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Barbara Pivnicka Honorary Consul, Slovak Republic President + CEO San Francisco Global Trade Council https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602825616400-S76YMJD7GW5ORZNH2VAG/Martha+Ryan+Head+Shot.jpg Our Team Martha Ryan Board Vice-Chair at the Commonwealth Club of California https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602823441470-57W9JWYPJJXA3ESG0CER/Susan%2BSolinsky%2527s%2Bheadshot%2B%252720.jpg Our Team Susan Solinsky CGO + COO of Ellipsis HealthDirector at Women's Health Tech Initiative, HITLAB, Founding LP at How Women Invest, LP at DigitalDX https://www.beasleymccusker.com/areas-of-practice daily 0.75 2023-03-16 https://www.beasleymccusker.com/contact-us daily 0.75 2024-10-31 https://www.beasleymccusker.com/colucci daily 0.75 2020-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602975792087-IXJER0WGUJ1ZMJHXIR4D/Michele%2525252BColucci%2525252BHeadshot.jpg Michele Colucci - Michele Colucci Co-founder/ Managing Partner DigitalDX Ventures Michele is a venture capital thought leader, lawyer, investor, serial entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She has authored five patents in the technology space and founded companies in the legal, technology, retail, and entertainment spaces. Her extensive experience operating in highly regulated verticals has focused on issues from management to legal. As a venture capitalist focused on med tech, Michele is committed to impacting the health field by investing in companies that enable doctors to make better diagnostic decisions through the application of AI and big data. She is a member of the board of directors of public and private firms including Global Indemnity Group, Nephrosant, Optina Diagnostics, Prime Genomics, and Trayt. She has been a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. In 2017, Michele was named West Coast Ambassador by the Nobel Laureate Foundation. She earned her B.A. and J.D. from Georgetown University and an M.F.A from the AFI. Michele speaks three languages and currently resides in Silicon Valley with her four children. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/mendhro daily 0.75 2020-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602976737352-JNHO1U8AL8MY063UTBIT/Umaimah%252Bheadshot%252BBd%252Bof%252BAdvisors.jpg Umaimah Mendhro - Umaimah Mendhro Founder & CEO of Vida Umaimah is the Founder and CEO of VIDA, a global platform that connects creatives and producers from around the world to produce and sell original, quality products - at scale. Prior to founding VIDA, Umaimah was a Director at West, where she led product strategy for some of the most promising pre-IPO tech startups. She spearheaded West’s early-stage business unit and served as the loaned VP of Product for a consumer wearable initiative. Previously, Umaimah was Director of Product in Microsoft’s Startup Business Group where she led the division’s efforts around incubation on Xbox Kinect. Umaimah has managed P&L for a $60M business, which she increased sales for by over 2x. She has launched new consumer businesses and led growth from zero to millions of users. She holds 13 Patent Awards in media and entertainment. Umaimah is also the Founder of thedreamfly.org, a global initiative connecting communities in conflict around common causes with presence across four countries touching over 5,000 lives. dreamfly kickstarts seed initiatives that are 100% financially sustainable within one year. Umaimah has spoken at two TEDx events and multiple panels on Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise, and Marketing. She has written several Forbes.com Op-Ed pieces, Harvard Business School case studies, and the opening chapter for the hardcover, Passion & Purpose. Umaimah has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar, and a BSc from Cornell University in Human Development with coursework in Computer Science. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/collins daily 0.75 2020-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602975733351-E6DE1K487V6PKNZX243B/Shelly%2BKapoor%2BCollins%2Bhead%2Bshot.jpg Shelly Kapoor Collins - Shelly Kapoor Collins VC and Founder — Shatter Fund Shelly is one boundary breaking woman. She is a venture capitalist who works at the intersection of technology, innovation and policy, with a focus on investing in female led and founded Technology startups in Cybersecurity, Fintech, Ed Tech and Digital Health. After founding and running her own companies and various Technology products, Shelly made the leap from entrepreneur to VC to have a greater impact on the emerging market of female entrepreneurs, and to enable