About the Annenberg Leadership Forum
The Annenberg Leadership Forum is an integral part of Harvey Mudd College’s commitment to encouraging students to lead with integrity. Endowed through a generous gift in honor of Trustee Howard Deshong III ’89, P’22, P’24 from The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Fund for Leadership Development, this series brings to campus accomplished individuals who are recognized, world-class leaders in their fields of endeavor.
The lectures and panel discussions provide an engaging forum for senior executives to address pertinent leadership issues and to share their insights with the HMC community. Started in 2007, the previously named Annenberg Leadership and Management Speaker Series was re-envisioned and re-launched in 2024 after a three-year pause during the COVID-19 pandemic.
| Year | Speaker | Orgnization |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Judith Estrin | Packet Designs |
| 2008 | Justin Rattner | Intel |
| 2008 | John Vickery | C/X call report states he had to cancel/ |
| 2008 | John Schwarz | Business Objects |
| 2008 | John Benediktsson ’97 | Financial Asset Trading and Technology of California |
| 2008 | Penny Herscher | First Rain |
| 2009 | Irwin Jacobs | Qualcomm |
| 2009 | Rich Rashid | Microsoft |
| 2009 | Richard Riordan | Mayor of Los Angeles |
| 2009 | Wanda Austin | Aerospace Corporation |
| 2009 | Marye Anne Fox | University of California, San Diego (Chancellor) |
| 2010 | Dina Dublon | Morgan Chase/EVP/CFO |
| 2010 | Nabeel Gareeb ’86 | CEO Memc Electrical Materials |
| 2010 | Ernest Cockrell | Reasoning Mind |
| 2010 | Alok Aggarwal | Evaluserve |
| 2010 | Jennifer Chayes | Microsoft |
| 2010 | Jim Simons | Renaissance Technologies |
| 2011 | Jerry Held | Vertica |
| 2011 | Robbie Bach | Microsoft |
| 2011 | Julie Shimer | Welch Allyn |
| 2011 | Bill Gates | Microsoft |
| 2012 | Bob Muglia | Software Solutions Division, Juniper Networks |
| 2012 | Carol Bartz | AutoDesk |
| 2012 | Kathy Hill | Cisco Systems |
| 2012 | Brad Wechsler | IMAX Corporation |
| 2012 | Mike Schroepfer | |
| 2013 | Colin Bodell | Amazon |
| 2013 | Fariborz Maseeh | Picoco LLC/The Messiah Foundation |
| 2013 | Indra K. Nooyi | PepsiCo |
| 2013 | Michael Angiulo ’93 | Microsoft |
| 2013 | Whitney Johnson | Rose Park Advisors |
| 2013 | Roger W. Ferguson | TIAA-CREF |
| 2014 | Jacky Wright | Microsoft |
| 2014 | Venkat Varadachary | American Express |
| 2014 | Thomas F. Secunda | Bloomberg |
| 2015 | Dr. Leroy Hood | Institute for Systems Biology |
| 2015 | Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| 2015 | Stephen Luczo | Seagate Technology |
| 2016 | R. Miller Adams | Triad Capital Partners |
| 2016 | Jason Fennell ’08 | Yelp |
| 2016 | Mike Shaver | |
| 2016 | Karen Colonias | Simpson Manufacturing Co. |
| 2017 | Marc Allen | Boeing International |
| 2017 | Jennifer Holgrem | LanzaTech |
| 2017 | Hector Ruiz | Advanced Nanotechnoly Solutions |
| 2018 | Ray Velez | SapientRazorfish |
| 2018 | Endre Holen | McKinsey & Company |
| 2018 | Tiffany Scurry | Western Digital |
| 2018 | Sergio Monsalve | Norwest Venture Partners |
| 2018 | Stacy Feld | Johnson & Johnson Innovation |
| 2019 | Marie Ekeland | daphni |
| 2019 | Virgil Roberts | Bobbitt & Roberts |
| 2019 | Ana Corrales | |
| 2019 | Tony Alvarez | Altierre Corporation |
| 2020 | Helen He | New Wheel Capital |
| 2021–2023 | No lecture held due to COVID-19 pandemic | |
| 2024 | Ho Nam | Altos Ventures |
| 2024 | Shaundra “Shani” B Daily | Duke University |
| 2024 | Ayanna Howard | The Ohio State University College of Engineering |
| 2024 | Laurie Leshin | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 2024 | Yvonne Wassenaar | Board member of Arista Networks, Braze, JFrog, Forrester Research, Rubrik and Harvey Mudd College |