The Career Channel (Video)

Leslie Bottorff joined ONSET Ventures in 1998 after 19 years in the medical industry. At ONSET Ventures, Leslie specializes in medical technology investment opportunities. She has worked closely with several portfolio company entrepreneurs at the seed stage to formulate and validate their companies’ business plans, including Embolic Protection, where she was interim VP of Marketing and Business De...

Dean Steven Currall moderates a conversation with Sandy Weill, Former Chairman/CEO of Citigroup, and his wife, Joan Weill, followed by a discussion about the future of pension plans with Anne Simpson, Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments and Director of Corporate Governance, California Public Employee’s Retirement System (CalPERS) Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speake...

Marc Onetto, senior vice president of worldwide operations and customer service at Amazon.com Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 24925]

John Mackey, Co-founder and Co-CEO of Whole Foods Market and author of “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business” offers a spirited defense of free enterprise and argues that businesses can have a positive societal impact while being profitable. Q&A moderated by Dean and Professor Steven Currall. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special...

John Ferriter joined Octagon in 2010 as managing director of Octagon Entertainment. An Emmy-nominated producer, he has been instrumental in packaging and selling some of the most popular shows on television, including “Project Runway,” “The Biggest Loser,” numerous Garth Brooks specials, “Chelsea Lately” and “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” to name a few. He has also helped sign, develop and exp...

Sarah Penna is a veteran of the digital production space having held senior roles at Current TV, MWG Media, & DeFranco Inc. Drawing from her brand management and production experience, Sarah co- founded Big Frame, a media company and talent management firm in Los Angeles, and has overseen the careers of several successful online video creators. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from N...

John Lusk is the author of the best-selling book, The MouseDriver Chronicles which follows the invention and launch of a computer mouse that looks like a golf-club head. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Rivet & Sway, an online source for prescription eyewear. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24429]

A professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan for 23 years, Sridhar Kota worked on a one-year fellowship at the White House as assistant director for advanced manufacturing helping to identify strategies and policies that strengthen the U.S. manufacturing base. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 24410]

While a freshman at UCSB, Matt Vlasach founded Pacific Swell Networks, Inc., an outsourced IT services company, with a business partner in Los Angeles. In 2010, Matt sold off Pacific Swell Networks and joined Unwired Revolution, an enterprise mobility consulting and integrating firm. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24274]

Don Charlton refers to himself as a "pixel pusher.” In 2009, he designed, built and launched The Resumator, a recruiting platform which recently earned a spot on Entrepreneur magazine's list of 100 Brilliant Companies. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24428]

Anne Simpson is the Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments and Director of Corporate Governance at CalPERS. It is the largest public pension system in the United States with approximately $224 billion under management. She addresses incoming MBA students at UC Davis about the role of companies and corporations today and historically. She also explores corporate governance and how it needs to be ref...

Chris Cox, the Vice President of Product at Facebook, talks about what it’s like to be part of one of the fastest growing and most disruptive companies on the planet. Cox is interviewed by Alexis Madrigal, the Senior Editor of The Atlantic. Series: "The Atlantic Meets The Pacific" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 23983]

Marten Mickos shares the benefits and challenges involved in building businesses in the open source and cloud computing spaces. As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. He is now CEO of Eucalyptus Systems whose underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. Since its origin as an academic r...

Kerri Pollard is the president of Commission Junction, an online advertising company owned by ValueClick. Her primary responsibility is to oversee the operations of Commission Junction’s U.S. offices. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24160]

The 13th annual New Venture Competition provides a hands-on opportunity for campus innovators to learn about successful venture creation, beginning with the evaluation of new business opportunities, working with potential clients/customers for market validation, crafting a concise oral pitch, drafting a compelling executive summary and financial projections, and learning how to raise necessary cap...

Mark Templeton is president and CEO of Citrix Systems, a leading provider of virtualization, networking and cloud computing technologies that let people work and play from anywhere on any device including work using virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 24127]

Big Bang is the annual UC Davis Business Plan Competition organized by MBA students of the Graduate School of Management. The goal of the contest is to promote entrepreneurship at UC Davis and the region supported by the university. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Executive Speakers and Special Events" [Business] [Show ID: 24106]

Jim Moffatt, Chairman and CEO of Deloitte Consulting, LLP, gives his perspectives on leadership in this presentation at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Series: "UCLA Anderson School of Management Distinguished Speaker Series" [Business] [Show ID: 23884]

Will Marré , Co-Founder of the Covey Leadership Center, offers an inspiring talk for executives, managers and recent graduates on how to take control of their careers by maximizing their talents, passions and opportunities. Marrés presentation was the keynote address at a day-long Career Boost Camp sponsored by UC San Diego Alumni and UCSD Extension’s Center for Life/Work Strategies. Series: "Care...

Unite to Light, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit entity based in Santa Barbara which designs, manufactures, and distributes low cost solar powered lighting to citizens of developing countries. The principals explain why and how their version of a socially responsible entrepreneurial company was launched, along with their business philosophy in executing its operations. Series: "Innovator Stories: Cr...

The MIT Forum - in a joint program with UCSB’s Technology Management Program - addresses how the current negative economic climate has made fund-raising for startups much more complicated. Three experts, each of whom represent different segments of the investment community: angel investing, VC investing, and private equity venture investing, will share their insights on leveraging and maximizing o...

Michael Dukakis served an unprecedented three, four-year terms as governor of Massachusetts and was the 1988 Democratic nominee for president. Since leaving office, he has served as a visiting professor at many colleges and universities including Harvard University, University of Hawaii, Northeastern University and UCLA. Series: "UC Davis Chancellor's Colloquium Distinguished Speaker Series" [Publ...

Jason Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc.com, the premier online website for small businesses that provides a selection of documents and resources to help start, grow and manage your small business and professional life. Docstoc is a top 500 worldwide website that reaches over 20M people a month. Jason was previously a partner at Venature LLC, a consulting group focused on accelerating the...

Adult language: Seth Epstein is a creative CEO/start up entrepreneur and Emmy award winner for the rebrand of the X-Games. From humble beginnings in a garage, Seth built a pioneering creative agency, which was later acquired by Razorfish. Seth has directed commercials, rebranded TV networks globally, overseen web re-brands of all sizes, rebranded companies and products, architected e-commerce solu...

Roger Strauch is Chairman of The Roda Group, a seed stage venture capital group, based in Berkeley, California focused on clean technology. His firm, co-founded in 1997 with Dan Miller, provides entrepreneurs the resources, environment, and guidance to launch and grow their high technology businesses. Series: "Distinguished Innovator Lectures" [Business] [Show ID: 23263]