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• 2012 TWIN Sponsor levels
• 2012 Susanne B. Wilson Scholarship - Guidelines and Application
• 2012 Women AHEAD Scholarship - Guidelines and Application
• 2012 TWIN Application Guidelines
• 2012 Emerging Leader Guidelines

28th Annual YWCA Tribute to Women
Awards Dinner, Thursday, May 10, 2012

The YWCA Silicon Valley is proud to honor executive women at one of the most distinguished events of the year:

• Honoring Top Executive Women – Benefitting Women in Silicon Valley
• Major fundraiser for the YWCA – supporting all programs and services offered through the YW
• Recognizing companies that promote women’s leadership
• Limited to 55 women
• Longest running Women’s Recognition event in Silicon Valley
• Blind selection process by former YWCA TWIN Honorees

• Must be early in her career (less than five years in her current profession)
• Show evidence of leadership capabilities
• Demonstrate a pattern of leadership progression
• Takes steps to engage others in her profession
• Contributes to the success of her organization
• May submit several nominations, but only 1 will be selected per organization
• Limited to 5 women

 

 

Over the past 28 years, we have honored women executives from companies such as Adobe Systems, Applied Materials, Hewlett Packard, Lockheed Martin, IBM Corporation, Cisco Systems, Xilinx and Oracle, as well as a cross-section of outstanding small and mid-size growth companies from a variety of industries such as government, legal, financial services, venture capital, bio technology and clean technology.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the YWCA’s Events Manager, LaDonna Curteman, at events@ywca-sv.org or (408)295-4011 x216.

Sarah Mosso
Chair, YWCA TWIN Awards Committee
Manager, Site Operations, IBM
YWCA TWIN Honoree, 2004

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2012 Tribute to Women Honorees

Name	Title	Company
Dian Adams	RN, MBA, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Officer	Good Samaritan Hospital
Barbara Avery	Dir. of the Community Benefit Prm. & Manager of the RotaCare Clinic	El Camino Hospital
Wendy Bahr	SVP, Global @ Strategic Partner Organization	Cisco Systems, Inc.
Catherine Bechtel	JD, Partner	McManis Faulkner
Holly Campbell	VP, Corporate Communications	Adobe Systems, Inc.
Ying Chen	Senior Manager	IBM Corporation
Phyllis Claassen	Vice President of Operations	Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Lisa Cowell	Sr. Director Strategic Marketing, Clinical Applications	Affymetrix
Margaret Coyle	Vice President, Corporate Development	Oracle Corporation
Joan Cullinane	Director, Sparc Volume Operations	Oracle Corporation
Lisa Ewbank	VP, Investor Relations	Synopsys, Inc.
Amy Flood	Vice President, Public Affairs	Gilead Sciences
Anne Galle	District Manager	Bon Appetit Management Company
Pamela Goncalves	CEO Program Director	Brocade Communications
Tonie Hansen	Director, Global Citizenship	NVIDIA
Sandy Hogan	Vice President, Americas Business Transformation	Cisco Systems, Inc.
Dionette Kelton	RN, BSN, Director, Care Management	Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
Madhu Kochar	Director	IBM Corporation
Susan Kutner	MD, General Surgeon	Kaiser Permanente
Izzy Lewis	System Architect	KLA-Tencor Corporation
WeiQi Lin	MD, Ph.D., Executive Director, R&D Business Dev., Principal Scientist	DURECT Corporation
Kimberly Lytikainen	VP, Assistant General Counsel	NVIDIA
Jennifer Maguire	Budget Director	City of San Jose
CeCe Morken	Vice President, General Manager	Intuit, Inc.
Melissa Myers	VP, Operations	Dovetail DCI
Tami Newcombe	Area Vice President	Cisco Systems, Inc.
Elizabeth O'Callahan	Senior Director and Corporate Counsel	Xilinx, Inc.
Suzy Papazian	Esq., Attorney and Corporate Secretary	San Jose Water Company
Carol Raeburn	Managing Director, Regional Business Finance	Lam Research
Mary Beth Ricks	Head of School	Bowman International School
Sherri Sager	Chief Government Relations Officer	Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Sandy Takahashi Shirai	Partner	Deloitte Consulting
Kristine Snow	President	Cisco Capital
Jennifer Sun	Engineering Director	Applied Materials, Inc.
Sally Swanson	Advisory Scientist	IBM Corporation
Patricia Tremba	Group Vice President of Enterprise Technology Sales, Oracle Direct	Oracle Corporation
Stephanie Tsiagkas	Audit Partner and VC Industry Partner	Sensiba San Filippo
Marie Tuite	Senior Associate Athletic Director & COO	San Jose State University
Brynn Watson	Software Systems Architect Director	Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Wonsun Shin Willey	Partner	Sensiba San Filippo
Mirei Yasumatsu	Associate Vice President of Tax	Marvell Semiconductor Inc.
2012 Emerging Leader Honorees
Juanita Dion	Software Engineer - IMS Ondemand QA	IBM Corporation
Maria Medrano	Business Operations Manager	Cisco Systems, Inc.
Karin Silcox-Baker	RN, BSN, Nurse Manager	Cisco Systems, Inc.
Sara Youngs	Experienced Senior Associate	Sensiba San Filippo LLP

2012 TWIN Awards Sponsor

Marvell Semiconductor
Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) is a world leader in the development of storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions. The company's diverse product portfolio includes switching, transceiver, communications controller, wireless, and storage solutions that power the entire communications infrastructure including enterprise, metro, home, and storage networking. As used in this release, the terms "company" and "Marvell" refer to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. and its subsidiaries.

KLA-Tencor, a leading provider of process control and yield management solutions, partners with customers around the world to develop state-of-the-art inspection and metrology technologies. These technologies serve the semiconductor, data storage, LED, photovoltaic, and other related nanoelectronics industries. With a portfolio of industry-standard products and a team of world-class engineers and scientists, the company has created superior solutions for its customers for more than 30 years. Headquartered in Milpitas, California, KLA-Tencor has dedicated customer operations and service centers around the world.

Gilead Sciences is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The company's mission is to advance the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases worldwide. Headquartered in Foster City, California, Gilead has operations in North America, Europe and Australia.