Welcome to Haas Women Mentorship Network

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I'm a former marketing executive turned ICF-certified executive and career coach. I spent 20+ years at TikTok, Google, Cisco, and Intel navigating my own career growth from individual contributor to global team leader. I bring this lived experience into every coaching and mentoring conversation. Check out my LinkedIn profile for more details.

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Anita is a proven leader with an extensive background in both the Food and Beverage (F&B) industry and Program Management at Google. She has over ten years of experience in restaurant operations, having served as a Regional Restaurant Manager for the Nordstrom Restaurant Division and Director of Operations for Good Food Guys (Mixt, Split). For over six years, Anita has worked at Google, currently serving as an Accessibility Program Manager. Her previous role at Google was Food Program Manager (Feb 2019–Jul 2025) where she had oversight of long-term logistics, commissary kitchen strategy and finance for the Bay Area Food Program, which operates over 500 food spaces, including cafes, food trucks, coffee bars, and mini kitchens. Anita holds an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and a B.A. from Stanford University. Feel free to email me at anitar@berkeley.edu if you can't find a time slot.

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Ex- Venture Capital (Chief of Staff), Management Consultant (Private Equity) @Bain & Investment Banker @JP Morgan Chase, now focused on building and furthering impact at the intersection of consulting & tech strategy. I believe the best leaders lead with compassion and curiosity. Big appetite for solving problems, bold ideas, books & food. Let’s swap stories, share recommendations and see where the conversation goes!

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Hello! My name is Anna Chen and I'm passionate about playing at the intersection of Biomedical Innovation and Strategic Execution. I am currently a strategic planning lead at Abbott where I work on long-range growth strategy in Diabetes Care. Prior, I lead the launch of an multi-omic liquid biopsy diagnostic at Guardant Health and also executed $30M in strategic partnerships with BioPharma. I started my career at McKinsey where I performed due diligences across Pharma, MedTech and Payers. I hold a PhD in Molecular Metabolism from the University of Chicago and I also hold a B.A. from Berkeley in Integrated Biology. Go bears!

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Rebecca Grubman is a leadership coach for founders, executives, and senior leaders, empowering them to build their careers and lives with clarity, sustainability, and alignment with their values. She helps leaders navigate complex decisions, lead with intention, and create meaningful success that is both high-performing and deeply fulfilling. Rebecca started her career in healthcare consulting and holds an MBA and Master of Public Health from UC Berkeley. She went on to work in tech startups before founding her coaching practice.

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I lead the Policy Operations team within Salesforce's Office of Ethical and Humane Use of Technology. We're responsible for operationalizing and enforcing policies related to the use of AI and technology across Salesforce's suite of products. With over 10 years of experience in trust and safety, compliance, and risk management, I have a proven track record of building teams that drive effective program and policy implementation.

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I’ve spent my career building and leading revenue organizations, working across both Sales and Operations. I’ve led teams ranging from small, early-stage groups to larger, more complex organizations, and have partnered closely with executive leadership, including presenting to boards. More recently, I've transitioned into RevOps helping drive insights and integrate AI into processes.

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I can help early mid and senior folks with career advise, work life balance, people maangement skills.

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I empower everyday families through financial education, strategy, and business opportunities. I'm an Investment Advisor Representative and Branch Office Supervisor with Transamerica Financial Advisors, LLC. I focus on holistic financial strategies—including retirement planning, asset allocation, education funding, family protection, and insurance needs. My passion lies in helping individuals and families build abundance and freedom through financial independence. My journey began not in finance, but in search of it. As an immigrant new to the U.S., I was focused on survival—but determined to thrive. I became a client first, drawn by the life-changing solutions TFA offered. What started as curiosity soon became a calling. I transitioned from part-time to full-time and now lead a growing team of over 130 associates, including 30+ licensed professionals. Before TFA, I held roles at McKinsey & Company, Procter & Gamble, and Zynga, spanning consulting, brand management, product, and supply chain management across both Fortune 100 companies and fast-growth startups. These diverse experiences shaped my approach to leadership and business building. What drew me to TFA and keeps me here is its powerful mission: “No family left behind.” It aligns with my own purpose—empowering others to thrive, building businesses that transform lives, and leaving a lasting impact on our communities. Outside of work, I’m a proud wife and mother of two, and a lifelong lover of the performing arts. I’ve taught and performed as a dancer and musician, and I believe in embracing life—its joys, challenges, and meaningful moments—with intention and heart.

