Events

The morning meetings are hosted by Roxanne Salazar at Bridgepoint which is on Los Altos Avenue next to the Courtyard.  While Roxanne has been providing a gratis continental breakfast, she will now proved a breakfast buffet for $20.  Please bring a check if you intend to eat. 

The meetings are sufficiently small to allow group conversations on Rotary topics raised by attendees.  

Bridgepoint requires us to sign-in when we enter with proof of vaccination.  Masks are required when entering but not at the meeting.  

I  am asking that you register on Rotary's ClubRunner or email me at roylave@aol.com.  We need a head count to pick a room.  

Join us and bring the topic that has been on your mind.

Ashish is a co-founder of Helion Ventures investing in India. He serves on several boards including Gupshup, Infoedge, Hindustan Unilever, Urban Company, and Workspot. He co-founded Drishti, Tavant Technologies and Junglee (AMZN); and worked at Woodside Fund, Oracle Corporation and IBM research. His past investments include Daksh (IBM), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), MuSigma, Pubmatic (PUBM), Upwork (PUBM), Perfios, Redbus (MMYT), Simplilearn and Flipkart (Walmart).

Ashish is a Kauffman Fellow, holds a Ph.D. in CS from Stanford University, and a BTech from IIT Kanpur where he received the President's Gold medal and the Distinguished Alumnus Award.

The evening satellite meetings together with the morning satellite meetings provide a forum at which members may discuss all things Rotary or community.  Sometimes there is a speaker but usually, the agenda is determined in real-time for topics members wish to discuss or ideas they wish for which they wish to receive feedback.

  Dmytro Kushneruk is the Concul General of Ukraine, based in San Francisco.

Dmytro with LARC President Stan Scardino at the Rotary Club of San Francisco meeting on August 4, 2022

Please join us for the next Wine and Cheese social at Susie and Neal Mielke's house! RSVP via the Register link below and bring your favorite beverage and an appetizer or dessert to share!

Day: Friday, August 19th; Time: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. 

Address: 25026 La Loma Dr, Los Altos Hills

Please park on the street in front of the house. For those with mobility challenges: 

There will be reserved parking for the less mobile in the 4 spaces in the Mielke driveway as well as 8 spaces in Margie and Len Edwards' driveway directly across the street at 25031 La Loma Dr.

FYI, there are no stairs or level changes to get into our house or backyard. There is a short ramp that connects the upper patio to the pool and lawn area. One of our guest bathrooms - which can be accessed from the backyard - is ADA compliant.

Sabeer Bhatia briefly worked for Apple Computer (as a hardware engineer) and Firepower Systems Inc. He, along with his colleague Jack Smith, set up Hotmail on 4 July 1996, American Independence Day, symbolizing "freedom" from ISP-based e-mail and the ability to access a user's inbox from anywhere in the world.^[5]

As president and CEO, Bhatia led Hotmail until its eventual acquisition by Microsoft in 1998 for an estimated $400 million. Bhatia worked at Microsoft for one year after the Hotmail acquisition and in April 1999, left Microsoft to start another venture, Arzoo Inc, an e-commerce firm with investment from Mohammed Asif, a top Indian-American banker at JP Morgan.^{[citation needed]}

Bhatia started a free messaging service called JaxtrSMS. He said that JaxtrSMS would do to SMS what Hotmail did for e-mail. Claiming it to be a disruptive technology, he says that the operators will lose revenue on the reduction in number of SMSes on their network but will benefit from the data plan that the user has to buy.^[6] To date, JaxtrSMS service has failed to replicate the success of Hotmail. Recently^[when?], he invested in email collaboration software, ccZen and another e-commerce technology provider E-junkie.

Dan’l Lewin directs the strategic planning, fundraising, and ongoing operations of CHM. Prior to the Museum, Lewin led Microsoft’s work in applying technology for public good. During a 17  year tenure, he collaborated cross-company and with external partners and focused on scalable impact within a portfolio spanning campaign and civic technologies, affordable internet access, environmental sustainability, and collaboration with leading research universities. Lewin has 30-plus years of leadership experience in Silicon Valley with companies that include NeXT, Apple, Go Corporation, and Sony. Before joining Microsoft in 2001, he was CEO of Aurigin Systems, a company that pioneered the market for intellectual property asset management.

The morning satellite meetings are sufficiently small to allow group conversations on Rotary topics raised by attendees.  The meetings are a unique fellowship opportunity and one that allows members to raise any topic about which they'd like to have discussed.  Presidents have used the satellite meetings to test opinions on Rotary members. 

Bridgepoint requires proof of vaccination and wearing of masks when entering.  

