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.

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 is a passionate community leader having served as Chairman of the Community Services Foundation for the City of Villa Park, California for several years. He is currently Chairman of the Human Rights Commission for the City of Greensboro, North Carolina and an inaugural member of the Cultural Affairs Commission of the city.

Doug is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California and past 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).

Doug 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 Master’s degree in Human Resources Counseling from North Carolina A&T State University and studied law at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.

In 1996, he became the youngest certified teacher in Missouri teaching mathematics in the Rockwood School District at age 19. He became a Grade Level Principal in 1999, District K-12 Gifted Director in 2002, and Associate Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UM-St. Louis) as well as guest lecturer and speaker at the College of William and Mary, Lindenwood, Maryville, and St. Louis Community College from 2003 to date. In 2005, Dr. McCoy became the Executive Director of VICC and Student Services for Rockwood and created scores of programs and added new procedures for greater student support, access, and achievement. In 2008, he became Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education, was later named the youngest and, also, the first African-American Superintendent of Ferguson-Florissant School District in December 2010 at 33. Dr. McCoy led the district to earn much recognition including the Urban Overachiever Award for outstanding graduation rates. Dr. McCoy was a state and national leader for Harvard’s Pathways to Prosperity Initiative developing college and career pathways for students (grades 7-14). In 2014, he served as an education adviser to the Missouri House and Senate and helped write state laws for education equity. He is the founder and president of SAGES Consulting LLC and SAGES Academy, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, as well as Superintendent-in-Residence of MIND Research Institute and Base 11, where his emphasis is on creating STEM workforce development programs for students and serving on Base 11’s national advisory board.

Dr. McCoy earned his Doctorate of Philosophy in Education with an emphasis in education leadership and policy studies and Masters in Education Administration from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics Education from Harris-Stowe State University. He is an alumnus of Harvard University’s Leadership Institute for Superintendents post-graduate program.

A dynamic leader and motivator, Ehring is particularly skilled at raising capital; strategy, vision and mission planning; contract negotiations and strategic alliances; and team building and performance improvement.

Most recently, Ehring was founder and CEO of Dorado Corporation, a pioneer in cloud-based applications for mortgage bankers. Under Ehring’s leadership, Dorado became the market leader in demand chain management solutions for the mortgage industry, achieving an average annual growth rate of 200% over a seven-year period. At its peak, Dorado’s patent-protected software was used by 150 of the largest U.S. banks. Ehring raised $120 million in funds from CrossPoint Ventures and other capital sources and structured the company’s successful sale to CoreLogic, a publicly traded, multi-billion dollar technology company.

Ehring began his career recruited out of college by the U.S. government to head up the National Reconnaissance Organization’s (NRO) global technology modernization initiative. Ehring then took on sales and marketing for NeXT Computers, founded by visionary Steve Jobs. Other roles include VP of worldwide sales at Lighthouse Design, a startup applications developer acquired by Sun Microsystems; director of sales at JavaSoft, a Sun Microsystems subsidiary; and senior VP of CoreLogic.

A gifted speaker and team builder, Ehring is a strong advocate for an engaged, collaborate and diverse workforce. He serves as a investor, advisor or mentor at several technology incubators, startup organizations and university programs. He also sits on several technology and philanthropic boards and has authored dozens of thought leadership articles on topics ranging from science, technology, politics and financial services. Ehring holds a Master’s degree in Space Physics from UCLA and is an avid traveler and blogger.

He served most recently as Executive Vice Chancellor for Education and Technology at Contra Costa Community College District and previously as Chancellor of Coast Community College District, CA; Executive Vice Chancellor of Educational Affairs for the Dallas County Community College District, TX and President of the Community College of Baltimore County, MD.

