Santa Clara University

Speaker Biographies

Geoffrey C. Bowker is Executive Director, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. He has written with Leigh Star a book on the history and sociology of medical classifications (Sorting Things Out: Classification and Practice - published by MIT Press in September 1999). This book looks at the classification of nursing work, diseases, viruses and race. Published by MIT Press, his book Memory Practices in the Sciences, about formal and informal record keeping in science over the past two hundred years, includes extensive discussion of biodiversity informatics. It was awarded the prestigious 2006 ASIS&T Award for “Best Information Science Book” of the year, judged to have made the most outstanding contribution in the field of information science. His current work involves studying the social and organizational aspects of the development of very large-scale information infrastructures with an emphasis on social and organizational features of emerging scientific cyberinfrastructures. He is also on the editorial boards of The Information Society, Information and Organization, Metascience, Social Studies of Science, and Science, Technology, & Human Values.

Paul Locatelli, S.J., became president of Santa Clara University in 1988. In addition to his duties as president, he has been given the assigment by the Superior General of the Society of Jesus to serve as Secretary for Higher Education for all Jesuit colleges and universities in the world. Father Locatelli has written and spoken on topics ranging from service-learning in accounting, Jesuit education in a globalizing world, educating for justice, Catholic education in the 21^st century, globalization: integration and solidarity, to the role of the teaching scholar. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities; Catholic Relief Services; Silicon Valley Leadership Group; and the Bill Hannon Foundation. In addition, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley; and the Society of Jesus International Committee for Jesuit Higher Education. Among his awards are the 2007 Community Builder Honoree from the People Acting in Community Together; the 2005 Distinguished Service award from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Santa Clara Valley; the Exemplary Community Leadership Award from the National Conference of Community and Justice/Silicon Valley chapter; and the Spirit of Silicon Valley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. Locatelli previously served as Academic Vice President and Associate Dean of Business at Santa Clara as well as a member of the Accounting faculty. He received a baccalaureate degree from Santa Clara, Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1971, and a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley in 1974. He became a Jesuit in 1962 and was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1974.

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Michael Kevane conducts research on economic institutions and growth in poor countries, focusing on Africa.  Along with published articles in World Libraries and Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France,  he is the author of Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works (Lynne Rienner, 2004), which analyzes how gender operates at the village level to structure the choices that men and women take as economic actors.  Recent field research has focused on gender issues in agricultural activities in Burkina Faso. Other research includes articles on the performance of agricultural institutions and markets in journals such as World Development, Review of Development Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Africa.  He is co-editor Kordofan Invaded (Brill, 1998) which chronicles cutting-edge research on the province of Kordofan in western Sudan.  Kevane received his Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1993.  His dissertation, ‘Agrarian Structure and Agricultural Practice in Western Sudan’ was the result of several years of fieldwork in village communities in Sudan.  Kevane now teaches in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, where he is a Associate professor and Chair of the Economics Department, and a Cheryl Breetwor Fellow.  He is past President of the Sudan Studies Association, and co-director of Friends of African Village Libraries (www.favl.org), a non-profit he co-founded in 2001 that has established nine village libraries in rural Africa.

Al Hammond is VP for Innovation and Special Projects for the World Resources Institute. He also directs WRI’s Development Through Enterprise project, which works with foundations, development agencies, and a number of major corporations to further the use of pro-poor business strategies and digital technologies in development. Dr. Hammond holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University in engineering and applied mathematics. Prior to joining WRI, he created the Research News section of the international journal Science and went on to found and edit several national publications, including Science 80-86 (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Issues in Science and Technology (published by the National Academy of Science), and the Information Please Environmental Almanac (published by Houghton-Mifflin) Dr. Hammond has published extensively, including recent articles in Foreign Affairs (“Digitally Empowered Development,” March, 2001), the Harvard Business Review (“Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably,” September, 2002), and Foreign Policy ("Selling To the Poor,", May-June, 2004). His most recent book is Which World?: Scenarios for the the 21st Century, published in 1998.Dr. Hammond has won several national magazine awards and other journalist honors and has lectured widely; as well as served as a consultant to the White House science office, to several U.S. federal agencies, to the United Nations, and to several private foundations.

