Board & Advisors

Michael Anders runs a family office practice at Morgan Stanley, working with CEO's, entrepreneurs, key families and private companies across the globe. Providing strategic advice on tax, estate, legacy, philanthropic and business planning issues, Michael and his partners offer a full-service, independent approach to accessing the brightest ideas and best investments – without limitation as to where these investments and ideas originate. Prior to coming to Morgan Stanley, he was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Michael spent his career as a financial analyst, a wealth advisor, and an entrepreneur. He worked in Europe as a credit analyst for Societe Generale in Paris and London. He then started a company that built and helped market charitable funds for some of the largest financial service firms in the country. In that role, Michael worked with advisors and their affluent clients around philanthropic planning, including donor-advised funds, private foundations, pooled income funds, and the related tax, investment, family legacy and gifting issues associated with such strategies. He also spent a couple years as a Vice President at Franklin Templeton Investments, focusing on their fixed income, municipal bond, equities, and alternative investment products. In addition to serving on the boards of Full Circle Fund and YouthNoise, Michael is also on the advisory board of the Tech Museum. He received his B.A./B.S. in Political Science and Communication Studies from the University of Rhode Island, as well as a certificate in International Economics from Columbia University. His lives in San Francisco with his wife, Delphine, and their two children, Lella and Romeo.

Josh Becker started his career in the Clean Energy area in 1991. From Williams College he went to work for ICF-Kaiser International, a DC-based environmental consulting and engineering firm. There he helped launch the first Clean Air Marketplace conference back in 1992 and consulted on energy strategy for companies like General Electric.

After working on Capitol Hill as a Press Secretary for a Congresswoman on the Energy and Commerce Committee, he started his first Internet company in 1994 when he co-founded IntraACTIVE a pioneering groupware company. He was also one of the first employees at EarthWeb Inc, which went public in 1998.

After joint degrees from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, Becker joined Brentwood Venture Capital and then joined Brentwood's technology partners in 1999 in founding Redpoint Ventures. At Redpoint he brought in investments like BigBand Networks (NASDAQ:BBND) and served as a board observer for BigBand, Esurance, and ViaFone. Becker is an Advisor to Energy Unlimited, a pioneering wind energy company. He is Co-Founder of the Freedom Prize Foundation, which will soon be giving out $5M in prizes with DOE to encourage deployment of clean energy technologies and Co-Founder of SmartTransportation.org. Becker is the Founder and Chair of Full Circle Fund, an alliance of emerging business leaders who help solve public problems through engaged philanthropy and public policy advocacy. He serves on the National Board of Directors for One Economy and serves on the Board of Trustees for the newest campus in the University of California System, The University of California at Merced. Becker was recently named as one of the Top 40/under 40 people to watch in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal. He also was selected to be part of the SV100 A group of the 100 Most Influential People in Silicon Valley.
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A mother of three young children, Eva dedicates her time to improving public education, whether through the Piedmont School District or through the work of Full Circle Fund's Education Circle.

Eva worked for more than 10 years at Microsoft, marketing some of the company's most successful products, including Word, Office and other consumer titles. Her last role there was Director of Market Planning and Analysis for Microsoft's line of home products. Other Microsoft highlights include helping lead the turnaround in the company's Japanese application software business during a 3-year stint in the company's Far East region and leading the first worldwide launch of Microsoft Office in over 25 languages. Prior to Microsoft, she worked in product management at Proctor & Gamble.

Eva has a B.A. from Harvard University, where she was co-president of the Asian American Association.
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Brian joined Visage in 2002, and leads the sales, strategy and business development activities. Early in Visage's history he was instrumental in evangelizing the MVNO model to consumer brands and carriers across the U.S. He is responsible for Embarq Corporation's MVNO, led Visage's successful effort to win the Preferred MVNE award from Sprint Nextel's wholesale group, and handles many of Visage's carrier relationships.

