especially interested in driving Stimulating Economic Growth for all of Berkeley’s energy and Q: What are some of the practices that you and your family the move from acute to preventive care, a fundamental shift that climate efforts, integrating follow in order to minimize your impact on the environment? should reduce what Americans spend on health care and increase their Berkeley science, engineering, social Stuart: We renovated our 1930s house about six years ago, overall wellness. April 26-29 science, market, and policy and where we could, made changes to minimize our impact. For Ridgway, the Brian Maxwell Fellowship has done more than MBA Reunion Weekend We installed insulation, energy efficient lighting, water efficient research. The Bernstein’s gift to financially support her education. It has given her access to a community appliances and plumbing, double-paned low-E windows, Berkeley BECI will support, among other of inspiring people, including one of her mentors, Jennifer Maxwell, BS photovoltaic panels, a solar hot water heater, and an attic heat Brian Maxwell Fellow 88, co-founder of PowerBar and founder and chairwoman of the Brian April 28 things, the Cleantech to Market Abi Ridgway, MBA/MPH 11 exchange. The last item is interesting. We started to think about Maxwell Fellows, and the other Maxwell Fellows who exchange ideas All Alumni Reunion Conference Program (C2M) at the Energy the conflict between heating pools and cooling homes and with Ridgway. “I came to Haas to learn how to be an effective leader and Orinda Institute at Haas. C2M is wondered if there was a more environmentally friendly manner to collaborate with people who are interested in using business as a tool a partnership between to do both. I Googled “heat exchange attic to pool” and found a May 14 to create positive change in the world,” she says. In addition to what 10th Annual Haaski Golf Open students, scientists, and patent which allowed us to use the attic’s hot air to heat the she has learned in the classroom, Ridgway has also gained valuable professionals to help pool and the pool’s cold water to cool the house, all without the knowledge in the field through Haas experiential learning programs and Barcelona, Spain convert cleantech use of an air conditioner or a gas heater. Aside from the house, internships with McKinsey & Company and Kaiser Permanente. May 31 - June 1 research into market we try our best to not use any kind of motor vehicle whenever European Symposium on we can. In fact, Palo Alto was very attractive to us because we opportunities. Innovation with Dean Rich Lyons can bike or walk most places. I currently drive a Prius and will & Prof. Henry Chesbrough soon be getting an electric vehicle. Marcella: We’re a recycling and composting family. We really You don’t need to be in the Bay Area try to minimize our trash. We have a small garden and shop at to stay connected to what’s the local farmers’ markets (on our bikes!). We also try to avoid happening at Berkeley-Haas. pre-packaged foods, preferring to cook mainly from scratch. Remain a “student always” online: insights.haasalumni.org Stuart: We try to do the best we can and know we can do even more, but like the phrase “think globally, act locally.”

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5 Haas served up two food-related events On Sept. 22, the Lester Center for this fall and hosted a diverse cast of Entrepreneurship hosted an event at Haas titled “Food Entrepreneurship: Surviving the business leaders on campus who talked Recession—Strategies to Remain Profitable in about everything from the euro zone to the Hard Times.” The panel discussion featured art of enchantment. (l. to r.) Bob Burke, president, Ovation Hospitality Consulting, also former president, Pat Kuleto 1 Former Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka, Restaurant Co. and Gordon Biersch Brewing Co.; now president of the National Bank of Poland, fifth-generation vintner Joel Gott, founder, Joel kicked off the Dean’s Speaker Series in the fall Gott Wines, Bandit Wines, Three Thieves, and semester with a talk Aug. 30 on how the Gott’s Roadside restaurant; and Noah Alper, sovereign-debt crisis has affected the euro founder and former CEO, Noah’s Bagels. zone’s prospects for enlargement. 6 The sold-out Lester Center event also included 2 Taste of Haas brought together the Bay Area a sampling of foods and wines, including Krave alumni chapters for an evening of food, wine, and 1 2 3 4 Jerkey, owned by Berkeley-Columbia Executive friendship at Williams-Sonoma’s San Francisco MBA student Jon Sebastiani, BCEMBA 12. flagship store in Union Square on Sept. 15. Felynn Haberecht, Larissa Roesch, and 7 Tim Westergren, founder and chief strategy Carolina Lau, all MBA 97, were among the officer of Pandora, shared the challenges and alumni who reunited at this sold-out event. successes of starting and growing the Internet radio company with students in the Berkeley- 3 Former Dean and Professor Emeritus Columbia Executive MBA Program on Sept. 23. Raymond Miles and his wife, Lucile, also sampled the delicious food and wine from a 8 Venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, former variety of Bay Area purveyors, many of whom chief evangelist at Apple, shared insights in his are Haas alumni, at Taste of Haas. new book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions. He argued that 4 Taste of Haas brought together alumni from rather than creating mission statements, different years and programs, including Bill Lavis, companies should create mantras. Fedex’s BA 83 (L&S), and Donald Yuirck, BS 98. mantra, for instance: “peace of mind.” 5 6 7 8

YEAH Devotee Acknowledged for His Strong Support submission for the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program; David R. Eckles, MBA 73, was honored this year as the winner of the Raymond E. Miles Haas Community Bids and working with alumni through annual giving and reunions. Alumni Service Award. This award is given to an alumni volunteer each year who demon- Fran Hill a Fond Farewell She made significant contributions in these areas, but her strates profound involvement in the Haas Alumni Network community. As a founding and After spending her past 40 years proudest achievement is raising Berkeley’s reputation for MBA continuing board member of the Center for Young Entrepreneurs at Haas (YEAH), Eckles has on the Berkeley campus—first as a selectivity to among the top three business schools during her invested deeply in a program that creates opportunity for under-resourced and at-risk youth. student and then as a Haas colleague tenure as director of MBA Admissions. Over the past two decades, YEAH has evolved from an outreach program to a center at Haas for the past 25 years—Fran Hill retired “Haas is a very special place, unique among top business that is helping to increase access to the school’s Undergraduate Program. Eckles is the retired in June. schools,” says Hill. “Dean Lyons has articulated these distinctive chairman and CEO of San Francisco-based Helm Financial Corp., the largest privately held rail Fran contributed in several qualities as a confluence of people, place, and culture. Of all equipment leasing company in North America. In addition to his work with YEAH, Eckles is a different roles under seven Haas of these, it is the people of Haas who have meant so much to devoted backer of Cal Athletics and was named a Builder of Berkeley for his significant philan- deans: developing admissions and me and I feel privileged to have played a role in identifying and thropic contributions to the university. marketing programs for the PhD, recruiting so many gifted individuals to Haas over the years. I take MBA, and MFE programs; serving special pride in ‘my’ MBA classes.“ Ever the fundraiser and fan, as lead author of the SBC Executive Fran urges “her” classes and all Haas alumni to “stay connected Classroom proposal and the campus and continue your support of this remarkable enterprise.“

Thank you! Thanks for letting us get to know you better through our Haas Alumni Survey launched earlier this fall. Congratulations to iPad winners John Courtright, MBA 81, and Christopher Walker, BS 10.

22 CalBusiness Fall 2011 Fall 2011 CalBusiness 23 Peter Meeks, BS, of Gregory, a 1971 UC Berkeley anthro- 1980 She also chairs the legal security and privacy practice group at Intel. She Scottsdale, Ariz., writes, “On June pology graduate, take motorcycle Russ Irwin, BS, of Sausalito, 30, I retired from BDO USA LLC with trips around the country on one of frequently speaks on trademark law Calif., sailed 5,000 miles from practice and is an active member over 40 years in public accounting. his Harleys or spend time in Honolulu Panama to Tahiti this year. More During that period, I also served in at their condo. Stephen also spends of the International Trademark information can be found at www. Association, where she chairs the various leadership positions in the time riding his bicycle around the newmorning.info. Haas Alumni Association. For a short Berkeley Hills. His wife teaches hula Enforcement Committee. In her free period I also served as assistant dean and Polynesian dance. Martha (Garriga) time, Ruby enjoys spending time of Haas to help Dean Hassler in his Stoneburner, BS, see MBA around the Bay Area with her two team’s efforts to raise funds for what 1984 notes. children, Connor and Zoe. is now the Haas building complex 1973 Fred Sheng, BS, see MBA News from Haas Alumni Submit your news online at and campus facility. In retirement, 1986 http://haas.berkeley.edu/alumninotes I will do some limited consulting 1975 notes. 1981 Alumni Notes and plan on attending local college Joann Weiner Martens, Larry Schaffer, BS, of Los Olivos, Calif., writes, “Tercero Wines, classes to learn more about the 1974 BS, of Washington, D.C., joined many evolving aspects of the use Bloomberg as the tax team leader a label I started after going back and infrastructure demands of social Hossein Hadjibashi, BS, for Bloomberg Government. She to school and getting my master’s Undergraduate 1966 media technology in the enterprise see MBA 1976 notes. was promoted to vice president for degree in viticulture and enology at arena. In addition, I will be taking Community Tax Aid and selected to UC Davis, is happily growing and I’m Carol Sanford, BS, of Michael Puccinelli, BS, pleased to announce the opening Tapping the Power of the Alumni Seattle, Wash., is the author of The more advantage of the numerous was honored with the 2011 O.D. be treasurer for Stoddert Soccer. She 1940 golfing opportunities here in Arizona continues to teach finance at George of our tasting room in downtown Responsible Business: Reimagining Glaus Credit Executive of Distinction Los Olivos. Please contact me at Network for Mentorship David Rea, BS, of Stockton, Sustainability and Success. The book and, with my lovely wife, plan to Award, formerly known as the Washington University. Calif., recently visited the Bahamas to increase our travel domestically and [email protected] if you plan By Jonathan Wu, BS 87 was named to CNBC’s list of top National Credit Executive of the Year Emily Wu, BS, of Los Altos, on being in the area. I’m also VP of attend the wedding of his grandson, business books for 2011. It was also internationally. I still plan on staying Award. He received the award from the first of four to marry. He writes, active to help raise annual general Calif., completed her MBA from the board of directors of the Santa We all know that a Haas education provides a cited in a June 2011 Inc. Magazine the National Association of Credit the University of Michigan and had Barbara County Vintner’s Association strong foundation to launch a career. What I “The others better marry closer to story and cited as influential by Marc funds for the Haas school and partici- Management at its annual Credit home if they want Grandpa and pate on its Development Council. Go a successful career in high-tech and can make a number of recom- didn’t learn until after I graduated, however, is Gunther, Fortune contributing editor Conference and Exposition, held in Grandma to be there.” Haas! Go Bears!” marketing at Intel and LSI Logic. mendations about wineries to visit, how the Haas Alumni Network can play such and Green Biz senior writer. More Nashville, Tenn., in May. Puccinelli Recently, Emily took some time off places to stay, or restaurants to dine a powerful role in helping to expand a information about the book can be Mark Edward Winthers, has been involved in the credit field to be with her family full time. Her at. Cheers!” business and career. Take my current business 1947 found at www.carolsanford.com. BS, died August 14, 2010, after for more than 30 years, with the daughter, Allison, will soon be a majority of his tenure spent in the venture as a vivid example. , fighting prostate cancer for ten years. senior at Tufts University and her son, Leslie Edward Winthers, BS information technology and services of Apple Valley, Calif., writes in on Mark leaves his two daughters, Daniel, will be graduating next year (Lindahl) Last year, I pursued a business software 1967 industry. Puccinelli is the director, behalf of his son, Mark Edward Spring Cogswell and Marina Cheney, from the Woodside Priory School in Schibsted, concept that I had been contemplating for a Richard Lyon, BS, of revenue operations, for Equinix, a , of Chico, . Mark died stepdaughter, Crystal Wansick, and Portola Valley. Both hope to attend BS while. Since my knowledge of starting a Winthers, BS 68 Sacramento, Calif., has begun volun- company that provides high-perfor- Calif., is cur- August 14, 2010, after fighting pros- several grandchildren behind. the Haas School for their MBAs. software business was limited, I reached out teering with RAFT, a