Beth is the founder and  the President of Keene Solutions, a firm that provides outsourced human resource support, management coaching, training and advises non-profit clients on board governance issues. Beth spent nearly 20 years in the non-profit, bio-research sector with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA. Her most recent role was that of Vice President, Human Resources.  She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the National Postdoctoral Association, as the Chair of Board Development, has served on the board of the San Diego Biotechnology Employment Development Coalition and on the San Diego Employers Association Advisory Council.

Bud has a track record of entrepreneurial leadership spanning three decades.   He was the senior business development, marketing and sales executive and an officer at four public corporations, each company a supplier of high technology for life sciences.  Prior to those positions, his 18 year career at Hewlett-Packard Company included worldwide sales responsibility for Bioscience Products, Global Accounts and the International Olympic Committee and international management assignments in Japan and Latin America.  Currently, he consults for a virtual drug discovery company and is on the scientific advisory board at the Vancouver Prostate Centre’s Laboratory for Advanced Genome Analysis.

Elizabeth is Executive Vice President Chief Strategy Officer of GA Communication. She spends every day immersed in today’s multi-faceted media world by creating, shaping and directing  business and communication strategies along with multi-channel media efforts for the clients of the Chicago-based agency. Her unique skill set is borne out of 20+ years in broadcast media, including Director of News/Talk/Sports Programming for 11 News/Talk and Sports Radio Stations for Clear Channel Communications.   Elizabeth was principal and co-founder of JHG, a San Diego-based digital agency that focused on digital and mobile channels. JHG’s clients included the NFL, Yahoo, Comcast, Rogers Communications and Qualcomm, among others. In 2009, JHG was acquired by GA Communication. Elizabeth is currently pioneering a role working with healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations and their quest to reach both consumers and healthcare professionals, while managing around the absence of current FDA guidelines.

Janet is the CEO and founder of iChanneX Corporation. Prior to founding iChanneX, she served as VP Global Product Development at Inasoft, a start-up company, Vice President of SAIC, a $6B Technology Integration Company, Xerox Corporation, and Ford Aerospace Telecom Subsidiary-Starnet. Janet has led teams in developing innovative IT solutions for customers such as Kaiser Permanente, Saskatchewan Provincial Health, Department of Defense Health Services, and BellSouth Wireless among many others. Janet believes strongly in community services and globalization; she serves on the Sharp HealthCare Foundation Board of Directors and is a mentor for the UCSD Rady School of Management Mentor Program. In 2006, she received the San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award.

Geoff is a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute and an Adjunct Professor at the University of California, San Diego in the Department of Biology.  He obtained a B.A. in Bacteriology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a PhD in Biological Chemistry from Harvard University, where he studied with Dr. Mario Capecchi. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University in the laboratory of Dr. George Stark. He joined The Salk Institute and became Professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory in 1989. His research focuses on two important problems related to cancer biology. The first concerns the signal transduction pathways that ensure the control of genetic stability in normal cells and are invariably disrupted during cancer progression.  A second project involves determining relationships between the “state of stemness” and cancer. Geoff has published more than 150 articles and reviews related to genetic instability, p53 functions, the control of DNA replication, and has several in submission related to the stem cell state and cancer. He has contributed to the development of numerous technologies in wide use in molecular and cellular biology and holds a number of patents. He serves as a reviewer for major biomedical journals, is on several editorial Boards, and has taken an active role in increasing public knowledge of, and funding for, cancer research. He was elected President of the American Association for Cancer Research, the largest and oldest cancer research organization in the world, for 2006-2007.

Jeff is the founder of Wolf Management Consultants and has built a valued practice that speaks to key problems confronting businesses today. Jeff is known as one of America’s most dynamic speakers, is considered one of the top executive coaches in the country and is a highly sought after management consultant. Jeff was a former CEO of one of the country’s largest healthcare receivables management companies and a former CEO of a prestigious polling and political opinion research corporation involved in strategic decisions for congressional, senatorial and presidential races. Jeff’s new book, Roadmap to Success, with management gurus Ken Blanchard and Stephen Covey has just been released and his second book, The Essence of Effective Leadership, debuts soon.

John is Associate Vice Chancellor of Research at the University of California at San Diego and a founding member of The Nicholas Conor Institute.  He is a leader in bringing computers and biology together. He created the first programs within the U.S. government for funding research in bioinformatics and computational biology. This effort included collaborating on the first stages of the genome project. In his position as Associate Vice Chancellor of Research at UCSD, his primary responsibilities as part of the campus academic leadership team are establishing priorities and undertaking new initiatives, and developing and implementing new research and training programs in science and engineering. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the university in pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry, and a strategic advisor and Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. For the new UCSD California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology, John directs the biology and biomedical applications component, termed Digitally-enabled Genomic Medicine, a step in delivering personalized medicine in a wireless clinical setting.