Ivgen Guner
Senior Vice President, Oracle
Ivgen Guner is the Senior Vice President of Global Business Finance at Oracle. Ms. Guner is responsible for providing decision support to all business units, strategic planning, financial analysis, business intelligence system management and management reporting.
Ms. Guner has more than 25 years of finance, accounting and executive management experience in the technology industry. Prior to joining Oracle in 1996, Ms. Guner was with Unisys Corporation for 13 years. At Unisys, she was instrumental and an integral part of the Burroughs/Sperry merger, which formed Unisys, while also holding various financial management roles.
Ms. Guner holds a Master of Science in Accounting from Walsh College in Troy, Michigan and graduated from the Ankara University, Turkey, with a Master of Science in Agricultural Engineering and Food & Fermentation Technology.
Laura Kray
Professor of Leadership, UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Laura Kray is the Warren E. and Carol Spieker Professor of Leadership at the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, where she has been on the faculty since 2002. She is also in the Leadership team of the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership at the Haas School of Business.
Kray has published over 60 articles examining how gender stereotypes, power, and status intersect to affect the careers of women and men, including how they approach negotiations, morality, and societal attitudes. Kray’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and she received awards from the Academy of Management and the International Association of Conflict Management.
Her work has also been featured in a wide range of media outlets, including Washington Post, National Public Radio, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Financial Times, Slate, Forbes, Huffington Post, Daily Beast, Scientific American, Business Week, and Time.com.
She is the founding director of the Women's Executive Leadership Program for UC Berkeley Executive Education. She provides leadership training based on cutting-edge research to organizations across the globe. In 2017-18 she will be a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Navin Sethi, CPA, JD, LLM
Partner, Wealth & Asset Management Tax Practice, Ernst & Young
Navin is a tax partner in the EY’s Financial Services Organization (FSO) in San Francisco. He specializes in providing tax consulting and compliance services to clients in the asset management industry. Navin’s clients include hedge funds, venture capital, fund of funds, private equity and real estate funds and he has over 20 years of work experience in both the public and private industry. Navin is a frequent speaker at alternative investment conferences and co-created a graduate course on the taxation of financial products in 2006 which he still teaches as an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University. Navin graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in accounting (BBA) and a law degree (JD). Navin later received a master’s in tax law (LLM) from Golden Gate University. Since 2005, Navin has been a board member of the Alameda County Library Foundation, a non-profit organization supporting our public libraries. Navin is married with two daughters and one chocolate Labrador. His wife is a pre-school teacher during the week and a news reporter on the weekends. When not at the office Navin enjoys playing tennis with his girls.
Gené Teare
Head of Content, Crunchbase
Gené Teare is Head of Content at Crunchbase. She is responsible for data on the Crunchbase platform, and the venture partners who contribute to the accuracy of the dataset. She covers global funding trends, women in tech, and women in venture.
Ms. Teare joined TechCrunch in 2008 to run Crunchbase. Working from the Atherton ranch, Ms. Teare was also involved with the setup of TechCrunch50 and TechCrunch Disrupt events from 2008 to 2012.
Ms. Teare began her early Internet career in the '90s by co-founding Cyberia, the original CyberCafe in London, with Eva Pascoe.
Amy Whitelaw
Managing Director, BlackRock
Amy Whitelaw is the Managing Director and the Head of the US & Canadian iShares Equity ETF Portfolio Engineering within BlackRock's Index Equity team. She is responsible for overseeing the management of the Americas listed US & Canadian iShares equity funds. She is a member of the LifePath Executive Committee and serves as a member of the US & Canada Defined Contribution Operating Committee. Ms. Whitelaw also co-chairs the Women's Initiative Network on the West Coast.
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Ms. Whitelaw's service with the firm dates back to 1999, including her years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, she led the Defined Contribution Portfolio Management team in Client Solutions, responsible for the management of defined contribution strategies for institutional and retail investors. Previously, Ms. Whitelaw worked in the Transition Services group as both a transition manager and strategist, and was also an international equity trader on Barclays Global Investors' trading desk. Prior to BGI, she worked in the Institutional Derivatives Sales group at Goldman Sachs.
Ms. Whitelaw earned a BA degree in International studies and French from Dickinson College in 1993.
Carlos Gutierrez, Jr., CPA
Partner, Insurance Assurance Practice and West Market Segment Sector Leader, Ernst & Young
Carlos is a partner in Ernst & Young's Financial Services Assurance Practice and the West Insurance Sector Leader. He joined EY in 1997 and has been a partner since 2008. He has over 21 years of experience providing accounting and assurance services to local and multinational companies in the financial services industry. Carlos is an active member of EY's D&I initiatives and currently sits on EY America's Inclusiveness Committee, serves as co-chair to EY America's Latino Professional Network steering committee, as well as assisting with the foundation of EY’s Latino Professional Network. He was recently named by Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the most influential Latino CPAs in Greater Los Angeles and is a member of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting and the Latino Dealmakers Business Group. Carlos also has a passion for corporate responsibility and currently serves on the Board of Los Angeles Team Mentoring, a not-for-profit organization, the Board of the Northridge Hospital Foundation, the Corporate Advisory Board of the USC's Latino Alumni Association, and the Board of USC's Accounting School Summer Leadership Program. Carlos is married to Elida, and they are the proud parents of Ashley, Valerie, C.J., and Justin. In his free time, Carlos enjoys spending time with his wife & kids, competing in triathlons, and reading.
