Culture

Working on campaigns that connect big ideas to personal and global impact, Rachel has traveled to Europe, the Middle East, and across the United States to collaborate, consult, and produce. She was Assistant Editor for the beloved children's program Sesame Street on Seasons 40 and 41. Both seasons were recognized with Emmys for Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing. Working with Bertelsmann Media Worldwide, Brandeis University, and in independent film, she has interviewed experts in academia, film, politics, and business. Rachel holds an M.A. in Media Studies from the New School and a B.A. in Philosophy from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Rebecca Hinds graduated from Stanford University in 2014 with a M.S. in Management Science and Engineering. In 2013, Rebecca co-founded Stratio, a semi-conductor company developing infrared sensors. The company was selected by the Kairos Society as one of the 50 most innovative student-run businesses in the world.

Dominic "Dom" Price has previously been the GM Program Management for a global gaming company and a Director of Deloitte providing assurance and consulting services across the areas of project management, product management, IT systems and change management. His roles have spanned technology risk consulting, product development and program management, across businesses in beverage, telco, manufacturing, software development and gaming. Dom is proud to work at Atlassian, as the Head of R&D Program Management. A keen traveller, Dom has traversed over 50 countries so far, but after 12 years on these shores, he calls Australia home.

Patty McCord has spent many years working with companies to help people realize and practice leadership, pushing the boundaries of thinking about the way we all work. McCord served as Chief Talent Officer of Netflix for 14 years, where - with the management team - she helped to create the Netflix culture deck. When it was posted on the Web, the culture deck took on a life of its own, with Sheryl Sandberg saying it "may be the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley." The presentation has been viewed more than five million times. Patty believes people come to work as fully formed adults with a desire to make an impact and be proud of what they do and she's on a mission to spread the word that we can do this differently. She is frequently in the media with interviews and articles from Harvard Business Review, NPR, Fast Company and The Wall Street Journal.

Hayagreeva "Huggy" Rao is a professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Specifically, he studies collective action within organizations and in markets, and his research revolves around scaling up innovation and talent. He co-authored the widely acclaimed 2014 business book "Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less" with fellow Stanford Professor Bob Sutton, in the university's Department of Management Science & Engineering. Rao and Sutton recently launched the Designing Organizational Change Project, which is hosted by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

Carlos Watson is an entrepreneur and Emmy-winning journalist based in Silicon Valley. In 2013 Watson co-founded Ozy, an online magazine offering originally crafted news of the world presented as coverage and commentary ahead of the mainstream media. Watson has a textured background in both business and media. He previously anchored shows on CNN and MSNBC, and hosted a series of Emmy-winning interview specials. As a businessman, Watson built Achieva College Prep Services into one of the nation's largest college-prep companies before selling it to the Washington Post/Kaplan. He also worked at Goldman Sachs as the global head of education investment banking, and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Watson holds an B.A. in government from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Kevin Weil is head of product at Instagram, overseeing consumer, growth and monetization products. Prior to Instagram, Kevin was senior vice president of product at Twitter, overseeing product development and design across Twitter's consumer and ad products, as well as Vine and Periscope. Between 2010 and 2014, he led product development for Twitter's advertising platform, including the acquisitions of MoPub and TellApart, as well as the development of Fabric, Twitter's mobile-services strategy. Previously, Weil led Twitter's analytics team, where he was an early evangelist and contributor to the open-source Hadoop ecosystem, an open-source software framework for storing data. Before joining Twitter in 2009, he was the first employee at web-media startup Cooliris, working in user growth and analytics. Weil holds a B.A. in mathematics and physics from Harvard University and an M.S. in physics from Stanford.

Shirzad Chamine is the founder and CEO of executive-coaching program Positive Intelligence. He wrote The New York Times bestselling book of the same name and has trained hundreds of CEOs and their executive teams, as well as business school faculty at Stanford and Yale. Chamine's philosophy is that, by taking command of your mind, you can tackle your greatest challenges with calm, clarity, creativity and laser-focused action. He holds a B.A. in psychology, an M.S. in electrical engineering and an MBA from Stanford University.

