SPEAKERS
Sue Siegel
For the past 40+ years, Sue Siegel has been on the forefront as a CEO, VC investor, innovation thought leader, and board member of industry-changing companies. As GE’s Chief Innovation Officer and CEO of GE Ventures, Sue oversaw investment in startups, creating and scaling new companies, and commercializing GE’s intellectual property. As part of her operating career, she led Affymetrix, the leading genomics company of its time, during its time of hyper growth and as a publicly listed NASDAQ company. She has served on over 20+ boards, and her current board portfolio includes Illumina, Align, The Engine, built by MIT, and the Kaiser Family Foundation. Sue is also Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Ann Skeet
Ann Skeet is the senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Her work focuses on the ethical dilemmas of leaders and followers and business ethics, with a particular interest in healthy corporate culture, ethical leadership practices, and responsible technology governance. She teaches ethics literacy and technology governance for boards in the Leavey Executive Center at Santa Clara University. Skeet is a co-author of Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap and Voting for Ethics: A Guide for U.S. Voters Second Edition.
James D. White
James D. White is a transformational leader with more than 30 years experience as an operating executive in the Consumer Products, Retail, and Restaurant industries. He is the former Chair, President and CEO of Jamba Juice, where he led the successful turnaround and transformation of the company from a made-to-order smoothie shop to a global, healthy active lifestyle brand. James has been a board member on over 20 public and private boards including Panera Bread, The Honest Company, Simply Good Foods, CAVA, Affirm and Medallia to name a few. He is co-author of Culture Design: How to Build a High-Performing, Resilient Organization with Purpose, with Krista White.
F. Daniel Siciliano, moderator
Dan Siciliano is a successful technology CEO-founder and entrepreneur, as well as Vice Chair of the board of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and a recognized expert in corporate strategy and governance, capital financial markets, executive compensation, and technological disruption (including fintech, AI and cybersecurity). He is currently Chairman of SVDX, board member of the Latino Corporate Directors Education Foundation, chair-elect of the Council of Federal Home Loan Banks, and a fellow at Stanford University.