Karie Thomson
Chair, Peninsula Open Space Trust Board of Directors; 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.
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.
Susan Ford Dorsey
President, Sand Hill Foundation; member, board of trustees and chair of education committee, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; member, board of directors, Monterey Bay Aquarium; member, board of directors, Peninsula Community Foundation; member, board of trustees, Phillips Brooks School; former member, board of directors, Children's Health Council; resident of Woodside.
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.
Martha J. Kanter
Chancellor, Foothill-De Anza Community College District; former president, De Anza College; co-chair, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, Inc; trustee, San Jose Museum of Art; board president, Community College Leadership Development Institute Foundation; senior fellow, American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley; resident of Cupertino.
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.
Dianne McKenna
Former supervisor, Santa Clara County; former mayor and council member, City of Sunnyvale; Commissioner on the California Transportation Commission; member, board of trustees, New Children's Shelter Fund; founding member, Peninsula Commute Service Joint Powers Board; member, advisory board, Hidden Villa; resident of Sunnyvale.
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.
Mark A. Wan
Co-founding partner of the healthcare investment fund Three Arch Partners; founder or seed investor in numerous healthcare companies including Odyssey Healthcare, Perclose and Radiant Medical; resident of Woodside.