Faculty Speakers

Sarah A. Soule

To be a successful leader in today's dynamic environment, it's essential to be aware of your own strengths and weaknesses and actively work on personal development. Achieving this requires mastering five core competencies, which will be explored in our sessions together.

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Sarah A. Soule is the Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. Sarah’s research applies social movement theory to organizational processes, and organizational theory to social movement processes.  She is currently working on a study of how the public views, and reacts to, symbolic statements by corporate leaders around social issues. She has written two books, the first with Cambridge University Press, entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility, and the second with Norton, called A Primer on Social Movements. Recent published work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological Review, Organizational Studies, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Annual Review of Sociology. She is an editor for the Cambridge University Press Contentious Politics series. She has served on a number of boards of nonprofit organizations, is currently a member of the Faculty Advisory Boards of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the Stanford d.school), the Stanford Impact Labs, the Stanford Democracy Hub, and the Stanford VMWare Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab. She is a Faculty Fellow at the Knight Hennessy Scholars Program.

Shri Dammu Ravi

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Shri Dammu Ravi is Secretary (Economic Relations) in the Ministry of External Affairs. Holds a Masters Degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He has published research papers on trade matters: standardizing India’s exports and liberalizing India’s agriculture markets.

Usha Viswanathan - SEP 2018

Leadership qualities can be nurtured from a very young age.  In this SEPTalk we're going to discuss just 3 main points since the time is short. There will be 3 stories that bring home key strategies to enhance key leadership skills at an early age.

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Usha Viswanathan is an experienced president at Starnik,  with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Account Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Networking, Start-ups, and Strategic Planning. Strong business development professional with a Stanford Executive Program focused in Business from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. 

Prasad Vanga - SEP 2018

The largest young population of the world are struggling with areas on self care, future of education, work, relationships and sustainability, the proposed session should uncover opportunities in these areas and should help startup companies, investors and large organizations to understand this target market and create a better go to market strategy in India.

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Prasad Vanga is the founder & CEO of Anthill Ventures, a speed scaling platform for early growth stage start-ups in Urban Lifestyle. In his current role Prasad leads global strategy, fund management and venture building at Anthill Ventures. Prasad comes with over 20 years of experience in helping senior executives from large organisations such as Nike, Nestle, Novartis and Google to drive business transformations. He specialises in facilitating senior leaders discover the core competence of their organisations and designing effective change management frameworks that allow them to leverage their culture and drive large transformations. Prasad as an Angel Investor has backed several successful companies like Medplus (IPO), Zenoti (became a unicorn) and Tynker (acquired by Byju’s) that provided exits of >20X. Prasad’s unique expertise involves combining large corporate consulting, entrepreneurship and start-up investments experience. He was a board advisor to ISB (Indian School of Business) SRITNE centre of excellence and an active Alumni of the Stanford Business School. His achievements have been quoted in several media including CNN, Entrepreneur, Forbes Asia, Business Standard, Economic times and the Washington Post.

Claudia Salvischiani - SEP 2018

Africa is a very interesting continent from a geopolitics view: Some of the world power nations are investing in Africa (china, Russia, turkey, emirates….) and US and Europe are losing ground there; Africa represents and mirrors the polarization that is happening in the world. 

But Africa is also I retesting from an economic standpoint (numerous data will be provided); I have had exposure to Africa (west, east and south) for he past 5 years and I would like to share my experience about developing leadership and capabilities in fast growing mid size companies. There is a huge, unknown and hidden potential. I can present case studies and maybe propose testimonials.

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Claudia Salvischiani is an All round Executive in human resources management with particular focus on HR strategy, personnel development, organizational development,  change/transformation processes at international level. Many years of leadership experience in large and multinational organizations; strong intercultural background, high level of energy, eager to learn. Currently focussed on growth and scaling businesses in Europe and Africa; supporting CEOs in developing a strategic Human Capital strategy, upskilling Human Capital Departments, enabling leaders to make the next significant step. Passionate about Transformation and Change management in an international, inspiring and highly dynamic context. Stanford Seed Consultant/Coach/Lecturer since 2018.

Nicolas Sauvage  - SEP 2018

Unlock the full potential of corporate venturing with "Innovation Karma: What Goes Around, Grows Around." This session is tailored for both entrepreneurs and leaders within larger firms, revealing how simple best practices can drive corporate venturing success and fuel transformative innovation.

Key Takeaways:

1. Principles of Corporate Venturing: Understand how corporate venturing done well fosters an environment conducive to innovation.

