STUDENT PROFILE BOOK | 2019-2020

June 19, 2019

EMBA 2019 and 2020,

We are excited to welcome the EMBA Class of 2020 to the Berkeley MBA for Executives Program and to continue with our amazing Class of 2019.

This student directory is meant to help you connect with fellow EMBA’s, with whom you will build strong personal and professional relationships over the next months and years. You will find p ofiles of students in both the Cla s of 2019 and 2020 in the following pages.

Enjoy your time together here at Haas.

Sincerely,

Jamie Breen Assistant Dean MBA Programs for Working Professionals

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Jason Atwater

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Leandro, CA Education: BS Materials Science Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Employment Information Title: Digital Marketing Manager, Emerging Businesses Company: Ancestry Industry: Consumer Products

Personal Statement Jason graduated from Carnegie Mellon University performance marketing from paid search, affili e with a BS in Materials Science Engineering. He partners, and social media channels. In his spare worked in the electronics and semiconductor time, Jason is an avid family genealogist, amateur industries for 10 years, first as a met ology baker, and tennis fan. He also volunteers time engineer, before making the jump into high tech with charities such as the Leukemia & Lymphoma sales. He moved into digital marketing with a Society and San Francisco AIDS Foundation. He focus on SEO and SEM in 2008 working for AT&T, lives in San Leandro with his partner of eight Salesforce, and Zendesk. Currently, he is Digital years, Tadd, and their spunky French Bulldog, Gigi. Marketing Manager for Ancestry.com, focusing on

Jon-Paul (JP) Barbier

Email: [email protected] Current City: Oakland, CA Education: BS Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Employment Information Title: COO Company: Knighted Ventures Industry: Entertainment

Personal Statement After completing his BS in Statistics at UC management team for 21 portfolio casinos. He Berkeley, JP’s passion for statistics led him to the is responsible for profit and lo s, operations casino industry, where he joined the Network management, resource allocation, and human Management Group in 2006. Throughout his capital strategies. In his spare time, he enjoys career, he has worked in various capacities in going to concerts, learning musical instruments, over 30 casinos, ranging from Gaming Associate exercising, and spending time with his family. He to Head of Internal Control. Now COO of lives in Oakland with his wife of 8 years and their Knighted Ventures, JP directly oversees the senior two children. 6 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Michiel Bekker

Email: [email protected] Current City: Houston, TX Education: MS Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology

Employment Information Title: Vito Subsea Team Lead Company: Shell Oil Company Industry: Energy

Personal Statement Michiel Bekker graduated in 2003 from Delft Since then, he has held positions as systems University of Technology in the Netherlands with manager and project manager for various a master’s degree in Civil Engineering. He worked projects. He is currently responsible for delivery on various international assignments in the United of Shell’s groundbreaking Vito project, which aims Kingdom, Russia, and Brazil. In these assignments, to reduce the cost of oil production in the Gulf he learned the deeply technical skill set required of Mexico by 50%. Michiel lives in Houston with to build and operate oil and gas projects in harsh his wife and two young kids. In his spare time, he environments, as well as executing international enjoys running, road and mountain biking, skiing, projects with diffe ent business cultures. In 2012, and field hoc ey. Michiel moved to Houston, Texas with Shell Oil.

Paresh Bharkhada

Email: [email protected] Current City: Milpitas, CA Education: BS Engineering, Mumbai University MS Applied Science, University of Windsor MS Engineering, RMIT University

Employment Information Title: Engineering Manager Company: Intel Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Paresh grew up in Mumbai, India. Upon graduating now lives in Milpitas with his beautiful wife and with his bachelors, he left for Australia, which their two adorable children. He has been riding he credits for making him into who he is today. motorcycles for more than 20 years, and also He eventually moved to Canada, where he lived enjoys squash and skiing. In his spare time, he likes for several years. Paresh decided to move to the to travel and spend evenings with friends and US in 2012 in order to be closer to family. He beer (preferably Guinness). BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 7

Jenna Bilinski

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Nursing, Clemson University

Employment Information Title: Director, Kaizen Promotion Office Company: Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement Jenna has a passion for public health and is Office at Zuckerberg San Francisco General dedicated to improving healthcare delivery for the Hospital and Trauma Center, applying Lean underserved patient population. She practiced methodology to improve care for patients. In her as an ER nurse while participating in a leadership spare time, Jenna enjoys party planning, spending development program through UCSF. She went time with family, and cooking. She lives in San on to manage critical care, inpatient care, and Francisco with her husband of 10 years, one outpatient care units. Following this experience, vivacious daughter, a big brown Newfoundland she became the Director of the Kaizen Promotion dog, and two cats.

Lydia Butterfiel

Email: lydia_butterfield@ber eley.edu Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Finance, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Employment Information Title: Senior Manager, FP&A Company: Autodesk Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Lydia is a native of St. Louis, MO. She graduated France, Oregon, and California. Lydia currently from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with works for Autodesk, leading a team responsible a degree in Finance. She spent the first 12 ears for managing the operating expenses of the of her career with The Kohler Company. During company. In her spare time, she loves to travel that time, she held progressive accounting and and explore new places both near and far. She can finan e roles supporting the plumbing, power also be found at a Giants game, cheering on the generation, and interior divisions in Wisconsin, St. Louis Cardinals when they’re in town. 8 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Howard (Nando) Cooke

Email: [email protected] Current City: Dallas, TX Education: DMD Stomatology, First IP Pavlov Medical Institute of Leningrad MS Dentistry, University of Texas at Houston, School of Dentistry Residency Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston Employment Information Title: Oral/Maxillofacial Surgeon Company: Metroplex Surgical Arts, PA Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement Dr. Howard Cooke, known as Nando to his the owner of a multi-office surgical practice friends and family, was born in Jamaica. He for 20 years. In addition to practicing facial won a full academic scholarship at age 18 to reconstructive surgery in Dallas, he is involved pursue Dentistry in St. Petersburg, Russia, and in various international medical missions. Nando graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Doctor of enjoys spending time with his partner, friends, Dental Medicine degree in 1992. He completed and family, both at home and abroad. One will his specialty training in Maxillofacial and Oral often find him ooming to the airport on a Friday Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science afternoon in his scrubs on his way to the next Center in Houston. Dr. Cooke is affili ed with exciting destination! the Methodist Hospitals of Dallas and has been

Trevor Croghan

Email: [email protected] Current City: Danville, CA Education: BA History & Political Science, University of Montana

Employment Information Title: General Manager, Vertical Markets Company: One Workplace Industry: Services

Personal Statement Trevor is a lifelong Bay Area resident, born and transitioned from the classroom into a role raised in Hayward, CA. He graduated from the focused on designing and implementing dynamic University of Montana with a degree in History spaces for teaching and learning with a local and a minor in Political Science. During his time at organization, One Workplace. He has spent the UM, Trevor was a member of the championship last 5 years in various leadership positions at One football team. He is a third generation educator Workplace, and is currently the General Manager who spent the first 5 ears of his career as a of Vertical Markets. Trevor lives in Danville with his classroom teacher and varsity coach in a Bay wife of 10 years and their two young children. Area public school district. 10 years ago, he BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 9

Douglas (Doug) Cummings

Email: [email protected] Current City: Alexandria, VA Education: BA Political Science & German Literature, University of Notre Dame MS Global Business Leadership, University of San Diego

Employment Information Title: Director, Experiments and Demonstrations Company: Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Industry: Military

Personal Statement Doug graduated from the University of Notre a Master of Science in Global Leadership at Dame and was commissioned in the US Navy the University of San Diego. He later moved to through the ROTC program there. He served northern California to work for Tesla and the tech aboard a guided-missile cruiser before being startup Bannerman. Currently, Doug works as selected to transfer to Naval Special Warfare, the Director of Experiments and Demonstrations where he graduated BUDS as the Officer-in- in the Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Charge of Class 282. Following active duty, Doug Intelligence, where his role involves integrating AI worked as a civilian employee for the Navy at the technologies into the military. He currently lives in headquarters of the Commander, Naval Surface Alexandra, VA, and his hobbies include soccer and Forces. While at SURFPAC, Doug completed skydiving.

Satya Das

Email: [email protected] Current City: Campbell, CA Education: BS Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Employment Information Title: Founder Company: Winprogger LLC Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Satya is a strategic leader with over two decades arts and science, and of nature and engineering. of experience in venture-backed startups, He is passionate about entrepreneurship as a privately-held organizations, and large publicly means to amplify societal impact. He received his traded companies. He has significant experien e undergraduate degree in Mining Engineering from in new product introduction, project and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. product management, market communication He enjoys spending time with his wife and and competitive diffe entiation. He is currently son, traveling, listening to music, picking his bootstrapping at a startup that’s innovating in Stratocaster, playing badminton, editing, tinkering the inventory management space. Satya loves with electronics, and volunteering at the Red the intersections of business and technology, of Cross. He lives and works in Campbell. 10 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Sara Davis

Email: [email protected] Current City: Mountain View, CA Education: BS Psychology, Pennsylvania State University

Employment Information Title: Senior Program Manager Company: Google, Inc. Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Sara Davis leads the GTM strategy for the Google and organizations. She is passionate about Assistant and is responsible for the product’s diversity and inclusion in the technology sector. In global retail and event presence. Prior to joining her spare time, she enjoys traveling, hiking, playing Google in 2014, Sara spent a decade developing, music, and hosting dinner parties. Sara lives in leading, and managing implementations of CRM Mountain View with her husband, Hooman. solutions for a variety of technology companies

Maria Delgado

Email: [email protected] Current City: Walnut Creek, CA Education: BS Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Employment Information Title: Vice Principal Company: Pacific Gas and Electri Industry: Energy

Personal Statement Maria has been a portfolio and project management organization. Prior to PG&E, she management professional in energy and worked at consulting firms and soft are start- utility industries since 1998. Throughout ups providing services and products to energy the last 8 years at PG&E, she has driven companies and utilities across the US. Maria is excellence in strategic planning and execution a native of Mexico. In her spare time, she enjoys in infrastructure construction investments by traveling, hiking, and reading. She lives in Walnut developing program management best practices Creek with her boyfriend, a calico cat, and a and directing a 100-person project/portfolio crazy Havana brown cat. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 11

Karun Dua

Email: [email protected] Current City: Redwood City, CA Education: BS Mathematics, Delhi University MCA Computer Applications, UPTECH University

Employment Information Title: Lead Application Engineer Company: VIAVI Solutions Industry: Telecommunications

Personal Statement Karun Dua is Lead Application Engineer at VIAVI chipset manufacturers, including Qualcomm and Solutions, where he leads the wireless support Broadcom. He has received multiple awards for team to manage the Western United States and his excellence in work. The most recent award Latin American regions. He provides pre-sales he received was the “Anytime, Anywhere” award, technical support to the sales team, and ensures for excellence in technical and leadership skills, delivery of high quality technical support from and successfully handling the most number of his team, contributing to the success of his business accounts. When not traveling, Karun customers in the telecommunications industry. enjoys a good happy hour with friends, playing In his role as the team lead, Karun has worked tennis and cricket, and planning for the next with all major network operators, such as adventure with his wife and kids. AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, as well as various

Matt Dunn

Email: [email protected] Current City: Fremont, CA Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, Rice University

Employment Information Title: Senior Principal R&D Engineer Company: Cordis Corporation Industry: Medical Products/Devices

Personal Statement After graduating from Rice University, Matt spent last three years in R&D for Cordis, an East Bay the next seven years as a naval officer, serving medical devices company, bringing new coronary aboard a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine intervention products to market. His wife Emily based out of Oahu and coordinating submarine and their two small kids love exploring the operations from the U.S. headquarters in Naples, outdoors, climbing, and hiking. Italy. Since leaving the Navy, he has spent the 12 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Carl Ebeling

Email: [email protected] Current City: Salt Lake City, UT Education: BS Physics, Carleton College

Employment Information Title: Worldwide Applications Scientist Company: Bruker Nano, Inc. Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Carl grew up in Montana and graduated from worked for a small technology startup prior to its Carleton College with a major in Physics. After purchase by a large multinational instrumentation spending two post-college years skiing and company. Carl currently works for Bruker Nano traveling, Carl served as an education volunteer as a worldwide applications scientist developing in the US Peace Corps, where he taught STEM state-of-the-art optical microscopes. When not classes to secondary school students in Namibia. working or in school, Carl loves to ski the Utah After spending two years teaching in Namibia, powder, hike mountaintops with his wife Megan he followed his Peace Corps colleague (and now and their two dogs, and spend time with their wife!) to Salt Lake City, where he completed 6-month old daughter, Rose. his PhD in Physics. During this time, he also

Ling (Michelle) Fang

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Business Administration & Accounting, California State University – Sacramento

Employment Information Title: Director of External Reporting and Accounting Policy Company: McKesson Corporation Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Personal Statement Michelle Fang is a Certified Public A countant automobiles, semiconductors, solar energy, with over fourteen years of professional airlines, and venture capital. Since August 2015, experience. She spent over eleven years at she has rotated in several corporate financia PricewaterhouseCoopers’ US firm in San Jos reporting roles at McKesson Corporation. In her and at their Hong Kong firm in China p oviding current role as a director of external reporting accounting advisory and audit services to her and policy, she leads and manages the preparation clients on complex accounting and reporting of SEC filing documents. Michelle and he topics associated with US IPOs, debt and equity team are also responsible for developing and offerings, me gers and acquisitions, carve- implementing company-wide accounting policies. outs and GAAP conversion. Michelle served In her spare time, Michelle enjoys spending time clients across various industries, including with her family, traveling, singing, and growing pharmaceuticals and medical devices, internet, African violets. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 13

Alexei Greig

Email: [email protected] Current City: Hayward, CA Education: BA English, Williams College MS Education, Simmons College

Employment Information Title: Director of School Culture Company: KIPP Bay Area Schools Industry: Education

Personal Statement Alexei has enjoyed being in the world of education President of the Manhattan Special Education for over a decade. He earned his bachelor’s Cooperative. As Director of School Culture, he is degree from Williams College and his master’s excited to be driving cultural change at KIPP in the degree from Simmons College. He has taught a Bay Area. He grew up in Jamaica and continues wide variety of subjects and has worked as a Chief to have strong ties with Jamaica. His goal is to Administrative Officer, Technical Theater Director, empower people to change their communities and Dean. Alexei has focused on working with and the world at large. Alexei enjoys traveling, traditionally underserved communities, serving gastronomical adventures, growing in his faith, as the Founding Special Education Director and spending time with friends, family, and his for Democracy Prep Public Schools, and as the lovely wife Elizabeth.

