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Brian Rutt
Professor of Radiology (Radiological Sciences Lab), Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests center on MRI research, including high-field and high-resolution MRI technology development as well as applications of advanced MRI techniques to studying the brain, cardiovascular system and cancer.
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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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Kao Saeteurn
MSx Fellow, expected graduation 2027
BioMajor Kao Saeteurn is an active-duty United States Marine Corps officer with a background in military financial management and recruitment. He is currently a 2026-27 MSx student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and will continue his career in the Marine Corps upon graduation. Kao was born in San Francisco and grew up in Sacramento, California. He enlisted in the Marine Corps immediately after high school and served three combat tours in Iraq from 2004 to 2007 as an Administrative Specialist, Postal Chief, and Convoy Driver. He attended the University of California Davis and graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s in Exercise Biology and a minor in Education. Kao served as a Budget Officer in San Diego from 2013 to 2016, an Officer Selection Officer in Berkeley from 2016 to 2019, a Company Commander and Deputy Comptroller in Okinawa, Japan from 2020 to 2023, and a Recruiting Station Commanding Officer in Sacramento from 2023 to 2026. He plans to be a valued member in the MSx program and gain the skills necessary to further contribute to the Marine Corps as well as the wide range of opportunities that will stem from Stanford GSB.
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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
Research Asst - Graduate, Graduate School of Business - Organizational BehaviorBioAlexa is a third-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. -
Debra Schifrin
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
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, and, by courtesy, Professor of Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He serves as an Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine. He is the Faculty Director of Stanford’s new applied master degree program, the Master of Science in Clinical Informatics Management program. He also serves as Deputy Director of the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and has an appointment in the Department of Health Policy (by courtesy).
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=83). 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. He is an elected member of ASCI and AAP. -
John Michael Scull
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
BioJohn Scull, Lecturer in Management and teaches STRAMGT 356, Startup Garage: Design.
Scull is a co-founding Managing Director of Southern Cross Venture Partners with offices in Palo Alto, Sydney and Shanghai (through a partnership with Softbank China Venture Capital). He is also currently an Investment Committee member of Sydney-based Blackbird Ventures. Previously he was a Venture Partner and Investment Committee member of the venture capital firm Allen & Buckeridge. He has served on the boards of several private and public companies and was CEO of both Macromind (which merged to become Macromedia and later acquired by Adobe) and PF Magic (acquired by the Learning Company). Earlier in his career he was a marketing executive at Apple where he helped launch the Macintosh personal computer and led Apple’s Desktop Publishing efforts. Scull received his MBA from Harvard University and Bachelor degree from University of Oklahoma.
He was born and raised in Indonesia and Singapore and enjoys travel, golf, swimming, listening to a good podcast while walking the dog, french wine, and the occasional margarita :) -
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 - Other Faculty
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. -
Micky Sharif
Senior Learning Experience Designer, Teaching and Learning Hub
BioMicky Sharif is a Senior Learning Experience Designer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he leads the design and development of innovative programs. His work brings together faculty, product, technology, and media teams to create transformative educational experiences.
Micky writes and speaks on topics including behavior change, artificial intelligence, and the design of powerful learning environments. Before joining Stanford GSB, he participated in the Stanford LEAD program, worked in instructional design at the University of California, San Francisco, and served as a learning design consultant at the University of California, Los Angeles.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in Education and Technology from UC Berkeley, a master’s degree in Instructional Technologies, Learning, and Design from San Francisco State University, and Stanford's LEAD and Executive Leadership certificates. -
Michael Victor Sianipar
MBA, expected graduation 2028
BioMichael Victor Sianipar concurrently holds the positions of Chairman of the Indonesian Futsal Federation and the General Treasurer of the Indonesian Unity Party. He has operated at the intersection of Indonesian politics, public governance, and institutional reform. Michael’s track record spans driving strategic campaigns for regional leaders and spearheading governance overhauls in major provinces like Jakarta and West Nusa Tenggara. A champion of ecosystem transformation, his leadership experience extends from building emergent political parties and scaling civil society networks to modernizing the national sports industry. Previously, he was the Regional Personal Aide to the Governor of Jakarta from 2012 to 2017 and Governor of West Nusa Tenggara from 2018 to 2019, Head of Indonesian Solidarity Party in Jakarta (2017-2022), and Chair of the Indonesian Youth Diplomacy (2020-2025).
Michael’s mission is to catalyze deep-seated societal transformation by architecting high-impact synergies between the public sector, private enterprise, and civil society across local, national, and global ecosystems. Throughout the years in government offices, he has handled various portfolios ranging from budgeting, government transparency, corruption eradication, internship program, district-level management, personnel management, to the development of smart city and open data initiatives.
Michael graduated from Yonsei University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Relations. He was also a recipient of the Alumni Appreciation Award from Yonsei University, awarded in 2015, as one of two alumni who contributed the most for the past ten years and whose work continue to reflect the University’s core values. He will take a sabbatical from active political participation by pursuing an MBA at Stanford University starting in 2026. -
Robert E. Siegel
Lecturer, Graduate School of Business - Other Faculty
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsRobert Siegel researches strategy and innovation in both large and small companies, as well as the opportunities and challenges that technological change brings to these firms. Additionally, Robert teaches product management and product development best practices and methods, as well as entrepreneurial finance over the life-cycle of growing companies.
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Lisa Sanchez-Corea Simpson
Corporation and Society Initiative Director, GSB Research Hub
Current Role at StanfordDirector of the Corporations and Society Initiative at Stanford GSB
