Women in Business 2009 Conference
Leading Through Change
Bonita Banducci
Founding Faculty of Global Women's Leadership Network, Santa Clara University
Brian Curran
Managing Director, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Jenepher Dawson
Sr. Sales Manager, Commercial Sales Channel, LG Electronics
Martha Galley
Sr. Director for Microsoft Window's Live Business Development, Microsoft
Claudia Galvan
Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Anthony Metten
Founder and CEO, WinVision
Ian Macallister
VP, Wholesale Banking, Wells Fargo
Lan Nguyen
Director of Business Development, Omnicell
Julia Rasor
Medical Device Strategist, Rasor Consulting Group
Former CEO and Founder, CAPNIA, Inc.
Cheryl Shavers
CEO, Global Smarts Inc.
Former U.S. Undersecretary for Commerce and Technology
Santa Clara University Professor
Shannon Small
Founder/Coach/Speaker/Facilitator, Small Victories, Inc.
Julia Sullivan
Senior Talent Development Consultant, JDS Uniphase
Edith Yeung
Executive Producer, BizTechDay
Small Business Technology Day and President of San Francisco Entrepreneur Meetup
Co-Founder and CEO of Clue Market
Joan Young
President/Broker, SunBelt of the Greater Bay Area (Mergers and Acquisitions)
Gary Wiseman
Former GM of Intel
Bonita Banducci
President, Banducci Consulting
Bonita Banducci, President of Banducci Consulting, is founding faculty for the Global Women's Leadership Network and the Women Leaders for the World Program and teaches Leadership Experience at the Leavey School of Business. At Santa Clara University’s School of Engineering, she teaches Unmasking the Gender Effect, Men and Women Building Effective Partnership for Engineering Excellence which in Fall 2009 will be in the Engineering and Society, Graduate Core Curriculum. Banducci researched "What is the Contribution Women Make that Could be the Strategic Advantage in the Global Marketplace" for a Silicon Valley Fortune 500 company. Her findings launched her innovative work, Unmasking the Gender Effect--effectively managing different communication styles, competencies and leadership of men and women in the workplace. She co-authored a unique booklet, Closing the Gender Gap–What we can do for RBC, the Royal Bank of Canada. Banducci has worked with Adaptec, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Intel, KLA-Tencor, Sun Microsystems Xylinx, NASA Ames, US and California Environmental Protection Agencies, as well as organizations from other business, academic and social benefit sectors. Banducci pioneered entrepreneurial businesses in retail, restaurant and hotel industries, in San Francisco and in Mexico. Infusing "service" into corporate culture led her to identifying the Gender Effect.
Banducci earned her BA Degree in Sociology as a member of the Pioneer Class of University of California, Santa Cruz. She later studied and worked with Dr. Fernando Flores, co-author of Understanding Cognition and Computers, whose linguistic work spawned a new generation of human communication technologies. She is a graduate of the Fetzer Institute’s Healing the Heart of Diversity Facilitation Leadership Program.
Brian Curran
Managing Director, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Education: B.S. degree in Management from Menlo College and an M.B.A from Santa Clara University.
Brian Curran, Managing Director, Global Corporate Client Group (GCCG), with the New York Stock Exchange is based in Palo Alto, CA. Brian has an extensive operating background with venture-backed companies in the Bay Area, in addition to sell-side M&A advisory experience.
As Managing Director, GCCG, Mr. Curran is responsible for developing corporate listings in the U.S. Western and Central Regions, in addition to fostering relationships with corporate issuers and key influencers in the listing decision process including bankers, private equity and venture investors, and the legal and accounting communities.
Prior to the NYSE, Mr. Curran had been a Vice President with multiple venture-backed companies, which were acquired by companies like BEA Systems and Serena Software. Previously, he was a Director, Corporate Finance at KPMG LLP.
Jen Dawson
Senior Sales Manager, Commercial Sales
LG Electronics USA Inc.
In 1993, as a new bride, Jen Dawson had just relocated to Dubai. She read an article about LG Electronics (then Goldstar) in a local trade magazine called "Jebel Ali free trade magazine". She was so impressed with the article and Mr. Simon Kim who was the president quoted in the article, she instantly called Mr. Kim (who is now the LGEAI president) and went in for an interview where she was hired on the spot. Ever since, she has been an avid fan of LG for 16 years.