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Evelyn is a senior healthcare executive with deep experience scaling revenue, expanding strategic accounts, and commercializing complex healthcare services across payer, provider, and value-based care markets. She has a proven ability to translate strategy into execution across partnerships, customer success, marketing, and operations—building the infrastructure and high performing teams required for sustainable growth in emerging and evolving healthcare categories.

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I spent 9 years working in public education, first as a teacher and then in a variety of management roles at education non-profits. I then attended Haas, where I was Co-President of WIL and an HSA. Following Haas, I Joined McKinsey & Company in San Francisco where I've been for 9 years and work across financial services, tech, and federal government clients.

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Frances Chiu is a Director of Operations & Strategy at QuinStreet, where she leads cross-platform business integration, operational performance, and enterprise data initiatives across multi-sided digital marketplaces. A Berkeley Haas alumna, Frances has navigated the intersection of commercial strategy, complex technical infrastructure, and executive decision-making. As a mentor, she is passionate about helping women in business find their strategic voice, transition from day-to-day execution to broad organizational influence, and lead large-scale cross-functional transformations with confidence.

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I'm a Haas alum ('99) and former top-ranked tennis player for the Philippines, with a Southeast Asian Games gold medal and NCAA All-American honors at Cal. I've spent more than 20 years in product, marketing, data and AI. I began my career at tech startups in San Francisco, earned a Wharton MBA in 2010, then worked at Microsoft and spent nine years at DocuSign. Most recently I was Chief Data Officer at Early Warning, the operator of Zelle®, where I led a 50+ person data, analytics and AI organization. In 2026 I went independent as a Data and AI Advisor to small and medium-sized companies, and I'm working toward a certification in leadership coaching. I still compete for Team USA in masters tennis. Happy to talk about executive leadership, building and managing teams, career transitions, going out on your own, and keeping a real life outside a demanding job.

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I have over 20 years of experience in investment management. I earned my BS from the undergraduate Haas School of Business in 1997 before beginning my career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York. After receiving my MBA from Stanford University, I joined Fidelity Investments in Boston as an equity analyst and fund manager. Today, I am a Portfolio Manager and Senior Equity Analyst at Zevin Asset Management, a Boston-based boutique investment firm with a global focus and a specialization in socially responsible investing. I am incredibly excited to align my investment experience with my passion for impact - helping clients express their values while investing in companies that are building a healthy, sustainable, and just future.

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My career spans 25 years at three different professional services firms - a Big 6 accounting firm, a public consulting firm, and 20 years at a medium-sized valuation firm. I started as an analyst and individual contributor and now currently co-lead an office of 40 employees and sit on the company's board of directors. My role focuses on operations and people management. I am constantly looking for ways to make things better and am influenced by leadership voices like Adam Grant.

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I have 18+ years of legal marketing and business development experience.

