MOORE - Key Persons
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- Operations Associate, Andes - Amazon
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- Executive Assistant, Environmental Conservation
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- Monitoring and Evaluation Systems Officer
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- Program Associate, Science
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- Grants Officer, Grants Administration
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- Program Director, Andes - Amazon
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- Director of Information Technology
Barry oversees technology at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Biography
He has over 40 years of experience in the computer technology sector and previously managed computer technology for Bank of America's executive office.
Barry holds a B.S. in landscape architecture from Purdue University.
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- Program Officer, Conservation and Markets
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- Business Analyst
- IT Business Analyst
As the foundation's business analyst, Beth is the liaison between business units and the IT department and participates in business process design and modeling, acting as documentarian, facilitator, project manager, and subject matter expert on use case scenarios.
Biography
As the foundation's business analyst, Beth is the liaison between business units and the IT department and participates in business process design and modeling, acting as documentarian, facilitator, project manager, and subject matter expert on use case scenarios.
Previously, Beth was the foundation's program finance officer within the Grants Administration team where she focused on the financial aspects of the foundation's grantmaking, including financial due diligence, project budget development and review, and grant financial reporting.
Beth earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.P.A. with a concentration in public management from the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.
Intel's success made the Moores billionaires, but they never lost touch with their small-town pragmatism or unassuming roots. The financial windfall made them even more focused on giving back to society, to try, as they expressed, to make the world a better place for their children and their children's children. Long before signing the Giving Pledge in 2012, Gordon and Betty had already given more than half of their assets to charitable causes. In 2017, they were recognized as California's most generous philanthropists.
Beginning with individual gifts, many of them anonymous, then forming the Moore Family Foundation, and eventually, in 2000, creating the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation "to create positive outcomes for future generations," Gordon and Betty have maintained a focus across their philanthropic endeavors on supporting universities, hospitals and other nonprofit organizations working in environmental conservation, science, patient care and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Betty Moore established the foundation to create positive outcomes for future generations. In 1965, Gordon made a rule-of-thumb prediction that later became known as Moore's Law. As a founder of Intel, he helped shape what we now recognize as the Silicon Valley and technology sector. Betty's personal commitment to improving the experience of patients and the couple's desire to expand knowledge, conserve the natural world, and preserve all that makes the Bay Area special, inspires our work daily.
Caitlin provides direct communications support for the Moore Foundation's Patient Care Program and Bay Area Program as well as the Conservation and Markets Initiative, and manages brand, leadership and employee communications.
Biography
Caitlin provides direct communications support for the Moore Foundation's Patient Care Program, Bay Area Program and Conservation and Markets Initiative while also managing brand, leadership and employee communications. Caitlin took on the role of Patient Care Program communications in 2019 and added Conservation and Markets to her support areas in 2021. In addition to her managing role in brand and employee communications, she also serves as the managing editor for the foundation e-newsletter, In the Know.
Caitlin has a background in health care public relations, and prior to joining the foundation, served on the PR and communications team at Kaiser Permanente, supporting several consumer facing projects and initiatives. She also previously worked in the health care practice at PR agency Burson-Marsteller, and as a communications associate for the American Red Cross Bay Area Chapter.
Caitlin received a B.A. in English and communications from the University of California, Davis. She is a San Francisco Bay Area native, but also spent several months abroad in Argentina.
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- Program Finance Officer, Grants Administration
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- Executive Assistant and Office Manager, Investment
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- Program Manager, Wildfire and Special Projects
Christine leads the staffing, onboarding and development programs for the foundation, as well as provides strategic business partner support.
Biography
Christine leads the staffing, onboarding and development programs for the foundation, as well as provides strategic business partner support.
Before coming to the foundation, Christine specialized in employee relations at Facebook, where she provided support and guidance to the engineering department. Prior to that, she was a founding member of the human resources team at Virgin America before the launch of the airline in 2007. There, she contributed to the design and creation of innovative team member programs to support the airline's rapidly evolving company culture.
Christine is certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and obtained her certification in human resources management from San Francisco State University.
