Faculty

The people teaching.

Every program is convened with the people who defined its field. They teach it themselves.

Cofounder and Faculty Director

Gregory La Blanc

Greg is Faculty Director of Professional Education at UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Berkeley Haas and Berkeley Law. He has taught at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and HEC Paris, and holds the Haas Cheit Award for teaching. He has advised leaders at more than a hundred companies and governments on strategy, finance and technology, and hosts unSILOed, a podcast now past six hundred conversations. He is the constant across every program we run.

Founding Faculty

Nicolas Darveau-Garneau

Nicolas was Chief Evangelist at Google, where he worked with the C-suites of more than a thousand of Google's largest customers on how they grow. Before that he was on the founding team of MSN.com at Microsoft, cofounded four internet companies and sold three, and worked at McKinsey and as a senior equity analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. He is the author of Be a Sequoia, Not a Bonsai: The Seven Growth Secrets of the World's Most Successful Companies, and sits on the boards of TMX Group, iA Financial, McEwen Mining and Alida.

Program Lead · Chief AI Officer Program

Carlos Escapa

Carlos led AI and machine learning practice at AWS for nearly a decade, first as Global AI/ML Practice Leader and later running Data and AI for the Accenture-AWS Business Group, with a period at Meta in AI business development in between. He has worked on hundreds of implementation projects worldwide and coauthored The AI-Driven Business: Leading, Competing and Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. He advises startups on corporate development and go-to-market, and lectures at Berkeley Haas, ESADE and IE.

Program Lead · Inside the Deal

Alex Dang

Alex coauthored The Venture Mindset: How to Make Smarter Bets and Achieve Extraordinary Growth with Stanford's Ilya Strebulaev, a Financial Times Business Book of the Month now translated into twelve languages. He is a Senior Advisor and former Partner at McKinsey and was previously a product executive at Amazon and AWS. He advises large companies on building venture-style decision-making inside established organizations.

Guest practitioners

They join the sessions in their field.

Douglas Laney Coined the term infonomics · Gartner, Deloitte

Matei Zaharia Creator of Apache Spark · Databricks

Ion Stoica UC Berkeley · Databricks, Anyscale

Pascal Bornet Intelligent automation and agentic AI

Irina Kofman Meta, OpenAI Generative AI strategy

Sunil Mallya CTO and cofounder · Flip AI Agentic AI

Esteban Arcaute Responsible AI · Walmart, Meta Governance, ethics and regulation

Ricardo Bion VP Data · Airbnb, Instagram, Slack Organizing for data and AI

Ryan Gross VP Data · GE, Caylent Organizing for data and AI

Stephen Orban Led enterprise adoption at AWS · Dow Jones Change management and transformation

Mariano Maluf CTO and CIO · Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark Change management and transformation

Craig Suckling Former CIO · UK Government, Amazon, Accenture Change management and transformation

Sergey Patsko Data and AI · Capgemini Technology selection and delivery at scale

Phil Mui Salesforce Technology selection and delivery at scale

Jim Guszcza Chief Data Scientist · Deloitte, Stanford From business strategy to AI strategy

Michael Wu Chief AI Strategist · PROS From business strategy to AI strategy

Sam Naghsineh CTO and cofounder · Ninja AI, Meta Competitive advantage and proprietary models