Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., is interim dean of UCLA Anderson School of Management, overseeing the institution’s primary objectives to conduct essential research, educate students and serve the community. Previously, Osborne served as senior associate dean, with oversight of a variety of key initiatives for the school, including resource development, alumni relations, corporate initiatives and executive education. He also holds an appointment as professor of global economics, management and entrepreneurship and is the founder and faculty director of the Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. The Price Center serves to organize faculty research, curricula and student activities related to the study of entrepreneurship and new business development at UCLA Anderson.

Osborne’s areas of academic expertise include social entrepreneurship and the development of a leadership approach that applies business models and methodologies to the nonprofit world. Under his leadership, the Price Center created a number of management development programs, including five in partnership with health care giant Johnson & Johnson: the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Head Start Management Fellows Program, the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Advanced Management Institute for Head Start, the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute, the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program and the Management Development Institute (MDI) for health care organizations in sub-Saharan Africa. Several related, innovative programs include the Institute for the Study of Educational Entrepreneurship (ISEE) and the UCLA/Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE) Head Start Leadership Institute.

A deep belief in the value of entrepreneurship has guided Osborne’s vision for what is possible throughout his decades-long tenure at Anderson. In addition to founding the Price Center, he facilitated infusion of an entrepreneurial approach to leadership into the Anderson culture and curriculum, including and transcending the notion of business startups. He combines his emphasis on innovation with a deep belief in the value of a broad-based diversity that includes demographics but, just as important, a wide range of ideas. He is an active participant in the business community, serving as a director of Kaiser Aluminum, Wedbush Inc. and First Pacific Advisors family of mutual funds. His nonprofit affiliations include serving as a trustee of the Geffen Academy at UCLA, Fidelity Charitable, the Harvard-Westlake School and the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation. He served many years on the corporate boards of the Times Mirror Company, U.S. Filter Corporation, Greyhound Lines Inc., Nuverra Environmental Solutions Inc., First Interstate Bank of California, Nordstrom Inc. and K2 Inc., among others. He received his Ph.D. in business economics, MBA in finance, M.A. in economics and B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Nicole Enearu, a second-generation McDonald’s owner/operator, was awarded her first McDonald’s restaurant in 2007. However, her McDonald’s story started years earlier when she was a teenager working in restaurants owned by her mother, Patricia Williams. Today, Enearu runs the operations for all 18 restaurants under her family’s ownership, all located in the Greater Los Angeles/Compton area. Between Enearu, Williams and her sister, Kerri Harper-Howie, the family owns every McDonald’s restaurant in the Compton community.

Prior to joining the family business, Enearu spent 10 years working in the social services field. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

An active member of her local community and church, Enearu invests her time in a number of civic and charitable causes, such as sponsoring Christmas toy drives and hosting fundraisers for local schools. She is also a member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, where she helps with programming focused on community service and mentorship of young girls.

Enearu’s work within McDonald’s has earned her numerous awards, such as Quality Customer Experience and Delivering the Promise Through People. Additionally, she serves on various leadership boards, including the Board of Directors for the National Black McDonald’s Operators Association (NBMOA), Regional WON Board of Directors and People Team. In December 2016, her fellow owner/operators elected her as chair of the Southern California Regional Leadership Council, making her the first female African-American to hold this position.

Enearu has been featured in numerous media outlets and trade and consumer publications, including CNN, ABC (as a brand ambassador for a Black History Month promo), Essence magazine, QSR magazine, Blavity, Our Weekly, the Los Angeles Sentinel, the Compton Herald and Houston Style Magazine, among others.

A long-time Hawaii resident, Ken Gilbert is co-founder of Business Consulting Resources. He offers over 35 years of family business consulting knowledge and holds a B.S.B.A. in personnel and employee relations and a master’s degree in international business from the American University in Washington, D.C. His experience includes working with Hawaii- and California-based family businesses in the areas of strategic planning development and implementation, succession planning and mergers and acquisitions.

