Girl Scouts San Diego's Honoring Cool Women, Investing in Emerging
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Girl Scouts San Diego’s CHonoring Cool Women, 2019 ool Investing in EmergingWomen Leaders From inventing one of the most comprehensive and robust fire risk mitigation programs to help protect people, to building an advanced weather network to better prepare for extreme weather events, and investing in innovative technologies and equipment to mitigate the effects of climate change — we’re dedicated to taking care of our community and the planet we all share. © 2019 San Diego Gas & Electric Company. All copyright and trademark rights reserved. P r o gr a m Welcome Paige Zimmerman Girl Scout Promise Sarah Uran and Makayla Mayor Recognition Jaddin Thomas presents Regina Buckley Board Chair, Girl Scouts San Diego SDG&E: Champion STEM Supporter Isabella Catanzaro presents Kendall Helm Vice President, Energy Supply, SDG&E Why Girl Scouts Matters Angeline Santa Romana presents Carol Dedrich Chief Executive Officer, Girl Scouts San Diego Emcee Isabel Silva presents Sandra Maas KUSI News Anchor Cool Women 2019 Honorees Anna Ensberg presents Dawn Barry Cadence Dobias presents Gema Deleon Alina Ho presents Nancy Jamison Cool Women 2019 Co-chairs Joyce Glazer and Angie Lasagna Cool Women 2019 Honorees Destiny Wilcox presents Virginia Nelson Serena Ingram presents Coreen Petti Closing Remarks Paige Zimmerman Cool Women 1 Cool Women 2019 Co-Chairs Joyce Glazer Angie Lasagna San Diego Magazine Mission Federal Credit Union Cool Women Mentorship Thank you for giving me the opportunity to meet and mentor such outstanding young women at last year's Cool Women Luncheon. I look forward to continuing to be a part of this worthwhile mentorship program that is unique to Girl Scouts San Diego. PATTI ROSCOE and JIM TIFFANY 2 Cool Women Thank you Champion STEM Supporter Leader Sponsor Mentor Sponsors VIP Table Sponsors Anderson Plumbing, Heating & Air Cox Communications Dawn Barry – LunaPBC Dea Hurston Marsh & McLennan Agency University of San Diego Media Sponsor San Diego Magazine Cool Women 3 Girl Scouts San Diego Board of Directors Regina Buckley, Chair Cool Women Community Volunteer, Attorney Liza Crisati, Vice Chair Chief Investment Officer, SDCERS Andy Gallagher, Treasurer Investor, Community Volunteer Barbara Lamb, Secretary Program Manager, City of San Diego Officers-at-Large Machel Allen Divya Kakaiya Denise Scott President, CIO Metis Global Partners Founder/Clinical Director Founding Director, Del Mar Pines Healthy Within Wellness & Foundation for Education Kim Barrett, Ph.D. Integrated Center Biomedical Research, UCSD Claudia Silva Roxana Kennedy Assistant County Counsel Carolin Botzenhardt Chief of Police, City of Chula Vista County of San Diego Wealth Advisor, Wells Fargo Brent King Rahil Swigart Natasha 0. Bowman Founder, Chelsea's Light Foundation Attorney, Higgs, Fletcher & Mack Vice President Human Resources Synthetic Genomics Michael Lawrence Carmen Vann Wealth Manager, Morgan Stanley Project Executive, Suffolk Construction Rita Datko Vice President & CFO Monica Piepenkotter William "Bill" Whelan Sharp Healthcare Private Wealth Advisor, Merrill Lynch Partner, Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP Melissa DeVita Peggy Price Vice President and Division Counsel Director of Social Service Catherine "Cathy" Young Qualcomm Imperial County Vice President Internal Audit Hitachi Vantara Suzanne Schlundt Vice President Field Marketing Cox Communications 4 Cool Women Girl Scouts San Diego's Cool Women 2019 Dawn Barry Gema Deleon Nancy Jamison President and Founder, LunaPBC President, WISE San Diego President and CEO (Ret.) San Diego Grantmakers Dawn is president and co-founder of Girl Scout alum Gema is president LunaPBC, which launched LunaDNA, and a founder of WISE (Women in Nancy often speaks to audiences the first DNA and health research Sports and Events) San Diego. The about strategic philanthropy. She led platform owned by its community of nonprofit organization is the leading San Diego Grantmakers from 2005 to data donors. LunaDNA members are voice and resource for women in early 2019, overseeing its growth in included in the value created from the sports industry, providing peer membership and service offerings. the platform through the offering of support, mentoring programs, and Previously, she was a senior shares of ownership in exchange for professional development and consultant for TrustWorks Group, health data. Dawn spent 12 years at training. Gema has served on the providing strategic planning, leader- Illumina, Inc., in positions that ranged WISE board since its inception ship and team development for from market development specialist in 2012. She earned a journalism organizations. She co-created the to vice president of applied degree at San Diego State