female founders to become 100% participants in the innovation economy. Shelly was appointed to the National Women’s Business Council (NWBC) by the Obama Administration and served as Vice Chair of the Women in Public Service Project started by Secretary Hillary Clinton while at the State Department. She also served as a National Co-Chair for Technology for Barack Obama’s 2012 Campaign with Marc Benioff and Reid Hastings. Shelly has been named one of the Top 20 influential Indian women by the Economic Times of India, and was named to the Forbes ‘40 women to watch over 40’ list in 2015. Shelly is a staunch advocate for STEM education for women and girls and holds an MS in Management Information Systems and a BS in in Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland. She resides in the Bay Area with her husband and two children. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/hughes daily 0.75 2020-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602975660468-QF1AEMG8XXTNMQEP975H/Kim%25252BHughes%25252Bheadshot%25252B%25252528draft%25252B2%25252529.jpg Kim Hughes - Kim Hughes Strategic Communications Advisor & Managing Director at The Blueshirt Group As a strategic communications executive with more than 20 years in the technology industry, Kim is a well-connected, respected and trusted advisor. She works with a broad spectrum of high-growth companies to shape and articulate their narrative so that journalists and influencers across the business, financial and trade media take note. Kim provides strategic counsel to executive teams so they are prepared to tackle marketing and public relations challenges, and to seize opportunities through corporate positioning, product launches, mergers and acquisitions, crisis management, media training and day-to-day blocking and tackling. She has deep expertise in advising companies on their path to public markets, including IPOs, direct listings and SPACs. Her career spans from the early dot.com days working with start-ups like CitySearch and Stamps.com and the industry giants HP, Dell and Merrill Lynch to today’s tech leaders, including Coupa, Asana, Zscaler and many others. Venture capital and private equity firms are always in the mix. Kim is an active volunteer in her daughters’ schools, where she takes on leadership roles, development and fundraising efforts, and Board positions. In her community, she supports and lends her skills and expertise to non-profit organizations such as Parca and CrisisTextLine, and has co-founded a grassroots organization to help raise awareness around homelessness and food insecurity in San Francisco. She is a graduate of Miami University. She lives in San Mateo with her husband, three daughters, and golden retriever. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/ryan daily 0.75 2020-10-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602976045851-9ZWQ7XEXL6O63GU2C4ES/Martha%2BRyan%2BHead%2BShot.jpg Martha Ryan - Martha Ryan Board Vice-Chair the Commonwealth Club Martha Ryan is currently serving as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth Club, the oldest and largest non partisan public forum in the US with over 25,000 members. She is slated to become Chairman of the Board in January 2022. Martha is also the Co-Founder of fin-tech software company Daric, Inc. In addition, Martha serves on the Madison Council for The Library of Congress. She has been an active member of the national organization ARCS (Achievement Reward for College Scientists) and was the recipient of their highest honor, the “ARCS Light Award.” Martha was also the former Chairman of the Lincoln Club of Northern California. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/solinsky daily 0.75 2020-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602976815283-LFJXVFE9VFPJIQ8FTESW/Susan%2BSolinsky%2527s%2Bheadshot%2B%252720.jpg Susan Solinsky - Susan Solinsky Chief Growth Officer at Ellipsis Health | Women's Health Tech Challenge, HITLAB | Founding LP, How Women Invest Susan is the Chief Growth Officer for Ellipsis Health. Susan is a senior sales and operations leader with a passion for understanding how she can best partner to help her customers. Ellipsis has pioneered the first AI-powered, speech-based-vital sign to quantify and manage depression and anxiety for scalable behavioral health. Susan is also a Founding LP for How Women Invest and volunteer as the Director of the Women's Health Tech Challenge for HITLAB. Previously, she was Vice President of Enterprise Sales at Phreesia (IPO, 2019) which optimizes the doctor and patient experience. Phreesia acquired Vital Score, the start-up she co-founded, at the end of 2018. Before co-founding Vital Score, Susan was a partner at Reditus Revenue, focusing on helping companies find a market fit targeting their key initial sales to scale and build strong teams. Earlier in her career, she was SVP of the Advisory Board (IPO) and the Corporate Executive Board (IPO). Susan’s mission is to support entrepreneurs, physicians, administrators and clinicians to drive innovation and change to improve health care options. Susan has a B.A. from Princeton University. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/douville daily 0.75 2020-12-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602975873336-1R5NGLBUSHZ78B3DCUJO/Sherri%25252BDouville%25252BHeadshot%25252B%2525252720.jpg Sherri Douville - Sherri Douville President, CEO & Board Member at Medigram Sherri is a sought after expert in mobile technology and the medical industries. She is honored to build and lead multi disciplinary teams at Medigram and in the industry to solve the leading cause of preventable death --a delay in information. She currently helps to lead technical trust and safety standards for the industry through IEEE and UL and has been published and quoted in both mainstream and industry media such as CIO.com, the Mercury News, NBC, Becker’s Hospital Review, ThisWeekinHealthIT and HITInfrastructure.com. She is also a member of the MIT Technology Review Global Panel, is helping advance digital literacy in the boardroom as a lifetime member of the Digital Directors Network, and has served on the board of the NorCal HIMSS. She is currently a co-author for a Springer engineering textbook chapter and is the lead author and editor for a forthcoming mobile computing in medicine book (Taylor & Francis). Prior to her current work in the mobile privacy, security, health IT and AI industry, Sherri worked in the medical device industry consulting on the areas of physician acceptance and economic feasibility for medical devices. Prior to that, she worked for over a decade with products addressing over a dozen disease states at Johnson & Johnson and was recognized for thought leadership by McGraw-Hill. Sherri has a B.S. in Combined Sciences from Santa Clara University and has completed certificates in electrical engineering, computer science, AI and ML through MIT. Sherri advises and serves various startups, boards, and NonProfits including as a member of the Board of Fellows for Santa Clara University and as an advisor to the SCU Leavey School of Business Women on Corporate Boards program. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/nakazawa daily 0.75 2020-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1602977255286-W1PDE4IB9WK6C4O6GH5L/IMG_7976%2B2.jpg Rika Nakazawa - Rika Nakazawa Founder, CEO of Boardseatmeet, VP Client Partner Conduent Rika is a global applied innovation executive advancing business where digital transformation drives the greatest value – leveraging strategic perspectives, business insights, partnership acumen, and experience design fluency. Rika specializes in bridging investment and entrepreneurship across Japan and the US. She is a dynamic and frequent conference speaker and chair. 15+ years business development, partnership management, innovation, design-thinking, and strategy deployment experience in Machine Vision/AI, Fintech, Semiconductor, AR/VR/XR. Rika is versed in both multinational and startup venture ecosystems, with fluency in Japanese and German. She serves on the Advisory board for VR/AR, AI / Machine Learning and IoT startups, and advancing initiatives for women in technology and leadership. * Go to market and positioning strategy * Expand accounts through collaborative negotiation * Executive engagement with business insights * Partner ecosystem development and partner acquisition * Nimble execution at all levels * Connected to multiple networks and in multiple industries * Harness disruption for business innovation * Cross-functionally drive progress in matrixed organizations * Build executive relationships and influence key stakeholders * Utilize cultural insights to build effective global growth strategies Specialties: Payments Innovation, E-Commerce, Business Insights, Business Development, Executive Networks, Sales, Partnership and Relationship Management, Global Expansion, Strategic Insight, Alliance Development, Technology Consulting, Content Applications, Multicultural Project Management, Market Analysis Rika holds degrees from UCLA and Princeton University. