Sue Adelhardt is co-founder and CEO of Embarcadero Partners, a business strategy and change consultancy in San Francisco. Known for her ability to find the problem behind the problem, Sue helps business leaders from around the world achieve clarity, affect change, and drive toward a competitive edge. For Sue, the role of good design is inextricable from sound business strategy. And her pursuit of both keeps pace with today's ever-emerging technology. Prior to Embarcadero Partners, Sue held leadership positions at Stone Yamashita Partners and IDEO. She received an AB in History from The University of Chicago, an MBA from Columbia University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business.

Janice Berman is the Senior Director of Customer Energy Efficiency Strategy and Market Development. Ms. Berman is responsible for providing strategic leadership of PG&E's Customer Energy Efficiency portfolio.

Prior to her current position, Ms. Berman has held numerous regulatory, financial and operational positions at PG&E, including Director of Customer Generation, Director of Rates and Tariffs, Director of Revenue Requirements, Director of Business Development, and Director of Gas System Operations.

Ms. Berman earned a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Whitman College, and has a Master's degree in Operations Research from Stanford University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley. She joined PG&E in 1987 as an engineer working on the development of new power plants, and quickly became interested in integrating resource planning for power plants, demand-side resources, and T&D.

Jennifer Bevington has worked in youth programs for the past 25 years, primarily in science and natural history museums as well as cultural organization in Chicago, Los Angeles and Bay Area before her work in higher education at UC Berkeley. She has specialized in educational program planning, community outreach, partnership development, and fundraising. Jennifer has developed award-winning programs and directed education departments in distinguished natural history museums, including Lindsay Wildlife Museum in Northern California, as well as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago. She has worked with primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall in both the Bay Area as well as in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on developing afterschool clubs and environmental programs.

Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business and Co-Director of the Energy Institute at Haas. He is also Director of the University of California Energy Institute. He received his A.B. from U.C. Berkeley and Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. His research focuses on business competition, strategy, and regulation. He has published extensively on the airline industry, the oil and gasoline industries, and electricity markets. His current research projects include the economics of renewable energy, economic policies for reducing greenhouse gases, alternative models of retail electricity pricing, and competitive dynamics in the airline industry. Borenstein is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He served on the Board of Governors of the California Power Exchange from 1997 to 2003. During 1999-2000, he was a member of the California Attorney General's Gasoline Price Task Force. In 2010-11, Borenstein was a member of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood's Future of Aviation Advisory Committee.

Dana R. Carney is an Assistant Professor at The University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and is an affiliate of the Department of Psychology. Prior to her current appointment at Berkeley, Professor Carney was an Assistant Professor in the Management Division at Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. Broadly speaking, Professor Carney studies connections between body and mind. Her most recent work has focused on two aspects of the mind-body connection: (1) how humans reveal their thoughts and feelings through subtle nonverbal behaviors and how these subtle behaviors can profoundly impact others' impressions, and (2) how human physiology (including sympathetic and parasympathetic arousal and hormones) affect risk taking, decision making, and behavior. Professor Carney publishes widely in psychology, business, political science, public health, and medicine. Her work is also featured often in the popular press—most recently in Time Magazine, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and on CNN. And she very recently received the National Science Foundation's CAREER award in Social Psychology. Professor Carney received her PhD in Social Psychology from Northeastern University in 2005 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

Jeff Denby is the Chief Creative Officer and co-Founder of PACT and manages all design and branding, product development, and manufacturing for the company (wearpact.com). PACT is a socially responsible apparel company that was started while Jeff was at Haas, with classmate Jason Kibbey. In 4 years of operations, PACT has expanded to 50 retail accounts including Nordstrom, won two Fast Company design awards, planted 10,000 trees in Kenya, and given away 500 solar powered LED lanterns to women in Haiti. Jeff began his career in engineering at General Motors in Alternative Fuels. He then joined Kerr & Co, one of Canada's foremost design firms, where he managed the design and branding of products from forks to furniture and assisted Asian factories with product manufacturing. At Haas, Jeff worked with Gap Inc. developing programs to educate women and children at the company's contract apparel manufacturers in Asia. He has also worked on brand and sustainability programs for Jack Daniel's and eBay. Jeff graduated with First Class Honors from the University of Waterloo in Canada with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco with his partner and spends far too much time on Facebook and Bart.

