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Ms. Van T. Dang is Vice President, Law & Deputy General Counsel at Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, California. She’s the head of the Product and Technology Transactional Group within the Legal Department. Ms. Dang is also responsible for privacy and data protection compliance at Cisco. Read More

Member of the Board of Directors of the California Teachers Association. Previously served on the National Education Association. Read More

Joseph M. Head is the president of SummerHill Land, Mr. Head oversees all the land acquisitions for SummerHill Homes. In this capacity, he is responsible for seeking out and acquiring all land opportunities, as well as the planning, processing, and feasibility analysis for new communities. Read More

Mr. Humphries was appointed executive vice president of World Wide Human Resources and Management Systems in 2006. He joined Flextronics with the acquisition of Chatham Technologies Inc. in 2000, where he served as senior vice president for Global Operations. Read More

Michael W. Kirst is Professor Emeritus of Education and Business Administration at Stanford University since 1969. Dr. Kirst received his Ph.D. in political economy and government from Harvard. Before joining the Stanford University faculty, Dr. Kirst held several positions with the federal government Read More

Kay, an audit partner with more than 29 years of public accounting experience, is a Vice Chair and member of the Ernst & Young Americas and U.S. Executive Boards. Kay is also the Managing Partner for the West Sub-Area which includes our California, Washington, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii markets. For three years she served as the Americas Chief Operating Officer for Assurance and Advisory Business Services across North and South America, the Caribbean, and Israel. Read More

David Neale is President of the Core Companies and believes that people need more than just a place to live. They need a place to grow. He has been “building better communities” in the San Francisco South Bay Area for over 20 years. The Core Companies has developed and constructed over 2000 homes and apartments in communities throughout the San Francisco South Bay Area. Read More

Marshall (Mike) S. Smith is currently a visiting scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Prior to that Mike had been the Under Secretary of the Department of Education since 1993. As Under Secretary, Smith has been a key player in helping define the Administration's education agenda, which focuses on the need to raise educational achievement for all students and increase their opportunities to pursue postsecondary education and lifelong learning. Read More

Faysal Sohail is a venture capitalist at CMEA Capital in San Francisco, CA. He joined the firm in 2002 as a General Partner, bringing with him more than a decade of senior executive experience in engineering, marketing, business development and building start ups. Since 2002, he has led venture capital funding to several key start ups in both the energy and technology sectors. He currently serves on the board of directors of AirTight Networks, Applied Wave Research, Danotek Motion Technologies, Evolution Robotics, Multigig and Solaria Corporation. Previously, Faysal served on A123 Systems board as an observer. Read More

Cora Tomalinas is a community activist whose contributions and donations of her energy and talents resulted in an impressive list of boards, Commissions, Task Forces and advocating community issues. Having been born in Agoo, La Union, Philippines, her commitment in helping the lives of individuals started upon receiving a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from San Francisco State University in 1967. Read More

Charles Weis, Ph.D is the superintendent of schools for Santa Clara County. He was born in Santa Monica and raised in Granada Hills in the city of Los Angeles. He earned a bachelor's degree at UCLA, master's degree at California State University, Northridge, and his doctorate at University of California at Santa Barbara. Read More