He previously served as director of business development for Moxi Digital, a technology provider to the cable and satellite television industry (now part of Digeo, Inc.), where he was responsible for Moxi's strategic relationship with AOL Time Warner, as well as other MSOs and OEMs. He moved into that role from NorthPoint Communications, where he served as executive director of Channel Strategy and Development, and was integral in negotiating and executing NorthPoint's merger agreement with Verizon. At Bain & Company, Brian consulted with clients in telecommunications and internet services. Previously, he was a media and communications investment banker for Goldman, Sachs & Co. Brian was a Regional Finalist for the White House Fellows program, and also serves on the board of Aim High.
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Stephen Dodson serves as the President of Parnassus Investments, an investment management firm in San Francisco. He started at Parnassus Investments in 2002 and has worked in a number of areas within the firm, including investment research, shareholder services, technology and compliance. Prior to Parnassus, he worked for the venture capital group of Advent International, a private equity firm. Stephen covered the software and communication sectors, identifying early-stage companies for venture investment. Previously, he worked in the investment banking group of Morgan Stanley in New York and Menlo Park.

He has a BS in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco. He serves on the National Advisory Council of UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies.
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Kirsten is the founder of Forerunner Ventures, an expansion stage private equity firm focused on branded consumer companies. She currently serves on the boards of four of the firm's portfolio companies including, Nau, OhSo Clean/CleanWell, Skyn Iceland and Belli Materna. Prior to Forerunner Ventures, Kirsten worked at Montgomery/Banc of America Securities where she held positions as an equity research analyst covering the Specialty Retail sector and later joined an internal team managing a $600 million portfolio, where she was the lead consumer-focused investment professional. Kirsten is an advisory board member of Spark, a San Francisco based non-profit organization focused on supporting Grassroots Women's Organizations around the globe. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Business Economics, and holds a CPA license and a CFA certification.
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Robin Joy is a Director and Marketing Leader at Intuit, responsible for marketing and growing revenue of QuickBooks, the #1 best-selling small business financial software, as well as related supplies, support and online services. In previous roles with Intuit, Robin played a pivotal part in the success of Intuit Payroll, a service with over 1 million subscribers. Robin developed and launched QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll Plus, a payroll and software subscription, generating over 100K subscribers within six months.

Prior to joining Intuit, Robin held leadership positions with a variety of technology and consumer companies, including Digeo (formerly Moxi Digital), AltaVista, Odwalla, Clorox and Mercer Management Consulting. Robin has led and contributed to initiatives awarded numerous honors, including Warrillowʼs Small Business Marketer of the Year, Public Relations Societyʼs Silver Anvil, TechTVʼs Best of Show at CES (Consumer Electronics Show), Cannes International Advertising Festivalʼs Golden Lion, Magazine Publishers of Americaʼs Kelly Award and Adweek's Best TV Spots of the 1990s.

Robin holds a B.A. from Dartmouth and M.B.A. from Stanford. Robin was a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar in Australia where she received a M.A. with Honors from the University of Melbourne.
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Ms. Kleinberg is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of InSTEDD, an international nonprofit corporation that is focused on humanitarian collaboration through technology innovation by developing technology-based tools for humanitarian aid and public health sectors to predict, mitigate, and respond more quickly and effectively to emergencies and human crises around the world. She serves on the California Emergency Partnership Advisory Workgroup to assist the Directors of the Office of Emergency Services and Office of Homeland Security in creating a comprehensive public-private disaster management program.

Immediately prior to joining InSTEDD, she was Vice President of Policy and Programs at Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, where she created and directed the multi-sector, public-private Silicon Valley Disaster Planning Initiative, as well as the Technology Convergence Consortium promoting technology and nanobioconvergence innovation in California. Prior to that, she was an Executive Director of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), responsible for advancing the business interests of over 500 high tech companies in Silicon Valley and northern California.

