Community

As company and community leaders, I believe we have an obligation to ‘reach back’ and help the younger generation, new community members and budding entrepreneurs.  The best way to do that is by sharing best practices, lessons learned, connecting entrepreneurs with venture investors, and advising companies.  If each of us ‘gives back’ and positively impacts just one company or one young person a year, we’ll keep our industry innovative and our community vibrant.

SDForum (www.sdforum.org) is the leading Silicon Valley not-for-profit organization providing an unbiased source of information and insight to the technology community for over 20 years. SDForum provides a venue for engineers, executives, researchers, technology leaders, and venture capitalists to exchange information on emerging technologies and best practices.

  • Chair of the 4th Annual State of Clean Energy Conference: Water Power
  • Chair of the 3rd Annual State of  Clean Energy Conference: Global Opportunities and Challenges.
  • Chair of the Clean ‘n Green Evening Series Committee – a quarterly evening panel discussion that discusses emerging trends, issues and opportunities impacting the clean and green technology industry.

    Cloudbook (www.cloudbook.net).  Cloudbook is built to educate you about cloud computing. At Cloudbook’s core is the new book Cloud: Seven Clear Business Models, based on a series of lectures at Stanford University. But Cloudbook is more, it’s also a community of contributors some of whom you will have met in the book. No anonymous whitepapers here. All of these contributions form additional resources to further educate you on the various aspects of cloud computing.

    Golden Gate University (www.ggu.edu) was founded in 1901 in San Francisco to meet the needs of working adults by offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management, information technology, taxation, and law. Courses are designed to engage students in real-world business situations and to prepare them to compete in a volatile marketplace.

    • Adjunct professor in the College of Business and Management
    • Recipient of the 2005 Ageno School of Business, Stanley Price Adjunct Professor Award