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Past Speakers for the SBGE Dean’s Speaker Series

2024-25 Gene Boes, CEO, Northwest Center
  Ambika Singh, Chief Boss Lady, Armoire
  Pearl Leung, Senior Manager, Public Policy, Amazon
2023-24 Mary Steele, Executive Director, Compass Housing Alliance
  April Sims, President, Washington State Labor, Council, AFL/CIO
2022-23 Joshua Cooper, Workforce of the Future Manager, PwC
  Jacqueline Drumheller, Global Sustainability Program Manager, Bio-Rad Laboratories
2021-22 Jamila Conley, Vice President, Business Transformation, F5
  Sheila Burroughs, Executive Director, HR Strategy and Market Expansion, Kaiser Permanente
  Barry McCaffrey, US Army Four-Star General 
2020-21 Julie Wise, Director, King County Elections
  Dr. Marguerite Ro, Chief, APDE Section, ɬÀï·¬-King County Public Health
2019-20 Chad Cohen, CFO with Adaptive Biotechnologies
  Twyla Carter, Senior Staff Attorney-Criminal Law Reform Project, ACLU
2018-19 Molly Moon Neitzel, Founder and Owner, Molly Moon's Ice Cream
  Roger Meece, Ambassador to DRC and Malawi (ret.)
  Heather Ratcliffe, Director, Product & Technology at T Mobile
2017-18 The Honorable LeRoy McCullough, King County Superior Court Judge
  Carol Kelly, Senior Vice President of Global Finance Operations (ret.), Oracle
  Joe Whinney, Founder and former CEO, Theo Chocolate
2016-17 Sharlyn Turner, Partner, Peterson Sullivan
  Larry Gossett, Councilmember, King County Council
  Tim Hanstad, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Landesa
2015-16 Orlando Ashford, President, Holland America Line
  Dr. Dorothy Echodu, CEO of Pilgrim Africa
  Doug Deardorf, CEO, NiSoft
2014-15 Stan Humphries, Chief Economist, Zillow
  Jared Axelrod, Senior Government Affairs Associate, Vulcan, Inc.
  Sarah Bird, CEO, Moz 
2013-14 Randall Lane, Senior Leader, Global Inclusion and Diversity, Cisco
  Dana Manciagli, Author, Cut the Crap, Get a Job!
  Russell Lowell, Owner and Chef, Russell's Restaurant
2012-13 Chris Martin, Founder & President, CleanScapes

Nate Miles, Director of Government Affairs, Eli Lilly Company

Colleen B. Brown, President and CEO, Fisher Communications Inc.
2011-12 Sharelle Klaus, Founder and CEO of DRY Soda Co.

Atul Tandon, Founder and CEO of the Tandon Institute

Brandon Pedersen, Chief Financial Officer, Alaska Air Group
2010-11 Bill Chapin, Director of Marketing and Partnership Development for the ɬÀï·¬ Seahawks and Sounders FC

Karen Turner Lee, CEO of Pioneer Human Services

Ray Davis, President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation
2009-10 Elisabeth James, General Manager of The Westin ɬÀï·¬

Ada M. Healey, Vice President, Real Estate, Vulcan Inc.

Craig Nakagawa, CFO and Director of Social Business, Village Reach
2008-09 Rita Ryder, President, YWCA ɬÀï·¬

Tomio Moriguchi, Chairman, Uwajimaya Inc.
2007-08 Carolyn Kelly, President and COO, The ɬÀï·¬ Times

Dan Brettler, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Car Toys

Junki Yoshida, Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Yoshida Group
2006-07 Mary McWilliams, President, Regence BlueShield of Washington

Bill Center, President, Washington Council on International Trade

Ron Sims, King County Executive
2005-06 Phyllis Campbell, President and CEO, The ɬÀï·¬ Foundation

John Rose, CEO, ɬÀï·¬-Northwest Securities Corporation

John Valaas, CEO, First Mutual Bank
2004-05 Sandra Taylor, Senior VP, Corporate Social Responsibility, Starbucks

Dennis Madsen, former CEO, REI

Richard Tait, Grand Boo Bah, Cranium Inc.