Year: 2018-2019

Anthony Pelosi

Anthony serves as a Product Director with BCG Digital Ventures where he is a passionate, technical product manager who utilizes efficient and effective processes, along with strong team dynamics and empowerment, to build cost-effective, high quality, timely solutions that deliver…

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Leticia Cervantes

When she was in high school she thought she would become a psychologist but after taking a job with one she decided it was not her path and opted for product design where she learned to design physical products like…

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Innovation & Digital Technology

We have entered a decade of disruption of large corporate business models, driven by a step change in the power of technology and the audacity and speed of start-ups. To be fit for the future, visionary companies will deliberately re-imagine…

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Andy Cohen

Andy is one of two Gensler Co-CEOs whose collaborative leadership is fundamental to setting the company apart as a leading design firm. For his innovative leadership, Andy, along with Co-CEO Diane Hoskins, ranks on Business Insider’s elite “Creators” list, a who’s who of the…

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Wendy Coate

Wendy Coate is a California native and has been a Manhattan Beach resident since 1992. Along with her husband Chuck they raised two children who started K-12 at Pacific Elementary and graduated from Mira Costa High School. The eldest is…

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Portia Cohen

Portia Cohen, Esq. is a former Mayor and Councilmember for the City of Manhattan Beach. She currently works for UCLA Health as a Strategic Liaison for Affiliations & Partnerships under the Chief of Strategy.  She previously was Corporate Counsel for…

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Joyce Fahey

Joyce Fahey has been a Manhattan Beach resident for more than 30 years.  Joyce served as a City Council member and Mayor for 8 years as well as a School Board Trustee. Joyce was a federal prosecutor at the U.S.…

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Bill Hory

Bill Hory has been a Manhattan Beach resident for 23 years, where he lives with his three middle school-aged children. Bill works in the B2B space with primary responsibility for business development in Africa, China, Europe, and South America. Bill…

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Phil Wah

Phil Wah is president of Give Back Make a Difference (GBMD), an organization focused on leadership and career development.  Having a passion to help others succeed, he founded GBMD after a successful engineering career at The Boeing Company. While there,…

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Ellen Chao

Ellen Chao has been a resident of Manhattan Beach since 2001 and has been part of Manhattan Beach Youth Council since 2015. Prior to starting her family, she worked as a high technology lender assisting venture-backed startup companies. Ellen has…

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