nonprofit that mance data centers worldwide. He rently serving tate cancer for 10 years. Mark leaves Daniel will not be a Bear as an under- Jonathan Wu, BS 87 to Janet McAllister, MBA 84, for advice, offers teachers classroom supplies at previously held credit management as director of his two daughters, Spring Cogswell grad as he will be playing on the golf given her previous experience as the CEO of a discount pricing. He is using his skills positions at VeriSign, ProBusiness, advancement and Marina Cheney, stepdaughter, 1969 team at Whitman College. Emily is venture-funded business software company and her knowledge of the and contacts as a former liquida- and KAO Information Systems. for the College of Crystal Wansick, and several grand- Daniel currently the development director business intelligence field. I met Janet several years ago when I was a tion and surplus broker to resource Asera, BS, of for ALearn, a nonprofit based in Los Behavioral and member of the Alumni Council and she was a member of the children behind. goods for RAFT for cheaper pricing Leslie (Lindahl) Social Sciences Las Vegas, Nev., 1975 Altos, which provides free math Schibsted, BS 86 Development Council. Janet helped me to think through my business than they currently have. Richard will the Haas Alumni classes during the summer for low- at California , of San strategy, provided me with feedback on the product concept, and also be working in this capacity for a Network regional John Lukrich, BS income middle school students State University, Chico, where she 1964 Francisco, writes, “The Haas entre- introduced me to a business lead. local United Way project to furnish representative who live in the San Jose area. Her raises money for programs, scholar- Schuyler Bailey, BS, see preneurial spirit has served me well. underprivileged children with school for Nevada, is husband, Drew Hoffman, is the man- ships, and endowments to benefit After pitching the concept to several companies, I could not secure MBA 1965 notes. I just started a new Internet business supplies. He has been involved in a a professor at aging partner heading up the Silicon students, faculty, and staff. a suitable business partner. I decided to shift direction and offer in San Francisco, Vertical Response similar capacity for the past 13 years the University Valley office of Howard Fischer and consulting services with the intention of developing a clientele to then Group LLC.” Vertical Response 1965 as purchasing agent for the annual of Nevada, Las Associates, an executive search firm pitch the product concept. Group builds, owns, and manages 1987 Vijay (Pandit) Kumar, BS, “Christmas Giveaway” for homeless Daniel Asera, Vegas, where specializing in recruiting senior man- The market for business and technology consulting has changed comprehensive “For Dummies” , of Ladera of Mountain View, Calif., is a veterans in San Francisco through BS 69 he was recently agement to high-tech companies. Robert Saman, BS significantly since my first business venture, which was eventually branded websites. The sites shareholder and on the advisory a nonprofit, Swords to Plowshares. given additional Ranch, Calif., writes, “Amazing how acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2006. So I reached out to Jeff Baum, focus on niche verticals in board of InternetSpeech. Though Swords to Plowshares has been duties as online administrator and time flies! After having spent time education, home services, MBA 99, whom I had met when we were both members of the the past year has been hard in U.S. giving away backpacks loaded with coordinator of graduate assistants 1985 as assistant GC at Gateway and dating, insurance, and baby Alumni Council. I wanted to understand Jeff’s perspective of the sales, the company has done well in items, such as a fresh towel, toiletries, in the Department of Mathematical Margaret Andrews, BS, then Eclipsys (healthcare enterprise boomer markets. Their sites current economic environment and to get his advice on my business Thailand, India, and Brunei and is set- underwear, socks, a sweatshirt or Sciences. In 2008, he was selected of Medfield, Mass., is the associate software), I am now heading the include www.AccountingCareers development approach since his company, Proxi Management ting up systems for Saudi Arabia and light jacket, rain poncho, calendar, a TLC Fellow by the UNLV Teaching dean for management programs at legal department for STEC (NASDAQ ForDummies.com and www. Decisions, is a management consulting and solutions firm. Jeff’s other Middle-Eastern countries. Vijay pen, battery-free ’shake’ flashlight, ski & Learning Center. He is also presi- Harvard University in the division of traded enterprise solid-state drive SeniorDatingForDummies.com. insight and advice helped me to think through the next steps of my writes, “My granddaughter, Linden, gloves, a wallet, and a baseball cap dent of Cal Spirit of Las Vegas, the continuing education. She is also company), which coincidentally was business venture. turned 3 on May 30. She attends embroidered with “I am a Vet,” and CAA alumni club of southern Nevada doing consulting with her own firm, founded by three Persian brothers, I am happy to say that my business has successfully secured our preschool happily. Linden’s mother, the Swords to Plowshares logo. and was senior class president of 1976 Mind and Hand Associates. although there is no connection to my wife Natalie. Given the interna- first client and I anticipate continued growth. my daughter, Amba, continues to sell the class of 1969 at Cal. Dan is also Steven Hartman, BS, of , is a tional (Persian/European/Asian) I believe that the greatest lasting benefit of being a Haas alumnus is properties in Santa Cruz. She also 1968 active in his community, serving as a Sherman Oaks, Calif., recently Hanifa Baporia, BS owns rental property in Eureka. We Clark County hearing officer for prop- lawyer at Oracle. elements of the company, I feel the Haas Alumni Network. However, realizing any benefit can only be Robert “Bob” Kellerman, authored two wildflower field guides very much at home, and fortunately achieved through participation. As my experience shows, the more are all getting ready for my son Jay’s BS, writes, “Two or three careers erty tax appeals and as a member for Quick Reference Publishing Inc. wedding to Alyse, which will be held of the Community Development Margaret (Ypma) Nolde, our market segment is positioned you participate, the greater the benefits through lifelong connections. ran their course, and so did being in (Wildflowers of Southern California BS, of Costa Mesa, Calif., writes, for high growth over the next few near the city of Lone Pine, close to Los Angeles. Now I am in Portland Commission, which awards federal and Wildflowers of Southeast the Sierra Nevada Mountains, within grants to homeless shelters and “Spent the last 23 years as the years—I guess that means that I will (similar to San Francisco in many Arizona). He also has a series of executive director of a family, which be busy. On the home front, Natalie sight of Mt. Whitney, which he and ways) and ready to go back to work: senior affordable housing programs iPhone wildflower field guide apps his fiancee climbed using ropes in in Clark County. includes five daughters!” Margaret and I just celebrated our 18th wed- AutoCAD, interior design, retail (California, Sierra Nevada, Joshua will be returning to accounting work ding anniversary, and our two boys, Free Exec Ed Class Winner 2010. Jay is working for Solar City buying, or the next surprise! I am a Tree National Park, and Death as a civil engineer, and Alyse is a San at Belden, Hiramoto, Liu and Co. LLP Cameron (12) and Nicholas (8), Congratulations to Paul Duan, BS 08, who won the great problem solver (thanks, Haas!) 1971 Valley). Steven is the treasurer of the CPAs. She writes that she is “enjoying are growing up. Our home is also Francisco lawyer. Alyse has enrolled Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Alumni Notes drawing for a free course offered by the and ready to make a contribution, Stephen Yee, BS, of Berkeley, the novelty of my own income.” expanding into a mini-pet store with at UC Irvine for graduate courses have some fun, and make some Flowers and Native Plants, and is Haas School’s Center for Executive Education. And thank leading to a PhD.” retired from PG&E in 2004 after two dogs, three guinea pigs, and two money. Any response you might like involved in restoration projects in the Ruby Zefo, BS, of Palo hamsters.” you to the nearly 200 Berkeley-Haas alumni who entered commuting to San Francisco for 32 Richard Power, BS, of to give me is good—thanks! There years. Stephen is currently a partner Sepulveda Dam Basin and along the Alto, Calif., is the legal director the drawing by submitting CalBusiness Alumni Notes. Shingle Springs, Calif., is a practicing must be some Haas alums up here.” in a tax-consulting group in Fremont. Los Angeles River on behalf of the for Trademarks and Brands and attorney. He also runs RCP Software When not busy with taxes in the California Native Plant Society. Information Technology at Intel Corp. (www.rcpsoftware.com) and writes winter, he and his wife, Charlene custom software. 24 CalBusiness Fall 2011 Fall 2011 CalBusiness 25 Undergraduate

Submit your news online at November. And my newest role 2000 2004 Varun Paul, BS, of Berkeley, I have taken my 13-year run with a Leadership Institute for the Future http://haas.berkeley.edu/alumninotes on the Delivering Happiness team Calif., writes, “It’s been a year of chronic digestive condition called of Education (LIFE). LIFE aims to Putri (Sugondo) Pascualy, , of (deliveringhappiness.com) involves Aaron McDaniel, BS challenges and surprises, both in the Crohn’s and founded Crohnology, connect and empower dedicated Alumni Accolades BS, see MBA 2006 notes. San Francisco, was recently pro- creating a Delivering Happiness world of biotech finance and person- a social network for people with teachers to create educational - moted to senior director of Business Alumni Notes line of merchandise to help spread ally. I am juggling my day job at a Crohn’s & colitis. This website helps ronments that foster student account- & Accomplishments Pravir (Sawhney) Singh, Development within AT&T’s Global and inspire happiness through fun , joined UBS Investment Bank in local biotech powerhouse, in finance patients (myself included) share ability, social equity, and profound BS Strategy Group. In addition, Aaron and inspirational goods! Husband London at the beginning of 2011 and capital projects, while getting information about alternative treat- achievement in the classroom and launched Jimmy Agustin, BS 1998, as a director within mergers and my consulting and staffing startup off ments, diets, and supplements so community. Ryan invites you to reach Scialom Scores $50,000 the Jill and I do our best to keep things bal- acquisitions. Pravir writes, “Always the ground. I am looking forward to that we each can get healthy more out to [email protected]. In Education Competition Wakeman 1988 anced amidst our busy schedules happy to hear from Haas alumni in seeing the Bears play at AT&T field. quickly. The website is crohnology. edu if you, too, are passionate about Foundation Alexandre , of and are inspired by our friends to do London!” com. Feel free to reach out by email resolving issues in America’s educa- Chris Rhoades, BS for Equality, Go Bears!” Scialom, MBA Irvine, Calif., writes, “After Cal, I more and have more fun. Good food, at [email protected].” tion system. a nonprofit 06, won $50,000 worked in San Francisco for three music, and a little bit of travel here focused years as a consultant, then went to and there in the company of family 2001 2007 Paul Duan, BS, of San Kourosh Zamanizadeh, in an education on fighting Northwestern University (Kellogg) for and friends have already packed this Karen Bernard, BS, of , Francisco, writes, “I recently finished BS, writes, “After graduating from case competition for equality James “Huy” Bao, BS my MBA. That was followed by an year full of happy memories, and we Kilauea, Hawaii, is retired and of San Francisco, writes, “After a up two years of investment banking Haas and moving to San Francisco, in June for his idea initiatives in 11-year career with Merrill Lynch in look forward to making even more! enjoying ballroom dancing, line few years in financial consulting, and am taking some time off to I wanted to find a way to keep in to connect lifelong honor of his San Francisco, which I left in 2003 Here’s wishing more fun and hap- dancing, zumba, and yoga. She is the I started a social enterprise called travel, relax, and do some personal touch with my old classmates and learners to online godmother. to become a business owner and piness to our fellow alumni too. Go treasurer of the YMCA North Shore Aaron McDaniel, OneVietnam Network. The idea learning. Hopefully, I’ll find my next friends. I also wanted to find an easy and offline learning BS 04 , and godmother Media cov- entrepreneur. I moved to Maine with Bears!” dance club. She enjoys traveling and was simple: what if we mixed social gig at a startup!” way to network with other young Alexandre Scialom, resources. Jill Wakeman, who erage has my wife, purchased a company, has two grandsons (1) and (3). media with philanthropy? We imag- professionals in the Bay Area. As a MBA 06 inspired McDaniel included Ziwei “Victoria” Tang, BS, Scialom took the and ran it as the CEO. Following a ined a platform where anyone who result, I recently co-founded a profes- to create a nonprofit CBS radio, of Los Angeles, recently joined $25,000 first prize and the $25,000 series of acquisitions and mergers, 1997 Alex Kaplenko, BS, of San focused on equality cared about their home country sional networking organization called ABC News, Kaiser Permanente. She writes, Startl Prize for Open Educational the company is now eight times Jesse Wilson, BS, of New Ramon, Calif., writes, “I am happy initiatives can exchange ideas, collaborate, Young Professionals of San Francisco and the “Learning a lot about health care Resources in the Milken-Penn GSE larger and one of the largest privately York, has accepted a new position to celebrate 10 years of working for and invest—wherever they are in (YPOSF) with my colleagues David SF Examiner. See http://cups- reform and its impact on both insur- Education Business Plan Competition owned building materials compa- as vice president of finance for NBC Chevron. Yep­­—made it through all the world. It’s social networking Smith and Jeff Whitlow. YPOSF is a forequality.org for more information ance and health provider industries. at the University of Pennsylvania’s nies in the . I exited at Universal. the rounds of ’resource optimization.’ for a cause. We’ve put together a nonprofit which seeks to provide a and to donate. This is an exciting turning point for Graduate School of Education. His the end of 2011 after seven years, Also, Diana, 00, and I welcomed small team, including one of the forum for motivated young profes- , writes, ”I’m our country’s health care system. I and now have an ownership stake Sybil Yang, BS our second child, Bryce, in February, original developers of Hotmail. Last sionals to share ideas and network winning business, called finally returning to the Bay Area after am thrilled to be part of it!” and board seat. In quarter one of exactly two years after our daughter, July, we received funding from the in an enjoyable environment. Our theCourseBook, was chosen from nearly a decade on the East Coast— 2005 2011, I joined a private equity firm, Amber, was born. Go Bears!” Ford Foundation, one of the most events are hosted at restaurants in 200 submissions. I am so looking forward to the food Nancy Chen, BS, of Fremont, SAIL Capital Partners, as a partner. distinguished honors in philanthropy. San Francisco’s Financial District on TheCourseBook allows users to and weather! Starting this fall, I’ll Diana Rothschild, BS, of Calif., is in her fourth year working for 2009 My wife and three boys are still in Our success so far is thanks to the the last Wednesday of each month. easily search for and find third- be joining the San Francisco State San Francisco, writes, “Gabe and a nonprofit doing overseas confer- Shan Kachhi, BS, moved Maine and will join me in southern lessons in business planning, mar- Our first event was in March, and we party learning resources online and University, College of Business fac- I are excited to welcome Sophia ence planning and event coordina- to Los Angeles after graduating to California when my travels slow keting, and presentation I learned at already have over 250 members, offers guidance to support their ulty as an assistant professor in the Rothschild Risk into the world! She tion and logistics. She recently got start a music production company down following the successful Haas. In fact, one of our board mem- including graduates from all across professional and personal Hospitality and Tourism Department. was born on July 30, measuring married and is enjoying being a and pursue a career in music and completion of raising $500 million bers is the professor of innovation at the country. I’d love to have some At the same time, I’ll be finishing my seven pounds and 21 inches long. newlywed. entertainment. Shan is working on a development, based on interests, for our third fund, SAIL III, a global the Haas MBA program, Professor more Bears at our next monthly dissertation remotely from Cornell.” She came with a beautifully smooth studio album for himself (“Kach”) as peers, and location. Scialom growth equity clean-tech fund.” Samir Gharib, BS, and David Teece. We hope in the near event! Learn more about YPOSF at: envisions TheCourseBook website as and speedy home delivery with an well as for another artist. His produc- www.youngprofessionalsofsanfran- incredible birth team. We’re totally Stephanie Abuyaghi, BS future the platform we built for tion company, AK37 Productions, the Yelp for continuing education cisco.com or www.facebook.com/ 1998 smitten with her and find her to be 06, write, “Since meeting each OneVietnam Network can be used will officially open by the end of classes. It’s currently in its beta stage, 1994 YPOSF” Milan Brych, BS, Orange peaceful, wise, and curious.” other as students at the Haas School for other communities as well.” 2011. with more than 2,000 courses from Lawrence “Larry” Fox, County, Calif., is a corporate finance nearly six , of Richmond, Calif., writes, Stephen Maier, BS, writes, 13 Bay Area organizations. Scialom BS professional working as a consultant years ago, Terence Kim, BS, has returned “2011 has been a very busy year. ”After graduating, I moved to the plans to generate revenue by taking a for a large health care provider. Milan 2003 we finally to his hometown in Los Angeles While the economy has been rough, frozen tundra of Chicago, where I percentage of course fees generated writes that he is busy raising three Ankur married after two years in investment banking I have thankfully been contracting at work for Kmart, developing innova- through his site. children, “one of which was already Luthra, at the Sir in San Francisco. He is working in Kaiser as an HR analyst. My family tive solutions for the financially my late-night study partner while at BS, is a Francis private equity at Oaktree Capital is doing well and even managed under-banked and underserved. Haas—if you call changing a diaper fourth-year Drake Management. He writes that he would Nakagami Receives to take part in the annual Cal Day Married a farmer’s daughter and good preparation for Professor investment Hotel love to connect with any alumni in the Hedge Fund Award festivities. In my other pursuits I was turned her into a Cal fan instantly! Robinson’s marketing class!” Milan profes- in San area and invites you to contact him at named volunteer of the year at my Carrying the blue and gold torch Yasunori received an MBA from the Anderson sional at Ziff Francisco [email protected]. congregation. Hoping that 2012 will here in the Midwest as the head of Nakagami’s School of Business in 2005. Brothers on June be a better year. Go Bears!” the Cal Alumni Club of Chicago. Go Ryan Ko, BS, returned to the Asuka Value Up Investments, 25. It was Founders of the Young Professionals Stephanie Abuyaghi, Bears!” Bay Area as a sales and marketing working on a beautiful of San Francisco: Jeff Whitlow, Fund was named BS 06, and Samir 1999 investment ceremony consultant for ZS Associates after a David Smith, BS 09, and Kourosh the “Best Asian 1996 Gharib, BS 05, at their Kenny Nguyen, BS, of Ho Chi year of audit experience with KPMG Jason Zaixin Xie, BS, of Ankur Luthra, BS ideas in shared in Zamanizadeh, BS 09 Event-Driven Fund” , of San Francisco wedding Minh City, Vietnam, is the managing Los Angeles. He is using the skills Eleen Hsu Agustin, BS Los Gatos, Calif., works at Microsoft 03 , with wife Nijee public tech- the com- at the 2011 Asian Alameda, Calif., writes, “This year Sharma director of SECUDE International and knowledge he gained from the as a senior program manager nology com- pany of family and friends, including Hedge Fund finds me double dipping in the world LLC. Social Sector Solutions program Richard Zen, BS, of El Cerrito, in the Interactive Entertainment panies (long/short equities). Ankur Cal and Haas alumni. After our of shop keeping! Modern Mouse, to grow the fledgling nonprofit, Calif., writes, “I’m wrapping up two Awards in May. Business Division. He writes that he writes, “On May 29, 2011, I married wedding, we spent our honeymoon Yasunori Nakagami, (modern- memorable years as an auditor at Nakagami, is “living and breathing our Xbox and Dr. Nijee Sharma in Chicago. Nijee in beautiful Oahu, Hawaii. We are MBA 91 mouse- 2008 Ernst & Young in San Francisco. MBA 91, Mediaroom IPTV products day in has a PhD in neuroscience, an MD, now living in San Francisco, where gifts.com), Sean Ahrens, BS, of San Next steps involving major life co-founded Asuka Corporate and day out. At home, I spend time and is a neurology resident.” I work in management consulting where Francisco, writes, “After graduating transitions: getting married to a Advisory with Asuka Asset with my wife, Anca, and two sons, and Stephanie works in corporate we sell from Haas and Berkeley’s computer fellow Cal alumna (Jenny Zhang), Management in April 2005. Julian (6) and Elijah (2). As you can David Miskie, BS, of San finance. Go Bears!” modern science program, my heart was joining Deloitte Consulting, and The Asuka Value Up Fund, which imagine, we always have some fun Francisco, Calif., writes that San quickly pulled to Silicon Valley’s tech hand- , of moving to Hong Kong. I’ll miss the invests in small- to medium-cap listed activities going on either around the Franola Granola was recently chosen David Pordes, BS startup scene. I founded and did crafted Alameda, Calif., left Farallon Capital Bay Area. Please say hi if you are in companies, has a more than six-year house or around town.” as one of the featured granolas to be design and development for multiple wares carried at all the Google campuses Management in San Francisco and Hong Kong.” track record of outperforming mobile and Web software startups, by local joined Hercules Technology Growth and kitchens. After beating out 20 and gained invaluable experience Japanese equity indices. Nakagami and inde- Capital in Palo Alto. He writes, ”My of the other top granola brands, San with the backing of Y-Combinator, a attributes its success to carefully pendent boss is a Stanford undergrad, but we Franola’s roasted granola will now be seed-stage venture firm. This year, managed risk controls and working artists, will feeding over 30,000 Googlers a day. won’t blame her since she redeemed Ryan Ko, BS 09, and Sheng Huang, actively with company management celebrate herself with a Haas MBA. Go Bears!” BS 10, with U.S. Rep. Mike Honda on top-down projects. Eleen Hsu Agustin, its two-year (center) BS 96, and husband anniver- Jimmy Agustin, BS 98 sary this

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and the Arizona high country. She 1975 with a variety of characters. If reeling every week, noticeably grindstone, and save as much as Jeanne Hsu, MBA, of died from illness in 1989 after 19 Fred Sheng, MBA, retired in anyone has marketing or production increasing our fitness levels. It’s won- you can while you’re single. When Mountain View, Calif., writes, “For fun, years of marriage. Dan returned to skills with DVDs, videos, or applets derful to travel with children who you marry and have kids, your I usher at several different venues, Arizona, where he worked for TRW 2004, and has become increasingly active with the Asian Art Museum in or grant writing experience for are over 21 (daughter, Kate, and her money is no longer yours. If you buy such as the Mountain View Center Automotive and later Goodrich, educational projects please contact husband, John, and our son, John); a house, get a 15-year loan and pay for the Performing Arts, the San Jose Haas Alumni Network designing air bags and inflatable seat San Francisco. This year he became chair of the Jade Circle, a member [email protected] or sandyrettger@ we’re all looking forward to learning it off as soon as you can. Then you’ll Rep, Stanford Lively Arts, and the belts. He met and married Charlotte yahoo.com.” more about single malt Scotch on be living the dream as I am!” Mountain Winery. I enjoy doing ser- Bemis, and the two are closing in on group that supports the museum. Fred also volunteers as a storyteller a quick tour of the Whisky Trail. On vice and being able to see some great 20 years of marriage. Raymond our return home in early September, Beverly Dance, MBA, of theater and music concerts. Two of Submit your news online at working with elementary school 1964 Fry, MBA, of I’ll dust off my marketing hat to Oakland, Calif., enjoys her work as my favorites: a children’s rendition of http://haas.berkeley.edu/alumninotes children and is the vice-chair of the Oakland, Calif., a human resources consultant and Georgina Falu (Pesante), 1971 storyteller group, primarily in charge launch our family’s very small pro- “Annie Get Your Gun” (“Anything You MBA, of New York, became retired in 1999 duction of Villa Ragazzi 2009 Napa trainer. Beverly does sexual harass- Can Do, I Can Do Better!”), and seeing , of of continuing education. the first female dean of the busi- David Jones, MBA from finance Valley Sangiovese; please feel free ment prevention training that is The Monkees with Davy Jones, Peter Renton, Wash., joined Boeing in Alumni Notes ness school at the University of and planning to ’like’ it on Facebook or visit online required for supervisors in California. Tork, and Micky Dolenz. Remember 2003, after retiring from United Puerto Rico in 1974 after teaching 1976 at Levi Strauss. at villaragazziwine.com. I continue Her work as a part of the Society for “Daydream Believer” and “The Last Airlines. He retired from Boeing in accounting there for 10 years. She After consulting to serve on the board and execu- Human Resources Management Train to Clarksville”? They showed March. In his last assignment at Hossein Hadjibashi, later taught accounting at SUNY-NY. in Silicon Valley tive committee of the Wine Market (SHRM) faculty will take her to Las some of the old Monkees TV epi- Boeing, he led a team of pilots and MBA, of Hamburg, Germany, has 2010 She is now the professor of afro- been working as a manager for for three years, Council and am a board member Vegas, Chicago, and Phoenix this sodes on a big screen while playing engineers developing strategies for Raymond Fry, latino history and culture at City Raymond got and chair-elect of the Napa Valley fall. She is happy to hear from fellow their music, which brought back Yeonjoo “Rosa” Seo, BS, improving Boeing airplane landing various trading and financial compa- MBA 78 College-CUNY. She travels through his real estate Destination Council.” bears at [email protected]. pleasant memories! of Pleasanton, Calif., is working as a capabilities. He writes, “I enjoyed nies in Germany and is currently the Latin America lecturing on African broker’s license As a patron, I saw Garrison Keillor paralegal. the work so much that I stayed on manager of a large trading company Takehiko Nakao, MBA, is history and has translated three and began doing mortgage loans. (Prairie Home Companion), in his part-time for another year. I have in Hamburg. Hossein is married th MBA Reunion the vice-minister for foreign affairs books on African history to Spanish. He focuses on reverse mortgages 1982|30 Summer Love tour. He was so adroit airplanes in my blood and so I vol- and has a son and a daughter. His of the Ministry of Finance of Japan. 