Courses
The Easton Center curriculum is focused on technology and innovation and is taught by faculty and industry professionals. Students learn about emerging technologies and their business applications.
Speaker/Panel Events
Our showcase events include the Insights Conference (formerly Big Data Conference) and the Innovate Conference (formerly CES@Anderson). We also host the Easton Executive Speaker Series, where previous speakers have included Jeetu Patel, Chief Product Officer at Box and Ravi Jacob (’84), Corporate VP and Treasurer at Intel.
Workshops
Easton workshops are designed to help students learn skills they will need to become future tech leaders. Our workshops include product management, design thinking, as well as technical topics such as SQL and Python.
Easton Instructors
Todd Holloway
Senior Director of Data and Personalization Science, Nike
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Todd Holloway currently leads consumer data science for Nike. Prior to Nike, he led content science for Netflix, and before that he led data science for Trulia (acquired by Zillow). He also practiced data science at shopping search engine TheFind (acquired by Facebook), drug discovery company Ingenuity Systems (acquired by Qiagen), and AT&T Applied Research. He lectures on topics in data science at UC Berkeley and UCLA.
Michael Montgomery
President, Montgomery & Co, LLC
Technological Innovations in Media and Entertainment
Jennifer McCaney
Executive Director, UCLA Biodesign
Healthcare Technology Management
John Blevins ('11)
Managing Partner, Navigation Pointe
Cloud Computing & Big Data
Mark Thomas (M.S. '10, '10)
Group Product Manager, Snap Inc.
Product Management
Mark Thomas has had nearly a decade of experience as a Product Manager at leading tech companies including Google, Snap and IAC. In his 8 years as a PM at Google, he drove vision, strategy and execution across 50-100-person teams resulting in multiple, global launches impacting billions of dollars in revenue. Products he worked on include YouTube, Google Pay, Android, Google Ads and DoubleClick. He has additionally co-founded numerous “20% projects” including a Google Product Manager community which grew to thousands of members and an improvement for Google Calendar. He is currently a Group Product Manager at Snap Inc. leading a team of PMs working on improving ad effectiveness for the company’s flagship product, SnapChat.
Mark holds a B.A. in Computer Science with Honors from UC Berkeley. He also received a Master’s in Computer Science from UCLA and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2010. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.
Terry Kramer (B.A. '82)
Faculty Director, Easton Technology Management Center
Tech Management;
Evolution & Innovation in Global Mobile Industry
Lori Van Deloo (B.A '91, '98)
Visiting Professor, UCLA Anderson
Fintech
Lori is a global product, marketing and innovation executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience. She has deep expertise in the areas of Fintech and Payments, and has served as a Distinguished Visitor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management since 2014.
Lori was the Founder and CEO of BancSpace, a Fintech SaaS startup providing enterprise-grade secure, real-time video communications and collaboration services. Prior to that, Lori spent almost nine years at Visa working in a variety of management roles, most recently as the Head of Global Product Management & Coordination. Lori has also held leadership roles at Ridecell, BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle), Openwave Systems and Accenture.
Lori is a graduate of the UCLA Anderson School of Management (Class of ’98) and UCLA (Class of ’91). Lori lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Peter (PK) Van Deloo, who is also a graduate of both UCLA Anderson School of Management (Class of ’98) and UCLA (Class of ’89), and their daughter, Mia.
“In addition to equipping me with the most sought-after skills through classes and workshops, it broadened my horizons by connecting me with practitioners and their newest ideas. As an Easton Fellow, I love how it challenged me to always think ahead!”
Chenjie Ding (MBA ’19)
Senior Program Manager, Amazon
