The Visionaries Behind the Compass
Meet the architects and navigators who will help you lay the groundwork for your future. At Breakthrough Silicon Valley, our team assembles the tools, charts the courses, and clears the path, but the destination? That's all you.
Staff
Click on a photo to learn more about each member of Breakthrough Silicon Valley’s team.
Rebecca Duran
Executive Director
Wes Cheung
Dir. of Admissions & Middle School Program
Sergio Quinones
Middle School Program Manager
Tony Alvarez
AmeriCorps Program Director
Susana Duran
College Advising Coordinator
Javier Ortega
Family and Community
Engagement Manager
Eduardo Arellanes Loeza
VP of Programs and Instruction
Emily Gutierrez
College Advising Manager
Marisol Ponce
Development Events Manager
Sophia Bruno
Middle School Program Coordinator
Thao Nguyen
Director of College Access Program
Christa Salazar
Associate Director of Operations
Joshua Salazar
Operations Manager
Priyanka Subramaniam
Director of Development
Vanessa Valdez Cruz
College Access Program Manager
Aylin Velazco
College Access Program Coordinator
Board of Directors
Christina Lai (Chair)
VP, Deputy General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Robinhood, Applied Materials, Yahoo (ret.)
Rashmi Agarwal
Executive Director, Tech Recruiting, JP Morgan Chase
Pritom Baruah
Director of Engineering, Adobe
Robert Chen
Treasury, FX, Investments and Operations, Applied Materials Inc.
Bianca Fischli
Community Volunteer, Customer Success Advocate
Ramón Garcia Gomez (Treasurer)
Product Strategy & Operations, YouTube
Curtis Gaspard
Account Executive/Broker Associate, Redwood Mortgage
Neeraj Goel
Senior Computer Scientist, Adobe (ret.)
Roneeta Guha
Principal, Education First Consulting
Mikaela Lazari
Privacy, LinkedIn
Uyen Nguyen (Secretary)
Community Volunteer
Liza Smyth
Global Customer Success Executive, LinkedIn & Apple Alumni
Carol Tinsley
Community Volunteer
Chelsea Wang
Senior Manager, PwC
Michele Wyman
Director, Communications, Google Workspace & GCP