Jen Dawson's passion for work created her excellence in her career due to her strong commitment and continued success and her never ending desire to understand, learn and function effectively in various fields within the same organization in three foreign nations in the world namely in Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Canada and in the New Jersey, USA.
Jen Dawson currently leads, directs and manages Channel sales within the Commercial division of LG Electronics USA (LGEUS), which includes a national distribution sales team, a team of regional sales managers and a DMR (direct marketing reseller) sales team. Jen also manages large opportunity bid desk Team and an inside sales team. She is responsible for developing & executing sales strategy and channel program including tight customer/channel relationship management.
In 2005, Jen was selected to represent LGEUS in Korea as "Global Innovator" and was commissioned to lead LGE's innovation. One of her dreams is to learn Korean Language to be a power leader in LGEUS. She travels extensively throughout US hearing voice of the customers to implement changes, she is very persistent & tenacious and admired by her peers as a person "who never ever gives up on things easily she also finds a way to make it happen".
On a Personal note she loves to play tennis on the weekend and is a good tennis coach for her two daughters Jessica and Jocelyn.
Sr. Director for Microsoft Window's Live Business Development, Microsoft
An undergraduate degree in Neurophysiology hardly seems a logical precursor to a career in computer software, services and cloud computing. But it can be! Martha has held senior positions in a wide range of roles. Many of these opportunities came through seeing, embracing and exploiting change.
Today Martha is the Senior Director for Microsoft's Windows Live Business Development for consumer on-line services partnerships in Latin American. These partnerships bring communications and collaboration solutions to the market as co-branded offers supported through ad funded business models. Previously Martha ran Microsoft's Communications Sector, Western Region. Her team worked with wireline and wireless carriers, network equipment providers and Broadcast and Studios, Media and Entertainment businesses. They handled enterprise product sales and service as well as alliance partnerships, integrating Microsoft’s MSN, Mobile and Embedded Devices, Managed Services, Microsoft TV, XBOX, Microsoft Dynamics and others.
In her fourteen years with Microsoft she has held Sales leadership positions in Channel Management, Small Business, Mid-Market and Strategic customer segments. Before joining Microsoft in 1994, Martha held key leadership positions at Digital Equipment Corporation in New York. She pioneered the integrated Network field sales, marketing and support model for Digital’s portfolio of communications software, hardware and services.
Education: Martha is a graduate of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. She holds a degree with honors in Biology, Neurophysiology and Physiological Psychology, and is published for her undergraduate research. Her career in computer science began through post-graduate work at New York University and continues today as this rapidly changing field dictates.
Claudia Galvan
Group Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Education: BS, Anahuac University - Mexico City
MS, Program and Project Management, Golden Gate University
LEAD Women Unlimited program
Claudia is currently leading the International Program Management group in the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus. She is responsible for the driving the international versions of the Windows Live Web Communication services (Hotmail, Contacts and Calendar); Search Client and Alerts in up to 48 languages. Before she joined Microsoft, she was the Corporate Product Manager for Globalization strategy for Adobe, responsible for setting up the language and market roadmap for all products. She moved to this position after leading engineering teams for several years responsible for developing Globalization and Electronic Software Delivery technologies used in all Adobe products. For a couple of years at Oracle she was the National Language Support manager for the Tools Division were she set processes to achieve simultaneous releases and driving early versions of Unicode into the Oracle Tools products. Previously Claudia worked in Mexico and Canada developing school and classroom management software and hospital administration systems, among others.
She has a Master's degree in Program and Project Management from Golden Gate University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Anahuac University in Mexico City. She is the 2008 recipient of the Leadership award in her organization. She routinely presents at conferences, enjoys reading, hiking and traveling.
