Diversity and Inclusion
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About This Track
What will it take to start a workplace revolution that moves us from talk to action? Come join us at the Diversity & Inclusion track @ TiEcon 2021 and prepare to learn and engage, be inspired, and walk away with a playbook of implementable strategies to create truly inclusive workplace cultures.
Track Agenda
- 05/07/2021 | 9:00 am – 9:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall DSpeakers
Gavriella is the Corporate Vice President of the Microsoft Commercial Partner team leading a global portfolio of channel partners that has influenced over $1 trillion in ecosystem revenues through Microsoft's fastest growing ecosystem. She has over 30 years of leadership in digital and cloud transformation roles, driving strategy and execution spanning all aspects of business model and product development, launch, marketing, sales and partner development. As a builder and change agent, she specializes in building new businesses. Last fall she was awarded the ATHENA global leadership award for her advocacy on behalf of women in IT. She is also a founding sponsor of both the Women in Cloud and Women in Technology Network. She sits on the board of directors for Chinasoft International and the University of Washington Bothell. She most recently gave a TEDx talk on gender equity.
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- 05/07/2021 | 9:15 am – 10:00 am PDT
- 45 mins Hall DSpeakers Archana (Archie) Deskus is senior vice president and chief information officer (CIO) at Intel Corporation. As Intel’s CIO, her organization capitalizes on information technology to accelerate the company’s significant growth goals across a diverse portfolio of businesses. More than 5,000 IT professionals are protecting Intel’s assets, driving competitive advantage, and providing IT solutions under Deskus’s leadership.
Jyothi is Vice President and CIO at Maxim Integrated. In her role as CIO, Jyothi leads a global organization directing strategic IT initiatives to enable business growth and provide a competitive advantage via technology solutions.
She is a seasoned IT leader with over two decades of experience in the transportation, telecom and semiconductor industries. She is an industry solution expert at semiconductor supply chain management and manufacturing solutions.
She earned a Master of Science in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Operations Research from North Carolina State University.
She is a passionate sponsor of women in technology and an advocate for diversity and inclusion in STEM.
Thought leader focused on Enterprise Marketing solutions and architectures from Demand Generation to Lead Scoring to CRM to Bookings. Inspires an inclusive culture focused on talent development and empowerment for innovation. I build outstanding workplaces and performance driven IT organizations. As an expert in digital marketing solutions, customer centric design, agile methodology, collaboration platforms, university programs, community relations platforms, and diversity programs. Leveraging 23 years of leadership across IT, sales, operations, HR and talent strategy, I utilize my broad experience to drive consensus, operational excellence and clarity while leading rapid execution of technical and talent development programs. I have been recognized by both the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal for my innovative approach to millennial assimilation and leading transformational customer experiences. The Cisco Marketing Tech Stack I have led has been recognized by the Markie awards multiple years. I am a motivational leader with the ability to inspire and engage global teams to work smarter and evolve within the workplace or find their passion and provide them the tools to succeed on their own. Senior VP and Chief People, Inclusion and Sustainability OfficerMGM Resorts International Jyoti Chopra is Senior Vice President and Chief People, Inclusion and Sustainability Officer for MGM Resorts International, based in Las Vegas. She is responsible for leading Human Resources and Social Impact and Sustainability. She oversees environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting and is responsible for directing enterprise-wide human and social capital initiatives and serves as liaison to the Board of Directors’ corporate social responsibility committee. She oversees the MGM Resorts Foundation and community relations.
Ms. Chopra is an award winning talent, diversity, inclusion and sustainability leader. Prior to her role at MGM Resorts, she was Senior Vice President of Global Diversity & Inclusion and HR Operations and Transformation at Pearson Plc., an education technology and UK FTSE 100 company, where she was a member of the senior and human resources leadership teams.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Chopra served as Chief Diversity Officer and Managing Director of Global Citizenship and Sustainability for BNY Mellon as well as the global leader for communications and public relations at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and as a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch & Co.
