Congratulations to our 2021
Pinnacle Nominees & Diversity Champions

Fortuna Arumemi

Senior Inside Sales Representative

Codex DNA

Deb Barrett

VP & Chief Compliance Officer

Qualcomm

Maureen Booth

Compliance Manager, Women Employee Resource Group Leader

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Kimbra Brookstein

Staff Program Manager, Tech Women @ Intuit

Intuit

Cynthia Burzell

Founder and CSO

Aequor Inc

Aliza Carpio

Principal Tech Evangelist - Intuit Tech Culture

Intuit

Merrilyn Datta

Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Ecommerce

Illumina

Anila Dhokia

Chief Audit Executive

Illumina

Catherine Eng

Co-Founder

Design Code Build & Our Worlds, Inc.

Kendall Gassner

Software Engineer 2

Intuit

Brittany Heath

Director, Clinical Operations

Artemis Institute for Clinical Research

Illumina

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Janina Jeff

Sr Bioinformatics Scientist

Illumina

Rebecca Jones

Director, Corporate Legal

NuVasive

Ami Lau

Director of Operations

Reveal Biosciences

Tanya Llera DeLong

Director, Quality Assurance

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.

Aviva McPherron

Chief Information Officer

NuVasive

Shawnnah Monterrey

Chief Executive Officer

BeanStock Ventures

Hilda Mwangi

Research Communications & Operations Lead

Takeda

Jamie Padilla

Engineer I

Sempra Energy

Carmen Rene

Vice President, Finance & Corporate Controller

Prescient Medicine, Inc.

Debra Rosen

President

North San Diego Business Chamber

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)

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Lauren Shipp

Science Educator

Biocom Institute

Britt Styr

CEO

Britech

Charity Williams

Partner

Cooley LLP

Tiana Austel

Specialist, Corporate Citizenship

Illumina

Rebecca Beattie

Chief Executive Officer

LaunchBio Inc.

Kara Bortone

Senior Director

Johnson & Johnson - Janssen Business Development

Loxley Browne

CEO

Athena Racing

Hong Cai

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Mesa Biotech

Rea Carter Williams

Director Of Marketing

Technology Integration Group

Melissa DeVita

Vice President, Division Counsel

Qualcomm

Noushin Dunkelman

Founder & President

MaxSynergy Consulting

DeLinda Forsythe

CEO | Founder

ICE

Stephanie Habif

VP, Behavioral Sciences

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.

Juanita Hendrickson

Head of Human Resources

BD Biosciences

Teresa Jacques

Partner

Major Executive Search

India Jewell

Senior Counsel

Sony Electronics

Christine Jorgensen

Director, Product Management

Qualcomm

Vanessa Light

Program Manager

Illumina

Marielena Mata

Senior Director & Diagnostics Lead

Pfizer

Susan Miller

Senior Director, Global Product Security, Technical Oversight and Reporting

Oracle

Libby Morales

Manager, International Commercial Operations

Tandem Diabetes Care Inc

Lisa Nguyen

Senior Manager

Deloitte

Sneha Parmar

Substation Engineering & Design Manager

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)

RippleNami, Inc.

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Tiffany Rosik

CEO

TGR Management Consulting, LLC

Victoria Schaefer

Principal

Atlas Executive Consulting

Áine Shivnan

VP, Program Management

Qualcomm

Ariel Thomas

Sr. Global Marketing Manager, Molecular Biology

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

Shirley Yager

Director, Product Management

Qualcomm

Gloria Banuelos

Sr. Manager, Government Affairs

Qualcomm

Lisa Bolton

Vice President, Human Resources

UST

Lisa Brockman

Senior Vice President, Accounting and Corporate Controller

Mitchell International, Inc.

Theresa Burke

Senior Manager, IT

Qualcomm

Laini Cassis

Graduate Leadership Development - General Management

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Bindu Damecharla

Sr. Staff ASIC/FPGA Engineer

Qualcomm

Kathleen Delaney

Chief Marketing Officer

Kofax

Natalie Dusi

Manager, Government Affairs

Qualcomm

Chequala Fuller

Team Lead, Advanced Modeling and Hardware Testing

Sempra Energy

Noel Haskins-Hafer

Security ＆ Technical Compliance Sr. Manager

Intuit

Nooshin Hussainy

Chief Financial Officer

Obalon Therapeutics, Inc.

Chhavi Jain

Senior Staff Engineer

Qualcomm

Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS

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Pantea Khodami

Global Genomic Marketing Stragety

Amazon

Koren Lilburn

Board of Directors

Robotics Inspiring Science and Engineering, Inc.

Kiley McCarthy-Connolly

Attorney

Tyson and Mendes

Samantha Monteiro

Software Engineer 2

Intuit

Tanya Moreno

Vice President, Development

Cradle Genomics

Oracle

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Lisa Pecora

Vice President, Global Finance

NuVasive

Keisha Robinson

Associate Director Clinical Research

Illumina

Jasmine Sadler

CEO

The STEAM Collaborative

Erika Schimmel-Guiles

Director, Design & Project Management

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)

Valerie Stahl

Senior Manager

Deloitte

TOOTRiS

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