CANARY FOUNDATION - Key Persons

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• Administrative Manager
• Finance

In my role, I am responsible for ensuring we have effective financial and operational processes in place to sustain the momentum and important work we do with our partners." - Candy Gularte

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• Member of the Board

Dale has over 20 years of product management and marketing experience in the telecommunications industry. He most recently served as the President of the San Jose Grand Prix for three years. Dale earned his BSEE at the University of Saskatchewan in 1982. For the next eight years, he served as Marketing Director for Develcon Electronics. Dale then moved on to hold similar positions at Alberta Microelectronics Center and then at Sci-Tec Instruments Ltd. During Dale's eight-year tenure at Cisco Systems, he held the positions of Product Line Manager, Director of Marketing, and Director of Business Development. More recently, Dale has served as Director, Product Management for Luminous Networks, Inc., Vice President of Tiara Networks, and Director, Product Management for Procket Networks, Inc. Throughout his career, Dale has managed large teams of technical product management and marketing professionals, while overseeing multi-million dollar project accounts. Dale possesses a wealth of technical skills and depth of leadership experience.

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• CEO
• Chairman
• Co - Chairman
• Founder
• Founder Canary Foundation, Co - Chair

When my mother was misdiagnosed and died from ovarian cancer, I decided to commit my life to advancing early detection diagnostics." - Don Listwin When Don Listwin walked away from his high profile technology career to launch Canary Foundation, his motivation was driven by his family's experience with cancer. His father was a colon cancer survivor and his mother died of ovarian cancer. Her death prompted him to become personally involved in finding a cure - pledging millions of dollars to early detection research at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Stanford Medical School, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and other leading cancer institutions. Today, Don's personal overall financial commitments to cancer research have surpassed $25 million. Prior to founding the Canary Foundation, Don was CEO of Sana Security, Openwave, and had been the #2 executive at Cisco Systems. Don serves on the board of directors of several private and public companies including Calix Networks, D-Wave, Plumgrid, Teradici, Violin Memory and is a venture partner at Rally Ventures. Don is also deeply involved with other cancer-related organizations. He is on the External Advisory Board for the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) at Stanford and is a member of the Stanford Advisory Board for the Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection at Stanford. He also serves as a member of The Melanoma Cancer Center at The Moffitt Cancer Center. In 2009, he was appointed to the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors. Don was determined to launch a radical new assault on cancer. His target? The early cancer detection field. With energy and passion, Don has approached the disease as a technology and market development problem waiting to be solved. He's an engineer, an entrepreneur and a changemaker. And he thinks any problem can be fixed with the right amount of leadership, intellect and time. Read the Founder's Story, and review our timeline of Milestones & Accomplishments to learn more. Don Listwin is a 30-year veteran of the technology industry. Currently Don is acting President and CEO of ISchemaView and head of Listwin Ventures; investing in the future. Don has served as CEO of Sana Security, Openwave, and had been the #2 executive at Cisco Systems. Today, in addition to his work at the foundation, he serves on the board of directors of several private and public companies including POET Technologies and Robin Systems. Don is also deeply involved with other cancer-related organizations. He is on the External Advisory Board for the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) at Stanford and is a member of the Stanford Advisory Board for the Canary Center for Cancer Early Detection at Stanford. He also serves as a member of The Melanoma Cancer Center at The Moffitt Cancer Center. He was appointed and served on the National Cancer Institute's Board of Scientific Advisors.

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• Staff Member

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• CEO, Qatalyst Group

In 2006, long before the accuracy of PSA testing for prostate cancer was questioned along with issues of the over-treatment through radical procedure, Frank Quattrone and Denise Foderaro heard members of our Prostate Cancer Team talk about a fledgling idea. The scientists had identified a major problem in prostate cancer diagnosis; that the majority of men with prostate cancer (the percentages increase greatly with age) will die ‘with' prostate cancer instead of ‘from' prostate cancer. The researchers believed that men were being over treated and set out to create a clinical trial called the Prostate Cancer Active Surveillance Study, or PASS, to enroll men in a program who would opt to not get treatment unless their cancer began to grow. It is today a fully developed clinical trail. The program itself serves as one solution to the problem of over treatment, and the outcomes from the study have led to significant industry partners, helped us leverage government dollars, and created an important repository of samples. We thank Frank and Denise for their early support of a program now recognized as a cutting edge of solutions to prostate cancer.

