Staff and Board
Meet our Team
Senior Leadership
Jason Morrella
Chief Executive Officer
Jason Morrella, Chief Executive Officer
Jason joins RAFT from Revolution Robotics Foundation, a STEM focused foundation that creates robotic kits, challenges, and competitions for kids, where he served as Executive Director. Prior to leading Revolution Robotics, Jason was the President for the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation where he spearheaded their overall growth from $1M to almost $10M in seven years by expanding STEAM programs and participation to over 18,000 teams in 40 countries. Jason is a former award-winning high school teacher in San Jose. He has successfully planned, developed, and launched global education and workforce development programs, including initiatives to promote the inclusion and advancement of girls and under-represented groups in STEAM disciplines and fields.
Dave Muilenburg
Chief Operations Officer
Dave Muilenburg, Chief Operations Officer
Dave joined RAFT in 2015 as Director of Finance after 20 years in the high tech industry. Dave brings strategic financial planning and analysis leadership having supported a variety of business organizations including corporate finance, product design, sales, marketing, and manufacturing for technology companies.
Kate Ball
Development Director
Kate Ball, Development Director
Kate Ball believes in the power of fundraising to bring together our community to address common challenges. With experience in grant writing, event planning, and donor cultivation, she has raised over $5 million in her fundraising career from individual and institutional donors. She has also served on the Association of Fundraising Professionals Silicon Valley Board of Directors since 2020. She believes all educators should have the resources necessary to provide quality education to our students and is excited to help answer this need with RAFT.
Chase Davenport
Senior Director of Education
Chase Davenport, Senior Director of Education
Chase has worked in education for over 20 years serving as a teacher, administrator, curriculum content writer, program evaluator, charter school advocate, and consultant. Chase started his education career as a classroom teacher and has taught at the middle and high school levels. After a brief stint in the private sector, he ran a charter school, then joined the California Charter Schools Association, where he served as Director of School Quality, Vice President of School Development and Support, and Vice President of Research and Evaluation. He also currently serves as a Commissioner for the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
Before joining RAFT, Chase served as the Managing Director for The Alvo Institute, one of the first technology-agnostic consulting firms dedicated to personalized learning, and as the Director of Personalized Learning for New Leaders. In these positions, Chase helped traditional, charter, and private schools and districts across the country to design, pilot, implement, and evaluate blended and personalized learning programs.
Chase earned his BA in History from Pomona College in Claremont, CA, and his Master’s in Curriculum and Teacher Education from Stanford University.
Anwar Tamiz
Finance Director
Anwar Tamiz, Finance Director
Anwar Tamiz has 10+ years of experience in international and local nonprofit organizations. Anwar brings expertise in financial analysis, systems designs, and implementing cost-effective policies and procedures in nonprofits.
Anwar has a Bachelor of Commerce in Banking & Finance and an MBA in corporate finance from the University of Bologna.
Education
Suzanne Carrig
Director of Partnership Development
Jeff Fox
Kit Development Engineer
Kat Huro
STEAM Events Coordinator & Facilitator
Mike Pollock
Making Wizard Engineer
Ayzha Quidit
Program Manager of STEAM Programs
Mikey Ramot
Education Materials Specialist
Eric Welker
Director of Learning Development
Bryan Williams
Director of STEAM Programs
Development and Marketing
Nehal Daga
Director of Individual Giving
Caroline Evans
Volunteer and Event Coordinator
Mariel Milo
Marketing Communications Manager
Admin and Finance
Jacky Castaneda
Office Coordinator
Maithily Kumaraswamy
Staff Accountant
Nancy McIntyre
Community Engagement Manager
Anne Murphy
Accounting Specialist
Jamie Sandoval
HR Generalist
Noorie Tuba
Accounts Receivable Accountant
Operations
Shannon Fu
Production & Volunteer Specialist
Dan Muilenburg
Fulfillment & Materials Specialist
Xandro Oliveros
Volunteer & Materials Specialist
Bao Pham
Operations & Systems Specialist
Andrew Serna
Warehouse Associate
Sandy Suttora
Production Director
Siang Tai
IT Specialist
Store
Grizelda Aguilar
Store Associate
Vanessa Bembo
Engagement Coordinator
Israel De Leon