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Jessica Wan is an ICF-certified executive coach who partners with leaders in the workplace to navigate change, manage teams effectively, and lead authentically. Before starting her coaching practice, she led marketing teams and product launches for 18 years at organizations such as Apple, Smule, Magoosh, and the San Francisco Opera. Jessica thrives at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts, and she draws on both creative and analytical approaches in her coaching to bring awareness and action to the forefront. Outside of her business career, Jessica is a singer specializing in classical, opera, and musical theater genres. She has sung with Pocket Opera, LIEDER ALIVE!, Goat Hall Productions, the Berkeley Fringe Festival, Opera on Tap, and the Yehudi Menuhin Chamber Music Festival. Jessica’s research project for the past three years is The Ampersand Manifesto: a podcast she created, produces, and hosts where she interviews people who, like her, have built multiple careers in two (or more) different worlds. With Kristina Libby, she co-leads The Cohort, a community for Ampersands. Recently, she had the opportunity to speak (and sing) at SXSW about dual business-creative careers. Jessica earned her MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, double majored in Product Design and Music at Stanford University, and earned her coaching certification at Center for Executive Coaching. She lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband, 9-year-old son, and a shih-tzu named Sesame.

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Julia Griffiths is a mission-driven marketing leader with 20+ years of experience driving multi-billion dollar growth strategies for leading global biotech organizations. Currently a Senior Director at Gilead Sciences, she is guiding the commercial entry of a novel therapy for Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC) for patients, bridging the gap between clinical potential and market reality. She is recognized for her ability to solve through ambiguity, balancing data-driven clarity with an optimistic outlook for what is possible to ensure the patient voice remains the guiding objective of every commercial decision. An adaptive leader, Julia cultivates high-performing teams rooted in trust and a shared "fall forward" mentality. Whether leading global cross-functional strategies or serving on nonprofit boards, she is defined by her tenacity, strategic innovation, and an unwavering commitment to driving broader societal impact. Julia lives in San Francisco with her husband and 2 children.

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Hello! I am a marketing generalist who has worked in consumer package goods, SaaS, and high growth tech companies. My experience spans partner marketing, product marketing, customer marketing, and brand management. I look forward to connecting with you!

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Hi — I deeply care about my career, and I truly believe I am where I am because someone opened doors for me and believed in me. But most importantly — I believed in myself. I've learned that there is no real ceiling when you decide to go after something wholeheartedly. That belief is what led me, at 40, to go back to school at Haas for my MBA. I'm an immigrant woman who started in technology and engineering and transitioned into Product Management about a decade ago. Since then, I've led deeply technical, developer-facing products in automation, integrations, and AI at companies like MuleSoft/Salesforce, Splunk, including leading the multi-sided marketplace platform at MuleSoft that helped accelerate growth to a $2B+ business and launching multiple 0→1 products reaching $100M+ ARR. Today, I'm working on my own AI startup in the Finance space. I'm passionate about passing these lessons forward and helping open doors for other women — because when you believe in yourself, magic happens. What I can help with: Whether you're just starting out, navigating a career pivot, or stepping into leadership, I'd love to share what I've learned about building a career on your own terms - from betting on yourself when the path isn't obvious, to negotiating your seat at the table, to making big leaps without waiting for permission. I can offer practical guidance on B2B SaaS and AI product leadership, entrepreneurship, career transitions across functions and industries, and building a sustainable approach to work-life integration that doesn't ask you to shrink yourself.

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I design decision systems for safe, large-scale AI automation.

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For the past 20 years, Leslie has helped startups grow from zero to more than $100M in revenue and multiple exits through IPO and acquisition. Her go-to-market expertise spans multiple sectors, including SaaS, education technology, real estate, marketplaces, and DTC ecommerce. As the first marketing and sales team member of several B2B and B2C startups, she has built teams from the ground up, acquired millions of customers from paid and unpaid channels, achieved product-market fit and assisted in fundraising and exiting. Leslie earned a BA from UT Austin in the Plan II Honors Program, and an MBA from the University of California Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