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- Director of Portfolio Strategy and Operations
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- Executive Assistant, Adaptive Management and Evaluation
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- Director of Hedge Fund Strategies, Investment
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- Program Officer, San Francisco Bay Area
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- Operations Associate, Marine Conservation
Denise Strack - Chief Investment Officer
Denise oversees investments for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
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Denise oversees investments for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before assuming the chief investment officer position in 2008, Denise was the director of private equity and real assets for the foundation. Previously, she served as director of private equity at Stanford Management Company, where she oversaw investments in private and long-biased public equity relationships and was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company in its private equity and financial services practices.
She received a B.S. in industrial engineering and an M.B.A., both from Stanford University.
Denise was a member of the United States National Gymnastics team. She currently serves as an investment committee member for the Marin Community Foundation and a family office. She enjoys coaching mathletes to middle school students, traveling and skiing with her husband and six children.
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- Program Director, Science
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- Operations Associate, Foundation Special Projects
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- Program Data Analyst, Conservation and Markets
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- Technology Support Engineer
Fay oversees the compensation and benefits programs at the foundation.
Biography
Before joining the human resources team, Fay worked in the foundation's finance/accounting department. Prior to that, she worked in various accounting, payroll and human resources positions at the Academy of Art University, the law firm of Graham & James LLP and several dot-coms. Her professional affiliations include memberships in the Society for Human Resources Management, Northern California Human Resources Association, American Payroll Association and WorldatWork.
Fay earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of San Francisco and is certified as a Professional in Human Resources (PHR).
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- Director of Public Equities and Fixed Income, Investment
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- Program Officer, Andes - Amazon
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- Program Director, Wildfire Resilience Initiative and Special Projects
Gordon was always a visionary. Even at the start of his career, he keenly recognized the impact that the technologies he was developing would have on the world. And at an industry event in 1979, he told an Intel audience: "We are bringing about the next great revolution in the history of mankind - the transition to the electronic age." (Moore's Law, Thackray, Brock and Jones).
Although Gordon was reluctant to spotlight his own contributions, his biographers have been less reticent about attribution. Gordon is simply, they argue, "the most important thinker and doer in the story of silicon electronics."
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- President
- Staff Trustee
- Foundation President
- President of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Harvey V. Fineberg is the president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Harvey V. Fineberg is president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. He previously served as president of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (previously Institute of Medicine), as provost of Harvard University, and as dean of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Prior to joining a philanthropic foundation, he devoted most of his academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision-making. His past research has focused on global health, assessment of medical technology, evaluation and use of vaccines, response to pandemics, and dissemination of medical innovations.
Dr. Fineberg previously chaired the boards of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He chairs the board of the Science Philanthropy Alliance, is a member of the China Medical Board, and served on the boards of the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation and the Association FXB (USA). He helped found and served as president of the Society for Medical Decision Making. Dr. Fineberg serves on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine and in a number of advisory capacities, including the foresight committee of the Veolia Environment Institute and scientific advisory board of the Singapore National Research Foundation. He chairs the advisory board of the Peterson Center on Healthcare, co-chairs the inaugural international advisory board of Tsinghua University Vanke School of Public Health, and chairs the U.S. National Academies standing committee on emerging infectious diseases and 21st century health threats.
Dr. Fineberg is co-author of the books Clinical Decision Analysis, Innovators in Physician Education, and The Epidemic That Never Was, an analysis of the controversial U.S. immunization program against swine flu in 1976. He has co-edited books on such diverse topics as AIDS prevention, vaccine safety, understanding risk in society, and global health and has authored numerous articles published in professional journals. Dr. Fineberg is the recipient of several honorary degrees, the Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health, and the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research.
Foundation president, Harvey Fineberg, and chairman emeritus and co-founder, Gordon Moore, discuss the Statement of Founders' Intent with staff.
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- Program Associate, Science
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- Chief Legal Officer
- Trustee
Hilary Krane is Chief Legal Officer at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
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Hilary Krane is Chief Legal Officer at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Krane is based in the Los Angeles office and oversees all corporate legal matters, including those related to strategic business initiatives, mergers & acquisitions, and international expansion, among other areas.
