Kate Purmal is a pathological optimist and accomplished visionary who brings out the brilliance in leaders and their teams. She has over 15 years of experience working as a CEO, COO and CFO to start-ups and privately held technology and life sciences companies. Kate previously served as a Senior Vice President at SanDisk and was on Palm Inc.’s founding management team. Kate regularly works with executives, leaders and their teams to initiate game-changing initiatives by launching Moonshots. She is co-author of The Moonshot Effect, Disrupting Business as Usual.

As a serial entrepreneur and expert in launching successful new companies, Kate co-founded and served as CEO of the software joint venture U3 (merged with SanDisk in 2007), co-founded Liquid Machines (acquired by Check Point Software Technologies in 2010), and was a member of the founding management team at Palm, Inc (acquired by US Robotics in 1995). She advises CEOs of startups backed by Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Sierra Ventures, the Omidyar Network and other top-tier investors.

Rand Rosenberg held the position of Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development at PG&E Corporation. Prior to his work at PG&E, Rand spent several years in the field of investment banking. He was a partner of Montgomery Securities and held senior positions at Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers, where he was Managing Director and Head of Global Telecommunications Investment Banking. Rand also served as Executive Vice President and CFO of InfoSpace. Additionally, Rand has been on the boards of an emotional intelligence organization developed within Google, Search Inside Yourself, Wildaid, and Whitman College. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BA from Whitman College.

Bobby Shand is an accomplished marketing leader with over 30 years of experience in identifying and fulfilling B2B and DTC opportunities. As the founder and former CEO of The Shand Group, Bobby worked with more than 300 renowned brands, including Absolut, IWC, and GIA among many others. With offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, and Shanghai, his agency increased market share for partners while fostering personal and professional growth for its stakeholders. Under Bobby’s leadership, The Shand Group provided strategic planning, creative development, media and marketing services for global brands across industries. His understanding of market dynamics and ability to tailor solutions for diverse, complex cultures helped clients achieve success in both domestic and international markets. Bobby is also an accomplished musician and songwriter, and an active board member for non-profit organizations such as AHA! (which focuses on teaching social and emotional intelligence to teens) and the Human Thread Foundation, where he contributes on efforts to combat human trafficking. Bobby seeks to inspire, and drive change through strategic insights and innovative thinking.

Diana Saca is a Silicon Valley attorney representing privately held and publicly traded high-technology, real estate and biotech companies.  A skilled dealmaker with extensive experience structuring, negotiating, closing and enforcing large, complex, global transactions.  Strategically focused with exceptional ability to drive business needs while concurrently protecting client’s legal rights, achieving ‘win-win’ results.

Diana is General Counsel to both domestic and international clients, with a demonstrated ability to serve as the primary legal strategist of any organization; acting as the gatekeeper for the retention and management of in-house and outside counsel.

Negotiated and closed transactions with a combined value of well over $20 Billion with Fortune 500 and multi-national companies including matters with Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, GE, AT&T, Mitsubishi, Apple, Google, Fidelity, TOTO, CalPERS, Intel, KLA Tencor, HP, Toshiba, Thermo-Fisher, Sony, Samsung, Dow Chemical, Samsung, Kawasaki, Cisco, Zeis, ASML, PwC, Bosch, Starbucks, Home Depot, Target Corporation, In-N-Out Burger and many more.

In addition to her Juris Doctorate, she holds degrees in Political Science and Administration of Justice, and has completed certification with the Hong Kong International & Comparative Law Institute.  Diana is an avid adventure traveler and a fierce advocate for non-profit causes that can make the world a better place.

Founder of the Human Thread Foundation, Lisa Kristine is an acclaimed humanitarian photographer. She creates more than images, she inspires change. A master storyteller, Lisa documents indigenous cultures in more than 100 countries on six continents, instinctively identifying the universal human dignity in all of us. Awakening compassion and igniting action in a worldwide audience with powerful, broad-sweeping images of courage and tender, intimate portrayals, Lisa elevates significant social causes—such as the elimination of human slavery and the unification of humanity—to missions. Her work resonates in the heart and moves us to act.