Groundbreakers 2025

Hamid Moghadam is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Prologis, the global leader in logistics real estate and a member of the S&P 100. Since 2001, Mr. Moghadam has served on Stanford University’s Board of Trustees and on the boards of Stanford Management Company (former chair), Stanford Health Care, Freeman Spogli Institute and Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently serves on MIT’s Real Estate Advisory Committee and as a member of the Business Roundtable. He is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and in 2013, the overall U.S. winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award. Leading publications and industry organizations have named him CEO of the Year and honored him with multiple lifetime achievement awards. In its latest ranking, Harvard Business Review voted him as the #17 Best Performing CEO globally. He holds SB and SM degrees in Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford.

Susan Uthayakumar leads the evaluation and scaling of existing and emerging energy solutions to ensure Prologis continues to be the leader in sustainability in the logistics real estate industry. She was recognized as a 2021 Environment+Energy Leader 100 Honoree for successfully delivering climate mitigation action to enterprise customers.

Patti Poppe is the CEO of PG&E Corporation. Patti and PG&E’s 29,000 coworkers deliver energy to 16 million people across Northern and Central California and are helping lead the state’s decarbonized future. Patti joined PG&E in January 2021 after five years as President and CEO of CMS Energy and its principal subsidiary, Consumers Energy. She previously served in other leadership roles at Consumers Energy, as power plant director at DTE Energy in Michigan and started her career at General Motors. Patti is the first female executive to serve as the CEO of two different Fortune 500 companies consecutively.

Christopher Jane is the co-founder and CEO of Proper Good, a modern ready-made meals brand focused on clean-ingredient, affordable, pantry-stable meals. Hailing from the UK, Chris graduated from Stanford Business School before launching a career building food companies. Frustrated by the lack of convenient and affordable healthy meal options, Chris and his co-founder and sister Jennifer Jane set out to reinvent the shelf-stable meals category with Proper Good, offering ready-to-eat soups, pastas and more. The company focuses on nimble U.S.-based manufacturing and consumer-led development and iteration, leveraging a unique partnership with Walmart to bring high-quality meals to the mass middle-market consumer.

Before he was CEO of Kiss the Ground, Evan Harrison led a successful career in music and media, pioneering innovation at BMG, AOL and iHeartRadio. Evan’s love for the ocean prompted him to join the board of Surfrider, a nonprofit protecting our oceans. At Kiss the Ground, Evan focused his passions for environmental advocacy and storytelling to elevate the nonprofit to a leading voice in the Regenerative Movement. Evan reenergized Kiss the Ground’s operations and alignment with a modern storytelling approach, launching partnerships with industry leaders like Clover Sonoma, Anthropologie and Spindrift and creating multi-platform educational content to connect consumers with farmers and industry pioneers.

A logistics real estate veteran, Dan Letter is responsible for the majority of Prologis’ business lines, including global real estate operations, capital deployment, Strategic Capital and Prologis Essentials. Letter also champions the company's core values and actively promotes a positive culture, fostering an environment where teamwork and innovation thrive.

Since 2014 Gene Seroka has served as Executive Director of the Port of Los Angeles, the top port in the U.S., managing major capital projects and promoting innovative, sustainable practices to grow trade and strengthen the region’s economy. Seroka serves as VP of the International Association of Ports and Harbors and on the boards of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority and LA Area Chamber of Commerce. His many honors include the Stanley T. Olafson Award, the Connie Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Inland Empire Economic Partnership. Seroka was named one of the most influential people in LA by the Los Angeles Business Journal and featured on the LA500 list each year since 2016.

Founder and CEO of Crisp, the leading retail data collaboration platform, Are Traasdahl has over 20 years of experience in mobile and digital tech. Are was founder and CEO of cross-device content delivery platform Tapad, which was acquired in 2016 for $360M. He also founded Thumbplay, a mobile entertainment service he grew to more than $100M in revenue in less than three years. Are has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Ad Age and other major publications, and Crisp was awarded in Inc.’s Best Places to Work, The Food Tech 500, the Retail Tech 100 for CB Insights and the Top Software & Tech Awards for Food Logistics. Are was named Global Startup Awards Founder of the Year in 2016 and EY Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014.