2011 Georgina has been the president and started a corporation called April 26-29, 2012 at telling his stories that he didn’t unteer as a docent at the Seattle daughter has her BS from Haas He has held several positions within Tiffany Barillas, BS, of New of the Falu Foundation for 23 years Mr. Reverse Mortgage Inc. He also need notes, except for the tailored Museum of Flight. At the museum Business School and an MBA from the Ministry, including a post at the York City, is a financial analyst at and was recently elected secre- recently started a radio show in David Brockman, MBA, of song he wrote about Saratoga and I served as an aviation merit badge Harvard. IMF as a senior-level economist Goldman Sachs. tary general of the African Union the Bay Area called “Ray Fry on Dallas, Texas, retired in 2009 from the Bay Area, which was a nice touch. counselor to approximately 300 and at the embassy in Washington, Diaspora Task Team. The task team Baby Boomers,” which focuses on AT&T after a successful career. He I got to see Fred Newman, his sound Boy Scouts this year. In the winter, th D.C., as a minister. He appreciates Stephanie Chen, BS, of is preparing the report for the African 1977|35 MBA Reunion the problems and issues of baby is enjoying golf, volunteer work, and effects man, doing his rendition of skiing is my way of living with our his days at Berkeley as it provided Sunnyvale, Calif., has joined Google Union to progress towards its goal April 26-29, 2012 boomers. Raymond writes, “Never family activities more fully now. He clopping horses, old Colt gunshots, many overcast days. We live less him with a foundation to work in the in Mountain View, and is working on to integrate African Descendants stop learning, changing, and chal- is also promoting investments in life and barbequing Heirloom tomatoes; than one hour from the closest international sector of the Ministry support for the Android market. Diaspora as the sixth region of the , of lenging yourself.” settlements, which provide a non- you don’t get to see that everyday! resort, and only two ½ hours to Crystal Laura Brody, MBA of Finance. Takehiko is married to African Union. Piedmont, Calif., is now serving on correlated investment product, with Then during intermission, Garrison Michael Fong, BS, of Mountain (the largest resort in the Asako and has two sons. the Alameda County Civil Grand exceptional returns and minimal and his musical guest Sara, strolled Berkeley, Calif., writes, “As alumni life state), so have been able to ski over 1979 Jury for a second year after retiring risk. He writes, “I’m sure all Berkeley up into the audience.They sang slowly grows on me, I am constantly 25 days each of the last several Lori (Gibson) Banducci, 1965 from 32 years in the financial ser- MBAs understand the value of such familiar tunes that they encouraged looking for new opportunities to years.” David’s daughter, Rochelle, is MBA, of Boise, Idaho, recently 1984 Schuyler Bailey, MBA, of vices industry. an investment!” everyone chime in. It was magical expand my horizons. It is an exciting a UC Davis veterinary graduate and accepted a position as the vice pres- Jacqueline Bogard, MBA, Berkeley, Calif., writes, “Susie and because he came up so close as he time to be in cannabusiness. The works in a clinic in State College, ident of marketing operations with of San Jose, Calif., writes, “This I continue to treasure the care- Joi Grieg, MBA, of Crystal walked around the different sections industry is constantly evolving and Penn. Rochelle will be getting mar- Scentsy, which was recently named note is the result of attending a giving time we spend with our only Washington, D.C., was appointed (Cavelos) of the theatre; adoring patrons were has grown from an experimental ried in Kensington over Labor Day the fastest growing consumer prod- recent South Bay Chapter Alumni grandchild, Eliana (18 mos.). Our assistant director of research and Campisi, clicking away his picture, mesmerized stage to a full-fledged, cutthroat envi- weekend. David’s son, Ryan, finished ucts company in the United States barbecue with good friends from RV travels to the 49 states we could development at the Library of MBA, of by his presence. That was an amazing ronment that requires daily assess- the MBA program at UCLA in June by Inc. Magazine. She writes, “I am the class of 1984. What a fabu- drive to are on hold; we have done Congress. She is also president of San Jose, concert! ment of an unknown future. The and is now working for a startup really looking forward to working for lous, tight-knit class we had! Over 37 states and 50,000 miles so far! the Maryland Masonic Society. She Calif., writes, I also want to put in a plug for the opportunities are endless and I am company in San Francisco. a privately held, socially engaged the years I’ve hosted some teas We are looking forward to Cal foot- was excited for the arrival of her first “I am truly Haas South Bay Chapter. They put on excited to be in a position to make company that is driven by some- for my MBA friends and many of ball at AT&T Park this year.” granddaughter near Halloween. living the a great alumni picnic in July where a difference in the ever-changing Peter Michael, MBA, thing other than quarterly earnings!” us have stayed in touch over the dream! Used I got to meet some new people and medical cannabis industry. Berkeley will publish his latest book, Dana (Stevenson) Lang, my MBA years. I have been married to my has always been one to embrace 1966 Remembering John Hanson, later MBA, of Oakland, Calif., writes, Grant wonderful husband, Jim Bell, for reconnect with some of my class- to work in mates. Here’s a shout out to that connection with this sacred in 2011. Hanson was the first “One of the high points of my year Ricketts, Crystal (Cavelos) 19 years. We share a lovely home Karen Robert Clarke, MBA, retired high tech for Wolff, Jacqui Bogard, and plant. Feel free to contact me to get as chairman, president, and CEO of president of the first United States was attending the Haas ‘Awakening’ MBA, of El Campisi, MBA 82 20 years in in San Jose with our cat, Phoenix. in touch; there is a lot to talk about!” government, the United States in dinner in March 2011 for minority Cerrito, Calif., We love to travel, garden, cook, Nora Raggio, all MBA 84, Hawaiian Electric Industries in June Silicon Valley, my Haas classmates!” 2006. He has been the executive in Congress Assembled under the students and alumni. Although very recently started and put all my income towards my and read. Jim is an avid bicyclist. I , of Peter “Tae” Pang, BS residence at the Shidler College of Articles of Confederation. A key but few African American students are a new software house payment. Paid off my house did marketing for a couple of years Singapore, is currently working at Raymond Business at the University of Hawaii now all but forgotten revolutionary- enrolled at Haas, I was heartened company, Tripos in 13 years, funded two college after my MBA, and then returned Olam International as a commodity era figure, Hanson served the Software Inc., to environmental work. I’ve worked Kaupp, at Manoa, where he co-teaches by the determination of the group educations, and retired at 42. My , of Ben trader. 1781-1782 presidential term after after many for the (now titled) Silicon Valley MBA the core MBA course in corporate to recruit and encourage more kids (18 and 21) will both be in Lomond, Calif., his nation-saving accomplishments years as vice Leadership Group, been in the cor- finance. minority applicants. Other highlights college this fall. One is a freshman started teaching Sang Sub Lee, BS, of San in forming the first government. Grant Ricketts, president and porate environmental, health, and this year include enjoying my work MBA 79 at Cal State Long Beach pursuing after 20 years of Francisco, was hired as an invest- For more on John Hanson or to co-founder of safety departments for Intel and Del as grants manager for the San acting, and the other will be trans- marketing and ment-banking analyst at Evercore th MBA Reunion schedule an author appearance, visit Saba Software, Monte Foods, worked for startups, 1967|45 Francisco Police Department, having ferring from junior college to San general manage- Partners in the technology M&A APRIL 26-29, 2012 JohnHansonMemorial.org. Inc. Tripos Software focuses on and consulted on EHS matters for group. He is their first straight- two (of three) of my sons graduate Jose State University to become ment, including from college, sending the youngest corporate sustainability manage- many years. It’s been a fun and ever- out-of-college hire from Berkeley , a physical education teacher. I a five-year stint George Oliva, S.J., MBA son off to Morehouse University ment. Grant writes, “It’s fun to evolving field. A shout-out to all my undergrad. moved from San Jose, Calif., to will now have an empty nest! My Raymond Kaupp, at Apple, a suc- this fall, and celebrating the oldest address a new opportunity all over class of ’84 friends!” 1969 North Las Vegas, Nev., in early June. husband is still working to pay the MBA 84 cessful IPO, and son’s marriage in August 2011. To again. Enjoy other activities as well Dan Hake, MBA, of He teaches ethical decision-making monthly bills, so I could choose not another startup keep everything focused, I maintain in music, sports, and travel. Drop a Martha (Garriga) Scottsdale, Ariz., has been working in the school of management to work. Instead, I chose a fun retire- , has sold to Cisco. Raymond went back to a steady schedule of Tae Kwon Do note if on LinkedIn.” Stoneburner, MBA at Southwest Microwave Inc., for at Regis University’s campus in ment job: I am now a piano teacher! been managing her company, school for a doctorate in educational MBA classes and am preparing to test as two and a half years as a manufac- Henderson. He is also a spiritual It’s amazing how you can do some- Stoneburner Associates, since leadership at SFSU. He is currently a second-degree black belt this fall.” turing and development engineer. coach and ethics consultant in the 1980 thing that you really enjoy when you 1991. Stoneburner Associates is working on alignment of the educa- th MBA Reunion don’t have a huge house payment. 1962|50 He is helping develop a line of Las Vegas corporate community. , a full-service mortgage lending tion and workforce development Michaela Rodeno, MBA I don’t teach in the summer, so my APRIL 26-29, 2012 small microwave coax connectors. of Oakville, Calif., writes, “By the company with offices in California systems in Santa Cruz County, as 1978 days consist of sitting by the pool, After leaving Berkeley, Dan married time this is published Gregory and I and Arizona. She writes, “It’s been a director of Workforce Development th MBA Reunion Sandra Rettger, MBA, reading, and enjoying my newly Nancy Brickley, and the two lived 1972|40 will be back from a trip to the high- hectic industry with all the changes 2.0 at Cabrillo College. of Mill Valley, Calif., writes, “I am re-done backyard with outdoor in northern and southern California APRIL 26-29, 2012 lands of Scotland focused on the and ups and downs. I still very much working on an entertaining chil- kitchen. My advice to new gradu- annual games in Lonach and the enjoy the business and helping dren’s film based on popular music ates: Always pay over the minimum celebration of the 25th anniversary clients achieve the dream of home on your loans—the rest goes straight of friends who were married there. ownership.” to principal. Keep your nose to the To prepare we’ve been practicing

