Associate Clinical Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Ms. Tang is a social worker in private practice and an associate professor of clinical psychology at UC Berkeley. She is a former instructor at the Ann Martin Center, which provided educational and counseling services to at-risk youth in Alameda County and has also taught psychology at Tsinghua University in Beijing. From 1976 to 1986, Ms. Tang served as a staff social worker at University Health Services on the Berkeley campus. There she founded and directed the immigrant and refugee student program, an initiative...
Brian Turner currently serves as the executive president of the Americas at Slalom. Brian works with clients, leaders and consultants across the globe to continuously drive impact and value for their clients and customers through strategy and technology. He has served in his current position since 2019, during which time he has led Slalom from $1B to over $3B in revenues with over 14,000 employees across 40 offices. Prior to joining Slalom, Mr. Turner held a variety of management positions with Andersen Consulting, ultimately becoming a partner with Accenture in their...
Liza Wachter is president, partner, and director of film and television for Spiegel and Grau, an independent publishing house launched in 2020. Previously, Ms. Wachter co-founded RWSG, a premier book-to-film agency that specialized in the representation of dramatic rights. The agency was sold to William Morris Endeavor (WME) in 2016. Prior to forming RWSG, Ms. Wachter helped found Village Books, an independent bookstore in Pacific Palisades, California, and before that she worked as an attorney at Shearman & Sterling in New York. Currently, Ms. Wachter serves on the...
Judy Wade is managing director, global leadership team member, and head of CPP Investments’ San Francisco office. Previously she led Fuel, the McKinsey Company that helps startups and their investors accelerate their performance and get to the future faster. Earlier in her career, she was a partner at McKinsey, a global management consulting firm, and before returning, she spent 10 years as a senior executive for hire, working with Kapor Capital, Bessemer, Venrock, and DFJ. Ms. Wade is an active member in her community with a passion for education. In her spare time, she...
Former Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, University of California, Berkeley
Mike Williams was director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Berkeley from 2014 to 2018, overseeing $1 billion in sports facilities and the 1,200 members of the Cal Athletics community that includes coaches, staff, and student athletes. During Mr. Williams’s tenure as director, Cal won 11 team national championships and 21 Olympic medals. He began his career at Data Resources and also worked at Bank of America. He joined Barclays Global Investors in 1993 and left the company in 2009 as vice chair of capital markets. Mr. Williams is a former UC Berkeley Foundation trustee and...
Natasha Wong began her career in San Diego as the executive director of the Chinese Service Center. Under her leadership, the center provided social services ranging from job referrals to free financial literacy courses to low-income Chinese. She helped implement the first IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program for the mono-lingual Chinese community and ensured that hundreds of Chinese restaurant workers earned food sanitation training from the San Diego Health Department. Ms. Wong was also the principal of the Chinese School of San Diego, the city’s oldest private...