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Academic Relations
Interview prospective Scholarship recipients. Establishes and expands collaborations with Bay Area universities and professors, interviews and selects scholarship candidates, and who will be awarded a scholarship. FEISV maintains contact with Scholarship award winners during their career advancement by encouraging and facilitating FEISV’s Rising Stars Advisory Board. This is part of our “cradle to grave” strategy to keep our scholarship winners engaged and to offer mentorship opportunities to our membership.
If you have questions about joining this committee, please reach out to a chair below.
Communications
Assist in enhancing the visibility and brand of FEI Silicon Valley. This includes creating/reviewing a marketing and communications plan (including social media), reviewing marketing materials to ensure effectiveness, ensuring the website is accurate and up to date and selecting vendors as appropriate to execute plan.
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Leadership Development Chair
Focuses on Financial Executive career planning, management, and execution, including fostering a network environment to assist members in transition with identifying new opportunities. Collects and distributes leads, hosts networking events with speakers. Serves as interface with recruiting community.
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Leadership Development Chair
Sunny Arora
Top Finance and Tax, Inc.
Sunny Arora, BSEE, MBA, EA
Founder, CEO, CFO, Board Member, Advisor, Entrepreneur
Top Finance and Tax, Inc.
Sunny is an accomplished founder, CEO, consulting CFO, finance and business leader with over thirty years of experience working with startups, medium, large and Fortune 500 companies, spanning a wide spectrum of industries, technologies and disciplines.
He loves to build and work with all stages of startups, from the embryonic stage to the pre-IPO late stage, and small to medium sized companies. He brings to his clients, leadership in finance, business strategy, operations, and international business. Sunny works with companies in SaaS, EV & robotics, B2B, biopharma, biotech, software, hi-tech, semiconductors, networking, IT, gaming, education, insurance, finance, marketing, advertising, event planning, hospitality, food and food service, real-estate and construction. He is currently a CFO and Strategy consultant working closely with several startups, small to medium sized companies, Founders, VCs, PE firms, and Investors helping them achieve accelerated value and success.
Prior to founding Top Finance and Tax, Sunny has worked for Ernst & Young (EY), Robert Half International, Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab and other premium companies.
Sunny currently serves on the board of directors of Financial Executives International-Silicon Valley (FEI-SV), Rotary Club of San Mateo, is chair of Leadership Development and advisor to several companies and non-profits. He speaks multiple languages and is well versed in multiple cultures. In his spare time, he loves to play golf and be involved in community service endeavors. He holds an MBA in finance, strategy and international business, a BS in electrical engineering and is an EA authorized by the IRS.
Membership
Members can share their professional expertise, time and energy to grow the chapter by:
- Recruitment
- Engagement
- Retention
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Partners
We value our partners and the mutually beneficial relationships they share with our members.
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Professional Development
FEI Silicon Valley and its partners offer 1-hour professional development seminars each month followed by 30-minute post networking.
These seminars are a valuable resource for our members to update current issues and regulations and to earn CPE credits. Also, provides networking opportunities for members and partners.
If you have questions about joining this committee, please reach out to a chair below.
Programs
Be a part of the committees' collative experience to identify speakers and topics to be presented.
Special Events
Fosters organic development of special interest affinity groups and facilitates their growth and events. Enriches the Chapter experience through added special events and social activities including the annual Scholarship Golf Tournament fundraiser, holiday social, and local sporting events.
Affinity Groups:
- Transactions (TAG)
- Women in Finance
- East Bay
- Non-Profit
- Wine Tastings
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Special Events Chair
Jan Robertson
SiVal Advisors, LLC
Jan is Managing Partner, CFO and Co-Founder of SiVal Advisors, a technology-focused mergers & acquisitions advisory firm located in Silicon Valley, California. Ms. Robertson, a frequent speaker and author on topics related to M&A, has advised numerous clients and boards of directors on a wide variety of transactions over her thirty-year career. Prior to SiVal Advisors, Jan was Managing Director in Needham & Company’s Menlo Park, CA office, where she built the M&A practice from 1997 to 2002, and prior to that was a Managing Director, M&A at RBC Capital Markets in Toronto. She is a frequent speaker on M&A related topics in the U.S. and internationally. In 2012 Jan was honored as one of Silicon Valley’s “Top 100 Women of Influence”.
SiVal Advisors professionals have completed over 500 transactions worth $12 billion in deal value. Based in Silicon Valley with connections around the globe, we serve clients in a range of technology industries including: software, business services, e-commerce, healthcare, and manufacturing, with valuations, growth funding, acquisitions, mergers and sales of businesses.
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