Keith leads the marketing team at TubeMogul and is responsible for driving awareness of TubeMogul's media buying platform for video advertising among media agencies and brand marketers. Keith joined TubeMogul from The Boston Consulting Group, where he specialized in developing marketing strategies for technology and digital media firms. Prior to BCG, Keith worked with TubeMogul in its infancy at UC Berkeley and collaborated with the founders to develop the initial business plan and marketing tactics. Keith began his career at HSBC as a portfolio manager responsible for U.S. and global technology funds. Keith received his MBA from UC Berkeley. linkedin.com/in/keitheadie

Nicolás Goldstein was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has worked in Argentina, Chile, Brasil, Perú, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago, Spain, United States and Bangladesh. He worked as auditor for Volkswagen in Argentina, as senior consultant for Accentura and as an Associate Director for the international Consulting firm Mc Kinsey & Co specializing in retail, Airlines, telecommunications and financial services.

Nicolás joined LAN Airlines (now group LATAM the integration of LAN and TAM airlines) in February 2010, as a regional business CEO, where he reached record load factors and revenues for the business. Since June 2012 he has served as CEO of Lan Peru, a +4000 people company with the largest operation of the holding.

He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Buenos Aires and an MBA from the Haas School of Business. In both universities (UBA and Berkeley), he was also a professor/GSI. He runs 3-4 times a week, runs at least one marathon a year and his philosophy is " If we are happy, we are more productive".

Priya Haji is the CEO and co-founder of SaveUp, the nation's first free rewards program that encourages Americans to save money and pay down debt with the chance to win life-changing prizes. Through a fun and simple approach that employs game mechanics, SaveUp has built an experience that transforms an otherwise mundane activity of saving money and paying down debt into something rewarding and engaging. Users across the U.S. are saying they love SaveUp because it not only is a fun daily ritual but it's helping them succeed financially. SaveUp has a partnership to offer the program to millions of Americans through 3,000 credit unions and major employers.

Priya is a serial entrepreneur with a history of building companies that use technology to create positive social change. After receiving her MBA from UC Berkeley, she co-founded and led World of Good to create an online and in-store branded marketplace for fair trade and sustainable goods made by women artisans from 55 developing countries, which became part of eBay, Inc. in 2010. In 2007, Priya received the Social Innovation Award from the Social Venture Network for her vision to change the way the world does business, and in 2009 was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Bob Halperin is Co-founder and Managing Director of Alumni Forum Services, the premier provider of Forum services to leading business schools and universities. Bob served previously as Chief Education Officer of Young Presidents Organization, and is a YPO Certified Forum Facilitator. Bob was most recently Executive Director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, and has held senior leadership positions in executive education at Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Babson College.

Lynne LaMarca Heinrich joined Marts & Lundy as a senior consultant in 2000 with more than five years of consulting experience in her own practice and with another national consulting firm. She has served as co-leader of the firm's Arts & Culture Practice Group and has served in staff and consultant roles to the nonprofit sector for more than 30 years. Her varied client portfolio includes performing and visual arts organizations, educational institutions, hospitals and medical centers, health and human service agencies, museums, environmental organizations, foundations, corporations, venture philanthropists, and numerous public-private partnerships. Lynne provides consulting services in fundraising, capital campaigns, nonprofit management, board governance, strategic planning, leadership coaching and development to nonprofit organizations.

Along with her Marts & Lundy client work, Lynne serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Lecturer in board governance at the Hass School of Business and is a former member of the Board of Directors of Marts & Lundy.

Tom Kelley (MBA '83) is currently General Manager of IDEO, a 600-person global design and innovation firm that has been listed among the world's 25 most innovative companies. During his time at IDEO, Tom has led diverse parts of the organization, including marketing, business development, legal, human resources, and operations. In addition to other roles, he has written two best-selling business books, including The Art of Innovation, and co-authored an article on Creative Confidence with his brother David Kelley for the December issue of Harvard Business Review.

