Leigh Teece

Leigh is an innovator, business woman, educator, mentor and speaker. She runs a portfolio of projects, she is co-founder of Cal Berkeley’s SkyDeck, with roles on Strategy Council, a SkyAdvisor and a global SkyDeck speaker. Leigh is co-founder of Seoul’s HanYang University Global Alliance Council and co-founder and owner of Mt Beautiful Winery/Teece Family Farms in New Zealand. See www.mtbeautifulwines.com.

As President of the Teece Family Foundation, Leigh gives funding and fellowships to UPenn, Yale, St Petersburg State University (Goedinghaus Fellowships), Phillips Andover, Eaglebrook Junior Boarding School and Bentley School. Leigh is founder and Chair of World Mentor/Mentored Pathways, which has mentored over 50,000 primarily high schools students online, one-on-one with professionals, for multiple semesters since 1995. With others from Cal and the Hoover Institute, Leigh is leading creation of a partnership between top research universities and U.S.congressional leaders for fair use of intellectual property.

Leigh is on the advisory boards of the Kravis Leadership Institute of Claremont McKenna College and of Global Citizen Year. Leigh is creating an advisory board for SkillZilla (Japan); she is mentor creator/manager for BridgeUSA. Leigh is co-founder of the Global Council on Woman & Power, on the Executive Board of Women Leaders of the World, and a Global Advisor of How Women Lead. Leigh is on the Board of UC Berkeley's Cal Performances; she leads development of its futuristic Performing Arts Center. Prior to raising four children, Leigh was research assistant at the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, co-founder and SVP of Technology Interlink, VP of Technology Funding, and VP of Wells Fargo & Co. Leigh earned her MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and her BA from the University of Southern California’s School of International Relations. Her commitment to life-long learning is reflected in her receipt of Columbia University's School of Business's Certificate in Executive Education.