Anita is a technology product leader with more than 10 years of experience in building technology products that delight the customer both in the B2B and B2C domain. She is also an adjunct faculty at UC Berkeley, teaching and coaching hi-tech product management. She is currently the founder of an early stage ed-tech startup. Most… Read More »
Group: Teaching Team
Teaching Team
Babak Jafarizadeh
Accounting & Finance
Babak is an engineering economist. He thinks engineering is about economic solutions to the technical challenges of an uncertain world. He has worked as a senior analyst in energy industry, supporting investment decisions for multi-million-dollar projects across the globe. He is also an industry expert, and an assistant professor of petroleum engineering at Heriot-Watt University… Read More »
Bulent Erbilgin
Entrepreneurship, Project Management & Teaming, R&D Tech Management
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 »
Cal G. Gonzales
Professional Ethics; Organizational Behavior and Negotiations
Cal is a seasoned attorney with significant government, regulatory, investigative and in-house experience. He served as a trial attorney with the US Department of Justice and as an enforcement attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. He is currently an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Legal and Compliance Division, and Deputy Head of the… Read More »
Dan Himelstein
Organizational Behavior & Negotiations, Teaming & Project Management, Global Leadership Expertise, Coaching for High Performing Teams
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 »
Edward Kass
Organizational Behavior & Negotiations
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 »
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 »
Heidi Kritscher Weller
Communications for Engineering Leaders; Coaching for High Performing Teams
Heidi has over 15 years experience coaching executives and Haas MBA students, drawing from her diverse professional experience in international consulting, startups, and public/nonprofit environments. She most recently co-developed the UC Berkeley Haas Global Access Program, where she taught leadership practices and coached undergrad and graduate students from across the globe. She is an active… 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 »
Jack Mason
Entrepreneurship for Engineers
Jack is an entrepreneur, executive, engineer, educator, and consultant with more than 40 years of experience in the energy industry. He started several businesses as both an entrepreneur and intrapreneur, raised venture capital for one; and led several to acquisitions. He managed directly or indirectly more than 1000 energy-related projects, some as large as $10… Read More »