Marsha has extensive experience as a senior Human Resources executive in U.S. and global businesses. Before co-founding Lapis Group Inc., she led the HR function for Gilead Sciences. During her tenure there, she managed corporate-wide staff growth from 300 employees in Foster City, CA, to almost 2,000 employees in the U.S, Canada, Europe and Australia. She introduced a full scope of HR programs company wide and directed HR aspects of several merger/acquisition and divestiture activities. Before joining Gilead, she was an independent HR consultant working with a variety of companies on organizational development, compensation and employee communications intiatives. Marsha also held senior HR positions at Bank of America, including leading the HR function for Asia and compensation, benefits and labor relations for Latin America; overseeing compensation/incentive plans for 95,000 employees in 48 states as head of U.S. Compensation; and managing executive compensation and staffing for the company. Marsha serves as a consultant on BayBio’s expert network for entrepreneurs. She also heads up BoardMatch Marin, a pro bono recruiting and placement service for Marin County nonprofit boards.
greg hansen
With a 25-year career leading global compensation and benefits organizations, Greg has a broad-based background in designing U.S. and global compensation, equity/stock and benefits programs and managing all HR aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Before co-founding Lapis Group Inc., he headed up compensation, benefits and HRIS for Chiron Corp. In this role, he redesigned compensation programs to reinforce performance linkage to compensation results, developed key executive
long-term incentive plans, received shareholder approval for a post-SOX stock compensation program and managed HR due diligence and merger integration for all M&A activity. Previously, at Bank of America, he was the senior HR executive for two business units, managed global staffing and headed up labor relations, compensation and benefits for Latin America. He has also been an independent business owner and currently serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for a major industrial arts education nonprofit organization.
