BOT.CALTECH.EDU - Key Persons
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Emeritus Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy, the University of Texas at Austin
Inman served in the U.S. Navy from November 1951 to July 1982, when he retired with the permanent rank of admiral. While on active duty he served as director of the National Security Agency and deputy director of Central Intelligence. After retirement from the Navy, he was chairman and chief executive officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas, for four years and chairman, president, and chief executive officer for three years at Westmark Systems, Inc., a privately owned electronics industry holding company. Inman also served as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1987 through 1990.
Inman's primary activity since 1990 has been investing in start-up technology companies-as a managing partner of Gefinor Ventures and Limestone Ventures. He is a member of the board of several privately held companies and is an Elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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- Ambassador
- Chairman of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee
- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Trustee
- Vice Chair of the Executive Committee
Before returning to Caltech, Barbara Barrett was the 25th Secretary of the Air Force.
Previously, Barbara led business, government, and academic enterprises. She was an executive of two global Fortune 500 companies, Chairman of the Board of The Aerospace Corporation, Chairman of Valley Bank of Arizona, and CEO of the American Management Association. She was Ambassador to Finland, Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, and Vice Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. She taught leadership as a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School and was interim President of Thunderbird School of Global Management.
She is a Smithsonian Regent. Earlier, she served on governing boards including RAND, Raytheon, Mayo Clinic, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Exponent Corporation, Horatio Alger Association, and the Space Foundation. She advised eight Defense Secretaries and six US Presidents. She was Senior Advisor to the US Mission to the United Nations, a member of the US-Afghan Women's Council, and President of the International Women's Forum.
Barbara earned her BS, MPA, and JD at Arizona State University. An instrument-rated pilot, she trained and earned certification for space flight. She and Craig own a Montana guest resort where they raise cattle and bison.
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Ex Officio Standing Attendees
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Chairman Emeritus
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee
- Trustee
- Co - Founder and Managing General Partner of Clarity Partners
David Lee is a co-founder and managing general partner of Clarity Partners. Lee was a co-founder of Global Crossing in 1997 and served as president and chief operating officer until early 2000, when he left to co-found Clarity Partners.
Lee serves as the chairman of the Getty Trust and also chairs the board of overseers of the USC Keck School of Medicine.
Lee is a graduate of McGill University and holds a doctorate in physics with a minor in economics from Caltech. Through a grant from the Lee Family Foundation, he has established a Center for Advanced Networking at both Caltech and at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan.
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- Member of the Advancement and Institute Relations Committee
- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
Job Titles:
- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Executive Chairman and Co - Founder of Allogene
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- Chairman of the Advancement and Institute Relations Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Chief Investment Officer and Co - Founder of Avantis Investors
Eduardo Repetto is chief investment officer and co-founder of Avantis Investors, a unit of American Century Investments focused on managing funds, ETFs, and separate accounts using quantitative methods. Prior to Avantis, Repetto was director, co-chief executive officer, and co-chief investment officer of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment firm that managed approximately $530 billion in global equities, fixed income, and derivatives at the time of his resignation in 2017. Repetto began his career at Dimensional in 2000, when the company had its main office in Santa Monica and managed approximately $25 billion.
Prior to joining Dimensional, Repetto worked as a scientist at Caltech. A native of Argentina, Repetto received a diploma de honor in civil engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master of Science in engineering from Brown University. He completed a PhD in aeronautics at Caltech in 1998, where he received the William F. Ballhaus Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation in aeronautics and the Ernest E. Sechler Memorial Award for his teaching and research efforts.
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- Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Scientist
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Founder, the Massiah Foundation
- Member of MIT Corporation
Fariborz Maseeh has been a scientist and an entrepreneur. He is the founder and managing principal of Surlamer Investments, managing investments in private companies, a diversified portfolio of commercial and residential real estate, and several proprietary traded hedge funds. Surlamer funds several operating businesses for social causes including Kids Institute for Development and Advancement, a center for the treatment of children with autism and other related disorders.
Maseeh currently serves as a member of MIT Corporation and its chair of Sponsored Research visiting committee, member of board of fellows of Harvard Medical School, member of the engineering advisory boards at Viterbi School of Engineering at USC, the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science at Portland State University, and School of Engineering at MIT. In February of 2023, Maseeh was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
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- Leader
- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- President, Science Philanthropy Alliance, Former Director, National Science Foundation, President Emerita, Purdue University
The Honorable France A. Córdova was the 14th director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), an independent federal agency.
Córdova has been a leader in science, engineering, and education for more than four decades. She has a distinguished career in both higher education and government; she has served in five presidential administrations, several universities, and in three federal agencies. Her contributions in multi-spectral research on x-ray and gamma ray sources and space-borne instrumentation have made her an internationally recognized astrophysicist. She is president emerita of Purdue University; chancellor emerita of the University of California, Riverside; and former vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Córdova served as chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and on the board of trustees of Mayo Clinic. She also served as NASA's chief scientist and is a recipient of the agency's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal. She received her BA from Stanford University and her PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology. Her first government job was with DOE's Los Alamos National Laboratory, and her first university position was as professor and department head at Penn State University.
Córdova was honored as a Kilby Laureate in 2000, recognized for "significant contributions to society through science, technology, innovation, invention and education." She was Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and is a National Associate of the National Academies and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Association for Women in Science (AWIS). She was named a distinguished alumna of Caltech and is in Stanford's Multi-Cultural Hall of Fame and the California Hall of Fame. She has numerous honorary degrees and medals from Ireland, Chile, and Colombia.
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- Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee
- Trustee
- Vice Chair of the Investment Committee
- Board Members
- Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO of Pharos Capital Group
- Member of the Council
Kneeland Youngblood, is Founding Partner, Chairman, and CEO of Pharos Capital Group, a private equity firm that invests in value-based healthcare focused on improving patient outcomes, lowering the cost of healthcare and creating greater access for patients.
