Virtual Events: Making Career Connections in the Tech Industry

Tech Industry Panel and Advisory Groups - Wednesday January 26, 2022 

5:00 p.m.– 6:30 p.m. PST

Moderated by:

Aisha Sharif, '18

Product, Search AI & UX, LinkedIn

 Tech Industry Panelists:

Sylvanus Bent, '06

Senior Product Manager, Search at Google
Sylvanus is a product management leader with over 10 years' experience building products and leading teams - from a hypergrowth startup to Big Tech. He currently leads a team of PMs responsible for the core Search ad products at Google.

Alexander Hu, MS '14, PhD candidate Electrical Engineering

Machine Learning Engineer at Snap, Inc.
Alexander's experience ranges from co-founding a healthcare cost management startup to design engineering Macbook Pro and iPad Pro hardware. He currently works in machine learning for computer vision and graphics.

Brad Johanson, MS '98, PhD '03

Senior Engineering Manager, Roblox
Brad is an experienced co-founder with a history of designing, developing, and managing the development of software infrastructure systems. As part of the Developer Services team at Roblox, he manages the Data, Infrastructure and Resources pods responsible for backend and frontend developer resource and game management UIs.

Min Liu, '06 , MBA '12

Product Lead, Relevance and Personalization at AirBnB
Min is currently Head of Product and PM manager for Airbnb's Relevance and Personalization team. She is an engineering and GSB alumna with 15 years of product and entrepreneurship experience in consumer-facing software.

Other Alumni Participating in Advisory Groups:

Jessica Abell, '10, MA '14

Jake Ayala, '14

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Virtual Networking Primer  - Wednesday Febraury 3, 2022

4:15 p.m.– 5:00 p.m. PST

 Virtual Networking Primer Career Coach

Pamela Paspa
Pamela is an Assistant Dean and Associate Director of Career Communities at BEAM, Stanford Career Education where she leads a team of assistant directors who work with students majoring in the schools of Engineering and Earth. She is a Board Certified Coach and holds multiple coaching certifications in business, life, career, social-emotional intelligence, and leadership coaching.