Leadership Team

Michelle Flowers-Taylor

Michelle Flowers-Taylor

Interim CEO

As the Interim CEO of Base 11, Dr. Flowers-Taylor provides strategic leadership and direction during a critical transition and growth period. 

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She oversees all aspects of the organization’s operations, fund raising, and diversification of earned revenue streams, while maintaining positive employee morale and championing a culture of innovation. She also leads the expansion of the Parity Project, a groundbreaking initiative that boosts students’ awareness and access to training, mentorship, and funding in STEM related career opportunities of the 21st century.

Teniel Jones

Teniel Jones

President & CEO

With a passion for STEM and for people, Teniel transitioned from a stellar career in engineering leadership to human resources. Prior to Base 11, she worked with the world’s largest aerospace firm and Fortune 500 company for 15 years. 

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As a Director of Learning & Development and Innovation, Teniel partnered with tech, space and defense industries, as well as with top academic institutions, to promote new ways of learning through collaboration and leveraging technology. She guest speaks, mentors / coaches, and teaches students ranging from K-12 to university level and professional adult learners via forums such as Elevate, a Partnership with UC San Diego, UC Riverside, Cal State Fullerton, the UC Office of the President—MESA, & Spectrum Knowledge. She also serves on the advisory board of EmpowHer, which impacts girls in marginalized communities. As a strategic leader with systems thinking, Teniel is focusing these strengths on Base 11 to successfully create and implement student learning programs, which embody community. Teniel earned a bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the University of Southern California. She holds several accelerated leadership certificates, a Project Management certificate from UCI and an HR Management certificate from the University of La Verne.

Landon Taylor

Landon Taylor

Founder

Landon Taylor is the founder of Base 11. He sets the organization’s strategic vision and leads the national expansion of Base 11’s STEM workforce and entrepreneur accelerator model by partnering with industry, academia and philanthropy to transform high-potential, low-resource students into the STEM talent most in demand by industry.

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Prior to Base 11, Landon spent 25 years in senior leadership positions in industry which span launching start-ups to leading the development and deployment of nationally-implemented corporate strategies for FORTUNE 500® entities such as The First American Corporation (FAC) Family of Companies and CoreLogic. At FAC Landon was appointed to the Board of Directors for First American Title Insurance Company, the corporation’s largest subsidiary.

Landon strives to balance his affinity for capitalism with his commitment to human development and economic empowerment for underserved communities. As CEO of Base 11, he is dedicated to fulfilling his personal mission of building a sustainable middle class in America inclusive of all Americans.

Landon earned a bachelor’s degree in management from Pepperdine University and completed advanced management and executive persuasion training programs at Stanford University and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

John D. Beneventi

John D. Beneventi

Chief Financial Officer

John D. Beneventi is the chief financial officer for Base 11. With over 25 years of finance and accounting experience, John is a social entrepreneur, focused on technology as an industry change agent. 

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He has over a decade of experience leading the design, creation, and deployment of market-leading technologies and process improvements for the real estate, mortgage finance, housing counseling, and aviation industries.

As president and co-founder of 5x Solutions and Center for Innovation in Education, John implements streamline processes and provides scalable solutions — resulting in disruptive technology achievements that redefine industries. As Chief Financial Officer for Base 11, John oversees all economic strategy and forecasting for the organization.

Jade Kim

Jade Kim

Advocacy and Engagement Manager

Jade Kim is the Advocacy and Engagement Manager for Base 11, ensuring all of Base 11’s student programs run seamlessly and effectively while serving as the organization’s chief first impression officer.

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As a public relations professional and STEM enthusiast, Jade has worked in both the nonprofit and educational sectors, combining her passion for science with her love of story-telling. Previously, Jade has worked at Griffith Observatory as a public speaker, where she gave exciting astronomy presentations and helped produce their nationally-known monthly show series, “All Space Considered.” She has also worked with local nonprofits Science@OC and RYTMO, launching their social media platforms, creating strategic partnerships, and fundraising. Helping people has always been at the heart of Jade’s personal and professional goals, having spent her 21st birthday in Ghana volunteering at an orphanage and doing science outreach in the local villages. She is excited to continue along the same journey, enriching all students with invaluable STEM opportunities.

Corporate Board Members

Regina Stanback Stroud

Regina Stanback Stroud

Board Chair

Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud holds a Doctorate of Education in Educational Leadership (Mills College), a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Sciences (Howard University), a Master’s Degree in Human Relations (Golden Gate University), and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership (Mills College). She was nominated to the position of Board Chair after a successful tenure as Base 11’s Vice Chair.

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Dr. Stanback Stroud is highly regarded at local, regional, state, and national levels for her knowledge, background, and perspective on Student Equity and Diversity, education/industry collaboratives, economic empowerment and anti-poverty strategies, community workforce and economic development, and regional and state system policy implications for successful programs and services. She served as an appointee of President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans to make recommendations on strategies and policies that help improve the financial well-being of young people.
 
 
In honor of her work on equity and diversity, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges established the Regina Stanback Stroud Diversity Award. In addition, the Western Regional Council on Black American Affairs established the Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud Leadership Achievement Award.
John D. Beneventi

John D. Beneventi

Treasurer/Board Director

John Beneventi is the board treasurer for Base 11, responsible for financial oversight and managing key financial aspects, such as cash management, risk management, investments, and financial planning.
Al Bunshaft

Al Bunshaft

Former SVP, Dassault Systèmes Americas

Al Bunshaft was the Senior Vice President of 3DExperience Edu, Americas, for
Dassault Systèmes. He was also the President of the Dassault Systèmes US
Foundation, the charitable arm of the company’s US presence.

