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Masashi "Mac" Kubota
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioMasashi "Mac" Kubota is passionate about contributing to the advancement of society and being an innovator in electronics, sympathizing with the corporate philosophy and slogan, with 19+ years of track record in the electronics components & semiconductors industries across various roles & functions as an investor, scientist, researcher, engineer, professional, manager, and corporate venture capitalist.
He is the Principal at WONDERSTONE Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of Murata Manufacturing, the industry-leading manufacturer of electronic components, devices, and integrated modules, which has been transforming electronics from the inside, with product lines of Capacitors, Inductors, Resonators, Filters, Sensors, Batteries, RF switches, Front-end modules, Connectivity modules, etc, with about $130B market cap & 12B revenue.
He is investing in leading startups who change the world & define the next era of Cyber-Physical Systems, across 6 themes : Next-generation communication & 6G, Optical & Semiconductors, Space, Robotics, Bioelectronics, and Environment
He is developing and championing the operations of the CVC by executing fund strategy and investment policy, leading investment decision-making (new and follow‑on) through the investment committee, supporting portfolio and CVC staff, and serving as the leadership to external founders, investors, and corporations. He directed 11+ startup investments (Hark, Aliro, Neurophos, Privateer, Lightsynq (acquired by IonQ), Swave, Augmental, Xona, HaiLa, etc.).
Honors & Awards
◦ Rising Stars, Global Corporate Venturing (2026)
◦ President's Award, Murata Electronics North America (2023)
◦ Most Valuable Player, The Global Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Program, certified program for Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP) by Alliance of Technology Transfer Professionals (ATTP) (2018)
◦ 1st Place Winner, The Global Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Program, certified program for RTTP by ATTP (2018)
◦ President's Award, Silver, ROHM (2010)
◦ President's Award, Gold, ROHM (2008)
◦ Provost's Award, University of Tsukuba (2007)
◦ Scholarship Grant, Japan Student Services Organization (2007)
◦ Outstanding Paper Award, The Japan Society of Applied Physics (2006)
Professional Education
◦ ( Candidate for Stanford Executive Program, Flagship program for Senior-level leaders & Executives, earning Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni status (2026) )
◦ Ph.D, The University of Tokyo, Engineering (2014)
◦ Master, University of Tsukuba, Engineering (2007)
◦ Bachelor, University of Tsukuba, Engineering (2005)
Publications
◦ 50+ publications, including Nature Publishing Group
◦ 4,010+ total forward citations and 29+ h-index
Patents
◦ 74+ patents filed, 20+ granted
Links
◦ LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/masashikubota/
◦ Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3gapThUAAAAJ&hl -
sophie liao
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioSophie Liao is Founder and Managing Partner of Goodwill Capital (formerly Republic Ventures). By age 21, she had traveled to every continent and produced television programs, including work with the Cameron Pace Group on its U.S.–China joint venture, experiences that sparked a lifelong fascination with human behavior and the forces that shape societies.
Over the past decade, she has launched four venture funds and invested in entrepreneurs building at the intersection of technology, finance, and artificial intelligence. Having built her career across Asia and the United States, Sophie is fascinated by how technology, capital, and culture shape long-term societal change.
She is a lifelong student of people, markets, and human progress. -
Stephen Ost
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioStephen is a builder at heart, an entrepreneur and product leader who specializes in turning ambitious ideas into scalable, category-defining companies.
As the first employee and founding product leader at Paradox, he helped grow the company from zero to a $1B+ acquisition by Workday. As SVP of Product, he led the creation of Olivia, an AI-powered recruiting platform used by many of the world’s largest employers, redefining how companies hire through automation and conversational AI.
Today, Stephen serves as a Partner at The Camelback, where he works closely with founders to design, build, and scale breakthrough products, while also incubating and building new companies from the ground up. His strength lies in bridging deep technical complexity with simple, elegant user experiences that drive real business outcomes.
Earlier in his career, Stephen was named College Entrepreneur of the Year by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2013 and achieved his first successful exit at age 25.
