Speakers

As the Executive Director of the Tacoma Art Museum, Setford brings over 30 years of experience in museums and other arts organizations in the United States and the United Kingdom as a curator, director/administrator, and fundraiser. With an entrepreneurial and community-driven approach, Setford has also been instrumental in organizing exhibitions on a diverse array of iconic artists such as Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gordon Parks, Frida Kahlo, and Andrew Wyeth, as well as Northwest artists Jacob Lawrence and Dale Chihuly.

Bill was born in Seattle and attended Washington State University. He comes from a Rotary family — his grandfather was a distinguish Rotarian with Seattle 4 — so, in 1985, when Bill was invited to join the Rotary Club of Kirkland, he joyfully accepted. Bill was only 31 then, but he remembers the conversations and voting for women in Rotary and Polio Plus.

In 1990, Bill left “Wall Street” and decided to start his own company. Due to business requirements, he reluctantly left Rotary. In 1998, after relocating his firm closer to his home, he joined the Rotary Club of Mill Creek. Bill has held various Club and District positions and is a Paul Harris Society and Bequest Society member. His passion is helping other Rotarians follow their passion.

Robbie Bach joined Microsoft in 1988, and over the next 22 years worked in various marketing, general management, and business leadership roles. He played an important role as a marketing leader in the successful development of the Microsoft Office business, and subsequently led the creation and development of the Xbox business where he served as the Chief Xbox Officer. Robbie retired from Microsoft in 2010 as the company’s President of the Entertainment and Devices Division. Robbie now works as a Civic Engineer with corporate, philanthropic, and civic organizations who are driving positive change in our communities. In 2015, Robbie completed his first book, “Xbox Revisited: A Game Plan for Corporate and Civic Renewal.”

Stephanie Bowman currently serves as President of the Port of Seattle Commission. She is also the Executive Director of Washington ABC, a statewide nonprofit organization promoting policies and programs to help economically-disadvantaged communities build assets through investments in education, home ownership, savings, and small business development.

Stephanie has more than 18 years of experience working in the areas of transportation and economic development on the local, state, and federal levels, including at the Port of Tacoma and Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce.

In “When It Mattered Most,” Author Kevin Ticen tells an inspiring story of the first American team to win the Stanley Cup, a feat largely lost to history. In the winter of 1917, as Europe spiraled rapidly out of control and pulled the U.S. into the greatest conflict the world had ever seen, a talented band of athletes in the Pacific Northwest fought to turn themselves into an elite team. That elite team would battle the looming war, their own insecurities, and fierce opponents on both coasts of Canada to captivate a community and journey toward hockey immortality. “When It Mattered Most” breathes life into the humanity and times of a remarkable team during a monumental 18‑month period of world history.

Ed Lein is an Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. He received a B.S. in biochemistry from Purdue University, a Ph.D. in neurobiology from UC Berkeley, and performed postdoctoral work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Dr. Lein joined the Allen Institute in 2004 and has been a leader in the creation of new large-scale maps of the brain, created as open access resources for the community. He currently leads efforts to develop new high-throughput and high resolution technologies to understand the fine structure and function of the human brain that can be applied to study brain diseases as well.

Ever since graduating (cum laude) from Seattle University School of Law, Rajiv Nagaich has been committed to the goal of having a practice that encompasses so much more than just legal planning. He believes that clients do not come to Elder Law practices to ensure that their ailing loved ones die with the biggest possible bank accounts.

Rather, clients hire Elder Law attorneys to make sure that their loved ones can live as good a life as is possible under the circumstances, without trampling their families under the weight of their care-giving duties. This practice area is about helping people with issues related to the healthcare, housing, financial, and legal arenas.

Elder Law attorneys recognize that aging is a family affair, and that proper planning must involve getting the family involved as soon as possible in their loved one’s planning process. Rajiv calls this LifePlanning.

Apptio Co-founder and CEO Sunny Gupta is a product visionary and innovator whose customer obsession led him to conversations with CIOs, where he uncovered the market demand for creating an analytics-based business management system for IT. Since founding Apptio in late 2007, he both pioneered Apptio’s market category, Technology Business Management (TBM), and drove the company to become the market leader in this disruptive category with significant scale. In January 2019, Apptio was acquired by Vista Equity Partners, two years after going public.

Prior to founding Apptio, Sunny was EVP Products at Opsware, responsible for all of Opsware product businesses, up to its acquisition by HP. He was also the co-founder and CEO of iConclude, which pioneered the IT runbook automation market and drove its acquisition by Opsware.

At the The Institute for Systems Biology, Hood-Price Lab, Dr. Jared Roach is interested in basic and translational analyses and applications of high-throughput systems-biology data. He is currently focusing on understanding the genetics of complex neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington’s Disease. His research interests include analysis of MHC haplotypes and their relationship to risk and etiology of type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases.

Dr. Roach is pioneering approaches for the analysis of whole genome sequencing data in the context of family pedigrees.

Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff has been a leading transit executive for more than a decade. He spent 22 years on the staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee, including 14 years as Democratic Staff Director on the Transportation Subcommittee.

From 2009‑2014 Rogoff led the Federal Transit Administration under President Obama, and from 2014‑2016 he was the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy at the U.S. Department of Transportation.