Mark A. Wan
Chair, Peninsula Open Space Trust Board of Directors; founding general partner, Three Arch Partners; former general partner, Brentwood Associates; founder of numerous healthcare companies, including General Surgical Innovations, Odyssey Healthcare and Perclose Medical; resident of Woodside.
Steve Blank
Lecturer in entrepreneurship at U.C. Berkeley's Haas Business School, Columbia University Graduate School of Business and Stanford's Graduate School of Engineering; member, California Coastal Commission; member, board of directors, National Audubon Society; chair, Audubon California board; co-founder, E.piphany, MIPS Computers, Ardent, Rocket System Games; member, board of directors, Macrovision Corporation, CaféPress, IMVU; resident of Menlo Park.
Donna Dubinsky
CEO and board chair, Numenta; member, board of directors, Computer History Museum, Mountain View; trustee, Yale Corporation; resident of Portola Valley and Pescadero.
Jan F. Garrod
General manager, Garrod Farms & Cooper-Garrod Estate Vineyards in Saratoga; founder and water master, Mount Eden Mutual Water Co.; president, Santa Clara County Farm Bureau; member, Santa Clara Valley Water District Agricultural Advisory Board; past president, American Vaulting Association; three-time chef d’equipe to World Equestrian Games in Europe; member, United States Equestrian Federation; president, CVI Saratoga; member, Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers associations; resident of Saratoga.
Diane B. Greene
Co-founder and former chief executive officer VMware Inc. and VXtreme. Board of directors, Intuit Inc., Unity3d and MIT Corporation. Board of advisors for Stanford School of Engineering; resident of Stanford.
Larry Jacobs
President and CEO, Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo, Inc., organic farm and small-scale growers association; Chair, San Mateo County Agriculture Advisory Committee; former co-director, Estacion Experimental Choqui, non-governmental organization, Guatemala; resident of Pescadero.
Charlene Kabcenell
Member, advisory council and program committee, Community Foundation Silicon Valley; member, various advisory boards, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; member and former Vice Chair of Grantmaking, Silicon Valley Social Venture (SV2) Fund; resident of Portola Valley.
Robert C. Kirkwood
Retired director, government and education affairs, Hewlett-Packard Company; formerly an attorney with a specialty in land use; member, board of directors, Planning and Conservation League Foundation, California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance, Kids in Common; member, advisory committee of the Community Foundation of Silicon Valley; former member, board of directors, Peninsula Community Foundation; former chairman, California State Coastal Conservancy; resident of Palo Alto.
Paul Newhagen
Co-founder and former Chief Financial Officer, Altera Corporation; member, Board of Directors, Altera Corporation; member, Board of Directors GeoHazards International; resident of Los Altos.
Brad O'Brien
Senior partner, real estate and environmental practice, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati; teaches commercial leasing and recent developments in real estate, California Continuing Education of the Bar; director, Eastside College Preparatory School, East Palo Alto; pro bono legal work for tax exempt organizations including Ronald McDonald House, Sempervirens Fund, Environmental Volunteers, Menlo School, Woodside High School Foundation, Palo Alto History Museum and the Community School of Music and Art; resident of Menlo Park.
Sandra Thompson
Self-employed attorney representing clients pro bono in tax litigation; former attorney, Fenwick & West, concentrating on international corporate tax law; former vice president of network solutions, IBM Corporation; regional board member, Teach for America; commissioner, Town of Woodside Planning Commission; resident of Woodside.
Karie Thomson
Member, Board of Directors, Ecotrust; member, Board of Directors, The Kinship Foundation, a family foundation involved in community renewal, education and conservation; former president, Woodside School Foundation; resident of Woodside.