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: Teaching Team
Teaching Team
Susan Houlihan
Communications for Engineering Leaders
Susan Houlihan is a Communications Consultant, Executive Coach, and Electrical Engineer who leverages her 15+ years working in engineering and operations in the high-tech sector to bring a perspective firmly rooted in business applications to her consulting and coaching work. In her previous career, she led global engineering and operations teams in manufacturing, sourcing and supply… Read More »
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Communications for Engineering Leaders
Thomas is a leadership development educator and executive coach. Over the past nine years, he has taught at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, the Berlin School of Creative Leadership, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. In addition, he has consulted within leading pharmaceutical, heavy… 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 »
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 Strategy, IP Strategist
Matthew Rappaport is the General Partner of Future Frontier Capital (FFC), a pre-seed, frontier technology venture capital fund. Matthew co-founded IP Checkups in 2004, an intellectual property strategy and software firm where he managed hundreds of innovation projects for early-stage start-ups and large corporations. Matthew is Project manager for the Deep Tech Lab at the… Read More »
Leah Edwards
Lecturer / Instructor
Leah is an investor, serial co-founder and advisor to startups and other investors. Beginning with her first company being acquired for $380 million within two years, she went on to sell several companies to major companies. Leah then directed the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Stanford Graduate School of Business, before becoming a venture… Read More »