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for the Stewards of the Coast and pany started. Carolina writes, “Our , is tice in construction and commercial , Submit your news online at Victor Casalino, MBA 1998 Daniel Tellalian, MBA Redwoods as a tide pool docent headquarters and main NeuroLab moving to Istanbul, Turkey, this year related consulting and litigation of Los Angeles, has been busy http://haas.berkeley.edu/alumninotes Maryam Ghazi, MBA, of for school children from second is in Berkeley, and we are hosting a to take on a new role as finance work. He is active in St. Isidore Parish San Rafael, Calif., started her own designing and capitalizing the through seventh grade. She also group from the executive MBA pro- lead for the Middle East and Africa in Danville and recently became a financial advisory practice in January California FreshWorks Fund, a $200 Alumni Notes volunteers for Stewards of the Coast gram in August. We very much ben- for Microsoft. Victor writes, “Very first-degree member of the Knights after over a decade of restructuring million public-private loan fund cre- and Redwoods at fund-raising fes- efit from our collaboration with the excited about this adventure!” of Columbus. Gene and wife Erin Fortune 500 companies while at ated to expand healthy food retailing tival events, usually serving in the Haas School as our industry grows have four children: Garrett, Keaton, top-tier consulting and Big Four statewide. Launched in July by First beer and wine tent. Laura writes, and develops.” Cathy Ferron, MBA, of San Ireland, and Cael. Lady Michelle Obama as part of the Rafael, Calif., writes, “This was an accounting firms. Maryam writes, “I am single and live in a cedar log “Though the change was chal- national “Let’s Move” campaign, Nora Raggio, MBA, of Palo cabin on 3.2 acres at the southern exciting summer for family travel! We Hilary Weber, MBA, of Daniel’s firm, Emerging Markets Alto, Calif., is using her marketing 1991 met our 20-year-old son (who was San Francisco, writes, “I am thrilled lenging, I am confident that it was end of the Russian River valley in Kevin Renner, MBA 88, with his two the right decision as it allows me to Inc., is now driving the outreach and skills to help nonprofit organizations the heart of Sonoma County wine Eiji Kinoshita, MBA, writes, born while I was getting my MBA) to announce the launch of my pipeline development aspects of daughters, who inspired him to write new business, Opportu.com, a be creative in my solutions and flex- in the arts make better strategy country. I have two sweet kitties, a book titled In Search of Fatherhood: “After four years in the Philippines in Peru in June, after he had finished the fund. decisions. She is also co-teaching and 3 ½ years in Australia as general volunteering in a medical clinic in professional coaching enterprise ible with my schedule. I am excited Sophie and Wanda. I enjoy showing A Mother Lode of Wisdom from the about providing financial advisory workshops on video, animation, and people around my region’s wine World of Daughterhood manager, I am now back in Tokyo, Lima, and travelled for two weeks dedicated to helping businesses, photography. Nora is an artist and Japan, my home. I am part of the visiting Machu Picchu and Aguas teams, and individuals get from and restructuring services to middle- 1999 country. I love movies, most music, market companies in the Bay Area was selected to be an artist in resi- Kevin Renner, MBA, of marketing sector of international Calientes, Cusco, Ollantaytambo, where they are now to greatness. , of mystery/crime novels, the red- and enjoy the impact I have on my Gleb Budman, MBA dence at the Cubberley Studios in Portland, Ore., recently published operations working on infrastructure and the rainforest of the Tambopata I love helping my clients define San Francisco, writes, “After getting woods and ocean, fine wines and clients’ lives. I have been grateful Palo Alto. She received a grant while his book, In Search of Fatherhood: projects. Between the earthquake, National Reserve. What a fabulous what they want to accomplish and married last year, Katia and I took food, and fast cars. Life is good!” for the support of the Haas alumni she was an artist in residence at A Mother Lode of Wisdom from tsunami, nuclear power problem, trip of incredible sights, lots of hiking helping them remove both inner our honeymoon on safari in Kenya, services during this transition pro- Djerassi, and her artwork has been the World of Daughterhood. Kevin and the appreciating value of the and climbing, cultural experiences, and outer barriers to success. I which had been a dream of mine for cess and hope to see my practice shown across the United States and th MBA Reunion writes that as the father of two yen, life is not easy here for me, my and wonderful food! Lucky for us we specialize in purpose-driven work over a decade, and had an amazing 1987|25 develop over the next few years. I in France and Argentina. April 26-29, 2012 daughters he ran into a confidence family, or our nation. We Samurai had our son along who speaks fluent and relationship building. I hope time. Backblaze, our online backup strive to develop a balance between crisis when he realized he wasn’t the will never give up and continue to Spanish to help us negotiate our sou- all of my Haas alums are having as service, continues to grow quickly much fun as I am having in their my professional and personal life and , of dad he wanted for his daughters. To encourage people in the northern venir purchases and the cab rides.” and profitably. We have also had 1985 Ken Bozzini, MBA daily work - there’s nothing like always live life mindfully and with Lafayette, Calif., writes, “Not sure learn how fathers shape their daugh- region. I will always remember some entertaining occurrences, , of William “Bill” Golove, feeling that you were born to do purpose.” Mauri Schwartz, MBA where the athletic genes came from, ters’ lives, he spent a year inter- blue sky, the fantastic environment, including helping capture a counter- San Francisco, Calif., owns Career MBA, of El Cerrito, Calif., writes, something. Powerful stuff!” but our daughter, Corrine Bozzini, viewing 50 women from around and phenomenal atmosphere of Tim Gray, MBA, of Berkeley, feiting crime ring in Argentina and Insiders, a company committed to “This last year has been exceptionally competed in the 2011 World the world, across seven decades, Berkeley. Spirit of Golden Bears and Calif., writes, “Did you know that exposing a thief with a video of him helping Haas graduates and alumni rewarding both professionally and Rowing Junior Championships held on their lives and the influence Samurai!” 90 percent of new products fail? dancing on YouTube.” succeed. Mauri writes, “I am proud personally. I just celebrated one year 1994 in Eton, Great Britain, the first week their fathers had—for better and for Outrageous, but true. So, this to say that I was recently told by one Nicholas Kiritz, MBA, of as chief development officer for Tri Koji Asada, MBA, moved to of August. Corinne rowed in a pair, worse. He has appeared around the summer I joined King Brown of my Haas career advisees that he Washington, D.C., just returned from Global Energy, an independent wind New York in July to take up a position and they came in sixth. Corinne will country on NPR, ABC, CBS, Oprah Partners, a research and consulting and his colleagues had decided that a wonderful trip to Thailand with his developer headquartered in Dallas as deputy general manager of Asian be a senior in high school this year Network, FOX, and other television firm in Sausalito, to create a new I conducted the most difficult mock family. with a field office in Lubbock, Texas. Corporate Banking Division, New and rows for the Oakland Strokes and radio affiliates. His blog, confer- service tailored specifically to helping interviews.” He adds, “Aside from On a personal note, my wife and I York at The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi during the year.” ence speaking availability, and retail Tsuguru Saito, MBA, of product teams dramatically improve my work, I am once again involved availability of the book can be found are overjoyed at the arrival of our first UFJ LTD. Koji will be responsible Tokyo, Japan, became president son, Leonard (Leo) Andrew Golove, for the corporate and investment their success rates. I am also vol- in electoral politics in San Francisco Pamela at www.kevin-renner.com. unteering with Sara Beckman to (but not as a candidate). It’s always a of a new forex broker, Ava Trade on March 16, 2011. Little did I know banking relationship with Asian Moraga, Japan K.K., in July 2011 after taking research product team practices wild ride.” MBA, of it might be easier to sleep in a hotel and Japanese customers in the 1990 marketing executive positions at in Lubbock than at home!” Americas. relevant for the UC Berkeley Center Ashburn, Va., for Executive Education Product , of Los world-known companies in various writes, “I’m Britt Anderson, MBA Management. It’s a great opportunity 1986 Gatos, Calif., is now working at K&L industries for approximately 17 Gleb Budman, MBA 99, on safari in enjoying my to focus on a discipline I care about Jill (Altshuler) Dresser, Gates LLP in Palo Alto, Calif., where years. Ava Trade Japan K.K. is a 1995 Kenya during his honeymoon life with family and give something back to Haas. MBA, of Walnut Creek, Calif., he is a partner practicing trademark startup Japanese subsidiary of Ava Richard Petersen, MBA, of and friends Go Bears!” writes, “I can’t believe that it’s been and copyright law. He and his wife, FX, which is one of the world’s San Jose, Calif., joined FlashSoft this Alan Knitowski, MBA, of and recently top-10 forex brokers. Tsuguru is year as vice president of marketing. 25 years since graduation from Cal Karyn, have one son at Cal and , Austin, Texas, writes that Phunware relocated to the excited to take on a general manage- He writes, “I’ve realized how much I Nancy Hazlewood, MBA and 25 years of wedded bliss to Pamera Moraga, another at UCLA. of Oakland, Calif., continues to pro- purchased GoTV Networks on MBA 87 Washington, ment position for the first time in his missed the excitement of a dynami- Bruce! Our daughter Jessica (20) is D.C., metro area. vide custom solutions to health care, July 11 and is now the world’s , of San career. He aims to make Ava Trade cally changing business climate, a senior at UC Davis and the twins, My husband and I particularly enjoy Manoj Goel, MBA IT, nonprofit, and startup organiza- largest global provider of enterprise Jose, Calif., took an early retirement one of the top five forex brokers wearing lots of hats and working Joe and Scott (16), are juniors at Las traveling. Europe has been our tions via Hazlewood Consulting Inc. branded application infrastructure. from Cisco Systems in July 2011 within the next five years. Tsuguru with a solid business and technology Lomas High School. Lots of time is favorite destination so far, especially (www.hazlewoodconsulting.com) Phunware is a profitable, debt-free to start a medical diagnostic device writes, “The business education I got team. I’m also doing my best to pro- still spent at high school sporting our cruise to Norway. My current in the areas of strategic, financial, company with a customer base company for emerging markets. from Haas has helped me transform tect my family time, especially during events and UC Davis lacrosse William “Bill” Golove, MBA 92, with product, and project management. that includes many of the largest employer is Hewlett-Packard Co., myself from an unknown insurance his growing family the kids’ summer vacation.” games as Jessica is a two-time All where I work as a business develop- Nancy has been working most brands on the planet, including the American center midfielder on the operations staffer to a marketing ment executive in the US federal Johannes Raedeker, recently on health care reform. She is NFL, McDonald’s, and Discovery UC Davis women’s club lacrosse manager 17 years ago. I appreciate Tim Leach, MBA, of San Communications. business, which is part of HP’s the Haas School and friends from Francisco, spent three years in MBA, was promoted to director at also very active musically. She plays team. I also have the best job and records with local and national Enterprise Business Group.” Haas because my career and life Minneapolis in his current role as Deloitte, where he is consulting on , of that I never knew I wanted as an acts, and also performs with her own Nancy Riess, MBA would never have been colorful like chief investment officer for US IT strategy and planning for ERP and Baltimore, Md., writes, “The Haas Independent CAbi Consultant (Carol sax/organ combo to promote her this without Haas.” Bank. He writes, “Happily, the bank’s SaaS-based business transforma- Alumni network produces results!” Anderson by invitation). I represent 1988 CD “Moanin.” You can hear tracks a debt-free apparel company (yes, strategic plan includes accelerating tion. He is married to Franziska Nancy and Chris Ritchie, Anthony Carrick, MBA, Atul Sharan, MBA, of and learn more at www.myspace. that’s unusual) that designs and sells its growth on the West Coast so I (Peter) Raedeker, MBA MBA 99, reconnected via of La Mirada, Calif., and his wife, Cupertino, Calif., is the president com/nancywrightmusic. beautiful, stylish, and comfortable recently shifted my office back to 95, who left McKinsey 10 years ago LinkedIn in early 2010. When Susana, are proud that their son, and CEO of AutoESL Design to run her own strategy and sustain- women’s clothes in a trunk show San Francisco! It’s great to be back, , Sentrana needed a marketing and Matthew, will be a freshman at Technologies, which was acquired able business-planning consultancy. Elizabeth Pearce, MBA format. Bruce is in his 15th year as although I found the quality of life to writes, “After 25 years in the invest- technology consultant, Chris invited the University of California Santa Manoj Goel, MBA 90, with family at by Xilinx Inc. earlier this year. This Johannes writes that their tall kids, president of Tenth Dot Solutions be great in Minneapolis...weather ment business, envious of my Nancy’s company to submit a pro- Barbara this year. Matthew is doing Holi, the Indian Festival of Colors was his fourth startup that had a Clara (8) and Lars-Henry (5), are Marketing Consulting. Go Aggies, aside.” classmates in technology, I have posal. Now we have been working the weeklong freshman adventure positive exit. Atul is currently an catching up fast with their parents’ and go Bears!” finally figured out a way to join together for over one year. Go Haas!” program canoeing, camping, and Caroline Winnett, MBA, independent board member for high- height. climbing at the Colorado River with them. I am now the CFO of Organic , of Berkeley, Calif., writes that her tech startups and also does selective 1993 Nilmini (Gunaratne) Laura Roche, MBA/MPH some of his new classmates. Their Marketplace Solutions, a startup soft- of Forestville, Calif., continues to company, NeuroFocus, was acquired angel investing. Gene Lash, MBA, of Rubin, MBA, of Washington, daughter, Sarah, has just committed 1997|15th MBA Reunion ware company in food traceability, work as adjunct faculty for the by Nielsen in May. NeuroFocus now Danville, Calif., recently joined Delta D.C., is delighted to join the to to attend and April 26-29, 2012 business analytics for farm manage- School of Nursing at Dominican provides neuro-marketing research th Consulting Group as a vice president Information Technology Industry play soccer as a goalkeeper in the 1992|20 MBA Reunion ment, and organic certification. I’d University of California. Laura is as part of the Nielsen family of com- in their new San Francisco Bay Council as director of government fall of 2012. Anthony and Susana’s April 26-29, 2012 love to connect with any Golden a part-time clinical instructor in panies. The NeuroFocus executive Area office in Walnut Creek. Gene relations after a dozen fantastic years youngest child, Monica, just started Bears who can help us!” maternal child health for Dominican team is still heavily populated by Cal is an expert CPA responsible for high school. at Kaiser Santa Rosa. She volunteers alumni, as it has been since the com- expanding Delta’s West Coast prac-

