Dan Klein teaches improvisation at Stanford University where he is on the faculty of the drama department, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches at the d.school. In 2009, Dan was named Stanford Teacher of the Year by the Student’s Association.At Stanford GSB he co-teaches (with Professor Deb Gruenfeld), “Acting With Power” which explores the use of status behaviors to increase organizational effectiveness. Dan and Deb also do a version of the class for executive education programs.Dan’s other clients include: Cisco, Oracle, Nestle, Visa, ING, Barclay’s Global Investments, Randstad, Nobel Biocare, and many more.

Dr. Geetha Murali is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Room to Read, a leading international education organization that believes World Change Starts with Educated Children.® Room to Read transforms the lives of millions of children through education, creating a world free from illiteracy and gender inequality. As CEO, Geetha has been a driving force behind the exponential scale of Room to Read’s quality programs – achieving presence in 24 countries and benefiting more than 45 million children to date.

Priya Abani brings more than 20 years of experience in building high-performing organizations, launching innovative products on a global scale, and leading cross-industry strategic alliances. As AliveCor CEO, Priya is leading the drive to patient-centric remote cardiological care. Under Priya’s leadership, the company has built the largest AI-driven consumer subscription service in the world for cardiovascular care. AliveCor has put its technology in the hands of more than 3.7 million people in over 40 countries around the world. Prior to joining AliveCor, Priya served as the General Manager at Alexa Voice Service (AVS) at Amazon, where she was responsible for leading product, engineering, technical enablement, and developer experience teams and led the expansion of Alexa technology into partner products

Ray is an accomplished CEO and entrepreneur with a strong track record of building and transforming organizations strategically, operationally, and financially to deliver exceptional growth, impact, and value creation. In the last 20 years, Ray successfully led and transformed 6 companies across 2 industries - real estate and biotech - 3 of which were acquired by industry leading players Goldman Sachs (Fortune 100), a top 10 global pharmaceutical company (confidential), and Fidelity National Financial (Fortune 500). Ray is currently CEO of Anchor Loans, one of the nation’s pre-eminent residential real estate renovation and construction lenders. In addition, she serves as an independent Board Director for a leading national solar finance company Mosaic. Ray serves the national LGBT community through her role as Board Chairperson for Desi Rainbow Parents & Allies, the national non-profit serving families of LGBTQ South Asians in America. Ray started her career at McKinsey & Company where she was co-leader of the West Coast Healthcare practice. Ray has an A.B. Honors from Princeton University and a M.B.A. with Distinction from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. She lives with her wife and four children in Los Angeles, CA.

Madiha Chan is the co-founder of Just B and Engineering Director at Apple (AIML). She graduated from UC San Diego and Stanford University with degrees in Computer Science. Before Apple, Madiha spent 11 years at Google focusing on Google Ads and Google Maps platforms to help enterprises and developers build sustainable businesses for users around the world. As a self-starter and avid problem solver, Madiha has never let her hurdles get in the way of her success. It’s no surprise that this creative thinking expands beyond her engineering background. As a self-proclaimed makeup enthusiast, Madiha has always enjoyed playing with color — but she could never find the shades that worked just right with her South Asian skin tone. Well, until she created Just B!

Dan Klein teaches improvisation at Stanford University where he is on the faculty of the drama department, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and teaches at the d.school. In 2009, Dan was named Stanford Teacher of the Year by the Student’s Association.At Stanford GSB he co-teaches (with Professor Deb Gruenfeld), “Acting With Power” which explores the use of status behaviors to increase organizational effectiveness. Dan and Deb also do a version of the class for executive education programs.Dan’s other clients include: Cisco, Oracle, Nestle, Visa, ING, Barclay’s Global Investments, Randstad, Nobel Biocare, and many more.

Namrata is a bioengineer / computer scientist and founder of Diffuse Bio, a San Francisco Bay Area company building generative AI for protein therapeutics. For the past several years, she has been working on re-envisioning the computational protein design toolkit with AI. She received her Masters in Computer Science and PhD in Bioengineering from Stanford University.

Surbhi Sarna is a Group Partner at YC. She was the founder and former CEO of nVision Medical, which developed a first-in-kind microcatheter for the detection of ovarian cancer. After raising $17M in venture funding, completing three clinical trials, and obtaining two first-in-class FDA approvals, nVision was acquired by Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) for $275M, more than 15X money-in. Surbhi stayed at Boston Scientific for two years, running the 150+ person commercial organization in preparation for launch. She sits on both private and public company boards.

