The Maybach Mentor Talks

The May­bach Foun­da­tion Men­tor Talk Series is a dis­cus­sion forum fea­tur­ing diverse and rel­e­vant thinkers, vision­ar­ies and dri­vers of inno­va­tion shar­ing their per­son­al jour­neys from ear­ly inspi­ra­tion to where they are today. The focus is on the mentor-protégé rela­tion­ship, a theme cen­tral to the his­toric May­bach sto­ry and a core aspect of the May­bach Foundation’s work over the past decade.

In this con­text, the May­bach Foun­da­tion Men­tor Talks present speak­er pairs who are rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the change-mak­ing impact of indi­vid­ual human inter­ac­tion. In some cas­es, they have been involved in the May­bach Foundation’s own men­tor­ing projects. Oth­ers are paired with a past men­tor or mentee who has sig­nif­i­cant­ly influ­enced their per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al development.

The May­bach Foun­da­tion memo­ri­al­izes the con­tri­bu­tions of Wil­helm & Karl May­bach, a jour­ney from orphan­age to design­er of the first Mer­cedes and today’s sym­bol of ulti­mate lux­u­ry — an achieve­ment that would not have been pos­si­ble with­out the sup­port Wil­helm May­bach received in the ear­ly stages of his life. The case study of young Wil­helm May­bach cre­at­ing a dis­rup­tive “mobil­i­ty-rev­o­lu­tion” laid the foun­da­tion for the mod­ern auto­mo­bile. By build­ing on this his­tor­i­cal nar­ra­tive and its lessons, the May­bach Men­tor Talks cre­ate a trick­le-down effect. Learn­ing about our pan­elists’ per­son­al expe­ri­ences, as well as the soci­etal effect of their per­son­al men­tor­ing part­ner­ships has the poten­tial to inspire others.

The Men­tor Talks serve com­mu­ni­ty inter­ests by rais­ing aware­ness of the ben­e­fits of men­tor­ing and sup­port­ing young, tal­ent­ed thinkers: Indi­vid­u­als who might go on to find new, inno­v­a­tive approach­es to solv­ing increas­ing­ly urgent prob­lems – just as did the young Wil­helm Maybach.

Your best future is help­ing some­one else find theirs.

Projects & Events

The third Maybach Mentor Talk: JT Holmes, extreme sports athlete & stuntman, and Connery Lundin, freeskiing world champion

The second Maybach Mentor Talk: Chris C. Kemp, CTO at NASA, and Pete Worden, Director of NASA Ames

LIVE AT THE BATTERY — May­bach Men­tors with NASA’s Chris C. Kemp & Dr. Pete Wor­den

LIVE AT THE BATTERY — May­bach Men­tors with NASA’s Chris C. Kemp & Dr. Pete Wor­den Join us for an excit­ing dis­cus­sion and Q&A ses­sion with Chris C. Kemp, for­mer Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer of NASA, and his men­tor, Dr. S. Pete Wor­den, NASA Ames Research Cen­ter Direc­tor. We con­tin­ue Men­tor Talks Series with The May­bach Foun­da­tion: a fire­side-chat for­mat pre­sent­ing diverse and rel­e­vant thinkers, vision­ar­ies and dri­vers of inno­va­tion shar­ing their per­son­al jour­neys from ear­ly inspi­ra­tion to where they are today — includ­ing mis­steps tak­en along the way. The focus is on the men­tor – pro­tégé rela­tion­ship, a theme cen­tral to the his­toric May­bach sto­ry and a core aspect of the May­bach Foundation’s work over the past decade. Due to the speak­ers’ inter­per­son­al con­nec­tions, we are excit­ed about the kind of exchanges that will occur in an inti­mate and infor­mal set­ting. Chris C. Kemp Chris is the co-founder and CEO of a stealth space com­pa­ny that has designed, built, and launched two rock­ets in the past year, and will begin launch­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of space­craft to con­nect, observe, and influ­ence our plan­et start­ing lat­er this year. Pre­vi­ous­ly, Chris was the Chief Tech­nol­o­gy Offi­cer of NASA, where he intro­duced new tech­nolo­gies into America’s space pro­gram, founder of Open­Stack, the largest and fastest grow­ing open source project in his­to­ry. While at NASA, he forged part­ner­ships with Google and Microsoft and helped cre­ate Google Moon, Google Mars, and World Wide Tele­scope. Chris also worked with the White House to devel­op the cloud strat­e­gy for the Unit­ed States fed­er­al gov­ern­ment. He serves as a board mem­ber or advis­er to Plan­et Labs, Scalr, and Rip­cord, and has found­ed sev­er­al tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies. He has been rec­og­nized in the Sil­i­con Val­ley Busi­ness Jour­nal „40 under 40,“ the CNBC Dis­rup­tor 50 list, and received the pres­ti­gious „Fed­er­al 100“ award for his ser­vice at NASA. Dr. S. Pete Wor­den Simon Peter “Pete” Wor­den, (Brig. Gen., USAF, Ret., PhD) is the Chair­man of the Break­through Prize Foun­da­tion and Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the foundation’s ‘Break­through Ini­tia­tives’. Pri­or to join­ing the Break­through Prize Foun­da­tion, Dr. Wor­den was Direc­tor of NASA’s Ames Research Cen­ter at Mof­fett Field, Cal­i­for­nia, USA until his retire­ment on March 31, 2015. He has held sev­er­al posi­tions in the Unit­ed States Air Force and was research pro­fes­sor of astron­o­my at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ari­zona, Tuc­son, USA. He is a rec­og­nized expert on space and sci­ence issues – both civ­il and mil­i­tary and has been a leader in build­ing part­ner­ships between gov­ern­ments and the pri­vate sec­tor inter­na­tion­al­ly. At the Roy­al Soci­ety in Lon­don on July 20, 2015, Yuri Mil­ner, Stephen Hawk­ing and Lord Mar­tin Rees announced a set of ini­tia­tives — a sci­en­tif­ic pro­gram aimed at find­ing evi­dence of tech­no­log­i­cal life beyond Earth enti­tled ‘Break­through Lis­ten, and a con­test to devise poten­tial mes­sages named ‚Break­through Mes­sage’. In addi­tion, atop the One World Trade Cen­ter in New York on April 20, 2016, Break­through Starshot was announced, an inter­stel­lar pro­gram to Alpha Cen­tau­ri. These are the first of sev­er­al pri­vate­ly-fund­ed glob­al ini­tia­tives to answer the fun­da­men­tal sci­ence ques­tions sur­round­ing the ori­gin, extent and nature of life in the uni­verse. The Break­through Ini­tia­tives are man­aged by the Break­through Prize Foundation.