Ian Macallister
VP, Wholesale Banking, Wells Fargo
Education: BA in architecture from Williams College, 1998. MBA in general management from the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, 2008
After quickly realizing that a sub-nine dollar per hour, no benefit apprenticeship in a Boston architectural firm would not support a 22 year-old die-hard Red Sox fan living near Fenway Park, I started working as an accountant for a failing software company (The Learning Company). On my fourth day, the company was acquired by Mattel, Inc., which subsequently relocated me to California in 1999. After taking an assistant-controller position in a prominent marketing firm in San Francisco, I was successfully able to bring the company’s balance sheet to zero and close the books forever. That is when I decided to take a shot at bringing a "big fish" to its financial knees and started working at Wells Fargo in 2001. I worked for 5 years in finance, operations, business development, and risk management positions in the mortgage-side of the bank and although I left the group before the "bubble burst", I still like to believe that I had something to do with it. Since then, I have worked to implement international regulatory requirements within the bank (Basel II) and worked in the corporate development group (conducting mergers and acquisitions) when Wells Fargo executed the acquisition of Wachovia. Currently, I am a strategic planning manager within the commercial-side of the bank, working in a newly-formed group that is focused on managing troubled Wachovia assets to maximize their value and subsequently, maximize their return to the shareholders.
Since moving to California, I have been part of two failed companies, worked in an industry that has almost destroyed the American economy, and watched my beloved Boston teams win a combined 6 championships… all after I moved away.
Though being able to live in Marin with my California-born wife of four-plus years, Summer, and our beautiful two year-old daughter, Avery, makes it all worth it.
Anthony Metten
Founder and CEO, WinVision
As a senior vice president with Citibank, Anthony sought to create a "People Matter" mentality within the company. This effort led him to establish WinVision on the belief that people, not profits, are what drive the success of an organization.
Anthony has served as both a coach and mentor in many different industries. He has provided career coaching services to organizations such as Adobe, JP Morgan Chase, Perlegen, Gap Inc., Elan Pharmaceuticals and the city of San Jose. He is currently associated with the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, DBM and Workforce Institute.
Anthony is a frequent speaker on the topic of professionalism, and has delivered presentations before the Metropolitan Education District and Mission Valley ROP, among others.
A current member of the ICF (International Coach Federation), Anthony has previously served as treasurer and board member of Campbell Kiwanis Club, board member of the Los Altos Chamber of Commerce and member of the Los Altos Economic Development Committee.
He holds a BS in Business Administration and is currently completing his MA in Counseling Psychology / Career Development at Santa Clara University. His professional designations include NASD Series 7, 24, and 63 licensure, as well as a California Department of Insurance Life and Disability license.
An avid health seeker, Anthony participates in triathlons and half marathons, and is a Century (100-mile) cycling coach for Integrate Fitness.
Director of Business Development, Omnicell
Lan has over 12 years of marketing and business development experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer, and life sciences products. At Omnicell Lan is leading cross functional groups to evaluate new growth opportunities for Omnicell as well as financial and valuation activities and prepare strategic business cases for corporate development opportunities and provide support to define optimal deal structures and negotiation strategies. Prior to Omnicell, Lan worked at Agilent Technologies as licensing and business development manager, where she directed Agilent's strategic business development activities across its $2.3B life sciences and chemical analysis group. Prior to Agilent, Lan was at Eli Lilly's corporate venture fund where she established Lilly's west-coast presence for its $100M fund. Prior to Lilly, Lan was a strategic management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton, an entrepreneur in China/Hong Kong, a marketing executive at Red Earth cosmetics in Asia, and a research chemist at Unilever.
Education: BA in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, MS in Biochemistry from Stevens Institute of Technology, and MBA from Stanford.
Julia Rasor
Medical Device Strategist, Rasor Consulting Group
Former CEO and Founder, CAPNIA, Inc.
Julia Rasor, Medical Device Strategist at Rasor Consulting Group, is a strategic entrepreneur with an extensive track record of leading very successful solutions for business, clinical, or regulatory roadblocks as well as technical hurdles. She uses a combination of science and business savvy and tools developed from a 50-company experience to 'Fast Track' companies reducing cost and risk thus seizing the competitive advantage.