Di-Ann Eisnor is director of growth for crowd-sourced navigation and real-time traffic application, Waze, now part of Google. Working across users, governments, international media and local community groups, Eisnor continues to spearhead the company's global initiatives to make connected cities a reality and to grow Waze into new markets and new products. Prior to joining Waze, Eisnor was co-founder and CEO of a collaborative, user-generated, cartographic website that enabled people to map things that are important to them. Eisnor is an active angel investor and speaks widely on mobile, location, connected cities and crowdsourcing. She and rapper Lupe Fiasco co-founded Neighborhood Start Fund, a community-based micro-fund and entrepreneurship center in underserved urban neighborhoods. She holds a B.S. in studio art and business administration from New York University. She is a 2014 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Dave Evans is co-founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab at the univesity's renowned d.school, where he and co-instructor Bill Burnett help people design their lives. For Evans, a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Stanford, that continues to be his life's work - and served as the basis for the 2016 New York Times bestseller "Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life," which he wrote with Burnett. Evans' industry experience in design includes working at Apple, where he led the mouse team and introduced laser printing to the masses. When his boss at Apple left to start Electronic Arts, Evans joined as the company's first vice president of talent, dedicated to making "software worthy of the minds that use it." Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Evans decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. He went out on his own working with startup teams, large corporate executives, nonprofit leaders, and countless young adults. Evans holds a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in contemplative spirituality from the San Francisco Theological Seminary.

Adam Grant is a leading expert on how to find motivation and meaning, and live a more generous and creative life. Grant has been recognized as one of the world's 25 most influential management thinkers and one of Fortune's "40 under 40." He is the bestselling author of two books translated into 35 languages, "Give and Take" and "Originals." His 2016 TED talk on the surprising habits of original thinkers received a standing ovation and racked up its first million views in five days. Grant is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, writes for The New York Times on work and psychology, and serves on the Lean In board and the Department of Defense Innovation Board. Grant holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Meg Whitman is president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. From 2011 to 2015, she served as president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, leading the company's turnaround and subsequent separation into two Fortune 100 companies - Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. From 1998 to 2008, Whitman served as president and CEO of eBay, overseeing its growth from 30 employees and $4 million in annual revenue to more than 15,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. She has also held executive-level positions at Hasbro, Inc., FTD Companies, Inc., Stride Rite Corp., Walt Disney Co. and Bain & Co. In 2009, Whitman ran for the California governor's office, winning the Republican primary but ultimately losing to Jerry Brown in 2010. Whitman currently chairs the board of HP Inc. and serves as a director for the Procter & Gamble Co. and SurveyMonkey. She holds a B.A. degree from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University.

Bob Tinker served as co-founder and CEO of MobileIron from 2008 to 2016, positioning the publicly traded company as a leading provider of mobile security for apps, content, and devices. From 2010 to 2014, MobileIron was named the world's fastest growing technology company and ranked #1 in Deloitte's "Fast 500 Index." Prior to MobileIron, Tinker led the business development team for Cisco's wireless-business unit. Before Cisco, he was the first business executive at enterprise wireless pioneer Airespace, where he was vice president of business development. Cisco acquired Airespace in 2005 for $450 million. Tinker's previous roles include director of marketing at Vertical Networks and vice president at NationsBank, with roles in IT, sales, product management and operations. Tinker is a trustee and foundation board member for the University of California, Merced. He has a B.S. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Stanford University.

Tracy Chou is a founding team member of Project Include, an open community working toward providing meaningful diversity and inclusion solutions for tech companies. In 2013, Chou helped kick off the wave of tech company diversity data disclosures with a Github repository collecting numbers on women in engineering, and in doing so she became an accidental activist on the issue of diversity in tech. Prior to Project Include, Chou was a software engineer at Pinterest, working most recently on the home feed and recommendations team. She previously served as a tech lead on the ads and web teams, and worked on infrastructure, API, email and growth as well. Before Pinterest, she worked at Quora, also as an early engineer. She was named to the Forbes "Tech 30 under 30" list in 2014 and has been profiled in Vogue and WIRED for her work. Tracy is an advisor to Homebrew VC and is on reserve with the U.S. Digital Service. Chou earned a B.S. in electrical engineering and M.S. in computer science, both from Stanford University. While there, she was a Mayfield Fellow at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

Michael Terrell believes true growth happens where insight, effort and a willingness to try something new intersect. As the founder and managing partner of the Terrell Leadership Group, he loves helping his leaders achieve this growth in ways that have measurable impacts on their company cultures, business outcomes, professional and personal relationships, and well-being. In addition to his industry work, Terrell facilitates learning groups for one of the most popular courses at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, called "Interpersonal Dynamics," where he helps MBA students develop awareness and communication skills that serve them powerfully in their next phases of leadership. Terrell holds a degree in management science and engineering from Stanford University, where he was a Mayfield Fellow.