John Gribowich

Email: [email protected] Current City: Brooklyn, NY Education: BA History & Theology, DeSales University MA Religious Studies, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary MA Theology, St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie MS History of Art & Library and Science Information, Pratt Institute Employment Information Title: Consultant Company: DeSales Media Group Industry: Telecommunications

Personal Statement John is an ordained Catholic priest. Prior to his technological solutions that foster genuine human ordination in 2015, he spend over ten years in encounters in the age of virtual communication. the field of education on both the high schoo John is active in the area of social justice, an avid and college level. He has advanced degrees in reader, a disciplined runner, and a passionate fan theology, art history, and library science. He is of Bob Dylan. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and is the currently a consultant at DeSales Media Group, co-owner of a farm in Pennsylvania that provides an organization based in Brooklyn which provides organic produce for the underprivileged. 14 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Rambabu (Ram) Gujjula

Email: [email protected] Current City: Fremont, CA Education: BS Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology, India

Employment Information Title: Senior Manager Company: PayPal Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Ram graduated from the National University of a data team at the intersection of innovative of Technology in India with a degree in both technologies such as big data and SAP. He aspires Computer Science and Engineering. After working to climb up to an executive role. In his spare time, for a few years in India, he moved to the UK Ram spends time with his kids and plays tennis. and worked for various global companies for He lives in Fremont with his wife of 11 years and over 9 years. He currently works as the head their two children.

Prem Harikrishna

Email: [email protected] Current City: Millbrae, CA Education: BS Engineering, Bangalore University

Employment Information Title: Head of Digital Payments Engineering Company: Western Union Industry: Financial Services

Personal Statement Prem heads digital payments engineering at He has significant experience in fin- ech, especially Western Union, a global leader in cross-border payments, but has also worked across healthcare, cross-currency money movement. He has logistics, direct marketing, and manufacturing extensive experience in leading customer-focused industries. He has held multi-disciplinary technology transformations, engineering of leadership at CSC, Visa, Harley Davidson Financial scalable products, building high performance Services, Matson, UnitedHealth, and Chrysler. He teams, and optimizing complex processes driving has a global business and leadership perspective, efficiency and ofitable g owth. Prem is adept at having led and delivered large scale initiatives envisioning strategic roadmaps and developing across the United States, India, and Singapore. enterprise architectures that optimize business Prem lives in the Peninsula Area of the San operations and delivers value based outcomes Francisco Bay Area, and enjoys the outdoors – while reducing costs and eliminating complexities. traveling, hiking, and still photography. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 15

Imelda (Meili) Hau

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Diego, CA Education: BS Biochemistry, St. Mary’s University BS Registered Nursing, University of Pennsylvania MS Nursing Practice, University of Pennsylvania Employment Information Title: Nurse Practitioner Company: SharpCare Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement Meili Hau received advanced nursing training a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, such as from the University of Pennsylvania and has eight endorsing cooperative and tolerant relations years of experience as a Family Nurse Practitioner. between people, and addressing the needs of She has provided health care services to diverse underserved communities. She views her role as a underserved communities in California, Hawaii, Nurse Practitioner as providing a bridge to fill th Georgia, and Alaska, with a demonstrated history ever-present gaps in healthcare. Meili currently of working in a variety of healthcare settings, resides in San Diego and is a dedicated ashtanga including primary care facilities, FQHCs, urgent yoga practitioner. Single life has helped her reach care, retail health settings, and skilled nursing superb skills in pet-sitting (namely dogs, cats, and facilities. Healthcare has been the vehicle to fish) for friends continue promoting the values she adopted as

Lucas (Luke) Hickey

Email: [email protected] Current City: Danville, CA Education: BS Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego

Employment Information Title: Senior Director of Strategic Marketing Company: Pacific Bioscien es Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement Luke has 18 years of experience in the genome sequencing methods, resulting in numerous sequencing industry, holding various R&D high impact publications and conference and commercial roles at Pacific Bioscien es, presentations. Luke is on the steering committee Affymetrix, Ingenuity Sys ems, and Incyte for the NIST Genome in a Bottle Initiative and Genomics. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry at has a passion for human genetic research – UC San Diego, and graduated with honors from including disease gene discovery in rare and Warren College in 1999. Luke currently leads Mendelian diseases. He is an active triathlete and the development of global human biomedical avid outdoor enthusiast. He also loves music and sequencing markets for PacBio’s long-read enjoys playing the piano. Luke lives in Danville with SMRT sequencing technology. In this role, he his wife and three children. has contributed to the development of novel 16 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Elizabeth (Tucker) Hirsch

Email: [email protected] Current City: Monterey, CA Education: BS Marine Biology, Rutgers, University of New Jersey – New Brunswick MS Sustainable Seafood & Environmental Policy, Economics, and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara Employment Information Title: Senior Programs Manager Company: Undergoing Job Transition Industry: Not-for-Profi

Personal Statement Tucker left her role as a Program Manager at an risks. With a move to the East Coast in her sights, environmental education non-profit in De ember Tucker hopes to join a company that continues to 2018. Tucker has worked as a consultant for a energize her, offer her oppo tunities for creativity variety of environmental organizations, delivering and growth, while leaving a mark on the world. educational training and materials around She currently lives in Monterey, CA with her family sustainability and behavior change. She’s looking and enjoys spending time outside – climbing, to continue working in a social-impact role, sailing, running, and exploring. Antarctica is on her leading a team that is growing and willing to take bucket list.

Kursat Hosel

Email: [email protected] Current City: Berkeley, CA Education: B.Eng. Computer Engineering, Universidad de Alcalá M.Eng. Software Engineering, Universidad de Alcalá MS Project Management in Information Technologies, Universidad de Alcalá

Employment Information Title: CEO Company: Jingku Software Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Kursat is a computer engineer with master’s with tasty conversations, growing avocado trees, degrees in software engineering and project and learning about international politics. He is management. After working for enterprises such currently working on his science-fiction book as Telefonica and Ericsson in Madrid, he moved which will take forever to publish. Kursat loves to China as a business development manager. In the Bay Area and never misses a chance to be 2016 he started his own IT company in Shanghai outdoors. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and and from there expanded into multiple countries their baby girl. in APAC. In his spare time, he enjoys fine dinin BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 17

Mark Jolley

Email: [email protected] Current City: Las Vegas, NV Education: BA Marketing Communications, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

Employment Information Title: Chief Operating Officer Company: Innovative Healthcare Delivery Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement Mark spent the early part of his career in politics company was purchased in 2018. Today, Mark is and marketing before co-founding a health-tech COO of an early-growth stage healthcare services company, one of the first o power the online and technology company. He is married with two enrollment infrastructure of insurance exchanges young teenagers and lives in Las Vegas. and to integrate with healthcare.gov. The

Kimberly (Kim) Jorstad

Email: [email protected] Current City: Livermore, CA Education: BS Marketing and International Business, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse

Employment Information Title: Director of Compliance and Administration Company: American Infrastructure Funds Industry: Financial Services

Personal Statement Kim serves as the Director of Compliance and profit dedica ed to furthering microenterprise Administration for American Infrastructure development in California, and served as Funds, a private equity firm in oster City. Prior Program Manager for the Bay Area Entrepreneur to her time in private equity, she spent over a Association – a non-profit dedica ed to providing decade in the non-profit indust y. She was the education and support to small business owners. Program Director for The Philanthropy Workshop With her expertise in capacity-building, idea West, where she taught philanthropists how to creation, and strategic planning, Kim has also identify values, evaluate opportunities, recognize served as an independent consultant. She lives in change-makers, and leverage resources. She was Livermore. also Managing Director for CAMEO – a non- 18 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Venkatesh (Venky) Kandaswamy

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Ramon, CA Education: B.Eng. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anna University MS Computer Science, University of Manchester

Employment Information Title: Senior Manager Company: Walmartlabs Inc Industry: Banking – Commercial/Retail

Personal Statement Since his first job as an in ern, Venky has been and organization into maps from internet working with the organization and retrieval of searches. He has recently taken over responsibility large amounts of data. He has worked in various for building the product catalog for one of the data organization technologies, from the earliest largest retailers in the world. Lately, he has been hierarchical and relational databases to the interested in the area of new experiences in modern day NoSQL Big Data platforms. He has e-commerce where we can leverage data science, had the good fortune of working with some of virtual reality, and immersive technologies to the best minds in the country to develop new give customers and buyers a new way of looking practices, particularly during his tenure at IBM at online buying. His expertise is in building Global Services and Google. For the last several technology and teams to accomplish unique years, Venky has been working with some very business visions in e-commerce. challenging systems, such as keyword extraction

Lisa Kelly

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Diego, CA Education: BS Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia

Employment Information Title: Staff P oduct Manager, Clinical Marketing – Genetic Disease Testing Company: Illumina Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement Lisa is a Product Manager at Illumina, where she worked in defense contracting, living abroad from works on whole genome sequencing research 2008 to 2010. She graduated from the University programs in rare disease. In her eight years at the of Virginia with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering. company, she has also led software development She lives in San Diego with her husband and their programs in manufacturing, lab services, and two children. tumor profiling analyses. Prior o Illumina, Lisa BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 19

Eric Lee

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Jose, CA Education: BS Chemistry, Stanford University PhD Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Employment Information Title: Vice President, Research and Development Company: Stion Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Eric Lee graduated with a degree in Chemistry technology, and worked at several solar power from Stanford, and went on to earn a PhD in companies for several years. Eric started his Chemistry from MIT. He began his career at company Stion, a solar technology startup, in IBM as a Process Development Engineer, before 2016. He is responsible for managing a high moving to Alien Technology as an Engineer. performing R&D team, experimental design, and There, he discovered his interest in solar power project reporting. Eric lives in San Jose.

Yanhui (Lea) Li

Email: [email protected] Current City: Cupertino, CA Education: B.Eng. Computer Science and Technology, Northeastern University M.Eng. Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore Employment Information Title: Enterprise Architect and Senior Researcher Company: Hitachi America, Ltd. Industry: Engineering

Personal Statement Lea graduated from the National University of responsible designing and delivering research Singapore with a master’s degree in Computer proposals and solutions using Internet of Things Engineering and worked in software development for customers. In her spare time, Lea enjoys for over eight years. She currently works as traveling, hiking, and spending time outdoors Enterprise Architect and Senior Researcher with her family. She lives in Cupertino with her in R&D at Hitachi America Ltd., where she’s husband and their two lovely daughters. 20 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Gopi Lingam

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Jose, CA Education: B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University MS Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering, Oregon State University Employment Information Title: Manager Company: Outset Medical Industry: Medical Products/Devices

Personal Statement Gopi was born and raised in India. After where he joined as an intern. He now leads completing his degree in Mechanical Engineering, the product design group, where he works on he worked as a software engineer for two years. creating a revolutionary dialysis system. Gopi lives His desire to learn more brought him to the US, in San Jose with his wife and two kids. He has two where he received his master’s in Mechanical boys, a 4 year old and a 1 year old. In his spare Engineering. The project he worked on as part time, he likes to spend time with his family, watch of his thesis landed him in a startup organization, movies, and travel.

Linda Liu

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Ramon, CA Education: BS Biology, Xiamen University MS Biochemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Employment Information Title: Chief Corporate Development Officer Company: Apton Biosystems Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement Linda grew up in China and lived in Singapore where she leads effo ts on business development, for three years before coming to the US in her marketing, product management, and fundraising. 20s to pursue a graduate degree in Biochemistry. She has two daughters, both of whom are After graduation she moved to the Bay Area, excellent dancers. The oldest is a freshman at UC where she’s been working in various biotech Berkeley. In her spare time, she likes to watch her companies for the past 18 years. Her career was daughters’ dance competitions and dance shows. focused on technical roles for many years, until She also enjoys traveling, hiking, gardening, and she co-founded a biotech startup in 2012. There, watching movies. She lives in San Ramon and she is the Chief Corporate Development Officer, works in Pleasanton. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 21

Andrew MacDonell

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Ramon, CA Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, Loyola Marymount University MS Mechanical Engineering, Loyola Marymount University

Employment Information Title: Program Manager Company: Abbott Industry: Medical Products/Devices

Personal Statement Andrew works as a Program Manager of new space in the Bay Area. Andrew graduated from product development within Abbott’s Heart Loyola Marymount University, receiving both his Failure Medical Device business unit. He’s bachelor’s and his master’s degrees in Mechanical responsible for leading a cross-functional Engineering. In his spare time, he enjoys training program team through a complete product for and competing in Ironman Triathlon, surfin , development lifecycle; from conceptualization and taking his family on camping trips. He lives in through successful commercialization. He has San Ramon with his wife of three years and their 1 also spent time in various other technical and year old daughter. leadership roles within the medical device startup

Avinash Madadi

Email: [email protected] Current City: Carl Junction, MO Education: MS Electrical Engineering, Texas Tech University

Employment Information Title: Electrical Engineer – Lead Company: Leggett & Platt, Inc. Industry: Manufacturing

Personal Statement Avinash graduated from Texas Tech University engineer, and has travelled internationally with a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering. establishing supplier relationships and sourcing After graduation, he worked for a startup for a electrical components. He is currently responsible couple of years, before moving to Missouri to for electronics development of new products. In work for Leggett & Platt, a multi-billion dollar his spare time, Avinash enjoys biking, spending manufacturer of diverse consumer products. time outdoors with his family, and visiting He started in the Research & Development wing historical places. of the Adjustable Bed Group as an electrical 22 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Thomas Madson

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Diego, CA Education: BS Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, United States Naval Academy

Employment Information Title: Naval Flight Instructor/IT Division Officer Company: U.S. Navy, Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 41 Industry: Military

Personal Statement Thomas graduated from the US Naval Academy instructor pilot for the MH-60R helicopter. In and has served as a naval helicopter pilot since his spare time, Thomas enjoys anything that will completing flight school. During that time h get him outside, especially in the mountains. served as the flag aide o the Commander He is an avid traveler, backpacker, cyclist, of Naval Education and Training Command, and runner. He resides in San Diego with his completing three deployments in support girlfriend, Tiffan , and their dog, Bella. of freedom of the seas, and served as an

Abby Majlak

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Political Science & Economics, Salve Regina University

Employment Information Title: Senior Director, Political Affairs & ederation Relations Company: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Industry: Government

Personal Statement Abby currently serves as the Senior Director, business majority in the U.S. Senate since 2006. Political Affairs & ederation Relations at the In 2018, she spearheaded political effo ts to pass U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In this capacity, she the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the most sweeping manages the implementation of multifaceted overhaul of the federal tax code in more than 30 political and legislative paid media campaigns, years. Abby is a political junkie who spends her grassroots communications, state and local spare time reading, running, and traveling. As a chamber and association engagement, and PAC military spouse, she enjoys volunteering with the programming. In 2014, her effo ts on the political Honor Flight Network. When not in Washington program led to the largest pro-business majority DC, Abby resides in San Francisco with her in the U.S. House since 1928 and the first p o- husband Jack and their wire-fox terrier Henry. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 23

Suprita Makh

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Psychology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges MS International Relations, Syracuse University

Employment Information Title: Program Manager Company: Digital Green Industry: Not-for-Profi

Personal Statement Suprita has worked in the global development and South and Southeast Asia, and Central America. social impact sector for over ten years, initially In her spare time, Suprita enjoys being outdoors, implementing public health programs, and now reading, and taking Spanish lessons over Skype working to improve the lives of smallholder with her Guatemalan teacher. She lives in San farmers in developing countries. She has worked Francisco with her husband, and loves escaping and travelled extensively in sub-Saharan Africa, north to the Point Reyes area.