He is passionate about execution, taking ideas from concept to reality and building products that people actually love to use. -
Talia Peritos
Program Manager, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
Current Role at StanfordProgram Manager
Executive Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Change lives. Change organizations. Change the world. -
Vasili Razhnou
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioVasili Razhnou is the Founder and CEO of MEDvidi, a healthcare technology company focused on transforming access to mental health care through AI-powered clinical infrastructure. Under his leadership, MEDvidi has scaled into a multi-million-dollar telehealth platform serving patients across the United States, with a strong focus on operational excellence, provider enablement, and applied artificial intelligence in healthcare delivery.
Vasili’s work centers on building AI infrastructure that augments clinicians rather than replaces them. At MEDvidi, he has led the development of a suite of AI systems designed to improve clinical quality, reduce administrative burden, and increase healthcare accessibility. These include real-time AI-assisted chart generation, automated clinical protocol review systems, intelligent patient support agents, and emerging AI prescribing workflows designed with rigorous safety and compliance guardrails.
His approach combines large-scale healthcare operations with practical AI implementation, emphasizing human-in-the-loop systems, clinical reliability, and measurable patient outcomes. Vasili is particularly interested in how AI can modernize healthcare infrastructure by streamlining workflows, improving care consistency, and enabling providers to spend more time focused on patients instead of documentation and administrative tasks.
Prior to MEDvidi, Vasili worked in technology and growth-focused startups, bringing experience in scaling digital platforms, performance marketing, and operational systems. He is passionate about the intersection of AI, healthcare delivery, and behavioral health innovation, and frequently explores how emerging AI architectures can be responsibly deployed in regulated clinical environments. -
hitesh seth
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioI am a lifelong technologist, architect, and builder who thrives at the intersection of business strategy, innovation, and execution. Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to lead technology, data, and AI initiatives at organizations including JPMorgan Chase, American Express, Salesforce, IQVIA, and Kore.ai, helping transform complex enterprises in financial services, healthcare, and life sciences.
What energizes me most is turning complexity into simplicity—bringing together people, technology, and strategy to create meaningful outcomes. Today, my focus is on how organizations can responsibly leverage AI and agentic systems to augment human potential, improve decision-making, and create new forms of value.
Outside of work, I enjoy mentoring emerging leaders, speaking and writing about enterprise AI, and learning from people with different experiences and perspectives. I’m excited to join the SEP community and engage with fellow leaders who are shaping the future of business, technology, and society. -
DiPali Shah
Affiliate, Graduate School of Business - Executive Education
BioDiPali Shah is a Silicon Valley real estate broker, entrepreneur, and strategic operator with nearly three decades of experience advising founders, executives, investors, and multigenerational families on complex real estate and capital decisions. Her work focuses on luxury estates, strategic acquisitions, private negotiations, and high-value off-market transactions where discretion, trust, and long-term judgment are essential.
Over the course of her career, DiPali has represented the sale and acquisition of multimillion-dollar properties throughout Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, including transactions exceeding $16 million in Atherton, Los Altos Hills, Woodside, Palo Alto, Emerald Hills, and surrounding markets. She is known for navigating complex negotiations, relationship-driven transactions, and high-stakes decision-making environments where confidentiality and strategic insight are paramount.
Prior to real estate, DiPali worked as a market maker at the Pacific Stock Exchange and in clinical hospital environments in San Francisco and Oakland. These early experiences shaped her approach to probabilistic thinking, behavioral dynamics, and decision-making under uncertainty, perspectives that continue to inform her work across real estate, entrepreneurship, and emerging technologies.
DiPali is an alumna of the Stanford Graduate School of Business through the Stanford Executive Program and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
Her current work and research interests focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence, behavioral psychology, markets, and trust-based systems, with particular emphasis on how emerging technologies are reshaping human decision-making, capital allocation, and institutional behavior. She is developing entrepreneurial ventures and strategic initiatives related to AI infrastructure, digital trust systems, and technology-enabled platforms designed for high-stakes and relationship-driven environments.
Her broader interests include global business trends, negotiation strategy, emerging technologies, economic systems, and the psychology of human behavior. She speaks English, Gujarati, and Spanish, with proficiency in Mandarin.