Holly Han is an entrepreneur and business strategist who founded and led media, technology, consumer products and fashion businesses in New York and Los Angeles for over two decades. Han began her career at Vera Wang and developed product for Bloomingdale’s and Anthropologie, authoring the Vault Career Guide to the Fashion Industry. She received her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she received fellowships from the Young Presidents’ Organization and Asian Business League. She also holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the Fashion Institute of Technology, with additional studies at Caltech and Parsons School of Design, and was a professor at Marylhurst University’s MBA program.

Han was a co-founder of MyShape, an innovative online retailer with over 700,000 members backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Tenaya, and was featured in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She also founded Dahlia, establishing a new model for the pearl industry by disrupting Tahitian market hegemony. As COO of SmartWear, she developed a new class of patented energy-generating textiles in partnership with DuPont, Nike, the NIH, NSF and NASA. She restructured luxury chocolatier John Kelly Chocolates as COO, with a focus on profitability and targeted expansion. She was a founding account director for the Taproot Foundation in Los Angeles, providing pro bono consulting for deserving nonprofits. She is the vice president on the board of directors for CHAMPS Charter High School of the Arts. She is director of special projects at the Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at UCLA Anderson.

David Melnick, vice president, web isolation at Proofpoint and previous founder and CEO of WebLife, brings almost 25 years of experience in technology and security. Melnick has worked extensively with both U.S. and global companies, advising them on setting strategy, developing risk-based priorities and operationalizing effective governance of highly sensitive and regulated data. His experience includes implementing security technology and addressing privacy regulatory requirements, including global, federal and state privacy requirements.

As a past two-term board member of (ISC)2, Melnick traveled internationally, representing the security and privacy profession. He has authored several books, including PDA Security: Incorporating Handhelds Into the Enterprise. His books have been translated into four languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Italian. He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E CIPP/US), a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

For the past 13 years, Jonathan Schreter has served commercial property & casualty risks, primarily for charter and independent schools (K-12) and higher education clients, as well as middle-market businesses in the technology, manufacturing and entertainment industries.

With a diverse background that began in marketing and advertising, Jonathan combines creative thinking and analytics to offer a consultative approach to risk management. He works with progressive school and business leaders who appreciate his commitment to mitigating unexpected losses.

Jonathan earned his MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2000 and his Certified Insurance Counselor (CIC) designation from the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research in 2010. He is Past President of the Independent Brokers & Agents Association of the San Fernando Valley, current President of the UCLA Anderson Alumni Network in Los Angeles, and serves as Treasurer on the Executive Committee for the Board of Directors of Inner-City Arts, a non-profit program that unlocks the creative potential of inner-city children in downtown Los Angeles.

These accomplishments pale in comparison to his 10-year marriage to his wife, Jennifer and their two children, Samantha and Blake.

Miguel Unzueta is an associate professor of management and organizations at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Unzueta joined the faculty at UCLA in 2006 after earning his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research explores how people understand their positions within social and interpersonal hierarchies and the impact this understanding has on their perceptions of self, others and group-based inequality. His latest research explores the manner in which people define diversity and the impact that particular diversity definitions have on the representation of underrepresented group members in organizations. His research has been published in top management and psychology journals, including Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. In recognition of his research record, he received the Eric and E Juline Faculty Excellence in Research Award in 2012.

Unzueta teaches courses on managerial psychology (MGMT 409) and negotiations (MGMT 286) in both the FEMBA and full-time MBA programs. In 2010, he was awarded the Dean George W. Robbins Assistant Professor Teaching Award. More recently, he was selected by MBA blog Poets and Quants as one of the best 40 business school professors under age 40. Outside of UCLA, he has conducted trainings on decision making, negotiations, diversity and implicit bias to various educational institutions and companies, including the Scripps Research Institute, Office of Head Start, Inner City Law Center and the Oklahoma City Thunder professional basketball team. He is currently a consulting editor for the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Social Issues. He is also the faculty director for the UCLA Anderson/Johnson & Johnson Management Development Institute, a program designed to enhance the leadership and management skills of managers and leaders of sub-Saharan African organizations devoted to delivering health care services to underserved populations throughout Africa