Alexander (Alex) Martin

Email: [email protected] Current City: Napa, CA Education: BS, United States Naval Academy

Employment Information Title: CEO & Co-Founder Company: AC Global Risk Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Alex is the CEO and Co-Founder of AC Global International, a social enterprise dedicated to Risk, a venture backed, technology-based risk ending extreme poverty. Alex is a graduate of the assessment company headquartered in California. U.S. Naval Academy, Marine Corps Expeditionary Prior to launching AC Global, Alex served in the Warfare School, Naval Command and Staff U.S. Marine Corps as a small unit commander in College, and Stanford Business School’s Program infantry, reconnaissance, and special operations in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Alex enjoys units. Upon leaving active duty, he founded a sailing, drinking wine, binging Netflix, and day private maritime security company based in dreaming about the non-so-great novel he’ll never Muscat, Oman and later lived and worked in rural write. He lives in Napa with his wife Julie, and their Kenya for two years as the Team Leader for Nuru dog, Havana. 24 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Christina (Tina) Matejik

Email: [email protected] Current City: Denver, CO Education: BS Foreign Area Studies & Spanish, United States Air Force Academy MA Political Science, Virginia Tech

Employment Information Title: Pilot Company: United Airlines Industry: Aerospace

Personal Statement Tina graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy Officer for the U.S. Air Force Academy in the Air in 2006 and began her career as a pilot flyin Force Reserves. She is also involved in a non- the KC-135 air refueler. She served 11 years in the profit sta tup that is developing a flight simula or Air Force and the Air National Guard, deploying based youth STEM program. In her free time, eleven times to the Middle East and flying ver Tina likes to enjoy the outdoors through hiking, 1,000 combat hours. As an instructor pilot and snowboarding, kayaking, and running. She is officer, she gained experience managing an moving from Denver to the Bay Area this summer Operations Group aircrew training program and with her partner Aaron and fur-kid Molly, an wing scheduling department. Currently, she is a energetic Weimaraner. pilot for United Airlines and Admission Liaison

Michael McCormick

Email: [email protected] Current City: Lafayette, CA Education: MS Construction Management, Information Systems, George Washington University

Employment Information Title: Director of Strategic Development Company: California High Speed Rail Authority Industry: Transportation

Personal Statement A native of Cranbury, New Jersey, Michael billions of dollars’ worth of military and water graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and resources infrastructure. Following his retirement served as an engineer officer in the Army for from the Army, Michael served in a number of thirty years. His military service includes a variety executive infrastructure delivery roles in both of leadership and staff positions with the 82n public and private organizations, culminating with Airborne and 2nd Infantry Divisions, as well as his new position with the California High Speed the XVIIIth Airborne Corps. His career highlights Rail Authority. Michael enjoys running, reading include command of four U.S. Army Corps of history, working on home improvement projects, Engineers Districts in San Francisco, Seattle, New and baking pies. He lives in Lafayette with his Orleans, and Afghanistan, successfully delivering partner of six years, Cindy, and her two sons. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 25

Vasiliy Mikhel

Email: [email protected] Current City: Obushkovo, Russia Education: BS Information and Control Systems & Robotics, Baltic State Technical University PhD Economics, Russian Academy of Entrepreneurship Employment Information Title: Founder & CEO Company: Support Consulting Finance and Consulting Industry: Consulting

Personal Statement Vasiliy was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1995, project for the country’s oldest printing he graduated from the Baltic State Technical house. During that time, he also completed his University with a degree in Engineering. Since postgraduate studies at the Russian Academy 1996, he has led Support Consulting Finance of Entrepreneurship and has acted as Associate and Investment (SKIF), an independent business Professor since then. Since 2018, he has returned advisory and crisis-management company. In to his private strategic advisory company and 1999, he co-founded the PremierCompany, is currently acting as the Strategy and Business another business-consulting boutique firm i Development Advisor to Monea Coin Technology. St. Petersburg. He later moved to Moscow and Outside of work, he is a father to two daughters continued private advisory under the SKIF brand. and a passionate extreme sports fan. In 2009, he was invited to do a crisis management

Saswat Mishra

Email: [email protected] Current City: Cupertino, CA Education: BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bangalore University MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Santa Clara University Employment Information Title: Engineer Company: Marvell Inc. Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement Saswat completed his master’s degree in He has a total of four approved patents and 25 Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University. patent applications pending. When he’s not doing From there, he began his career as an engineer research, Saswat plays and teaches soccer at the at Marvell Inc., where he has been for the past Cupertino Football Club, where he’s the head nine years. During this time, he has designed and coach for the under-10 boys team. In his spare managed over 100 system-on-a-chip designs time, he loves to read non-fiction books an across four major business units. His designs have spend time outdoors. He lives in Cupertino with been widely used in the XBOX One, iPad 3, Sony his wife and two children. PlayStation consoles, and most Lenovo laptops. 26 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Michael Moreno

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Diego, CA Education: BA Organizational Behavior Studies, Pitzer College MA International Affairs and In ernational Security Policy, Columbia University Employment Information Title: Strategy Manager Company: Viasat Industry: Aerospace and Consulting

Personal Statement Michael Moreno is based in San Diego, California, taught counterterrorism at the FBI Academy. where he is a Strategy Manager at Viasat. In He completed several more overseas tours in previous roles, he has been responsible for the Middle East before leaving government in identifying investments and developing strategic 2016 to co-found a market-entry and defense relationships in disruptive technology sectors consultancy in Dubai. He also co-founded Volt.ae, including AI/ML, cybersecurity, blockchain, and a startup accelerating electric vehicle adoption robotics. As a consultant, Moreno has advised in the Middle East. Prior to Viasat, Moreno led companies on Middle East market-entry, as well strategy and partnership for the Dubai-based tech as foreign companies investing in American tech. firm voteq. Moreno has a BA in Organizational Moreno began his career with a 26-month tour Studies from Pitzer College, a Master’s in in Iraq, where he served as a national security International Affairs f om Columbia University, advisor to the Iraqi government. Following and is completing his MBA at the UC Berkeley graduate school, Moreno managed a program at Haas School of Business. West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center that

Adele Mucci

Email: [email protected] Current City: Shanghai, China Education: MA Business Administration, Università degli Studi ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ di Chieti Employment Information Title: VP LatAm Company: JA Solar Industry: Energy

Personal Statement Adele graduated with a degree in Business customers. After leaving SMIC, Adele joined JA Administration from G. D’Annunzio University Solar, the leader in production of solar cells and in Pescara, Italy. She moved to China in 2002 panels, taking on roles in emerging markets, sales, to join SMIC, the first semi onductor foundry and marketing. In her spare time, Adele enjoys startup in the country. During her time with the baking and cooking, being outdoors, and sports. company, she served as Customer Engineering Her favorite thing is scuba diving and traveling in Associate, supervising the coordination of Southeast Asia. She is in the process of relocating critical technology transfers of cutting edge to California, after spending more than 15 years products from European, American, and Japanese living in Asia. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 27

Douglas Myslenski

Email: [email protected] Current City: Albany, CA Education: BS Management Information Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Employment Information Title: Director IT, G&A Applications Company: Adamas Pharmaceuticals Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Personal Statement Doug graduated from the University of Illinois certification, a supply chain indust y leader in with a degree in Management Information education, best practices, and benchmarking. Systems. The first en years of his career were Following consulting, Doug has had IT Director in ERP Systems and Operations Consulting for roles within CPG (Annie’s, Inc.) and Specialty a small startup in Chicago. During that time, he Pharmaceutical (Adamas Pharmaceuticals) ran both domestic and international projects, businesses leading IT application strategy. He receiving Directorship by the end of his tenure. resides in Oakland with his wife, daughter, and His role spanned software development, son. He enjoys creating new memories traveling project consulting, business development, value with family, as well as skiing, running (three engineering, as well as internal mentorship marathons and counting), and playing and program building. In addition, he achieved APICS watching baseball – GO CUBS!

Vivek Nadkarni

Email: [email protected] Current City: Sunnyvale, CA Education: BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Employment Information Title: Product Manager & Engineering Manager Company: Trimble Industry: Agriculture

Personal Statement Vivek is a Product & Engineering Manager at his engineering role. On any given day, Vivek is Trimble. He graduated from MIT with both a developing an inter-divisional product offering fo bachelor’s and master’s degree in Engineering Australia, discussing operational pain points with a and Computer Science, and an NSF Graduate sugarcane grower in Brazil, negotiating pricing for Research Fellowship. After college, he joined the Ukraine, or evaluating a worldwide business Trimble to develop algorithms. Six patents and model transition. He lived in Pennsylvania until three innovation awards later, Vivek now leads 4th grade and in Pune, India through high school. the GPS receiver development team in Trimble’s He currently lives in Sunnyvale with his wife and Agriculture division. In 2016, he transitioned son. He enjoys going on walks with others, savors into a product management role alongside black tea, and loves learning. 28 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Meenakshi (Meenu) Natarajan

Email: [email protected] Current City: Foster City, CA Education: BA Information Technology & Economics, York University

Employment Information Title: Director, Retirement Investments, Global Treasury Company: HP Inc. Industry: Financial Services

Personal Statement Meenu has fourteen years of experience in the management, participant engagement, and retail and institutional investment industries, contract negotiations. She has served as Lead focusing on global retirement plan asset Investment and Administrative Committees for management (defined benefit and defi large multi-national corporations. She has a track contribution). She has extensive work experience record of successfully leading teams, achieving in plan design, investment strategy, execution, results, collaboratively solving problems, and governance, fiducia y oversight, vendor operating with a high level of energy and integrity.

Dennis Ngo

Email: [email protected] Current City: Irvine, CA Education: BS Economics, University of California, Irvine

Employment Information Title: CFO Company: Avigro Industry: Agriculture

Personal Statement Dennis Ngo graduated from UC Irvine with an public equities and provides non-equity loans to Economics degree and has managed his contract emerging companies that create an impact in manufacturing company for dietary supplements their regional or the global community. Dennis for nearly fi e years. He is currently in the process enjoys spending time with his loved ones, cooking, of selling his company and joining a multinational going to the gym, and playing golf. He lives happily agribusiness as CFO. On the side, he invests in in Irvine with his wife and dog. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 29

Aron O’Connor

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Employment Information Title: Senior Quality Manager Company: Stryker Corporation Industry: Medical Products/Devices

Personal Statement Aron received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Quality Manager, he supports a team that Engineering from the University of Notre Dame consults with hospitals around the country to in 2010. Upon graduation, he moved to San Jose improve efficiency in erile processing of medical to work for Stryker Corporation as a Quality devices. Outside of work, Aron enjoys hiking, Engineer. Throughout the past eight years, Aron camping, snowboarding, spending time with his has continued his career with Stryker, moving two brothers, and brewing beer. He lives in San from engineering positions into operations Francisco with his fian ée Adrienne. management. In his current position as a Senior

Joshua Olivas

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Human Resources Management, American InterContinental University

Employment Information Title: Associate Lead Recruiter Company: Google Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Joshua spent seven years with the Marine Infantry at Google, where he leads a team of recruiters as a Hospital Corpsman. He completed multiple to hire for Google’s Cloud Platform business. At deployments, leading teams of Marines and home, he enjoys pending time with his girlfriend sailors through difficult challenges. He ventually and dog. He also enjoys being in and out of the transitioned out of the military and began working water, running, politics, and live music. 30 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Nicholas Plagge

Email: [email protected] Current City: Philadelphia, PA Education: BS Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Employment Information Title: President Company: Seniortours Vacations Industry: Hospitality

Personal Statement Nick graduated from the Wharton School of his family’s tour operator business. While in with a degree in Economics, and started work Philadelphia, Nick got involved in politics and as a derivatives trader at the American Stock the arts. He has lived, worked, or traveled in 45 Exchange. From there, he founded a real estate countries, and enjoys hiking, wine, and all things investment business with his brother and cousin entrepreneurial. He currently lives in Philadelphia, in his hometown of Philadelphia, and returned to but is planning to relocate to the SF area. Philadelphia fulltime to oversee the operations

Olga Pospelova

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Jose, CA Education: MA Linguistics, San Jose State University

Employment Information Title: Data Program Manager, Artificial In elligence Company: Amazon Web Services Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Olga graduated with a master’s in Linguistics a Machine Translation Language Specialist. In from San Jose State University, and from there, 2018, Olga moved to Amazon Web Services. She worked as an Assistant Professor at the Defense is currently a Data Program Manager. She lives in Language Institute Foreign Language Center. She San Jose, California. then transitioned to eBay, where she worked as BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 31

Abdul Qadir

Email: [email protected] Current City: Roseville, CA Education:

Employment Information Title: Head of Product Company: Self Employed Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Abdul moved to the United States after He is currently the CEO of Compassion Health graduating from medical school in Pakistan. Network, which provides services to a local He completed his Psychiatry Residency at the psychiatric hospital in Sacramento. He enjoys University of North Dakota. After finishing hi spending time outdoors with his family. He lives in psychiatry training he moved to Washington Roseville with his wife and their two children. State for four years, then moved to Sacramento.