University, TrustWorks training programs, now genomics. Prior to that, she and recently became the director marketed by the Ken Blanchard promoted clinical genetics testing of marketing communications at Companies and the basis for the services for pharmaceutical clinical SDSU’s Fowler College of Business. book Trust Works! Four Keys to Build- trials at Genaissance Pharmaceu- Prior to taking that position, Gema ing Lasting Relationships. During a ticals, one of the first genomics was senior manager of marketing decade at Wells Fargo, her positions start-ups focused on individualized and PR at the Century Club of San included vice president and branch medicine and DNA-based diagnos- Diego, where she was involved with manager, and she also did marketing, tic testing. Dawn’s background also the Farmers Insurance Open at advertising, and employee training. includes a two-year stint at the Yale Torrey Pines Golf Course. The PGA She has served on several boards, Center for Genome Analysis. She was TOUR recently awarded her its 2018 including Rady Children’s Hospital a scholar-athlete at the University “Best Integrated Marketing” Award Auxiliary, National Charity League, of Vermont and holds an MBA from for that work. She began her career and the National Forum of Regional the University of Connecticut School at the San Diego Sports Commission, Associations of Grantmakers. Her of Business. Dawn was named 2017 and has worked in various other honors include the Libby Award for Business Woman of the Year by the marketing and communication roles, Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership San Diego Business Journal, and she including supporting FOX Sports San from the University of San Diego’s was a presenter at TedXSanDiego Diego, the exclusive television home Nonprofit Institute. She earned a 2016. Her two daughters are of the San Diego Padres. psychology degree with honors from Girl Scouts. Stanford University. Nancy was a Brownie and an active volunteer with her daughter’s troop. Cool Women 5 Coreen Petti Virginia Nelson Associate Vice President Attorney at Law University of San Diego Virginia’s many ties to the University Coreen is a member of a four- of San Diego School of Law include generation Girl Scout family. She was serving as an adjunct professor and a camp counselor and reached the Board of Visitors member. She also pinnacle of Girl Scouting by earning created a scholarship and a gradua- the First Class Award (precursor tion prize, and received the school’s of the prestigious Girl Scout Gold Distinguished Alumni and Author E. Award). Coreen, her mother, and Hughes Career Achievement awards. her grandmother each led their Recognitions from other organiza- daughter’s Girl Scout troops. She has tions include the Bernard Witkin more than two decades of developing Award for excellence in the teaching, high-profile, promotionally oriented practice, enactment and adjudication programs that result in increased of the law; the Daniel T. Broderick III awareness and net revenue returns Award for civility, integrity, and in both higher education and the professionalism; 24 years in Best for-profit sector. Coreen is currently Lawyers of America; and inclu- associate vice president of advance- sion in Top 10: Super Lawyers (both ment marketing and strategic Southern California and San Diego, partnerships at the University of 2007-2017). As a trial attorney, San Diego. She formerly served in Virginia headed her own litigation a corporate marketing capacity as firm for over 30 years. She is a the manager of national promotions former president of the San Diego and sponsorships for Anheuser- County Bar Association, San Diego Busch’s theme parks, SeaWorld and Inn of Court, and the Enright Ameri- Busch Gardens. Coreen is an expert can Inn of Court; a member of the in the field of institutional branding, American Board of Trial Advocates; corporate sponsorship development, and a fellow of the American College partnership marketing, and special of Trial Lawyers. Virginia was a events. She is board chair emeritus Girl Scout in Minnesota and for Academy of our Lady of Peace Colorado. and serves on the board of the ALS Association’s Greater San Diego Chapter. C o n g r a tu l a ti o n s 6 Cool Women ThankEmerging Leader you Girl Scout Mentors Mary Jean Anderson Owner and President, Anderson Plumbing, Heating and Air Dawn Barry President and Co-Founder, LunaPBC Carolin Botzenhardt Wealth Advisor, Wells Fargo Private Banking Gema Deleon President, WISE (Women in Sports and Events) San Diego Joyce Glazer San Diego Magazine Alina Goldner Information Technology Associate, San Diego Gas & Electric Dea Hurston Arts Advocate, Philanthropist, Playwright Nancy Jamison President and CEO (Ret.), San Diego Grantmakers Angie Lasagna Vice President, Community Relations and Media Affairs Mission Federal Credit Union