Ms. Chopra began her career covering human development and issues affecting women and children at the United Nations. She was born and raised in London, England. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in Journalism from New York University. She completed the Securities Industry Institute at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MBA with distinction from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Ms. Chopra is presently a member of the Diversity Advisory Board for Toyota Motor North America and serves as a Diversity and Inclusion Advisor to the Spencer Stuart Global Leadership Team. She is a member of the Board of Directors at Schneider National and serves on the company’s Compensation Committee.
Leslie Miley is a Silicon Valley native who has held engineering leadership roles at Slack, Twitter, Apple, and executive roles at Google and The Obama Foundation. He has been featured in USA Today, TechCrunch Disrupt, and Wired's Next List. He advises several startups founded by women and minorities and is an investor in a fund dedicated to diverse entrepreneurs. You can reach him @shaft on Twitter.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:00 am – 10:15 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall DSpeakers Sandy Carter is Vice President, Public Sector Partners and Programs at AWS. In this role, she is responsible for driving next-generation partnering. Her responsibilities include evolving partner models to intensify partner innovation, AWS cloud adoption and creation of mission critical cloud solutions with partners across public sector. She is focused on growing the partner ecosystem as a major driver for public sector and contributing significantly to the success of public sector customers. She previously built an enterprise workload team as the Vice President of Enterprise Workloads at AWS focused on migration and modernization through containers and serverless.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:15 am – 10:30 am PDT
- 15 mins Hall DSpeakers Tina Shah Paikeday leads the firm’s global Diversity & Inclusion advisory services as a senior member of the Leadership & Succession team. Her recent work has included the recruitment of Chief Diversity Officers, the development of inclusive leaders and inclusive culture transformation. She has advised global diversity and inclusion councils and executive leadership teams on the development of operating models for the formation and governance of D&I functions, data informed approaches to developing impactful D&I strategies and recommended action steps and programs to achieve D&I goals. Based in San Francisco, she advises public, private and nonprofit clients around the world.
Anna Mok is the President & Co-Founder of Ascend, North America’s membership network of Pan-Asian business professionals and the co-founder of Ascend Pinnacle, North America’s network of Pan-Asian corporate directors. Known as a community builder and connector, Anna has a deep passion for creating economic and educational access and for diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace and society. She inspires her team and organizations to make positive sustained societal impacts and is focused on building leaders to do so. She has demonstrated commitments to the development and advancement of emerging leaders, women and minorities into senior executive and corporate board director roles.
Her impact extends beyond the AAPI community with other boards she currently serves on including the 117-year-old Commonwealth Club of California, the nation’s largest and oldest public affairs forum where Anna was the first Chinese female chairman of and at the United Way Bay Area, where she recently served as their first chairperson of Asian descent. Anna is also currently the Nominating & Governance Chair of the Committee of 100 and a Senior Fellow with the American Leadership Forum.
During her distinguished career at Deloitte, she has served in various leadership roles including ones focused on clients and market growth. Anna is a broad-based leader focused on serving prestigious companies headquartered across the globe in the high technology, healthcare, life sciences, fintech and consumer-oriented industries. She is currently the Asia Pacific Leader for the Advisory Practice and a Global Lead Client Services Partner at Deloitte. Anna was the first Chinese American woman admitted to partnership at Deloitte, selected as a member of Deloitte’s Board Council and the CEO Advisory Partner Council.
An immensely curious and creative individual, Anna spends her spare time building public art, pursuing her love of cooking, renovating her Victorian home and exploring nature with her family and friends.
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- 05/07/2021 | 10:30 am – 11:00 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall DSpeakers
Deepa Prasad is Managing Director at WestRiver Group (WRG) where she leverages her 20 years of investing and operations experience to guide healthcare investments in biotech and digital health / AI.
Deepa’s investments include Design Therapeutics, a gene-targeted platform company and Ginger, 24/7 digital health access for behavioral care and Viome, a gut biome company focused on precision medicine where she serves on the Board.