Tom was Haas's first-ever Executive Fellow, and has spoken to the incoming MBA classes for the past few years. He holds a similar role at the University of Tokyo, and serves on the advisory board for the new Japan Innovation Network. As a professional speaker, Tom shares stories with dozens of interesting client groups around the world each year, and has spoken to business audiences in more than thirty countries.

Dacher Keltner is the author of Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. He is also the author of Social Psychology, with Tom Gilovich and Richard Nisbett; Understanding Emotions (2nd edition), with Keith Oatley and Jennifer Jenkins; and The Compassionate Instinct, with Jason Marsh and Jeremy Smith. In addition to his scientific writing, Professor Keltner has written for the Utne Reader and the New York Times Magazine. Among many teaching and research awards, he was recently named by the Utne Reader as one of 50 visionaries for 2008.

Professor Keltner is also founding director of the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. After its creation, he secured funding from the Herb Alpert Foundation and the Quality of Life Foundation to develop a magazine, web site, and speaker series that translates the theories, insights, findings, and practices of the social psychology of compassion and cooperation for a broad audience of educators, policy makers, health care providers, and interested citizens.

Gregory LaBlanc is a lecturer at the Haas School of Business as well as Berkeley's School of Law and Department of Economics. Greg received a BA (history, politics, philosophy, and economics) and a BS (business administration) from the University of Pennsylvania, where he continued his education as a university scholar and graduate fellow, studying in the schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, and Law. Later Greg pursued a JD at George Mason University and a LLM at Berkeley's Boalt Hall.

Greg has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in all areas of business. Prior to arriving at the Haas School in 2005, Greg taught at Wharton, Duke, and the University of Virginia. At Haas, Greg primarily teaches Data and Decisions, Corporate Finance, and Competitive Strategy. His current areas of interest include Behavioral Finance and Big Data.

Phil Livingston has extensive experience as an operating executive and board member. As CEO of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell, he leads the division that provides online marketing services, website construction and optimization, as well as ratings and lead generation services for the legal industry. The division includes Lawyers.com, the leading online destination for consumers in search of legal help or referral to an attorney. Lawyers.com serves more than three million visitors a month.

He has served as a director of public and private companies including Cott Corporation, Broadsoft Corporation, Seitel, Inc. (SDL), Nexsan Technologies, MSC Software, World Wrestling Entertainment and Catalina Marketing Corporation.

Livingston was President and CEO of Financial Executives International (FEI) from 1999 to 2003. FEI is the preeminent association for senior financial executives, acting as an advocate on behalf of its membership before regulators and legislators. In this role, he had significant participation in formulation and passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, giving formal testimony to the House Financial Services Committee and directly authoring Section 406 (ethical codes of conduct for corporate financial officers) and Section 407 (audit committee financial experts). He also attended the White House bill-signing ceremony.

From 2003 to 2005 he was Chief Financial Officer of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Prior to joining FEI, Livingston served as CFO of Catalina Marketing Corporation, a supplier of electronically-targeted marketing services for the consumer packaged goods industry.

Before joining Catalina, Livingston was CFO of Celestial Seasonings, where he successfully managed the company's initial public offering in 1993. His early career included positions in financial management and auditing with Genentech, Inc. and Ernst & Young, where he earned his CPA. He received an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and both a BS and a BA from the University of Maryland.

Prior to entering the business world, Livingston played offensive tackle as a member of the 1981 Super Bowl Champion Oakland Raiders. He is a past member of both advisory councils to the U.S. and International Financial Accounting Standards Boards (FASB and IASB). He is a member of The Economic Club of New York.