Mr. Youngblood has served in numerous roles both public and private including at the mayoral, gubernatorial, and presidential level. He was appointed by President Bill Clinton (with Senate confirmation) to the board of the United States Enrichment Corporation. The company provides low-level uranium to utilities around the world including negotiating the purchase of nuclear weapons grade uranium from the former Soviet Union. He served as gubernatorial appointee by Ann Richards and George W. Bush to the board of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, a pension fund for the teachers of the state of Texas. Additionally, he was appointed by Mayor Mike Rawlings to the board of the Dallas Employees Retirement Pension Fund and the Dallas Police and Fire Pension System Board. He also serves on the board of California Institute of Technology (Caltech), The Milken Institute, and is the lead director for Light & Wonder, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange gaming company. Finally, he was appointed by President Joe Biden to serve on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board.
Mr. Youngblood is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and graduated from Princeton University in 1978 with an A.B in Politics/Science in Human Affairs and earned an M.D. degree from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School in 1982.
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- Member of the Student Experience Committee
- Trustee
Milton Chang (MS '65, PhD '69), of Incubic Management, is the author of Toward Entrepreneurship (www.miltonchang.com).
He was president of Newport Corporation and New Focus Inc., and is currently a director of MBio Diagnostics and Protein Fluidics. Chang is past president of the IEEE Photonics Society and the Laser Institute of America (LIA), and is a fellow of IEEE, LIA, and the Optical Society of America.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Executive Chairman, Ciena Corporation
Pat Nettles's career in telecommunications and computer networking spans more than 40 years, during which time he has served in a number of different roles in high-technology operations, including engineering, marketing, finances, and general management. Nettles has served as chairman of the board of Ciena Corporation since May 2001, having been Ciena's president and chief executive officer from April 1994 to May 2001. From 1992 until 1994, Nettles was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Blyth Holdings, a publicly held supplier of client/server software. From late 1990 through 1992, he was president and chief executive officer of Protocol Engines, Inc., a development-stage outgrowth of Silicon Graphics that focused on very-large-scale integration solutions for high-performance computer networking. From 1989 to 1990, Nettles served as chief financial officer for Optilink, a venture start-up that developed optical digital loop carrier products for the public telephone network's "last mile." He was named Ernst & Young's 1997 national Entrepreneur of the Year in the Emerging Entrepreneur category.
In addition to his post at Ciena, Nettles currently serves on the board of directors of the Progressive Corporation. Until May 2018, he served as independent chairman of the board of Axcelis Technologies, Inc.
Nettles received his BS from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his PhD from Caltech. He formerly served as a member and chairman of the Georgia Institute of Technology Advisory Board and currently serves as a trustee of the Georgia Tech Foundation.
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- Chairman
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- President and Chief Executive Officer of Edison International
- Vice Chair for the Edison Electric Institute
Pedro Pizarro is president and chief executive officer of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison (SCE) and Edison Energy, a portfolio of competitive businesses serving commercial and industrial customers.
Previously, Pizarro served as president of SCE and president of Edison Mission Energy (EME), an independent power producer subsidiary. Pizarro joined Edison International in 1999, moved to SCE in 2001, and progressed through several leadership roles prior to joining EME.
Prior to his work at Edison International and SCE, Pizarro was a senior engagement manager with McKinsey & Company in Los Angeles, providing management consulting services to energy, technology, engineering services, and banking clients.
Pizarro earned a PhD in chemistry from Caltech and held National Science Foundation and Department of Defense graduate fellowships. He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Harvard University.
In addition to his position as a trustee at Caltech, Pizarro is a vice chair for the Edison Electric Institute and serves on the boards of Electric Power Research Institute and 3M. He served on the boards of the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk and Argonne National Laboratory, among other organizations. Pizarro also represented the electric industry on the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), co-chaired the SEAB Innovation Working Group and served on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.
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- Member of the Advancement and Institute Relations Committee
- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Co - Chair and Co - CEO of Panda Restaurant Group
- Co - Chairman, Panda Restaurant Group
Peggy Cherng is co-chair and co-CEO of Panda Restaurant Group (PRG), the largest Asian dining concept in the United States and home to Panda Inn, Panda Express, and Hibachi-San.
Since joining the family business in 1980, Cherng has brought a wealth of experience stemming from her career as a leading member of the software development teams for McDonnell Douglas and Comtal-3M. Panda's consistency and global growth is the direct result of Cherng's commitment to establishing sustainable methodologies that empower associates to contribute and further their creativity and career development.
Cherng, who is considered to be the "heart" of the company, is passionate about giving back to the community and developing Panda associates. She believes everyone has the potential to be the best they can be. As PRG continues its rapid growth, Cherng continues to build an organization where people are inspired to better their lives professionally and personally. To date, PRG is a family of more than 42,000 associates and almost 2,200 restaurants in the U.S. and 12 countries. In 2019, the Cherngs were recognized for their leadership and all they have done to pave the way for others, receiving the Great Immigrants, Great Americans honor by Carnegie Corporation.
Cherng earned her MA in computer science and PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri and received her BS in applied mathematics from Oregon State University. She was born in Burma to Chinese parents and was raised in Hong Kong before leaving for the United States to pursue her studies.
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- Trustee
- Board Members
- Professor in Physical Sciences at the University of California
- Professor, Howard Reiss Chair in Physical Sciences
Dr. Prineha Narang is a Professor in Physical Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she holds the Howard Reiss Chair. Prior to moving, she was an Assistant Professor of Computational Materials Science at Harvard University. Before starting on the Harvard faculty in 2017, Dr. Narang was an Environmental Fellow at HUCE, and worked as a research scholar in condensed matter theory in the Department of Physics at MIT. She received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech. Her group works on theoretical and computational quantum materials, non-equilibrium dynamics, and transport in quantum matter. In 2023 she was appointed a U.S. Science Envoy by the State Department. Narang's work has been recognized by many awards and special designations, including the 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Physics, a Maria Goeppert Mayer Award from the American Physical Society, 2022 Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award from the Materials Research Society, Mildred Dresselhaus Prize, Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Max Planck Award from the Max Planck Society, and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics all in 2021, an NSF CAREER Award in 2020, being named a Moore Inventor Fellow by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a Top Innovator by MIT Tech Review (MIT TR35). Narang has organized several symposia and workshops, most recently at the APS March Meeting on "Materials for Quantum Information Science". Her continued service to the community includes chairing the Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting (2022) and the MRS-Kavli Foundation Future of Materials Workshop: Computational Materials Science (2021), as an Associate Editor at ACS Nano of the American Chemical Society, an Associate Editor at Applied Physics Letters of the American Institute of Physics, organizing APS, Optica (OSA), and SPIE symposia, and a leadership role in APS' Division of Materials Physics. Outside of science, she is an avid triathlete, runner, and starting her mountaineering journey.
