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Please join us for our next FountainBlue When She Speaks event. Friday, April 11, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. FountainBlue’s When She Speaks, Women in Le
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Please join us for our next FountainBlue When She Speaks event.
Friday, April 11, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
FountainBlue’s When She Speaks, Women in Leadership Series
Building and Reinforcing Your Executive Brand
PayPal, 2161 North 1st Street, San Jose
Individual Admissions: $30 for members, $40 for partners, $50 for general admission
Corporate passes cost $100 for up to 5 people, $200 for up to 10 people, plus a $9 processing fee.
Become a calendar-year member for $120. Membership includes:
complimentary event admission,
a $20 discount for other 2014 events and
a complimentary half hour of coaching or advising
Please note that you can request an invoice and submit a check to avoid processing fees.
For more information, and for all registration options, visit http://www.whenshespeaks.com |
Your brand tells people who you, and what to expect from you whether at work or at home. It helps people decide whether to trust you, and what to trust you about. Effective executives, both women and men, proactively build their brand, to ensure that others think highly of them, and have the confidence that they can execute under specific circumstances, and even in situations where they have little connections and expertise. Indeed, your executive brand can limit or launch your success. This month, our panel of women leaders will talk about what they have done to build and reinforce their executive brand, and how they leverage that brand to build credibility, position themselves and their teams and organizations for success, and strategically manage their career development.
Facilitator Jerri Barrett, VP of Outreach, SENS Research Foundation
Panelist Katja Gagen Gehrt, VP Marketing, General Catalyst Partners, former Senior Executive Communications Manager for Cisco's President, Development & Sales
Panelist Shaya Fathali, Senior Manager, Technical Communications, Altera
Panelist Tamara Lucero, Director of Inside Sales, Cypress
Panelist Emily Ward, Vice President and General Counsel, eBay |
Facilitator Jerri Barrett, Vice President of Outreach, SENS Research Foundation
Jerri Barrett is currently serving as Vice President of Vice President of Outreach, SENS Research Foundation, where she is leading all aspects of Fundraising, Business Development, Marketing, Communications and Branding, and working on creating the first US Conference.
Previously, she was doing Marketing and PR project management for clients including Global Tech Women,
Calysto Communications, 24 Notion Public Relations, GreatNonprofits and The Leadership Diva. Prior to that, she was Vice President of Marketing at Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, where she led the institute's branding, messaging and marketing functions. I implemented a three year plan to increase visibility and impact achieving significant press coverage including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Fox Business and tripled the number of subscribers. Prior to that, she was Director of Corporate Communications at IP Unity Glenayre, Director of Sales and Marketing at HighWired Technologies.
Jerri is the Founding Board Member and Treasurer of Telemessaging Industry Association (TMIA). She holds an MBA in Marketing from University of Rochester - William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts, Biology from Mount Holyoke College. |
Panelist Katja Gagen Gehrt, VP Marketing, General Catalyst Partners, former Senior Executive Communications Manager for Cisco's President, Development & Sales
Katja Gagen is the Vice President Marketing at General Catalyst Partners (GCP), a venture capital firm focused on early stage and growth investment opportunities. Katja oversees marketing and branding for GCP and its executives and provides marketing support to portfolio companies and entrepreneurs.
Before joining GCP, Katja worked at Cisco where she ran communications and positioning for the company’s President, Engineering and Sales. She worked closely with Cisco’s senior leaders on global activities in investor, media and industry analyst relations, and employee and executive communications.
Katja holds an M.A. in International Relations, Political Science and Linguistics and a B.A. in Business Management. |
Panelist Shaya Fathali, Senior Manager, Technical Communications, Altera
Shaya Fathali is currently Senior Manager, Technical Communications at Altera. She was formerly Manager, External Memory Interfaces Applications Engineering and Member of Technical Staff, Applications Engineer at Altera and began her career as Senior Verification Engineer, Actel Corporation. She earned her BS, EECS from University of California, Berkeley. |
Panelist Tamara Lucero, Director of Inside Sales, Cypress
Tamara Lucero is currently Director of Inside Sales at Cypress. She was previously Marketing Director and Director of Customer Marketing and Sr. Customer Marketing Manager as well as a Supply Chain Specialist, all at Cypress.
Tamara has a BA in Marketing from the University of Phoenix and an AA in Marketing from Chabot College. |
Panelist Emily Ward, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, eBay
Emily Ward is currently Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and the worldwide head of technology and patent law for eBay, PayPal, and all eBay subsidiaries. She leads the group that handles eBay’s worldwide technology legal and patent issues, including intellectual property (“IP”) strategy, technology & patent litigation, IP licensing, patent prosecution, patent acquisitions & sales, open source, standards bodies, and IP issues when eBay is buying/selling companies.
Emily has 24 years of experience with technology, IP and litigation. She has a degree in chemical engineering and is a registered patent attorney. She has testified on patent reform before Congress and taught at many conferences and panels.
Prior to joining eBay, she represented clients in diverse areas of technology including: the Internet, computer software and hardware, semiconductor devices, manufacturing equipment and processes, neural networks, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, chemical processes and catalysts, and many other areas. She was an IP litigator at several well-known law firms including Weil, Gotshal & Manges, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue and Fenwick & West. |
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FountainBlue's When She Speaks Women in Leadership Series was launched in May 2006 and provides ongoing networking and program benefits for 50-200 high tech women and men-who-support-having-women-in-leadership positions across Silicon Valley and beyond. On the second Fridays over lunch, we profile a panel of women senior executives in high tech companies, speaking on a range of leadership challenges and issues for Silicon Valley high tech women in particular. Our series celebrates women leaders, stimulates critical thinking and conversation around leadership challenges and issues, empowers and inspires all participants, including the next generation of leaders, and builds a proactive, collaborative and supportive leadership community overall.
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2014 When She Speaks Events
May 9 @ Aruba, Standing on the Shoulders of Mentors
June 13 @ EMC, Millennials in Our Midst!
July 11 at @ Visa, Leveraging Social Media for Work and Play
August 8 @ Cisco, Politics in the Workplace: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Sept 12 @ Texas Instruments, Women Making Their Own Rules
Oct 10 @ eBay, Women Leading Innovation
Nov 14 @ Symantec, The Business Case for Diversity
Dec 12 @ Applied Materials, Getting The Most Out Of Both You and Your Team |
FountainBlue's Tell Me a Story Series is an extension of its successful When She Speaks, Women in Leadership Series. Partnering with leaders and organizations across the valley, we will collect and share inspiring, informative and engaging stories from tech leaders from across Silicon Valley and beyond, shared as part of our weekly invitation - see below. At times, we will also profile inspirational stories from women leaders who have inspired us, led the way, and changed the world as we know it.
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Deobrah Sampson: In Search of Freedom and Adventure, from Woman in a Man's World
Deborah Sampson Gannett, better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who disguised as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She is part of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war. She served 17 months in the army, as "Robert Shurtlieff" of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point, New York in 1783.
She was quoted as saying "I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption... I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!
Source: Wikipedia |
This Week’s Quote
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional and political crisis. In so doing he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government and modernized the economy.
Bio Source: Wikipedia |
We hope to see you there!
Until we next connect,
Linda Holroyd
CEO, FountainBlue
Tech Adviser and CMO
Organizer, When She Speaks
Managing Editor, Tell Me a Story |
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