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Danielle is the General Manager of Renewables in Chevron’s Americas Fuels & Lubricants business, a position she has held since October 2020.

Prior to Chevron, she held several roles at The Dow Chemical Company for over 11 years, with experience in the chlorinated organics, acrylates, and hydrocarbons businesses. Her responsibilities included petrochemicals operations, HES leadership, regulatory advocacy, and value chain optimization.

Since joining Chevron in 2013, Danielle’s experiences have included carbon and biofuels strategy management in the Downstream Strategy organization, Joint Venture Manager for Chevron’s JV Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Value Chain Optimization Manager, and Senior Sales Manager for Retail Fuels and Commercial Products in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Danielle was born in Houston, Texas, and earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Lizza Diaz is the senior director for the global HR program management office and change management at Robert Half. She has been with the company for more than 20 years and has an extensive background in establishing new departments and business segments, developing repeatable and scalable organizational processes, and managing enterprise-wide change, program management and delivery. Since joining Robert Half, she has held various roles within strategic accounts business, product management and leading business transformation initiatives.

Lizza started her professional career as an Internal Auditor at Kaiser Permanente, after graduating from University of San Francisco with an Accounting degree. During her tenure, she served in several roles in the accounting operations, managed national sourcing and logistics transformation and evolved her role as the director of payables operations, until she left the company for several years to spend more time with her two children.

Lizza prides herself for being recognized as a collaborative business partner, effective problem solver and inspirational people leader. She is committed to servant leadership, is passionate in developing others to their full potential and showing up with her authentic self.

Robert Half (NYSE symbol: RHI) is the world's first and largest specialized talent solutions and business consulting firm that connects opportunities at great companies with highly skilled job seekers. Robert Half offers contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions and is the parent company of Protiviti^®, a global consulting firm.

Lavanya is a consultant, MBA graduate, chartered accountant, and former entrepreneur, with over 6 years of experience in the professional services industry.

Lavanya began her career during her undergrad (in business), as an intern at Goldman Sachs, where she developed an understanding of the banking industry and the nuances of corporate culture. Further, while studying to be a chartered accountant (among India’s toughest professional qualifications to attain), she worked as an Articled Assistant at Manohar Chowdhry & Associates, one of India’s leading mid-sized accounting and advisory firms. This gave her an opportunity to develop her analytical skills while deriving insights from complex data and laws, and learn to build meaningful relationships with clients and senior leaders. Equipped with these experiences, she joined Murugesh & Co, a leading mid-size accounting and advisory firm in India, and quickly grew into an intrapreneur – with her role ranging from leading teams and managing relationships with Fortune India 500s, to identifying growth opportunities for the firm. Inspired by her entrepreneurial family and the booming start-up environment in Bangalore, she founded an accounting and advisory firm for start-ups. This gave her the opportunity to build a firm, lead client relationships, and bring together experienced professionals to advise early-stage start-ups.

Lavanya’s quest to develop a multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving and hone her leadership skills led to her next step - An MBA at the Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania). She double majored in Business Analytics and Operations (Director’s List, Spring 2020), served on the board of student clubs (including Adam Grant’s “Authors @ Wharton”), and was a teaching assistant.

During business school, Lavanya interned at Kearney, a global management consulting firm which works with three-quarters of the global Fortune 500s, as well as influential governmental and non-profit organizations. At present, Lavanya is an Associate at Kearney’s San Francisco office. She collaborates with talented colleagues and clients to solve the most pressing business challenges across industries and functions. She is also a member of the Kearney Americas Social Impact and Sustainability team and a team lead of the San Francisco Social Impact and Sustainability team.

Sophia Long is a University of Cincinnati graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. She served as the NSBE Programs Chairwoman and Vice President in college. She had several Co-ops/Internships with Marathon, Ethicon, and Parker Hannifin before accepting a full-time offer as a Reliability Engineer with Marathon in Martinez, California in 2020. She is a self-described “nerd” who loves to support youth development and community impact in any way she can.

Cecilia Mansilla is a Principal in EY’s Consulting Services. Her focus is driving value from large business and technology transformation. Her expertise is in mobilizing, stabilizing and operating complex, multi-million global transformational programs in technology, cybersecurity, supply chain, finance and operations. She leads EY’s West Transformation Design and Execution practice which delivers agile and digitally enabled transformation, portfolio and program management services and is one of the architects of EY’s PMO and program management global methodology.

Cecilia is also one of EY’s leaders in Diversity & Inclusion and Corporate Responsibility. She sponsors EY’s national Women in Transformation group as well as EY’s corporate responsibility efforts in the San Francisco area; focusing primarily on diversity and inclusion programs for students, entrepreneurs and small businesses. She serves on two non-profit boards impacting education, equity and social justice.

Jody is a scientist with an extensive background in genetics and molecular biology. She has been at Invitae for over 10 years and has worked on many aspects of developing its next generation sequencing platform for genetic diagnostics. She previously led the team that developed Invitae's Neurology tests. She is now leading a team that provides clinical and scientific support to a variety of product development initiatives, including oncology, reproductive, diagnostic odyssey, and wellness products. Prior to working at Invitae, Jody received her Ph.D, in molecular biology from UC Berkeley.