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- Chairman of the Governance and Nominating Committee
- Investor
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- President and Chief Executive Officer, Bellco Capital, LLC
Rebecka Belldegrun, MD, is an investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is president and CEO of Bellco Capital, an investment firm she founded in 2003 that specializes in life sciences, media, and real estate. She has extensive experience in early-stage biotech investments, drug development, and bringing products to market.
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- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- 23andMe in 2015 As Chief Scientific Officer and Head
- Board Members
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
- Member of the Board of Trustees at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Richard H. Scheller joined 23andMe in 2015 as chief scientific officer and head of therapeutics. Under his leadership, 23andMe built a dedicated research and therapeutic development team that uses human genetic data as the starting point for identifying novel therapies for common and rare diseases. In early 2019, Scheller retired from his position at 23andMe and was appointed to the board of directors. In addition to 23andMe, Scheller serves as chairman of research and development and on the board of directors at BridgeBio Pharma, DiCE Molecules (chairman), ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Rafael Pharmaceuticals, Alector, and Maze Therapeutics.
An expert and enthusiastic collector of traditional and historical African art, Scheller serves as a member of the board of trustees at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
During 14 years at Genentech, Scheller was executive vice president and head of Genentech Research and Early Development, and member of both the Genentech and Roche executive committees. Prior to joining Genentech, Scheller was a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University (1982-1994) and was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at the Stanford University School of Medicine from 1994 to 2001. Scheller has been an adjunct professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UC San Francisco since 2004. He has published more than 200 research papers.
Scheller holds a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in chemistry from Caltech. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Caltech's Division of Biology and a postdoctoral fellow in molecular neurobiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Scheller's research elucidating the molecular machinery and regulatory mechanism that underlies neurotransmitter release earned him the 1997 U.S. National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology, the 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience, and the 2013 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.
Scheller is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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- Emeritus
- Member of the Life
- Vice Chair
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- Member of the Student Experience Committee
- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Honorary Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History
- Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change at the American Association
- Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Shirley Malcom is senior advisor and director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). For almost 30 years, she oversaw education and human resources development programs at AAAS. She now leads an ambitious new initiative (SEA Change-STEM Equity Achievement) to transform colleges and universities in ways that support excellence, diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. Internationally recognized for her leadership on issues facing underrepresented minorities and women in the sciences and engineering, she has published numerous research articles and monographs on diversity challenges in scientific and engineering fields.
Malcom received a bachelor's degree with distinction in zoology from the University of Washington, a master's degree in zoology from UCLA, and a doctorate in ecology from Pennsylvania State University. She served on the National Science Board of the National Science Foundation from 1994 to 1998 and was a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology from 1994 to 2001. She is currently co-chair of the Gender Advisory Board of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development, and has also chaired numerous national and international committees addressing education reform and access to scientific and technical education, careers, and literacy.
Malcom is an honorary trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a regent of Morgan State University. She sits on the board of the Heinz Endowments. She holds 17 honorary degrees and is a fellow of AAAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, she received the National Academy of Sciences' prestigious Public Welfare Medal.
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- Member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- President of CMU
- President of the Global Learning Council
Subra Suresh is President of the Global Learning Council, a cross-sector innovation platform, established as a Council of the Villars Institute in Switzerland and committed to advancing the use of technology to improve the outcomes for learners. He is also the Vannevar Bush Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Brown University Professor at Large, a Member of the Board of Governors of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a Member of the Board of Overseers of Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Société Générale Group, a financial institution headquartered in Paris, and an Independent Director of the Corporate Boards of HP Inc. (HPQ) and of the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Previously, he was Director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a position to which he was nominated by the President of the United States and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate. He has also served as the President of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and of Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, following successful tenure as Dean of Engineering at MIT and Professor of Engineering at Brown University. He has held appointments at Caltech as the Gordon Moore Scholar (2004) and the Clark B. Millikan Visiting Professor (1999-2000).
Suresh is amongst a rare group of Americans elected to all three US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in recognition of his pioneering research into the properties of engineered and biological materials, and into their implications for technologies and human diseases. He has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Inventors, and a foreign member of major academies in China, France, Germany, India, Spain, and Sweden. Prof Suresh has authored three books, over 300 research articles and 30 patent applications.
Suresh was awarded the National Medal of Science, the highest honor for a scientist or engineer in the US, by President Biden in a ceremony at the White House on 24 October 2023 with the citation: "For pioneering research across engineering, physical sciences, and life sciences. A transformative educator, he has advanced the study of material science and its application to other disciplines, and his commitment to research and collaboration across borders has demonstrated how science can forge understanding and cooperation among people and nations."
Suresh has been awarded 20 honorary doctorates from prestigious academic institutions around the world. His many honors include: the Légion d'Honneur, the highest decoration awarded by the Republic of France; the Padma Shri, one of the highest civilian awards, from the President of India on Republic Day; the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia; the FEMS Medal from the Federation of European Materials Societies (the first non-European selected to receive this honor from the Federation); the IRI Medal from the Industrial Research Interchange that "recognizes and honors leaders of technology for their outstanding accomplishments in technological innovation which contribute broadly to the development of industry"; and the ASME Medal, the Timoshenko Medal and the Nadai Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program which Suresh designed and created while serving as NSF is now regarded as one of the most impactful initiatives for translating scientific discoveries into commercial practice. It has been replicated by the National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Energy, and the US Department of Defense, and many organizations abroad including institutions in Singapore, Norway, Ireland, and India. The Global Research Council (GRC) which he founded in 2012 has now become a key annual forum for interactions among the leaders of major research funding agencies from about 50 countries. During his tenure as an academic leader at MIT, he played a pivotal role in establishing the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Center.
As president of CMU, Suresh launched the largest infrastructure development initiative in decades that created the new Tepper Quadrangle and the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship. He also established the Presidential Scholarships and Presidential Fellowships for undergraduate and postgraduate students, respectively, with more than $250 million in endowed funds.
