Faculty & Speakers
Corporate Directors Enterprise
Faculty Director
Kathleen Connell, Ph.D is a Professor of International Finance and Corporate Governance at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She is currently President of the Connell Group, an investment advisory firm located in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Connell served as California State Controller from 1995-2003. Previously, she was a Director at a New York investment banking firm and Founder and Chair of the Center for Finance and Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Business.
Dr. Connell is the author of "Moving Up To Millions: The Life Calculator Guide To Wealth" and creator of LifeCalculator, a online sophisticated financial planning tool available at www.LifeCalculator.net. Kathleen Connell writes a weekly financial column for the Christian Science Monitor. She has served as a Director on numerous public and private Boards and holds five securities licenses. Dr. Connell has a Ph.D from UCLA.
Faculty & Speakers
Jerome S. Engel is Faculty Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, Chair of the New Venture Creation and Venture Capital program and Adjunct Professor. He also serves as General Partner at Monitor Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and focuses on investments in high technology companies.
Mr. Engel has extensive corporate experience with entrepreneurship and venture capital, both as an investor and as an entrepreneur. He has mentored many of the Bay Area's leading venture-funded technology companies. He was a Founding General Partner in a Southern California based venture fund backed by CalPERS. He was a founder and CFO of AllBusiness.com which was sold to NBC, and sits on the boards of several technology-based companies. He began his career as a CPA and established the Entrepreneurial Services Group at Ernst & Young.
He is Faculty Chair of The UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the International Berkeley-Intel Technology Challenge, and Faculty Co-Chair of the Global Social Venture Competition. He is the Faculty Director of Intel/U.C. Berkeley International Entrepreneurship Initiative and serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the Kauffman Fellows Program, the editorial Board of the International Journal of Technoentrepreneurship, and previously served as Faculty Director of the Kauffman Foundation Lifelong Learning for Entrepreneurship Educators Program. He is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer in the US and internationally.
Mr. Engel holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and a Master's degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Kellie McElhaney is the John C. Whitehead Professor of Corporate Responsibility and the founding Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. She developed and launched this new center in 2003, which has helped place corporate responsibility squarely as one of the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Haas School. The Wall Street Journal ranked Haas as the number two business school in the country for corporate social responsibility (CSR) in 2006. Professor McElhaney teaches courses on Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility, which include in-depth, experiential consulting engagements with companies on high-visibility strategic CSR challenges, in all of the MBA degree programs at Haas. She also teaches extensive Executive Education in this area.
Dr. McElhaney was named a Faculty Pioneer for leading institutional change by the Aspen Institute in 2005, hailing her as one of the world's leading thinkers on strategic CSR. Her research focus is in three areas: Analyzing and developing companies' CSR strategies, and their alignment with core business objectives, core competencies, and business value; exploring the linkage between gender and CSR and using CSR as a hook to re-engage women with business as employees, business leaders, consumers, entrepreneurs, and investors; and the business value and opportunities in branding, communication and CSR, on which she is currently under contract and writing a book which will be complete in 2007.
Kellie consults to several Fortune 500 companies in developing integrated CSR strategy, bridging her academic focus with the practitioner world. Her client list includes HP, Gap, eBay, McDonalds, Ernst & Young, Driscoll's Berries, Nokia, Navigant, Volunteer Match, Ford Motor Company, Bernard Hodes Group, and Triage Consulting Group. She is a highly engaging and motivational public speaker in the area of CSR, and has keynoted at major conferences, leadership summits, and corporate events on the topic.