Lisa Rawlings

Email: [email protected] Current City: Washington, D.C. Education: BA Public Health & Africana Studies, Rutgers University MSW Social Work, Howard University MA Public Administration, Baruch College PhD Social Work, Howard University Employment Information Title: Chief of Staff Company: Court Services and Offender Supe vision Agency Industry: Government

Personal Statement Lisa Rawlings is a public service leader with a developed and executed influential en erprise passion for equity, efficien , and impact. Trained level initiatives focusing on programmatic in social work, she has served in executive and enhancements, organizational development, and management capacities in diverse fields, includin operational efficien . In her free time, she enjoys criminal justice, public health, immigration, child physical activity, loves nature, and is exploring welfare, and youth development. In 2016, Lisa a budding interest in sailing. She attributes her was appointed to the Senior Executive Service independence, attention to diverse points of view, of the federal government and currently serves and passion for travel to her early experience of as the Chief of Staff at the ourt Service and living abroad. Her work and passions have taken Offender Supe vision Agency (CSOSA). Over her across the United States and to dozens of the past six years at CSOSA, she has served countries on fi e continents. as a primary advisor to the Director and 32 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Sean Rich

Email: [email protected] Current City: Moraga, CA Education: BS Mathematics, Regis University

Employment Information Title: Senior Director, Information Technology Company: Mozilla Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Sean Rich is a Senior Director in Operations at happiest when playing at the intersection of Mozilla, where he helps lead the Information success and service and is continually working to Technology organization. During his career he build out customer-centric organizations. When has helped companies build new capabilities, he’s not working on leading innovative success at win industry-recognized innovation awards, and Mozilla, he enjoys engaging in “maker” hobbies transform the way work gets done. He loves and spending time with his family. He lives in leading and developing teams, and thrives when Moraga with this love of his life, Jenn, and their drawing upon disciplines of human performance three children: Grace, Ryan, and Harper. management and strategic thinking. He is

Adam Rosenzweig

Email: [email protected] Current City: Berkeley, CA Education: BA History, Pitzer College Ed.M. Education Policy and Management, Harvard University

Employment Information Title: Program Manger Company: Okta Industry: Technology

Personal Statement Adam leads Okta’s product philanthropy work as He majored in history at Pitzer College and also a member of the Okta for Good team. Prior to holds a master’s degree in education policy and Okta, Adam spent ten years working with various management from Harvard Graduate School of social impact organizations and remains actively Education. involved as a consultant and board member. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 33

Georgios Sarakakis

Email: [email protected] Current City: Cupertino, CA Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki MS Reliability Engineering, University of Arizona MS Project Management, George Washington University Employment Information Title: Manager – Field Reliability Company: Waymo Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Georgios is leading the field eliability effo ts Thessaloniki, Greece, and lives in Cupertino, CA for Waymo, the self-driving car project from with his wife Janneth and their three children. Google. Prior to Waymo, he served as the Senior Before he became a professional diaper changer, Manager of Reliability Engineering at Tesla, where his hobbies included windsurfin , playing he oversaw the reliability development and the guitar, hiking, and trying new food. He is continuous improvement for the Tesla Roadster, interested in electric cars, productivity books, and Model S, and Model X. Georgios grew up in always carries a pocket pen.

Meghan Shah

Email: [email protected] Current City: Danville, CA Education: BS Psychology, Indiana University – Bloomington MA Communication and Media Studies, Indiana University – Bloomington Employment Information Title: Media Director Company: Chevron Industry: Energy

Personal Statement Meghan is an integrated marketing executive with organizations. Meghan volunteers and serves over 15 years of experience in advertising and on the board of Super Stars Literacy, a local marketing. Her career started in the advertising organization in Oakland that brings early literacy industry and she quickly made her way into intervention to underperforming K-2 students. the tech and energy sectors. Meghan’s work She is also working towards her yoga teacher history includes extensive experience developing, training certifica e and wants to teach yoga implementing, and evaluating media strategies to underprivileged communities and children. and solutions for brands like Microsoft, Yahoo, Meghan also enjoys traveling with her family and Google, and Chevron, and finding ays to spending time with her children outdoors, or improve consumer’s online experience to drive taking advantage of the many cultural activities business growth. She’s led highly effecti e teams, in the Bay Area. She lives in Danville with her developing each other’s skills, as well as worked husband and their two children. as a member of multifunctional, collaborative 34 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Carol Shumate

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering & Business, University of Missouri – Columbia

Employment Information Title: Regional Sales Manager Company: Rockwell Automation, Inc. Industry: Manufacturing

Personal Statement Carol Shumate is the Regional Sales Manager while architecting sales growth for the company. at Rockwell Automation, the largest company Carol completed a bachelor’s degree in Industrial in the world that is dedicated to industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at the automation and information. Her responsibilities University of Missouri. She is currently living in include sales strategy, structure, and execution San Francisco, spending her time sailing with excellence in the teams across the West Region friends, cooking fresh produce from the farmer’s territories. She strives to create a consistent market, and hiking with her dog. and quality experience for the customer base

Malini Singh

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS, University of Oregon MPH Public Health, Harvard University MD, University of Rochester Employment Information Title: Associate Professor, Vice Chief of ZSFG Emergency Department Company: UCSF School of Medicine Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement Malini Singh is the Vice Chief of the Department Public Health from Harvard’s School of Public of Emergency Medicine at Zuckerberg San Health. Her current areas of focus are primarily Francisco General Hospital, as well as an around the education and training of residents Associate Professor of Medicine at the UCSF and medical students, the development and School of Medicine. She moved to San Francisco mentoring of faculty, as well as implementing and from Boston, where she had been working improving upon operations to maximize patient as an attending emergency physician at the fl w and safety within her department. Malini Brigham and Women’s Hospital and as a Clinical currently lives in San Francisco, and in her spare Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, time she loves to travel and be in the outdoors. during which time she earned her Master’s in BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 35

Vasuprada (Vasu) Sriperumbudur

Email: [email protected] Current City: Palo Alto, CA Education: BS Computer Science, Sri Venkateswara University MS Computer Science, University of Hyderabad

Employment Information Title: Product Manager Company: OpenText Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Vasu grew up in India, where she completed teams at Hewlett-Packard, EMC, and her current both her bachelor’s and master’s in Computer employer, OpenText. Vasu loves creating things Science. She has been a resident of the SF from scratch, whether that be through a table Bay Area for the past 17 years. After working saw or a sewing machine. She loves traveling and several years as a Software Engineer, Vasu visiting new places and dreams of one day taking transitioned to Product Manager after a very a year off of her egular life to just travel. She interesting experience on her first cus omer lives in Palo Alto with her husband Vamshi, and visit. In her role as Product Manager, she has their two sons, Avyay and Haas. worked on several products and with multiple

Benjamin (Ben) Stein

Email: [email protected] Current City: Pleasanton, CA Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, United States Naval Academy MS Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park

Employment Information Title: Director of Digital Marketing Company: BMC Software Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Ben grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota dreaming of is a distinguished graduate of the Naval Academy a short and lucrative career in the NBA. After and earned an MS in Aerospace Engineering from falling drastically short of realizing that dream, the University of Maryland. He lives in Pleasanton, he served 12 years in the U.S. Navy as an F/A-18 CA with his wife Mary and their two sons, Milo (5) pilot and instructor. Since leaving active duty and Louis (3). Ben is an avid golfer, runner, and in 2017, he has worked at BMC Software, most occasionally moonlights as a piano man. recently as its Director of Digital Marketing. Ben 36 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Ernest (Ernie) Svehla

Email: [email protected] Current City: Dublin, CA Education: BS Computer Science, Northeastern Illinois University MA Strategy and Innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Employment Information Title: Engineering Manager Company: Apple Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement Ernie graduated from Northeastern Illinois of experience leading and managing software University with a degree in Computer Science and development organizations. Ernie started a web a minor in Math. Ernie also earned a commission consulting company in the dot-com days and as an officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he fl w served as CEO. He was also a 9/11 volunteer. On supersonic jet aircraft as well as served with the weekends, Ernie enjoys competitive aerobatic U.S. Air Force Space Command working on space- flying and still cannot onvince his wife of one based intelligence systems. He has over 30 years year, Melissa, to take a flight with him

Meghan (Meg) Thurlow

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Chemistry, Carleton College MS Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University PhD Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University Employment Information Title: Technical Lead Company: Aclima Inc. Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Meg graduated with degrees in Chemistry gases. Through this research, Meg began working from Carleton College (B.A.) and Harvard in partnerships with Aclima Inc., a company that University (PhD). During her graduate studies, designs and deploys sensor networks to increase she focused on developing and deploying novel environmental awareness. She now serves as the instrumentation for the detection of highly head of the hardware engineering team and as reactive trace gases that impact global climate. the technical lead of the outdoor product line at After a brief stint as a postdoctoral researcher Aclima. Meg spends her spare time hiking, running at Harvard, she took on a research position slowly, café-hopping, and volunteering at the at UC Berkeley focused on building a scalable SPCA. She lives in San Francisco with her husband observational network for monitoring greenhouse and their 1-year old daughter. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 37

Debashish Tripathy

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Jose, CA Education: BS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore Employment Information Title: Technologist Company: Western Digital Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Debashish graduated from BITS Pilani in 2002 capacity hard-disk models through the expansion with a degree in Electrical Engineering. After of perpendicular and heat-assisted magnetic working briefly in the IT indust y, he moved recording technology. In 2013, Debashish to Singapore to pursue his PhD in Electrical relocated to the Western Digital HQ in the Bay Engineering at the National University of Area, where he continues to deliver revenue- Singapore. During that time, he developed strengthening results while building cooperative novel materials and devices for magnetic interdepartmental relations. In his spare time, storage applications. After completing his PhD he enjoys playing basketball (Go Warriors!) and and postdoctoral stints at NUS, he began his driving along the California coast with his family. industrial career with Western Digital in 2011. He He lives in San Jose with his wife of 12 years and was involved in the implementation of higher- their two-year old daughter.

Ryan Vaughan

Email: [email protected] Current City: Sacramento, CA Education: BS Physics, University of Maryland, College Park Pharm.D. Pharmacy, University of Connecticut

Employment Information Title: District Leader Company: CVS Pharmacy Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement Ryan graduated from the University of Resources Management at the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy and worked as Connecticut School of Business. He relocated a Pharmacist for a number of years. He moved from Connecticut to California in 2016. Ryan into management roles with CVS Pharmacy enjoys hiking, snowboarding, board games, and and completed a business certifica e in Human vegan cooking. He enjoys living in Sacramento. 38 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Claire Veuthey

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: MA Conflict, Security & D velopment, King’s College London MA International relations, Graduate Institute of Geneva Employment Information Title: Director of ESG & Impact Company: OpenInvest Industry: Financial Services

Personal Statement Claire has worked in environmental, social corporate engagement work. Claire served as an and corporate governance (ESG), and impact advisor to the Sustainable Accounting Standards investing for more than a decade. She has held Board during its inaugural year, and was part of research, investment, product, and business the first ohort to earn the FSA (Fundamentals of development roles in London, Toronto, Singapore, Sustainability Accounting) credential. Claire was Amsterdam, and San Francisco. She is also a awarded a Dean’s Fellowship at Haas, holds an Venture Fellow at Strawberry Creek Ventures. M.A. from King’s College London, and a Licence Before joining OpenInvest, she led the Wells Fargo from the Graduate Institute of International and Social Impact Investing team’s ESG research and Development Studies in Geneva.

Elim Yeoh

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Jose, CA Education: BS Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Employment Information Title: Chief of Staff Company: Chevron Industry: Energy

Personal Statement Elim graduated from UC Berkeley with a multiple supply chain optimization and business Chemical Engineering degree in 2003 and development teams. In 2015, she joined the Global joined Chevron the same year. She began her Strategy function as a Strategy and Competitive career as a technology marketing engineer, Intelligence Lead which helps Chevron set which allowed her to see diffe ent operating portfolio and asset strategies. Elim transitions cultures around the world. She then transitioned into her new role within Chevron as Chief-of-Staff to the Hawaii Refine y, taking on roles in to President the same week that she starts the manufacturing operations, supply chain and EMBA program. Elim enjoys tennis, yoga, cycling, project management. After four years in Hawaii, traveling, and volunteering. She lives in San she spent two years each in El Segundo, CA; Jose with her partner, Michael, and their three Vancouver, Canada; and San Ramon, CA, leading daughters. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019 39

Jinwei Zhang

Email: [email protected] Current City: Richmond, CA Education: BA Architecture, Wuhan University of Technology MA Architecture, Planning and Urban Design, University of Calgary

Employment Information Title: Project Manager Company: EDG Design Industry: Real Estate

Personal Statement Jinwei is a licensed architect, urban planner, all across the world, from the U.S. to Canada to and LEED AP. She specializes in green building China to the Middle East. Jinwei is a passionate design, with projects that include hospitality traveler and has lived in and visited over 50 industries, office campuses, theme parks, mixed countries and more than 300 cities. In her free use commercial and residential buildings, airports, time, she is also a film ma er, furniture designer, and city planning. These projects can be found and painter.

