Throughout his career, Dror has been passionate about using technology to personalize people’s experiences in the world. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, Dror worked on global search strategy with Yahoo, spearheaded an R&D team at NICE Systems, and led business development for an Israeli CE retailer. He also spent three years in an elite unit at the Israeli Defense Forces.

Dror has an MBA from the Stanford GSB, and graduated cum laude in Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Dror lives with his wife Diti in Palo Alto and travels frequently to Israel.

Doron is an entrepreneur with a corporate background. He founded and managed various software ventures in the fields of Mobile Payments and Mobile Games. Earlier in his career, in the corporate realm, Doron worked with Microsoft Technology Center and Palm Inc., in roles ranging from software engineering to product management. He served in the elite technology unit of the Israel National Security Agency.

Doron holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in economics and management from Tel-Aviv University.

Before Innovation Endeavors, Celestine worked at Apple in Corporate Social Responsibility to help develop and scale the environmental and human rights program. Prior to Apple, Celestine worked with various organizations focused on social entrepreneurship. Celestine has walked from France across Spain, rode bulls in Montana and lived in a monastery as a monk . Outside of work she is forming ideas around an entrepreneurship program for people with special needs and is training for a barefoot marathon.

From 2001-2011, Eric served as Google’s chief executive officer, overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation.

Prior to joining Google, Eric was the chairman and CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Previously, he served on the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Eric is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council in the U.K. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. He also chairs the board of the New America Foundation, and since 2008 has been a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Since 2004, he has served as a Special Faculty Advisor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University helping to improve MBA’s communications skills and is a Visiting Fellow at the Said School of Business at Oxford University. Currently, Nasr maintains a communications consultancy where he advises a number of start-up companies and venture capital firms, including Twitter, Inc., Pandora Media, and Sierra Ventures. He is also a past President of the Churchill Club, a Silicon Valley-based business and technology forum. Nasr received his BA in Communication Studies from UCLA (1984), and his Law Degree with Honors from Pembroke College, Cambridge (1986).

In June of 2007, Nasr became a Certified Sommelier through the London-based Court of Master Sommeliers. And in January 2009 he was appointed Director of Wine Programs in the Wine Division of Silicon Valley Bank. He is an advisor of Quixey, Identified, Video Genie and The Obvious Corporation.

He holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MS in Computer Science from Indiana University and a BS in Computer Science from Institute of Technology, BHU, India.

At Treatful, Hoon leads product and strategy.  He loves working at Treatful because he combines his desire to help local businesses and connect people through positive experiences.

Previously, Hoon co-founded LiquidTab, a mobile application that enables restaurant and bar patrons to order and pay for service directly from their smartphones.  Before his career in startups, Hoon was a Portfolio Manager at Microsoft where he managed a derivatives investment portfolio and led the development of internal products.

Outside of Treatful, Hoon enjoys CrossFit, eating at Treatful restaurants, and watching episodes of Man v. Wild.

Claire holds a BA from Columbia University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina.

When she’s not working to build an extraordinary company, you can find Claire studying Anusara Yoga, volunteering with the Prison University Project, and sharing time with her two nephews.

Monisha previously served as CEO and Co-Founder of TuitionCoach (acquired by SimpleTuition in 2009), where she oversaw the financing, launch, and general management of the start-up. She has also held leadership positions at SimpleTuition, Siebel Systems, Pensare, and AmeriCorps.

She has an MBA and MA in Education from Stanford and a BA from Yale.

Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Gülin arrived in the Bay in 2002 via Paris and London. As a product manager at PayPal, she streamlined hosted payment flows, built online fraud detection tools, and developed a reporting portal for PayPal’s small and medium businesses. She also worked at Greylock Partners as a summer associate and founded CoachMe, an online professional education company.

Gülin holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris (2003), an MS in engineering from Stanford University (2004), and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business (2010).

In her free time, Gülin enjoys cooking, coaching students and entrepreneurs, and sharing time with her husband.