Mr. Loukianoff is the co-founder of Palo Alto Data Sciences and Chairman of Third Rome Black River Ventures based in Moscow. Previously, he was managing partner of Almaz Capital Partners, a pioneering venture capital firm he founded that invests in Russian-related technology, media and communications companies, and a partner at Alloy Ventures in Palo Alto, California, an early-stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion in assets under management. Prior to his venture capital experience, Mr. Loukianoff was an operating executive in Silicon Valley with several start-up companies, including Autonomy, Alliance Systems and Ubiquinet, and he developed several seminal patents in mobile advertising technologies. From 1989 through 1994, Mr. Loukianoff worked in Russia with prominent scientific institutions to facilitate licensing arrangements with US companies. In 1991, Mr. Loukianoff was the first to organize a post-Perestroika Russian-American symposium on technology transfer and commercialization, which featured President Gorbachev's chief technology advisor Dr. Evgeny Velikhov and Nobel Laureate Dr. Glenn Seaborg. His current and past venture capital investments include nScaled, Qik (acquired by Skype), Versata (Nasdaq: VATA), Xactly, Yandex (Nasdaq: YNDX), and Ziprealty (Nasdaq: ZIPR). Mr. Loukianoff earned an MBA and BS Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Richard K. Lyons became dean of the Haas School of Business in July 2008, where he previously served as acting dean for one year in 2004 and as executive associate dean from 2005 to 2008. Prior to becoming dean, Lyons served as the chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs in New York, where he was responsible for leadership development among the firm's managing directors. Lyons began his teaching career as a professor of finance at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business in New York, where he served on the faculty from 1987 until he joined the Haas School faculty in 1993. In 1998 Lyons received UC Berkeley's highest teaching honor, the Distinguished Teaching Award and his students have honored him six times with the Haas School's Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching. After earning his BS in business in 1982 from UC Berkeley, Lyons went on to earn a PhD in international and macroeconomics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1987. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the UC Berkeley Foundation as well as the steering committee of UC Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies.

As Managing Director at Walden Venture Capital, Larry's focus is digital media and consumer services. He was named to the 2012 Billboard Power 100 in music and the Twitter 140 to follow.  Larry was a founding investor in Pandora (NYSE: P) in early 2004 when Walden led the rebirth round to focus the company on launching a consumer-facing service and was a Director from 2004 through its IPO.  Larry is a Director at SoundHound, (sound and voice search), BandPage (platform for bands online), Aarki (mobile monetization), Boombotix (Ultra-portable speakers) and a Board Observer at PowerCloud Systems.  He also led Walden's investment in Terayon (acquired by Motorola) and Telekenex.  He is an investor in LyricFind and Swarm.fm.  He is a member of the Advisory Council for Industry Ventures and serves on the non-profit Board of the JazzSchool in Berkeley, CA.

Prior to Walden, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown where he lead the top performing IPOs of 1998 and 1999  (Terayon and CBS MarketWatch), as well as the IPOs of Maxis, Edmark, and Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing) among other equity and debt financings (Broderbund, Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Digidesign and General Management in computer services retail. Larry received his BA and MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Larry has been a guest lecturer at Haas Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School.  He has been a speaker and panelist at numerous conferences including Dealmaker Media's Under the Radar, SF MusicTech, Billboard, AlwaysOn and Digital Hollywood among others.

Dr. McElhaney is the Whitehead Faculty Fellow and the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She launched this center in 2003, which placed corporate responsibility squarely as one of the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Haas School. The Center has received global critical acclaim with The Financial Times rating Haas #1 in the world in 2008.

Her Corporate Responsibility work focuses in three areas: (1) Analyzing and developing companies' CSR strategy and its alignment with corporate strategy, business objectives, core competencies, and value creation; (2) Exploring the linkage between women, business leadership, and corporate sustainability (3) The business value and opportunities in branding, communication and CSR. She has written a book entitled Just Good Business The Strategic Guide to Aligning Corporate Responsibility and Brand (2010) on these focus areas, as well as given a TED talk on the topic.

Kellie also focuses on Women and Business Leadership, as well as connections between women as corporate leaders and the firm's sustainability performance. You can see her latest study on Women on Boards and Environment Social and Governance (ESG) performance improvements here.

Professor McElhaney teaches Strategic CSR in all of the MBA degree programs- full-time, executive, and part-time. In 2012, she developed and is teaching a new class called Women in Business, which looks at why businesses are investing in the global development of women, and what the business outcomes- financially, socially, and environmentally- are when business successfully attracts, retains, and develops women in to leadership. She has written papers and company case studies on this critical topic.