As president of Singapore's NTU, he oversaw the establishment of major new Corporate and Joint Laboratories with leading industry partners. During his tenure as President, NTU achieved successive years of record research funding, and the doubling of NTU research publications in the most impactful international journals. As part of its NTU 2025 Strategic Plan, he led efforts in creating a sustainability manifesto with NTU becoming the first academic entity in the world to issue sustainability-linked public bonds along with the commitment to achieve 100% Green Mark Platinum certification for all eligible buildings on its 500-acre (200-hectare) main campus, and carbon neutrality by 2035.
Suresh has previously served as a member of the Board of LORD Corporation (2010), Battelle Memorial Institute (2014-2017), and Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (2018-2022) and National Research Foundation (2018-2022). He has also been a member of the Science, Technology and Innovation Committee of Siemens AG, Germany (2015-2019), the Growth Technology Advisory Board of Applied Materials, Inc., California (since 2020), and the Future Economy Council chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (2018- 2022).
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- Chairman of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Independent Investor
Taylor W. Lawrence is currently an independent investor focusing on venture funding of biotech startups in the areas of immuno-oncology and novel vaccines.
Lawrence retired from Raytheon Company in 2019 after spending 35 years in the aerospace, defense, and national security industries. His tenure included 11 years as president of the largest missile manufacturer in the world, Raytheon Missile Systems, with annual sales of $9 billion in 2019. Prior to Raytheon, Lawrence was sector vice president and general manager of the C4ISR and Space Sensors division for Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems.
Prior to Northrop Grumman, Lawrence spent time working for the U.S. government. His assignments included staff director for the Select Committee on Intelligence for the United States Senate, deputy director of the Information Systems Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and director of technology for the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office in the Pentagon.
Lawrence earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Caltech in 1986 and holds a master's degree and doctorate in applied physics from Stanford University.
He is a former member of the Defense Science Board and vice chairman emeritus of the Air Force Studies Board of the National Academies. He is a fellow and lifetime member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and serves on the boards of the Arizona Commerce Authority and the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City.
In 1996, Lawrence was honored with the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service. In 2013, he received the Medal for the Advancement of Research from ASM International.
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- Member of the Life
- President Emeritus
- Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University
As president of Caltech from 1987 to 1997, Tom Everhart oversaw the construction of the Beckman Institute, the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the Braun Athletic Center, the Moore Laboratory of Engineering, Avery House, the Sherman Fairchild Library, as well as the successful completion of the $350 million Campaign for Caltech. He is now president emeritus and professor of electrical engineering and applied physics, emeritus.
Since retiring, Everhart has served as pro vice chancellor of Cambridge University (1998), as a member of the board of overseers of Harvard University (1999-2005; president of the board, 2004-05), as senior scientific advisor to the W. M. Keck Foundation (1997-2019), and on the boards of the Keck and Kavli Foundations.
From 1984 to 1987, Everhart served as chancellor and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 1979 to 1984, he was the Joseph Silbert Dean of the College of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, and before that he spent 20 years on the faculty of UC Berkeley. He received his AB in physics from Harvard in 1953, his MSc in applied physics from UCLA in 1955, and his PhD in engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1958.
Everhart is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the IEEE Centennial and Founders Medals, the ASEE's Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, the ASEE Centennial Medallion, the Microbeam Analysis Society Presidential Science Award, UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Award, and the Okawa Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering; a fellow of the IEEE, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Expert
- Finance, Facilities, and Infrastructure Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
- President, Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
On July 1, 2014, Thomas F. Rosenbaum took office as Caltech's ninth president, moving from the University of Chicago, where he served as the university's provost for seven years. He is a member of the Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy & Jobs, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall, the board of trustees of the Society for Science & the Public, the board of governors of Argonne National Laboratory, and the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.
Rosenbaum is an expert on the quantum mechanical nature of materials-the physics of electronic, magnetic, and optical materials at the atomic level-that are best observed at temperatures near absolute zero. He conducted research at Bell Laboratories and at IBM Watson Research Center before joining the University of Chicago and Caltech faculties. Rosenbaum is an Elected fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Rosenbaum received his bachelor's degree in physics with honors from Harvard University and an MA and PhD in physics from Princeton University.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Founding Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Bill Davidow received his AB, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1957, his MS from Caltech in 1959, and his PhD from Stanford in 1961, all in electrical engineering.
In 1961, he went to work for General Electric as manager of its advanced peripheral equipment lab in Mountain View, California. He joined Hewlett-Packard's data products group in 1966 as manager of marketing and was responsible for the introduction of Hewlett-Packard's first minicomputers. In 1970, he became vice president for marketing at Signetics Memory Systems, where he oversaw the specification and design of the world's first bipolar microprocessor. He worked for Intel from 1973 to 1985, serving as senior vice president for marketing and sales as well as vice president for the Microcomputer Systems Division and vice president for the Microcomputer Division. Since 1985, he has been founder and general partner at Mohr-Davidow Ventures, in Menlo Park, California. He is the author of Marketing High Technology: An Insider's View; Total Customer Service: The Ultimate Weapon; The Virtual Corporation: Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century; Overconnected-The Promise and Threat of the Internet, and The Autonomous Revolution-Reclaiming the Future We've Sold to Machines. He has also written numerous papers on microprocessors and management.
Davidow serves on the boards of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, the California Nature Conservancy, and the UCSF Foundation.
William M. Coughran, Jr. is a technologist with over two decades of experience in large-scale computing and networking systems. He is known for his influential role as a Silicon Valley executive, mentor, and investor, helping ambitious startups grow into transformative companies.
Dr. Coughran began his post-graduate career at Bell Labs, contributing to many significant projects, including the development of distributed systems and applications for modeling and verification methods. He eventually became VP of the Computing Sciences Research Center, which was pivotal in creating C and C++ programming languages and the UNIX, Plan 9, and Inferno operating systems. He co-founded Entrisphere®, later acquired by Ericsson, and served as its CEO until 2002. In 2003, he joined Google, progressing to SVP for research and systems infrastructure, overseeing various projects including Chrome, YouTube, and Google Maps. Since 2011, he has worked at Sequoia Capital as a partner and coach for technology startups. While at Sequoia, he served as an advisor to Google until 2015.