Dee Zheng

Email: [email protected] Current City: Los Angeles, CA Education: BS Finance, University of Albany, SUNY

Employment Information Title: CEO Company: TCI Shanghai Industry: Energy

Personal Statement Dee Zheng is an entrepreneur who spent the last CNOOC. Prior to this, he was the responsible 11 years in China leading and nurturing the gas editor for the LAB Newsletter at Colin-Houston & turbine MRO bootstrap startup he co-founded Associates, a technical petrochemical consulting and sold to an industry-leading multinational firm in upsta e New York. He is also engaged in joint-venture. He built an engineering and various roles in boutique private equity firms an manufacturing team that successfully serviced investment banks. Dee is a former professional hot-section components for F-class gas turbines gamer and a travel buff that carries his 6lb came a from scratch and served customers that ranged backpack with him everywhere. He currently lives from Fortune 500 companies such as Jiangsu in Los Angeles with his wife and their baby girl. Shagang, to state-owned enterprises such as 40 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2019

Molly Zucker

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Rhetoric & Mass Communications, University of California, Berkeley

Employment Information Title: Auctions & Library Wine Director Company: K&L Wine Merchants Industry: Retail

Personal Statement A Bay Area native and second generation Cal Molly returned to her roots in San Francisco student, Molly completed her undergraduate and launched the online auction platform at studies in Rhetoric and Mass Communications at K&L Wine Merchants, a wine retail chain and UC Berkeley in 2005. After some travel abroad, e-commerce business co-founded by her father in she worked at Wagstaff orldwide, a hospitality 1976. Molly lives in San Francisco with her fian é public relations firm, verseeing PR campaigns Kyle and their very mischievous dog, Wolfie for top restaurants and hotels in California When not working or commuting, Molly loves to before heading to Chicago for two years to work cook, garden, take art classes, and she dabbles in in marketing and business development at the interior design projects for friends and family. law firm Jenner & Block. Almost eight ears ago,

Megan Zweig

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, California Education: BA Public Policy, Duke University

Employment Information Title: Director of Research Company: Rock Health Industry: Not-for-Profi

Personal Statement Hoping she’d soon return to her home state and inpatient quality and efficien . After nine of California, Megan left for North Carolina to years at ABC, Megan left to join Rock Health, attend Duke University. She studied Public Policy a seed-stage venture fund in SF dedicated to and after reading her first tul Gawande book, digital health. There, she is head of research and was hooked on healthcare. After school, she provides thought leadership on technology-driven moved to DC and started as a research analyst innovation in healthcare. Megan dreams of one at the Advisory Board Committee (ABC). Megan day having her own dog. In the meantime, she consulted for health system executives and led settles for vegan baked goods, lots of concerts, the Physician Executive Council, a best practice doting on her plants, and loving her neighborhood research program for Chief Medical Officers in the Lower Haight. focused on hospital-physician partnership, 41 42 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Rohit Agarwalla

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Jose, CA Education: BS Information Technology Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University MS Computer Science, Cornell University Employment Information Title: Principal Engineer Company: Cisco Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement Rohit Agarwalla is a product leader who has to joining Cisco, Rohit graduated from been in the eye of the cloud computing storm Cornell University with a Master’s degree with involvement in three popular open source in Computer Science and has completed cloud software innovations. In the recent past, product management related course his technology acumen and business instincts works from Stanford. He lives in San Jose, have enabled him to become a founder for California with his wife (a medical doctor) a Cisco product and build two Cisco hybrid and daughter. Outside of spending time with cloud partnerships with Google Cloud and family, Rohit enjoys traveling internationally Amazon Web Services. Leveraging emerging (thirteen countries and counting) and playing technologies, he is excited by opportunities badminton. and challenges to disrupt verticals. Prior

Nicholas Andrews

Email: [email protected] Current City: Denver, CO Education: BSBA in Accounting and Finance, University of Denver

Employment Information Title: Vice President, Finance and Accounting Company: Blumberg Investment Partners Industry: Financial Services

Personal Statement: Nicholas Andrews graduated from the for a private equity firm in Den er, Colorado. University of Denver with a BSBA in In his free time, he enjoys skiing, martial arts, Accounting and Finance. As an active CPA, he and scuba diving. Nicholas and his wife live in has worked in various finan e roles in mining, Denver with their first child, born on Janua y telecom, energy, and real estate. Currently, 18, 2019. Nicholas is the VP of Finance and Accounting BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 43

Martin Angkawijaya

Email: [email protected] Current City: Jakarta, Indonesia Education: BS, Chemical Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung

Employment Information Title: Director & Founder Company: Derma Beautica Aesthetic Clinic Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement: Martin is a dedicated entrepreneur with an to question the status quo, she seized an inquisitive mind that encourages her to always opportunity to take part in a lucrative market in pursue knowledge through studying. She believes the medical aesthetic business that was thriving that we are never too old to set another goal in Indonesia. Thus, she established her own and dream a new dream. After graduating from company which multiplied threefold in a few Bandung Institute of Technology and obtaining years. Enjoying her role as a single mother, Martin a degree in Chemical Engineering, Martin taught raises her two lovely daughters and likes to spend Thermodynamics in Chemical Engineering to her leisure time traveling, hiking, working out, as undergraduate students in Parahyangan Catholic well as delighting in culinary adventures. University. Five years later, feeling challenged

Rosi Arnaudova

Email: [email protected] Current City: Seattle, WA Education: MS Linguistics, Kuban State University

Employment Information Title: Management Consultant Company: Slalom Industry: Consulting/Management Services

Personal Statement: Rosi Arnaudova is a Management Consultant Germany. There her primary focus was on shaping at Slalom. In this role, she helps Fortune 500 and driving marketing communications for global technology clients transform and grow their brands and projects, e.g. Mercedes-Benz, Olympic businesses by defining and implementin Games 2014, and UNDP. Rosi holds a Master’s customer-centric marketing strategies. Her degree in Linguistics and speaks 4 languages. expertise lies in various facets of global marketing Outside of work, Rosi enjoys traveling, playing and channel strategy, data analytics, program the piano, helping a local dance school with their management, and working in cross-cultural ballet productions, and exploring the Pacifi environments. Before moving to the United States Northwest. She lives in Seattle, Washington, with 5 years ago, Rosi worked in multiple markets in her husband and daughter. Europe, including Finland, Russia, the UK and 44 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Narges Attaran

Email: [email protected] Current City: Mountain View, California Education: BS Computer Software Engineering, Azad University

Employment Information Title: Manager, Solutions Architecture (Channel Leader) Company: Armanino LLP Industry: Consulting/Management Services

Personal Statement: Born and raised in Shiraz, Iran, Narges graduated wide variety of industries. Currently, she leads a as valedictorian in Computer Software fast-growing business line at California’s largest Engineering. While attending university in Iran, regional accounting & consulting firm, Armanin she programmed and sold business software LLP. In 2012, she co-founded Shiraz Arts Academy, solutions. In late 2009, Narges moved to the U.S. which specializes in training of Persian music and and continued her profession as a Microsoft arts in northern California. Narges is a volunteer certified soft are engineer with Microsoft’s actress at Stanford University and has performed Dynamics ERP team. After joining Oracle Corp. in leading roles in four Iranian theatrical plays since 2013 as a Sales Engineer, she got the opportunity 2014. She lives in Mountain View, CA with her to work very closely with C-level executives of family and friends. small, medium, and enterprise accounts across a

Sanejkumar (Sanej) Bandgar

Email: [email protected] Current City: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Education: BS Computer Science, University of Mumbai

Employment Information Title: Manager of Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Company: Suncor Energy Industry: Energy

Personal Statement: Sanej graduated in Computer Science from several complex businesses. Sanej is passionate the University of Mumbai with distinction and about sustainable energy and transportation, a first ank in class. Upon receiving his degree, striving to make a positive diffe ence in the he worked on large scale digital transformation energy industry by leveraging the power of initiatives at Capgemini Consulting and Deloitte data and analytics. He lives in the heart of the Consulting. During his consulting stint, he worked Canadian Rockies in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, in the UK and Canada to help align business with his wife of 9 years and his parents. In his and technology strategy, thereby setting the spare time, Sanej enjoys trekking, running or next digital frontier for several organizations. biking across the beautiful Bow River in Calgary, Additionally, Sanej is certified in AI and Machin meditating, stargazing, and reading astronomy or Learning from MIT. He has tactically applied autobiography books. his learning to create data-driven strategies for BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 45

Matthew (Matt) Beatty

Email: [email protected] Current City: Petaluma, CA Education: BS Criminal Justice Administration, San Diego State University

Employment Information Title: EVP Customer Success Company: Brightmetrics Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Matt graduated from SDSU in 2001 and served the value that customers and channel partners as a Marine officer in a variety of operational get from their relationship with Brightmetrics. and analyst roles, taking him places like Japan, He found the most fulfilling ork investing in the Philippines, and Iraq. After leaving active the work of local non-profits and in ernational duty in 2007 and returning to the Bay Area, humanitarian relief organizations. Matt loves he pursued a career in technical sales and spending time with his family and has been account management in a variety of networking married for 17 years. Most of the time you can technology and software services companies. find him and his wife sc ambling between sports, Matt currently is a partner and executive at piano, and extra curriculars of their three teen/ Brightmetrics, charged with building customer tween kids. success and operational practices that maximize

Shahed Behjat

Email: [email protected] Current City: Camarillo, CA Education: BS Information Systems Engineering, University of Westminster

Employment Information Title: Head of Program Management Company: PTI Technologies Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Shahed is a driven project manager with extensive transcend cultural shifts to disciplined experience in delivery and an impeccable track performance-based models. In his spare time, record of revitalizing organizations by providing Shahed enjoys playing soccer, reading, and comprehensive solutions to operational and working on his non-profit p oject. He lives in process issues within set budgets and timelines. Camarillo with his wife of 15 years and their two He has a profound appreciation for change children. management techniques that help organizations 46 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Philip (Phil) Bellezza

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Finance, Providence College

Employment Information Title: Senior Manager, International Programming Company: Ancestry.com Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Philip started his career in finan e before and over-the-top services. Most recently, he has transitioning into the legal field and landing final returned to his storytelling roots through content in the media industry. His early work in the fiel development for Ancestry.com. Originally an was centered around creating engaging branded East Coaster, Philip now lives in the Bay Area entertainment for massive global brands. Philip with his wife and their mini-sheltie. He is an avid shifted his focus to content distribution initially outdoorsman, loves to ski and snowboard, and in global broadcast markets before joining the compete in triathlons. digital revolution of direct-to-consumer networks

Cory Boatwright

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Philosophy, Politics, & Economics; International Relations, University of Pennsylvania

Employment Information Title: Manager, Military & Veteran Recruiting Programs Company: LinkedIn Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement: Cory is a trusted senior program manager with vision of community-first p ograms that foster a knack for creating clarity out of chaos and belonging. Cory is continuing his education to getting things done. He loves to connect people learn how to use technology to scale effo ts to to opportunities, and as a servant leader, he erode the barriers to equitable opportunities for seeks to build communities of change where underrepresented communities, military veterans, teams come together to challenge the status and their families. Cory lives in downtown San quo. Currently, Cory leads LinkedIn’s Veteran Francisco with his wife, Melissa. They have been in Recruiting Programs. Each day he wakes up the Bay Area for four years. excited to make LinkedIn the #1 employer of choice for the military community in tech. He does this by creating and driving the strategic BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 47

Stewart (Angus) Coyle

Email: [email protected] Current City: Concord, CA Education: BS Petroleum Engineering, Montana Tech of the University of Montana MS Civil Engineering, University of Louisiana Lafayette Employment Information Title: Director of Field Operations Company: Charge EPC Industry: Design, Procurement, and Construction Services

Personal Statement: Angus Coyle graduated from Montana Tech as projects throughout the western US. This a petroleum engineer and spent the following project management experience eventually led 12 years in various oilfield locations and oles, to leadership positions in major construction towards the end of which he picked up a Master’s programs, and to his current position as Director degree in Civil Engineering from UL Lafayette. of Field Operations for Charge EPC, a privately- This experience sparked a passion for renewable owned design and construction firm loca ed in energy, which brought him to the Bay Area and Benicia, CA. When not at work, Angus enjoys a major change in career direction. Working exercising, cooking and occasionally playing guitar. out of Oakland and San Francisco, he spent He lives in Concord, CA with his wife of 17 years 4 years as a developer of renewable energy and their daughter.

Vince Deno

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Electrical Engineering, University of Cincinnati

Employment Information Title: Entrepreneur & Founder Company: Self-Employed Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Vince graduated from the University of Cincinnati company in roles of President, Chief Operating with BSEE. After graduation, he served as a Officer, and Chief Innovation Officer. Vince has commissioned officer in the United States Air been supporting a space-related not-for-profit Force for over four years. During that time, advising entrepreneurs, and exploring other he supported a wide range of future space startup opportunities after the sale of Millennium system developments at Space and Missile to The Boeing Company in 2018. In his spare time, Systems Center (SMC), where he led space Vince enjoys going fast on two or four wheels, operations demonstrations in the Directorate of building things, and spending time with his family. Development and Transformation. Upon leaving He lives in San Francisco, California, with his wife the Air Force, Vince joined Millennium Space and their two children. Systems, where he reinvented and grew the 48 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Andrew Feldman

Email: [email protected] Current City: Los Angeles, CA Education: BS Business Administration, University of Southern California

Employment Information Title: Director of Operations Company: LeaseLock Industry: Real Estate

Personal Statement: A Seattle native, Andrew made the trek to Los communities. At LeaseLock, he leads Ops, Angeles to attend USC and fell in love with LA. overseeing product, data and digital platforms. He He spent the majority of his career on the digital loves the outdoors, whether it’s hiking, boating, consultancy side. As VP, he led the advertising skiing, surfing or just taking his 6 month old fo business at his agency, where they built products a walk. His is married to a UCLA Bruin (a house and creative campaigns for brands like Honda, divided) so he is ready for split loyalties - and will LEGO and ESPN. In mid-2018 he switched to promise to root for Cal so long as they’re not LeaseLock, an insure-tech VC-backed startup playing the Trojans. that replaces security deposits for apartment

Diane Galindo

Email: [email protected] Current City: Hayward, CA Education: BS Accounting; Music minor, University of Arizona

Employment Information Title: Director, Corporate Controller Company: Revance Therapeutics, Inc. Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement: Diane Galindo graduated from the University Therapeutics, Inc. shortly after its IPO. At Revance, of Arizona with an accounting degree and a Diane built the SEC reporting, SOX compliance minor in music. She spent more than six years (including first ear of SOX 404b), and technical in public accounting at Ernst & Young where accounting functions. As part of her SEC role, she led financial sta ement audit engagements she contributed to the successful completion of for multiple entities ranging in size from small multiple equity offerings esulting in more than private companies to large public corporations $590 million in gross proceeds. In her free time, in the biotechnology and technology industries. she enjoys singing, going to soccer games, and After leaving Ernst & Young, she joined Revance spending time with her husband of 10 years. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 49

Hannah Greenberg

Email: [email protected] Current City: Irvine, CA Education: BS Hotel Administration, Cornell University

Employment Information Title: Vice President, Development Company: Seaview Investors, LLC Industry: Hospitality

Personal Statement: A Bay Area native, Hannah Greenberg attended related to the company’s existing hotel portfolio. Cornell University in Ithaca, New York where Under Hannah’s direction, the company has she received a B.S. in Hotel Administration built fi e new hotels, across Marriott and Hilton with an emphasis in Real Estate. Following brands, with a total value of over $350 million. graduation, she accepted a position at Hannah has a hands-on approach leading cross- PricewaterhouseCoopers in the hospitality and functional teams of up to 250 people and can leisure real estate consulting practice. After two be found running around the company’s hotel years there, she returned to California in 2013 construction sites with a pink hard hat and set as Vice President of Development at Seaview of blueprints. In her spare time, Hannah enjoys Investors, where she continues to spearhead the cooking and experimenting with new recipes; firm s hotel development effo ts. This includes varied exercises, including yoga, Pilates, hiking, and underwriting, acquisition due-diligence, budgeting, running; and, home improvement projects. She construction, branding, sourcing new investment lives in Irvine, California, with her boyfriend and opportunities, as well as asset management new French bulldog puppy.