Julia is inventor of a $100M/year revenue medical product; CEO Founder of a drug delivery company that closed ~$38M to date; Member of 5 Scientific Advisory Boards; Inventor of 13 issued and pending patents; Founder of Rasor Consulting Group celebrating 25 years of success for clients at www.MedicalDevice.com; author of 'Rasor Resource Newsletter', a periodical publication that provides valuable, proven tools for medical device executives - subscribe on website; and author of 30 publications and 20 White Papers yielding multi-million dollar venture funding, increased sales, and reversal of FDA’s previously stated decisions. She often works as an interim Chief Strategy Officer (CSO).
Julia holds an M.S. in Human Physiology from the University of California, Davis, a B.S. in Biology from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, a Professional Certificate in Engineering Management from University of California in San Diego (a 2-year post baccalaureate academic study in management science), and a Multidisciplinary Medical Communications Certificate from the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA, Founded in 1940). Julia can be reached at jsrasor@medicaldevice.com.
Cheryl Shavers
CEO, Global Smarts, Inc.
Former U.S. Undersecretary for Commerce and Technology
Santa Clara University Professor
A Silicon Valley success story, Cheryl Shavers, a 25-year veteran of the high-tech industry with Fortune 500 companies such as Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola, was the first female African American Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology of the United States government She was the highest-ranking technologist in the Clinton Administration and is one of the most influential woman in the world of technology today.
Showing a masterful knowledge of technology, business and international affairs, she reinforced America's science and technology investments, advocated global business alliances and promoted emerging technology initiatives. Her insights and skills have bridged the divides between public and private enterprises, national and global competition, and emerging and conventional technologies.
Dr. Shavers is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, a Distinguished Dean's Professor at the Leavy School of Business at Santa Clara University, and former Director on the Advisory Board of E.W. Scripps Company, a print and media company. A practicing registered Patent Agent with the Patent & Trademark Office of the Department of Commerce, she also serves on the board of directors of Rockwell Collins [COL], a leading communications and avionics company and ATMI [ATMI], a semiconductor materials and packaging company.
She is the founder and CEO of Global Smarts, Inc. a global business and technology strategy firm and author of Global Technology Challenges for the New Millennium, a fascinating account of emerging technologies and the challenges of innovation. Dr. Shavers is also the former host of Technology’s Edge and Dr. Shavers On Radio, radio talk programs broadcast on Business Radio AM570 WWRC in Washington D.C.
In 1999 and 2005 she received Congressional Recognition from the U.S. House of Representatives for her work in the community and for her business leadership. Dr. Shavers was recently honored with the 2005 Compass Award from the Women’s Leadership Exchange and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Anita Borg Institute, which is dedicated to expanding opportunities for women and girls in science and technology.
Educational: B.S. degree in Chemistry, a Ph.D. in Solid State Chemistry, both from Arizona State University, and an Honorary Master’s degree in Engineering Management from California Polytechnic State University. Practicing registered Patent Agent with the Patent & Trademark Office of the Department of Commerce.
Shannon Small
Founder/Coach/Speaker/Facilitator, Small Victories, Inc.
Senior Consultant, Next Step Partners
Education: B.S. from Northwestern University, M.B.A from Yale and a Professionally certified coach through New Ventures West.
Shannon Small is a highly skilled coach as well as an experienced manager and strategy consultant. Shannon brings to her coaching and leadership development work not only the acumen of a seasoned business professional, but also the strength of a collegiate All-American athlete and the resilience of a Breast Cancer survivor.
Shannon works with individuals, teams and organizations in a variety of industries. She has coached clients ranging from CEO's and senior managers to students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her clients have included professionals at Xerox, IBM, HP, Goldman Sachs, EBay, McKinsey & Co., Wachovia, Leap Frog, and SAP. She is also an experienced speaker and workshop leader.
Committed to empowering members of her communities, Shannon has been on the alumni board of the Yale School of Management as well as the Association of Women MBAs of the Bay Area. She is a devoted community volunteer and avid world traveler.
Shannon works with corporations as well as individual coaching clients and teaches Career Action Group workshops as well as women's leadership development programs. She can be reached at Shannon@smallvictories.org.
Julia Sullivan
Senior Talent Development Consultant, JDS Uniphase
Professional Associations: The Authentic Leadership Institute, AmericaSpeaks, Korn Ferry International, 5 Dynamics, Alliance of Chief Executives
Education: Bachelor of Industrial Administration, Kettering University, and MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Julia Sullivan has over twenty years of experience launching successful businesses and helping individuals and organizations change. She works at all levels of an organization to create the thinking, direct communication and systems required to produce results.
She is currently designing and deploying a virtual collaborative platform at JDS Uniphase to integrate leadership development with achieving business results globally.
Julia is an Associate of The Authentic Leadership Institute, working with Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic, to help leaders create lasting value by connecting who they are with what they do.
Julia is a Producer and Lead Facilitator with AmericaSpeaks/Global Voices, a Washington, DC based firm specializing in large scale multi-stakeholder engagement. Julia has facilitated 1000-person technology enabled meetings to provide fast-6cycle feedback to decision makers in a way that enlists broad support and concrete follow-up action for the collective vision that develops.
Julia is a South Bay Director for the Alliance of Chief Executives facilitating monthly forums in which CEOs share their collective experience and strategic insights in trusted confidential small group dialogue.
Julia is a highly sought after executive coach with Korn Ferry International creating generative learning experiences that meet clearly identified business needs.
Edith Yeung
Executive Producer, BizTechDay
Small Business Technology Day and President of San Francisco Entrepreneur Meetup
Co-Founder and CEO of Clue Market
Edication: Bachelor of Science Industrial Management MIS/Marketing from Purdue University.
Chip Conley, CEO of Joie de Vivre Hotels, calls her "the go-getter." Seth Godin recommends her as "the person I would hire."
Edith Yeung is the creator and producer of BizTechDay - one of the largest business-technology conferences serving the small business community held annually in San Francisco. Edith is passionate about connecting and bringing business owners together and helping them succeed.
Edith has appeared and been quoted on CBS, Comcast and SethGodin.com. She is the organizer for two San Francisco Entrepreneur Meetups with over 2100 members. She serves on the board for San Francisco Small Business Week 2009 and for Pathways for Kids, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching entrepreneurship skills to underprivileged youths.
Edith is also cofounder and CEO of Clue Market, a marketing and education firm. Prior, she consulted with numerous Fortune 500 companies including AT&T Wireless, Oracle, Siebel, Autodesk, Cisco Systems, Symantec, Telstra Australia, Matav Hungary Telecom and TSMC.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Edith moved to the United Stated by herself at the age of 16. Edith has led many lives: pianist, square dancer, software engineer, corporate slave, road warrior, consultant and entrepreneur.
Joan A. Young
President, Sunbelt Business Brokers, Greater Bay Area
Educational background: BA Transylvania University, Lexington Ky, Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) Certified Business Broker, (CBB)
Joan Young has been assiting buyers and sellers in small to mid market deals since 1980. Her diverse background ranges from manufacturing, distribution, publishing and advertising, placement service, direct sales, and business and franchise consulting.
In 1990 Joan started FranNet one of the largest franchise consulting companies in North America and in 2000 acquired Sunbelt Business Brokers, Greater Bay Area, which is part of the largest business brokerage network in the world. She served on the President's advisory council for Sunbelt for over 7 years and also a member of the California Association of Busness Brokers (CABB)and the International Business Brokers Association (IBBA), as well as M&A Source. Joan's brokerage firm has 7 brokers and they specialize in companies that are generating between $1M-$20M in revenues.
Former GM of Intel
Gary Wiseman was most recently General Manager of Intel’s Optical Platform Division, a leading manufacturer of high-speed optical transceivers for telecom and enterprise applications. Gary came to Intel via the acquisition of LightLogic in May 2001, and over the past five years has helped drive Intel into a leadership position in the optics industry. Prior to his current position, Gary was Director of Marketing at Intel and VP Marketing at LightLogic, and before that, held positions in product development, operations, marketing and general management at Raychem. Gary holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from MIT, a BA in Chemistry from Northwestern, and MBA from IMD in Lausanne Switzerland.
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Location:
Saturday, April 25, 2009
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Microsoft Conference Center
1065 La Avenida St
Mountain View, CA 94043
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