Prior to joining CAA, Krane served as Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer & General Counsel at NIKE, Inc., where she provided strategic leadership on matters ranging from corporate law, and mergers and acquisitions, to brand protection and government affairs. She also served as Co-Chair of the Nike Foundation. Prior, Krane served as SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Affairs at Levi Strauss & Company, and Partner and Assistant General Counsel at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Restoration Hardware and served as a Director of the Portland Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco from 2018-2022.
A trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the University of Chicago, Krane earned a JD from the University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor's degree in Slavic Languages and Literature from Stanford University.
Hilary Krane joined CAA in 2022.
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- Chief Communications Officer
- Chief Communications Officer at the Gordon
Holly Potter is chief communications officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She is an experienced communications strategist who has held a variety of leadership positions directing a broad range of promotional and advocacy campaigns. Throughout her career, she has led the development of award-winning programs that influence stakeholders, shift public opinion and change behavior.
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Holly Potter is chief communications officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She is an experienced communications strategist who has held a variety of leadership positions directing a broad range of promotional and advocacy campaigns. Throughout her career, she has led the development of award-winning programs that influence stakeholders, shift public opinion and change behavior.
In her current role, Holly oversees the organization's brand and develops strategic communications efforts to advance programmatic objectives. Working with foundation staff and trustees, she leads internal communications efforts to contribute to an inclusive and engaged work environment.
Previously, as vice president of Brand Communication for Kaiser Permanente, she oversaw national efforts to promote the company's story and achievements through public relations, partnerships and stakeholder management programs. The work helped to establish Kaiser Permanente's reputation as a model for the future of health care among opinion leaders and partners in the health, business, philanthropic and advocacy communities.
Prior to joining Kaiser Permanente, she ran htpotter communications, llc which served a variety of nonprofit and public sector clients in California and Washington, D.C.
She currently serves as vice chair of the East Bay Regional Parks Foundation. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Arthur W. Page Society and the Advisory Committee for Philanthropy California.
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- Senior Server and Network Infrastructure Engineer
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- Associate General Counsel
Ian focuses on legal aspects of the foundation's grantmaking and operations.
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Before joining the foundation, Ian was with the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state's stem cell research funding agency, where he provided legal counsel across the agency's programs and functions. Prior to CIRM, he practiced for more than 15 years as a litigator for the California Attorney General's Office and at private law firms in San Francisco and Washington, DC.
Ian received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago and his law degree from George Washington University. He has volunteered for bar associations and nonprofit organizations, travels when he can, and continues his efforts to become a competent glassblower.
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- Director, Grants Administration
Jancy leads the investment and operating accounting for the foundation, including that for financial reporting, the annual audit and the annual operating budget. She also provides financial evaluation for the Caltech grant portfolio.
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- Program Director, Science
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- Director, Program Operations
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- Program Officer, Foundation Special Projects
Johann supports the Communications team on writing and editing projects, collaborating with program staff to craft grantee-focused content.
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Johann supports the Communications team on writing and editing projects, primarily collaborating with program staff to craft grantee-focused content for the foundation's website.
He joined the foundation in 2021 after spending time as a sportswriter and editor covering Australian sports.
Johann graduated from UC Davis in 2019, earning a B.A. in Communications along with a minor in Professional Writing.
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- Trustee
- Professor at Caltech
John Dabiri is the Centennial Chair Professor at Caltech, with appointments in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories and Mechanical Engineering.
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John Dabiri is the Centennial Chair Professor at Caltech, with appointments in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT) and Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on unsteady fluid mechanics and flow physics, with particular emphasis on topics relevant to biology, energy, and the environment. Current interests include biological fluid dynamics in the ocean, next-generation wind energy, and the development of new experimental methods.
Dabiri is a MacArthur Fellow and Fellow of the American Physical Society. Other honors include the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award, and being named one of MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" as well as one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10."
Dabiri serves on President Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), and the Board of Directors of NVIDIA Corporation. He previously served as Chair of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, as well as a member of the National Academies' Committee on Science, Technology, and Law; the editorial boards of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and the Journal of the Royal Society Interface; the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM); the Defense Science Study Group; and as an Advisor to X at Alphabet (formerly GoogleX).