Sineesh Keshav is the CTO and CIO at Prologis, the global leader in logistics real estate, overseeing technology strategy and leading the company’s global data and digital technology transformation. Prior to Prologis, he was the senior vice president of IT at Experian PLC, where he led all aspects of IT for the Data Science Solutions group and was responsible for the development and deployment of credit and fraud/identity solutions. Sineesh has also held leadership positions at Safeway and American Express. He earned his MBA from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and holds degrees in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and the University of Alabama.

Olivia Hu is head of Autonomous Trucking & Electrification at Uber Freight, a leading logistics network with over $20 billion of freight under management. Olivia has defined and executed the go-to-market strategy for the electric and autonomous trucking programs, ensured operational success for commercial deployments, and managed development and partnership efforts with shipper customers, carrier partners, autonomous technology providers and truck OEMs. She has been working in the self-driving industry since 2018 after starting her career in finance at BlackRock. Olivia holds a B.A. and a Master of Public Policy from Stanford University.

Henrik Holland is the senior vice president and global head of Prologis Mobility, where he leads the company’s rapid growth in the emerging mobility industry. During Henrik’s tenure, Prologis has delivered the leading innovations in electric vehicle charging at depots, workplaces and charging hubs, including the largest heavy duty charging depot in the U.S., enabled by a proprietary microgrid solution. Henrik serves on the U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation’s Electric Vehicle Working Group (EVWG), is a member of the board of CALSTART and contributes to the Investor Advisory Board at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA).

Gene Sykes is chair of the board of directors of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He is co-chairman of Global Mergers and Acquisitions and co-chairman of the Global Technology, Media and Telecom Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. From 2015–2018 he served as CEO of the Los Angeles Bid Committee for the Olympic & Paralympic Games, leading the successful effort to bring the 2028 Games to LA. Sykes also serves on the executive committee of the Organizing Committee for the 2034 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Sykes earned a bachelor’s degree in government from Harvard University in 1980 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1984.

With 25 years of commercial real estate experience, Scott Marshall taps into his deep expertise to drive customer-related initiatives across all Prologis business lines and geographies. He also guides the teams responsible for broadening Prologis’ use of data-driven insights and executing the company's comprehensive customer strategy.

Jeannie Leavitt entered the Air Force in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas and a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford. Jeannie finished first in her class in pilot training, and in April of 1993 became the Air Force’s first female fighter pilot. In 2012, she became the first woman to command an Air Force combat fighter wing. She commanded multiple wings as well as the Air Force Recruiting Service and the Air Force Safety Center. Jeannie rose to the rank of two-star general and is a command pilot with more than 3,000 hours, including more than 300 hours in combat. In 2019 she assisted Marvel Studios with character development for Captain Marvel.

Dr. J. William “Bill” DeMarco is the director of Innovation and Analysis at Air University and an assistant professor of leadership and strategy. A retired U.S. Air Force colonel, he commanded five units spanning mobility, refueling, joint operations, and professional military education, serving as commandant of the Air Command and Staff College. He is a published author and speaker on strategy, leadership, design, and innovation, with a focus on how complex organizations adapt to uncertainty, technological disruption, and global competition. His current work explores intrapreneurship, strategic foresight, and performance optimization at the intersection of human systems, strategy, and national security.

Dr. Peggy Whitson is in a league of her own: She’s the first woman to command the International Space Station twice; the first non-military chief astronaut; has the most spacewalks completed by a woman; and at 655 days, has more time in space than any other American. Beginning her NASA career as a biochemist, Dr. Whitson conducted groundbreaking research in robotics and AI, medicine, agriculture, logistics and more. She served as project scientist of the Shuttle-Mir Program and co-chair of the U.S.-Russian Mission Science Working Group. Dr. Whitson has continued to serve leadership roles in space and on the ground, undeterred by a 2008 crash-landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan in 2008. She was most recently in space as commander of Axiom Space’s Ax-2 mission in 2022.

Debbie G. Senesky is an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics and electrical engineering.at Stanford University, as well as principal investigator of the EXtreme Environment Microsystems Laboratory (XLab) and co-founder of Silicon Valley startup Astral Materials. Her research includes the development of nanomaterials for extreme environments, high-temperature electronics for Venus exploration and microgravity synthesis of nanomaterials. She has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley. She received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2025 and additional awards from NASA, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and more.