Nicholas (Nick) Groppi

Email: [email protected] Current City: Walnut Creek, CA Education: BS Civil/Structural Engineering; Math, California State University, Chico MS Civil/Structural Engineering, University of California, Davis

Employment Information Title: Senior Project Controls Manager Company: BioMarin Pharmaceuticals Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement: Nick graduated from California State University work in the project controls for large capital of Chico and started his career as a Forensic projects. In his spare time, Nick enjoys spending Engineer working for Wiss, Janney, Elstner time outdoors, from being on top of a mountain Associates, Inc. During that time, he went to during the winter participating in snow sports to the University of California, Davis part time to being on any body of water during the summer further his education to get a Master’s degree in being active with friends and family. He currently Structural Engineering. Shortly after completing lives in Walnut Creek, California. his Master’s he decided to change careers to 50 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Erica Hanson

Email: [email protected] Current City: Oakland, CA Education: BS Economics, Marquette University

Employment Information Title: VP of Business Development and Strategy Company: Comfy Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement: Originally hailing from Chicago, Erica has called Business Development & Strategy at Oakland- the Bay Area home for the last 6 years (she’s based startup, Comfy. Having spent the last 12 also very excited to have another Bears team to years bringing new building technologies to cheer for!). Erica is passionate about positively market, she’s hoping to pivot to a new focus: impacting the world through a mission-focused our global food system and the positive impacts career. She started her career at Johnson technology can bring to reducing waste and Controls, a F100 corporation, helping drive environmental impacts. In her spare time you strategy and inorganic growth for their Building can find Erica ooking for friends, trying new Efficiency busin s. Leading JCI’s Open Innovation restaurants, or hiking Bay Area hills with her group ultimately led to her current role leading husband, Woody.

Lavinia Herbei

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Ramon, CA Education: MD, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Employment Information Title: MD, Internal Medicine Physician Company: John Muir Medical Group Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement: Lavinia Herbei is an Internal Medicine physician initiatives. Lavinia has an MD degree from Carol and has been practicing for 13 years at John Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, CA. Bucharest, Romania, and completed her medical Besides patient care, Lavinia has been active residency at University of Illinois/Michael Reese in implementing electronic medical records, Hospital, Chicago, IL. Along with her son and optimizing medication safety, conducting husband, Lavinia enjoys traveling, watching utilization reviews, and leading patient satisfaction science fiction m vies, and playing tennis. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 51

Marisa Hewitt

Email: [email protected] Current City: Marin, CA Education: BS Chemical Engineering, Florida State University

Employment Information Title: Associate Director, Business Operations Company: BioMarin Pharmaceutical Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement: Marisa earned a degree in Chemical Engineering of growth led her to pursue the EMBA degree from Florida State University and her career has to continue on a path of learning and growth. been in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry. Marisa loves experiencing all the Bay Area has For 15 years, Marisa’s focus was technical - to offe , and when she is not working she enjoys contributing engineering expertise to commercial hiking, stand up paddle boarding, yoga, escape and clinical manufacturing, technology transfer, rooms, traveling to new places, cooking, and facility design, and capacity analysis and reading fiction very day (though reading habits simulation. Just over a year ago, she pivoted will probably change in school!). She lives in Marin from the technical to a managerial role leading with her partner Dan and their sweet, but also Business Operations and the positive experiences bossy, Yorkie.

Christopher (Chris) Hinton

Email: [email protected] Current City: Seattle, WA Education: BS Energy Studies, Portland State University

Employment Information Title: Director, Solar Operations Company: Omnidian, Inc. Industry: Energy

Personal Statement: Chris is an experienced energy professional, as 500 and startup environments. Currently, he well as a physicist, economist, and pragmatist is researching the economics of hydrogen as at heart. He is passionate about helping the an enabling technology. Chris enjoys playing world’s economies and businesses navigate a acoustic guitar, mountain biking, snowboarding, rapid transition to climate-neutral energy sources and spending time with his family outdoors. His with an eye for economic and political viability. lifelong love for aviation led him to complete a He has managed the commercial, financia private pilot certifica e and he enjoys advancing and operational aspects of traditional power his piloting skills when time allows. He lives with generation, wind, biomass, and utility-scale solar his wife Karin and their three children (aged 13, 11, projects, holding roles in multinational, Fortune and 3) near Seattle, Washington. 52 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Adam Ingram

Email: [email protected] Current City: Sunnyvale, CA Education: BA Accounting, Tel-Aviv University

Employment Information Title: VP Finance & Operations Company: Fieldin Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Adam served for four years in a reconnaissance Israeli VC. At his current position, Adam leads unit for the Israeli Defense Forces in both combat the finan e and operations at Fieldin, an Israeli and training positions. After his military service, Agtech company. In his spare time, Adam enjoys Adam completed a B.A in Accounting at Tel-Aviv skiing, running, following sports of any kind but University after which he completed his internship especially premier league football (soccer), and with PwC Israel. He then moved on to become traveling. Adam lives in Sunnyvale, CA, with his Assistant Controller of a large public company wife of 8 years and their two daughters. and then became a controller of a leading

Li Jin

Email: [email protected] Current City: Cupertino, CA Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles MS Systems Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Employment Information Title: Senior R&D Manager Company: Abbott Industry: Medical Products/Devices

Personal Statement: Li is a Senior R&D Manager at Abbott, a global of clinicians. Li and his engineering team are healthcare company dedicated to improving the currently developing blood pump and implantable lives of patients and addressing unmet medical heart pump systems for patients with severe needs of some of the most expensive epidemic heart failure. Prior to joining the EMBA program diseases. Li has led various new product programs at UC Berkeley, Li received a BS in Mechanical (including design of pacemakers and surgical Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering tools) through acquiring voice-of-customer from UCLA. In his spare time he enjoys feedback and incorporating novel technologies snowboarding, motorsports, and bowling. to put safe and effecti e products into the hands BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 53

Amber Jones

Email: [email protected] Current City: Portland, Oregon Education: BA Accounting, George Fox University

Employment Information Title: Chief Financial Officer Company: Human Investing Industry: Financial Services

Personal Statement: Amber Jones is the CFO at Human Investing, an Vice President of the Urban League of Portland investment advisory firm in La e Oswego Oregon. Young Professionals. She is very passionate about She received her B.S. in Accounting from George volunteering and community service. Outside of Fox University. Amber serves on the Board for work, Amber enjoys practicing yoga and traveling the Boys & Girls Club of Portland and is also the with friends and family.

John Joven

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Electrical & Electronic Engineering, California State University, Sacramento

Employment Information Title: Manager, Transmission Engineering Company: Recurrent Energy Industry: Energy

Personal Statement: John Joven graduated from California State manages a team of transmission consultants at University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Recurrent Energy to support the development, Science in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. engineering, and execution of solar PV projects John began his career at Pacific Gas & Electri and its interconnection to the high-voltage in San Francisco, where he spent 7 years as an transmission grid. In his free time, he enjoys Electric Transmission Planning Engineer focusing spending time with family, watching sports (Go on the interconnection of renewable energy to 49ers!), and hanging out with his dog, Bruizer. the electric grid. For the past 5 years he has since John also holds a private pilot license and is a joined utility scale solar development companies huge aviation and space enthusiast. to help fight clima e change. Currently, John 54 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Diwakar Kasibhotla

Email: [email protected] Current City: Danville, CA Education: BS Mechanical Engineering, Nagpur University

Employment Information Title: VP Architecture/Chief Architect Company: GE Digital Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement: As a Vice President of Architecture for GE Digital Diwakar mentors GE Girls & GirlsWhoCode, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) products, a program that exposes girls to science, Diwakar Kasibhotla leads the initiative to combine technology, engineering & math (STEM) career machines with software products and make them path opportunities. Diwakar regularly presents more intelligent. Diwakar started his career as a at industry tech talks. Diwakar holds a Bachelor mechanical engineer working as a plant engineer. of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering While working on PLC programing of machines from Nagpur University and enjoys everything he became interested in software and started outdoors. He lives in Danville, California with his working for software consulting companies like wife and their daughter. Accenture and Oracle. Involved in his community,

Susan (Gwynne) Keathley

Email: [email protected] Current City: Baltimore, MD Education: BA Art History, Yale University MA Architecture, Harvard University

Employment Information Title: Vice Provost for Research & Graduate Studies Company: Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Industry: Education

Personal Statement: Gwynne Keathley has worked in higher education Gwynne has assumed various academic roles with for twenty years and currently leads the increasing responsibilities, leading college-wide graduate programs and research at Maryland initiatives in art and design institutions. Recently Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. while at MICA, Gwynne received NEA funding to Her undergraduate study in art history at Yale launch a collaborative community-based, justice- cultivated an enthusiasm for contemporary art oriented, free-school program in Baltimore. and led to her discovery of architecture and Gwynne grew up in Memphis and has lived in San studio-based practices. After completing her Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia Master’s in Architecture at Harvard, Gwynne and now Baltimore. She enjoys running, biking, taught design at Parsons School of Design Pilates, watching movies, exploring new cities, and and directed a social-and research-driven walking on the cliffs along the Mendocino oast. interdisciplinary design program. Since then, BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 55

Michael Kim

Email: [email protected] Current City: Anaheim, CA Education: BS Business/Managerial Economics, University of California, Los Angeles

Employment Information Title: CEO & Founder Company: 180Snacks Industry: Manufacturing/Food Products

Personal Statement: Michael Kim is a graduate of UCLA and is the Southern California where he lives with his wife CEO and Founder of 180Snacks, a healthy snacks and four children. manufacturer. Michael founded 180Snacks in

Rachel Kinnunen

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Comparative Literature, University of Virginia

Employment Information Title: Vice President Company: Jordan Park Industry: Financial Services

Personal Statement: Rachel joined Jordan Park as Vice President & Resorts (Vail, CO) and the Foundation Investment Head of Client Service in 2017. Prior to joining Group (Berkeley, CA). Rachel is active in the Jordan Park, she was a Vice President in the San Francisco Unified School District, whe e Private Wealth Management Division of Goldman her daughters attend elementary school. Time Sachs, where she worked from 2005 to 2017. After outdoors, cooking, yoga, reading and knitting are graduating from the University of Virginia, she all top contenders for her free time. also held positions at Time Inc (New York), Vail 56 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Kishore Kodical

Email: [email protected] Current City: Walnut Creek, CA Education: BE Computer Science and Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University MS Computer Science, University of Southern California Employment Information Title: Engineering Manager Company: PlanGrid Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement: Kishore is a computer systems engineer Science from USC. His first and fo emost passion by profession and has worked in several in life is traveling the world and he has visited domains including telecom, online advertising, 16 countries so far. Whenever time permits, he e-commerce, and currently construction. Having also loves cooking and trying out new recipes at lived in the UAE, India, and US for equal parts home. He lives in Walnut Creek with his wife and of his life he refers to himself as a 3rd culture toddler son. kid. He got his BS in India and MS in Computer

Krishna Koilada

Email: [email protected] Current City: Houston, TX Education: MS Telecommunications, University of Louisiana at Lafayette MS Technical/Technology Management, Johns Hopkins University

Employment Information Title: Technical Director Company: TetraVX Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement: DVSR Krishna Koilada graduated from John & business architecture and product innovation Hopkins University (JHU) with a Master’s roles. In his spare time, Krishna enjoys watching degree in Technical Management and from documentaries related to space-cosmos and sci-fi the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a reading books, cooking and camping. He lives in Master’s degree in Telecommunications. He works Houston, Texas, with his wife who is currently as a Technical Director at TetraVX, assuming studying for her Master’s in Public Health. product development, operations, technology BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 57

Paris Latham

Email: [email protected] Current City: Berkeley, CA Education: BA Environmental Studies, Brown University MS Geography, University of Utah

Employment Information Title: Assistant GIS Manager Company: Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Industry: Consulting/Management Services

Personal Statement: Paris Latham graduated from Brown University, back to her native city of Berkeley to work on after which she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah to transportation issues facing the Bay Area. In her work on water issues in the Southwest and to ski. spare time, Paris enjoys trail runs with her dogs, During her time in Utah, Paris obtained an M.S. in cooking with her husband, and spending time Geography from the University of Utah to pursue with her family in the mountains of Northern a career in spatial analytics in transportation California. She lives in Berkeley, CA. planning. After finishing her p ogram, Paris moved

Kye (Kyle) Lee

Email: [email protected] Current City: Pleasanton, CA Education: BS Computer Science, Mercer University

Employment Information Title: Senior Program Manager Company: Cisco Systems Inc. Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement: Kye Lee was born and raised in South Korea. a portfolio of security programs for Cisco WebEx He came to U.S to study Computer Science. tele-conference service. In his spare time, Kyle He started his career as a software engineer enjoys outdoor activities and sports with his two and is now working for Cisco Systems as Senior children. He lives in Pleasanton, California, with his Engineering Program Manager. There he manages wife of 19 years and their two children. 58 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Gabriel (Gabe) Lewis

Email: [email protected] Current City: Orinda, CA Education: BS Biological and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

Employment Information Title: Environmental Management Property Transfer and Commercial Representative Company: Chevron Industry: Energy

Personal Statement: Gabe is an engineer, project manager, and adviser manages the company’s portfolio of surplus specializing in the remediation, redevelopment, properties around the world. His goal is to and sustainable reuse of environmentally “recycle” real estate to have a positive impact on impacted properties. He holds a Bachelor’s communities, economic development, and the degree from Cornell University and a Master’s environment. He enjoys spending time outdoors, degree from Stanford University in Environmental travelling, and exploring the Bay Area with his wife Engineering. After consulting in the field fo Katherine from their home in Orinda, California. several years, he joined Chevron and currently

Manuel (Alex) Lopez

Email: [email protected] Current City: Las Vegas, NV Education: BA Finance and Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Employment Information Title: Vice President / Relationship Manager Company: U.S. Bank Industry: Financial Services

Personal Statement: Alex is a U.S. Marine veteran that served in has over eight years of work experience with the active duty for fi e years. During that time, he Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), Bank of deployed to more than 10 countries on three America-Merrill Lynch, Nevada State Bank, and diffe ent continents, led a security force team in the U.S. Bank. He obtained a Bachelor of Science Libya in response to the September 11 attacks in degree in Finance and Economics, in addition to Benghazi, and served as a black-belt martial arts receiving the UNLV Outstanding Graduate award instructor. He received multiple military awards from University of Nevada, Las Vegas. for his actions, including the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal and the Meritorious Honor Award from the Department of State. Alex BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 59

