SHE-DOES Recipients

Jeanna Beacham, President and CEO of Delphon Industries

Jeanne is President and CEO of Delphon Industries, a materials manufacturing company that is a leading provider of device packaging materials and services to the semiconductor and medical device industries. Jeanne’s numerous awards include San Francisco Top Influential Women, Diamond Leadership Award, East Bay Women of Distinction Award, San Jose Business Journal Top Women in Business in Silicon Valley and Woman of Distinction in Technology. Delphon was named as one of the Top Women Owned business in the Bay Area for over five years.

Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn, CEO and President of Peritus Partners

Over the last 30 years, Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn has been a technology trailblazer who has committed to pulling other women and girls forward in the tech industry. Under her leadership, over $2M was raised for community programs with the YWCA Silicon Valley. In June 2015, she was inducted into the Women in Technology International
(WITI) Hall of Fame. Cheemin is currently the CEO and President of Peritus Partners, a global business consulting group recognized for leading companies to market dominance and increasing valuation.

Carolyn Buck Lace, Executive in Residence and Acting Managing Partner At Hewlett Consulting Partners

Carolyn is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Imaginal Labs LLC and currently serves as the Executive in Residence and Acting Managing Partner at Hewlett Consulting Partner’s Center for Talent Innovation. For several decades, Carolyn was a Principal at Ernst & Young and spent the last decade as the Ernst & Young Global Life Sciences Leader where she was responsible for serving global life sciences companies with a full range of management consulting solutions.

Kaye Foster, Senior Advisor at the Boston Consulting Group

Growth leader, business builder, philanthropist, mother and woman of faith, whose life purpose is to “give voice to the voiceless,” Kaye works with CEOs, leaders and teams as a partner, coach, and confidante, to define the values that create an organization’s culture. After leading global human resources for Johnson & Johnson, Onyx, and a number of other Fortune 500 companies, Kaye now works as a Senior Advisor with The Boston Consulting Group.

Musimbi Kanyoro, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women

Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro is a passionate advocate for women and girls’ health and human rights and social change philanthropy. She is the current President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women. Musimbi is an accomplished leader with three decades of experience managing international non-governmental organizations, global programs, and ecumenical agencies in cross-cultural contexts.

Sue Siegel, GE Ventures and Healthymaginations

Sue Siegel leads two of GE’s growth and innovation initiatives as CEO of GE Ventures & Healthymaginations. She has more than 30 years of experience in corporate and venture capital. Previously, Sue led investments in personalized medicine, digital health and life sciences at Silicon Valley-based Mohr Davidow Ventures. She has served on over two dozen private and public corporate boards. She is a President’s Circle member of the National Academies of Science, a member of YPO-WPO, Women Corporate Directors and a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Kristin Nicholson, Mentor

Kristin is an investment advisor at First Republic Bank in San Francisco and has been in the investment industry for 19 years. She received her MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University. Kristin began her investment career as part of the MBA Enterprise Corps, a non-profit organization providing management support to local firms in emerging markets, with a year’s assignment in Brno, Czech Republic. She then continued on with another firm in Eastern Europe for two years. Kristin holds both a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Financial Planner designation and is a member of the San Francisco Analysts Society. She mentors Patricie, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, and Rina, an undergraduate student at Haverford College.

Linda Naugle, Mentor

Linda Naugle is the Director of the Northwest Region of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF based in San Francisco. She has worked at UNICEF for over 7 years, which has grated her the opportunity to see UNICEF’s work in the field firsthand in Rwanda, Panama, Belize, and Malawi and has spoken to groups and individuals around the country about her experiences in an effort to raise funds and awareness about alleviating poverty in the developing world. Prior to this role, she was a fundraiser for environmental and educational organizations, in addition to spending two years working in Costa Rica for a study abroad program. Linda holds Master of Arts in International Education from Michigan State University, and an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Spanish from Bucknell University. Linda co-mentors Nadege Sesonga with Veronica Samoulides.

Louise Trudeau, Essay Coach, College Relations Advisor, and Mentor

As founder of True Essays, Louise has been a college admission counselor for eight years, teaching writing skills for applications, college and beyond, and counseling on college and career choice. She has 25+ years experience as a strategy consultant, providing market intelligence, analysis and new product development for companies such as 3M, Rubbermaid and Kellogg’s. She began her strategic planning career at GE in Belgium and at Rockwell International’s Space divisions, and has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School. Louise currently serves as President for a low-income housing nonprofit, and is a member of National Association of College Admissions Counselors, its international affiliate, and Higher Education Consultants Association. She mentors Peninah Ingabire, an undergraduate at Muhlenberg College.

Mary Jane Luck, SHE-CAN Board Member

Mary Jane is Vice President of the Levi Strauss & Co. Red Tab Foundation Board, President of the Tyner Family Foundation and also a member of the Board of Directors for the Great Lakes Collaborative for Autism. Mary Jane completed her corporate career in Market Research in 2006 at Levi Strauss and Co. where she worked for over 25 years. Her responsibilities included directing the company’s Market Research efforts as head of Global Consumer Insights.

The Team in Rwanda

Susan Mbabazi, Kigali Program Director

Susan manages the day-to-day work coordinating the candidates. She currently works for Carnegie Mellon’s Kigali campus as Admission Director. She has worked at Rwandatel as a manager of Quality Assurance and with Bpeace where she coordinated training programs and business consulting for Rwandan entrepreneurs. Susan also participated in The Karuna Peacebuilder’s Rescuers Project where she helped record the stories of those who protected targeted groups during the Rwandan Genocide. She is a graduate of Kigali Institute of Education.

Richard Niwenshuti, Kigali Partnership Development Manager

Richard creates relationships with local schools and organizations. He is an SME development consultant who currently works with the World Bank/IFC in sub-Saharan Africa, and also consults with Kigali organizations including the Centre For Business Skills, Global Consult Group, Centre For Skills Development and Centre For Business Development. Richard worked at the forefront of launching the Business Council for Peace (Bpeace) program in Rwanda from 2003-2011, where he held the position of country program manager. He is a graduate of Kigali Institute of Education.