Team

Meet Our GABA Northern California Board of Directors

Thomas Neubert

Chair and Co-Founder

Senior Director Datacenter Business Innovation Office, Intel

Tracey Grose

Vice-Chair

Founding Principal at Next Curve Strategy

Michaela Ballek

Executive Director – CEO

Tim Martensen

Chief Financial Officer

Siegmar Pohl

Secretary

Partner at Kilpatrick Townsend

Daniela Busse

Director

Head of Incubator Research at Facebook CPG, Meta

Claudia Gutsch

Director

Ex-WhatsApp

Gunther Hofmann

Director

Managing Director at Corporate Finance Associates

Juliane Nandra

Director

Global Strategy & Ops Leader, Chair of Diversity & Inclusion at Siemens Healthineers (Ultrasound)

Yaad Oren

Director

Head of SAP Innovation Center Network

Caroline Raynaud

Director

Jeannette Schwarz

Director

Senior Project Manager, Global Creative at Align Technology

Uwe Wagner

Director

Principal & Founder Tiburon Consulting LLC

Kai Westerwelle

Director

Partner at Bird & Bird

Meet Our GABA Northern California Staff

Michaela Ballek

Executive Director – CEO

Yvonne Dietrich

Event Director

Martina Walther

Webmaster

Sandra Schmid

Newsletter Editor

Anke Briggs

Social Media Manager