Elmy Bermejo

Elmy Bermejo has been dedicated to public service for more than 20 years and has worked in different parts of California and in Washington D.C. She is deputy secretary of State and Consumer Services for California. Elmy was special assistant to Senator Don Perata, working on issues that impact women and children, outreach to the Latino/Latina community and work with the ethnic media. Elmy is Chair of the State Commission on the Status of Women. She was appointed to the Commission by Governor Gray Davis in 1999. She was also appointed by the Governor to the California Complete Count Committee for Census 2000. As a board member of HOPE (Hispanas Organized for Political Equality) Elmy chaired Latina Action Day in Sacramento. She has a BA in psychology and a graduate degree in Bilingual Vocational Counseling. Her family comes from Yucatan, Mexico and owns Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant, one of the most successful family operated restaurants in San Francisco.

Sascha Henry

Sascha is a partner at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP and is a member of the firm's Business Trial Practice Group, based in the firm's Los Angeles office. Specializing in complex business litigation, Sascha has experience representing businesses in a variety of disputes, including class actions. Most recently, she has focused on defending businesses against claims of unfair competition law violations under Section 17200 of the Business and Professions Code. She also has significant experience defending clients against claims of fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, and malicious prosecution. Her experience includes state and federal litigation and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Sascha received her law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1997 and her undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University in 1994.

Yvette Herrera

With nearly 20 years of combined professional and volunteer experience in corporate marketing, non-profit administration and fundraising, Yvette founded HT Group in 2002.  She believes that the passion of non-profits and the best practices of corporations
should not be mutually exclusive. 

As Marketing Director for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and before that, as Communications Director of Internet company NetCount, Yvette specialized in developing strategic alliances and other innovative and resource-efficient ways to generate publicity and increase market share.  At United Way of Greater Los Angeles, Yvette worked closely with social service agencies in the San Fernando Valley, particularly those experiencing financial or leadership difficulties, spearheaded community outreach to the growing Asian Pacific community and coordinated grant distribution of over a million dollars. 

Yvette received her BA from Scripps College in Claremont, California. She was recognized as National Big Sister of the Year by Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America in 1993 and as Scripps College Outstanding Recent Alumna in 2000. She is a graduate of Leadership California, Class of 1995 and earned a certificate from the UCLA Anderson School of Business, Price Entrepreneurial Center in 2007.  Yvette currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Burbank Community YMCA and Leadership California.

Kay Iwata

Since entering the diversity field in 1987, Kay has become an industry leader. Her clients include companies such as: Dell Inc., Johnsons & Johnson, Chevron-Texaco, Bank One, Honeywell and Abbott Labs. She brings an organizational development approach to the diversity change process. Her background has been in education, finance and management. Kay is also a charter member of the Diversity Collegium, a national diversity think tank. She serves on the Board of Directors for Leadership California and also as the Program Chair for the Board of Trustees for the Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute (APAWLI). Her book, The POWER of Diversity: 5 Essential Competencies for Leading a Diverse Workforce is based upon a first-of-its-kind field study to understand the "what, why and how" of diversity competence for managers and leaders.

Dana Kracke

Dana Kracke is the Director of the Revenue Services Organization in the Customer Service Business Unit of Southern California Edison.  She manages a multi-functional organization of approximately 400 employees. The organization issues over 50 million bills annually and manages various systems and processes to collect SCE’s annual revenue of approximately $10 billion.

Dana has had a variety of roles at multiple Edison companies, including executive positions at Southern California, Edison International, and Edison Mission Energy.  She has been responsible for managing groups and/or initiatives to develop corporate strategy, perform merger and acquisition analyses, integrate organizations following acquisition, achieve operational improvements, and address organizational issues. 

She began her Edison career in 1990 in SCE’s Treasurer Department’s Financial Planning and Analysis group.  She then moved to Edison International, with roles in New Business Development and Strategic Planning, and as Special Assistant to the EIX Management Committee.  She became Vice President of Strategic Planning for Edison Mission Energy, than returned to the utility as Director of Risk Control prior to assuming her current position as Director of Revenue Services. 

