Silicon Valley

Featured Speaker(s)

Jackie Jones began her career in high tech in the mid eighties, working for ICL, Britain's largest computer manufacturer at that time. She worked in a number of communications and marketing roles for ICL in England before being offered an assignment with ICL in California. In the Silicon Valley Jackie took up marketing and business development positions. Lured by the dot com boom, Jackie went to work for Beyond.com before the boom went bust. She then returned to the B2B sector as Director of Corporate Marketing for Resonate.
A year ago, Jackie decided to quit high tech and find her dream career, and started her own jewelry business.

Kendyl Kellogg is the propietor and wine maker at the Obester Winery in Half Moon Bay. The winery has been located on Hwy 92 for more than 25 years, but living on the coast is new for Kendyl--she is a former Hi-Tech marketing professional. Currently she applies her love for wine and her 15 years of hi-tech sales and marketing experience toward managing her own business and branding her own wine.

Linda Lang started WriteMagic in 1999 and developed many innovative processes to help companies achieve their documentation goals more efficiently. Prior, Linda was a Project Manager in an Information Design group at Tandem Computers. She initiated and led a major usability initiative that explored ways to make third party software, documentation, and courseware more usable to customers.
Linda also designed and developed two online help systems for Hewlett-Packard Company: the HP Power Test Online Help System and DrugQuant, a new software application for the mass spectrometer.