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with an impromptu wedding cer- Nikolas Alan Kockler, born on June Submit your news online at Deepak Shankar, MBA, strong, and our agency, Adsmith Jed Clevenger, MBA, of Kathy (Barris) Dideum, emony during the May baby shower 21 in a planned home birth. http://haas.berkeley.edu/alumninotes moved to Chennai, India, in June. China, has had a busy year doing the San Francisco, Calif., writes, “After MBA, recently moved from the Bay He will continue to be CEO of his marketing for China, for our first child. Karla gave birth to seven years at eBay and finishing Area to San Antonio, Texas, where her company, Mirabilis Design, which is Monster headphones, Melia Hotels, a healthy and spirited baby, Robert Qing Li, MBA, of Mountain my MBA at Haas, I decided to take husband, Patrick, is attending medical Alumni Notes based in Sunnyvale, Calif. Deepak life’sDHA, and other great brands in Romero Ricketts, on June 21. I have View, Calif., writes, “We’ve been the plunge. I recently joined a social school. She continues to serve as a writes that the business opportuni- China. I run into fellow alum Beau been working since graduation for working very hard on our new commerce startup called Yardsellr product development manager in ties in India and China, especially Giannini, MBA 94, often, as Kaiser Permanente in various roles, Facebook social game, White as the second full-time employee. Wells Fargo’s card services and con- in government and defense, are we share the same building.” and recently accepted a position as House. Isn’t this a perfect time to We raised $5 million in a Series A sumer lending division. with the Senate, White House, and enormous, and his company hopes executive director for our Maryland, see if you have what it takes to run from Accel and Harrison Metal and Treasury Department working on to grow in these economies. Deepak Uri Man, MBA, of Tel Aviv, Virginia, and D.C. region. We will the Oval Office and get our national are having a blast growing the busi- Huzefa Mehta, MBA, of international finance, transparency, Israel, recently founded Naturera, miss our California friends but are debt under control? Keep an eye on ness. We are looking for engineers, San Jose, Calif., and Reena Mehta invites anyone who needs business Heather Sears, MBA 03, with family and foreign assistance. Nilmini or tourist assistance in India to con- a consumer products company looking forward to seeing our East www.facebook.com/whitehouse- analysts, finance, and marketing cofounded rasa tabula (http://www. will be working on public policy tact him. dedicated to helping people with Coast Bears more often!” game.” professionals to join our growing rasatabula.com), a cloud platform for challenges on behalf of leading diabetes through proven all-natural to work with some amazing local team. Feel free to get in touch at schools. The rasa tabula portal com- , of Marcy Lynn, MBA, information and communications dietary supplements backed by artisan food companies. Carmen is a Justin Rietz, MBA [email protected] or learn more at bines backend administrative tasks, Cupertino, Calif., writes, “My wife and writes, “My husband, Dave, and I technology companies and is looking 2001 published clinical research. Uri is also nephrologist at UCSF seeing patients http://yardsellr.com.” social media, and learning manage- a regular contributor to CNBC, FOX and doing research on kidney dis- I just welcomed our son, Liam Rietz, welcomed our daughter, Lila Gisele ment systems in a secure, collaborative forward to connecting her Bay Area Heidi (Gilman) Bennett, Hershenson, into the world on , writes, “So pleased to be Business, and FOX News. ease prevention. We are taking our into the world on May 4. He is doing Russell Bernstein, MBA, environment. To raise awareness for roots with her D.C. work experience. MBA Oct. 8, 2010. After an extended living in Berkeley! My husband and I first overseas trip with the kids this well, as is his big sister, Alexa, who of Denver, Colo., is working to funding for Cupertino public schools, , of maternity leave I joined Facebook Tanya (Shaw) Steinhofer, with our two young children (2 and Marc Rahlves, MBA December, heading to Barranquilla, is excited to have a new playmate. incorporate his nonprofit (Global Huzefa did a four-day bike fundraiser, New York, left Bain and Company and am heading up the company’s MBA, of Mill Valley, Calif., cel- 4) are now living in the Berkeley Colombia, to visit the grandparents. I’m currently working at Yahoo! as a Team Players Foundation) in the riding 500 miles from San Francisco four years ago to venture into the corporate sustainability initiative as ebrated the second anniversary of hills, and are within walking distance Any and all travel tips for the 16-hour product manager, though I’m trying state of New York and is organizing to Santa Monica. nonprofit world. Mark writes, “I well as working on local/community her financial planning firm, Redwood from the Lawrence Hall of Science, journey are welcome!” to make extra time for the family.” volunteer activities in New Mexico, moved to Bogota, Colombia, to serve relations. We are still enjoying life in Grove Wealth Management in May. just above Haas. I’ve continued my Colorado, Tennessee, and Indiana. Emily Olman, MBA, writes, as the CFO/Head of Development Justin Schuster, MBA, San San Francisco, especially play-dates Her business continues to grow, successful independent consulting Russell developed the idea for his “Jason, Talea, and I are still living in of Fundacion Escuela Nueva, a high- Mateo, Calif., started a new job in 2005 with lots of Haas 2006 grads!” despite market turmoil, and she business, which focuses on nonprofit eight years ago, when Berlin, Germany. I began working impact education nonprofit. It was August leading product marketing at , feels fortunate to have several Haas education publishing and specializes Razab Chowdhury, MBA his professional water polo career for the Berlin School of Creative a wonderful experience and I have Lithium Technologies. of Fremont, Calif.: “The three Z’s Putri (Sugondo) MBAs as clients. Outside of work, in the school market and the ended. His nonprofit focuses on Leadership in July and am recruiting decided to stay dedicated to the continue to make life interesting—as Pascualy, MBA, of Newport she continues to enjoy cycling with growing public pre-K opportunities. the long-term coordination and for their executive MBA program. sector. As of August 29, I will work is wont when you have three young Coast, Calif., writes, “In May I trav- friends and rode in the Wine Country My clients have included big provision of core competencies Jason is busy writing his dissertation, as a manager for the Bridgespan 2004 children aged 2 to 6. The past year eled to China and Hong Kong on Century in May and plans to ride the companies like Disney as well as for capacity building in developing and Talea is busy learning how to talk!” Group in their New York office. Marcio Cardoso, MBA, of has included me changing industries business and learned a tremendous Tour de Tahoe in September. Now interesting education technology communities. Before that I am hoping to help Dallas, Texas, and his wife, Rhonda, from consulting to high tech (Juniper amount about the investment that her children are older, Tanya is startups, and I’m honored to be my German baseball team win our welcomed the arrival of their first Networks), a fun family trip to Dubai opportunities via hedge funds in Scott Schube, MBA, of Palo also beginning to travel more, and working for Sesame Workshop right Henrique Ceribelli, MBA, fourth consecutive championship child, Jonas Choi Cardoso, on July and Bangladesh, and my rejoining Asia. I was glad to catch up with Alto, Calif., writes, “I’ve been working is eagerly planning a trip to Vietnam now. My kids love it, too!” of Mountain View, Calif., writes, “Our (this time in the third highest 22, 2011. Marcio writes, “We send competitive cricket. Wishing a great Colin Ho, MBA 06, and daughter Olivia was born on April 4. hard on my startup company, Happy with her children in November. a big howdy to y’all! Please come , in Hong , of division).” rest of the year for fellow Haasies!” Wingee Sin, BS 01 She is strong as a bear and happy as Toy Machine (www.happytoymachine. Mark Brown, MBA say hi when visiting the Dallas-Fort Kong. Both of them were doing Terra Terwilliger, MBA, of Bogotá, Colombia, is planning urban- a Berkeley student. Go Bears!” com), which enables people to create , of Worth area!” , of very well, and I had a fantastic time Menlo Park, Calif., recently became greening projects with his nonprofit, Chris Sklarin, MBA Howard Connell, MBA their own custom plush toys online. Cleveland, Ohio, joined Edison Atlanta, Ga., accepted an offer to catching up professionally and per- the vice president of marketing for CitiNature (www.citinature.org). He Renee (Palgutt) We won the Audience Choice Award Ventures as an Investment Manager Sharon Karlsberg, MBA, join Kimberly-Clark Professional after sonally. I’m still with the firm I joined Citrus Lane, a company that sends writes, “I would love to have con- McLemore, MBA, of at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in early 2011. Chris now splits his of San Francisco, Calif., writes, almost six years on the consulting after receiving MBA. As a credit monthly care packages to new par- tact with others working on urban Moraga, Calif., is the marketing in May, and just took the site out of pri- time between BioEnterprise in “My husband, Craig Sakowitz, travel circuit with A.T. Kearney. strategist I’m actively researching ents. She writes, “This fits perfectly environmental issues and will hap- strategy director at McKesson in vate beta so that anyone can now go Cleveland and Edison. He leads and I are pleased to announce the Howard writes, “It’s an exciting investment opportunities for leading with my life since Ian and I wel- pily welcome any Haas visitors to San Francisco. She is happily mar- on the site and make some cool toys.” Edison’s regional efforts in Ohio and arrival of our second child. Wyatt role perfectly fitting my consulting global institutions. Would love to ried with two sons, Connor (4) comed our first baby in May. Lincoln Bogotá!” Albert Sakowitz was born on Feb. Matthew McCarthy was born western Pennsylvania, generating background. Our B2B operations are hear from other fellow alums—drop and Garrett (1). She is serving as investment opportunities and culti- 21, weighing in at a healthy nine headquartered in Atlanta, so it seems me a note!” co-director of a nonprofit board sup- 2009 at a whopping nine pounds! Santiago Vitagliano, pounds, four ounces and was 21 , of Miami Beach, recently vating relationships with deal referral I’m setting for the longer term here in porting UCSF Medical Center. Jose De Oliveira Pereira, Balancing our precious baby boy MBA inches in length. Big brother Zachary developed a patent for a dynamic sources. my hometown. An even better piece Jeffrey MBA, of Lisbon, Portugal, is a consul- with startup life is crazy. But I (3) and ’first child’ Sugar (who was a pressure differential hydroelectric of news: I’ve gotten engaged to the Wong, Ori Elkin, MBA, writes, “After tant in the Iberian office of Strategos wouldn’t change a thing!” , puppy during our time at Haas) are , generator. Katy (Moore) Song, MBA love of my life, Katharine. We’ll get MBA six years in the Bay Area, in which and was responsible for an open inno- of Mill Valley, Calif., launched her solo delighted with the new addition to married in summer or fall of 2012.” writes, we have increased our family size to vation project for a major Portuguese 2000 fee-only financial planning practice, our family. “Catherine five, we are all going back to Israel. I conglomerate. In the future, Jose will th , and , 2002|10 MBA Reunion Katy Song Financial Planning. She In other Leah Sutton, MBA and I am joining a new initiative in the NI have the responsibility of working on Rodrigo Prudencio, MBA her husband and son moved to of Oakland, Calif., writes, “Into my April 26-29, 2012 specializes in objective and custom- news, we were