Aparna brings to Zoom an expertise in building operations and infrastructure for rapidly growing technology companies. She serves as our Chief Operating Officer. Prior to this, she was our Chief Legal Officer. Most recently before Zoom, she was SVP, General Counsel for Magento Commerce, which was acquired by Adobe in 2018. Prior to Magento, Aparna was the VP, General Counsel for Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL); she was instrumental in Nimble’s initial public offering in 2013. Later, she led Nimble’s sale to Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017. Previously, Aparna led the legal and corporate development functions for Inphi Corp (NYSE: IPHI). Bawa began her career as a corporate and securities attorney for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She was also an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank, where she executed multiple IPO and M&A transactions for technology clients.

Kamini Ramani has worked in Silicon Valley as a messaging and marketing leader for close to four decades. She is a storyteller who amplifies the vision of founders, the Mayfield investing team, and women leaders. She is currently working on a passion project of a book on Lotus leadership, unpacking the framework pioneered by South Asian women who have blossomed in tech and beyond. She is a once and always Bombayite who emigrated to the US forty years ago and has lived in San Francisco for over 30 years. She is a lifelong vegetarian, forest bather, and mother to two adult daughters.

Karen Wickre has been called “the best-connected Silicon Valley figure you’ve never heard of”. She has worked for 30 years in technology businesses as a writer, editor, and communications pro, with long stints at Google and Twitter. She's currently a consulting content strategist and editor to tech businesses of all sizes. Her avocation as a connector led her to write the book “Taking the Work Out Of Networking”. The opposite of someone who “works the room,” Karen is likely to be at home, connecting with friends and strangers 1:1 from the comfort of her laptop.

Mala Nayak, MD is a psychiatrist. She attended medical school in Mumbai, India and did her residency in psychiatry at Stanford. She has been working for the last 27 years at Momentum for Health, the largest non-profit provider of mental health services in Santa Clara county. There she provides care to individuals with severe mental illness. She is also the founder of REVA - a non-profit “mental health navigator” to educate individuals on mental health issues and get them connected to viable, culturally informed care. REVA aims to match the individual's needs with the provider's background and strengths, increasing the likelihood of success in treatment.In addition to her work in mental health, she has served for 4 years on the board of the Gunn Foundation, an organization that provides need based scholarships to graduating high school seniors. She is currently on the board of The Christmas Bureau, a Palo Alto based organization that provides monetary gifts to individuals and families in need during the holiday season.

Paramita Bhattacharya is a global marketing executive with strategic and operating experience in growing SaaS, Digital and E-commerce businesses. With over 20 years of experience working at some of the world’s most respected technology leaders, including Adobe, Nokia and Hitachi, Paramita has deep expertise in go-to-market along with brand development and P&L management. She brings a unique perspective, having operated within large-scale Fortune 500 companies, as well as in startups – across multiple industries in Media, Software, Cloud & IoT – serving a wide array of consumer, small business, and enterprise customers worldwide. Paramita is currently the Global Head of Marketing at Velocity Global, a leading technology company for Global Employee Management and Employer of Record Solutions. Paramita is an industry thought leader, speaker, former Forbes contributor, and a current member of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) Advisory Council. She is a founding LP at How Women Invest, an early-stage venture firm, focused on female entrepreneurs as well as the founding member of FirstBoard.io, dedicated to increasing women representation on corporate boards. Paramita is also a member of Neythri Founding Circle, whose mission is to foster, engage and advance a global community of South Asian professional women.Paramita was recognized as Top 50 Women leader in SaaS and Asian Americans Hall of Fame Top 100 in 2020. She has also been named to Global Top 50 Thought Leaders and Influencers in various categories including Customer Loyalty, Ecosystems, and Customer Relationship (CRM) from 2020-2024

Chitra serves on the board of Infosys (INFY) in global digital services, where she is Chair of the ESG Committee. Chitra also serves on the boards of SaaS private companies VIMO/GetInsured.com and UrbanFootprint, and formerly at Intercom. She has formerly served on the boards of ForwardAir (FWRD) in freight, Invitae (NVTA) in medical genetics, and LifeWorks (LWRK) in tech-enabled healthcare services. She advises technology startups in SaaS across industries. She is a Senior Advisor at BCG.Chitra has deep global Go-To-Market expertise across sales, marketing, and customer success in leadership roles at high-growth companies such as Salesforce.Chitra is a cofounder of the Salesforce Women’s Network and cofounder of Neythri.org. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School where she graduated with Distinction, an MS in Environmental Engineering from Cornell, and a BTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras.