Dabiri received his B.S.E. summa cum laude in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University (2001); his M.S. in Aeronautics from Caltech (2003); and his Ph.D. in Bioengineering with a minor in Aeronautics from Caltech (2005). He was a Professor of Aeronautics and Bioengineering at Caltech from 2005 to 2015, during which time he also served as director of the Center for Bioinspired Wind Energy, chair of the faculty, and dean of students. From 2015 to 2019, he served as a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, where he was recognized with the Eugene L. Grant Award for Excellence in Teaching.
John L. Hennessy served as President of Stanford University from September 2000 until August 2016. In early 2016, he announced the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program, the largest fully endowed graduate-level scholarship program in the world, and after stepping down as president, he became the inaugural Shriram Family Director of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program in September 2016. He is Chairman of the Board of Alphabet and serves on the Board of Directors for Cisco Systems.
Hennessy, a pioneer in computer architecture, joined Stanford's faculty in 1977 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering. In 1981, he drew together researchers to focus on a technology known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), which revolutionized computing by increasing performance while reducing costs. Hennessy helped transfer this technology to industry. In 1984, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, which designs microprocessors. He rose to full professorship in 1986 and was the inaugural Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1987-2004). He has been director of Stanford's Computer Systems Laboratory (1983-1993); dean of the School of Engineering (1996-2000), and university provost (1999-2000). In October 2000, he was inaugurated as Stanford's 10th president.
His honors include the 2012 Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, its highest award; awarded to him and Dave Patterson the ACM A.M. Turing Prize for 2017; the 2000 Benjamin Garver Lamme Award of the American Society of Electrical Engineers; the 2001 Eckert-Mauchly Award of the Association for Computing Machinery; the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award; a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime achievement in computer science and engineering, and a 2005 Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hennessy earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Villanova University and his master's and doctoral degrees in computer science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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- Program Director, Science
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- Trustee
- Philip H. Knight Professor
Jon Levin is the Philip H. Knight Professor and dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Jon Levin is the Philip H. Knight Professor and dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is an economist, known for his work on industrial organization, marketplace design, and technological change. Dean Levin joined the Stanford faculty as an assistant professor in 2000. He rose through the ranks to become the Holbrook Working Professor of Price Theory and served as chair of the Department of Economics from 2011 to 2014, before becoming the 10 th dean of the Graduate School of Business in 2016.
Dean Levin received the John Bates Clark Medal in 2011, awarded to the economist under the age of forty who has made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and the winner of department and school-wide teaching awards. In addition to his academic work, he has consulted widely in the private and public sector. He was part of the expert group that designed the first vaccine Advanced Market Commitment, and helped to design the FCC's broadcast incentive auction.
Levin earned a B.A. in English and B.S. in Math from Stanford, an M.Phil. in Economics from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T.
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- Data Analytics and Visualization Officer
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- Office Services Coordinator and Executive Assistant, Communications
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- Executive Assistant to the President
Kate manages the Moore Foundation president's schedule and provides day-to-day administrative and logistical support to the president's office as well as general administrative support to the foundation's management teams.
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Kate joined the Moore Foundation in 2023 after more than twenty years of administrative and project management experience in performing arts, media, and advertising industries. Before joining the foundation, she worked at the San Francisco Symphony, where she served as special assistant to the chief executive officer for four years, after earlier serving as executive assistant to the chief marketing officer and executive assistant to the chief revenue and advancement officer. During her last four years at the symphony, Kate also provided administrative and project support to the executive office and leadership team and served as primary liaison to the board of governors.
Kate attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she studied classical violin performance. Kate is also a trained birth and postpartum doula and has attended several births around the SF Bay Area. In addition to playing the violin, in her free time Kate enjoys writing, collage, gardening, vegetarian cooking, yoga, and hiking with her dog.
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- Senior Advisor, Wildfire Resilience
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- Member of the Board
- Trustee
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Kathleen Justice-Moore graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1991. For the next decade she specialized in employment law and litigation, representing management-side clients in claims for wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, wage and hour violations, and reductions-in-force. From 2001 to 2003, she worked for the Foundation as a Research Director and Associate General Counsel.