mar- (natural interface or spatial gestures) further open innovation projects in Bangalore, India, in April after seven eleventh year as a Haas graduate, ized financial planning for families recently ried last area. I would love to connect with Europe and Brazil. years in the Bay Area. Leah took an and the connection to UC feels Michael Brown, MBA, with young children and couples celebrated summer alumni that are currently active in assignment with her current company, Luke Filose, MBA, of San even stronger. I continue to lead of San Rafael, Calif., joined W3 starting their lives together. Katy also summer and we this field from the consumer elec- Bloom Energy, to head up HR for India Mateo, Calif., joined Intel Corporation investments in early- to mid-stage Real Estate Partners in December welcomed her second child, Luke with a now live in tronics perspective.” until Bloom can find a local candidate. Jeff Wong, MBA 06, in their education technologies group, energy technology companies as 2010 as chief financial officer. W3 Song, on Dec. 29, 2010. For more weekend peaceful She writes, “We’ll be here at least until with bride Catherine working with Julie Clugage, a partner at Nth Power. I run into is a private real estate investment information, visit her website at away in Mill Valley. early 2012, so if you find yourself in 2008 , on alliances with NGOs to many Haas grads in my Rockridge management firm that invests in www.katysong.com. Russian I continue MBA 02 Bangalore, look us up!” , of deploy technology in schools in devel- neighborhood and work with many value-add office assets in California, River with to work in real estate development Robert Chatwani, MBA Fremont, Calif., and his wife, Shital, oping countries. Haas alumni who populate the clean- Washington, and Oregon. Michael several and asset management for the 2003 celebrated their 10th wedding energy world. I’ve stayed local, living lives in Petaluma with his wife, Paula, Sharon Karlsberg, MBA Haas County of Marin. Lately, I’ve taken Abhijit Mitra, MBA, of Los 04, with son Wyatt 2006 anniversary this year. Robert writes Robin (Waller) Fitts, MBA, in Oakland and raising a 5-year-old and daughter, Emily. He serves as a friends up mountaineering as a serious Altos, Calif., moved back to the Angela that their three kids are growing up of San Jose, Calif., and Matt Fitts were daughter who attended a Spanish volunteer on the board of directors from hobby with ambitions to climb Mt. United States after spending four Dorsey- fast—daughter Diya (7), daughter married on June 25 at Holly Farm immersion school for a few years of Emily’s school, a private school the MBA class of 2004: Rob Rainier, Kilimanjaro, and Denali in years in India. Abhijit recently built a Kockler, Shreya (3), and son Niyam (1). in Carmel, Calif. Robin writes, “Haas and will now attend the first public in Petaluma, as treasurer and as a Jacoby, Jen Baik, Bette the coming years.” new business for SAP. MBA, of Robert also passed the eight-year friends represented well at the party Mandarin immersion school in member of the executive team. He Tsai, Tom Silverstrim, Portland, mark with eBay in San Jose, and with Elizabeth Berkey, MBA northern California. I’m still chasing also continues to spend time trying Rachel Fleet and Simon th Heather Sears, MBA, writes, Ore., 2007|5 MBA Reunion earlier this year was promoted to 09, flying in all the way from Paris for down tennis balls as long as my to help new graduates and experi- Wakefield (PhD 2007). “We are still living in San Francisco and her April 26-29, 2012 head of global Internet marketing. the celebration!” aging body holds out. Hope all of you enced professionals try to find new (Simon and Rachel joined by Skype and enjoying life with our 2-year husband, His team is responsible for driving from the class of 2000 are doing opportunities. from Berlin.) Rachel and Simon are Gilbert Lee, MBA, of old twins, Sofia and Gabriel. They Nicholas Stephanie Horwitz, MBA, consumer demand to eBay through great! Go Bears!” expecting their No. 2 this fall!” San Francisco, Calif., is working as a keep us smiling and on our toes! I Kockler, are of Mountain View, Calif., joined Mike Golden, MBA, of a range of marketing channels, technical account manager for virtual branched out on my own after the Rob Ricketts, MBA, of proud to Google in July as a global process Shanghai, China, writes, “We had including global paid search, affiliate events provider ON24 and married twins were born and formed Red Rockville, Maryland, writes, “After announce manager. marketing, display advertising, our first baby, Olivia Ping Golden, Tulip Marketing, a consulting firm Marisa Louie on July 23. this June. Shanghai is still going more than 15 years Karla Romero Angela Dorsey-Kockler, the birth search engine optimization, partner- that services the natural/specialty finally agreed to be my wife. We MBA 06, with husband of their ship marketing, and online local food industry. I feel very fortunate surprised many of our Haas friends Nicholas and son Nikolas first child, marketing. 32 CalBusiness Fall 2011 Fall 2011 CalBusiness 33 company, De Novo Wines. The Sanjay Krishnan, MBA, 2011 long been my dream to run an archi- winery is located in Sonoma, Calif. of San Francisco, is currently a tecture firm committed to collabora- Obituaries , of San Deepti made her connection with management consultant and Ziad Hachem, MBA tive design and transparent, shared Francisco, is enjoying his new role De Novo Wines through a Haas semiconductor expert at Keystone ownership. We only do projects Haas Alumnus and Donor Harold Furst, MBA 45 in business development at Marvell, classmate. After working with De Strategy, a strategy consulting where we can work directly with the where he’s responsible for bringing Harold Furst, BS 39 (Econ.), MBA 45, a Bay Area Novo Wines on several successful firm founded by Harvard Business builders, for maximum innovation new Android Tablets to market. Ziad businessman, philanthropist, and adviser to the late Alumni Notes projects to expand marketing School Professor Marco Iansiti. and efficiency. What’s more, the writes, “Thanks Haas for helping me rock promoter Bill Graham, passed away June 28 in Submit your news online at outreach in the San Francisco Bay Keystone Strategy serves some company’s books are totally open take my career in this exciting new Oakland. He was 94. http://haas.berkeley.edu/alumninotes Area while completing her MBA of the major global high-tech to employees, all of whom become direction!” from Haas, Deepti joined the De brands in technology and business part owners of the company if they After earning his undergraduate degree and Novo team as managing partner strategy. Recently, Sanjay was in Brooks Kincaid, MBA, of stay longer than one year. Believe it MBA at UC Berkeley, Furst served on the university’s and vice president of marketing. India advising the Union Ministry of San Francisco, co-founded Imprint or not, we even have two projects, business school faculty from 1943 to 1952. Furst Shailender Malik, MBA, 2010 Deepti is also a Certified Specialist Telecom and IT on semiconductor Energy with Dr. Christine Ho from and our doors have been open for was Bank of America’s first economist and went on of San Francisco, writes, “Two years Gary Coover Jr. and of Wine (CSW), an Introductory strategies for the country. He writes, UC Berkeley’s Materials Science and less than a month! Haas has already at Haas and numerous exception- to work for BofA for more than 20 years. In 1972, he Aaron Schwartz, both Certified Sommelier and president “The work is high impact and I Engineering Department. Imprint given me tangible skills to help me became president of Gerson Bakar & Associates, a San Francisco real ally talented people to connect MBA 2010, started Modify of Barrel Tap Inc., a wine events and am happy to talk in more detail to with this journey, and I can’t wait Energy is developing the technology estate firm founded by Haas alumnus Gerson Bakar, BS 48. with for life. Investing two years of Watches (www.modifywatches.com) experience company. anyone interested in career changes to print ultrathin, flexible, recharge- to jump into negotiations class and my life with the Haas community in April 2010. Liz Callahan, or thinking about working in India.” able batteries. entrepreneurship!” Furst became a business adviser to the late Bill Graham, then a was one of the best decisions that MBA 11, recently joined Modify Carlos Liévano, MBA, of young rock music promoter, in 1975, instilling order to Graham’s I have ever made. It gave me the as director of business development. Bogotá, Colombia, is working as Navinjai Mittal, MBA, of Alan Lock, MBA, of London, Alex Tsai, MBA, of Cupertino, enterprise, establishing new accounting procedures, and recognizing a senior consultant for Remolina Calif., is a senior manager at Cisco confidence and the ability to give They design and sell interchangeable Fremont, Calif., manages a product writes, “Just returned from Peru as the profit potential from band merchandise. In 1989 a generous gift shape to my dreams and a vision to Estrada Consultoría Gerencial. management team in the technical Systems. silicone watches, which they have a married man. Great wedding with from Furst enabled the Haas School to establish the only rotating making the dreams a reality.” customized for major companies services organization at Cisco a good representation from Haas, Kiran Karadi, MBA, of Systems Inc., which is responsible chair for an outstanding junior faculty member, the Harold Furst Chair such as Facebook, Google, and Milpitas, Calif., “I didn’t think I would including the first dance played for Dutta Satadip, MBA, of San the Pac-12. Aaron writes, “We also for the strategic serviceability us by the famous Jason Dolan, in Management Philosophy and Values, Jose, Calif., writes, “2011 has been say this when I was in school: I miss requirements, definition, and com- BCEMBA Furst served a long list of organizations, including the California designed a unique watch for our classes and Haas. I felt this recently MBA 11. I have traded the blue a year of great changes. Earlier this class's one-year reunion. We've had munication of targeted products, skies, sun, and sushi of the Bay Public Utilities Commission; UC Berkeley Art Museum; and Gov. year, I joined Google as the head of when I took my mom, who is visiting great support from the Haas commu- technologies, and solutions across Area for the rain and overpriced, Edmund G. Brown’s Business Advisory Council, which he served as product operations for advertiser from India, to Haas. In addition to Cisco. 2003 nity. If anyone is interested in custom other sightseeing places, Haas was internationally renowned food of secretary. Furst is survived by his wife, Alice Coopersmith Furst; a products. It is an exciting oppor- watches for their organizations, let the UK. Although being back in a Chris Phenner, BCEMBA, on my list of places to show her. On , recently moved son and three stepchildren; and five grandchildren. tunity to demonstrate problem us know!” Rick Lin, MBA country where you don’t have to go of New York, is consulting, and the professional front, I transitioned to Beijing, China, to take a position solving leadership, facilitate organi- to specialty stores for English tea... focuses on social, mobile, and real- to a new role in a new group within with the StratOp Group (www. zational change, and develop high No, in all seriousness, I really miss time bidding platforms and data my current company. Last May, with stratopgroup.com), a boutique man- performance teams to accelerate Berkeley and my Haas classmates. exchanges. He writes, “It’s wonky my MBA qualification, I successfully agement consulting firm focused on Stanley Sutton, BS 41 Google’s display advertising busi- I start with BT in early April and but I’m learning a ton. If anyone has PhD made a case to transition from a role helping foreign SMEs and global PE/ Elizabeth Ralphs, BS 44 ness by scaling rapidly to meet then later in the year, questions about how to make sense as a technology architect to a role VC firms improve their operations Andrew demands placed by this explosive , and I will of the alphabet soup that’s rapidly Yukio Kitahara, BS 45 as a business strategist. I joined as a in China. Rick writes, “If any Haasies Jensen, MBA 11 1972 growth. After serving on the board head to Antarctica to take on our propagating in the ad tech space Bruce Edson, BS 47 principal strategist in new Software- find themselves in Beijing for busi- , of State of the Hemophilia Foundation of ’Polar Vision’ challenge. I am hoping or wants to meet as you’re in NYC, I Charles Snow, PhD Edmund Lambert, BS 47, MBA 49 as-a-Service (SaaS) Business ness or just a vacation, please feel College, Penn., will be the Fulbright Northern California for the last five to become the first visually impaired am always happy to be helpful—pop Donald Mitchell, BS 47 Platforms group. I am excited about free to contact me!” Hall chair in entrepreneurship at the years, I have gained the support person to ski all the way from the me a note at [email protected].” Frank Taylor, BS 47, MBA 48 shaping our social medial platform Vienna University of Economics and of the hemophilia community at coast to the South Pole. In doing so, He and his wife, Erika, are expecting William Dunn, BS 48 and working with clients on social Akhil Ruia, MBA, writes, Business in March through June of the national level. I will be serving Andrew, myself, and the rest of the their second child in January, and Richard Hirschfeld, BS 48 on the board of directors of the The MBA class of 2010 shows off media initiatives. On a personal front, “Last month Molly and I moved from 2012. He will teach a course on inno- Modify