Shalini is a seasoned C-level tech executive, board member [LON:YOU] and industry thought leader on how to drive business growth via disruptive technologies, including AI, social media and software platforms. Shalini is currently the General Manager for Android TV at Google. She was previously the Sr. Director at YouTube (Google) where she headed technology solutions globally for all YouTube creators. Prior to that, she was founder and lead Product Manager on Google TV and on AdWords. Prior to joining Google, Shalinii was the Technical Director at Pixar Animation, where she led technical efforts for block-buster films ‘A Bug’s Life’ and ‘Toy Story’, the first fully-animated movie. Shalini has authored two internationally published books in Computer Graphics – Principles of Computer Graphics and Learning Computer Graphics, published in 2005 and 1998 respectively. Both the books have been accepted at college-level classes. She has a patent in TV search to her credit. She has been awarded with the Google OC Award for innovation in product on Google TV by the Google Founders for top-ranking innovative projects.Shalini obtained her BTech degree from IIT Bombay and MS from Penn State in Computer Science.

Roli Saxena is currently CEO at NextRoll, a Marketing Technology company with revenue north of $200m and 800 employees. She has expertise in Go-To-Market and general management for companies publicly traded and late-stage venture-backed companies like LinkedIn, Brex, and Clever. Roli is leading NextRoll through a transformation from advertising technology to SaaS company and driving to profitability. She is experienced in general management, operational effectiveness and strategy with industry-leading firms and startups. She has demonstrated leadership in change management to achieve dominant market share.Roli serves on the Board of Culture Amp, one of the fastest-growing HR tech companies, whose mission is to allow businesses to put culture first with data, insights and technology. She advises Culture Amp leadership on Go-To-Market strategies to accelerate growth.

Shernaz is an Operating Partner and CMO at Khosla Ventures, with a track record of building brands and scaling operational teams across a range of businesses from frontier technology and life sciences to consumer and enterprise companies.Previously, Shernaz served as executive advisor to GV (Google Ventures), and was instrumental in building the fund. More recently she advised one of the fastest-growing life sciences companies, 10x Genomics, through its 2019 IPO — one of the top five performing IPOs that year.Shernaz has worked with a wide range of global companies including Netflix, Walmart, Motorola, Baidu, Khan Academy, Zynga, Electronic Arts, Groupon, Kosmix, Savvis (CenturyLink), Polyvore (Yahoo), Voyage (Cruise), Kitty Hawk and Guardant Health, among others. She introduced Chinese company Baidu to the U.S. market prior to its public offering, helped Netflix win the war against Blockbuster, and built a technology brand position for Walmart through the creation of its @WalmartLabs division.She was also CMO of Udacity, where she grew its user base, revenues, partnerships and brand through numerous channels. Shernaz gives talks in the US and internationally on topics such as entrepreneurship, company-building and developing long-lasting brands. She has been featured in business books, addressed members of the U.S. Congress on the future of work, and spoken at the Milken Institute, Fortune Brainstorm Tech and Startup Grind, among others.She completed her undergraduate degree in communications at Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa) and her M.A. in Interactive Technologies at Harvard University.

Anshu is a seasoned executive with experience in building businesses at the intersection of technology and Commerce. She leads operations for Walmart Global Tech as well as monetization of technology platforms while creating a partner ecosystem that enables productivity, speed and innovation at scale. In addition, her team defines and executes strategies for enterprise technology, M&A, and emerging technology to further strengthen Walmart’s competitive advantages. Anshu served as Vice President, Product at Sam's Club for eCommerce, Membership, Marketing and Innovation. Anshu serves on Walmart’s President’s Inclusion Council and is a Vice Co-Chair of Walmart’s Women's Officer Caucus. She was conferred the prestigious ‘Sam's Club Blue Coat’ award in 2019 in recognition of her leadership and contributions towards driving eCommerce sales and membership income for Sam's Club. Anshu was conferred the ‘2014 Industry Leader Award’ by the Professional businesswomen of California in recognition of her efforts as co-founder of the Women's Resource Council at Walmart eCommerce and driving membership through impactful programs.