She has served on the boards of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, the Board of Advisors to Vanderbilt Law School, Ocean Conservancy and Moore Family Foundation. She serves on the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust.
Lawyer, former foundation staff member and board member for several nonprofit organizations.
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board
Ken Moore serves as chairman of the board.
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Ken Moore joined the foundation's board of trustees in 2002 and has been on the staff of the foundation for more than 20 years. Most recently, Ken served as both chief administrative officer and chief program officer for the Bay Area. He previously served as director of evaluation, information technology and facilities, and as research director.
Previously, Ken spent a quarter century in management positions in the high-tech industry at Signetics Corporation and most recently at Philips Semiconductors as the director of global supply chain logistics and customer fulfillment (APICS CPIM certified).
Ken co-founded and has served as 10-year board president of the Bullis Charter School, one of the top-10 highest performing public schools in California. He also serves on the boards of the Exploratorium, the California Institute of Technology, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Moore Family Foundation. Ken holds a degree in business administration, and lives with his wife and two children in Los Altos Hills.
Kris Moore has served on the boards of Conservation International, Riekes Center for Human Enhancement, and the Moore Family Foundation. She currently serves on the board of Waterkeeper Alliance.
Kris has a B.A. from UC Santa Barbara. She worked in marketing at Signetics/Philips Semiconductors for eight years. She enjoys scuba diving, cycling, hiking, and traveling.
Kris has served on the boards of Conservation International, Riekes Center for Human Enhancement, and the Moore Family Foundation. She currently serves on the board of Waterkeeper Alliance.
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- Program Officer, Andes - Amazon
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- Program Officer, Andes - Amazon
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- Program Officer, Wildfire Resilience Initiative
Since 2001, Mark has overseen building operations and services for the foundation.
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Previously, Mark worked at an environmental consulting firm focused on cleaning local Navy bases for public use. He also held facilities positions with two dot-com companies in San Francisco. He is a member of the Silicon Valley chapter of International Facilities Management Association and is certified as a Facility Management Professional (FMP) and a Sustainable Facilities Professional (SFP).
Mark received a B.A. in film studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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- Program Officer, Marine Conservation
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- Chief Administrative Officer
- Chief Administrative Officer of the Moore Foundation
Marybeth Sharpe serves as the chief administrative officer of the Moore Foundation.
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Marybeth most recently served as chief operating officer (COO) and chief strategy and partnerships officer at the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), a national 501(c)(3) focused on improving health outcomes, equity and affordability. PBGH improves the quality of the health care delivery system and supports health care purchasers (employers and public purchasers) to innovate their health purchasing.
At PBGH, Marybeth directed strategy development and execution, led the operations team, oversaw all operational and business functions, stewarded the financial health of the organization, and led talent management. Marybeth managed the launch of new PBGH programs, products and ventures, and she created PBGH solutions to support employers in evaluating, selecting and maximizing the performance of health care and well-being start-ups and other innovators.
Prior to PBGH, Marybeth directed a $270 million regional health care effort at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, aimed at strengthening the health care workforce and improving patient care. She partnered directly with hospitals, medical groups and payers to design and implement quality improvement, workforce and transitional care programs. Marybeth led the foundation's efforts to use data and information technology to improve health outcomes using predictive analytics, remote monitoring and patient-reported outcomes. Marybeth directed the foundation's $100 million investment in the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, the state of California's first new school of nursing in 60 years. Marybeth led cross-functional foundation change management initiatives, and she served on internal teams which defined the foundation's values and codified its Statement of Founders' Intent.
Marybeth was an associate principal at McKinsey & Company, where she focused on strategy, M&A and operations for media, financial and not-for-profit organizations. She started her career as an economics researcher and data scientist.
Marybeth holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in economics from the College of William and Mary.
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- Program Officer, Conservation and Markets
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- Senior Advisor, Conservation and Markets
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- Program Officer, Marine Conservation
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- Executive Assistant, Science
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- Program Fellow, Andes - Amazon
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- Director of Human Resources and Head of People
Neelima manages the accounting and disclosures for the foundation's endowment.
