Interviewees

Brooke Seawell

Long-time board member and Audit Committee Chair at NVIDIA. Venture Partner at New Enterprise Associates. Former Chief Financial Officer of Synopsys, Executive Vice President of NetDynamics, and co-founder and CFO of Southwall Technologies. Served as audit committee chair for eight public companies and participated in twelve IPOs and thirteen major strategic acquisitions. Named one of the National Association of Corporate Directors Top 100 Directors in the U.S. in 2024. Former Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. Stanford MBA and Stanford undergraduate. Former member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Management Board and Stanford Athletic Board.

Graham Weaver

Founder of Alpine Investors private equity firm with multi-billion AUM, Stanford Business School lecturer, and a leading voice in performance psychology. Princeton and Stanford Graduate. 

Martin Dropkin

Senior global investment executive with fifteen years at Fidelity International, including Head of Equities, Asia Pacific and Global Head of Fixed Income Research. Wharton MBA and Lauder Institute graduate with an engineering background.

Stephen Wilson

Senior UCSF physician-executive with MD/PhD training from Harvard and long-standing leadership as Chief Clinical Strategy Officer and former Chief Medical Officer for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals.

Guillaume Roger

Professor of Economics and leading energy-markets scholar shaping Australia’s electricity-market design, regulation, and technology policy, with a USC-trained PhD and a decade of Monash leadership spanning market structure, grid innovation, and the economics of storage and renewables.

Rose Li

President and CEO of Rose Li and Associates. Former Chief of the Population and Social Processes Branch at the National Institute on Aging and former Health Scientist Administrator at NICHD. Chair of the Maryland Commission on Aging and former member of the Maryland State Board of Education. Researcher at Georgetown, trained at the University of Chicago and Princeton University.

Albert Lee

Distinguished National Institutes of Health program director and former National Institute of Standards and Technology leader with a PhD in combustion engineering and a Princeton research appointment.

Jean-Yves Bouguet

Caltech PhD and computer vision pioneer, founding engineer on Google Street View, and former head of advanced perception at Meta, Cruise, and Magic Leap, now a principal engineer shaping next-generation autonomy at Zoox.

Emmanuelle Delannoy

Global strategy and investment and thirteen years at Macquarie as Managing Director. Current leadership of Australia’s national industrial-investment corporation. Wharton graduate and early career Deloitte consultant.

Karen Sun

Senior UCSF pediatric leader and professor, serving as clinical chief and associate medical director of Pediatric Pain, Palliative, and Integrative Medicine. Yale Graduate.

Colin Bekemeyer

Global portfolio manager with twenty years leading concentrated value and governance-focused strategies across the U.S. and Asia, including thirteen years as a Managing Director at Oaktree. Harvard and Wharton graduate.

Craig Lawson

Senior managing director and co-founder of MHT Partners, with three decades across buy-side and sell-side M&A, capital raising, and strategic advisory, including senior roles at TD Cowen, Harris Williams, Bank of America Securities, Bear Stearns, and early buy-side experience at Fidelity Investments.

Jennifer Seuring

Senior finance executive serving as Chief Financial Officer at Wespath Benefits and Investments, with prior leadership as VP, CFO Product at TIAA and over a decade leading FP&A and procurement functions at Nuveen. MBA from the University of Chicago and B.S. in Finance from Indiana University