A member of the Palo Alto City Council from 2000-2007, she was elected Mayor in 2006, during which time she became a leader in promoting environmental policies, starting with signing the US Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement. As Mayor, she created two ground-breaking initiatives: the Palo Alto/Stanford Green Ribbon Task Force on Climate Protection, a model for community sustainability that has been copied by many other cities, and the Red Ribbon Task Force on Disaster Planning. During this time she served as a Director of the Santa Clara County Emergency Preparedness Council, and was elected Chair in 2006. She has also served as President of both the Santa Clara County Cities Association and the League of California Cities Peninsula Division, representing 27 cities from San Francisco through Silicon Valley. A recognized housing advocate, she has been a member of the Santa Clara County Housing Leadership Council, and a Director of the Santa Clara County Housing Trust Fund. She also served on the Santa Clara County Social Services Advisory Commission.

Previously, Judy headed several public policy and law reform organizations, from leading an award winning children's advocacy organization to coordinating the start-up of the international women' foundation, The Global Fund for Women. Always interested in matters of public health, she served as President of both the California affiliate of Pro-Choice America, and the American Heart Association for Palo Alto/Stanford, and was the founder of the Northern California Friends of the Pediatric AIDS Foundation. An avid environmentalist, she was President of the Committee for Green Foothills, preserving the Bay Area greenbelt, and on the Board of the Sempervirens Fund, preserving old growth forests throughout the south Bay. She was also creator and founder of Palo Alto SAFE (a substance abuse prevention coalition), and Safer Summer, a program for free evening teen activities in Palo Alto, both of which were multiple award-winning initiatives.
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Peter R. Szymanski was most recently an Associate in the Securities practice group and a member of the Cooley Godward Kronish Business department. He joined the firm in 2000 and was a resident in the Palo Alto office. Mr. Szymanski has a general business and corporate practice with an emphasis on the representation of emerging growth companies in the formation, venture capital financing, merger and acquisition and public equity financing stages.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Szymanski worked with Bridge Information Systems, Inc. in the Hong Kong office as a software designer and developer of automated financial systems for investment banks and brokerage houses. Prior to Bridge, Mr. Szymanski worked with Ernst & Young LLP in the Warsaw, Poland office in the information technology department.

Mr. Szymanski received a J.D., from Duke University School of Law, where he was the recipient of the Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship and a member of the Duke Journal of Comparative Law. He received his M.B.A. with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and a B.S., magna cum laude, in Management Information Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Szymanski is a member of the State Bar of California.
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Michael has been involved with building search engines for a long time, starting at Verity where he directed product management. He started Wink in 2005, compelled by a belief that people could provide valuable input that would make search better. Prior to Wink, Michael was CEO of X-Degrees, and was a founder of AdForce (IPO 1999) which was ultimately sold to CMGI. Michael serves on the Board of Cloudmark, a leading provider of anti-spam solutions. He is a Founder and Board Member of Full Circle Fund, a Bay Area non-profit that engages emerging business leaders in philanthropy through grants and hands-on assistance to promising organizations. Michael holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Peter H. Werner is an associate in the Cooley Godward Kronish business department. He joined the Firm in 2001 and is resident in the San Francisco office. Peter's practice focuses on the representation of private and public emerging technology and life sciences companies and the venture capital firms that invest in those companies. Peter regularly assists companies with their formation and organization, general governance matters, mergers and acquisitions, securities transactions and SEC and stock exchange compliance and reporting. Peter received a J.D., with honors, in 2001 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. Peter received a B.A., with departmental honors, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. Peter is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of San Francisco.
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Russ Hall is a founder and managing director of Legacy Venture. Legacy is a unique venture capital fund amplifying the size and effectiveness of philanthropy. Prior to Legacy, he served as the senior vice president at R. Eliot King & Associates, a money management firm. Earlier in his career at several start-ups, he was vice president of marketing for Logic Modeling, and director of sales and marketing manager at Silicon Solutions. Russ was an associate at the venture capital firm Merrill Pickard Anderson and Eyre. He was also a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and a captain in the Army Corps of Engineers. Russ is an alumnus of the Philanthropic Workshop West (TPW), as well as Stanford's High Impact Philanthropy Program. He is also active in non-profits and his church, is on the board of Time Out, and serves as an advisor to Good Capital and TPW West. Russ holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an MS from the University of California at Berkeley, and a BS from the United States Military Academy. His wife, Debbie, is chair of a microfinance group, Village Enterprise Fund, operating in the rural areas of Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya.
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Reed Hastings founded Netflix in 1997 and launched the subscription service in 1999. Netflix grew to one million subscribers in less than 4 years, and finished 2005 with more than 4 million subscribers. The company expects to achieve 20 million subscribers in 2010-2012.