Biography
Neelima manages the accounting and disclosures for the foundation's endowment, preparing monthly financial statements and reports, as well as supporting the daily operations of the Finance department.
Neelima served as the foundation's investment and tax accountant from 2012 - 2015. Prior to rejoining the foundation, she worked as a financial planning analyst/accountant for The Health Trust since 2015.
Neelima is a licensed CPA in California and Chartered Accountant through the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Neelima earned her Bachelor of Commerce from Mahatma Gandhi University in India.
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- Operations Associate, Conservation and Markets
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- Director of Private Equity
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- Program Associate, Science
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- Chief Adaptive Management and Evaluation Officer
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- Senior Applications Architect and Lead Developer
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- Trustee
- Board Member for the Wildlife Conservation Society
- Professor of Natural Resources
Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Michigan and member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Dr. Rosina Bierbaum is a Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy with appointments in both the School of Natural Resources and Environment and the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. She serves as the Chair of the Scientific and Advisory Panel (STAP) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF); STAP provides strategic advice on GEF projects that will both protect the global commons and advance the goals of the Rio environmental treaties. Rosina served as Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment from October 2001 - October 2011. In that decade, she facilitated the creation of a new undergraduate Program in the Environment; enhanced interdisciplinary teaching and research by recruiting thirty-two new faculty to the School, developed new Master's tracks to link engineering, architecture and urban planning, and natural resources; tripled research activity; and expanded the mission of the School to include global change.
In April 2009, President Barack Obama named Bierbaum to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). PCAST consists of 21 of the nation's leading scientists and engineers. They advise the President directly in areas where understanding of science, technology and innovation is key to forming responsible and effective policy. She chaired PCAST's report "Sustaining Environmental Capital: Protecting Society and the Economy" which has led to increased coordination on valuation of ecosystem services across the Federal agencies and the creation of new bioinformatics tools to make data accessible to the public. She was also a lead author on a PCAST report to the President on near-term actions that can be taken to address climate change; she subsequently co-led a follow-on effort to develop Government options to enhance private sector preparedness and resilience to climate change.
Bierbaum chaired the Adaptation Chapter for the Congressionally-mandated U.S. National Climate Assessment, published in 2014. She also co-directed the World Bank's World Development Report 2010, which focused on climate change and development for the first time. This report has served as the foundation for subsequent Bank-wide strategies on energy and environment, and the development of a public climate data portal. Bierbaum was the Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in January 2001, and preceding that, she directed the first Environment Division at OSTP from 1995-2001. She served as the administration's senior scientific advisor on the $2 billion environmental research and development strategy, with responsibilities for global change, air and water quality, biodiversity, ecosystem management, environmental monitoring, and energy research and development. Bierbaum's career in Washington began in 1980 when she was awarded a Congressional Fellowship. She then continued working in the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), helping various Committees of the Congress tackle the emerging science and policy concerns posed by acid rain, marine pollution, urban smog, ozone depletion, energy production and climate change. She participated in 9 book length reports and testified many times before Congress.
In addition to the Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation, Bierbaum is also a board member for the Wildlife Conservation Society, the Federation of American Scientists, the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, and the Climate Reality Project. She is also a member of the International Advisory Board for the journal "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment" and the Executive Committee for the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Dr. Bierbaum serves on environmental Advisory Panels for both the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainability Investment.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Ecological Society of America, received the American Geophysical Union's Waldo Smith award for ‘extraordinary service to Geosciences, and the Environmental Protection Agency's "Climate Protection Award".
Bierbaum has lectured on every continent, and in more than 20 countries.
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- Program Director, Conservation and Markets
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- Staff Trustee
- General Counsel and Secretary to the Board
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- Program Officer, Marine Conservation
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- Program Manager, Environmental Conservation
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- Executive Assistant, Programs
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- Program Associate, Science
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- Program Director, Science
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- Executive Assistant With Board Liaison Responsibility, Legal
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- Adaptive Management and Evaluation Officer
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- Associate General Counsel