Here is a list of the many successful executives bringing their experience, insight, energy and skills to Camp BizSmart:

Shellye Archambeau
Shellye is CEO of MetricStream, and responsible for running all facets of the business. Ms. Archambeau has a proven executive management track record and over 20 years of experience driving sales growth in the technology industry. Prior to joining MetricStream, Shellye was Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of Sales for Loudcloud, Inc, responsible for all global sales and marketing activities. Previously, she served as Chief Marketing Officer of NorthPoint Communications and as president of Blockbuster, Inc.'s e-commerce division and was recognized by Internet World as one of the Top 25 'Click and Mortar' executives in the country. Shellye spent 15 years at IBM, and serves on the board of directors of Arbitron, Inc. and the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives.

Cristina Banks, Ph.D.
Cris is a professor at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She is an expert in human resource practices including selection and compensation, and has consulted with KIPP Charter Schools and was an early supporter of Bright Horizons Preschools. Cris has served on several corporate boards including Whole Foods and has founded, grown and sold several businesses such as Right Management Consultants and Terranova. She sits on the Advisory Board of Leadership California, and is President and Founder of Lamorinda Consulting LLC.

John Butler
John is CEO of Topline Advisors and is a Silicon Valley turn-around and start-up specialist. He is a former High Tech Executive working as a marketing executive for Apple from 1981 to 1994; Prior to that he was an IBM sales executive. He organized and conducted a student business plan competition at Menlo College.

Howard Charney
Howard Charney, Senior Vice President at Cisco, is a member of the Executive Staff and reports directly to CEO, John Chambers. Howard is an engineer, serial entrepreneur, patent attorney and 35 year veteran of Silicon Valley's High-tech industry. He was one of four founders of 3Com, and founder of Grand Junction Networks which invented Fast Ethernet and low cost switching. Grand Junction Networks was acquired by Cisco. Howard hold degrees in engineering from MIT, an MBA and juris doctor degrees from Santa Clara University.

Abhinav Dev
Abhinav is a freshman at University of California at Santa Barbara, and a Saratoga High School Graduate. At Saratoga he won the President's Education Award. He has interned at Vhayu Technologies and has worked as a summer kid's tennis coach.

Margee Ensign
Margee is currently the Dean of the School of International Studies (SIS), and Associate Provost for International Initiatives at the University of the Pacific which has campuses in San Francisco (Dugoni School of Dentistry), Sacramento, (McGeorge School of Law) and the main campus located in Stockton. The School of International Studies offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in international and intercultural relations and is establishing a program in social entrepreneurship. Dr. Ensign came to Pacific from Washington D.C. where she helped established a graduate program for Tulane University focused on the study of international development. She began her career at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. For the past decade she has worked on development projects in Central, East and West Africa, including a PEPFAR project in Rwanda. She is completing a book Rwanda: History and Hope, with Dr. William Bertrand that focuses on progress since the genocide of 1994 that will form the basis for a PBS film.

Jim Fruchterman
Benetech Founder and CEO. A technology entrepreneur, Jim Fruchterman is a former rocket scientist who has founded two of the foremost optical character recognition companies and developed successful social enterprises. Jim cofounded Calera Recognition Systems in 1982. Calera developed character recognition that allowed computers to read virtually all printed text. In 1989, Jim founded Arkenstone, a nonprofit social enterprise, to produce reading machines for the disabled community based on the Calera technology. Following the sale of the Arkenstone product line in 2000, Jim used all the resulting capital to fund Benetech, with an explicit goal of using the power of technology to serve humanity. Jim has been named a MacArthur Fellow, an Outstanding Social Entrepreneur in 2003 by the Schwab Foundation, and Benetech received the Skoll Award for social entrepreneurship under Jim's leadership. Jim believes that technology is the ultimate leveler, allowing disadvantaged people to achieve more equality in society.

