Expert in Residence
Expert in Residence
The Bates Center currently have four Experts in Residence in the areas of Law, Health Care and Agriculture and Advocacy in addition to an Entrepreneur in Residence. They serve as volunteer experts to all Lewis & Clark students. The Experts program is a way for students to learn first-hand skills from industry experts. Our Experts can lead guest lessons, give classroom feedback, and will meet with students one-on-one upon request.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Mitch Daugherty from Built Oregon joined the Bates Center staff in 2022. Mitch officially started with the Center in September of 2022 but has been a supporter of the Center for many years as a Winterim mentor and internship provider for our students. His role will now expand to meet with students to advice and counsel on new business ideas. He has office hours in the eLab, (JR Howard #344) every Monday from 1pm - 3pm. Students can drop in during that time or email in advance to schedule a time. Mitch will also serve as our downtown (and all of Oregon) connection to business, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial orgs and individuals and bring leaders to campus for our Lunch with a Leader program and Winterim.
LAW
Wondering what legal issues you should consider when exploring ideas? Do you need to form a business entity? Thinking about law school? Meet our Expert in Residence, Robert Scott, JD ’11. Robert is the former General Counsel of Lattice and former General Counsel and VP of Operations at Opal. He also founded and successfully operated a fractional GC law firm, Jibe Law. Robert is particularly skilled at early-stage fundraising and building privacy compliance programs. Office hours will be available via Zoom two - three times per semester. Robert will meet individually with students on topics such as the legal issues facing startups and the transition from student to professional. Fall dates will be added to the calendar when school is back in session.
Expert in Residence - Start up
Ann McQuesten is a partner at Perkins Coie LLP, where she provides legal advice to clients on significant business transactions corporate governance, securities compliance, and general business counseling. Ann regularly guides companies and investors through the structuring and negotiation of equity and debt financing transactions, including seed-stage, angel, venture capital, and private equity investments. She also represents buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions and other liquidity transactions.
Ann holds a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University, and graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School in 2011. With a strong interest in and commitment to environmental sustainability and community development she has served on boards and advisory roles for the Mercy Corps Northwest Women’s Business Center, the Eco-School Network, Willamette Partnership, the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network, and the Oregon State Bar’s Sustainable Futures Section.
Disclaimer: Expert in Residence office hours are meant as an issue spotting exercise, to tell you predicted course and next steps—lay out entity formation options, explain issues to consider, warn about land mines, etc. This is free advice and since our students are not clients of Jibe Law, there should be no belief of, or claim of reliance on, a lawyer/client relationship.
HEALTH CARE
Mohan Nair, our first Expert in Residence - Health Care, is the CEO of Emerge Inc. and is an Edmund Hillary Fellow. Until January 2021, Mohan was the SVP/Chief Innovation Officer of Cambia Health Solutions, a $9.8 B health care concern. Mohan understands the landscape, technology, barriers, opportunities and equity considerations in health care research, delivery and access networks. Ask questions, test ideas, or just listen/learn.
Interested in innovation in healthcare and beyond? Converse with Mohan about what it takes to transform healthcare from an institutional focused business model to a person focused and financially sustainable system. For 25 years, he has focused on the principles and practices of a cause-centered organization and has realized the direct relationship between personal and business transformation. His dream is to help organizations realize that cause-driven leaders can change the world.
As Senior VP and Chief Innovation Officer at Cambia Health Solutions, Mohan led a team that engages leaders in innovation, accelerates process from problem to solution, and creates new purpose-driven products, services, businesses and experiences. He is a high-tech entrepreneur, computer scientist, author, strategy consultant and healthcare leader.
Born and raised in Singapore, Mohan watched how nations transform. It shaped how he strives to create lasting business transformation, which includes every employee personally finding “true north” in cause through their own transformation.
Mohan authored three books in the field of transformation and for 10 years taught at the Kellogg School of Management. An experienced entrepreneur with two startups under his belt, Mohan has set his sights on healthcare transformation.
As a former Singaporean TV talk show host, musician with 20 music copyrighted songs to his name, TEDx speaker, and the first healthcare executive to audition and lose at America’s Got Talent, he hopes to inspire others with courage and teach all to enjoy innovation.
- If you wish to talk to this expert, please fill out this form and we will get back to you
Disclaimer: Expert in Residence office hours are meant as an exploratory exercise, to converse about health care landscape, considerations, opportunities and problem solving. This is a free service and since our students are not clients of Mohan Nair, Cambia or any of their affiliated entities, speaking to or listening to him does not rise to a claim, belief, or reliance upon information he imparts.
AGRICULTURE AND ADVOCACY
Converse with the first openly gay woman to become CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Beth Ford, CEO of Land O Lakes ( a company that touches 300,000 farmers and half the harvested acres in the nation) wants to respond to your questions about innovations in sustainable agriculture, and amplifying underrepresented voices in the workplace, and career advancement.
Beth Ford serves as President and CEO of Land O’Lakes, Inc., a Fortune 200 food production and agribusiness company that is also a nearly 100-year-old farmer-owned cooperative. Beth’s 35-year career spans six industries at seven companies. Since joining Land O’Lakes in 2011, she has held a variety of roles leading the farmer-to-fork business offerings. Today, she is a passionate advocate on behalf of farmers and rural America with the goal of connecting people, particularly in urban areas, to the farmers and rural communities who grow their food.
A native of Sioux City, Iowa, Beth holds a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in business from Columbia University Business School. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Business Roundtable, the Fortune 150 company PACCAR, Inc., and numerous other industry, nonprofit and university boards.
Beth has been recognized by Fortune as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders and Most Powerful Women and was named too Fast Company’s Most Productive People and Best Leaders lists, among other honors. She was also featured in the “60 Minutes” segment entitled “The Farmers Advocate” during the fall of 2019.
- If you wish to talk to this expert, please fill out this form and we will get back to you
Disclaimer: Expert in Residence office hours are meant as an exploratory exercise, to converse about agricultural and advocacy issues, considerations, opportunities, problem solving, and career. This is a free service and since our students are not clients of Beth Ford, Land O’ Lakes or any of their affiliated entities, speaking to or listening to her does not rise to a claim, belief, or reliance upon information she imparts.
The Bates Center for Entrepreneurship and Leadership is located in room 344 of J.R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
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email entrepreneurship@lclark.edu
Chrys Hutchings
Director
chryshutchings@lclark.edu
503-768-7683
Catarina Hunter
Associate Director
chunter@lclark.edu
503-768-8683
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