Post­ed by The Bat­tery on Mon­day, August 19, 2019

The first Maybach Mentor Talk: Hap Klopp, founder of The North Face, and Magi Raible, CEO of LiteGear

LIVE at The Bat­tery — May­bach Men­tors w/​Hap Klopp & Magi Raible

LIVE at The Bat­tery — May­bach Men­tors w/​Hap Klopp & Magi Raible The May­bach Foun­da­tion memo­ri­al­izes the con­tri­bu­tions of Wil­helm & Karl May­bach, a jour­ney from orphan­age to design­er of the first Mer­cedes and today’s sym­bol of ulti­mate lux­u­ry – an achieve­ment that would not have been pos­si­ble with­out the sup­port Wil­helm May­bach received in the ear­ly stages of his life. The May­bach Foun­da­tion debuts its Men­tor Talks Series: a recur­ring series fea­tur­ing a fire­side-chat for­mat pre­sent­ing diverse and rel­e­vant thinkers, vision­ar­ies and dri­vers of inno­va­tion shar­ing their per­son­al jour­neys from ear­ly inspi­ra­tion to where they are today — includ­ing mis­steps tak­en along the way. The focus is on the men­tor – pro­tégé rela­tion­ship, a theme cen­tral to the his­toric May­bach sto­ry and a core aspect of the May­bach Foundation’s work over the past decade. Due to the speak­ers’ inter­per­son­al con­nec­tions, we are excit­ed about the kind of exchanges that will occur in an inti­mate and infor­mal set­ting. The Men­tor Talks Series serves com­mu­ni­ty inter­ests by rais­ing aware­ness of the ben­e­fits of men­tor­ing and sup­port­ing young, tal­ent­ed thinkers: Indi­vid­u­als who might go on to find new, inno­v­a­tive approach­es to solv­ing increas­ing­ly urgent prob­lems – just as did the young Wil­helm May­bach. Join us for an excit­ing dis­cus­sion and Q&A ses­sion with this events speak­ers, Hap Klopp, The North Face founder, and Magi Raible, CEO of LiteGear. Hap Klopp Mr. Klopp was a co-founder and 20-year CEO of The North Face. In 1968 Mr. Klopp bought 2 stores doing $300,000 in sales bear­ing the name, The North Face, from Doug Tomp­kins for $60,000. He then used this plat­form for build­ing the icon­ic North Face brand includ­ing cre­at­ing the logo, under­tak­ing the design and man­u­fac­ture of out­door and appar­el prod­ucts, and launch­ing whole­sale and cat­a­log sales. When he sold the com­pa­ny, it was doing more than $125 mil­lion. Today, the MBA ’66 grad­u­ate of Stan­ford Grad­u­ate School of Busi­ness con­tin­ues his board roles while also men­tor­ing aspir­ing entre­pre­neurs. “It’s very inspir­ing to be around young peo­ple,” he says. “Old­er peo­ple don’t have the opti­mistic curios­i­ty of younger peo­ple. I get enthused by the can-do atti­tude.” He talks with us about the impor­tance of infus­ing your val­ues into your brand, the virtues of influ­encer mar­ket­ing, and the ben­e­fits of inter­dis­ci­pli­nary design teams. Magi Raible Magi Raible is the Cre­ative Direc­tor and CEO at LiteGear. With a love of the out­doors and a com­mit­ment to the envi­ron­ment, outdoor/​travel gear vet­er­an Mago Raible walks the talk. As CEO and Cre­ative Direc­tor of LifeGear Design, a full-ser­vice design and sourc­ing com­pa­ny and own­er of the LiteGear brand she found­ed in 2013, Raible has made it her mis­sion to help pro­tect our nat­ur­al resources by using near­ly 1.5 sin­gle-use plas­tic bot­tles (and count­ing) in the design and man­u­fac­ture of LiteGear prod­ucts, there­by keep­ing them out of oceans and land­fills. Build­ing on her pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence as founder and pres­i­dent of adven­ture gear brand KIVA, Raible’s goal with LiteGear is to inspire peo­ple to trav­el while pro­vid­ing them with inno­v­a­tive gear built to deliv­er reli­able per­for­mance. Raible’s resume includes work­ing as direc­tor of prod­uct devel­op­ment and prod­uct acqui­si­tion for The North Face. Her work for the North Face, as well as her time with the US Air­Force has tak­en her around the world. Serv­ing on the board of direc­tors for the Inter­na­tion­al Trav­el Goods Asso­ci­a­tion, Raible con­tin­ues to indulge her love of trav­el as much as she can.

Post­ed by The Bat­tery on Mon­day, May 6, 2019

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