Nancy Long is responsible for all aspects of HR throughout Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) including HRIS, Workforce Planning/Staffing, Total Compensation, Performance Management, Management Development/Leadership Succession Planning, Employee Survey and Diversity/Advocacy, HR-Legal Compliance and OD/Management Support Consulting.

Prior to joining HDS in 2006, she was Sr. Vice President at O’Connor Hospital and before that spent 24 years with Hewlett-Packard, most recently as Vice President, HR for Global Marketing. She held numerous global executive level roles, with a career spanning multiple functions including Human Resources, Executive Development, R&D, Technical Marketing, and Information Technology. Prior to HP, she spent 7 years with United Airlines as a Systems Analyst. Her unique background brings a business acumen that is unusual among HR professionals.

Long holds a Masters degree in Human Resources and Organization Development from University of San Francisco. She also has specialist certificates from University of Chicago, Harvard University, Menninger Institute and West Valley College in multiple HR disciplines. She is certified in The Birkman Method, MBTI and TAIS. Long is a member of the San Jose State COB Advisory Board, International Executive Service Corp, and the Santa Clara Valley Strategic Human Resources Management organization, as well as a faculty member at San Jose State University, teaching in the Organization & Management department in the College of Business.

As Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Donna Morris leads Adobe’s global human resources organization with responsibility for recruitment, growth and development, and total reward programs for more than 7,000 employees worldwide. Among her priorities is continuing to build upon a culture and values which have contributed to Adobe being recognized as one of the best places to work by Fortune Magazine in the United States and other publications around the world.

During her career, Morris has led both generalist and specialist human resources functions in the high technology, communications and government fields. Prior to becoming Senior Vice President in March 2007, Morris held several other management positions within Adobe Human Resources, providing leadership to the company’s global human resources activities. Before joining Adobe, Morris was Vice President of Human Resources and Learning at Accelio Corporation, a Canadian software company acquired by Adobe in 2002.

Morris has earned several industry honors, including Human Resources Professional of the Year in Ottawa, Canada and the Silicon Valley YWCA’s Tribute to Women (TWIN) Award. She is currently on the board of directors for the Adobe Foundation and Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties in California. Morris has a bachelor’s degree from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and holds the Canadian Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation.

As Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Rebecca Ranninger oversees strategic workforce management at Symantec. She manages the planning, direction and implementation of Symantec's global personnel programs and policies and participates in the overall executive management of the company, having overseen the successful acquisition of dozens of companies, both public and private. She has also built a recruiting and staffing function that has brought over 10,000 employees into the company worldwide in the last several years.

Before taking the helm in Human Resources in 1997, Ranninger served as Director of Litigation for Symantec. Her trial work covered all aspects of the high tech industry, including employee disputes, mergers and acquisitions, international sales, intellectual property and software licensing issues.

Prior to joining Symantec in 1991, Ranninger was a business litigator with the San Francisco-based law firm Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, where she gained front line experience in intellectual property and securities litigation.

Ranninger holds a juris doctorate from Stanford University, a bachelor’s degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University, and a bachelor’s degree Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University. She has also completed the Human Resource Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, and the Stanford Directors College at Stanford Law School.

With 22 years of experience in Human Resources, David Windley, the leader of Yahoo!’s global HR team, is responsible for driving Yahoo!’s worldwide strategies around talent, culture and organization effectiveness. The HR team designs and implements programs to attract, develop, and engage talent, and facilitate the building of high performing organizations. Yahoo! has been listed among Fortune Magazine’s 100 Best Companies to Work. Prior to his current position, Windley was Vice President of Human Resources and led the Yahoo! line HR team that supported the business organizations.

Windley’s extensive experience in the high tech industry includes executive positions at Microsoft, Intuit, and Silicon Graphics (SGI). As an HR executive at Microsoft, he supported the Chief Operating Officer. He was responsible for Microsoft’s international HR, and his team also supported sales, service, marketing, business segments, operations and IT. Windley also served as the VP of HR at Intuit for all of their business units and was SGI’s VP of Human Resources where he co-led the HR function. While at SGI, he worked in Switzerland supporting the European region and later in Singapore supporting the Asia Pacific region.

Windley also held human resource management roles in the construction & engineering, insurance, and entertainment-software industries. He has an MBA from San Francisco State University and a BS from San Diego State University.