Retail Store & Warehouse Manager
Sylvia Lodge
Engagement Coordinator
Lilia Mata Vazquez
Engagement Coordinator
Pedro Montiel
Assistant Retail Store Manager
Yesenia Ornelas
Store Associate
Martina Ramirez
Engagement Coordinator
Board of Directors
Sundi Sundaresh
Chair
Sundi Sundaresh
Sundi Sundaresh is currently a Board member at GridGain Systems, an innovative leader enabling in-memory computing platforms. Sundi has more than 25 years of experience in leading high-growth businesses in the tech industry. Before becoming a board member of GridGain, SandForce (sold to LSI) and Sureline Systems, Sundi was the president and CEO of Adaptec, Inc (Nasdaq: ADPT, sold to PMC-Sierra, now part of MicroChip). During the course of his career, Sundi has also led multiple startups including Cinarra Systems, Inc. (location-based audience targeting, analytics and attribution, sold to Softbank Corp), Xangati, Inc. (IT Operations Analytics, sold to Virtana), Candera Inc. (the industry’s first network storage controller), and Jetstream Communications (market-leading voice over broadband solution, sold to Paradyne, now part of Zhone). During a previous tenure at Adaptec, Sundi served in a number of positions, including corporate Vice-President and General Manager for the Personal I/O division and corporate Vice President of worldwide marketing. He has also held various positions at Hewlett-Packard and National Semiconductor.
Sundi also serves on the non-profit Boards of the IIT Madras Foundation and Pratham USA SF Bay Area chapter.
Sundi holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Frederic Caldwell
Vice Chair
Frederic Caldwell
Frederic manages partnerships at Netflix as part of the Product team, working closely with global and regional partners in the media and telco space since 2018. Prior to Netflix, he was a multidisciplinary professional with 25 years experience leading Engineering, Product and Strategy teams at semiconductor companies (Synaptics, Audience) specializing in human interface technologies. Starting in Engineering, he spent several years in customer-facing roles before transitioning to Product Management and later to Corporate Development / Technology Strategy roles, driving the M&A strategy that directly led to multiple acquisitions and investments. Frederic began his career at AlliedSignal Aerospace as a Systems Engineer. In his free time, he likes spending time with his family, playing musical instruments, and volunteering in the community. Frederic is a member of the Board of Directors at the non-profit RAFT.
Carlos P Mino
Secretary
Carlos P Mino
Carlos is the Deputy General Counsel for Treasure Data, Inc., a leading enterprise customer data platform provider, and is responsible for overseeing a wide range of global legal and compliance affairs. He is an experienced and versatile leader and advisor with over 16 years of legal practice experience, and excels in driving business strategy, compliance, governance, risk, product, and employee experience solutions. Carlos has held leadership roles in public and private technology companies of various sizes, enabling growth, scale, and corporate maturation.
Carlos has served as a trusted advisor for executives and other stakeholders on a variety of mission critical initiatives and crises, including litigation, investigations, cybersecurity incidents, IP development and assertion, pandemic response, ESG, and executive changes.
Carlos previously served as a member of the Advisory Board for the Katherine & George Alexander Community Law Center, which serves individuals and communities in need with pro bono legal representation and education.
Carlos earned a Juris Doctor degree from Santa Clara University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Saint Mary’s College of California.
Yosuke Ogata
Treasurer
Yosuke Ogata
Yosuke is an audit partner in KPMG's Technology practice. He has more than eighteen years of experience serving clients in all aspects of assurance, including financial statement audits, quarterly reviews, and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Yosuke has provided professional audit services to large multinational groups in accordance with PCAOB requirements and U.S. GAAP. His experience ranges from working with pre-IPO venture capital backed private companies to the successful coordination of large global audit projects on multinational Fortune 500 companies. He has a thorough understanding of SEC rules and regulations and has been involved in numerous debt and equity offerings. Yosuke has managed several complex global audits for technology clients and has extensive international experience in the software, technology, media, and telecom sectors, including a rotation to KPMG's London, UK audit practice.