Earlier in his career, Reed founded Pure Software, which he built it into one of the world's 50 largest public software companies. After a successful public offering and a number of acquisitions, Pure was acquired by Rational Software in 1997.

Reed is an active educational philanthropist and board member of many non-profits. In addition, he was President of the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. He has led successful statewide political campaigns for more charter public schools and easier passage of local school bonds.

Reed received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1983 and an MSCS degree from Stanford University in 1988. He holds several patents. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Reed served in the U.S. Peace Corps as a high school math teacher in Swaziland.
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Richard Levy has been chairman of the Varian Medical Systems Board of Directors since 2002. He was CEO of the company from 1999 to 2006. Levy holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a doctorate in nuclear chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. Levy is also vice chairman of the board of trustees of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Co-Chairman of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network's Smart Health Initiative. He is a member of the boards of directors of Sutter Health, Pharmacyclics, Inc., and newly-elected Chairman of United Way Silicon Valley. He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth and is an active participant in summits for CCI (Center for Corporate Innovation, Inc.), with a focus on improvement of the national healthcare system. He is a past chairman of the board of directors of the American Electronics Association.
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Geoff Yang is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, Geoff was a general partner with IVP, a firm he joined in 1987. Geoff emphasizes investments in consumer media and infrastructure. His media and advertising investments include Ask Jeeves, Excite, MySpace and TiVo. His networking investments include BigBand, Calix, Foundry Networks, Juniper Networks, MMC Networks and Wellfleet.

He currently serves on the Board of TiVo (TIVO). His privately-held company board seats include: Azul Systems, BigBand Networks, Calix, Gaia Online, Efficient Frontier, Fanfare, M2Z Networks and Oodle. In addition, Geoff was founding director or previously led investments in Agile Networks, Applied Digital Access, Centillion, Collabra, Crescendo, Golfweb, JotSpot, Netcore Systems, Netlink, Promatory, Rapid City, Shasta Networks, Synernetics, and Whitetree.

Geoff served on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC); and was a Director of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Director and past President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC). Prior to joining IVP, Geoff was an Associate with First Century Partners where he had specialized in communications and software investments. Earlier, Geoff had been in technical support and marketing at IBM Corp.

Geoff holds a B.S.E. in Engineering and Management Systems from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Marcus Castain has served the City of Los Angeles as an aide to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa since the beginning of 2006. As Associate Director for Education, Youth and Families, he is responsible for developing the mayor's plan to improve public education in Los Angeles and for implementing the plan if and when Villaraigosa takes over the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Prior to joining the Villaraigosa administration, Castain was an Associate Director at The Broad Foundation, a national venture philanthropic organization focused on dramatically improving K-12 urban public education. At Broad he managed a $30 million investment portfolio focused on improving the management systems of large urban school districts. He has worked closely with school leaders in urban districts across the country. Castain also started The Broad Residency program, a highly competitive, two-year management development program that trains emerging leaders for senior management positions in urban school districts.

Before the Broad Foundation, Castain worked in product management for a Cisco Learning Partner and as a management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Castain started his career in Washington, D.C. as a research analyst at an international affairs think tank. Castain has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and a BA in International Political Economy from UC Berkeley.
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Gregory Hodge is a youth development policy advocate. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for California Tomorrow, an Oakland-based organization dedicated to building a strong, multiracial and multicultural society that embraces diversity. California Tomorrow works on a variety of community-building issues by conducting research, policy advocacy and capacity-building training. In addition, in 2000 he was elected to the Oakland Unified School District Board of Education.

