With over 30 years of experience, I am a seasoned CEO, operator, and corporate strategist, specializing in creating new markets, increasing earnings, and strengthening brand reputation for both emerging growth and large, complex businesses. My unique combination of experiences includes serving as a longstanding champion for ESG-related strategies that positively impact urban communities.

I have a strong background in board governance practices through my extensive service as an independent director on non-profit and corporate boards, as well as my executive leadership roles.

Throughout my career, I have served as president and CEO for a diverse set of businesses in the real estate, technology, and financial services industries. This includes four ventures I led at First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), an $8 billion multi-national FORTUNE 500 real estate information services company. My senior management roles there included president & CEO of First American VMS, a SaaS vendor management platform company; founding president of First American New Market Ventures; and president of the strategic markets division of First American Title Insurance Company, where I focused on strategic growth in the US emerging markets.

As the co-founder of Legacy First Partners, I advise, raise capital, and build strategic partnerships for high impact organizations aimed at achieving attractive market returns while having a positive impact on the communities that they serve, including Freedom West 2.0, a $2.3 billion urban real estate revitalization project in the Fillmore district of San Francisco.

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.

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).

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.