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I am an investment manager with 30 years in global investing experience and also an entrepreneur in investment management with a deep passion for promoting the huge talent pool of women in finance and diverse entrepreneurs globally and help young females to join this never-boring and knowledge and skills-based industry. I am very excited to be in a team building an innovative investment system (www.lumenr4a.com) for wealth institutions and asset managers for end-to-end investment functions. A Principal and Co-founder of Lumen Advisors LLC in March 2002 and Lumen Global Investments LLC in 2018, I have 25+ years of experience investing in global and emerging market economies, debt, stocks, and currencies. I oversee the implementation of the proprietary cloud-based investment application. I started out in buy-side investment management, working with Simon Nocera at LGT, who launched the first SEC-registered Emerging Market Debt mutual fund in the U.S. Before joining LGT, I worked at Citicorp in Hong Kong in loan origination and syndication in Asian capital markets for 5 years. The opportunity to study Economics at Cambridge University, Newnham College, U.K., and later my MBA at UC Berkeley sowed the seeds of my finance and investment journey. I am most proud to be a steering committee member of 100 Women in Finance in Northern California, a global committee member of 100 Women in FinTech, and a co-organiser of the annual 100WF West Coast Allocators-Female Fund Managers (FundWomen) Conference in San Francisco, which has now gone global and virtual. I also sit on the investment committee of Asian Health Services and GoToAsia.

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Marketing and communications aren’t support functions, they are THE growth engines that fuel revenue, culture, and trust. That belief has guided my 20+ year career leading media, brand, marketing, and communications across tech (Microsoft, Yahoo), gaming (Xbox), and energy/CPG (Chevron). I’ve built global campaigns, guided executives through multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, and introduced AI-powered workflows that cut production timelines by 40%. My work spans B2B and B2C, where I’ve helped companies launch products, unify messaging across 30+ countries, and strengthen reputation with employees, policymakers, investors, and the media. What fuels me is curiosity: about media and communications, about the potential of data and AI, and about the growth mindsets and relationships that make teams thrive. I’m passionate about inspiring audiences, building strong teams, and translating complexity into stories that spark action and accelerate growth.

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Michelle is a writer, guide, and teacher bridging the mystical and the practical for founders, leaders, and creative souls. A former product executive and startup founder, she explores where inner transformation meets outer creation, drawing on timeless wisdom teachings to illuminate how consciousness shapes the way we live and create. Before the inner transformation that led her here, Michelle spent more than 25 years in tech as an engineer, product leader, marketing executive, and startup founder, in both corporations and startups at every stage. That experience grounds her mysticism in the real world. She serves on the board of Berkeley Haas Women in Leadership Alumnae, sponsors the Women Founders Network, and mentors founders and leaders, while remaining active in venture investing — bringing a perspective that holds vision, strategy, and spirit together.

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Natalia Gabrea is an executive advisor and leadership coach, facilitator, and speaker who helps mission-driven senior and executive leaders lead with more clarity, courage, and steadiness in high-stakes, high-visibility environments. She works with leaders in higher education, tech, government, healthcare, and social impact organizations where the stakes are real, the pressure is constant, and the emotional and productivity cost of avoidance is high. Her clients are navigating political and organizational complexity, working to create meaningful results while protecting trust, morale, and long-term capacity. Natalia helps leaders shift from reactive to intentional, from avoidant to candid and direct, from energy-depleting to generative action. Natalia brings a rare combination of engineering rigor, business acumen, lived CEO experience, neuroscience-informed coaching, and embodied practice. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas. She is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, a Certified Neuro-Transformational Coach.

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Oksana Gartvich is a technology leader, entrepreneur, and advisor with 15+ years of hands-on experience building products and leading teams across startups and growth-stage companies. Her work spans AI, SaaS, and digital platforms, with a strong focus on turning ideas into scalable, user-centered solutions. She is the founder of Purpozli, a social-impact platform reimagining everyday giving, and frequently supports founders and teams on product strategy, execution, and leadership. Oksana is particularly passionate about helping others navigate inflection points—whether that’s moving into leadership, redefining career direction, or building confidence in high-stakes environments.

