Event Archives

Pascal Levensohn, Managing Director, Levensohn Venture Partners, LLC
Date: Friday, October 06, 2006
Location: Santa Clara

Pascal Levensohn shared his thoughts on the challenges and opportunities of building effective boards.

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Jim Pouliot, CEO, CSAA
Date: Friday, June 16, 2006
Location: Oakland

Jim Pouliot shared his experiences with how his insistence on value-based behaviors in his organizations led to better performance and higher profitability.

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Bannus Hudson, Chairman/President/CEO, BevMo!
Date: Friday, June 09, 2006
Location: San Francisco

Bannus Hudson shared his unique philosophies on leadership and management gained through his experiences with growing LensCrafters and then revitalizing Beverages & More. Bannus grew LensCrafters from 20 stores to 800 and was responsible for changing the structure of the vision industry.

Steve Newberry, President & CEO, Lam Research
Date: Friday, June 02, 2006
Location: Santa Clara

Steve Newberry shared his thoughts on value based leadership with us and explained how he has applied these values at Lam Research.

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Eric Benhamou, Chairman, Palm, Inc.
Date: Friday, May 05, 2006
Location: Santa Clara

Eric Benhamou, an icon in the Silicon Valley, has served as CEO of Palm from 2001 to 2003 and CEO of 3Com from 1990 to 2000. He shared his "Ten Lessons Learned as CEO" with us.

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Shelby Bonnie, Chairman & CEO, CNET Networks
Date: Friday, March 10, 2006
Location: San Francisco

Shelby Bonnie discussed how he co-founded CNET Networks in 1993, grew it into a premier interactive media company and survived the dot.com bust. We enjoyed an incredibly insightful discussion with Shelby about his views on how the convergence of technology and other global trends are changing the world.

Jeff Rodek, Executive Chairman, Hyperion Solutions
Date: Friday, February 17, 2006
Location: Oakland

Jeff Rodek highlighted a number of critical times in his career and how he handled them. He touched on merger matters, methods of dealing with hard times, communication with his employees, and dealing with high turnover during the go-go IT bubble times in the late 1990s.

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T. J. Rodgers, President & CEO, Cypress Semiconductor
Date: Friday, February 03, 2006
Location: Santa Clara

T. J. Rodgers spoke about new technology and the development of environmentally friendly energy sources.

Tom Friel, Chairman & CEO, Heidrick & Struggles
Date: Friday, December 16, 2005
Location: Oakland

Tom Friel talked with Alliance members about succession planning, market demand for CEOs, and his observations of CEOs. He also discussed small company succession issues.

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Ned Barnholt, Chairman Emeritus, Agilent Technologies
Date: Friday, December 02, 2005
Location: Santa Clara

Ned Barnholt was responsible for guiding Agilent through its spin-off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999, and helped to shape a corporate culture widely recognized as best in class on a global basis.

Don Maruska, Author, "How Great Decisions Get Made"
Date: Friday, November 11, 2005
Location: San Francisco

Don Maruska, author of "How Great Decisions Get Made," discussed his ten-step process for one of the most important CEO tasks - making great decisions. Don's experience comes from founding and running three Silicon Valley companies: Health Advantage Ventures, Sun Medical Technologies and Spectra Biomedical.

Dan Warmenhoven, CEO, Network Appliance
Date: Friday, September 02, 2005
Location: Santa Clara

Dan Warmenhoven discussed his vision and strategies that have enabled Network Appliance to grow 40 times since he joined them in 1994. He focused their efforts on being the product innovation leader in their market, and created a strategy that IBM, HP and Sun found impossible to follow. We especially enjoyed listening to his leadership philosophies. Amazingly, he has built an executive team that has worked closely together for ten years!

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Chuck Smith, President & CEO, SBC West
Date: Friday, June 17, 2005
Location: Oakland

Chuck Smith shared some of the leadership lessons he has learned during his career, moving from an entry-level employee to CEO of SBC West.

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Rob Wrubel, CEO, Ask Jeeves & Founder, Yoga Works
Date: Friday, May 20, 2005
Location: Oakland

Rob's career has taken him from journalism and educational software to CEO of Ask Jeeves to his newest venture, Yoga Works - the largest and highest quality family of yoga studios in America.

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Bill Novelli, CEO, AARP
Date: Friday, April 08, 2005
Location: San Francisco

Bill Novelli is the leader of one of the most powerful organizations in the country, AARP, with 65 million members. Bill spoke to the Alliance about "How America Can Afford to Grow Older."

Jerry Johnston, CEO, The Clorox Company
Date: Friday, March 18, 2005
Location: Oakland

Jerry spoke to the Alliance about his leadership philosophies and vision for The Clorox Company.

Bill Coleman, CEO, Cassatt & Founder, BEA Systems
Date: Friday, March 04, 2005
Location: Santa Clara

Bill is the CEO of Cassatt and Founder of BEA Systems - the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in revenues. Bill spoke to us about his personal philosophies in building and leading companies.

George Halvorson, Chairman & CEO, Kaiser
Date: Friday, December 17, 2004
Location: Oakland

George spoke to the Alliance about his leadership philosophies and vision for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan.

Mary O’Hara-Devereaux, Founder, Global Foresight
Date: Friday, December 10, 2004
Location: San Francisco

Mary O'Hara-Devereaux, an internationally known futurist and the author of several books, talked to Alliance members about "Navigating the Badlands" and her visions for the future.

John Hamm, General Partner, Venture Strategy Group
Date: Friday, December 03, 2004
Location: Santa Clara

Former CEO of Whistle Communications, John Hamm is the author of the highly acclaimed article in the Harvard Business Review on "Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Scale." John's presentation to the Alliance was "The CEO Operating System: A Model for Consistent Leadership Practice." Over the last six years, John has worked with over 120 CEOs nationwide providing strategy and leadership advice.