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Leadership Dinner: Lily Sarafan

Event Details:

Thursday, January 31, 2019
5:30pm PST

This event is open to:

All Graduate Students

Dine with inspiring leaders from various industries and organizations. At Leadership Dinners, you will interact with proven leaders and a small group of graduate students over dinner at the Faculty Club.  

Lily Sarafan, president and CEO, Home Care Assistance

Lily Sarafan is President and CEO of Home Care Assistance (HCA), where she has led the company from startup to sector leader with more than 7,000 employees across 170 markets. HCA is consistently recognized as a best-in-class consumer service, and Lily as a featured expert on innovation in healthcare and the future of aging. 

Lily is also a board member, investor and advisor for innovative companies. Her board service extends to high-impact nonprofits including the Stanford Alumni Association, the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs, the Berkeley/Haas Center for Innovation Economies and the Women's Alzheimer's Movement. She is Founding Partner of Project BIG: The Stanford Brain Immune Gut Initiative and serves in various leadership roles to advance civil society, global economic development and precision health. 

Lily holds an MS in Management Science and Engineering and BS in Science Technology and Society from Stanford University, where she was Eben Tisdale Fellow and Class President. She has been named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Women Health Care Executives Woman of the Year and a Silicon Valley 40 Under 40. Lily is a Member of YPO and the Council on Foreign Relations, a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Please Note:
Leadership Dinners have limited seating. If you are accepted you must confirm your place by submitting a Student Participation Fee Agreement, which authorizes VPGE to charge $50 to your Stanford bill – only if you do not fully participate in the event.

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