Wendy Cheng
Wendy Cheng
Wendy is a Sr. Associate General Counsel at Intuitive Surgical, and currently leads a team of Intellectual Property professionals in providing strategic IP counseling and services to the multi-billion dollar, da Vinci surgical robotics business. She is a versatile attorney with more than 20 years of experience in the MedTech and high tech industries. Prior to Intuitive Surgical, Wendy helped found the intellectual property department at Synaptics, and headed the department for more than fourteen years. While at Synaptics, she thoughtfully grew the IP portfolio, developed an international IP team, established IP processes, and supported a multitude of company-critical M&A and patent assertion activities.
Wendy finds great joy in giving back to the community. When the 501(c)(3) Intuitive Foundation was incorporated in 2018, Wendy was appointed to serve as its Corporate Secretary while continuing her responsibilities within Intuitive Surgical's IP team. As Corporate Secretary, she established the private foundation's legal function, oversaw corporate governance and compliance, handled a variety of transactional matters, and took to heart how these activities enabled Intuitive Foundation to pursue its philanthropic endeavors. Wendy served as Intuitive Foundation's Secretary until the end of 2023.
Wendy holds a B.S. Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University.
Kerry Chin
Kerry Chin
Kerry Chin is a technology consultant and leader at Booz Allen Hamilton. She is a founding member of Booz Allen Ventures, a $100M corporate venture capital fund focusing on early-stage investments. Kerry spearheads the artificial intelligence vertical, investing in hardware and software startups that offer a wide range of solutions for the federal sector relating to national security. Booz Allen Ventures’ portfolio companies.
Kerry formerly ran the Tech Scouting program at Booz Allen, which identifies and recommends technology investments for internal Booz Allen sectors and external federal clients. The Tech Scouting team's primary objective is to identify emerging and viable technologies relevant to clients’ mission challenges, down select and thoroughly vet solutions, and make actionable technology recommendations to mitigate those challenges.
Prior to joining Booz Allen, Kerry worked as a firmware engineer for consumer devices at Synaptics, Inc. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and a Master of Science degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Charu Gupta
Charu Gupta
Charu is a seasoned Finance executive with over 20 years of experience in public and private companies across multiple industries. She leverages her systems, business partnership and data analytical skills to improve operational efficiencies and provide strategic guidance. She is currently managing the Research and Development as well as General Administration functions at Splunk (recently acquired by Cisco). Her previous roles include overall financial operations and reporting, product P&Ls, SEC reporting and M&As at high tech companies such as Nuance Communications (acquired by Microsoft), Pure Storage, Samsung Semiconductor and Xperi. Charu holds a Bachelor’s in Statistics and an MBA.
She is very passionate about giving back to the community and over the past 15 years has been actively supporting various non-profit organizations. She started the Bay Area Chapter of Akshayapatra USA (world's largest NGO school meal program), supports Second Harvest, and helped her daughter setup a STEM community program, Musicodes.org.
Charu is keen to enable young minds reach their potential by having the resources needed to succeed. She is a strong believer in the impact that STEAM can make not only in a life but also in a community.
Jim Harrington
Jim Harrington
Jim Harrington is the President of Harrington Search, a global retained search company. He leads searches in the Technology, Biotech, Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices, BPO, Financial Services, Publishing, Defense, Hospitality, and Gaming industries. He differentiates his search practice with assessment approaches that emphasize the "Who" not just the "What" in candidate profiles to enhance and align the client's organization capabilities, culture, mission, diversity, and business.
Before founding Harrington Search, Jim was the CHRO of firms including Synaptics, BroadVision, Norand, Panda Express, and Syncor International. He led and partnered in the building of strategies for talent, culture, diversity and inclusion, and alignment within entrepreneurial and emerging organizations.
Jim holds a Master of Business Administration from Pepperdine University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Mt. Mercy University.
