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Randy Komisar
Randy Komisar currently works with a number of emerging technology companies. He partners with entrepreneurs to build strong businesses from their vision.
Randy serves as a director or advisor to a number of public, private and non-profit organizations.
He frequently assumes the hands-on role of “virtual CEO”, assisting in setting strategy and creating business models, raising capital, establishing strategic relationships, mentoring senior management and otherwise working closely with the team to build the business.
Randy has helped guide WebTV, TiVo, MondoMedia, Full Audio, Many Futures and the Wadhwani Foundation. He was President and CEO of LucasArts Entertainment Company, George Lucas' video game and edutainment business. Subsequently he was President and CEO of Crystal Dynamics, a creator and publisher of video games.
Randy was a founder, the General Counsel and VP Corporate Affairs for Claris Corporation, a developer and publisher of productivity software. Later he served as CFO and VP Business Operations for GO Corporation, the pioneer in pen computing.
Randy is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and practiced in the fields of litigation and technology law prior to beginning Claris. He holds a BA in Economics from Brown University.
Randy is a Consulting Professor of Entrepreneurship at Stanford University. He is the author of the best selling book “The Monk and the Riddle” published by Harvard Business School Press, and the article “Goodbye Career, Hello Success” appearing in the March/April 2000 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Randy is also the subject of a Harvard Business School Case Study on innovations in building new businesses entitled “Randy Komisar, Virtual CEO”. He speaks frequently about issues in business, leadership and entrepreneurship.
Debra L. Dunn
Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Global Citizenship
Hewlett-Packard Company
Debra Dunn has leadership responsibility for HP's global citizenship efforts. These include corporate social and environmental responsibility, government and public affairs, corporate philanthropy and HP initiatives aimed at providing appropriate, technology based services and solutions to emerging markets and underserved populations.
Previously, as vice president of strategy and corporate operations, Dunn was responsible for corporate-wide functions, including corporate strategy, corporate development, corporate communications and brand management, corporate philanthropy and government affairs.
Dunn was elected an HP vice president in November 1999. She was named general manager of HP's executive committee in 1998 and led the Agilent spin off process as well as HP's new business creation function. Dunn was named general manager of HP's Video Communication Division in 1996 after assuming the role of marketing manager in 1993 and manufacturing manager in 1992.
Between 1986 and 1992, she held a wide range of development and manufacturing management positions. Dunn joined HP in 1983 as an executive development manager in the Corporate Training division in Palo Alto, Calif.
Dunn holds a bachelor's degree in comparative economics from Brown University in Providence, R.I., and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Mass. She serves on the boards of Business for Social Responsibility, the Skoll Foundation, the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development and Enablis. She also serves on advisory boards for the Center for Responsible Business at the U.C. Berkeley Hass School of Business and Harvard Business School.