Dean’s Speaker Series
Episodes
From Founder to Funder: Michael Stewart’s Path to Venture Capital
09 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a conversation with Michael Stewart, MBA 15, Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, recorded live on November 17 in the Spie...
Leading in Tech, Building for Tomorrow: A Conversation with Ana Corrales
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ana Corrales, COO of Google Consumer Hardware, shares her journey from early-stage startups to leading global operations at one of th...
Entrepreneur, Diplomat, Innovator: Ambassador Trevor Traina on Leadership and the Future of Tech
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amb. Trevor Traina is a serial entrepreneur having founded and co-founded five successful technology companies, which were all sold to acquirers such ...
From PhD to CEO: Aravind Srinivas on Reinventing Search with Perplexity AI
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aravind Srinivas co-founded Perplexity in 2022 because of his own curiosity about a more transparent and verifiable AI-powered search experience while...
How’s your battery? Calm CEO David Ko on normalizing mental health at work
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Ko, CEO of the sleep and meditation app Calm and author of the book Recharge, shares his leadership journey from investment banking to purpose-...
Reimagining Meat: Peter McGuinness on Leading Impossible Foods and Transforming Brands
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter McGuinness, CEO of Impossible, is leading the company in its goal to produce sustainable meat-replacement products. Over the course of his over ...
Leading the Charge: Cheryl Ginyard-Jones on Innovation, Leadership, and the Future of Green Energy
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As managing director for the engineering and design consultancy Ramboll, Cheryl Ginyard-Jones oversees more than 2,000 professionals across the Americ...
HSBC U.S. Head of Innovation Banking David Sabow shares why he believes AI will play an outsized role in improving labor productivity
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Sabow joined HSBC as Head of Technology & Healthcare in 2023 to establish a dedicated banking practice focused on the innovation economy, em...
A Celebration of our Haas Culture 15 years and counting!
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a fireside chat format, Interim Dean Jenny Chatman shares the origin story of the Defining Leadership Principles and how they have evolved over 15 ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on inventing new markets | DSS Archive Edition
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, solved the 3D graphic challenge for the personal computer in 1999 with the company’s release of the ...
Golden State Valkyries' Jess Smith, Ohemaa Nyanin talk leading the newest WNBA team
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before their first draft round on Dec. 6, Golden State Valkyries President Jess Smith and General Manager Ohemaa Nyanin have been working around the c...
Boston Consulting Group’s Brian Gross on going from a dairy farm childhood to global consulting leader
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up as one of 14 children on a dairy farm in Iowa, Brian Gross had never heard of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). While he never expected to...
Chart Industries CEO Jill Evanko on the importance of taking risks, developing cleaner energy
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Before Jill Evanko was leading the company responsible for products that include the nitrogen systems that cool Starbucks’ Nitro cold brews and hydr...
Tech journalist Kara Swisher gets candid about Silicon Valley and (what should be) the next obsession for entrepreneurs
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Kara Swisher started reporting on tech in the 1990s at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Since then, she’s conducted inter...