Her prior experience includes Chief of Staff at Blue Shield, Regional Vice President for Optum, Head of Managed Care at California Hospital Association, VP Financial Strategy and Business Development at Coherus Biosciences and healthcare investment banking and consulting for her first 10 years.
Deepa currently serves on the Committee for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Davis awarding grant funding to scientific research and as a Charter Member for TiE, a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and VCs where she mentors startup companies.
Alicia is a strategic and innovative leader who has driven the growth of leading consumer brands.
Prior to founding Prelude Growth Partners, Alicia was Global President of Beauty at Johnson & Johnson, leading a multi-billion dollar portfolio of 10+ iconic global brands. Prior to that, she was an executive at Estee Lauder for 11 years, including leadership roles at Bobbi Brown and Clinique. Alicia began her career at McKinsey & Company where she spent 5 years serving consumer clients. Alicia is a summa cum laude graduate of The Wharton School and she earned her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Garheng founded HealthQuest Capital in 2012 to improve people’s lives through improving healthcare on a significant scale. His vision was to build a best-in-class team of the highest talent and integrity to work with outstanding entrepreneurs to transform healthcare through high growth companies while generating outsized risk adjusted returns for investors.
A physician, scientist, and engineer by training, Garheng has over two decades of experience investing in innovative healthcare companies with a long list of successes (25 IPO/M&A exits). He has represented HealthQuest on the boards of Ajax I, Ajax II, Ajax III, Alcresta, Avedro, Avizia, BardyDx, Castle Biosciences, CleanSlate, Etairos, ENT Specialty Partners, Everlywell, HealthChannels, Magnolia Medical, Perspectum, Pulmonx, Spirox, TigerConnect, Trice Medical, Venus Concept, and CareMetx/VirMedica.
Some of his notable past successes include IPO’s with Avedro (AVDR), Castle Biosciences (CSTL), Cempra (CEMP), Alimera (ALIM), Applied Genetic Technology Corp. (AGTC), AmWell (AMWL), Proteon (PRTO), Pulmonx (LUNG), Histogenics (HSGX), TransEnterix (TRXC) and Venus Concept (VERO). His investments going on to successful M&A transactions include: Ajax I (Medtronic), Avedro (Glaukos), Avizia (AmWell), Calibra Medical (J&J), Cellective (AstraZeneca), Serenex (Pfizer), Athenix (Bayer), NovaMin (GSK), Aldagen (Cytomedix), Salveo Specialty Pharmacy (United Health), SARCode (Shire), Spirox (Stryker), and Virmedica (CareMetx).
Garheng’s interests and industry footprint are broad as he also serves on boards of LabCorp (LH), Alimera Sciences (ALIM), StrongBridge (SBBP), Be The Match, Duke University Medical Center, and has served as Chairman on nine boards. He is an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow, Kauffman Fellows Mentor, and member of YPO.
Garheng received undergraduate degrees in both Chemical Engineering and Biological Sciences from Stanford, while on an athletic scholarship. He then earned a MD, PhD and MBA from Duke University, graduating at the top of his class in each instance. His early career included stints at GlaxoSmithKline, McKinsey and a medical device start-up, TherOx, before joining Intersouth Partners and then Sofinnova Investments. He is married to his physician wife (a board certified cardiac electrophysiologist), has 3 children, and was a nationally ranked volleyball player (and avid “foodie”).
David ibnAle is a Founding and Managing Partner of Advance Venture Partners. He has over twenty years of experience as an investor in small and mid-sized growth companies in the technology, media and communications sectors. Prior to co-founding AVP, Mr. ibnAle was a Managing Director of TPG Growth, the growth equity and middle-market investment platform of TPG, where he led the firm’s global technology investing effort. Prior to joining TPG Growth, he was a Partner at Francisco Partners, and he began his investing career at Summit Partners. Mr. ibnAle is a member of the Board of Directors of publicly held UCT Holdings (Nasdaq: UCTT).