Dr. Coughran holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Caltech and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Stanford. He has served and currently serves on various academic councils (e.g., Caltech's IST Advisory Council), corporate boards (e.g., Quantum Circuits, Lilt, Alkira, Graphiant, Oso, Stairwell, Prelude), and a non-profit board (San Francisco Opera). He has held various adjunct and consulting faculty positions at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Duke, and Stanford. In 2024, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech.
Dr. Coughran and his wife, Bridget, reside in Los Altos Hills and have been married for over 50 years.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Managing Director, Winbridge Company Ltd
Liao received a BS in physics from Caltech in 1967, followed by an MS and a PhD in applied physics from Harvard. He returned to Hong Kong in 1974 and taught in the electronics department at the Chinese University for 10 years. He was co-founder and executive director of Varitronix, a major LCD manufacturer that operated in Hong Kong and mainland China, where he served for 24 years before retiring in 2001.
Liao has served on several academic and industrial committees in Hong Kong for over three decades. He has served on the councils of many major local universities, including the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the City University of Hong Kong.
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- Member of the Student Advisory
- Graduate Student
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- Member of the Student Advisory
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- Member of the Investment Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
Hagopian co-founded Brentwood Associates, a high-technology, venture-capital, and private-equity firm, where he headed its high-technology investment group. As a partner of Brentwood, Hagopian was responsible for several of the firm's most successful investments, including Apple Computer, Maxim Integrated Products, and Teradata Corporation.
During his venture-capital career, Hagopian was a member of the board of the National Venture Capital Association, during which he served as president and chairman.
Hagopian also served on then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan's Business Advisory Panel and, subsequently, on President Reagan's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness.
In addition to his position as a trustee of Caltech, Hagopian serves on the board of advisors of the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management and is governor emeritus of the board of governors of the Pardee RAND Graduate School of Public Policy, where he served for 18 years. He is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Lincoln Club. For several years, he served on the board of overseers of the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University and the board of directors of the Santa Barbara Film Festival.
Hagopian has authored or co-authored five public policy articles and five op-eds that have been published in prominent journals and newspapers. Topics included the progressive income tax, income inequality, health insurance reform, accounting for employee stock options, and the corporate income tax.
Hagopian earned a BA in industrial design and an MBA from UCLA. He received the John E. Anderson Distinguished Alumnus Award from the UCLA Anderson School and subsequently was named one of Anderson's "100 Points of Impact" out of 39,000 graduates. After graduate school, he served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army.
Kip Hagopian is chairman emeritus of the board of directors of Maxim Integrated Products, a leader in the analog semiconductor industry.
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- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Member of the Student Advisory
- Undergraduate Student
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- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Trustee
- Board Members
- Co - Founder and Managing Director of Sumeru Equity Partners
George Kadifa is a co-founder and managing director of Sumeru Equity Partners. Kadifa has four decades of operating experience in the technology sector. Prior to joining Sumeru Equity Partners in 2015, Kadifa was most recently executive vice president at Hewlett-Packard, reporting to the HP CEO and member of the Executive Committee. While at HP, Kadifa held several responsibilities, from leading growth initiatives and alliance programs with key partners, service providers and the largest customers, to leading the $4-billion HP Software business. Kadifa previously served as operating partner at Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm with over $75 billion of assets under management. He was responsible for driving growth and operational improvement in a wide range of enterprises within the company portfolio of the firm's large-cap investment fund. Kadifa has significant expertise in building and managing technology businesses. He has held various leadership positions at technology and management consulting companies such as IBM, Corio Corporation (founder), Oracle, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Xerox PARC and Fairchild. Kadifa holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the American University in Beirut, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A., from the University of Chicago.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Chairman and CEO ( Retired ), Ionics, Incorporated
- Retired Chairman and CEO of Ionics
Art Goldstein is the retired chairman and CEO of Ionics, Incorporated, a world-renowned pioneer in the field of water desalination and purification. He is a life member of the California Institute of Technology board and a trustee of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization. He previously served: as a director of State Street Corporation, Cabot Corporation, Jobs for Massachusetts, the MIT Energy Initiative; as a member of the visiting committee at Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Public Health; as a trustee at Mass General Brigham, Dana-Farber/Partners Cancer Care; as the chairman of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, the Rensselaer Council and Brandeis International Business School. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Governance from the National Association of Corporate Directors. He is the holder of 19 U.S. patents in areas relating primarily to the purification and processing of liquids. He received a BS in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an MS in chemical engineering from the University of Delaware, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Principal, Arthur Rock and Company
Arthur Rock was principal of Arthur Rock & Co. and was a partner in Davis & Rock from 1961 to 1968, both venture capital firms. He was chairman of the board of Scientific Data Systems and a member of the board of directors of Teledyne Inc., Xerox, Argonaut Insurance, Apple Computer, AirTouch, the Nasdaq Stock Market, and Echelon Corporation. A founder of Intel Corporation, he served as chairman of the board, chairman of the executive committee, and lead director.
Rock has also served as trustee of the visiting committee of the Harvard Business School, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the San Francisco Opera.
Rock founded the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, and he and his wife, Toni, founded the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University.
Rock received a BS in political science and finance from Syracuse University and an MBA from Harvard University.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
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- Chairman Emeritus
- Chairman Emeritus of the Life
- Chairman Emeritus of Compaq Computer Corporation
Ben Rosen is chairman emeritus of Compaq Computer Corporation and was co-founder and general partner (1981-1995) of Sevin Rosen Funds, a venture capital firm that has provided initial financing for Compaq Computer, Lotus Development, Ciena, Citrix, Cypress Semiconductor, Capstone Turbine, and more than 100 other technology companies. Previously, he was vice president and senior electronics analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co., and before that an electronics engineer at Raytheon and Sperry Gyroscope.
Rosen served as chairman of Caltech's board from 2001 to 2005. He is also an emeritus member of the board of overseers of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, an emeritus member of the board of directors of the New York Philharmonic, a former managing director of the Metropolitan Opera, and former chairman of the board of overseers of the Columbia Business School.
In 2015, Rosen and his wife, Donna, founded the annual not-for-profit ideas festival KentPresents in Kent, Connecticut.
