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 Drew Senyei

Drew Senyei, M.D., is managing director at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, where he leads the life science practice. He has served on over 25 public and private boards, including Ascenta Therapeutics, Celladon, Celula, Complete Genomics, Ophthonix, TargeGen and Scoperta. Prior to joining Enterprise Partners in 1987, Dr. Senyei was a physician and entrepreneur. While still a medical student at Northwestern University, where he earned his M.D., Senyei developed a drug delivery device and licensed it to Eli Lilly. All told, he holds 20 patents in healthcare-related products and services. Dr. Senyei sits on the Council of Advisors at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering and UC San Diego's Health Sciences Advisory Board.

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

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

Phil Smith, Executive Director of the National Research Council, Former Co-Chair of AB, 2001-2011

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

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

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

David Schramm, President and Chief Executive Officer, Maxwell Technologies

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