Jennifer (Jenny) Lorenzo

Email: [email protected] Current City: Oakland, CA Education: BS Information Technology, University of Asia and the Pacifi MS Information Technology, University of Asia and the Pacifi

Employment Information Title: Principal, Analytics Solutions Company: Sutherland Global Industry: Consulting/Management Services

Personal Statement: Jenny attended the University of Asia and the studying Literature at the University of Oxford Pacific in Manila, Philippines, whe e she pursued for the summer. She moved to Oakland in April her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Information 2018 and is looking to create something impactful Technology, leading to a 15+ year career in in the healthcare and AI space. Jenny has a keen Analytics and Program Management. At RW3, interest in sustainability and CSR and enjoys travel, Inc. (Austin, TX), she created the company’s nature, books, popular science, gastronomy, first InSight p oducts, opened a satellite office in and the cello. She got engaged a month before Bentonville, Arkansas, and led the InSight Group’s the program, and is entering Haas a Lorenzo, global team, a DevOps-style group of analysts and graduating a Lorenzo-van der Meer! She serves on engineers. She realized her dream of living across the Advisory Board of Serenity House in Oakland the pond when Nestle UK & Ireland invited her to and is a member of the Long Now Foundation. establish and lead their reporting strategy after

Stefanos Makris

Email: [email protected] Current City: Del Mar, CA Education: BS Informatics, University of Athens, Greece

Employment Information Title: Solution Principal Company: Slalom Consulting Industry: Consulting/Management Services

Personal Statement: Stefanos is an accomplished business consultant about helping organizations reinvent themselves. and technology strategist that earned his wings In his free time,7 Stefanos enjoys writing music in the corridors of HP, Autodesk, Symantec, and working on his microcontroller electronic Teradata, Shopzilla and others. After earning his projects. Sometimes he is lucky enough to have Bachelors in Informatics and Telecommunications his music published in small movie projects and from the University of Athens in Greece, he held album collections. As a consultant, strategist, various positions including: CTO, Chief Architect, engineer, musician, husband and father of an Director of Engineering, Software Developer and amazing daughter, Stefanos is always busy with everything in between! Stefanos is passionate something! 60 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Joan Malcom

Email: [email protected] Current City: Menlo Park, CA Education: BS Biological Engineering, University of Maine PhD Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, University of Maine

Employment Information Title: Program Manager, Commercial Strategy Company: GRAIL Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement: Joan is the Program Manager for Commercial two business units related to genomic services, Strategy for GRAIL, Inc., a firm that ombines with core offerings in on ology, immunology, science, technology, and population-scale clinical and neurodegenerative diseases. Joan holds studies to reveal cancer at its beginnings. a B.S. in Biological Engineering and a PhD in Previously, Joan worked for more than a decade Biomedical Sciences and Engineering. In her spare at The Jackson Laboratory, an independent, time she enjoys traveling, anything on the water, nonprofit biomedical esearch institution. Her snowboarding, and hiking. She lives in Menlo Park most recent role was as Associate Director, with her husband and two sweet dogs. Precision Medicine Services, in which she lead

Srinivasan (Srini) Mohan

Email: [email protected] Current City: Fremont, CA Education: BE Mechanical Engineering, University of Madras MS Supply Chain Management, University of Michigan

Employment Information Title: Manager, Operations Company: Google Inc. Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Srinivasan Mohan (Srini) has an undergrad degree after joining Cisco Systems Inc. He spent 7 years in Mechanical Engineering and upon graduation, at Cisco working on diffe ent roles that involved he joined the IT services industry, developing web operations, systems and finan e. About 2 years applications and enabling business intelligence for back he moved to Google and there is a Manager clients in the Mfg domain. He got his Master’s in in the Cloud operations team. Srini lives in the Supply Chain Management from the University of East Bay and loves playing cricket and spending Michigan, and ended up moving to the Bay Area time with his 5 year old son. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 61

Sarah Morrill

Email: [email protected] Current City: Oakland, CA Education: BA International Political Economy, Colorado College

Employment Information Title: Principal Company: Education For Change Industry: Education

Personal Statement: Sarah Morrill is in her 4th year as a Principal of manage the development of a strong instructional Lazear Charter Academy, a TK-8th grade school in summer school program to set students up the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland, California. for success in the upcoming year. She started Prior to leading Lazear, Sarah served as the senior her career in Atlanta, Georgia teaching 3rd managing director for the Teach For America’s grade before becoming a teacher coach across West Coast teacher training in Los Angeles, Atlanta for new teachers. She graduated from managing the program of 500 new teachers and Colorado College where she received her BA in 100 staff members o create a strong summer International Political Economy. In her free time school for over 2,000 students. Prior to that role, she enjoys gardening, cooking, hiking, and board she worked with the same training in Los Angeles games. She lives in the Laurel neighborhood of as the director of district school partnerships to Oakland with her partner and son, Oliver.

Ben Nagar

Email: [email protected] Current City: Palo Alto, CA Education: BS Communication Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Employment Information Title: Software Engineer Company: Facebook Industry: Computer-Related Services

Personal Statement: Ben born and raised in Israel, served in the Israeli and Telmap and the corporations Intel and Air Force and completed a Bachelor’s degree in Facebook. In his spare time, Ben enjoys extreme Communication Systems Engineering. Ben loves sports like riding his dirt-bike and snowboarding, innovation and started his mobile-payments exploring new technologies, and spending time company not long after graduating from with his family. He lives in Palo Alto, California, university. Ben worked in diffe ent engineering with his wife and their two children. and leadership positions in the startups Babacode 62 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Joseph (Joe) O’Brien

Email: [email protected] Current City: Cupertino, CA Education: BS Emergency Management, University of Maryland, University College

Employment Information Title: Master Chief Company: US Navy, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Industry: Military

Personal Statement: Joe is a 20-year US Navy Veteran who served evaluate and acquire new equipment in explosive over a decade in the Explosive Ordnance ordnance disposal, diving, and communications. Disposal (EOD) community. During that time, he Joe holds a BS in Emergency Management from completed multiple missions and has ensured the the University of Maryland, University College and operational readiness and deployment of people is a certified P oject Management Professional and equipment for military engagements around (PMP). For fun, Joe enjoys spending time with his the world. He has led cross-functional teams to family outdoors, traveling, and experiencing new establish tactics and techniques for unmanned cultures and foods. He lives in Cupertino, CA with aerial and undersea systems and ran projects to his wife and two children.

Silvia Ochoa-Dellinger

Email: [email protected] Current City: Glendale, CA Education: BS Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles

Employment Information Title: Electrical Engineering Associate Company: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Industry: Energy

Personal Statement: Silvia is a California-Licensed Professional transmission, project management, and Engineer and received her engineering degree geothermal energy procurement. Silvia was born from UCLA. She works at the Los Angeles in Ecuador and lives in Glendale, California. She Department of Water and Power as an enjoys hot yoga, cooking, baking, growing herbs Electrical Engineering Associate in Power Supply and roses, and traveling. She loves spending Operations. She has design and construction time with her two sons in Seattle and with her experience in power generation, underground daughter in LA. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 63

Larry (Joe) Odell

Email: [email protected] Current City: Redding, CA Education: BS Liberal Studies, Simpson University

Employment Information Title: Director of Business Development Company: 511 Enterprises Industry: Consulting/Management Services

Personal Statement: Joe Odell served in the US Coast Guard as a on sales strategy and management for B2B Boatswains Mate. As a small boat captain, he technology companies. Joe loves the outdoors, conducted search and rescue, law enforcement, backpacking and fishing with his th ee children and national security operations in Central and spending quality time with his wife. Joe and America, the Bering Sea and the Great Lakes. In his family live in Redding, California, one of the 2013, Joe transitioned to civilian life and began most diverse outdoor regions in California. working with 511 Enterprises, a company focused

Youngju (Margaret) Park

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BS Business Administration, Boston University AAS, Parsons School of Design

Employment Information Title: Senior Art Director Company: Sephora Industry: Beauty/Consumer Goods

Personal Statement: Margaret is an award-winning Art Director from Fresh and VP+C Partners in New York, she and New York, by way of Seoul. Upon graduating her husband moved out to California when she from Boston University with a BBA, she moved was offe ed her current role at Sephora. When to New York to fulfill her d eams of working in she’s not living out her beauty marketer dreams, fashion. Within a few years, she unexpectedly Margaret can be found doing something active found her passion in graphic design and (boxing, barre, yoga, strength training, hiking) or obtained an AAS from Parsons School of Design pursuing non-work-related creative pursuits, like while working at companies like Issey Miyake, curating her travel/lifestyle blog and small DIY Calvin Klein, and Visionaire Publishing. After a projects. She and her husband Paul currently live successful start to her new design career at Joe in San Francisco. 64 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Sumit Patankar

Email: [email protected] Current City: Fremont, CA Education: BE Mechanical Engineering, University of Pune MS Mechanical Engineering, Kansas State University

Employment Information Title: Director of Engineering Company: Applied Materials Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Sumit, originally from the historic city of Pune and took on several other roles in engineering, in India achieved an undergraduate degree in supply chain, operations and product strategy. He Engineering (BE) from the University of Pune started three ventures and achieved moderate and started his career in Tata Steel. After two success in the entrepreneurial journey. In his years, Sumit moved to the USA to pursue an MS spare time, he loves reading, traveling, gardening in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State and spending loooots of time with his family. He University. After successfully completing his lives in Fremont, California, with his wife of 11 MS, he joined Applied Materials as an engineer years and their 2 children.

Manoj Patel

Email: [email protected] Current City: Walnut Creek, CA Education: BS Chemical Engineering, Gurarat University MS Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario

Employment Information Title: Founder Company: BioInnovation Advisors Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement: Manoj is the founder of BioInnovation Advisors, successful seed through series D funding for a biotechnology advisory and consulting fir various companies. Manoj earned his Master’s helping early through growth stage startups, degree from the University of Western Ontario, corporate innovation hubs, and investors achieve Canada and undergraduate degree from Gujarat their goals in the biotech industry. His foray into University, India. In his spare time, he enjoys advising comes with a career of more than 17 adventure travelling, exploring new cuisines, and years in chemical and biochemical industries. volunteering to help young entrepreneurs. He For the past decade he has been helping biotech lives with his wife and son in Walnut Creek, CA. startups take their technologies from concept to an economically viable manufacturing scale. Manoj has also been a key contributor in BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 65

Jessica (Jess) Patterson

Email: [email protected] Current City: Las Vegas, NV Education: BS Finance and Marketing, Miami University

Employment Information Title: Chief Financial Officer Company: Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada Industry: Not-for-Profi

Personal Statement: Jess earned her Bachelor’s degree from Miami Officer, Jess oversees all financial, H , and University Farmer School of Business. Upon merchandising functions, including the world graduation, she began her career in finan e as famous Girl Scout Cookie Program. When not a part of Nielsen Emerging Leaders Program, surrounded by cookies, she is a distance runner, subsequently moving into larger strategic finan e former ballet turned ballroom dancer, and travel roles in New York, Chicago, and Singapore. After fiend. She se ves on the advisory board for a a brief period at a small digital publisher, Jess sorority at UNLV, and is a hockey aficionad . Jess jumped at the opportunity to move into the lives in Las Vegas with her husband, Dan, and two non-profit spa e as controller of Girl Scouts in cats, Bentley and Gomez. Southern Nevada. Now serving as Chief Financial

Curtis (Curt) Peters

Email: [email protected] Current City: Penngrove, CA Education: BS Finance and Entrepreneurship, Marquette University

Employment Information Title: Finance Director Company: Enphase Energy Industry: Energy

Personal Statement: Curt Peters is a Finance Director at Enphase Development Program to rotate through various Energy and a board member for the non-profi companies, locations and roles. After many bad COTS. He lives in Northern California with a winters, Curt joined Electronic Arts in California young family of three boys, a dog and a saint for and started tinkering with a new product idea a wife. Curt graduated from Marquette University called the Chill Puck. In 2013, Chill Puck launched in Milwaukee, WI. At Marquette, Curt majored a successful Kickstarter and partnered with in Finance and Entrepreneurship, met his wife MillerCoors as a promotional product. Chill Puck Catherine and was active in social activities such was an incredible learning experience and a lot of as club baseball. Post-graduation, Curt joined fun. Curt’s focus is now family, Enphase and the Brunswick Corporations Financial Leadership Cal EMBA. 66 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Satomi Rash-Zeigler

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Diego, CA Education: BS Psychology, University of California Los Angeles

Employment Information Title: Program Development and Outreach Director Company: San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Industry: Not-for-Profi

Personal Statement: Satomi Rash-Zeigler is the Director of Program Golden State where she has worked to empower Development and Outreach at the San Diego workers with a voice on the job and in the halls & Imperial Counties Labor Council where she of power. In her spare time (haha) she plays taiko spearheads leadership development, community (traditional Japanese drumming), practices yoga, partnerships, political direction and mobilization pretends to garden, experiments in the kitchen, opportunities for more than 200,000 workers and drinks copious amounts of wine while getting and their families. After studying Psychology at crafty. She currently resides in her hometown, UCLA, Satomi moved to the Midwest to organize San Diego, with her husband, a devout Eagles fan and advocate for working people. After reaching and her daughter, an infant with the personality of the conclusion that Midwestern winters were not a baby dragon. meant for native Californians, she returned to the

Renu (Tiasha) Renganathan

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Economics, University College London

Employment Information Title: Head of Wearable Technology - US Operations Company: MAS Innovation (Pvt) Ltd Industry: Apparel Technology

Personal Statement: Tiasha hails from the island of Sri Lanka and circuit and has been a stakeholder in establishing graduated from University College London MAS as the global leader in Smart Apparel. She with a Bachelor’s in Economics. Over her 10 is an avid traveler and self-confessed foodie that year career, she has held multiple roles in enjoys hiking and live music and spending time strategy, partnerships, business development, with family. Entrepreneurship has always been and innovation. Currently, she leads a wearable a call since her youth and is a path she hopes to technology business vertical for one of Asia’s explore in the future. She currently divides her largest apparel technology conglomerates. Tiasha time between San Francisco and Colombo. is a regular on the wearable technology speaker BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 67

Ryan Richards

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Diego, CA Education: BA Economics, California State University, Northridge

Employment Information Title: Systems Manager Company: Stacy and Witbeck Inc. Industry: General Management

Personal Statement: Ryan Richards graduated from California State through managing the estimating, procurement, University, Northridge with an undergraduate and construction of high-profile p ojects for degree in Economics. While at Northridge, he was federal agencies across multiple regions. Ryan a division I track and field athle e and competed has specialized in railroad track and train control in the javelin. He has worked for a heavy civil installations. For fun, Ryan enjoys beach days with engineering company for the past 11 years, his family, hiking, and building furniture for his managing large scale transit projects around home. He lives in San Diego, California with his the country. Throughout Ryan’s career, he has wife of 9 years and their daughter and son. become proficient in many fa ets of the industry

Ajay Roberts

Email: [email protected] Current City: Redlands, CA Education: BS Biochemistry, California State University, San Bernardino PharmD, Western University of Health Sciences

Employment Information Title: Clinical Pharmacist - Intake Coordinator Company: CVS Health Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement: Ajay Roberts graduated from Western University pursuing an MBA at Berkeley Haas School of of Health Sciences in 2009 with his Doctorate Business to find ays to impact healthcare more in Pharmacy degree and has worked as a clinical broadly through leveraging his clinical knowledge pharmacist since then. During this time period, and experience in healthcare with the skills he he worked in various capacities as a pharmacist will learn from Haas. In his spare time, Ajay likes which include a pharmacy manager at a high to travel and spend time outdoors. He is looking volume community-based Walgreens and, most forward to his next trip, which will involve hiking recently, as a team lead for CVS Health overseeing up to Machu Picchu in Peru. the intake teams for three highly specialized and life-threatening disease states. Ajay is now 68 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Dibyendu Roy

Email: [email protected] Current City: Cupertino, CA Education: BS Electronics and Communication, Visvesvaraya Technological University MS Software Management, Carnegie Mellon University Employment Information Title: Senior Product Manager Company: RingCentral Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Dibyendu holds a Master’s degree in Software varying capacities from software engineering, Management from Carnegie Mellon University and core consulting and product management. a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication Currently, Dibyendu works as a Senior Product from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Manager for RingCentral, a cloud communications India. Dibyendu is a technology enthusiast with company headquartered in Belmont, CA. In his more than 14+ years of experience working for spare time, Dibyendu likes learning and practicing companies of varying sizes. They range from photography, as well as reading books. He lives in startups like Egnyte to companies like Intuit, IBM, Cupertino, CA with his wife and twenty-month old Deloitte, and GE. Dibyendu has also worked in daughter.

