Coaches and Speakers

Kathy Wen is a multifaceted professional with a dynamic career that spans technology, entertainment, and consulting.

Kathy is an Executive Producer at Banyan Tree Movies and a professional singer-songwriter. At Banyan Tree Movies, she produces independent films highlighting Asian stories and themes. In their recent film, Battlebox, Kathy served as a producer and took on an acting role and wrote and performed the film’s theme song, “Battlebox (Through the Soldier’s Eyes).” Additionally, she is a YouTube creator and singer with a growing audience of over 100K subscribers on her self-titled channel.

Kathy has spent over 15 years of her career in tech, gaming, and consulting. Previously, she was the Director of Global Infrastructure Planning at Google and the Director of People and operations at Riot Games. She has also worked as a software engineer at Lam Research, a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and the Chief of Staff to various senior executives at Cisco Systems.

Kathy holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Washington and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Chuck Eesley is an Associate Professor and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. As part of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, his research focuses on the role of the institutional and university environment in high-growth, technology entrepreneurship. His research focuses on rethinking how the educational and policy environment shapes the economic and entrepreneurial impact of university alumni. His field research spans China, Japan, Chile, Bangladesh, Thailand and Silicon Valley and has received awards from the Schulze Foundation, the Technical University of Munich, and the Kauffman Foundation. He is a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Center for International Development, the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Stanford King Center on Global Development. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Strategic Management Journal. Before coming to Stanford, Prof. Eesley completed his Ph.D. at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He started his first company while earning a Bachelor's degree from Duke University in 2002. His work has been published among other places in Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, and Biological Psychiatry. Prof. Eesley previously was an entrepreneur, early employee, board member/advisor, and investor in the areas of life sciences, online education and machine learning. He has also been an advocate and mentor for historically under-represented groups in STEM, academia and the tech sector via programs such as Diversifying Academia, Recognizing Excellence (DARE), Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST), and SURF among others.

Harry West is building a human-centered design and innovation curriculum at Columbia and working at the intersection of design, data and behavior change with a focus on developing new ways to reduce consumption. He is also the Principal of Invisible Design which develops design and innovation solutions to particularly difficult business problems and helps design organizations align their work meaningfully with company strategy.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

DESIGN METHODOLOGY; PRODUCT, SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN; DESIGN FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE; SUSTAINABILITY

RESEARCH AREAS

DESIGNDEVICESSYSTEMSSUSTAINABLE HUMANITYCREATIVE HUMANITY

LINKS

VISIT INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCHVISIT MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Harry was formerly the CEO of frog, Senior Partner at Prophet, and CEO at Continuum where his work ranged from developing new products with P&G - resulting in the creation of Swiffer and ThermaCare - to envisioning new ways for people to interact with financial services with BBVA and Fidelity.

He has worked with a wide range of companies globally including: Alicorp, American Express, Andersen Windows, AstraZeneca, BBVA, BMW, Brooks Automation, CGAP, Cigna, Colgate, Crown Equipment, Fidelity, Master Lock, Motorola, National Park Service, P&G, PNC, Sprint and Tetra Pak.

He has worked on projects in the US, Europe, Asia and South America; with senior executives at the corporate level, and with consumers and customers in the field. Harry has contributed to the design of products and services with ongoing sales of several billion dollars a year and which have won many design awards.

Prior to working in design consulting, Harry was an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT where he taught kinematics and engineering design.

Harry received his BA in Engineering from Cambridge University in 1980, an MS in Technology and Policy from MIT in 1984, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 1986.

George is the COO at Twilio, in charge of Twillion worldwide oporation. Before he joined Twilio, George served four of his 13 years at Salesforce as COO, where he owned all major shared operational functions for the company. He also served in a variety of other management roles including VP of Product Marketing, SVP of Applications, EVP of Products, and Chief Marketing Officer. After leaving Salesforce at the end of 2014, George founded a workplace feedback startup called Peer that was acquired by Twitter in 2016. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. George was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

CLINICAL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, ANESTHESIOLOGY, PERIOPERATIVE AND PAIN MEDICINE

Practices at Stanford Hospital and ClinicsLucile Packard Children's Hospital

Xiang Qian, MD, PhD, is a Pain Management Physician and Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University. He is also the Stanford Facial Pain Program Co-Director for interdisciplinary pain patient care at Stanford Hospital and Clinics.

Dr. Qian is highly respected for his work on developing novel therapies for various chronic pain conditions, and he lectures internationally for those work and topics. Dr. Qian’s clinical interests include the treatment of acute and chronic pain, with special interest in migraine, headache, trigeminal neuralgia, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, hemifacial spasm, atypical facial pain, cancer pain, back pain, joint pain, nerve pain, and others. At Stanford, Dr. Qian developed many advanced surgical and interventional technologies for his patients, and he currently leads the CT-guided interventional pain program and is the recipient of Translational and Clinical Innovation Award at Stanford.

With his deep interest in clinical innovation and translational medicine, Dr. Qian is the faculty professor of Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR) and has been working with colleagues from engineering school to develop mini implantable nerve stimulator, powered by wireless energy. Similar to a pacemaker for the heart, nerve stimulators are modulators for the nerves.

Due to his passion for global health and leadership experience, Dr. Qian was appointed as the Medical Director of Stanford International Medical Services (IMS) since 2016, where he has been working in collaboration with faculty members from all subspecialties and hospital administrations to help deliver care for international patients and promote international collaborations. His vision is to help Stanford become the leader in international medicine by providing its physicians and faculty the opportunities to expand their practice internationally and spread knowledge globally.

Dr. Qian completed his residency and fellowship training at Stanford. Prior to that, he received his PhD degree in Physiology and Biophysics from University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and went through Postdoc fellowship training in Neuroscience at UCSF. Outside of the work he does at Stanford, Dr. Qian founded the Chinese American Physicians’ Society to foster his efforts in bringing medical knowledge internationally. Today, the society has more than 400 physician members from 50 states of the US, across over 38 different subspecialties.

In his free time, Dr. Qian enjoys reading, running, hiking and exploring the mountains and beaches of Northern California.

BING PROFESSOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND SENIOR FELLOW AT THE WOODS INSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Professor, Biology  Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

• Director, Natural Capital Project, (2006- present)

• Director, Center for Conservation Biology, (2010- present)

PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS

• Center for Latin American Studies Research & Scholarship

CURRENT RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY INTERESTS

Land use, biodiversity dynamics, ecosystem services 

Yan Yan is an award-winning product designer at A2C Academy. She also volunteers as a design team lead in Be the Change Foundation leading and coaching 10+ middle/high school and college students. Yan graduated from California College of the Arts with a Master of Fine Arts in Design. As a multiple-awards-winning designer, she shows strong talent in user experience design and visual communication. She believes that design can deliver joy, generate fresh curiosity, even bring the magic to life.

Department Chairman at MIT Engineering

Director of Stanford Medical School and Stanford Hospital 

Professors at Stanford University

Professor at Columbia University

Adobe expert and influencer

Apple Manager

Google Marketer

Facebook Research Scientist

Zoom Director

The Son of US President

C-level Executives

Top Ph.D. Student from CMU

Coaches and mentors are the best students from Top US Universities.

Retired Executives and Board Members

Tech Lead VR Optical Metrology and Performance, Ex-Apple, Ex-KLA, Ex-Argonne National Lab scholar.