October 2019 Breakfast Program

Colleen leads the finance organization at BetterUp, exceling in delivering revenue growth and empowering others to succeed. Colleen has 15+ years of experience in financial strategy, operations, accounting, and acquisitions and has an eye for identifying opportunities for game-changing innovation.

Previously as Vice President of Finance at Proquest, Colleen contributed to the rapid growth of its eBooks Division and led the organization through complex reorganizations and acquisitions. Prior to Proquest, Colleen was a Managing Director at FTI Consulting where she managed Fortune 500 companies on mergers and acquisitions.  As a volunteer, she’s provided tax preparation assistance to low-income families and mentorship to the teenage homeless population in San Francisco.

Colleen holds a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Caron works alongside her clients to help ensure they have all the tools available to them to successfully administer their stock plans.  She has worked in the equity compensation industry since 2004, with experience in Silicon Valley and with clients ranging from small private to Fortune 500 companies throughout the Bay Area and Pacific Northwest. 

Prior to joining Fidelity in 2018, Caron was a Senior Relationship Manager for 10 years at E*TRADE and started her equity compensation career at UBS and then Merrill Lynch. She has also spent the past four years serving on the Silicon Valley NASPP Executive Committee helping to plan chapter meetings, the Summer Networking Event, and planning and volunteering for the CEP & NASPP Symposium at the University of Santa Clara. In 2019, Caron became a Board Member for the Silicon Valley NASPP Chapter.

In addition to NASPP, Caron is an active GEO member and a Certified Equity Professional (CEP). She holds Series 7, 63, and 9/10 securities registrations, and obtained her bachelor of science degree in business administration from CSU, Chico.

Holly Sutton guides businesses, compensation committees, and boards in effectively managing the critical employment matters they face, with an eye toward both practical solutions and risk management. In this role, she frequently advises on policies or measures at the planning stage—proactive involvement in employment issues is almost always preferable to devising responses ex post facto. Holly is the chair of Farella's Employment Practice.

Holly counsels clients on the design and implementation of employment-related policies and practices to minimize the risk of employment litigation, and ensure compliance with applicable law. Specific areas in which Holly advises her clients include, but aren’t limited to, personnel policies, wage and hour laws, EEO compliance, hiring and termination practices, harassment and discrimination investigations, non-competition clauses, conflict of interest, and trade secret matters. She has worked with clients in a range of industries, including media, insurance, wine, agriculture, technology, retail, banking, construction, manufacturing, cannabis, and professional services.

She is recognized as a Labor & Employment Star – West by Benchmark Litigation (2019). Holly earned her J.D. from Stanford University in 1993, where she was associate editor of the Stanford Law Review and co-chair of Women of Stanford Law. She earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley.

Candace is a dynamic influencer and experienced business development professional with broad market experience focused on resolution and collaboration. As a former business owner herself, she empathizes with entrepreneurs and helps them take their businesses to the next level. 

As a District Manager with Insperity, Candace guides her highly professional sales team to help local business owners with a systematic way to improve their businesses. Insperity provides guidance and support to help businesses increase employee productivity and engagement with a wide range of business performance solutions. Insperity’s mission is to help businesses succeed so communities prosper.

Whether you have 5 employees or 5,000, need help with succession planning, growth strategy or administrative infrastructure Insperity’s business solutions are tailored to helping you run your business more efficiently with payroll, time and attendance, performance management, organizational planning, recruiting, expense management, retirement services, insurance services and financial services.

Candace is also a movie buff, screenwriter, hiker, reader and heavily involved in her community.