2. Leveraging Corporate Venturing: Discover strategies for using corporate venturing to identify, invest in, and scale innovative startups that will contribute to society and a greener planet.

3. Bridging Entrepreneurs and Corporates: Learn how entrepreneurs and corporate leaders can collaborate effectively to drive mutual growth with the “equal-win” concept.

4. Real-World Success Stories: Gain insights from case studies of startups and companies that have successfully engaged together to achieve significant innovations.

5. Engaging Learning Experience: Engage in the session to incorporate practical tools and techniques to implement corporate venturing strategies in your organization.

By the end of this session, you will be equipped with additional knowledge and strategies to harness the power of corporate venturing, fostering a culture of innovation that drives growth and competitive advantage in your firm.

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Nicolas Sauvage (SEP2018) is the President of TDK Ventures, with $350M AUM. TDK Ventures has invested in 37 startups, including unicorns like Groq, Ascend Elements and Silicon Box. Recognized on the Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist for five consecutive years, Nicolas has authored articles on Corporate Venturing and hosts the Corporate Venturing Insider podcast. Nicolas serves on the boards of Analog Inference, AutoFlight, Faction, Mach49, Metalenz, Virewirx, and TDK Ventures. Nicolas has been awarded the Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School.

Monali Jain - SEP 2023

Autonomous Ariel delivery will change the lives for better. It can be done without setting up concrete runways or airports. 

Format will be personal experiences in mountains, followed by 10 years of hard work in learning to fly, skydiving from 18,000 ft, migrating to Singapore to learn international air travel, Blue Origin to understand even higher insane altitudes. 

Finally finding a drone delivery company that can fly autonomous aircraft in all weather and drop packages with parachute without need for runways. The best possible vision Ai for precise delivery on the spot, sound AI for new spacial traffic perspective using sound waves from other UAV.  This will enable access to healthcare and food in peaceful rural areas overcoming barriers such as the urban advantages.

Reynaldo Passanezi Filho- SEP 2018

The two most relevant worldwide trends are clean energy and artificial inteligente. They are intertwinned, as IA demands a lot of energy. 

Pitch is to show Brazil as an ideal market for power shoring, as it is a friendly country with a power matrix mostly renewable, abundant natural resources, critical metals for energy transition and an integrated national power infrastructure grid.

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Reynaldo Passanezi Filho has served, since January 2020, as CEO of Cemig, a state-owned company listed in B3 (Brazilian stock exchange), NYSE and Latibex, and a history of almost 72 years operating in electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and trading.  Mr. Passanezi is currently chairman of the Boards of Directors of Taesa and Gasmig, and a member of the Boards of Directors of Tigre Group. In his career, he has held numerous important executive positions in the electric power sector (as CEO of the São Paulo state electricity transmission company ISA CTEEP); in finance (Country Manager and Managing Director of Corporate and Investment Banking at BBVA Brazil); and in the public sector, notably in privatization programs (Advisor to the Governing Board of the São Paulo State Government Privatization Program). He has extensive experience in corporate restructuring, including mergers and acquisitions, and profound knowledge of Latin America and infrastructure.

Olya Sirodoeva - SEP 2018

Most of us have positions of power in our companies. As a group, we can introduce unique sustainability innovations into the corporate world. The call for action is to (1) roll out our Green Inflation, Plastic Pollution, and Health Footprint initiatives in our companies, with the system of reporting back to the SEPers group and (2) in an individual capacity, sign up for participation in our high-level initiatives, such as working on the Investment Framework for emissions reduction under the Paris Agreement.

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Olya Sirodoeva is an award-winning Thought Leader,  Head of Think Tank. Author, keynote speaker, and advisor on sustainability and social issues, as well as on the proprietary Data-Reality Fit business management method. Environmental, Social: Publishing extensively on impact investing, sustainability and social issues. Authored the "Impact Currency" methodology of a novel ranking implemented by Forbes. Advisor to Notpla, the winner of the most prestigious environmental prize - the £1 mln. Earthshot Prize by Prince William. Prominent Lawyer (Investments, Acquisitions): For over 15 years, partner of large US law firms. Industries: hospitality/real estate, transport and logistics, tech, manufacturing. Achieved ranking as one of the world's top M&A lawyers (Chambers Global, Band 1). Innovation as a life-long passion, Data Solutions: Conceptualized a project that was implemented by a firm with a $1 bln. revenue and received a No. 1 Financial Times innovation award in "data, knowledge and intelligence."