Aniketh is a Senior Test Engineer at Tesla where he works on evaluating battery pack safety under abusive conditions. Originally from India, he attended UC for his MSME on a scholarship. He's currently based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and in his free time, he enjoys running, and reading.

Lee Ellen Drechsler’s career at Procter & Gamble has included technical leadership roles across Beauty Care, Baby Care and Corporate R&D, with responsibilities from upstream Disruptive Innovation to downstream Product Supply. Lee Ellen leads Corporate Transformative Platform Technology (TPT), Glad JV, Connect + Develop & Sustainability Innovation organizations with a mission to continue building P&G’s long-held reputation as a world leader of growth driven by innovation. She is accelerating the way P&G delivers game-changing and sustainable products, packages, and services, leveraging early in-market learning as well as collaborations with strong academic and business partners.

Tara is a Human Resources leader who is passionate about the intersection of people, organizations, and culture and the impact of nurturing and developing high-performing teams in business. As a two-time Chief People Officer and HR leader, Tara’s 20+ year career leading people and culture functions through organizational change spans an array of public and private entities, including technology, entertainment, gaming, media, education and non-profit organizations such as Zillow, VIZIO, and Enthusiast Gaming. Her current position is Interim Chief People & Culture Officer for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. She also serves as the current President of the Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA) and as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Society for Human Resource Management (CalSHRM).

Lonnie Giamela is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Fisher Phillips and a co-chair of the firm's Pay Equity practice group.  Lonnie has handled a full range of labor and employment matters, from single-plaintiff to multi-plaintiff, in both federal and state courts in California, the California Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  Lonnie also has extensive experience representing local, regional and national clients in class action wage-hour lawsuits as well as representative lawsuits brought under California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), having handled more than 200 such matters across the country. Lonnie also has experience as lead counsel in two wage-hour class actions that have gone to trial.  Additionally, Lonnie counsels employers on preventative measures to prevent litigation from arising on various issues including wage and hour compliance, independent contractor classification, mass layoff strategy, and management training. He has assisted in the preparation of more than 500 handbooks for clients and has developed policies and procedures manuals for both small businesses and national companies with multi-state operations.  Utilizing experiences from his family's restaurants in the San Fernando Valley, Lonnie prides himself on providing advice to the companies he represents. His prior business experience enables him to find practical, compliant legal solutions to clients’ everyday employee relations issues. Lonnie is a frequent lecturer on employment law topics and has presented over 350 seminars to various groups. 

Chris Failla is a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and Gallup-certified Strengths Consultant. He has a master's degree in Organizational Leadership, and has worked with teams on every inhabited continent, including five years in China. Chris loves to Ignite What’s Possible in organizations, helping them gain greater clarity, connection, and capacity so they can be more fulfilled and productive. 
 
Chris has been married to Sarah for over 20 years, and they have three boys. As a family they enjoy traveling (he’s been to over 50 countries and speaks three languages), time in the snow, and planning their next adventure. 

Sarah Bettman is the founder of Bettman Consulting Group. She blends organizational culture, leadership, and change principles to support meaningful change for her clients. Sarah’s style is deeply rooted in her values of integrity and authenticity. She brings forward her experiences with passion and humor that ignites engagement and creates traction where there none before.