Kellie keynotes for companies and organizations all over the world, and consults to Global 1000 companies in developing integrated CSR strategy, bridging her academic focus with the practitioner world. Her client list includes HP, Gap, eBay, McDonalds, Levi, Wal-Mart, Target, Clorox, Ernst & Young, NVIDIA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Nokia (Finland), Navigant, Volunteer Match, Ford Motor Company, PG&E, Driscolls Berries, Triage Consulting Group, Ulster Bank (Ireland), Kimberly-Clark, Frontline, Accenture, StatoilHydro (Norway), Yum! Brands, Chevron, ING, Energizer Holdings, Inc., Pandora Internet Radio, Aboitiz (Philippines).

Kellie serves on the Sustainability & Environmental Advisory Committee (SEAC) for the Dow Chemical Company, is an Academic Partner with Blu Skye Consulting, serves on the Board for Globescan, and is a member of the Advisory Council for Sustainability. She lives in the Oakland Hills in California and has two middle school-aged daughters. She enjoys photography, yoga, good wine, running and has even tried surfing. She earned her BA from the University of North Carolina, her MA from Ohio University, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Prior to moving in to academia, Kellie worked in retail banking.

Chris Phenner has worked with the web since Spyglass in 1996, where he sold the Mosaic browser. RollingStone.com, Napster (v1), CNET and Thumbplay (now Clear Channel) are prior firms.

At Unified, he helped agencies and brands optimize their media spending across social media. You can lean more at unifiedsocial.com.

He has sold and seen the delivery of millions of dollars in social media paid campaigns using multi-variant, test-and-learn methodologies, and enjoys the blend of art and science.

He also enjoys helping people find work they love via Typejack, my private social network -- send a blank email to hi@typejack.com for instructions around how you can see interesting roles.

Specialties: Social Media Sales, Facebook Ads API, DSPs, SaaS, SSPs, Mobile Apps, Digital Music, API Platforms & Recruiting

Rebecca Ricksen has actively leveraged the UC Berkeley network for over 20 years. Her work at Haas in Alumni Relations and the MBA Career Management Group satisfies her incessant urge to connect individuals with one another and additional resources to pursue their professional and personal happiness. A third-generation Cal grad, Rebecca is grateful to her alma mater for introducing her life partner, favorite employers, and cherished friends.

Danae Ringelmann founded Indiegogo - the largest global crowdfunding platform - to democratize fundraising. Fast Company recently named her one of the Top 50 Women Innovators in Technology, while AWNY recently awarded Danae the "No Apologies" Changemaker award.

Passionate about empowering artists, causes and entrepreneurs with the knowledge and confidence to bring ideas into reality, Danae speaks at conferences across the globe. Recent speaking engagements include DLD, US State Department, TEDx Dubai, SXSW, Dublin Web Summit, MAD Hong Kong.

Prior to Indiegogo, Danae was a Securities Analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment companies including Pixar, Lions Gate, Disney, and Electronic Arts. Danae also focused on cable network, NFL, newspaper and hedge fund clientele while at JPMorgan's Investment Bank and Private Bank. In the wake of 9/11, Danae co-produced a concert reading of Incident at Vichy, an Arthur Miller play addressing the politically charged topic of racial profiling.

Danae is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Danae graduated with a B.A. in Humanities from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead Scholar and varsity rower. @gogoDanae Watch a video on Indiegogo.

For over twenty years, Dr. Rittenberg has helped organizations create communities of excellence among their people and empowered individuals to become true leaders with the ability to actualize a vision -- all through the power of communication. Dr. Rittenberg believes that important personal, social, and business problems can be effectively addressed using the Active Communicating methodology he developed -- which draws upon the actor's discipline of engaging, creative and effective communication.

Dr. Rittenberg's experience extends around the globe, across cultures and across industries. In Israel in the 1970's and 1980's, he was able to use theatrical activities to build cultural bridges and develop mutual respect among the Israeli and Palestinian students in his workshops. In South Africa, he served as Professor of Education specializing in teacher training workshops in arts based education as an interventionist working with at-risk youths in disadvantaged situations. Based upon this work, Dr. Rittenberg was awarded the J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar Award and traveled to post-apartheid South Africa in an attempt to rebuild the self-esteem and confidence that had been shattered in Black communities during years of segregation. In 1999, he was asked to return to Israel and apply his cultural conflict resolution experience in Middle East peace initiatives with the Young Leaders Network.