Mike Gibbs, PhD.
Mike is CEO and Co-Founder of Camp BizSmart, and has over 30 years experience working in the education industry, and in Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric. Dr. Gibbs has taught thousands of executives in the Haas Business School international business MBA program and understands the real time, business and education skills needed for students to compete globally. He is also CEO and co-founder of Scientia Schools, Inc. Dr Gibbs has consulted with the U.S. Department of Education, the Santa Clara County Department of Education, and school districts around the country. He has participated in several Silicon Valley start-ups including Eployment and Success Factor Systems.

Peggy Gibbs
Peggy is CFO and Co-Founder of Camp BizSmart. She has 25 years in non-profit management – creating, managing & raising funds for education, the arts and health initiatives and technology solutions. Most recently, she was Vice President, Business Development, for the award winning social enterprise company, Benetech. At The Health Trust she served as Director of BrainWise Learning, led Strategic Partnership and Business Development for the foundations' program incubator and co-founded the public private initiative, Santa Clara County Partnership for School Readiness. Her work with local school districts brought innovative education programs to students in Silicon Valley. Peggy is also co-founder and CFO of Scientia Schools.

Bill Goodrich
Bill is a former middle school principal at the award winning Windmill Springs School, and currently works on teacher certification projects for the Dean of Education at San Jose State University.

Roberta Greenspan
Mom and CEO of Wateroos Roberta Greenspan founded Maddie's Beverage Company, maker of Wateroos all-natural children's drink boxes, in January 2005, after becoming concerned about the lack of healthy and convenient children's beverages available for her two-year-old daughter. Roberta developed Wateroos to fill the gap for a healthier alternative to high-sugar and high-caloric juices and believed her product would appeal to other parents who also wanted to teach their children good nutritional habits from a young age. Prior to developing Wateroos, she was director of service operations at Napster where she built and managed a division to handle 10,000 customer inquiries per day. Before Napster, Roberta was vice president of client services for NewChannel. In addition to her professional achievements, she has been a youth mentor with Friends For Youth, volunteer with Trips for Kids, and a professional mentor with Women Unlimited.

Xavier Helgesen
Xavier Co-founded Better World Books and 3bstudios.com a successful college community portal company. Xavier graduated Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Management Information Systems. Xavier served as the original software architect of Better World Books' proprietary software (Indaba) technology and continues to oversee key aspects of technology development. Xavier is based in San Francisco, California.

R. Paul Herman
Paul is Founder & CEO of HIP Investor, an innovative company featured in Fast Company Magazine. - As a strategist at McKinsey and Omidyar Network, R. Paul Herman helped clients achieve top performance with high-leverage advice and counsel. As an entrepreneur, Paul has delivered innovative customer value and societal impact. As a grantmaker and fundraiser at Ashoka.org, Paul coached social entrepreneurs, connecting social investors with those high-impact organizations.

Ali Shirvani-Mahdavi
Ali, CEO of Cybele Consulting has a Ph.D. from MIT. He was a senior manager for Accenture, a consultant for Cap Gemini, and a researcher at MIT. Ali specializes in organization design and knowledge networking among multinational firms.

Harry Motro
Harry was CEO of Infoseek, an Internet search and software company, which was sold to Disney. He started CNN Interactive and ran his own venture firm. Harry has deep understanding of the creative process, particularly as it applies to producing entertainment. He spent time working in television (TBS, CNN, TNT, Cartoon Network...), movies (MGM/UA), animation (Hanna Barbera) and the Internet (CNN Interactive). Harry is now a successful multimedia artist.

Geetha Murali
Geetha is the Senior Product Marketing Manager for the innovative web start up Koollage.com. She earned her PhD at University of California Berkeley, and has traveled extensively in India as a program manager for the American India Foundation. Prior to that Geetha was a biostatistician for Chiron Pharmaceuticals.