Paula March

Paula is the Principal of Marchpartners, a fund development consulting group working with a wide variety of clients from the arts to social services. Educated at Santa Clara University, John F. Kennedy University and Fielding University, Paula has a Masters Degree in Museum Studies and is certified in Foundation Management. She served as Deputy Director for Marketing for the Fine Arts Museums and as Chief Development Officer for Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Paula recently served on the board of Leadership San Francisco, an affiliate of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce focusing on building community trusteeship, and is an active board member for the San Francisco Education Fund and Pocket Opera.

Michelle M. Mueller

Michelle M. Mueller is Vice President of Customer Services & Operations – Mass Markets for San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas), Sempra Energy’s California regulated utilities.

Prior to her current position, Michelle was Director of Customer Service for SDG&E and SoCalGas, where she managed the commercial and industrial customer service department. In this role she led the creation and implementation of business customer service and outreach programs during the energy crisis. Prior to joining SDG&E in 1999, she held customer service, marketing and administration leadership positions at QUALCOMM Wireless Systems, a global company developing interactive wireless technologies.

Additionally, Michelle has taught marketing at several California universities including the University of California at San Diego, San Diego State University and California State University, San Marcos. She has received the Public Relations Society of America Outstanding PR Professional Award, The YMCA Tribute to Women in Industry (TWIN) Award and others. She serves on the board of Leadership California. Mueller has an MBA in marketing from Syracuse University, a master’s degree in mass communications from Morehead State University and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Eastern Michigan University.

Susan Muranishi

Susan Shirasawa Muranishi was appointed as the County Administrator of Alameda County by the Board of Supervisors in December 1995 and is responsible for managing a large urban county, similar to a Fortune 500 company with 9,000 County employees, with a budget of almost $2.3 billion and population of 1.5 million. Susan is the first woman to be appointed as County Administrator in Alameda County and was the first Asian-American woman County Administrator in the State.

Prior to her appointment, Susan served as the Assistant County Administrator. Susan provides professional, innovative and proactive leadership through responsible fiscal and administrative policy development and program oversight.

Susan is a strong supporter and active member of several diverse
community, school and non-profit organizations including: Safe Passages/Youth Ventures Joint Powers Authority; Founding Member, California Asian Public Administrators Network and Caucus of Elected Asians (PANACEA); Executive Committee, East Bay Economic Development Alliance; County Administrative Officers Association of California; Government Finance Officers Association; International City/County Management Association, Leadership California, Heads-Up and others.

Cynthia Teniente-Matson

Cynthia has broad experience in university business, administrative and financial matters, serves as the CSU Fresno Vice President for Administration and Chief Financial Officer. She is responsible for policy development, planning and providing leadership for the areas of accounting, financial management, accounts payable, accounts receivable, budget, information technology services, campus information services, human resources (excluding faculty contracts), plant operations, facilities planning, real estate development and public safety and utility management.

Cynthia served previously as Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services at the University of Alaska Anchorage for three years. She started her career with the university in Fairbanks and moved to the Anchorage campus in 1991, moving up through the ranks to Director of Procurement and Business Services. She was named Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget and Finance in 1998 and Vice Chancellor in May 2000.

Nancy Kim Yun

Nancy is currently the Director of Integrated Shipboard Systems (ISS) at Boeing, where she is responsible for Navigation Programs, Payloads and Sensors, and Naval C4I pursuits for U.S. and abroad.  Additionally, ISS is charged with developing the next generation Fiber Optic Gyro Navigation System to take the current Fleet of SSBN’s to 2046.

Prior to the current assignment, Nancy was the Director of Business Development and Advanced Systems.  Nancy was responsible for domestic and international marketing, research and development and strategic development.  

Before joining Boeing, Nancy spent several years as a strategy consultant for the Fortune 200 companies.  Nancy started out her career in software engineering and managed USAF's strategic programs.

Nancy received her Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science and Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology from University of California, Irvine (Cum Laude) and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

Nancy is a resident of Seal Beach, California. She lives with her husband and their three children.