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Over 20 years across Product, Tech. Diverse experiences across e-commerce, Healthcare Tech, IoT. Now building AI systems. colorful side gigs include: Food entrepreneur, Math instructor

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I've worn many hats across a 20-year career :consultant, engineer, and product leader and each transition taught me something the job description never could. I started in tech consulting, pivoted to engineering at Microsoft, and eventually moved into product leadership. None of these moves were linear, and none were easy - especially navigating spaces where women were few and far between. That's exactly why I'm here. I mentor high school students, college students, and early-career professionals navigating their own pivots — whether it's landing your first role, preparing for interviews, or making a bold career move

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I bring 20+ years of hands-on experience in product, GTM, marketing, and growth across enterprise tech, SaaS, consulting, and venture-backed startups. I’ve worked with teams across the US and EU, from early-stage founders to global leaders like AWS, Google, and Microsoft. My background and Executive MBA from UC Berkeley–Haas help me bring a clear, strategic lens to complex product and growth challenges.

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With over 16 years of experience in corporate banking, I am a seasoned Relationship Banker, where I focus on early stage, mid cap and large multinational corporations with investment and commercial/corporate banking needs. I have a proven track record of delivering value-added solutions for my clients, ranging from capital origination and allocation, mergers and acquisitions, sustainable and scalable corporate finance strategies, to risk and liquidity management. I leverage my analytical skills, capital markets knowledge, and relationship management abilities to provide comprehensive and customized banking solutions for healthcare companies in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. I am also passionate about improving diversity and inclusion, developing junior talent, and creating a collaborative and productive environment.

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3 years at NVIDIA driving product development for AV and Robotics researchers (data management, CI/CD). Prior to MBA / MEng, led technology strategy projects in consulting.

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I’m a marketing operations leader with deep experience in AI and large language model (LLM) go-to-market, including supporting campaigns and lifecycle programs at Cohere and other B2B SaaS companies. Passion for mentoring, marketing tech, and enabling clarity for teams. My sweet spot is bringing order to ambiguity. I build self-serve campaign systems, lifecycle programs, and reporting frameworks that let small, fast-moving GTM teams operate like a much larger organization without breaking data integrity, governance, or customer experience. Recent work includes key contribution to HubSpot to Marketo migration, designing scalable self-serve playbooks, and improving sales-ready lead conversion for AI/LLM product launches.

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I'm a seasoned product management executive with broad experience building and scaling products that solve meaningful consumer problems, including experience leading product teams at PayPal and Google. My product leadership experience spans roles at small high-growth organizations to leading global multi-product-portfolios at significant scale. I am a dual Bear (Berkeley undergrad and MBA) and look forward to connecting!

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I spent more than twenty years as a management consultant at large firms including PwC and Ernst & Young leading large-scale transformation work for organizations like Google and the U.S. government. 5 years ago I decided to start my own company, Journey Fuel help individuals make change, using the same strategic methods.

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20+ years in financial services. From investment banking to fintech to financial regulator. Currently Sr. Director running business unit strategy team at FINRA, the self-regulatory organization overseeing US-based brokerage firms to ensure market integrity and investor protection. Calculated risk taker, armed with entrepreneurial drive, solid financial competency, and hands-on operational experience through high-stakes endeavors in the US and Asia. Passionate about Fin-Tech and high-growth business environments. Track record of strategy execution, including leading LendingClub's acquisition of Radius Bank, transforming the business into a digital marketplace bank. Successfully scaled an international team of financial research analysts from ground-zero to a multi-million dollar business with 80+ employees. Strong reputation for getting things done, navigating ambiguity, and exerting influence across the organization.

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I'm a Berkeley MBA graduate with a Chemical Engineering undergraduate, 20+ years of experience in Software, Cloud and AI. I currently manage Microsoft's partnership with ServiceNow including product strategy, go to market, co-sell, and investments. Prior to managing ServiceNow, I led partnerships with Accenture, Capgemini, and Cognizant. Earlier in my career, I have been in direct sales, sales management, product marketing, operations, and brand marketing. I've switched industries several times, as well as switching functions. Topics of interest to me: Career switching, technical sales, alliance/partner management, career planning, non-profit board leadership, public service.

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