Founder of Invent Your Future Enterprises
For 17 years, Ruth Stergiou has run a thriving event and non-profit management company, Planning Dynamics. In that role, she served for 18 years as the Founding Executive Director and event production manager for the Professional Business Women of California, building their two successful annual conferences in San Francisco and Sacramento to 5000 and 3000 attendees respectively.
Ruth also produced the highly-acclaimed California Governor’s Conference for Women in Los Angeles for 17 years, working with four administrations, and building the conference to over 10,000 participants.
Ruth serves as a faculty member for San Jose State University’s Professional Development Center and on the Advisory Board of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. In 1992, Ruth was recognized by the Northern California Chapter of Meeting Planners International with the Meeting Planner of the Year Award. She holds a B.A. (Hons.) degree in Geography from Leeds University in England. She has been featured in the San Jose and Silicon Valley Business Journal’s “Who’s Who in Silicon Valley Business.”
Officers
- Telle Whitney, - President and CEO
- Catherine S. Kirkman, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati - General Counsel
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, Director of Marketing
- Alexandra Krasne, Development & Industry Partner Manager
- Deanna Kosaraju, Director of Programs
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Caroline Simard, Director of Research
- Kim McLeod, Program Associate
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Associate
- Kathy Gee, IT Project Specialist
- Amy Clark, Office Manager/Executive Assistant
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College - Board Chair
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
- Margaret Ashida, Director, Talent - IBM Software Group
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund
- Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Carole Dulong, Google - Co-Chair
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education - Co-Chair
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, Executive Director, Applied Minds, Inc.
- Nina Bhatti, Principle Scientist, HP Labs
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Penny Eckert, Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
- Moira Gunn, MogoTech Media, Tech Nation
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Carol Muller, President and CEO, MentorNet
- Rebecca Norlander, Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Sarah Revi Sterling,Student, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Janice Stockard, Visiting Professor, Mills College