Beth Howe
Beth Howe
Beth Howe is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at SiTime Corporation, responsible for all aspects of finance and financial operations. In this role, she is focused on strategic financial decisions that fuel innovation and accelerate profitable growth. Prior to joining SiTime in 2023, Beth spent 17 years at HP Inc/Hewlett Packard Company driving innovation and change in numerous finance leadership roles, most recently serving as the Chief Audit Executive from 2021 to 2023. In this role, she accelerated automation and integrated risk management leading the company’s internal audit program and oversight of enterprise risk management. During her time at HP, she held various executive positions, including business CFO for HP’s multi-billion dollar Graphics Solutions Business, and Global Head of Investor Relations. Beth is also a strong advocate for sustainability and inclusion and was the Finance Executive Sponsor for Sustainable Impact. Earlier in her career, she held leadership positions at Silicon Graphics, a high-performance computing and advanced graphics computer company. Beth holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Environmental Engineering and a Master’s degree in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research, all from Stanford University.
Pradeep Jotwani
Pradeep Jotwani
Pradeep Jotwani serves on the Board of ACCO Brands (NYSE: ACCO) where he is the Chairman of the Compensation and Human Capital Committee. He also serves as a mentor to several social enterprises that work to transform the energy system globally, and reduce energy poverty in developing countries.
Pradeep spent most of his professional career at Hewlett-Packard (HP), most recently as the Senior Vice President (SVP) responsible for the LaserJet and Enterprise Solutions business. Pradeep held several earlier roles within HP, including SVP of the Printing Supplies Business. He also founded HP’s consumer presence in 1995, and went on to be the President of HP’s $14b Consumer Business. Outside of HP, Pradeep served as President of the Consumer Business at Eastman Kodak and worked as an operating executive at Vector Capital.
After retiring from HP in 2015, Pradeep went back to school for two years as a Fellow at the Distinguished Careers Institute in Stanford University. This was a great opportunity to learn about new areas, and Pradeep spent much of his time studying at the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences.
He has also served on the Boards of several public and private companies including RealNetworks, ACCO Brands and Printronix. In addition, he has served on the Advisory Board of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, and the Board of Trustees of the Crystal Springs Uplands School. Pradeep is also a Senior Fellow at the American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley.
Pradeep has a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an MBA from Stanford University.
Loretta Li-Sevilla
Loretta Li-Sevilla
Loretta currently heads Future of Work, Business Incubation, and as a Service for Commercial Systems in Personal Systems. She is responsible for evaluating trends within the different types of workers, including where, how, and why they work. From these customer insights and an understanding of technology innovation trends, she develops strategies and drives business incubation opportunities and design for new services business models.
Throughout her career, Loretta has worked in businesses of various sizes, but she particularly enjoys intrapreneurial opportunities to drive new category growth. Loretta started as an engineering intern and has over 30 years of experience in R&D, supply chain, marketing, operations, and strategy, including M&A.
Loretta is also a spokesperson for HP’s Future of Work thought leadership and participates in webinars and panels. She has been cited in Forbes, The Financial Times, the Innovation journal, and The Guardian.
She holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and an MBA from Santa Clara University. Loretta is based in Palo Alto, CA.
Vidya Phalke
Vidya Phalke
Vidya Phalke is technologist at heart with over 25 years of experience in Enterprise Software, Cloud and Distributed Computing, Security and Risk Technologies. As the Chief Innovation and InfoSec Officer of MetricStream, he currently leads MetricStream's GRC Lab which is shaping next generation innovation in Governance, Risk, and Compliance for Enterprises and Global organizations. He received Silicon Valley's Bay Area CIO of the year award in 2017. He holds a Doctorate from Rutgers and Management degree from MIT.
Liliana Rojas
Liliana Rojas
Liliana Rojas was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. She studied Industrial Engineering at Universidad de Los Andes and came to the US with HP. She has worked for 12 years in Consumer and Enterprise Marketing in companies like Unilever, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Symantec. Liliana worked for Apple for 7 years in various operational roles supporting Apple Retail as well as the Whole Sale Channel. She currently works for Google where she has spent the last 10 years building Operational implementations from the ground up to support customers and app and video developers at scale. Liliana has an MBA degree and speaks Spanish and French. She lives in Sunnyvale, California, with her husband and two children.
