Josh Williams played professional golf for 10 years. He played full time on the Nationwide Tour. Also played the Canadian Tour, as well as various other tours, winning 13 times all over the United States. Amongst the favorites of his wins was winning the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in back to back years, and then a decade later for his 3rd win at Pebble. Josh has since moved on from professional golf where he is currently Vice President Sales & Business Development, Turf Assistant. |
Pat played baseball at San Diego State before being drafted by the San Diego Padres. After 5 years pitching in the minor leagues and a “cup of coffee” in the big league, he had to leave baseball due to an injury and began a successful career in Sales and Marketing. He held various executive and senior level positions with a variety of firms, including Ralston Purina, Mattel Toys, Hasbro and some small private equity companies. He currently is retired and spends his time leading Giving In Motion and serving on the Campaign Advisory Council for World Vision. He and his wife Lyne’ Brown have been to 13 countries looking at World Vision’s work providing clean water and emergency relief to some of the worlds most vulnerable people. |
Eric Wolford is from the Bay Area and joined Accel in 2014. Eric spent years in a variety of product and management roles at FastForward Networks, Inktomi, and most recently, at Riverbed where he was president of the products group. There, he oversaw the growth of Riverbed’s flagship WAN optimization and app acceleration platforms, which grew to be a $1B+ business. He leverages his deep infrastructure and IT experience by working with founders across the enterprise stack, from next-gen analytics platforms like Jut, to emerging cloud security and threat detection companies like Netskope and Vectra. Eric co-leads the Accel Tech Council, and also serves on the board at BitTorrent. Eric holds a B.S. from Pepperdine and an M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business. |
Lyne’ retired from The Clorox Company after 22 years, where she most recently was the Vice President, eCommerce. She also led various Sales teams at Procter & Gamble, Tropicana and Clorox. She has significant experience building high performance teams, developing strategy and organization redesign. Lyne’ spends her time now advocating for the poor in some of the most fragile places in the world. She has travelled with her husband Pat Williams and World Vision to 8 countries in Africa as well as Jordan, Bangladesh, India, Columbia and Peru. She loves to tell stories of the families they meet and help people understand how they can help. She currently serves on the Campaign Advisory Council for World Vision. |
Elyse was born and raised in the San Francisco East Bay. She began working in commercial real estate in 2003, and since 2011 has been working with Swift Real Estate Partners, where she oversees and manages the operations for a 1.1M sqft Class A office building campus. In 2012, she began running with Team World Vision, where she has been able to integrate her passion for running along with her heart to bring awareness and help provide access to clean water for children in Africa. She enjoys being an ambassador for both Giving in Motion and Team World Vision, and has participated in and helped organize over 10 events ranging from golf tournaments, to half marathons, 6k for Water, and most recently ran in the New York City Marathon! |
Katie is VP, Total Rewards at The Wine Group in Livermore CA. She is responsible for the overall design, implementation, communication, and administration of progressive compensation, recognition, and benefit programs, policies and procedures which support the company’s strategic direction. In addition, development and implementation of progressive, scalable, and compliant HR Systems and HR Operations team designed to deliver excellent business support. Previously, she worked at Juniper Networks, Network Appliance and SGI. She graduated from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. \ |