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Bunshaft’s expertise in 3D visualization, computer graphics and engineering-related software tools has been a special focus of his career. He was Dassault Systèmes’ leading voice for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States.

From 2014-2017, Bunshaft was co-chair of the STEM Innovation Task Force of STEMconnector, a consortium of organizations concerned with STEM education and the workforce of the future. He was named by the organization as one of its Top 100 CEO STEM leaders. He represented the company on the US Council on Competitiveness, which advances a pro-growth policy agenda to US government representatives, and has been a representative to multiple National Academy of Engineering committees. He serves on the Massachusetts Governor’s STEM Advisory Council and is a board member of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, the New York Hall of Science, the American Technical Education Association, and Base 11 (a non-profit, 501c3 workforce and entrepreneur development company). He is a member of the President’s Council of the Olin College of Engineering and the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).

He received his bachelor of science degree in computer science and mathematics from the University at Albany, SUNY. He has a master of science degree in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Landon Taylor

Landon Taylor

Founder/Board Director

Landon Taylor is the founder of Base 11. He sets the organization’s strategic vision and leads the national expansion of Base 11’s STEM workforce and entrepreneur accelerator model by partnering with industry, academia and philanthropy to transform high-potential, low-resource students into the STEM talent most in demand by industry.

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Prior to Base 11, Landon spent 25 years in senior leadership positions in industry which span launching start-ups to leading the development and deployment of nationally-implemented corporate strategies for FORTUNE 500® entities such as The First American Corporation (FAC) Family of Companies and CoreLogic. At FAC Landon was appointed to the Board of Directors for First American Title Insurance Company, the corporation’s largest subsidiary.

Landon strives to balance his affinity for capitalism with his commitment to human development and economic empowerment for underserved communities. As CEO of Base 11, he is dedicated to fulfilling his personal mission of building a sustainable middle class in America inclusive of all Americans.

Landon earned a bachelor’s degree in management from Pepperdine University and completed advanced management and executive persuasion training programs at Stanford University and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

Doug Bender

Doug Bender

Board President, BlackPast.org

Doug  Bender grew up in the South and West of the U.S. and graduated from Alcorn State University with a BA in Political Science and Economics. He went on to receive a Masters degree in Human Resources Counseling from North Carolina A&T State University and studied law at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.

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He has worked for some of the most exciting organizations in corporate America including Miller Brewing Company, Uncle Ben’s Foods, Dove, International, M&M/Mars, and Kal Kan Petcare, and held a number of corporate and manufacturing HR positions of increasing responsibility which included international assignments. His last corporate assignment for Mars, Incorporated prior to entering private consulting practice was as Head of HR Support Services for North America and Co-Chair for Global HR Support Services over seeing the management of a combined budget of over $200 million dollars annually.

Doug is an Adjunct Instructor at the heralded California State University campuses at Long Beach and Fullerton and has lectured many international business leadership delegations from around the world including The Peoples Republic of China.

Along with many published professional articles written over the course of his career he has also published the award winning book titled The ABC’s of Leadership in 2008 (Axiom Business Book Awards) and a second book, Caution: Smiles At Work (lulu.com, 2014). In addition, he is a Contributing Author to bestseller The Leadership Challenge Activities Book by Kouzes and Posner (Pfeiffer, 2010).

Frederick Royall III

Frederick Royall III

National Head of Diverse Businesses, JPMorgan Chase

As the National Head of Diverse Businesses for JPMorgan Chase, Fred leads a team of 20+ bankers across the country to identify new opportunities and build upon existing relationships with women and minority-owned businesses. 

Advisory Board Members

Ingrid Ellerbe

Ingrid Ellerbe

Senior Strategic Advisor

Ingrid serves as Senior Strategic Advisor of Base 11.  Previously, as Senior Vice President of Programs & Partnerships and then Executive Director, Ellerbe oversaw exponential growth in Base 11’s student impact, programming, geographic footprint, corporate donors, and academic partnerships. These expansions resulted in the organization’s cumulative student impact growing from 300 students in 2016, reaching a cumulative of more than 12,400 students.

Noah Wintroub

Noah Wintroub

Parity Project Advisor

Noah Wintroub is a Global Chairman responsible for helping founders and entrepreneurs navigate, scale, and succeed in a period of massive disruption and innovation fueled by technology and creativity and to deliver J.P. Morgan and its capabilities to Silicon Valley and the innovation community globally.

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Based in San Francisco, Noah founded J.P. Morgan’s Internet and Digital Media (“IDM”) business. Since joining J.P. Morgan over 20 years ago, Noah has helped the firm become Wall Street’s preeminent platform for founders as well as traditional and emerging clients seeking content, advice, access, and capital to take advantage of disruption and innovation in consumption patterns, platforms and business models.

Noah graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Colgate University with a B.A. in History and a minor in Religion. An avid traveler, Noah studied abroad in Russia and Israel and has visited over 30 countries.

A native of Chicago and diehard Cubs fan, Noah lives with his wife and three daughters in San Francisco, California. In 2015, he was named the youngest-ever Vice Chairman at J.P. Morgan and was named #13 on Fortune’s 40 under 40.

In his free time, Noah serves on the board of CoachArt, Congregation Emanuel, and the advisory board of YadHanadiv. He enjoys running, coffee and spending time with his family.

Sig Anderman

Sig Anderman

Parity Project Advisor

Sig Anderman, the Founder and retired Chairman of the Board at Ellie Mae, offers strategic guidance to Base 11 and the Parity Project. Sig, a respected CEO, is known as a conscientious leader in the Mortgage Industry.