Rosen received his BS from Caltech in 1954, his MS from Stanford in 1955, and his MBA from Columbia University in 1961. He received the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007 and the Robert A. Millikan Medal in 2018.
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- Member of the Student Experience Committee
- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- Founder and Former CEO of Trimble Navigation, Ltd
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Charles Trimble is the founder and former CEO of Trimble Navigation, Ltd., a leading developer of commercial equipment utilizing the Global Positioning System (GPS). He led the company from a start-up in 1978 through a public offering in 1990. Trimble Navigation was largely responsible for the commercialization of GPS. At the time of Trimble's departure in 1998, the company was the dominant worldwide supplier of GPS equipment. Since then, he has mentored start-ups and served on boards of directors, both public and private.
Trimble is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the Council on Foreign Relations. He served on the NASA Advisory Council, the National Electronics Manufacturing Initiative, the Silicon Valley Defense/Space Consortium, and as chair of the United States Global Positioning System Industry Council.
He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Inc. magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year in 1991, the American Electronics Association Medal of Achievement in 2000, the NASA Public Service Medal in 2001 and 2004, the International von Kármán Wings Award, and the Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award.
Trimble earned his BS in engineering and applied science in 1963 and his MS in electrical engineering in 1964, both from Caltech. He is currently a member of the Institute's Geological and Planetary Sciences (GPS) and Information Science and Technology (IST) Chair's Councils. He is also chair of the Biology and Biological Engineering Chair's Council.
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Trustee
- ACR Chair
- Board Members
- Chairman of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
During David Pyott's 17-year tenure, Allergan was transformed from a small eyecare business with about $1 billion in sales to a global specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company with sales over $7 billion in 2014 and with most of the increase stemming from organic growth. Allergan's market capitalization increased from $2.3 billion in 1998 to $72 billion when Allergan was acquired by Actavis in 2015. Subsequently, the company was renamed Allergan PLC. Pyott was recognized by Harvard Business Review as one of "The 100 Best Performing CEOs in the World" in 2014 (ranked No. 4). He has lived in 10 countries and worked in seven countries in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
In 2006, Pyott was bestowed the honor of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty The Queen. Pyott holds a diploma in international and European law from the Europa Institute at the University of Amsterdam, a Master of Arts and honorary degree in medicine from the University of Edinburgh, and a Master of Business Administration from the London Business School. He also has an honorary degree in pharmaceutical sciences from Chapman University. Pyott is a member of the boards of Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., and a member of the supervisory board of Royal Philips of the N.V. He is Chairman of the London Business School and Director of Pliant Therapeutics Inc. He is involved with the boards of many U.S. and international eyecare charities. In 2020, he was elected as the Hospitaller of the U.S. Priory of the Order of the Knights of St. John.
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- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
- President and Chief Executive Officer ( Retired ), Orbital ATK, Inc
Dave Thompson was president and CEO of Orbital ATK Inc., and co-founder of one of its predecessors, Orbital Sciences Corporation.
Thompson is an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and served as its president from 2009 to 2010. He is also a fellow of the American Astronautical Society and Royal Aeronautical Society, and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
Appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1945, Dennis Stanfill graduated in 1949 in the top one percent of his class. A Rhodes Scholar, he earned his MA from Oxford University in 1953. He returned to active sea duty and later served in the Foreign Affairs Section of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, where his duties at the Pentagon included regularly briefing the secretary of the Navy on international affairs.
After serving as vice president, finance, at the Times Mirror Company and as a corporate finance specialist at Lehman Brothers in New York, Stanfill in 1969 joined Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in the newly created post of executive vice president-finance, and at the same time became a member of Fox's board of directors and executive committee. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Fox from 1971 to 1981. He then headed a Los Angeles private investment company specializing in investments, finance, and consulting, and later served on an interim assignment as chairman of AME Inc., a video postproduction company. He served as co-chairman and co-chief executive officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. in 1992-93. He currently manages his own firm, the Dennis Stanfill Company, which specializes in consulting and investment activities, particularly in the entertainment industry. He is a former chairman of KCET, the Southern California public television station,
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Chairman of the Board, the Irvine Company
- Chairman of the Irvine Company
Donald Bren, chairman of the Irvine Company, has been deeply involved in California real estate as a master planner, master builder, and long-term investor for more than 50 years.
As a community entrepreneur, Bren focuses his charitable contributions on land preservation, education, and scientific research. Businessweek has estimated that he has given at more than $1.4 billion. Bren has led the Irvine Company to set aside 57,500 acres, more than half of the original 93,000-acre Irvine Ranch, as public open space and parklands in perpetuity. He has made significant contributions to public schools and endowed 62 chairs for distinguished professors and researchers at universities and research institutions.
Born in Los Angeles, Bren earned a business administration and economics degree from the University of Washington.
He served for three years as a U.S. Marine Corps officer.
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- Member of the Advancement and Institute Relations Committee
- Trustee
- Chairman, Cal - American
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- Member of the Investment Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Founding Partner, Redpoint Ventures
- Independent Venture Capitalist and Real Estate Investor
Brad Jones is an independent venture capitalist and real estate investor. He was a founder and partner of Redpoint Ventures, and a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, a firm he joined in 1981. He currently focuses on real estate and technology opportunities located in Southern California.
He has served on the boards of 10 public companies funded by Brentwood and Redpoint, and he currently is a board member of Stamps.com and Sensydia Corp. Jones received the Los Angeles Venture Association's first Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was honored with the Supporter of Entrepreneurship Award by the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year program.
Jones received an AB in chemistry, summa cum laude, and an AM in physics from Harvard University. Jones also holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a JD from the Stanford Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif.
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- Chairman
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Emeritus, Homestake Mining Company
Harry Conger is chairman and chief executive officer, emeritus, of Homestake Mining Company, of San Francisco. He previously served as a director of ASA Limited, a closed-end portfolio of gold stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; and Apex Silver Corporation, a silver-mining company.
A registered professional engineer in both Arizona and Colorado, Conger received his BS in mining engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and holds honorary doctorates from the South Dakota School of Mines and the Colorado School of Mines. In 1978, he was also awarded a Distinguished Achievement Medal by his alma mater. He is a distinguished member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers and the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers' 1990 Charles F. Rand Memorial Gold Medal. He was inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame in 2014.