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/svlg daily 0.75 2023-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1603759271168-KMGOKCSI7F07I9SFD2Q2/0258-WomenInTech-180628.jpg SV Women's Leadership Initiative https://www.beasleymccusker.com/events daily 0.75 2021-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1631219427902-LI76ZGVN4MZ7GDECI6RY/Copy+of+SHATTER+SUMMIT+web+graphic.png Events - Shatter Summit INVESTING IN WOMEN ON A GLOBAL SCALE OCTOBER 20, 2021 @ 12pm (PACIFIC) Shatter Fund Founder Shelly Kapoor Collins in partnership with the Silicon Valley Women’s Leadership Initiative is proud to present SHATTER SUMMIT- Investing in Women on a Global Scale — a virtual conference highlighting women who have shattered ceilings in Venture, FinTech, Health Tech, Business, Sports, E-commerce and more… https://www.beasleymccusker.com/pivnicka daily 0.75 2020-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1607993718042-ENJWCHN6OSA1OM0FYYF2/Barbara-Pivnicka.jpg Barbara Pivnicka - Barbara Pivnicka Honorary Consul, Slovak Republic Secretary & Executive Officer, San Francisco Consular Corps Barbara Pivnicka serves as President and CEO of the San Francisco Global Trade Council, which promotes international trade opportunities, global alliances and technology transfer initiatives, and serves on the Boards of two technology companies. Barbara was Director of Regional Marketing for Deloitte. In 2001, she was appointed Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic, the first woman in the US to hold the post. She currently serves as Executive Officer of the San Francisco Consular Corps, the third largest diplomatic community in the United States. She is a former Governor of the Commonwealth Club and currently is an Advisory Board member. She is an Advisor to of San Francisco State University’s Graduate School of International Studies, and an “Ambassador” of the Start Up in Residence (STIR) program, sponsored by the San Francisco Mayor’s Office. A graduate of Leadership San Francisco, she served on the Advisory Council of the Commission on the Status of Women and as a Director of Girl Scouts, Northern California Chapter. Barbara grew up in Santa Barbara, California and resides with her husband in Woodside, in the heart of Silicon Valley. https://www.beasleymccusker.com/alphonso daily 0.75 2020-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f7d13398493e018767a984b/1607993762614-UZFZAP17P72MMTGT0TPV/Alexandrea-Alphonso.jpg Alexandrea Alphonso - Alexandrea Alphonso Program Manager, Google A senior program manager at Google, Alexandrea is currently responsible for helping teams craft, design, and implement support and care experiences for users across all of Google’s consumer products. In this role, she uniquely drives collaboration and partnerships on high-impact design sprints and leads teams through the design sprint methodology to arrive at more user-centric support experiences. Alexandrea has fundamentally changed the way the organization pushes for support innovation and problem solving. Whether it be leading strategy workshops to help align on aspirational visions for support, optimizing for the user experience, or developing new user care approaches in emerging markets, Alexandrea has proven to be a thought leader in the consumer tech space. At Google, Alexandrea extends and volunteers her time regularly to other teams as a design sprint master, in a capacity known as 20% time. As part of a small, exclusive collective at Google, she seeks out opportunities that allow her to push for design evangelism. Alexandrea is responsible for partnering with our University Programs & Outreach team to co-create and facilitate a design thinking workshop called the Innovation Channel. This event targets college technical and nontechnical students across North America. In less than a year the workshop has scaled to 7 major cities reaching close to 400 students and counting. Outside of Google, Alexandrea combines her passion for technology and community in the role of Head of Partnerships for Black Tech Women. Black Tech Women was created in 2017 on the premise that an engaged and supported community is key to advancing black women in the technology ecosystem. Over the last two years, the organization has grown to a global member base of +3000 black women professionals across technology companies, startups, and venture capital firms. In this role, Alexandrea is responsible for collaborating with key organizations and businesses to help grow, develop, and enhance the lives of black women in tech. Alexandrea’s passions extend well beyond the corporate space. To exercise her passions of creativity and wellness, she is a host and co-contributor to a local Bay Area sports podcast, The Fan Factive Five, and she’s also a former Corepower Yoga instructor who know teaches live yoga class online through Charlotte’s Yoga School. 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