He previously served as Executive Director of Safe Passages: the Oakland Child Health and Safety Initiative (OCHSI), an effort to improve the health and safety of youth in the City of Oakland, California, through community involvement and systems reform. Prior to coming to OCHSI, Hodge was Executive Director of the Urban Strategies Council where he directed the Youth Development initiative, managed the Freedom Schools program and worked as the regional representative of the Black Community Crusade for Children, an effort coordinated nationally by the Children's Defense Fund. In 1996, he helped recruit, train and facilitate a 42-member community-building team as part of Oakland's Empowerment Zone/Enhanced Enterprise Community program.

Gregory has also worked as an attorney in private practice handling a variety of civil litigation matters. He his involved with African-American youth as a teacher and mentor; board member and minister at Wo'se Community Church; drummer with Bantaba Dance Ensemble; board member of The Marin Institute; and member of the national Annenberg School District Reform Task Force. He holds a B.A. from Northwestern University and a law degree from Golden Gate University. He is married and is the father of four children.
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Mike Honda has represented the 15th Congressional District of California in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2001. His diverse district includes Silicon Valley, the birthplace of technology innovation and the leading region for the development of the technologies of tomorrow.

Mike was born in California, but spent his early childhood with his family in an internment camp in Colorado during World War II. His family returned to California in 1953, becoming strawberry sharecroppers in San Jose. In 1965, Mike interrupted his college studies to answer President John F. Kennedy's call for volunteer service. He served in the Peace Corps for two years in El Salvador, returning with a passion for teaching and fluent in Spanish. Mike earned Bachelor's degrees in Biological Sciences and Spanish, and a Master's degree in Education from San José State University. In his decades-long career as an educator, Mike was a science teacher, served as a principal at two public schools, and conducted educational research at Stanford University.

In 1971, Mike was appointed by then-Mayor Norm Mineta to San Jose's Planning Commission. In 1981, he won his first election, gaining a seat on the San José Unified School Board. In 1990, Mike was elected to the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, where he led efforts to acquire and preserve open space in the county. He served in the California State Assembly from 1996 to 2000.

In 2000, Mike was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and serves on the Appropriations Committee, with postings on that body's Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, Commerce, Justice, and Science, and Legislative Branch Subcommittees.

Mike is serving his second term as Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, coordinating with his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucuses to champion the causes of under-represented communities by promoting social justice, racial tolerance, and civil rights. In February 2005, Mike was elected as Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee. In January, 2007, he was named House Democratic Senior Whip by House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC).

Mike is widowed and has two grown children. His wife, Jeanne, was a teacher at Baldwin Elementary School in San Jose before her passing in 2004. His son, Mark, is an aerospace engineer and Michelle, his daughter, is a public health educator with two young boys, Trey and Brody.
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Roberta R. Katz is an executive officer and director of the Charles and Roberta Katz Family Foundation. She previously was a founder and CEO of Flywheel Communications, a company specializing in the use of technology to manage rights-related transactions and dispute resolutions. Prior to joining Flywheel Communications, She was the President and CEO of the Technology Network (TechNet), a national, bipartisan political network of technology industry executives. At Netscape Communications Corporation, she served for four years as the Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel.

Prior to Netscape, she was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of McCaw Cellular Communications, now AT&T Wireless, and its subsidiary, LIN Broadcasting Corporation. She has worked as a lawyer in private practice, specializing in corporate law, and was a partner with the firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in the firm's Seattle office.

Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Katz was a cultural anthropologist. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she specialized in issues of social and cultural change. As a result of her continuing interests in the effects of technological and social change, she conducted a study, under the auspices of the Discovery Institute, of the effects of the Information Age on the American civil justice system. The results of her study were published in 1997 in a book entitled Justice Matters: Rescuing the Legal System for the 21st Century.

Ms. Katz is a member of several Boards of Directors and several Advisory Boards. She was named one of "The Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal and one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in California" by the Daily Journal, and she has been a frequent public speaker on Internet law and policy issues, legal system issues, social change issues, and technology-workplace issues.

Ms. Katz received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, law degree from University of Washington Law School, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is married and has two children.
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Ted Lempert is the President of Children Now, a national research and advocacy organization based in Oakland, California. Previously, Mr. Lempert was the founding CEO and co-founder of EdVoice, a California grassroots organization advocating for education reform and support for public education. He also serves on the San Mateo County Board of Education.