Suchi Srinivasan is an AI and digital expert and Managing Director and Partner at BCG Platinion. A seasoned tech executive with a proven track record of revenue and growth, Suchi is a specialist in assembly and scale of modern partnership engines across cloud computing, data and analytics market segments. She comes with 20+ years of experience in Microsoft, McKinsey, Dell Technologies and Fortune 100 clients managing and coaching large teams from diverse cultural contexts.Suchi holds a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IIT Madras, a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, and an MBA from NYU, Stern School of Business

As a physician, scientist, entrepreneur, board leader, company advisor, and investor with over 20 years of experience in healthcare, Mrunalini Parvataneni, MD, has provided vision and leadership to medical startup and private company CEOs on business launches, organizational growth, fundraising, and marketing strategies. She is a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Chief Medical Officer of Optina Diagnostics, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. Mrunalini also serves on the Board Committee for Quality and Safety at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Her previous roles include Board Member, Executive Committee, Surgeon and Owner of Northwest Eye, and Physician Partner of the Clinical Governance Board for Unifeye Vision Partners.

Mrunalini serves on the Leadership Committee of the nonprofit How Women Lead and is Chair of the Board of Trustees at The College Preparatory School in Oakland. She earned her degree in Pediatric Ophthalmology from the University of Minnesota.

Alka is a public company board director, former Fortune 500 executive, tech entrepreneur, fortune 500 executive, and venture investor with deep experience in digital transformation, fintech, marketplaces, regtech, and identity. She has been at the beginning of some of the most significant disruptions and platforms including blockchain, payments, cybersecurity, ecommerce, mobile, digital advertising, and search at both early stage and public companies globally. Alka has operated and built revenue in B2B and B2C market across more than ten countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America building an understanding of internationalization and localization success strategies and tactics.She was most recently with Fin Capital, a $1.2B fintech B2B focused global fund, where she was responsible for bringing in high value LPs and building out the regtech, security, and web3 portfolio. Alka also serves on the Investment Committee at Chestnut Ventures and XYZ Fund. She earned an MBA from The Wharton School and B.S. (cum laude) from Case Western Reserve University. Alka serves on the board of directors for National Bank Holding Corporation (Nyse: NBHC, Risk & Audit, Comp, and Tech Committees,) Dwolla Payments (Foundry and Union Square Ventures,) and Digital Frontiers (Chairperson,) and previously MoneyGram (Nasdaq: MGI, Compliance and Ethics Committee, Acq: MDP.)

Anita Ganti is on the board of Power Integrations, Inc. and Exro Technologies, Inc. In the past she held the position of General Manager-Signal Path Division at Texas Instruments Incorporated, Senior Vice President-Product Engineering Services at Wipro Ltd. and Vice President-Global Technology at Flex Ltd. (United States).Ms. Ganti received an undergraduate degree from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, a graduate degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dipali is a seasoned global HR Executive and Coach having worked across industries and geographies at companies such as Zoom, Indeed, JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank and Vodafone in London, NYC and the Bay Area. Dipali leads global HR teams and partners with C-suite leaders to drive company growth and value by delivering people centric solutions through agile talent practices. She is a Co-Active Trained Coach, a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development in the UK and trained in various psychometric assessments including Hogan and FIRO-B. Dipali combines these experiences to have the greatest impact on her coaching clients by helping them navigate various life and career transitions.

Monica Kumar is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Extreme Networks, leading the company’s go-to-market strategy and global marketing organization focused on initiatives that elevate the company’s brand and unique value proposition to drive customer and revenue growth.With more than 20 years of experience in enterprise technology, Monica has an extensive history of accelerating growth through compelling product differentiation as well as championing business transformation, sustainability, and equity initiatives. She is a passionate advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion and supports those initiatives as an active board member for UPWARD Women and City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley, and as a founding member of Neythri Futures Fund.Prior to joining Extreme, Monica served as CMO at Hitachi Vantara, where she launched Hitachi’s new brand strategy and narrative, and led a product simplification strategy that brought the company’s portfolio of data storage products together into one easy-to-consume, scalable, and resilient platform. Previously, she served as SVP of Marketing and Cloud go-to-market at Nutanix and spent more than 20 years at Oracle in a variety of marketing roles, most notably as the CMO of the Oracle Data Management and Database Cloud business.Monica has a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology India and an MBA from San Jose State University.