Dr. Rittenberg currently teaches expressive communication and presentation in Executive Education Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of San Francisco, the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, and the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Rittenberg holds a Doctorate in International and Multicultural Education from the University of San Francisco. He also holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Education from San Francisco State and a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California at Berkeley where he double majored in Education and Social Welfare.

Meg Roundy: the student-alumni role works with Haas students, student leaders and alumni to provide opportunities for outstanding interactions between students and alumni in all six degree programs.

So that they build a strong affiliation with Berkeley-Haas, I work with students to educate them on how to get the most out of Haas and Haas Alumni Resources while they are on campus, and alumni-in-residence. The more engaged that they are with the Alumni Network as students, the more engaged they will be as alumni.

Overall, I am here to educate and make connections so that we have highly engaged students and alumni who understand the value of Haas and the Haas Network, and who give back their time, talent and treasure.

Holly Schroth is a well known negotiations expert who is a Senior Lecturer at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and consultant to numerous companies in Silicon Valley. Holly has won several teaching awards including a BusinessWeekOnline award ranking her THE BEST undergraduate professor across disciplines, across the US. She also recently won the 2009 Earl F. Cheit award for excellence in teaching. Holly is one of the leading authors of negotiation exercise materials which are used by educators and trainers across the globe. Holly has a Ph.D. in Social Psychology, specializing in Social Cognition and she uses this training to understand how we think about social interaction.

Michael is responsible for leading the consumer product management team at Twitter, which includes Twitter's mobile applications, Twitter.com, TweetDeck and Twitter's developer platform. Prior to joining Twitter in 2012, Michael was VP of Artist Development at SAY Media, where he was responsible for identifying influential content creators and launching new media properties. Earlier, he was VP Product at blogging platform provider Six Apart.

Michael earned his BA in English Literature from Colgate University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He is @sippey on Twitter.

Nora Silver is a professor at Haas and the director of the Center for Nonprofit and Public Leadership, which she has led to a #3 ranking in US News & World Report 2012. Before coming to Haas, Nora founded and ran three nonprofit organizations and served on numerous boards of directors. An organizational consultant on strategy and planning, she has worked with more than 200 organizations worldwide, including nonprofits, businesses, governments, foundations and universities. Silver holds a Ph.D. in organizational and clinical psychology, and is the author of Telling the Whole Story (2011) as well as numerous papers and articles. At Haas, she co-teaches Social Sector Solutions, a nonprofit consulting projects class, and Cal Strategic Philanthropy, a class in which students have $10,000 to contribute to create the greatest social impact.

Tomek Ulatowski, co-chairman and major shareholder of Multimedia Polska since 1999. The company is the second largest cable provider in Poland with some one million customers offering television, voice, and internet services; previously, founded Amsterdam Pacific Corporation in san Francisco providing investment banking and mezzanine debt; until 1986, senior vice-president investment banking at Crocker National Bank in San Francisco, and before that, as vice-president of Bank of America in charge of project financing.

Mr. Ulatowski joined Bank of America in 1973 after graduating with MBA from the University of California Berkeley.

Erika Walker is the Executive Director of the Undergraduate Program at the Haas School of Business. She also teaches UGBA 156AC, Diversity in the Workplace, which provides an academic forum for students to interrogate issues of human capital equity and inclusion through a diversity lens.

With over 12 years of business experience in the private and not-for-profit industries, her interest has been in student services, professional development and leadership training. As a Manager at INROADS/Northern California, she interacted regularly with undergraduate students and Fortune 500 employers in the professional services and other industries. She worked as Program Administrator for the Summer Youth Development Program at the McKesson Corporation and as a Project Coordinator in Community and Government Relations at the Regional Offices of Kaiser Permanente.

An alumna of UC Berkeley, she was involved in a number of activities including the Black Recruitment & Retention Center, Stiles Hall, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Onyx Express, DeCal courses and the Incentive Awards Program. Erika earned her BS in American Studies, with emphasis in Health & Education for Minority Youth and a MA in Educational Leadership. She is currently a doctoral student in Educational Leadership at Mills College.