ThinkSuite Breakfast | Catalyzing Transformational Impact
ThinkSuite is pleased to invite you to an extraordinary gathering hosted in Park City during the Sundance Film Festival. This festival is a historic one as it will be the last one to be held in Utah. It's set to bring exceptional names from around the world.
We will have leading family offices, foundations and talent at our events.
This event will be a breakfast, followed by an Optional Film Viewing 11:30am-1:00pm
Featured speakers below.
FIRESIDE CHAT WITH SPEAKER ERIC GARCETTI
Eric Garcetti was the United States ambassador to India from 2023 to 2025. He previously served as the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles, where he led the passage of the nation's largest local infrastructure initiative ($120 billIon); led L.A. to become the first big city to adopt a $15 minimum wage; and is implementing the nation's most ambitious local "Green New Deal." He has also spearheaded nation-leading initiatives to confront the crisis of homelessness and stood up the nation's leading local testing effort during the COVID-19 pandemic. Garcetti was elected four times by his peers to serve as President of the Los Angeles City Council from 2006 to 2012. From 2001 until taking office as Mayor, he served as the Councilmember representing the 13th District which includes Hollywood, Echo Park, Silver Lake, and Atwater Village — all of which were dramatically revitalized under Garcetti's leadership.
Garcetti was raised in the San Fernando Valley and earned his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. He studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and the London School of Economics and taught at Occidental College and USC. A fourth generation Angeleno, he and his wife, Amy Elaine Wakeland, have a young daughter. He was an officer in the U.S. Navy reserve for 12 years and is an avid jazz pianist and photographer.
MODERATOR JANICE UGAKI
Janice Ugaki is the Co-Founder and President of Firmseek, an award-winning strategic marketing and technology company based in Washington, DC. Over the past twenty-one years, Janice has grown the company from an idea to one of the leading website and digital marketing companies in the US. Firmseek specializes in the professional services industry and has won over 350 national and international digital marketing awards. Outside of work, Janice currently serves as the Co-President of the 2,300-member Association of American Rhodes Scholars. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Utah where she designed and developed an Honors Leadership course, with competitive admission, for the most outstanding incoming Honors College freshmen. Janice serves on a wide range of publicly traded, private, and nonprofit boards including Intermountain Healthcare, Zions Bank, Castell Health, Culmination Bio, the Truman Scholarship Advisory Council, the University of Utah National Advisory Council, the Park City Education Foundation, and the Park City Hospital Governing Board. As a black belt in taekwondo, Janice finds great joy as a volunteer martial arts instructor for at-risk elementary-age students in the Park City School District. Janice received her JD from Harvard Law School, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Utah with Honors degrees in Finance and Political Science and a minor in Japanese. She lives in Park City with her husband and their two children.
PANEL DISCUSSION ON "CATALYZING TRANSFORMATIONAL IMPACT"
Rachel Rivera is the Chief Operating Officer of Wild Lives Foundation, a nonprofit organization launched by Jody Allen and focused on climate, marine and wildlife conservation, arts and culture and other philanthropic initiatives. She serves on the boards of Sealife Response, Rehabilitation and Research (SR3), an organization dedicated to improving the health and welfare of marine wildlife in the Pacific Northwest, One Earth Philanthropy, an organization dedicated to accelerate collective action to solve the climate crisis through groundbreaking science, inspiring media, and an innovative approach to climate philanthropy and as an ex officio member to Washington Wildlife First, an organization dedicated exclusively to monitoring and reforming Washington state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. She is additionally a member of the leadership team at Daughters for Earth, a global movement and philanthropic fund, co-founded by Jody Allen and Zainab Salbi, which supports women working to fight the climate crisis. Previously, Rachel worked directly with Jody Allen in her role as the trustee of the Paul G. Allen Trust and Chair of Vulcan Inc. on philanthropic initiatives. In that role, she worked on philanthropic, product and film strategy, including work in oceans, conservation, communities, and climate.
John Carbrey runs his own family office, which he founded after having multiple successful tech exits. He is also the founder and Managing Director of venture studio FutureSight, where he works with values-driven entrepreneurs to build and fund B2B software companies. With over two decades of experience, he has founded and built four successful software companies and earned numerous entrepreneurial awards, including Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. He recently spoke at a ThinkSuite lunch event on how family offices can create a portfolio that includes venture capital. In his free time, John enjoys exploring new ideas in philosophy, experimenting with new Indian dishes in the kitchen and hosting lively dinner parties for friends and strangers alike. He is based in San Francisco.