Albert V. Bruno is the William T. Cleary Professor at Santa Clara University, where he has at various times served as founding director of the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, associate and acting dean, and marketing department chair. Professor Bruno earned an MBA and Ph.D. at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University. He has an international reputation as a consultant and seminar leader. He has lectured and consulted for many organizations worldwide, and has served on the board or advisory boards of a number of private and public companies. In 1982, Professor Bruno was one of 13 recipients in the United States of the Leavey Foundation Award for excellence in private enterprise education. In the same year, he was honored with the Glenn Klimek Professorship at Santa Clara, which he held for 16 years.  Dr. Bruno is the Academic Dean for the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) and leads the GSBI entrepreneurship curriculum and content for the In-Residence Program. His many articles, research publications, and book chapters have been published in a diverse set of business journals and periodicals. His book, The Market Value Process: Bridging Customer and Shareholder Value, was published by Jossey Bass in 1996 and republished in German in 1998.

Dan’l Lewin is a corporate vice president leading Microsoft’s Strategic & Emerging Business Development efforts. He is responsible for managing worldwide strategic relationships with venture capitalists and emerging venture capital backed businesses as well as managing the business relationship with leading global industry partners such as SUN, Symantec, and BEA to ensure their applications interoperate with and run well on the Microsoft platform, for the benefit of our common customers. Lewin is based at Microsoft’s Mountain View, Calif., campus. A 30-year Silicon Valley veteran, Lewin has been at Microsoft for 6 years. He was most recently CEO of Aurigin Systems Inc., an enterprise software company focused on intellectual property asset management. He was also an executive leading sales and marketing divisions for companies including Apple Computer Corp., NeXT Inc. and GO Corporation. In addition, Lewin has served as a consultant for emerging companies, venture capital firms and corporate joint ventures. Lewin holds an A.B. in politics from Princeton University.

Marc D'Silva currently serves as a Senior Development Officer in the Foundations & Corporations Relations unit of Catholic Releif Services (CRS).  From 2002-06, he was the Country Representative for CRS/India, overseeing a program which annually reached out to 4 million people through 2,500 local partners.  He managed the agency's emergency responses to the Indian Ocean tsunami and Kashmir earthquake, in addition to increasing programming focus on microfinance, HIV/AIDS, child labor eradication, and counter-trafficking.  Previously, he served as the Assistant Country Representative in Ethiopia (1999-2002) and the Head of Programming in Sierra Leone (1997-99).  Before joining CRS, Marc was a regional program manager for International Rescue Committee's refugee school system in Guinea, and taught Chemistry and English as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone.  He graduated from Duke University in 1993 with a B.A. in History and Political Science.

Mr. Moser focuses on developing profitable growth strategies in changing markets, including packaged consumer goods, consumer electronics (particularly multi-media and Internet-related products and services), smart cards, voice recognition software, industrial process control automation, specialty printing, medical devices, and automotive materials supply.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Moser was Director of Consulting Services at the Wharton Business School's Small Business Development Center. He holds an M.B.A. with highest honors from the Wharton Business School.

James L. Koch is founding director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society, and professor of management at Santa Clara University. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from UCLA. From 1990-96 he served as dean of the Leavey School of Business. In 1995 the school achieved national recognition from U.S. News and World Report as the 12th ranked part-time program in America. From 1981 to 1990, he was the founding director of Organization Planning and Development at PG&E, where his department was the recipient of the National Excellence Award for contributions to organizational development from the American Society for Training and Development. Prior to that he was associate professor of management and director of the MBA and Ph.D. programs at the University of Oregon. He serves on the editorial board for Health Care Management Review. His research and consulting focus on socio-technical systems and high performance organizations. His current work examines information technology and organizational change, social capital, and the psychological sense of community, and the role of technology in improving the quality of life in developing nations.

Jeff Hamaoui has spent the last 8 years through the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, and has traveled to over 30 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America helping companies from across industry sectors to analyze and execute upon the different BOP strategies and opportunities available to them. Over the last two years Jeff has been working with both the Dutch government(SNV) and USAID’s GDA program to build effective alliances on the ground that combine public and private resources to generate inclusive businesses throughout Latin America and Africa.  These activities have generated over 50 BOP concepts with 7 active BOP business opportunities that are currently under development in Latin America alone. Mr. Hamaoui is the founder of Origo and has been responsible for the disbursement of millions of dollars into sustainable livelihoods projects. In 1994 he worked with industrialist Stephen Schmidheiny to help set up AVINA foundation in Mallorca, Spain, to invest in sustainable development projects.  In addition to his work with companies Mr. Hamaoui has advised a variety of civil society organizations such as the World Wildlife Fund, the World Economic Forum, the Global Exchange for Social Development (GEXSI), Charity Bank and a number of bilateral and multilateral donor agencies.