Binundu (Isaiah) Samuel

Email: [email protected] Current City: Oakland, CA Education: BA Economics, Ohio State University MS Information Systems and Technology, City University, London

Employment Information Title: Director, Digital Operations Company: GE Digital Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Isaiah Samuel obtained his Bachelor’s degree Health Access Initiatives’ Family Planning from Ohio State University and worked as a Program. Isaiah’s international experience also Financial Services Analyst with Nationwide spanned the private sector where he served as Insurance. Following the experience in Columbus, an operations leader for one of the largest travel Ohio, Isaiah moved to London where he obtained startups on the African continent. Isaiah currently a Master’s degree in Information Systems and serves as the Director of Digital Operations at GE Technology from City University, London. Upon Digital where he leads day-to-day IT Operations completing his Master’s, Isaiah relocated to for all business lines in Northern California. In his Nigeria where he worked to reduce maternal spare time, Isaiah enjoys exercising, traveling and mortality rates as an analyst within the Clinton cooking. Isaiah lives in Oakland, California. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 69

Kapil Sharma

Email: [email protected] Current City: Sacramento, CA Education: MD, McGill University

Employment Information Title: MD, Cardiac Surgeon Company: Mercy Medical Group Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement: Kapil Sharma was born and raised in Montreal, Heart Institute. In 2009, he was recruited to Canada. He graduated from medicine and Sacramento, California to build both an advanced completed his cardiac surgery residency training aortic and trans-catheter valve program at Mercy at McGill University. Following his residency, he General Hospital. He took a one year sabbatical completed a fellowship at Stanford University in back to Canada and eventually returned to complex aortic surgery and heart failure. Kapil Sacramento where he currently lives with his wife then served as an assistant professor at Baylor and 4 young boys. Kapil enjoys spending time with College of Medicine in Houston, Texas where his family and staying active. he practiced as a cardiac surgeon at the Texas

Charles Shimooka

Email: [email protected] Current City: Berkeley, CA Education: BA Marine/Aquatic Ecology, Cornell University

Employment Information Title: Director of Digital Marketing Company: McKesson Industry: Health Services

Personal Statement: Charles Shimooka graduated from Cornell variety of places on both the West and East University where he studied Marine/Aquatic Coast, Spain, and Latin America. He’s currently a Ecology and pole vaulted in his free time. He Digital Marketing Director at McKesson, a large worked as an environmental consultant in the Bay healthcare distribution company. His hobbies Area for a couple of years before transitioning include rock climbing, traveling, bird-watching, to web and user experience design. He’s worked and spending time outdoors. He lives in Berkeley for a variety of companies including start-ups, with his wife and new baby boy. consultants, and enterprises, and lived in a 70 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Deepak Shirimalla

Email: [email protected] Current City: Sunnyvale, CA Education: BS Engineering, Delhi University

Employment Information Title: Senior Technical Program Manager Company: Amazon Inc. Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Deepak is an accomplished engineering and Program Manager at Amazon Inc. and owns the technology leader with nearly 15 years of internationalization roadmap for Alexa devices. experience leading and managing global hardware Outside of work, he enjoys hiking and traveling and software development teams. He has a to remote places with his wife, exploring great Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Delhi places to eat and finding “hidden gem ” at the University. During the pre-iPhone era, he moved local bookstores. His wife is a tech-leader in a to the Bay Area to work at Apple Inc. to help build digital marketing start-up and is a keen enthusiast and scale many of their marketing and customer of living sustainably. They live in Sunnyvale, relationship management systems to support California and are preparing for their Wood- the astronomical customer growth over the next Anniversary this year. 10 years. Deepak currently works as a Senior

Dalton Thomas

Email: [email protected] Current City: St. Helena, CA Education: BS Marketing, Touro College

Employment Information Title: Chef Company: The Charter Oak Industry: Hospitality

Personal Statement: Dalton is from Portland, Oregon and joined the Napa, California from Berlin, Germany where he Marine Corps right out of high school. During managed a small organic bakery and also where his time in the Marine Corps, Dalton worked he finished his Bachelo ’s degree in Marketing various roles from military police officer, cook, from Touro College. Now, Dalton is working for to civil affairs oordinator in Ramadi, Iraq. After a new restaurant group getting ready to open a leaving the Marine Corps, Dalton attended new fine-dining p oject in Shenzhen, China. In his culinary school in New York City while working free time Dalton enjoys cooking and drinking wine in various restaurants. Through the hospitality with his friends in the small town of St. Helena. industry, Dalton’s work has taken him to countries all over the world. He most recently moved to BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 71

Ambreesh Tripathi

Email: [email protected] Current City: Milpitas, CA Education: BE Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

Employment Information Title: Application Engineering Manager Company: Texas Instruments Inc. Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Ambreesh Tripathi is an Application Engineering of the rotation program, he was deployed at Manager at Texas Instruments’ (TI) in Santa Clara TI’s New Delhi sales office where he dealt with where he is responsible for new product (Analog customers directly, created designs using TI Power ICs) development from concept to roll devices, solved technical issues and in some out. He graduated from National Institute of cases negotiated pricing. In 2014, he accepted a Technology, Durgapur (India) with a Bachelor’s role of System Engineer (Product Definer) at degree in Electronics and Communication product line in Santa Clara and was promoted Engineering in 2008. After graduation, Ambreesh to Application Manager Role in 2016. In his spare joined TI as Analog Application Engineer within time he enjoys traveling and exploring new places the sales and marketing team and moved to Dallas with his fian ée Amrita. for a one-year rotation program. After completion

Deniz Tuncer

Email: [email protected] Current City: Sacramento, CA Education: BA Mathematics and Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Employment Information Title: Vice Chair Company: ESBAS (Aegean Free Zone Development & Operating Co.) Industry: Free Zone Development

Personal Statement: Deniz Tuncer is Vice-Chair of the Aegean Free the board of ESBAS in 2012, Deniz previously Zone Development and Operating Company worked with nonprofits and sta e governments (ESBAS). Located in Izmir, Turkey, the Aegean in the fields of housing and onservation. Deniz Free Zone is a modern industrial park home to and her husband recently entered the olive oil 170 companies from around the world. Founded business on a 250-acre ranch near Oroville. Deniz by Deniz’s father in 1989, today the Aegean Free has a BA from UC Berkeley in Mathematics and Zone employs 20,000 people and has an annual Anthropology. She lives in Sacramento with her trade volume of $4.5 billion. It is also home husband and two daughters, and enjoys serving to Space Camp Turkey, a space and science on the board of her daughter’s school. education center that has welcomed 250,000 children from 60 countries. Before joining 72 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Naresh Vemparala

Email: [email protected] Current City: Fairfield, C Education: BE Computer Science, Jawahaelal Nehru Technological University MHA Health Care Administration/Management, Ohio University

Employment Information Title: Program Director Company: Partnership HealthPlan of California Industry: Not-for-Profi

Personal Statement: Born and raised in India, Naresh moved to the organization. His core responsibilities include U.S. in 2007 and has over 14 years of experience strategy alignment, stakeholder engagement, in the health IT industry. He works as a Program governance, benefits management and deli ery. Director at Partnership HealthPlan of California He has an Engineering degree in Computer (PHC), a non-profit ommunity based health Science from JNTU, India and a Master’s Degree care organization that provides access to high- in Health Administration from Ohio University. quality comprehensive cost-effecti e health He lives in Fairfield, California, with his wife an care to Medi-Cal recipients. He is currently their two young boys. In his spare time, he enjoys spearheading a mission critical program traveling and biking with his family and playing with a key objective to bring operational various musical instruments such as guitar, flu e, efficiencies and o support future growth of the doumbek and cajon.

Nihar Vora

Email: [email protected] Current City: Washington, D.C. Education: BS Computer Science, North Central College

Employment Information Title: Assistant General Counsel Company: U.S. Department of Justice Industry: Government

Personal Statement: Nihar is an attorney for the Department of Justice in Government Procurement. Outside of work, where he advises on procurement/fiscal mat ers Nihar is active in his community. He serves on the and represents the government in procurement board of two local nonprofit o ganizations and related litigation. Prior to that, he served as an does volunteer work. In his free time, Nihar loves officer in the U.S. Air Force JAG Corps. Nihar has biking and being outdoors. He is originally from a B.S. in Computer Science, a J.D., and an LL.M. Chicago and currently lives in Washington, D.C. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 73

Amit Vyas

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Jose, CA Education: BS Electronics Engineering, University of Mumbai ME Computer Engineering, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Employment Information Title: Senior Engineering Manager Company: Intel Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Amit grew up in Mumbai, India and got his Mosaid. Since then, he has held multiple technical Engineering degree from University of Mumbai. and managerial roles in Intel and Altera (now He pursued a Master’s in Computer Engineering acquired by Intel). He has worked on System-on- from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette and Chip (SOCs) for Intel’s consumer products group then joined Virtual-Silicon that was acquired by that were used in GoogleTV, SmartTVs and Alexa.

Alexander Weber-Shapiro

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Francisco, CA Education: BA Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Employment Information Title: Senior Product Manager Company: Major League Baseball Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Alexander graduated from UCLA and after Baseball. He currently leads the product effo t accepting his baseball playing career was over, for Statcast at MLB which shows cutting edge decided to move to New York to see what snow data on air in visually engaging ways. Alexander was like and check out consulting. After realizing still loves to play sports, dabble with improv snow melts and winter is too long he eventually comedy and write meaningful bios. He is a true moved back to California and was able to native (from Berkeley) and currently lives in San combine his passion for sports/media with tech Francisco with two roommates (his girlfriend and across various roles at Twitter and Major League mini bernedoodle). 74 BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020

Hongtao Yang

Email: [email protected] Current City: Fremont, CA Education: BS Applied Electronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology ME Electrical Engineering, Tianjin University Employment Information Title: VP of Business Development, GM of ToF BU Company: Pico Interactive Industry: High Technology/Electronics

Personal Statement: Hongtao Yang graduated from the Huazhong and vice president of business development. University of Science and Technology with a BS Hongtao has worked with global tier 1 customers in Applied Electronics, and an ME in Electrical (Apple, Google, SONY, Amazon, etc.) and has Engineering from Tianjin University. Since visited customers in 20+ countries. Growing receiving his degrees, he has been working in businesses and learning are the two main goals in the consumer electronics industry in product Hongtao’s daily work. In his spare time, Hongtao design, test, manufacturing, operations, and enjoys observing celestial objects in his backyard business development for 21 years. He worked for observatory through a Takahashi TOA-130 Motorola, TechFaith Wireless (IPO in NASDAQ), telescope, and loves to fly ( ven only as a student Goertek (IPO in China) and Pico Interactive, as private pilot right now). He lives in Fremont, a product engineer, hardware platform director, California, with his wife and their two sons (ages R&D vice president, OEM general manager, 17 and 7).

Shenkuan Zheng

Email: [email protected] Current City: Hayward, CA Education: BS Computer Science and Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Employment Information Title: Director of IT Company: Gilead Sciences Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement: Shenkuan moved to the Bay Area with his research based pharmaceutical company called parents from China when he was 16 years old. Gilead Sciences in Foster City near SFO as a He graduated from Cal double majoring in Director of IT. Shenkuan and his wife (who just Computer Sciences and Economics. Early in his earned her MBA), have a son who will be four in career, Shenkuan worked in the technology and June. He and his family live in Hayward near the consulting industries. Currently, he works for a Cal State East Bay campus. BERKELEY MBA FOR EXECUTIVES PROGRAM 2020 75

Matthew (Matt) Zierhut

Email: [email protected] Current City: San Diego, CA Education: BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley MS Bioengineering, University of Washington PhD Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley/ University of California, San Francisco Employment Information Title: Scientific Di ector Company: The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson Industry: Biotechnology

Personal Statement: Matt is a Director at Janssen Pharmaceuticals, & Computer Science), University of Washington where he focuses on integrating statistical (MS in Bioengineering), and UC Berkeley/UC San modeling and simulation concepts into drug Francisco jointly (PhD in Bioengineering). development strategy. Prior to Janssen, he In his spare time, Matt enjoys spending time with worked at Pfi er and Amylin Pharmaceuticals, his kids and family, going on camping adventures, as well as at Applied Predictive Technologies (a playing volleyball, and relaxing whenever possible. management consulting firm). Matt holds deg ees He lives in San Diego, CA, with his wife of 11 years from U.C. Berkeley (BS in Electrical Engineering and their four children.