Advisory Board

Advisory Board Members:

Co Chair Anne Petersen,

Research Professor, University of Michigan, Center for Human Growth and Development, Founder and President, Global Philanthropy Alliance
Anne C. Petersen has significant experience in organized philanthropy; with four years as Associate Director of the Health Program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; nearly a decade at the WK Kellogg Foundation as Senior VP Programs with responsibility for all programs in the US, Latin America, and southern Africa; and decades of experience as a consultant or advisor to US and non-US foundations. She was also a university researcher for 25 years, an academic administrator for 14 years, and spent 3 years a President-appointed, Senate-confirmed federal agency executive.

Co-chair Phil Smith

Phil Smith is one of the most senior science and technology policy experts in the nation, having been Executive Director of the National Research Council for 13 years and having served in every presidential administration since Eisenhower's.

Advisory Board Members

Mark Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, Strategic News Service

Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

Robert W Conn, President, The Kavli Foundation

Deborah Estrin, Professor of Computer Science & Director of
Center for Embedded Network Systems, University of California, Los Angeles

Raouf Y. Halim, Chief Executive Officer, Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.

Roberto Padovani, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, QUALCOMM

Duane Roth, Chief Executive Officer, CONNECT

Stanton Rowe, Corporate Vice President for Advanced Technology, Edwards Lifesciences

David Schramm, President and Chief Executive Officer, Maxwell Technologies

Drew Senyei, Managing Director, Enterprise Partners

Kathi Vian, Director Ten Year Forecast, Institute for the Future

Andrew Viterbi, President, The Viterbi Group, Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego

Warren Washington, Senior Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute

Emeritus Board Members

Forest Baskett, Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates

John Seely Brown, Independent Co-Chairman of the Deloitte Center of Edge Innovation

Dennis Lettenmaier, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington

Joesph Sussman, Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology