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Mark your calendars: June 9, 2015

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Our June speaker is an accomplished entrepreneur, venture capitalist, board director, and global investor.  Chris Kitze has a crystal ball on the consumer market, with a successful career in leading, building, and investing in companies that successfully serve the B2C market.   He will share with us not only his past successes, but also where he sees opportunities in the markets ahead.

Chris is the CEO of Safe Cash, the next generation payment technology that makes cash more secure, convenient and profitable for banks, merchants and consumers worldwide.

Chris Kitze is a serial entrepreneur, tracking the economic, social, political and spiritual changes in the world.  He has co-founded and/or served as CEO of Wine.com, Yaga, NBC Internet, XOOM.com, Point Communications, and Aris Entertainment.   Roughly twenty years ago, Mr. Kitze served as Publisher at Softkey International, now The Learning Company.

Mr. Kitze is a recent recipient of Israel’s prestigious Albert Einstein Technology Award that recognizes path-breaking leaders who have pushed the envelope of technology in the service of mankind through their entrepreneurship and risk taking, enabling others to benefit from their cutting-edge technologies.

Mr. Kitze holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.

RSVP to reserve your seat!

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Get your fun questions ready for John Roulac, CEO of Nutiva!

Quick reminder: John Roulac, Founder and CEO of Nutiva, a $100mm revenue food company, is our guest speaker tomorrow. Nutiva is one of the fastest-growing food companies in the U.S.A.  John Roulac is a sought-after international speaker on Sustainability, Natural/Organic Foods, and building high-growth businesses.

We anticipate space issues, so please RSVP and reserve your seat.

Get your fun questions ready for John, like:  When did you know you wanted to be CEO?  How did you market yourself? What is your “Brand” as the CEO today?  Are you still having fun?  Do you recommend this career to others?  And…John, tell us your favorite “superfood!”

This will be a great opportunity to network with other executives like you, and make new friends, and share a good cup of coffee.  Our events are very informal and interactive.

If you already RSVP’d, you are all set. See you tomorrow, Tuesday, May 12th.

2015 Kick-off Meeting with Tom Peters, CEO
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2015 Kick-off Meeting with Tom Peters, CEO

Tom Peters, CEO of Marin Community Foundation hosted the first event of 2015 in his beautiful Hamilton Landing office space at Hangar 5. We had a great turnout with several CEOs and Board Members joining us for an energetic and lively interview with Tom Peters moderated by Paul Herrerias. It was highly inspirational and a real heart-to-heart conversation about his CEO career, challenges, and rewards. Tom’s career really evolved from his early work heading the public Department of Health & Human Services in San Francisco to running one of the nation’s largest community foundations.

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Click here to see the entertaining video on our new YouTube Channel.

Thanks goes to Paul Herrerias for moderating and to Joe Delaney for his great questions and speaker format planning.  Special thanks to Terri Ewing, Dr. Peter’s personal assistant who made this event happen. Thank you everyone who came and joined us for this vibrant and dynamic conversation, and contributed to the Q&A afterwards.

Mark your calendars for February 10th for our next meeting and your chance get to know another successful CEO from the Solar Industry to talk about “What is it like to be a CEO in my Company?”

Phil Gioia Memorial Day Speech-San Francisco 2014
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Phil Gioia Memorial Day Speech-San Francisco 2014

REMARKS ON VIETNAM ON MEMORIAL DAY 2014

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NATIONAL CEMETERY

PRESIDIO OF SAN FRANCISCO

It is an honor to speak on behalf of my comrades, who fought in Vietnam long ago, and far away.There are a lot of memories from two combat tours. If what you are about to hear sounds in any way unique, it was not; I’m sure my experiences would be familiar to almost any soldier who fought as a combat Infantryman. When I first went to Vietnam in January of 1968, I was a 21-year old Infantry Lieutenant; a paratrooper and Ranger in the 82d Airborne Division. Our brigade of the 82d was deployed to Vietnam as reinforcements, during the TET Offensive that had begun that month.

After flying by way of Alaska and Okinawa, we finally landed at Phu Bai, just south of Hué. It was sheeting down rain. A Marine CH-46 helicopter landed beside our transport. It had just come in from Ke Sanh, the combat base which was under siege in the mountains to the west, near the Laotian border. As the tail ramp of the helicopter came down, a Marine ‘deuce and half’ truck backed up. Bodies in gray-green bags were offloaded into the truck bed.

Most of the paratroopers with me had served in Vietnam before. To them, this was an ordinary sight. It wasn’t ordinary to me. In those first weeks, it rained ceaselessly, and was surprisingly cold. But when the rain stopped and the sun came out, it was like operating in a sauna. Most of the fighting was small unit actions, and ambushes. Continue reading →

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November 11th Speaker: Joao Correia, InGamba and CORSO Sports Marketing

Tuesday November 11th, 2014

7:15 am – 9:00 am
$25 per person
Venue: Il Fornaio, Corte Madera

 

Come enjoy breakfast and hear Joao Correia of InGamba and CORSO Sports Marketing, speak on “Following your Passions.”

The model of someone who is following their passions (and making money at the same time!), Joao Correia is involved with two very successful and growing businesses in the bicycling and sports marketing industries.

7:15 am Arrive

7:30 am Breakfast and Networking

8:00 am Speaker

9:00 am Adjourn

 

Follow Your Passion for Ultimate Success!

 About Joao:  

 Joao Correia began his successful career racing as a kid in Portugal, and went on to ride professionally. In 1996 he left cycling for college, which led to a career in the fast paced New York City publishing world. Joao’s wanderlust spirit took him on assignments with Hearst on titles such as Esquire Magazine that included working in Prague, Milan, San Francisco and New York. But the passion for the bike was always well rooted with Joao and eventually he became the Associate Publisher of Bicycling Magazine.

With that he started to ride seriously again and eventually lost 60 pounds which led him back to the top echelon of professional cycling as a member of the Cervelo Test Team in a transformation that the New York Times called a remarkable athletic achievement. Joao has also worked for Social Media powerhouse LinkedIn in San Francisco. Joao holds a Political Science and International Business Degree from Fordham University.

Joao is now currently part of two successful businesses; InGamba (view website here.) and CORSO Sports Marketing (website.)

 

Mark your calendars for our annual holiday party which will be held at the home of Paul Herrerias in Novato on December 9th.

We look forward to seeing you on November 11th at Il Fornaio!

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Leading at Mach 2 – Anthony Bourke

A big THANK YOU to our outstanding speaker, Anthony Bourke! There was quite the turn out at Creekside Room on the beautiful Dominican campus of CEO’s and students. And another thank you is owed to Liz Chiarolla, the Events Manager in the Barowsky School of Business, for helping organize a successful event.

Anthony shared his secret to business; always take the time to brief and debrief…it keeps everyone on the same page because feedback and communication are critical to success, just ask a Blue Angels Pilot!

 

Paul Herrerias, Anthony Bourke, Joe Delaney                    All smiles!
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