Previously, Tony founded and led for eight years the Institute for Public Media Arts, a company that promoted “user-generated content” before there was a label for it. His work received recognition by the White House as a best practice. Tony subsequently served as KaBOOM!‘s Chief Strategist, where he designed its growth strategy and national advocacy platform “Playful Cities USA” (now in 151 cities). Harvard Business School wrote a case study about his work at KaBOOM!. In 2007, Chronicle Books published Tony’s award-winning book about blind photographers, Seeing Beyond Sight, which was in the NYTimes Book Review, LATimes and FastCompany.com called “savvy, passionate, witty, and yes, beautiful.”

Tony was a National Leadership Fellow with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School where he started “The Portrait Project” to promote reflective leadership. In 2008, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (his undergraduate alma mater), selected Tony for its “Distinguished Young Alumnus Award”—a distinction he holds in common with former FCC Chairman, Congressman, founder of Hulu and sports stars Mia Hamm & Michael Jordan.

Evan’s passion is building simple innovative solutions that solve real human needs. He loves navigating the fuzzy front end of design and knows how to turn ideas into reality. For instance he built a novel storage solution that helps MINI Cooper drivers keep track of their things and developed a device that allows parents to run with a natural arm motion while propelling a baby jogging stroller.

Evan was an ESPN First Team Academic All-American in football at Johns Hopkins University where he played wide receiver. He holds a MS in Mechanical Engineering Design from Stanford and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins.

Timnit was also a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford University, from which she holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering. As a PhD student, Timnit has worked on an Optical Coherence Tomography system in order to analyze various layers of human tissue as well as modeling technology for new types of non-volatile memory.

When she is not building stuff, she can be found dancing in the Bay Area’s salsa clubs, playing piano, travelling, hanging out with friends and eating good food. She lives in Palo Alto, CA with her fiancé Brendan.

Chris has a wealth of experience on the execution side, having invested in and scaled several technologies to support the iPhone’s meteoric rise, and is passionate about the design of sustainable and defendable business models. He is adamant that pushing the limits of quality and value creation are key to long-term success.

Chris holds a BSME from the Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Born in Massachusetts and raised in Ecuador, Alyson made her way to the Bay Area in 2003 to pursue a career in design strategy. As an innovation consultant at Jump Associates, Alyson guided clients from across a range of industriesin identifying unmet needs, linking insights to big opportunity areas, and developing innovative solutions to capture those opportunities. Alyson’s deep interest in understanding what makes people tick and her desire to improve people’s lives has also led her to apply design strategy methods within the context of other cultures and sectors. This has meant teaching English and Art to child Tsunami survivors in Thailand. It has also meant working with Endeavorto identify and capture untapped value in the Global Network and to develop strategies to further support Endeavor Entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Alyson holds a BFA in Design from Carnegie Mellon University (2003), and an MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business (2011).

Dana was most recently a product manager for an award winning DNA sequencing instrument at Pacific Biosciences.  He also held multiple roles at Genentech in sales and marketing.  During his tenure there, he created several award-winning software applications for physicians and members of the sales organization.  Dana began his career as an electromechanical engineer at Eos Biotechnology and REM Design, a San Francisco design consulting firm.

When he is not focused on Runway, Dana, a professional photographer, can be found behind his camera.

Eli trained in the Product Design program at Stanford University. After working for a year at a biological research station in Bermuda, he took a job at Light & Motion in Monterey, California as a design engineer, where he had the chance to design, test, and flood many different types of underwater video and camera housings. He then pursued graduate work in marine biology at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, and in a mad attempt to fuse his love of photography and the ocean, he co-founded the print magazine Wetpixel Quarterly in 2007.

As a life-long lover of the ocean, Eli loves to surf, dive, and kayak. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife, daughter, and medium-sized dog, Lewis.

