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.
John Chamberlain
Former manager of the New York City branch office of Inforex, Inc.; former member, board of directors, Cotelligent, Inc.; president, Chamberlain Associates, Inc. (later acquired by Cotelligent); founder of National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses (NACCB), former president of its northern California chapter, also director of NACCB’s National Legal Defense Fund and member of the NACCB executive committee; POST stewardship team leader since 2001; POST Volunteer of the Year, 2002; resident of Half Moon Bay.
Andy Cunningham
Chief Marketing Officer, Rearden Commerce, a next-generation eCommerce platform company; founder and CEO of CXO Communication and now a strategic advisor to CXO's executive team; founder and CEO of Cunningham Communication, 1985 to 2000; board member, The Aspen Institute and ZERO1: the Art and Technology Network; member of the advisory board, Specialized Bicycle Components; chapter chair, NorCal Chapter of World President’s Organization; resident of Palo Alto.
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 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.
Matt Miller
Managing director, Walden Venture Capital; currently a director at PowerCloud Systems, Image Vision Labs, Blazent, H5, Ignite and Palamida; lecturer at Notre Dame De Namur Executive MBA Program; formerly director at Oracle; CEO of Moai as well as roles in engineering, marketing and business development at Remedy, Gupta Corp. and Versant Object Technology Corp.; past president, Portola Valley Schools Foundation; resident of Woodside.
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.
F. Ward Paine
General Partner, OSCCO Ventures, venture capital firm; secretary, founding member and first president, Peninsula Open Space Trust; founder and former president, Peninsula Conservation Foundation; member, Advisory Board, Environmental Volunteers; former member, board of directors and vice-chairman, Senior Coordinating Council of Palo Alto; director of several private companies; resident of Portola Valley.
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.