Mr. ibnAle received an AB in Public Policy and an AM in International Development Policy from Stanford University and received an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
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- 05/07/2021 | 11:00 am – 11:30 am PDT
- 30 mins Hall DSpeakers Proven marketing and sales executive with track record of achievement in the Information Technology industry. Blend of strategic thinking balanced with extensive executive and line management experience in both the U.S. and globally. Specialties: Marketing strategy & planning, marketing/brand management, e-relationship marketing/.com, channel enablement, program management, Customer Loyalty, business process reengineering, organizational development, transformational leadership, market development, cultural intelligence, sales and with all size clients in multiple industries. Rashmi Kumar, SVP/CIO with HPE is a seasoned technology leader with experience in IT Leadership, healthcare, consulting services, electric utilities, financial services, technology, Media & Entertainment and steel industries. Her primary areas of focus include Digital Transformation, AI/ML, Data & Analytics, strategic planning, and large-scale business transformations. She has served as CIO and CTO for many Fortune 50 companies like, McKesson, Southern California Edison, Toyota, HPE, and Tata Steel. Rashmi Kumar is also in Board of Director for Myriad Genetics, and member of Audit Committee, and Nomination and Governance committee. Rashmi Kumar earned a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Bihar Institute of Technology in Sindri, India, and an MBA from UC, Irvine. She is very passionate about the topic of equality, and an active mentor for young resources across the industry. I first came across this quote in one of the first corporate emails I’d received as an intern: “Vision without execution is hallucination.” - Albert Einstein That was >20 years ago. It resonated with me then and it resonates with me now. Business is my first love, but I’m a closet techie! Throughout my career, I’ve worn many hats (and shoes), from web and app developer, to database designer, to marketer, to product leader, to general manager. While on that journey, I’ve had both successes and valuable failures, but two core values continue to define me—don’t forget where you came from and excuses are for wusses. Who am I? I am an achiever, a learner, and a fighter. My purpose and mission is to help others reach excellence and to make every day worth winning. For those who are looking to rise above or beat the odds, I am your fighter and trainer who can energize, motivate, and give teams the courage and techniques to win. Words I live by: "Live as if you will die tomorrow. Learn as if you will live forever."--Mahatma Gandhi I was born and raised on the banks of the Mekong Delta and escaped Vietnam as a young child after the war. I’ve also beat some medical odds that professionals didn’t think was possible. I’m here today amidst the brightest minds in the world, helping to change lives through technology, with two healthy and thriving daughters who believe they are unstoppable. What’s my take-away? Creating magic and defying the odds only happens when a great vision is equally met with action that gets executed with real heart and soul. Corporate stuff here: I'm a marketing athlete and product leader with 20+ years of experience in product management, product marketing, and general management in tech domains spanning enterprise networking, cybersecurity, data & analytics, app integration platforms, video, NW infrastructure, and collaboration. I'm a GTM strategist in the Enterprise & Mid-Market, with successes in new/adjacent market entry and global market expansion. I challenge status quo, get the right things done, and can assemble and grow winning teams. I believe deeply in the power of connecting activists around the world, linking resources, brainpower and technology to create sustainable, socially just and productive communities. Together we can change the world. Over the past 20 years, I have worked across the public and private sectors, focused on international education, social entrepreneurship, leadership development, women's empowerment and technology. I have had the honor of working with innovative organizations and individuals in Africa, India, Latin America and the Middle East. I excel at conceptualizing programs and building effective, diverse partnerships to launch and support those programs. I've built strong global partnerships with multinational organizations (World Bank, UNDP, USAID), US State Department, and a range of companies, particularly tech companies in Silicon Valley and their global offices. I excel at grant writing and fundraising, and greatly enjoy creating, inspiring and leading teams and establishing alliances with diverse partners working to advance social justice. A momentum-building leader focused on transformational programs in the software and high-tech industries. Bryan encourages and enable others to tackle tough challenges thought to be impossible, while providing a platform for emerging leaders to rise up and shine. Fostering innovation and disruption, Bryan leverages technology to accelerate achievement of business and social outcomes. Every day Bryan seeks to incubate and work with like-minded champions to increase equality for all at VMware and beyond.
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