Darren Cooke is the executive director of the Berkeley Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center, a professional faculty member at the Haas School of Business, and chair of the Bio Track at the Berkeley SkyDeck startup accelerator. He teaches entrepreneurship at Haas and for the Innnovation Corps (I-Cor…
Mathieu Aguesse is a French entrepreneur, dedicated to innovation and education on impact-driven topics. He successfully launched the first open innovation class dedicated to solving plastic pollution, a program called Deplastify the Planet. At Haas, he is now running a class at called Equitable Des…
Chris Puscasiu has been a private and public equity investor for more than 25 years. He has been teaching at Haas since 2013. Puscasiu runs Presidio Investors, a lower middle-market private equity fund. Prior to joining Presidio Investors, he was co-head of Direct Private Equity, overseeing a direct…
Macroeconomic & market analyst with extensive experience advising financial institutions, corporations and investors on events and outlooks in advanced and emerging markets, particularly in Asia. Experience in research in macroeconomic and market strategy research for financial institutions and …
Joanne Cheung is a lecturer at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley. She has been a fellow at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the American Association of University Women. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in Wallpap…
Bulbul Gupta has 20 years experience in funding and advising entrepreneurs, advancing quality jobs, and growing the field of impact investing for equity and inclusion. For her, impact investing “ensures that we can prioritize social, environmental, and racial justice, and align our dollars with ou…
Laura Hassner is a professional faculty member at at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and is the Executive Director of UC Berkeley’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Berkeley Changemaker. Hassner co-created and co-leads the Berkeley Changemaker™ at UC Berkeley. The Berkeley Cha…
Olaf Groth has 25 years of experience as an executive and adviser building strategies, capabilities, programs and ventures across 35+ countries (including UAE) with multinationals (e.g. AirTouch, Boeing, Chevron, GE, Qualcomm, Q-Cells, Vodafone, Volkswagen, etc.), consultancies, startups, VCs, found…
Leslie E. Vaughan is a member of the professional faculty at Berkeley Haas. Her courses include Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting and Special Topics. She holds CPA and CMA licenses, a MAcc and BS from Auburn University, and has over 20 years teaching experience at the college level…