USF School of Business Seniors Carmen Ketelyan (left, background) and Katrina Oropet assist SF Business Times Publisher Mary Huss to present gifts at the Most Influential Women In Bay Area Business Event.
USF School of Business and Professional Studies was a cooperating sponsor for the San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business event at the Hilton San Francisco, Union Square. USF faculty, staff, students and alumni participated.
Four of the principal honorees were USF degree holders: Gloria Duffy, President and CEO of the Commonwealth Club of California (Doctor of Humane Letters, USF); Roxanne Fernandes, Executive Director of UCSF Children’s Hospital (Health Services Administration, USF); Rose Castillo Guilbault, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, AAA of Northern California, Nevada, and Utah (MA-Writing, USF); and Elisa Stephens, President, Academy of Art University (JD, USF).
Katrina Oropel and Carmen Kestelyan, seniors in the School of Business were presenters — onstage with Mary Huss, Publisher of San Francisco Business Times — of gifts given to the 100 honorees. Jennifer Camota Contreras, Associate Dean, USF School of Business, spoke at a private reception for sponsors and honorees where she encouraged mentorship and support for aspiring young women in business, and reported that fully half of USF Business’ MBA students are women.
Other USF Business participants included Sabeen Ahmad and Brook Sramek, current MBA students; Courtney Ewing, MBA, 2009, and Gail Kawakami, MBA for Executives, 2009; as well as Danielle Glyn, MBA Career Services Director; Sheila Sullivan, Executive Director of the Undergraduate Business Program; and, Professor Moira Gunn, of the Technology, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Department, and host of the NPR program Tech Nation and BioTech Nation.