Jayanti Tambe Roy
Jayanti Tambe Roy
Jayanti Tambe Roy is the Chair and professor of Early Child Development at De Anza College, in Cupertino, CA. She worked, till recently, as the Executive Director of Early Learning at UCLA. She is the author of the books, The Art of Math and Science, A Kaleidoscope of Children: How to Awaken Young Minds and Inspire Childhood Curiosity and Creativity, and the soon-to-be published An Alphabet Soup of STEM. She has served as the Executive Director of Pacific Oaks Children's School. Prior to moving to Southern California, Jayanti served as the Director of the Rainbow School and Pepper Tree School at Stanford University. She created the first Early Childhood Trauma Specialization in both the BA and MA levels for Pacific Oaks College. She teaches courses on Child, Family, Community, Music & Movement, Supporting Dual Language Learners in a Multilingual Classroom, Health & Safety, Administration in Early Childhood Education, Business and Fiscal Management, and HR Administration in Educational Leadership, among others. She also serves as a Peer Reviewer for NAEYC’s Early Childhood Associate Degree Accreditation. Through her appointment by several national associations, institutes, and universities, she has been widely accredited for her innovation in teaching practices.
Joo Tanaka
Joo Tanaka
Joo Tanaka is an accomplished and dedicated Talent Acquisition Leader with over 20 years of experience spanning diverse industries, including High Technology, Advanced Composites, Consumer/Professional Products, and Beverage Industries. She possesses a proven track record of enhancing global talent acquisition, fostering diversity and inclusion, and building high-performance teams. As a business and culture-driven professional, Joo demonstrates a fervor for creating diverse and inclusive environments. Her expertise lies in talent attraction, workforce planning, branding, and crafting world-class, high-performance organizations. Her geographical experience includes North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and she has worked across various organizational stages, from early-stage to Fortune 500 companies.
Joo served as the Vice President - Global Recruitment, Diversity, and Inclusion at Hexcel Corporation, where she played a pivotal role in increasing global employee headcount, streamlining recruitment processes, and implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives. Notable among her achievements is the establishment of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Council, where she served as a founding leader, setting the roadmap for this critical position and excelling in her role as a catalyst for positive change within the organization. Prior to her role at Hexcel, Joo held positions at Synaptics Inc, Diageo, Plc, Google, and The Clorox Company.
Joo is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, holding a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics with an emphasis in accounting. Fluent in Korean, she brings a unique cultural perspective to her professional endeavors.
Priya Venkat
Priya Venkat
Priya Venkat is an executive leader with more than 25 years of business and legal experience overseeing corporate matters, strategic software licensing, IP portfolio management, structuring and executing complex multi-year enterprise deals, and worldwide regulatory compliance. Her business-focused legal advice helped public companies and technology startups rapidly scale global footprints, launch new business models, and recognize profitable revenue growth. She has navigated complex satellite and telecommunications regulations around the world to guide market access entry points in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
In addition to building and managing high-performing teams and overseeing legal department operations, she is valued for her strategic business advice as General Counsel. Her exceptional ability to streamline complex information and processes into practical workflows allows her to create operational efficiencies across multiple business units.
As a member of the executive leadership team, she is a trusted advisor for CEOs, Board Members, and senior management. Priya has led several M&As, both from the buy-side and sell-side. She is an effective negotiator and adept at understanding the intensely competitive, technical, and business environments of high-growth companies.
Priya's experience as a corporate attorney and technology product counsel spans across Denver, Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and San Francisco. She has held attorney leadership roles at Capgemini, King & Spalding, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Nextel Communications, Ribbon Communications, Edgewater Networks, and Skylo Technologies. For the past decade, she has also served as an Advisory Board Member to bitWise Academy. Priya has been a frequent conference speaker and panel moderator on the topics of trade secrets, IP corporate strategy, and strategic business counseling. She received her J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law and her B.A. with Honors in Political Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Priya was also an LL.M Honors Candidate in Information Technology & Privacy Law at The John Marshall Law School.
Advisory Board
Ned Barnholt
Bruce Chizen
Ann Danner
John Ebner
Dave House
Webb McKinney
Randy Pond
Karen Rohde
Douglas Spreng
Donna Whitney