Carole has a Ph.D. in Human and Organization Systems and a Masters Degree in Organization Development. She was raised in Mexico City, Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish. She is the recipient of two Congressional Awards for Community Service and a member of NTL Institute of Applied Behavioral Science

Prior to Veracyte, Charles has held positions within the commercial organization at Genentech, as a physician and administrator at Kaiser Permanente, and as a resident physician at Yale School of Medicine. He has authored several scientific publications and abstracts, and also continues to practice clinical medicine.

Charles holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MD from New York University, and a BS from UC San Diego. He lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife and 2 daughters.

Deyan holds an MBA from the Stanford GSB and an BA in Integrated Social Sciences from Jacobs University Bremen. He also has a deep technical background, being proficient in multiple programming languages and specializing in algorithms, data structures, and reverse engineering. You can visit his personal website at www.deyanvitanov.com.

Leor Stern is a member of Google’s new business development team, where he focuses on incubating and launching new products and strategic initiatives through partnerships and technology deals. In this role, Leor has helped create several Google products, including Google Voice, TV ads, and Google Places. Leor joined Google in 2003 and prior to his current role, he launched Google’s field operations in Israel. He also managed Google’s online sales and operations in Russia, the Middle East, South Africa, Croatia, and Israel .

Leor graduated cum laude with a psychology degree from the University of California, Davis. He lives in Belmont, California, and travels to Israel frequently.

Monisha previously served as CEO and Co-Founder of TuitionCoach (acquired by SimpleTuition in 2009), where she oversaw the financing, launch, and general management of the start-up. She has also held leadership positions at SimpleTuition, Siebel Systems, Pensare, and AmeriCorps.

She has an MBA and MA in Education from Stanford and a BA from Yale.

Evan has an engineering degree in Product Design from Stanford University, where he was also head writer of the Stanford Chaparral, one of the nation’s oldest humor magazines. He currently lives and works in the Bay Area.

In 2005, Brent co-founded Alter-G, a medical device company that harnessed NASA technology to develop an “anti-gravity treadmill” to dramatically improve physical rehabilitation for personal mobility applications. Through this initial endeavor, Brent developed a passion for building companies that have a measurable impact on the lives of its end users and customers.  He left Alter-G in 2008 to pursue his graduate education in order to advance his entrepreneurial goals.  The company continues to thrive in the medical, professional sports and fitness markets.

While attending Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Brent met his Treatful Co-Founder, Hoon Kim, where the two quickly realized their shared interests.  In an effort to develop a business that would help small businesses better compete in an increasingly online world; the two began a process of interviewing local business owners.  As a results of these efforts, the duo launched Treatful in December of 2010.  Today, Treatful serves the parallel goals of leveling the playing field for local businesses in the $90 Billion gift card market and simultaneously provides a better, more personalized gifting option today’s online consumer.  In this effort, Brent focuses local business outreach and building lasting relationships with their local business partners.

Outside of the office, Brent is a self-described “Foodie” and takes a personal interest in frequenting the company’s many restaurant partners.   He is an avid runner, cross fitter and amateur cook.

Before DOE, he was the Senior Energy Analyst for Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection where he helped push for federal climate and energy legislation, build a national climate movement, and helped Mr. Gore with research for his new book, “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,” which became a NY Times best seller.

He is passionate about the human-technology-environment interaction, and the interdisciplinary and interdependent nature of large complex problems.  He received a Master’s degree from the Atmosphere / Energy Program at Stanford University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Upon earning his JD, Moshe was admitted to the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he earned his MBA. During his time at Stanford, Moshe participated at the Stanford Biodesign Innovation program where he teamed up with Dr. Kenton Fong and Dean Hu in the development of the technology around which they formed Spiracur. Moshe has served as Spiracur’s CEO during its first three years of operations and currently serves as its Executive Vice President.

Before DOE, he was the Senior Energy Analyst for Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection where he helped push for federal climate and energy legislation, build a national climate movement, and helped Mr. Gore with research for his new book, “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,” which became a NY Times best seller.

He is passionate about the human-technology-environment interaction, and the interdisciplinary and interdependent nature of large complex problems.  He received a Master’s degree from the Atmosphere / Energy Program at Stanford University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan.