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.

Mr. Rand L. Rosenberg served as Chief Financial Officer of Blucora, Inc. until January 2001. Mr. Rosenberg served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development at PG&E Corporation from November 1, 2005 to October 31, 2011. Mr. Rosenberg was responsible for developing Pg & E Corp.’s long-term strategic plan and evaluating growth opportunities, including asset acquisitions and mergers within the energy sector. Mr. Rosenberg spent more than a decade in the field of investment banking. He served as the Managing Director and Head of Global Telecommunications Investment Banking at Salomon Brothers. He also held senior positions at Goldman Sachs & Co., Lehman Brothers and Montgomery Securities after serving as Head of Corporate Development at the Pacific Telesis Group. Mr. Rosenberg served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Infospace in Bellevue, Wash., where he was responsible for overseeing the financial organization and heading up Pg & E Corp.’s corporate development efforts. Mr. Rosenberg left InfoSpace in January 2001. He serves as a Director of WildAid, Inc. Mr. Rosenberg earned an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Whitman College.

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.