Watches made by classmates team hope to raise awareness and Chris has signed up for his fourth Cecil McFadden, BS 48 my wife, Padma, and I had our first the UK to Calcutta, India, with our vation management and do research National Hemophilia Foundation. Aaron Schwartz (back, right) and funds for sight-related causes in the marathon in 10 years. Charles Strope, BS 48 As a board member of the South child on March 18 this year. We daughter, Shivika (9 months). I am with colleagues. He will also give guest Gary Coover Jr. UK and around the world. We head Raymond L’Amoreaux, BS 49 Bay Chapter of the Haas Alumni managing Warren Tea, a company lectures throughout central Europe. off to Chile in late November, before John McWhirter, BS 49 Network, I continue to host events that grows and processes 15 mil- 2006 Gary, meanwhile, moved the flight to Antarctica and the start targeted at career-related topics lion kilograms of tea annually in of Robert Vivian, BS 49 to Seoul to work in Samsung’s of our 500-mile expedition across Suzy Lahey, BCEMBA, for senior managers. I look forward Assam. For those of you in the US, Menlo Park, Calif., writes, “Packing 1985 Jerry Berger, BS 50 Global Strategy Group. Gary writes, the ice. As Andrew and I have said to meeting our newest batch of we supply Tazo, so hopefully you up the family and moving to London Sheila Puffer, PhD, of Boston, Kenneth Brittingham, BS 50 “Samsung and Korea have been an countless times before, we are very alumni (class of 2011) in one of the may be familiar with our product, if later this month. I’m transferring with Mass., was awarded the title of Donald Codeglia, BS 50 incredible experience and balancing grateful for all the help and support upcoming events being hosted by not our name. I would love to catch Apple and will lead the Consumer University Professor at Northeastern David Harper, ATU 50 that with working on Modify on the we have received from the Haas our chapter.” up with fellow alums in the region. Programs and CRM team for Apple’s University, where she has been a pro- Harry Bistrin, BS 51 side has allowed me to feel some- community during this project. As Also, if any of you have plans to visit online store in Europe. Looking fessor of international business since Aaron Feder, BS 51 what balanced and connected to life always, all our updates are on www. Adam Skibley, MBA, and India, and would like some help, do forward to spending time with 1988. University Professor is consid- Robert Watson, BS 51 back home. Living in South Korea polar-vision.org—please check in his wife recently moved to Chicago, email me ([email protected]), and ered the highest honor the university Kirby Moulton, MBA 52, PHD 70 and traveling around Asia has been as we near our expedition date. I Chris Howard, BCEMBA Ill., and Adam transferred to his I will put you in touch with my travel , and his family who moved to can bestow on a faculty member and great, but I always miss my Haas Kiran Karadi, MBA 10, with wife Padma know a few of my classmates got 06 John Clow, MBA 54 firm’s (ZS Associates) downtown and son Tejus department.” London earlier this year.” reflects “international recognition and Alfredo Bonadeo, BS 55, MBA 57, Chicago office, where he focuses family.” married over the summer too, and I distinction for contributions to educa- Dan Smuts, MBA, of Berkeley, am sure you are asking how my wife PHD 65 primarily on sales and marketing William Doyle Jr., MBA, tion, artistic creativity, and expression Everell Lebaron, BS 55 strategy in the B2B space. Adam are blessed with a baby boy, Tejus Calif., was promoted to regional gave me permission to do this. Well, 2013 and/or research that cross disciplinary of San Francisco, Calif., was recently director for California and Nevada for lets just say my negotiation classes James Davis, BS 56 is also involved in launching a promoted to partner at Barker Karadi. The first few weeks felt like Bijun He, BCEMBA, writes, boundaries.” Marjorie Minney, BS 56 new startup called MySipTrip that The Wilderness Society, a 500,000- came in useful!” Pacific Group. He oversees the the first year at Haas—it was hectic! “Before I entered the BCEMBA 13 Robert Motta, BS 56 provides customized wine tasting member land conservation organi- redevelopment and leasing at One Little did we know to handle baby Laurie Peterson, MBA, class, I worried whether I could Thomas Trainor, MBA 56 itineraries for visitors to Napa and cries and attend to his needs, and zation. He and his wife, Cecily, also handle both work and school. After Sansome St.–Citigroup Center in celebrated the birth of their second of Oakland, Calif., is the new director In Memoriam John Gibeau, MBA 57 Sonoma based on their specific San Francisco. Bill is also focused we wondered what we had gotten of marketing for the Bay Area a few months into the program, preferences. You can find more son, Charlie, in December. Clinton Stanford, BS 57 on locating and underwriting other ourselves into. Tejus is about 5 startup Sifteo. She is excited to help I found in addition to business Helen Turner, BS 32 information at www.mysiptrip. knowledge, I have also learned from George Innes, BS 61 potential acquisitions for BPG months now. It feels like the second Sifteo launch its “intelligent play” Mary Way, BS 36 com. the professors, my classmates, the Albert Zais, BS 61 throughout the western United year at Haas now. We think we have platform later this year. Learn more Mary Jo Hicks, BS 38 a little more of a handle on his needs. admission team, and the career Theodore Dinkler, BS 62 Andy Zhang, MBA, moved States. Bill was married to Catherine at www.sifteo.com. Edgar Bostick, BS 39 William Palmer, BS 63 Koo at the Ritz Carlton in San The fun part has been to see Tej’s coaches to become a better person, to Shanghai, China, in May to work small developments. His latest tricks a better leader. That brings a positive William Eastman, BS 39 David Perkiss, BS 66, MBA 68 on a game startup. Francisco in March. He and his Robert Frick, BS 39 Stephen Raymond, BS 66 wife live in Pacific Heights with their are rolling over on his tummy and 2013 impact to my work, and my team Harold Furst, BS 39, MBA 45 Robert Dean, BS 67, MBA 68 dog Axl.” completing a full 360-degree roll Oscia (Timschell) Wilson, and my bosses are all impressed by around his axis. It was super exciting MBA, of San Francisco, Calif., my performance. Now I have taken Richard Mutti, BS 39 George Martin, PHD 67 Deepti Illa, MBA, is the to see that for the first time. We are writes, “Summer 2011 was busy on a new leadership role to launch a Samuel Rokutani, BS 39 Mark Winthers, BS 68 youngest and first Indian woman to looking forward to seeing him crawl and life-changing! Not only did I get new product for Google Ads this fall!” William Schoenfeld, BS 40 Richard O’Donnell, MBA 73 be a partner in an American wine and sit next.” Conrad Thompson, BS 40 Tomas Fabregas, MBA 91 Dan Smuts, MBA 10, and family married and become Oscia Wilson, I also founded my own architecture Wilber Smith, BS 41 firm called Boiled Architecture. It’s 34 CalBusiness Fall 2011 Fall 2011 CalBusiness 35 Personal View

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Onlycan investYou in our future. The Deep Ocean Adventure of Chris Welsh, BS 85

hris Welsh, BS 85, a commercial That led to a number of months of That’s mildly distressing, but it’s even more real estate investor and avid sailor negotiating the contract to buy the sub and cat. distressing when you find out that they even based in Newport Beach, Calif., has During that time, I thought for sure I would get burn underwater. So we went to a modern a sponsor, but didn’t. I woke up on a particular lithium-polymer battery. partnered with Virgin Group Chairman Sir C Monday morning, and on Friday the wire had I felt strongly that we needed to include Richard Branson to explore the deepest to be in to buy it all. There was no one in sight, science. Very early on, we went to all the deep corners of the world’s five oceans in a and I had 5 percent of the money needed in my sea researchers we could find and invited them uniquely designed winged submarine. checking account. By Tuesday morning I woke to invite everyone they knew to a conference. Next year, Welsh will pilot the one-man sub up and said to myself, ‘I’m going to hate reading We laid out the capabilities of the sub. Then we 11 kilometers down to the bottom of the about somebody doing this instead of me. asked them what should we be looking for and Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. The Opportunities like this just don’t come along very what were the biggest deliverables. Due to the voyage was originally envisioned by the often.’ I became determined to pull it off, and by sub’s range, the number one deliverable was Friday, I had gone to my assets and gathered up HD video. We’re also doing water and sediment sub’s first owner, the late Steve Fossett, the monies to do it. That was in April 2010. sampling. We have a limited mass spectrometer an adventurer who disappeared in 2007 that senses life byproducts like sulfur dioxide or on a solo airplane ride. Welsh recently met 50-50 with Richard Branson carbon dioxide. The Undergraduate Government that Builds with CalBusiness in Point Richmond, Calif., I didn’t meet with Virgin until July, and we didn’t to talk about the deep sea expedition. set a deal until November. They don’t just write a Darkness and Danger Community, Culture, and Academic Experience What follows is an edited excerpt of that check the first moment of the first meeting. They It’s a long trip down, over two hours of interview, in Welsh’s words. say, ‘We want to put money in this and figure out descent. It’s going to be dark, but there will be some business application for it. We don’t need a large light show there. The mid-water is full of “I love adventure and exploration. I started to just get publicity.’ bioluminescent life. I’m really looking forward to Tala Beigi, Henry Tsung, Every gift to the Haas Fund makes a difference to the next generation sailing when I was 4. A few years ago my cousin I went home and sketched up a plan for a that. My goal will be to descend without lights Charlotte Zhang, Vasilena convinced me to buy a dual dirt-road bike. We submarine tourism business. They took a look at on. We’re trying to buy cameras that are fast Balabanova, Natalie Yadegar, of Berkeley-Haas leaders, like these undergraduate students who are met two friends at the Baja border and took and Maren Quezada-Lopez, it and said, ‘This is good. It may be that we never enough and light sensitive enough to work with all BS 11 members of the Haas Business School Association. off, covering 2,000 miles in about 12 days. I do it, but you’ve organized this better overnight the minimal ambient light. owned a helicopter with partners and we sold it than the last guy we gave three months to, The obvious danger is the implosion risk, the These student leaders work with the faculty and undergraduate staff to a guy in Tennessee. My condition on the sale you’ve got the sailing credentials, and you can collapse risk. Surface recovery is tough, too. The to build a strong undergraduate community, culture, and academic was that I got to deliver it. So I flew across the figure this out.’ I had won the Los Angeles to characteristic failure problem with a glass dome United States at 200 feet. You see a different Tahiti race with my boat Ragtime, and then is that you will likely get back to the surface even experience at Haas—inside and outside of the classroom. slice of the world that way. Over the years, I have went down and won our class in the Sydney-to- with a crack in it; the pressure holds it together. covered tens of thousands of miles by dirt bike, Hobart Race. These races are big enough that And inevitably Murphy shows up, the wind and Such leadership opportunities wouldn’t exist without donors like you. boat, light plane, and helicopter, looking to see Richard knew if you can sail 8,000 miles away the waves have come up, and maybe you didn’t Only you can have a lasting impact, by making a donation to the Haas what is out there. and logistically sort out not only getting there, come up right where the catamaran is. At the Fund today. After Steve Fossett died, I was keeping an competing, but also winning, you understand the surface, you no longer have control over the sub. eye on the sale of his 125-foot ultra-catamaran logistics of these kind of projects. You’re buoyant, you can’t go back down, you Cheyenne from a distance for about a year. The Which is all I do all day—logistics. Where can’t get out of the sub without being let out, guy in charge of selling it ended up as part of do people need to be? Where do parts need and you’re dependent on those guys in the boat my crew for Big Boat Series in San Francisco. to be? How’s it going to get paid for? Does the to execute the recovery correctly. And, if you’re We agreed to drive to Alameda to take a look at technology exist? How can we improve it or a little bit of a control freak, which I’ll concede the cat. Crossing the Bay Bridge, he mentioned adapt? Because when you cut through it all, the I am, just being trapped in a bottle, waiting for that there also was a submarine, and I said, sub, although very elegantly executed, is still a someone to let you out, that’s the toughest part.” Always Berkeley. Always Haas. Only You. ‘Let’s take a look at it too.’ I was immediately prototype. Battery technology has advanced. captivated when I saw both the sub and the The lithium batteries that were in there are the To follow Welsh’s dive into the deep, cat [which is the mother ship that carries the same ones that caught fire in Sony laptops. visit viriginoceanic.com. submarine]. haas.berkeley.edu/givenow 36 CalBusiness Fall 2011