Jonathan
Visbal was born ambitious, eager to live the American dream and find
success. A graduate of the prestigious Stanford Business School, Visbal joined
a successful startup company, Octel Communications Corporation, and rose to the pinnacle of his career as a
leadership advisor and executive recruiter at Spencer Stuart, where his clients
included top Silicon Valley technology companies. And throughout his successful
career, he never lost sight of his ultimate goal: living a life of adventure.
Jonathan
Visbal serves as Chairman of the World Affairs Council in San Francisco, and as
a member of other boards including of Yawye, Inc., a startup exploring the use
of emojis to measure employee sentiment. He has taught managerial ethics
at Stanford University and served as an adjunct professor in international
telecommunications at the University of San Francisco. He has traveled to 75
countries, lived in Europe and Latin America for 16 years, is fluent in English
and Spanish, and has a working knowledge of French and Portuguese. He, his
wife and two daughters live in the San Francisco Bay Area.