Sonner Kehrt is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wired Magazine, The Verge, and numerous other publications. She has taught courses both at the Fung Institute and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Prior to journalism, she worked as a public affairs officer in the US Coast… Read More »
Group: Faculty
Faculty
Sarah Holliman
Organizational Behavior & Negotiations, Marketing & Product Management, Coaching for High Performing Teams
Sarah has over 20 years of experience as a CMO building marketing and communications teams in a variety of industries, including multi-national consulting firms, global membership organizations, educational institutions and high-tech startups. She is currently part of the senior administrative team at Head-Royce, running the marketing and communications team. She is also the founder of… Read More »
Ingrid Gavshon
Lecturer, Executive Coach and Communications Specialist
Ingrid Gavshon serves as a lecturer at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, for EWMBA/EMBA, and Undergraduate Programs; Seminar in International Business (South Africa), Leader as Coach and Leadership Communications and Creativity and Leadership, and at UC Berkeley Executive Education’s course High Impact Leadership. She is a partner at the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute in… Read More »
Tina Piracci
R&D Technology Management and Ethics
Tina completed a Master of Science in Architecture while obtaining her Certificate in New Media at UC Berkeley. Her undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Fine Arts with minors in engineering and entrepreneurship. She served as a research affiliate at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory studying clay 3D printing applications within developmental engineering. With over… Read More »
Janel Wellborn
Organizational Behavior & Negotiations; Product Management
Janel runs a global boutique consulting firm with Fortune 500 clients (e.g. Walmart International, Macy’s, H&M, Latam Airlines, etc.) across North & South America, Europe and Asia. She embeds herself within her clients’ organizations to transform their culture by shifting mindsets at all levels, helping them make many small changes in their ways of working… Read More »
Elizabeth Kovats
Lecturer, Innovation & Design
Elizabeth Kovats teaches innovation and design at Berkeley Haas. She has created new courses at Berkeley Haas and BerkeleyLaw in the area of design thinking. Elizabeth served as the Director of the Berkeley Roundtable on Applied Innovation and Design, BRAID, and she regularly collaborates with innovation executives based in Silicon Valley. Her area of interest… Read More »
Reginald Bailey
Entrepreneurship, R&D Tech Management, IP Strategist
Dr. Reginald Bailey has over 40 years of experience within the defense, cargo security, and educational technology industries, with a background in software and systems engineering, and project management. He has led teams (collocated, distributed) for large multi-national companies (e.g., IBM), large defense companies (e.g., Lockheed Martin), as well as small technology startup companies (e.g.,… Read More »
Nick Farrell
Project Management and Teaming
Nick Farrell has 25 years of experience in high tech, working at startups, large universities and multi-national tech companies. He is currently a Senior Artificial Intelligence Program Manager at Microsoft, managing projects using reinforcement learning to solve industrial automation problems for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to working at Microsoft, Nick worked as a product manager… Read More »
Yogesh Lund
Organizational Behavior, Coaching for High Performing Teams
Yogesh Lund has 20+ years of experience in IT Services, Manufacturing and Consulting. He currently is Director of the Business Resiliency Consulting Practice at Dell Technologies. In this capacity, he manages a portfolio of projects and a team of consultants that specialize in IT Continuity Strategy, Data Protection, Cyber & Disaster Recovery Services. Prior to… Read More »
Matthew Rappaport
Entrepreneurship, R&D Tech Management, IP Strategist
Matthew co-founded IP Checkups in 2004 to help companies align their patent strategy with their R&D and business objectives. He has managed hundreds of engagements and advised large and small corporate clients, start-ups and investors on IP strategy. Matthew co-founded the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP)-Berkeley. An academic and executive-education program focused at the intersection… Read More »