The Visionaries Behind the Compass
Meet the architects and navigators who will help you lay the groundwork for your future. At Breakthrough Silicon Valley, our team assembles the tools, charts the courses, and clears the path, but the destination? That's all you.
Staff
Click on a photo to learn more about each member of Breakthrough Silicon Valley’s team.
AmeriCorps Members
Board of Directors
Ellen Lintz Dempsey (Chair)
Community Volunteer
Suchitra Subrahmanyan (Vice Chair)
Vice President, Business Development, Applied Materials
Courtney Monk (Secretary)
Chief Product Officer, Schoolytics
Bianca Fischli (Governance)
Community Volunteer, Customer Success Advocate
Allison Railo (Development)
Art Historian and Curator
Roneeta Guha
Principal, Education First Consulting
Christina Lai
VP, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Robinhood
Diane Lu
VP, Senior Counsel, SoftBank Group International
Antonio Romero
Director of Medicinal Chemistry, Cytokinetics
Griselda Panozo (Finance & Treasurer)
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jocelyne Cardona
Senior Research Associate, Education Policy Organization
Rita Chen
Community Volunteer
Neeraj Goel
Senior Engineering Manager, Adobe
Ramón Garcia Gomez
Go to Market Strategy and Operations, Google
Liza Smyth
Customer Experience Executive
Carol Tinsley
Community Volunteer
Minh Virasak
Associate Vice Provost, Santa Clara University
Michele Wyman
Director, Communications, Google Workspace