Program Description
The Leadership Program for New Media Executives focuses on enhancing you and your company’s ability to operate in the United States and to succeed in the global marketplace. The program is targeted towards Israeli startup companies, New Media-related platforms, including: Mobile Apps, IOT, Ed-Tech, Digital Media and disruptive related ventures.
Program Modules
Professors
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Alan B. Sellers
CEO
Precision Restaurant Group LLC

Alex Marquez
Vice President & Managing Director
Experian Ventures

Andrea Hoy
President & Virtual CISO
A. Hoy & Associate

Ben Johnson
CTO
Obsidian Security

Bill Carpou
CEO
OCTANe

Bruce Hallett
Managing Director
Miramar Venture Partners

Bruce Money
Executive Director of Whitmore Global Management Center; Fred Meyer Professor of Marketing and International Business
Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business

Constance Steinkuehler
Professor
Department of Informatics, UC Irvine

Daimon Geopfert
National Leader of Security, Privacy and Risk
RSM US LLP

Daniel Gibson
Partner
Knobbe Martens

Dean Gregory Washington
Dean, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Dean Stoecker
CEO
Alteryx

Emile Haddad
Chairman & CEO
FivePoint Holdings, LLC

FRANK PEARCE
Chief Development Officer
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

Gerald Solomon
Executive Director
Samueli Foundation

Heidi Pease
Co-Founder
Los Angeles (UCLA/USC/UCI/City of LA) Blockchain Lab

Imran Currim, Ph.D.
Chancellor’s Professor / Associate Dean, Marketing & Student Relations for Executive MBA Programs
The Paul Merage School of Business / University of California, Irvine

JC Ruffalo
Director of LaunchPad SBDC and Investor Relations
OCTANe

Joe Kiani
Founder, Chairman, and CEO
Masimo Corporation

Joel Calvo
Board of Director, Independent Trustee, C-Level Leader, Keynote Speaker

Julie Hill
Member of the Board of Directors
Anthem, Inc. & UCI Board of Trustees

Lisa Barron
Senior Lecturer, Negotiations
The Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine

Mark L. Skaist
Shareholder

Maryam Rofougaran
Co-CEO/COO & Founder
Movandi Corporation

Michael Hedge
Partner
K&L Gates

Michael J. Swenson, PhD
Christensen Professor of Marketing

Nicole Washington
Director of Innovation & Growth
OCTANe

Paul Pickle
President & COO
Microsemi

Paul Symczak
Vice-President-OCTANe, Executive Director of the LaunchPad
Entrepreneurship for OCTANe, LaunchPad

Robert Brown
CEO
Meridiun

Ryan Eshaghi
Co-Founder,Blockchain
UCI

Ryan Permeh
CTO
Cylance

Sasha Strauss
Managing Director
Innovation Protocol, Strategic Brand Development

Scott Gicking
Cybersecurity Director
PwC

Sean Goodwin
Founder
SoCalBlockchain.com

Shawn Dougherty
Co-Founder
mophie & EXOIO

Stanton Rowe
Vice President, Advanced Technology Chief Scientific Officer
Edwards LifeSciences

Thomas Eppel
Summer Session Instructor / Assistant Specialist
The Paul Merage School of Business / University of California, Irvine
