Marissa Peterson

Marissa Peterson is a management consultant and executive coach for clients like Apple and Yahoo!, and the only Filipino-American board director for a Fortune 500 company (Humana). In a 17-year career at Sun Microsystems, Marissa was instrumental in growing the company to $20 billion in revenue, retiring in 2005 as Executive Vice President of Services. Marissa is Chairman of the Board for OCLARO, and is a board director for Ansell and Quatros. She has served on the board of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and as a trustee at Kettering University.

At the age of 16, Marissa won a General Motors Institute Fellowship to attend college and emigrated with her family from the Phillippines to California. With a BS in mechanical engineering from Kettering University, she went on to earn a Harvard MBA and was awarded an honorary doctorate of management from Kettering.