Women in Global Leadership San Francisco - Silicon Valley 2022

This month we held our monthly meetup of the global tribe in metropolitan San Francisco / Silicon Valley... and the meeting was in celebration of International Women's Day, March 8th.

We spoke with regional global leaders about challenges and opportunities for women in leadership and trade. It became an annual "Women in Global Leadership SFO 2022" - with women leaders PLUS an enlightened man, David Saltzman at Squire Patton Boggs.

Watch the conversation HERE.

Special thanks to moderator Jacqueline Wales - Author of The Fearless Factor, The Fearless Factor @ Work, When The Crow Sings and the soon to be published Fearless Women Leading The Way.

The conversation was rich with insights on DEI, cultural challenges and discussion on how we can open conversations between genders to stimulate understanding. Watch for some addition notes here from the conversation by April 1st...

The keynote speakers were...

- Alina Toderascu - VP of Marketing at CYPHER LEARNING

- Donaji Montes - CEO and Founder at Intechnational

- Dr. Joel Martin - President at Triad West

- Carolina Miranda - Founder and CEO at Cultivating Capital

- David Saltzman - Partner at Squire Patton Boggs (Palo Alto + SF)

And we welcomed other leaders to the stage for questions and comments, most notably Valerie-Sue Peyton Hernandez, Media Consultant with Prohibition Partners. Listen to Valerie and the other leaders at the link above.

Learn more about the Global Chamber® San Francisco chapter here.

Biographies

Jacqueline Wales

Over many decades of exceptional experiences and hundreds of conversations with accomplished women, Jacqueline Wales knows that being fearless is not the absence of fear, but the courage to take the next step…. then the next one...until you create the life and career you really want. She is a trusted advisor to high-achieving women who helps her clients take accountability for their actions and responsibility for their decisions to achieve remarkable results.

As the author of The Fearless Factor, The Fearless Factor @ Work, When The Crow Sings, and the soon to be published Fearless Women Leading The Way, she has explored human behavior and asked tough questions to discover hard truths for more than 35 years. Her website is www.jacquelinewales.com and her books can be found on Amazon here. Contact Jacqueline here jacqueline@jacquelinewales.com.

Alina Toderascu

Alina Toderascu is the VP of Marketing for CYPHER LEARNING, a company that specializes in providing e-learning platforms for organizations all over the world.

Alina is a marketing executive with 10+ years of experience in marketing and design. Her areas of expertise include marketing strategy, brand management, market research, search engine optimization, email marketing, content marketing, event planning, PR, and more. Alina leads a team of 20+ marketing specialists and is responsible for defining the global marketing strategy of the company, as well as localized initiatives for more than 10 regions worldwide. Beyond her marketing role, Alina also works actively with other departments to improve the onboarding experience of new clients, design attractive instructional content for clients, and define customer success strategies.

Donaji Montes

Donaji Montes is the CEO and founder of Intechnational, a consulting firm based in the Silicon Valley that helps digital technology businesses with their international business development in the US market and inner transformation. Also, Donaji is co-founder of HackerStrike, a Silicon Valley cloud-based security services and technology company that develops and licenses sophisticated security solutions to organizations.

Donaji is a bilingual and bicultural professional with more than 15 years of experience working with technology companies. She worked for The US Mexico Foundation for Science Inc, in the Technology Business Accelerator program (TechBA) in Arizona and Silicon Valley.

Donaji holds a BA in Management and Business Administration from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, a University of Cambridge Diploma on Strategic Roadmapping, and a Global Innovation Leadership Workshop Diploma from Stanford University.

Carolina Miranda

****Carolina Miranda is the the founder and CEO of Cultivating Capital, a Certified B Corp since 2012 that works with small businesses to implement sustainable business practices. As a Green Business, Sustainability, and B Corp Consultant, she has worked with hundreds of organizations to implement social and environmental initiatives, get certified, and establish 5-year sustainability action plans. She specializes in helping small businesses align their business with their values by implementing best practices for social and environmental responsibility and is actively involved with the B Corp Women CEOs group.

David Saltzman

David Saltzman represents companies from around the world in a variety of business transactions and related legal issues. His clients range from small emerging growth companies to large multinational corporations, from a variety of industries, including technology, financial services, life sciences, private equity, corporate, mergers & acquisitions and cannabis, hemp and CBD services.

David advises clients in all areas of corporate and securities laws, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, sales and purchases of equity and debt securities, and corporate governance matters. He also devotes a substantial amount of his practice to representing emerging growth companies and investment funds in private equity and venture capital matters, and has extensive experience with venture capital financings and fund formations. His work with clients covers all stages of the corporate life span, advising on company formation and structure, general corporate representation and corporate governance, corporate financing and liquidity events.

David’s practice also includes advising clients on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), counseling on the complexities of the statute, assisting with training, and drafting anti-bribery/anti-corruption policies and procedures.

In addition to his US practice, David has worked on numerous cross-border M&A transactions, financings and joint ventures, including those involving Asia, Europe, the Middle East and South America.

David is a frequent speaker on key issues for global companies, and has presented to the Association of Corporate Counsel's Bay Area Chapter on the FCPA, as well as mergers and acquisitions in China. In addition, David has authored several published articles and treatise chapters and has hosted seminars on the FCPA and other trade and compliance issues for Silicon Valley companies.

David has been a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Japan Society of Northern California since 2011, and he currently serves as its Corporate Secretary and the Chair of its Nominating & Governance Committee. He also has been a member of the Editorial Board of the State Bar of California’s Business Law News since 2007. David is also an advisory board member of Global Chamber San Francisco.

Dr. Joel Martin

Global Chamber® is a growing and collaborating community of CEOs, executives and leaders in 525 metro regions around the world... connecting member businesses to new opportunities and advancing growth and success. It's the only chamber of commerce in the world operating in hundreds of locations that helps exporting, importing and investing members to connect through warm introductions to clients, partners, projects and resources. Global Chamber® is a registered trademark of Global Chamber LLC since 2014.