Gina Marek of Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian led the firm's technology transactions team on Salesforce's $700 million acquisition of Krux, a consumer web platform for big data management.

After the events that have rocked Silicon Valley this year, are you more or less hopeful about the prospects for women in the tech industry?

More. We can take this public outrage and channel it into real change for women in our industry.