SPEAKERS
Jen Robinson, Keynote Speaker
Jen Robinson is EVP, Product & Technology at Zefr, the industry leader in contextual advertising data. She has spent the last decade building products for publishers and advertisers in LA's media & entertainment space.
Prior to Zefr, Jen spent 5 years as CTO at AwesomenessTV (now a ViacomCBS company). She has many years of experience in product management, engineering, and technology leadership.
Jen holds an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA in Computer Science from The University of Chicago. She lives in Los Angeles with her wife, their two kids, and a crazy dog.
Jennifer Dulski, Executive Panelist
Jennifer Dulski has a wide range of executive experience including leadership roles at Facebook, Google, and Yahoo!, and founder, CEO, and president roles at early stage and scaling startups. She is currently CEO and founder of Rising Team, a company that provides tools, data, and community to turn managers into amazing coaches that build happier and more successful teams.
Prior to Rising Team, she led Facebook Groups, used by more than 1.5 billion people each month to create and participate in communities that matter to them. Her team was responsible for envisioning, building, and growing the Groups product. She also led the 2019 redesign of Facebook, “FB5,” to put communities at the center of the app.
Before Facebook, Dulski was president and COO of Change.org, a social enterprise company that empowers people to create campaigns for change. Under her leadership, Change.org grew 10x, from 18 million users to 180 million, developed a profitable business model, rebuilt its tech stack, and supported thousands of successful campaigns globally.
As an early Yahoo! employee, she held a variety of roles over nine years there, and ultimately led one of six business units as group vice president and general manager of Local and Marketplaces. She left Yahoo! to become co-founder and CEO of The Dealmap, a location-based deals app that Google acquired in 2011, making her the first woman entrepreneur to sell a company to Google. She was a product leader at Google for nearly two years before joining Change.
Dulski writes about leadership for LinkedIn Influencers, Fortune, Forbes, and Huffington Post. Her first book, Purposeful, about how each of us can be movement starters, was published by Penguin Portfolio in 2018 and is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.
Zhalisa Clarke, Executive Panelist
Zhalisa Clarke is VP of Product Management and Business Intelligence at Bright Horizons, a leader in early childhood education, childcare, college coaching and a wide range of work life benefits for employers. A Harvard MBA hailing from Silicon Valley, she has spent the last 20 years helping to grow companies across industries including tech, healthcare, and financial services. Prior to Bright Horizons, she created and managed the enterprise team at Udacity, an Andreessen Horowitz backed ed-tech company with a billion dollar valuation. Her experience includes general management, business development, product, marketing, and management consulting.
Zhalisa’s passion for health and wellness led her to pursue additional training including studying in India for certifications in Yoga and Ayurveda, as well as Vipassana Meditation, and Reiki. She is the founder of Luna Vibrations, where she leads sound healing and meditation workshops in the Denver area
Yuchiang Cheng, Executive Panel
YuChiang Cheng serves as President of Topgolf Media following Topgolf Entertainment Group's successful acquisition of World Golf Tour (WGT), the world’s largest golf website and mobile golf game, which he co-founded in 2006. At Topgolf Media, YuChiang and his team tap their gaming, entertainment and tech expertise to create meaningful, shared digital moments for the Topgolf community. Through the use of technology, Topgolf Media further enhances in-venue golf games, apps and virtual experiences. In addition, the company supports the Topgolf experience with strategic partnerships, sponsorships and digital content.
Under YuChiang’s leadership, WGT grew from zero to nearly 30MM players, bringing console-quality graphics to web and mobile platforms. WGT was one of the first U.S. games to leverage free-to-play in-app purchases and in-game native advertising. Prior to WGT, YuChiang served on the executive team of WagerWorks (NYSE: IGT) as vice president of corporate development and product marketing. While at WagerWorks, he helped launch online gaming favorites Virgin Games, World Poker Tour and Hard Rock Casino before the company was acquired by IGT in 2005.
YuChiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College. He lives in Silicon Valley and, when not playing golf, you’ll find him restoring classic cars, playing hockey and wrestling his dogs.
Doug Leeds, Executive Panel
Doug Leeds, is CEO of EAT Club. Immediately prior to EAT Club, Doug was an EIR with August Capital and a Berkeley Social Impact Fellow at the Institute for Business & Social Impact, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business.
Previously, Doug was the CEO of IAC Publishing, one of the largest and most profitable digital publishers in the world with brands including The Daily Beast, About.com, Investopedia, Ask.com, Urbanspoon and Dictionary.com. Prior to this role, Doug served as CEO for Ask.com, evolving the search destination into a content-rich Q&A experience over the course of 5 years, and driving a number of high-profile acquisitions, including global social network Ask.fm and digital content publishers About.com and Investopedia.
Before taking the reins at Ask, Doug was CEO of Dictionary.com, having led IAC’s acquisition of the premium publishing brand in 2008 . Earlier he spent five years at Yahoo! (and Overture Services), as Vice President of Global Product Justice, and held senior positions at mobile ISP OmniSky and mobile carrier Vodafone.
Doug received his B.A. with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley and his JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center where he was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Grace Mase, Executive Panel Moderator
Grace Tsao Mase was trained as an architect, the entrepreneur has poured more than 20 years product development, user experience design, B2C and B2B software product marketing experience into BEYREP, a home renovation and remodeling management tool that helps design and building professionals increase profit, grow their business smarter and become more efficient.
Before BEYREP, Grace held senior executive positions at YP.com, Beachbody, United Online, and Yahoo!. Prior to that, she consulted with Virgin, Hard Rock, MGM Mirage, Sky UK, HP, AT&T, Sun Microsystems, and many other high-profile clients.
Andrew Lisy, Podcast
Andrew Lisy is Director of Product at DoorDash, where he's focused on Post-Purchase Customer Experience. In this role, he and his teams are creating a top-notch experience for customers who need help with their deliveries or with the platform, using technologies like chatbots and machine learning to create a personalized and satisfying support experience.
Before DoorDash, Andrew led Marketplace Product at Groupon and was VP of Product at Truss, a commercial real estate office space marketplace. Andrew holds degrees in Computer Science and Finance from MIT.
