Mo Fong
Executive Director at Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Mo has 25+ years experience as a tech executive, career coach, and DEI advocate. She is currently the Executive Director at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center with a vision of empowering aspiring entrepreneurs to be global citizens who create and scale responsible innovation. Mo is a certified leadership coach with the Hudson Institute and is part of the Harvard Business School coaching staff. Prior to STVP, Mo spent 15 years at Google leading global teams in various functional areas including Sr. Director of Google Technical Solutions for Google Learning and Education, Google Assistant and Search. She has also served as Google's Director K12 Education Outreach and Chief Compliance Officer for Google Wallet. Earlier in her career, she also worked at PayPal, the Stanford Educational Leadership Initiative, and the Fremont Union High School District as an educator and administrator. Mo is the founder of LeiFongCoaching, LLC focused on supporting women of color in tech to lead with confidence and joy. She is also a founding member of the Asian Women Coaching Collective (awcoachingcollective.org) which is a community of diverse Asian women coaches convening to empower and transform the experiences of Asian women leaders and ourselves as coaches in the workplace, at home, and within our communities. Mo is a current advisory board member for Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), Stanford Women in Tech Entrepreneurship (SWiTE), Develop for Good, Televisit.org, 100kin10.org, and the National Girls Collaborative Project. She is also an angel investor in various edtech and healthcare start-ups including LightUp.io, earlyday.com, somefriendsmedia.com, and trialspark.com. Mo served as a board member of the Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Community, and was active in Google’s Asian Director+VP Leadership Group and Asian Googler Network. She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and MA in Education from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