Bonny Simi is president of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the innovation hub for JetBlue Airways' investment and incubation of emerging startups at the intersection of travel and technology. She joined JetBlue in 2003 and has served in operational and strategic roles within flight and system operations, airports and customer support, having developed the award-winning "Voice of the Customer" program. Most recently she was the head of talent for JetBlue, overseeing the hiring of 3,000-plus JetBlue crew members every year, and the launch of an innovative education program called JetBlue Scholars that provides free college education to crew members. Uniquely, she is also a qualified airline captain for JetBlue and flies frequently. Prior to JetBlue, Simi was a captain at United Airlines, flying 727, 737 and 777 jets domestically and internationally. Better known by her maiden name of Bonny Warner, she is a three-time Olympian and 10-time national champion in the sports of luge and bobsled. Simi is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as the Stanford School of Engineering, and regularly facilitates programs at the Stanford d.school.

Etosha Cave is co-founder and chief science officer at Opus 12, a startup recycling carbon dioxide into higher value products for both Earth and Mars. At Opus 12, she works with both the engineering and business development team to build the technology and grow the organization.In 2015, she was a speaker at TEDx Stanford and the winner of the 2015 Cool Companies Competition at the Fortune Brainstorm E conference. Cave received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, where she gained the foundational knowledge for this technology and participated in STVP's Accel Innovation Scholars program. Prior to Stanford, she worked in Antarctica at the McMurdo research station. Cave earned her undergraduate degree from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.

Cody Karutz is a virtual reality engineer at STRIVR Labs, a Palo Alto-based startup that uses VR to train athletes. Currently finishing his M.S. in symbolic systems at Stanford University, Karutz has over a decade of experience in virtual-reality content design. He studies the cognitive and perceptual effects of mixed-reality content in applied learning scenarios, and over his years at Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, he has interfaced and led outreach with many of Silicon Valley's leaders regarding the current state and future of the VR industry. The New Yorker once described Karutz as "a mellow, collegiate blond in jeans and flip-flops."

Jonah Greenberger is co-founder of Bright, a Y Combinator and First Round Capital company delivering solar subscriptions to homes in developing countries. According to the company, "Bright allows financiers to understand the consumer and proposed solar project in ways not previously possible." He was most recently a director at Chevron Energy Solutions, where he helped build a renewable energy investment and construction group. Greenberger received his M.S. in thermodynamics and B.S. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a Mayfield Fellow.

Elaine Cheung is a founding team member of GRAIL, a new company formed to enable cancer screenings from a simple blood test. Previously, she was director of strategic partnerships, as well as director of business development, at Illumina, a leading provider of next-generation sequencing technologies. There, she focused on strategy and transactions to enable clinical adoption of new sequencing approaches in oncology, reproductive health and transplant medicine. Cheung also spent six years at Genomic Health, which develops and commercializes various tests that can guide treatment decisions for breast, colorectal and prostate cancer patients. Cheung earned a B.S. in biological sciences and an M.S. in management science and engineering, both from Stanford University, where she was also a Mayfield Fellow at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.

Jay Kaplan is co-founder and CEO of Synack, a venture capital-backed startup focused on helping enterprises gain a "hacker" perspective of their technology footprint. Synack was ranked No. 20 on CNBC's annual list of the "50 Most Disruptive Companies" for the second year in a row. Prior to Synack, Kaplan served in multiple cyber-related capacities at the Department of Defense, including the agency's Incident Response and Red Team. Most recently, he was senior analyst at the National Security Agency (NSA), where he supported cyber intelligence operations and received multiple accolades for classified work conducted at the agency. Selected as one of Forbes' "30 Under 30" in enterprise technology, Kaplan holds a B.S. and M.S. from George Washington University studying under a NSA-funded fellowship program, in addition to a number of industry certifications.

Bernard Roth is the Rodney H. Adams Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. He has published widely in the areas of design, creativity, education, kinematics and robotics, and has received many awards for both his teaching and research. Roth has served as an industrial and government consultant, was a director of several corporations, and has held top leadership positions in several international professional societies. Roth is one of the founders of Stanford's "d.school," where he now serves as academic director. His latest book, "The Achievement Habit," was published in July 2015 by HarperCollins.

DJ Kleinbaum is co-founder and co-CEO of Emerald Therapeutics and the Emerald Cloud Laboratory. The lab comes from Emerald Therapeutics, a venture-backed biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, Calif., and its business is conducting life-science experiments online and helping researchers design their studies, organize their data and analyze their results. Kleinbaum and his team operate at the intersection of computation and the life sciences, bringing together individuals with backgrounds ranging from organic chemistry and molecular biology to electrical engineering and computer science. Kleinbaum received a B.S. in biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University.