Regis McKenna founded his own high tech marketing firm, Regis McKenna, Inc., in Silicon Valley in 1970 after working in the marketing departments of two early semiconductor pioneering companies. Over the past 30 years, his firm evolved from one focused on high tech start ups to a broad based marketing strategy firm servicing international clients in many different industries and countries. McKenna retired from consulting in 2000 and is concentrating his efforts on high tech entrepreneurial seed-ventures.

Manuel Castells is Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and Research Professor of Information Society at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. He is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 24 years, after being on the faculty of the University of Paris for 12 years. He is also the Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at MIT, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Internet Studies at Oxford University, and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Science, Technology and Society at Santa Clara University.  He has published 25 books, including the trilogy “The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture,” published by Blackwell in its first edition in 1996-98, and in its second edition in 2000-2004, which has been translated into 22 languages. He is the recipient of 15 honorary doctorates and University Medals. He is a Fellow of the European Academy, a Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Economics, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has served in a number of international advisory committees, including the Panel of Eminent Personalities appointed in 2003-2004 by the United Nations Secretary General to advise on the relationships between the United Nations and the global civil society. He is a founding member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council of the European Commission.

Steve Cisler, upon graduation from Northwestern University in 1965, started a school library in rural Togo, West Africa when he was a Peace Corps teacher. After three years doing search and rescue with the U.S. Coast Guard, he attended University of California Berkeley where he received his Master of Library Science. He only began using computers in middle age, at a public computer lab in his branch library in Contra Costa County Library where he worked for 14 years. In 1985 he joined The Well and ran an online forum on information and libraries for many years. In 1988 at Apple Computer Inc Advanced Technology Group, he started a grant program called Apple Library of Tomorrow for innovative projects in libraries, museums, and local community networks where citizens were setting up local free Internet services. He supported the first copyright-free online book about the Internet (the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Big Dummies Guide to the Internet). He worked on deregulation of the radio frequencies and standards that became known as 802.11 or Wi-Fi. Over the past 7 years he has consulted in Latin America, Thailand, Jordan, and Uganda on short-term projects involving telecenters, school computer labs and indigenous groups using information and communication technologies. In 2004 he spent eight months disconnected and driving around the U.S. and Mexico talking to people NOT using the Internet. From 2005-6 he chaired a working group on piracy and intellectual property in the Pacific as part of the Pacific Rim New Media Summit in San Jose in August 2006. He lives in San Jose, Calif., with his wife, an elementary school principal. His hobbies include gardening, kayaking, and winemaking. He can be reached at sacisler@yahoo.com and he posts from time to time on http://place.typepad.com/digitalcommons.

Daniel Crisafulli is a Senior Program Officer at the Skoll Foundation, where he leads field-building initiatives in social entrepreneurship through grantmaking and for-profit investments. Prior to joining the Skoll Foundation, Dan comanaged the Development Marketplace (DM), the World Bank’s social entrepreneurship and innovation program, beginning in 2004. He led the expansion of the DM from a $3.5 million to a $10 million annual program by expanding its on-the-ground activities in developing countries and by mobilizing 80 percent of its funding from external partners in private industry and government. The DM’s model of support for small-scale solutions to social and economic challenges was designated a “best practice” in corporate innovation by the Harvard Business Review. Dan developed a venture approach toward investing as Investment Officer and cofounder of the technology venture capital group at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), which he joined in 2000. At IFC, he built an investment program focusing on early-stage technology companies with social impact and served on the boards of several early-stage companies. Dan’s earlier work at the World Bank focused on technology, finance and small business investment. In 1998 he led a $750 million technology and science reform program in Mexico that resulted in the country’s first major technology policy reform in more than 25 years. Dan earned a bachelor’s degree in government 'summa cum laude' from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard University, where he was a Kennedy Scholar.

   Akhtar Badshah is the Senior Director of Community Affairs at Microsoft. Prior to this position, Dr. Badshah was the CEO and president of Digital Partners Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to utilize the digital economy to benefit the poor. At Digital Partners, he established the organization's core programs in India, Africa, and Latin America. His work includes development of the Digital Partners Social Venture Fund, designed to support the expansion of IT-based anti-poverty effort around the world, and the Digital Partner Social Enterprise Laboratory (SEL), an initiative that provides mentorship and seed money to entrepreneurs whose vision and business models use ICT to empower the poor and their underserved communities.
   A doctoral graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Badshah serves on the Advisory Board for the Development Gateway Project of the World Bank, World Links India, World Corp., Teachers Without Borders and Datamation Foundation India. He has co-edited "Connected for Development - Information Kiosks for Sustainability," and authored "Our Urban Future: New Paradigms for Equity and Sustainability" and several articles in international journals on megacities and sustainability, urban and community development, and housing.