Our host, Rotrians Roxanne Salazar will provide a full breakfast buffet for $20.

Please join us for a lesson and a friendly game of pickleball followed by lunch at the Fremont Hills Country Club on Tuesday, September 20th. Lesson and play time from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, lunch at 12:45 PM.  $20 per person includes lunch and a non-alcoholic beverage. Please rsvp with payment by Tuesday, September 13, 2022.  Guests welcome. 

Thank you,

Royce

Associate Dean, School of Medicine, Roger and Joelle Burnell Professor of Genomics and Precision Health, Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), of Genetics, of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy, of Pathology

Born in Scotland, Dr. Ashley graduated with 1st class Honors in Physiology and Medicine from the University of Glasgow. He completed medical residency and a PhD at the University of Oxford before moving to Stanford University where he trained in cardiology and advanced heart failure, joining the faculty in 2006. His group is focused on the science of precision medicine. In 2010, he led the team that carried out the first clinical interpretation of a human genome. The article became one of the most cited in clinical medicine that year and was later featured in the Genome Exhibition at the Smithsonian in DC. Over the following 3 years, the team extended the approach to the first whole genome molecular autopsy, to a family of four, and to a case series of patients in primary care. They now routinely apply genome sequencing to the diagnosis of patients at Stanford hospital where Dr Ashley directs the Clinical Genome Program and the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease. Dr Ashley has a passion for rare genetic disease and was the first co-chair of the steering committee of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network. He was a recipient of the National Innovation Award from the American Heart Association and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. He is part of the winning team of the $75m One Brave Idea competition and co-founder of three companies: Personalis Inc ($PSNL), Deepcell Inc, and SVExa Inc. He was recognized by the Obama White House for his contributions to Personalized Medicine and in 2018 was awarded the American Heart Association Medal of Honor for Genomic and Precision Medicine. He was appointed Stanford Associate Dean in 2019. In 2021, his first book The Genome Odyssey - Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them was released. Father to three young Americans, in his ‘spare’ time, he tries to understand American football, plays jazz saxophone, and conducts research on the health benefits of single malt Scotch whisky.

CLINICAL FOCUS • Cardiology • Inherited cardiovascular disease • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy • Cardiomyopathy, Dilated • Heart Failure • Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia • Sports Cardiology

Rod Diridon, Sr. served as founding executive director of the Mineta Transportation Institute until 2014 when he moved to Emeritus status. Mr. Diridon has chaired more than 100 international, national, state and local programs, most related to transit and the environment. He provides legislative testimony on sustainable transportation issues and is regarded by many as the “father” of modern transit service in Silicon Valley. 

Governors Davis and Schwarzenegger appointed him to the California High-Speed Rail Authority Board, of which he is chair emeritus. He helped found, and is chair emeritus of, the High-Speed and Intercity Rail Committee and the National High-Speed Rail Corridors Coalition of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). He also was president of the national Council of University Transportation Centers.

In 1996, he founded and chaired the Transportation Research Board’s study panel, “Combating Global Warming through Sustainable Transportation Policy.” He advised the Federal Transit Administration and in 1995 chaired the Transit Oversight and Project Selection Committee for the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board. He has provided keynotes in more than 50 U.S. cities and for a dozen international conferences, and he has published numerous related articles.

For over two decades, he served the Bay Area in a variety of elected roles from City Council member to chair of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the Transit Board. He also chaired the San Francisco Bay Area’s three regional governments: the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the Association of Bay Area Governments, as well as nine successful rail system development project boards. Upon his retirement from public office, Santa Clara County renamed its main train station “San José Diridon Station.”

Mr. Diridon received a BS in accounting and an MSBA in statistics from San José State University and served as a U.S. naval officer. In 1968, he founded the Decision Research Institute, which he sold in 1977. He has two children, Rod Jr. and Mary Margaret, and four grandchildren. He is married to Dr. Gloria Duffy, former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and now president and CEO of the Commonwealth Club of California.

About the Mineta Transportation Institute: Founded in 1991, the Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI), an organized research and training unit in partnership with the Lucas College and Graduate School of Business at San José State University (SJSU), increases mobility for all by improving the safety, efficiency, accessibility, and convenience of our nation’s transportation system. Through research, education, workforce development, and technology transfer, we help create a connected world. 

Kirk O. Hanson is a senior fellow of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and former executive director of the Center.

Hanson was the executive director of the Ethics Center for 17 years, from 2001-2018. He was also the John Courtney Murray S.J. University Professor of Social Ethics. In 2001, he took early retirement from the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he taught for 23 years and is now an emeritus faculty member.