Conger began his career in 1955 as a mine engineer, during which time he served briefly with the Army Corps of Engineers. He joined Kaiser Steel in 1964, becoming vice president and general manager of Kaiser Resources, Ltd., in Fernie, British Columbia, in 1970. He served as vice president and general manager of the Midwestern Division of Consolidated Coal Company of Pinckneyville, Illinois, before joining Homestake in 1975 as vice president and general manager of the Base Metals Division. He was Elected president and a member of the board of directors of Homestake in 1977, was named chief executive officer in 1978, and was Elected chairman of the board in 1982, holding all three posts until 1986. Conger stepped down as CEO in 1995 and retired as chairman and director in 1998.
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- Member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Admiralty Partners, Inc.
Jon Kutler is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, from which he holds a bachelor's degree in naval architecture. He received his MBA from Harvard University.
Kutler began his investment banking career on Wall Street after serving 10 years in various positions as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He worked for Goldman Sachs and the First Boston Corporation, and was a founding partner at Wasserstein, Perella & Co. before founding Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Inc. (QIP) in 1992. Kutler grew QIP into the leading global merger-and-acquisition firm in the aerospace and defense sectors, and sold it to NYSE-traded Jefferies & Company, Inc. in 2002.
Kutler is also an active investor in the aerospace and defense industry. He owns numerous operating companies through Admiralty Partners, Inc., a personally funded private equity firm he founded in 1996. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the Hawaii Community Foundation.
An internationally recognized expert on aerospace and defense issues, Kutler has written numerous articles for trade and business publications, been a frequent television commentator, testified before congressional committees, and run a presidential commission.
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- Trustee
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- Chairman of the Board, Trustee, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Trustee and Chairman of the Board at the Gordon
Ken Moore is trustee and chairman of the board at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Previously, Moore served as chief administrative officer and chief program officer, where he oversaw the core operations of the foundation, the foundation's grant making, supporting local conservation and informal science learning. At the foundation for more than a decade, Moore has also served as director of evaluation, information technology and facilities, and as research director.
Moore comes to the foundation with 24 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, where he held various positions in operations planning and control, computer systems development, supply chain and logistics, and customer fulfillment. Prior to joining the foundation, he worked at Signetics Corporation in Sunnyvale, California, and later at Philips Semiconductors.
Moore 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 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Moore Family Foundation. Moore holds a degree in business administration and lives with his wife and two children in Los Altos Hills.
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- Chairman Emeritus
- Chairman Emeritus of the Life
- Ex Officio Member
- Chairman Emeritus of Northrop Grumman Corporation
Kent Kresa is chairman emeritus of Northrop Grumman Corporation. He was Northrop's president from 1987 to 2001, chief executive officer from 1990 to 2003, and board chairman from 1990 to 2003. After retiring from Northrop Grumman, in 2009 he was chosen by the Obama administration to become chairman of the board of General Motors and led the company through bankruptcy.
Kresa currently serves on the boards of MannKind Corporation, Systems Technology and Research Corporation, NuScale, Quantum Data Systems Corporation, and several nonprofit organizations, as well as the Keck Foundation. He is associated also with Kairos Ventures.
Kresa's awards for leadership include Forbes magazine's "Company of the Year" recognition in December 2002; Aviation Week magazine's 2002 Laurel Citation for achievements in aeronautics/propulsion; the Caltech Management Association's Excellence in Management Award for demonstrating extraordinary vision and leadership; the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his significant contributions to our nation's heritage; the Howard Hughes Memorial Award for his contributions to the advancement of aviation and space technology; and his selection by Businessweek magazine as one of the nation's top 25 managers for 2001. He was also named California Industrialist of the Year.
A member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the past chairman of the board of governors of the Aerospace Industries Association, and chairman of the Defense Policy Advisory Committee on Trade, Kresa is also an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and was its president for a one-year term in 2002.
Kresa holds three degrees from MIT: a BS (1959), an MS (1961), and an EAA (1966), all in aeronautics and astronautics.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
Now a private equity investor, Lew van Amerongen has spent roughly 35 years in the management buyout and merchant banking business. He has been a private investor since 1994 and was a general partner of Gibbons, Green, Goodwin, and van Amerongen from 1970 to 1994.
His private investments included Lost Creek Land & Cattle, an 18,000-acre agricultural and cattle ranch located about 20 miles from the Denver International Airport, Colorado, and Accipiter Communications (dba Zona Communications), a FIOS rural communications company of which he was chairman. Zona is located northwest of Phoenix, Arizona.
He sold his interest in Erickson Air-Crane Inc. in October 2007. Erickson owns the type certificate for and is the manufacturer of the S-64 helicopter, the premier heavy-lift firefighting helicopter in the world. Erickson also operates the largest fleet of S-64s in the world, providing services for logging, aerial construction, and firefighting in North America, Europe, Korea, Malaysia, and Australia. He is currently funding research on electric batteries.
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- Member of the Investment Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Founder and Chairman of Himalaya Capital
- Founder and Chairman, Himalaya Capital Management, LLC
Li Lu is the Founder and Chairman of Himalaya Capital, a value investing firm where he has been managing its principal fund since 1997. Born in China, Li Lu attended Columbia University where he received his BA, JD, and MBA simultaneously. He is a trustee of Columbia University and the California Institute of Technology. Among his various philanthropic pursuits, Li Lu co-founded and is Board Chair of The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), serving the 23 million Asian American and Pacific Islander community in their pursuit of belonging and prosperity, free from discrimination, slander and violence. He is the author of Civilization, Modernization, Value Investing and China and Moving the Mountain: My Life in China. Li Lu was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Chairman of the TCW Group, Inc
- Chairman, the TCW Group, Inc.
Marc Stern is Chairman of The TCW Group, Inc., a Los Angeles-based asset management firm with approximately $265 billion of assets under management. Since 1990, Mr. Stern has held a number of senior management positions at TCW including CEO, President and Vice Chairman. He also held a variety of senior positions at Société Générale Group, which owned TCW from 2001 to 2013. Prior to joining TCW in 1990, Mr. Stern was President and a Director of SunAmerica and prior to that, was a senior executive with the Henley Group and its predecessor companies. Mr. Stern began his career in 1970 as an attorney with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton.
