Ken Guss is an industry recognized leader with over thirty years of executive-level leadership including the General Management of three Fortune 500 companies and the Chief Executive role for ten divisions of a London-based plc. His background includes the leadership of over thirty public and private international companies in complex manufacturing, distribution and MRO in… Read More »

Dr. Bülent Erbilgin has over 20 years of executive experience leadership and teaching experience in technology. As an executive of seven startups and several public companies he successfully released products ranging from cyber-security, network security, web applications, SaaS, complex high-availability software, highly-distributed systems, analytics, big data, IOT, machine learning to network intelligence products. His teaching… Read More »

Jennifer Yang holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics with concentrations in Marketing and Multinational Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a Master in Public Administration with a focus in Leadership from Virginia Tech, Center for Public Administration and Policy. In addition to the Fung Institute, she teaches at Western Oregon University… Read More »

Dan Himelstein has been a senior executive in both academia and business and has worked in a variety of organizational settings, ranging from the large and complex to the small and entrepreneurial. In the business world, Dan has extensive international experience, having worked with numerous start-ups as a founder, executive, director, and consultant and in… Read More »

Ronald Star is a Partner in the Corporate and Securities practice at Arnold & Porter  LLP, and co-chairs the Northern California Emerging Companies group. His practice focuses on financings, venture capital, technology transactions, corporate governance, securities law and mergers and acquisitions. He works closely with start-up and private companies on issues related to equity and… Read More »

Kenneth Jeffrey Marshall is an author, professor, and value investor. Outside of the Fung Institute he teaches value investing and personal finance at Stanford University. He also directs the value investing courses in the masters in finance program at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. He is the author of the 2017 McGraw-Hill book Good Stocks… Read More »

Ms. Lauchengco’s multi-disciplinary approach pulls from over 20 years of experience in executive positions in marketing, product management, and as chief-of-staff to the CEO at companies including Microsoft, Netscape/AOL and Loudcloud/Opsware. Martina has helped contribute to several industry leading products, but she is best known for her work leading marketing initiatives – first for Microsoft… Read More »

Professor Kass draws from his own research on conflict resolution, social comparison and fairness, and what it means to be a good employee. More recently, Dr. Kass is focusing on the drivers/aspects that serve or hinder the process of successful negotiations. He is also working with students to examine the impact of alliances, biases, personal… Read More »