Sheela Subramanian is a tech executive, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of “How the Future Works.” She is the co-founder of Future Forum, a research consortium studying the changing nature of leadership and work, and was most recently, a Vice President at Slack.Sheela holds over 20 years of experience building and leading global teams at Google, Slack, and Salesforce. As a champion for gender equity in the workplace, her perspective is cited in publications such as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company.Sheela earned her BA from Stanford University and MBA from Harvard Business School. A mother to two magical daughters, she is a vocal advocate for girls in STEM and sports.

Rupal Hollenbeck is President at Check Point Software Technologies, where she manages all commercial and go-to-market functions for the company. Prior to joining Check Point, Ms. Hollenbeck served as a senior executive in some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Oracle and Intel Corporation. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Blackbaud, a publicly traded technology company in the US and is on the board of The Asian Pacific Fund. As an advocate for inclusive organizations and the development of women, she is an industry advisor to the California State University’s Women in Leadership program. She is also a Founding Member of Neythri, an organization dedicated to the professional advancement of South Asian women, and a Founding Limited Partner in the Neythri Futures Fund

Purnima Padmanabhan is General Manager of Broadcom’s Tanzu Division. Prior to joining Broadcom, she was Senior Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s Modern Applications & Management Business and was responsible for application modernization, cloud native application development and multi-cloud management. She previously led the company’s Cloud Management Business.Ms. Padmanabhan has extensive experience building and launching innovative products in cloud infrastructure, security and enterprise mobility. Prior to joining VMware, she was CEO of Cavirin, a cloud security company, where she drove a turnaround. She was previously COO of MokaFive, a desktop virtualization company, and was responsible for global product operations.Ms. Padmanabhan holds an MBA from Stanford University and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California.

Suchi Srinivasan is an AI and digital expert and Managing Director and Partner at BCG Platinion. A seasoned tech executive with a proven track record of revenue and growth, Suchi is a specialist in assembly and scale of modern partnership engines across cloud computing, data and analytics market segments. She comes with 20+ years of experience in Microsoft, McKinsey, Dell Technologies and Fortune 100 clients managing and coaching large teams from diverse cultural contexts.Suchi holds a B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from IIT Madras, a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rutgers University, and an MBA from NYU, Stern School of Business

Sarita Kohli is the President & CEO of Asian Americans for Community Involvement (AACI). AACI is a nonprofit organization that advocates for and provides primary healthcare, behavioral health, dental and social services to marginalized and vulnerable communities in Santa Clara County. For over 25 years, Sarita has worked on expanding access to linguistically and culturally sensitive health, behavioral health and social services. As a licensed mental health professional herself, Sarita has firsthand knowledge of the impact of stress, loss, trauma, on physical and emotional health. Sarita is passionate about equity in healthcare resources, particularly for individuals marginalized by poverty, gender-based violence, mental illness, cultural and language barriers. Sarita holds an MBA and is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She is currently serving as Chair of the Board for Santa Clara Family Health Plan and has previously served for eight years on the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

As a physician, scientist, entrepreneur, board leader, company advisor, and investor with over 20 years of experience in healthcare, Mrunalini Parvataneni, MD, has provided vision and leadership to medical startup and private company CEOs on business launches, organizational growth, fundraising, and marketing strategies. She is a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Chief Medical Officer of Optina Diagnostics, and an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University. Mrunalini also serves on the Board Committee for Quality and Safety at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Her previous roles include Board Member, Executive Committee, Surgeon and Owner of Northwest Eye, and Physician Partner of the Clinical Governance Board for Unifeye Vision Partners.

Mrunalini serves on the Leadership Committee of the nonprofit How Women Lead and is Chair of the Board of Trustees at The College Preparatory School in Oakland. She earned her degree in Pediatric Ophthalmology from the University of Minnesota.

Radhika Krishnan is a General Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Previously she was Chief Product Officer & General Manager at Hitachi, where she was responsible for the vision and strategy for all products and solutions across data storage, as well as Hitachi's industry-leading Lumada Internet of Things and industrial software.Before joining Hitachi, Radhika was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Software at 3D Systems and has previously held leadership roles at HP, Cisco, NetApp, Lenovo, and Nimble Storage.Radhika is a passionate advocate for diversity in tech. She has a bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a master's in business administration degree from San Jose State University.