Much of his career has been spent at the four-year college and university level, but the last dozen or so years have found him in the dynamic associate degree arena where he has been a staunch advocate for equal access and student success.  Andrew has led several recent national initiatives to address the declining role of males of color in higher education, to promote increased faculty diversity and to promote student success through the use of technology, process improvement and predictive analytics. Jones has also been a champion for elevating student learning outcome assessment as the major metric for institutional success. Most recently, he has been involved with leading regional workforce efforts in California and developing STEM based entrepreneurial accelerators to enhance the working learner.

In 2009 Andrew completed a certificate in Strategic Forecasting from the University of Houston to add to his doctorate degree in education and public policy from Temple University. He holds a master’s degree in library and information sciences and undergraduate preparation in economics from the University of Maryland.

Founded in 1974, SHPE’s mission is to change lives by empowering the Hispanic community to realize its fullest potential and to impact the world through STEM awareness, access, support and development. SHPE provides a variety of programming, services, and resources including hosting the largest Hispanic STEM conference in the nation.

Before serving as the CEO of SHPE, Raquel Tamez served as the Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, and Senior Vice President of Legal at SourceAmerica. She speaks fluent Spanish and has received national recognition as a recipient of the Hispanic Corporate Achiever Award bestowed by the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility. Raquel is a 2011 Fellow in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Talent Development Program. Raquel was featured in the “Leading Latinas” June 2013 issue of Hispanic Executive and was subsequently selected for the magazine’s “Best of 2013” tablet edition. In the Summer/Fall 2013 issue, Raquel was featured in Hispanic Career World published by Equal Opportunity Publication.

Raquel graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and St. Mary’s University School of Law. She is a native of Texas and currently resides in Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. 

He specializes in the areas of Space Technologies, Medical and Biological Technologies, Technology Aggregation, Life Cycle Technology Product Development, and Technology Program/Project Management.

 Prior to establishing his consulting practice, he was Chief Technologist, NASA-Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA.

He has an extensive technical skillset covering Program and Project Management, Technology Product Development, Advanced Technology R&D, Sensors and Instrument Technology Development, Spacecraft Payloads and Space Systems, Small Spacecraft and Missions, Medical and Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Technology Test, Evaluation, and Demonstration, Systems Management and Engineering, Technology Integration and Validation, Proposal Writing; Technical Writing, Technology Team Definition, Design and Implementation and Advocacy.

John attended Stanford University where he received his MSEE with a concentration in Electrical/Biomedical Engineering. He earned his undergraduate degree from Tuskegee University in Electrical Engineering.

He attended Fisk University where he earned his Master of Science in Plasma Physics and went on to obtain his Doctor of Education Leadership at David Lipscomb University.

Dr. Wallace became a Research Assistant in Fisk University’s Physics Department, upon completion of his master’s degree and accepted a full-time faculty position in the fall of 2002.  Currently, he serves as a physics faculty member and is the Director of Physics Laboratories.  In that capacity, he is responsible for the modernization and instruction in all physics undergraduate laboratories, as well as, laboratory curriculum.  Under his supervision, the Physics laboratories have advanced from partial to full computerization of data collection and received numerous improvements by way of renovation, organization, and utilization of more efficient equipment.

He is also Primary Investigator for Fisk University’s Rocket Science Program, entitled Altitude Achievement Missile Team (F.A.A.M.T).   This program was built from scratch to compete in a NASA competition known as University Student Launch Initiative (USLI), where students design, build, launch and recover a sounding rocket carrying a scientific payload, which must achieve an altitude of exactly one mile.  In its first year of this competition, Fisk University placed 4th overall and placed 2nd in reaching the one-mile target altitude. Fisk placed above Alabama A&M, Mississippi State, and Auburn University.  All of the aforementioned schools have engineering, aerospace engineering programs or both. Fisk competed with a Physics program, only.

Dr. Wallace engages in extensive work pipelining university students into Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers as well as engaging in mentoring programs aimed at building self-efficacy in under-represented populations in K-12. The goal of these efforts is to encourage them to become full participants in their STEM curriculum and eventually go into STEM-related careers.