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• Partner, Sequoia Capital

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• Scientific Program Manager

Before joining the Canary Foundation, Heidi was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at New York University School of Medicine's Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine in New York City. In the lab of Dr. Deborah Yelon, her research focused on studying the genetics and cell biology of cardiovascular development and disease. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded a Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Fellowship at the National Academies in Washington, D.C. There she worked on issues at the intersection of policymakers, scientists, and the public with the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. She earned her Ph.D., M.S., and M.Phil. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University.

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• Member of the Board
• Partner at Black & White Design

Hilary Valentine is a partner at Black & White Design and serves on the Board of Directors of the Valentine Family Foundation. She is co-Founder of Belize Kids with the mission of improving lives for children in Belize. She also serves on the Emeritus Board of Breast Cancer Connections. Hilary is the Chair of the Room to Read Emeritus Board after serving on the Room to Read board of directors from 2003 to 2012. She was Co- -Chair of the Board of Directors from 2005 to 2008 and Chair from 2008 to 2010. Hilary graduated with a B.S. in Psychology from St. Lawrence University.

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• Staff Member

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• General Partner Technology Crossover Ventures

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• President of Stanford

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• President, Senior Managing Director, Blue Ridge Partners

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• CEO, Contextual Genomics / Canary Audit Committee

Michael Ball has more than 25 years of international experience in sales, marketing, and business development with technology companies ranging from start- -ups to Fortune 500 firms. He is the former long-time CEO of GenoLogics, a company that develops the industry-leading laboratory information management system (LIMS) for life sciences organizations. Michael has been instrumental to the success of GenoLogics, securing significant venture capital and building strategic relationships with key partners and customers in the life sciences industry. Previously, Michael held executive positions at various technology companies including five years in management with Creo Products (acquired by Kodak) as Vice President Business Development and Vice President European Sales and Service. Michael was a member of Creo's executive team from 1995 to 2000, during which time the company's revenue increased from $70 million to $700 million. In addition to his Creo experience, Michael was a Vice President at Carmanah Technologies, spent seven years at Digital Equipment Corp., and has been involved with several technology start-ups.

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• Partner at Dear Pixels and Black and White Designs

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• Founder Institutional Venture Partners

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• Donor and Development Services Manager

At Canary Foundation, Renata uses her extensive experience developing streamlined systems to ensure that the Foundation works smarter and better to satisfy the needs of our community members. Her work at Canary primarily involves tasks such as database and systems management, she also supports and organizes registration for Canary events, where she enjoys sharing a glass of wine with the amazing people who support the mission of Canary Foundation. Renata attended the University of Utah.

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• Chief Development Officer

"I joined Canary Foundation to match my deep interest and training in high-impact philanthropy with an organization positioned to create a leap in science and technology to create early detection tests to better the lives for all people with cancer." - Therese Quinlan At Canary Foundation, Therese manages the major gift program, and routinely has open discussions with donors. She believes the approach to cancer early detection is pragmatic and robust. Therese was inspired early on by donors and professionals when working at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral and the Alzheimer's Association. Therese has led significant fundraising efforts at Canary Foundation, with a focus on transformational giving. She attended Mills College.

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• Founding Partner US Venture Partners, Former Co - Chair

One of our greatest partners in creating the Canary Center at Stanford was William K. Bowes Jr., known as ‘Bill Bowes.' Bill was a constant guide offering support in many areas including financial, business planning, and introductions to other partners. Since those early days, a state-of-art center has been opened in Stanford's Technology and Innovation Park. We can't thank Bill enough for helping us partner with Stanford to launch and develop the Canary Center at Stanford for Cancer Early Detection.