Advisory Board

Advisory Board Members:

Co-chair Forest Baskett

Forest Baskett is a venture partner in New Enterprise Associates, a Bay Area venture capital (VC) firm that just raised the largest VC fund in history. Baskett was a distinguished computer scientist at Stanford University when Sun Microsystems, MIPS, and SGI spun off, and he served for more than 10 years as CTO for SGI.

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.

 

Mark Anderson, Chief Executive Officer, Strategic News Service

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

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

Robert W Conn, President, The Kavli Foundation

Deborach 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.

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

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

Anne Peterson, Deputy Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

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

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

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

Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute