Board of Directors

Debra Engel, chair
Investor

Greg Avis, vice chair
Founding Managing Partner
Summit Partners

J. Michael Patterson, treasurer
Tax Partner (retired)
PricewaterhouseCoopers

Laura Arrillaga
Director
Arrillaga Foundation

Leo Chavez
former Chancellor
Foothill-DeAnza Community College District

Ann Bowers
Trustee
The Noyce Foundation

M. Elizabeth Day
Attorney
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich

Kevin Fong
General Partner
Mayfield Fund

Jay Harris
Director
Center for the Study of Journalism & Democracy
University of Southern California

Steve Kirsch
CEO
Propel Software

Gay Krause
Executive Director
Krause Center for Innovation
Foothill College

David Mitchell
Partner
Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, Inc.

Denise O'Leary
Private Investor

Kanwal Rekhi
President
The IndUS Entrepreneurs

Barbara Roupe
Attorney at Law

Harry Saal
President
Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley

Jeff Skoll
Chairman / Founder
Skoll Foundation

Boyd Smith
Partner
WSJ Properties

Jon Tompkins
Chairman / CEO (retired)
KLA-Tencor

Anne Yamamoto
Partner
Frank, Rimerman & Co.

Advisory Board

Walter Baumgartner
General Partner
Cypress Growth Fund

Tom Bondi
Principal
Berger/Lewis Accountancy Corporation

James Cashman
Partner
Berliner Cohen

Douglas Chance
President / CEO (retired)
Wyse Technology, Inc.

Claudia Coleman
Community Volunteer

James Compton
President
Compton Foundation

William Davidow
Partner
Mohr, Davidow Ventures

Susan Finocchio
Community Volunteer

Lowell Gibbs
Vice President
Goldman Sachs

Kirk Hanson
Executive Director
Markkula Center for Applied Ethics,
Santa Clara University

Christopher Hero
Finance Manager
Netcentives Inc.

James Jackson
Attorney
Jackson & Abdalah

Mary Katherine Kelley
Attorney at Law

Elaine Knoernschild
Community Volunteer

Peter LaBoskey
Corporate Attorney
Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

Mark Leslie
Chairman of the Board
Veritas Software

Henry Manayan, Jr.
Mayor
City of Milpitas

Nivisha Mehta
Community Volunteer

Perry Olson
Director
The Portola Group, Inc.

Ronald Pray
Ronald G. Pray Company

William Scandling
President (retired)
Saga Corporation

Robert Severns
Severns Family Foundation
Sven Simonsen
Co-Founder
Advanced Micro Devices

Lisa Sobrato Sonsini
President
Sobrato Family Foundation

Lawrence Stone
Assessor
County of Santa Clara

William Terry
Executive Vice President (retired)
Hewlett-Packard Company

Martin Weinstein
Executive Director
Bay Area Community Resources

Senior advisors

Phillip R. Boyce
Investor
Boyce Associates

Jean Kuhn Doyle
Community Volunteer

Leonard W. Ely
Community Volunteer

John W. Gardner*
Consulting Professor
Stanford University School of Education

Ernest Renzel, Jr.
Community Volunteer

*deceased