Charlie Northend
He got his first job in advertising over 30 years ago. He was 11. And although delivering the local Penny Saver was fun when he was in sixth grade, he eventually set his sights on greater things. As President of DMNA, Charlie has worked on accounts such as Apple, NEC, AT&T, Sun, Bell Helmets, Brooks Running Shoes and Comcast Cable. Under Charlie's direction, DMNA has grown into one of the largest agencies in Silicon Valley. He has been recruited to judge the National Student Advertising Competition on four occasions and is served two years as president of AAF Silicon Valley.

Ken Philipp
Over the past eight years Ken Philipp has been VP of Sales at three valley startups, the last of which was acquired by VMware where Ken works today in the sales department. An engineer by training, Ken also has an MBA from Santa Clara University. During his MBA program Ken and his team competed against other classmates in developing their own business from start to finish and presenting the business plan to a board of venture capitalists. Ken's team won the overall competition and had follow up discussions on the potential launch of the venture. Ken has been in professional sales roles for his entire career and received formal sales training at IBM.

Bill Reichert
Bill is Managing Dir. Garage Technology Venture, and has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and an operating executive. He sits on the Boards of CaseStack, WhiteHat, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Prior to Garage, Bill was a co-founder or senior executive in several venture-backed technology startups, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, and Academic Systems. Earlier in his career, he worked at McKinsey & Company, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and the World Bank.

Mythili Sankaran
Koollage CEO. Mythili is the tech junkie steering the ship. Known for plunging into hazardous waters – e.g. cricket while in labor and grand canyon hiking in winter – her family is certainly happy to have her heading Koollage, a dramatically "safer" venture. Having worked on many firsts like video-on-demand chips, digital answering machines, and Palm's wireless OS, Mythili is a whole lot of everything – 100% mom, 100% cook (her record is food for 350 right from her stove), 100% executive, and 200% Koollager! With an unreasonable addiction to Indian junk food, she has graced the halls of IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent and Palm – passing on her junk food addiction to Nobel Laureates along the way, while covering a spectrum from fundamental physics to cutting edge mobile internet technologies.

Jodell Seagrave
Jodell is a consultant for Media and Interactive Companies. Prior experience includes, Managing Dir. Charles Schwab Learning were she was responsible for leading a team to develop Schwab Learning Program content. She increased Schwab Learning Program reach among children and families, and built effective distribution channels. Jodell spent 12 years in executive management positions in early-stage media and interactive companies serving the young adult, teen and children's marketplace, and more than 13 years in executive management positions in the broadcast radio and television business. Jodell was nominated for recognition in the American Marketing Association/ Media Inc. Hall of Fame in 1995.

Kirsten Saenz Tobey
Revolution Foods, Founder and COO, began her career as a teacher and coordinator of experiential education programs at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts and a teacher with Amigos de las Americas in Ecuador. During college, she ran children's garden education programs in California and Rhode Island, where she enjoyed helping children to connect with the source of their food. Her passion for sustainability and community health led her to run a public health campaign for Earthjustice. She managed a study abroad program for the School for Field Studies in Mexico where she worked with college students to study the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the fishing industry. During graduate school, she worked with the United Nations Hunger Task Force to evaluate the scalability of school feeding programs in Ghana and with the McDonald's Corporation to incorporate social and environmental responsibility into the supply chain. Kirsten has an AB from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Elaine Wu
Elaine is a 2008 graduate of Stanford University in International Relations, and has studied overseas at Oxford and Peking University. At Stanford, she has worked as a resident assistant, peer mentor, and Summit Co-director of the Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society. She has also had experience as a math tutor and as an ESL instructor in China.

Erich Ziegler
Erich Ziegler is the Director of Marketing for Paycycle, America's #1 Online payroll provider. He has an MBA from theThunderbird School of Global Management. He worked 6 years in international marketing with Ogilvy & Mather, Shell Oil, and Hugo Boss, and seven years with Netflix as Director of Marketing.

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