Graduate School of Business
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Chris Sadlak
Senior Software Engineer/Project Manager, Teaching and Learning Hub
Current Role at StanfordDLS, Senior Software Developer
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Alegria Salaices
Associate Director, Lifelong Learning, Graduate School of Business - Development and External Relations
Current Role at StanfordAssociate Director, Lifelong Learning, Stanford Graduate School of Business External Relations
Regional manager for GSB Alumni Chapters in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. -
Alexa Samaniego
Ph.D. Student in Business Administration, admitted Autumn 2022
Reader/Grader - Graduate, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
Grad OCT, Hume CenterBioAlexa is a second-year PhD student in Organizational Behavior (Micro) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Alexa's research is inspired by her background in theatre and the performing arts. She considers how speakers and audiences experience repeated performances (e.g., entrepreneurs giving the same pitch, or trainers giving the same seminar), and why certain speakers come across as more authentic than others. Her research informs the work she does as a presentation coach in the Stanford Oral Communication program and TEDxStanford.
Prior to beginning her PhD, Alexa worked as a research associate at Achievers Workforce Institute and Columbia Business School. She received her BS in Business Psychology from UC San Diego, and her MS in Applied Psychology from San Diego State University. -
Shailee Samar
MBA, expected graduation 2025
BioProduct manager with experience in building search, marketplace, and AI/ML products. BS from Harvey Mudd College, MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Leonardo Sanelli
MBA, expected graduation 2024
BioI am a first-year MBA student at Stanford. Previously, I was a Growth Equity Associate intern at the Italian Investment Fund ("Fondo Italiano d'Investimento"), focusing on tech investments. Before that, I advised for three years major multi-national clients as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company in Milan with a focus on TMT Strategy & Corporate Finance. Before McKinsey, I worked as a Private Equity Analyst at Gain.pro, a B2B SaaS Fintech start-up with a deal origination platform for the Private Equity industry in London.
I started my career in 2011 as a YouTuber with a channel on consumer technology, mainly about Apple products, reaching 50k subscribers and 10 million views by producing 220 videos. In 2019, I founded Mentors4u High Schools to coach and mentor students on their career choices, reaching 3k students through webinars and 100k through online content.
I graduated in 2019 from London Business School and in 2018 from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Cum Laude and Valedictorian. -
Debra Schifrin
Lecturer
BioDebra Schifrin designs and leads corporate workshops on leadership, communication, collaboration, agility, storytelling, and creativity. At Stanford Graduate School of Business, she co-designed, piloted and teaches the school’s first improv-based MBA management course. The course empowers students to become better leaders, managers, and team members. It is one of the only such MBA courses in the world. She is co-creating and teaching a new MBA course in Spring 2021,"Creativity and the Business Ecosystem." Debra has written and published over 80 Stanford and Harvard business cases, which are taught in MBA classes at the GSB and at other business schools. The topics of her business cases include strategy; marketing; product and social innovation; humor; and storytelling.
Before joining Stanford, Debra spent 11 years as a reporter, director and producer for National Public Radio and Marketplace. She produced thousands of breaking news and feature stories for the NPR flagship news program All Things Considered and directed the broadcast. Her stories and commentaries aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Marketplace. A long-time actor and improvisor, Debra performs most weekends in San Francisco in many formats, including improvised musicals and improvised Star Trek. -
Kevin Schulman
Professor of Medicine (Hospital Medicine), by courtesy, of Health Policy and of Operations, Information and Technology at the Graduate School of Business
BioDr. Schulman is a Professor of Medicine, Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He is the Faculty Director of Stanford’s new applied master's degree program, the Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management program.
Dr. Schulman is a health economist/health services researcher working at the intersection of business, medicine and technology. With over 500 publications, he has had a broad impact on several areas of health policy (Scopus h-index=81). His research has appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Health Affairs. He is the editor-in-chief of Health Management, Policy and Innovation (www.HMPI.Org), and Senior Associate Editor of Health Service Research (HSR).
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, the New York University School of Medicine, and The Wharton Health Care Management Program. -
Beth Seltzer
Senior Instructional Technologist and Project Manager, Teaching and Learning Hub
BioBeth joined Stanford in 2019. Previously, she worked as an Educational Technology Specialist at Bryn Mawr College, where she coordinated the Digital Competencies Program, and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked as a project manager of the Early Novels Database and on other projects.
She holds a PhD in English Literature with a Certificate in Instructional Learning and Technology from Temple University. Her interests include digital pedagogy and scholarship, career preparation for humanities students and PhDs, and the impact of emerging technology on higher education. -
Prasad Setty
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Academic Administration
BioPrasad’s expertise is in the science and practice of helping people and organizations grow and scale. As an established thought leader and seasoned executive, Prasad’s insights are derived from his experience in the corporate world, academia and advisory roles.
At Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Prasad co-teaches an MBA course on trends shaping the world of work. He serves as an independent advisor to companies including BetterUp, DataStax, and Grab on people, culture and organizational matters.
Previously, Prasad was at Google for 15 years, and founded their renowned People Analytics team in 2007. Under his leadership, Google undertook highly influential and well-known research initiatives including Project Oxygen and Project Aristotle to enable great managers and teams. Prasad expanded his role in People Operations (i.e., Google’s HR function) to also lead compensation, benefits and performance management for Google. He helped shape Google’s approach to attracting, developing and retaining talent, and worked closely with the management team and the board of directors to grow the workforce ten-fold over his tenure.
Prasad later took on a role as Vice President, Digital Work Experience in Google Workspace and focused on making the experience of digital work productive, sustainable, healthy and inclusive for the billions of users of Google Workspace products (including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Meet).
Before joining Google, Prasad was vice president of workforce analytics at Capital One. Earlier, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
He holds an MBA from the Wharton School where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. He continues his association with Wharton, serving on the advisory board for executive education. He also has a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from IIT, Chennai, India.