Mr. Stern is a minority owner of both the Milwaukee Brewers and the Milwaukee Bucks. Mr. Stern serves on the Boards of the Los Angeles Opera, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, The Metropolitan Opera in New York, The Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Committee, the California Institute of Technology and the Alliance for Southern California Innovation.
Mr. Stern was formerly a Director of Qualcomm, Inc., a Vice-Chair of The Salk Institute, and was Founding Chairman of both the Mayor's Fund Los Angeles and of The President's Council of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He holds a BA from Dickinson College, an MA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Public Law and Government and a JD from the Columbia University School of Law.
Mr. Stern and his wife, Eva, live in Malibu, California, and have two children and six grandchildren.
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- Member of the Advancement and Institute Relations Committee
- Trustee
- Vice Chair of the Student Experience Committee
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- Member of the Advancement and Institute Relations Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
- Chairman and CEO of Glenair, Inc
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Glenair, Inc.
Peter D. Kaufman is the Chairman and CEO of Glenair, Inc., a leading manufacturer of electrical and fiber-optic components for aerospace. He joined the company as an accounting student at USC and, over his 48 years, held various executive roles before becoming CEO.
A lifelong resident of Southern California, Peter is deeply involved in philanthropy, serving as a trustee of Caltech and Chair of the Board at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. He has also held leadership roles at numerous schools and foundations.
He teaches at several institutions, including Occidental College and the University of Notre Dame, and is the editor of Poor Charlie's Almanack. Peter holds degrees in accounting and an MBA from USC and resides in Pasadena with his family.
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- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- Board Members
Peter Norton, philanthropist and retired computer software entrepreneur, made his mark in the computer industry as a programmer, businessman, and author. He is best known for his computer program-Norton AntiVirus-and his books and magazine columns of technical explanations of personal computers.
Norton sold his software business to Symantec Corporation in 1990 to devote time to civic affairs, philanthropy, and art collecting.
Norton serves on the boards of directors of numerous organizations, including Reed College, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art.
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- Trustee
- ( Vacant ) Vice Chair
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
- Senior Partner, Sentinel HS Group, LLC
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- Member of the Life
- Board Members
- Vice Chairman ( Retired ), General Motors Corporation
- Vice Chairman and Board Member of General Motors Corporation
Bob Schultz retired as vice chairman and board member of General Motors Corporation in 1992, after a 37-year career. As vice chairman, he was responsible for GM Hughes Electronics (GMHE)-which included Hughes Aircraft Company and Delco Electronics-for Electronic Data Systems, and for GM's Corporate Information Systems. Serving as chairman and CEO of GMHE, he was also responsible for GM's Technical Staffs Group. Prior to that, his automotive career included work at Oldsmobile, GM's Emission Control Project Center, Buick, Delco Electronics, and Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada Group.
After retiring from GM, he became a member of the board of directors of OEA, Inc., in 1993, and chairman in 1998. OEA was a provider of explosively actuated devices for the aerospace industry and was a leading supplier of airbag inflators and initiators for the auto industry until its acquisition by Autoliv Corporation in 2000. In 2002, Schultz became chairman of a start-up company, Advanced Electron Beams, Inc., which uses its proprietary electron-beam technology to build and market unique electron-beam systems for advanced manufacturing processes and environmental control.
Schultz was Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.
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- Member of the Student Experience Committee
- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
Jenkins is past chairman of the board of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association, and has also served on the boards of the Information Technology Industry Council and the American Electronics Association.
While a student at Caltech, Jenkins was a member of Lloyd House, the water polo team, and the swim team, and he graduated with a BS Eng '65 and an MS EE '66. He was president of the Alumni Association in 2001-02 and president of the Associates in 2004-05. He is also serving on Caltech's Athenaeum Board of Governors and is chair of the Institute's Geological and Planetary Sciences Chair's Council.
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- Partner
- Trustee
- Vice Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee
- Board Members
- Senior Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
- Vice Chair of Governance and Nominating Committee
Ron Olson is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and has practiced law with the firm since 1968. He also is a director of Berkshire Hathaway and Western Asset Trusts. He serves as a director of several nonprofits, including the Nuclear Threat Initiative and ProPublica. He was chairman of the board of trustees of Claremont University Center and Graduate School (1984-1994), founding chairman of the board of trustees of Southern California Public Radio (1999-2004), a trustee of the Mayo Clinic (2004-2016), a trustee of the RAND Corporation (1994-2016 and formerly chair), a director of Edison International (1995-2014), a director of City National Corporation (2001-2014), a director of the Council on Foreign Relations (2002-2010), and a director of Graham Holdings Company (formerly the Washington Post Company, 2003-2017).
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- Chairman of the Student Experience Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Trustee
- Vice Chair of the Executive Compensation Committee
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- Member of the Life
- Chairman and CEO ( Retired ), Getty Oil Company
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- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- Chairman and President, the Wonderful Company
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- Chairman of the Investment Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Trustee
- Vice Chairman, Fortress Investments, LLC
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- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- Senior Advisor, Summit Partners, L.P
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- Chairman of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Trustee
- Ex Officio Member
- Founder and CEO, Idealab
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Member of the Advancement and Institute Relations Committee
- Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Student Experience Committee
- Trustee
- President, the Otis Booth Foundation and the Evening Star Foundation
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- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Trustee
- Managing Partner / Polaris Partners
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- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Committee
- Trustee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Member of the Life
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Member of the Executive Compensation Committee
- Trustee
- Chairman Emerita, J. Paul Getty Trust
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- Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee
- Trustee
- Vice Chair of the Advancement and Institute Relations Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Member of Governance and Nominating Committee
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- Member of the Student Experience Committee
- Member of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Committee
- Trustee
- Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Heritage Provider Network
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- Member of the Student Experience Committee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Member of the Student Advisory
- Undergraduate Student
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- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Founding Partner
- Managing Director
- Trustee
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- Ex Officio Member
- Member of the Investment Committee
- Member of Audit, Compliance and Risk Committee
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- Member of the Life
- Chairman & CEO, Arnel & Affiliates
Van Amerongen holds a BSE from Princeton and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. While in school, he was both an all-American soccer player and an all-Ivy lacrosse player.