Mr. Lempert was a California State Assemblymember representing San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties from 1996 to 2000 and 1988 to 1992. He served as chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee and the Select Committees on Education Technology and Coastal Protection, and co-chair of the Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education.

Mr. Lempert authored landmark legislation during his eight years in the Assembly, including the Lempert-Keene Oil Spill Prevention & Response Act (1990), the Golden State Scholarshare Trust (California's College Savings Plan) (1997), the Internet Tax Freedom Act (1998) and the Local School Construction Bond Act (2000). He had more than 70 other bills signed by Governors Deukmejian, Wilson and Davis, including major laws in the areas of education, health care, children and families, tax policy and the environment.

Mr. Lempert also served on the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, where he was President of the Board in 1995. He was the founder of the County's Youth Commission and chaired the Task Force on Violence Against Women. Prior to holding public office, Mr. Lempert was special counsel and an associate for the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton in San Francisco.

Mr. Lempert received the "Al Rodda Lifetime Service Award" from the California School Boards Association; was named "Legislator of the Year" by numerous leading education groups, including the National Association of Educational Service Agencies, the California Association of School Administrators, California Community College Faculty and the UC and CSU Students Associations; was recognized five times with the "High-Tech Legislator of the Year" award from the American Electronics Association; and was awarded the Public Policy Award from the Santa Clara County Perinatal Council and the Santa Clara County Medical Association.

A lifelong resident of the San Francisco Peninsula, Mr. Lempert attended local public schools. He graduated from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and earned his law degree from Stanford University. He, his wife Nicole, and their three young daughters live in San Carlos, California.
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Dianne Spaulding is in her fourteenth year as the Executive Director for the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (more commonly referred to as NPH). NPH supports over 750 members representing housing practitioners and the developers of affordable housing primarily in the nine counties around the San Francisco Bay Area.

During Dianne's tenure NPH has gained a national reputation for many of its capacity building initiatives and leadership in the housing policy arena. Recently NPH launched its Inclusionary Housing Initiative (IHI), a regional multi-year campaign, to increase the supply of affordable housing primarily through advocacy and technical assistance aimed at increasing awareness of inclusionary zoning as an innovative and effective policy option to boost affordable housing production.

Dianne is an active contributor to the field of housing and community development serving as the Chairperson of the California Housing Consortium (CHC). Dianne is also a member of the NHC Executive Committee as the elected Regional Representative from California. She is also the Past President of Housing California, the largest statewide coalition of homeless and housing providers in the nation. In 2006 Dianne was in the first group of housing professionals inducted into the newly created California Housing Hall of Fame conveyed by the California Housing Consortium.

Dianne is a graduate of the University of California. She has held numerous positions including tenure as the Regional Director for the Bay Area Information and Retrieval System, Director of Governmental Affairs and Transportation for the Fresno City and County Chamber of Commerce and as Deputy Director for the Older Americans Organizations, a large multi-service agency serving the frail elderly in central California.
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Steve is the founder and CEO of the Westly Group, a late-stage, clean technology-oriented venture capital firm that invests in leading and up-and-coming clean tech companies in an effort to accelerate the clean technology revolution Prior to founding The Westly Group, Steve Westly served as the Controller and Chief Fiscal Officer of the state of California - the world's sixth largest economy. As Controller, he chaired the State Lands Commission and served on 63 other boards and commissions, including CalPERS and CalSTRS, the nation's two largest public pension funds, which together invest more than $350 billion. During his four-year term, Mr. Westly spearheaded innovative tax programs that helped close the State's budget deficit and also led an effort to commit more than $1 billion to clean technology investments.

Before running for office, Mr. Westly helped guide the online auction company eBay through its period of most rapid growth, serving as the Senior Vice President of Marketing, Business Development, M&A and International. Mr. Westly helped bring eBay to Europe and Asia and developed the marketing and acquisition strategies that paved the path for the firm's exponential growth.

Mr. Westly began his career in Washington, D.C., where he worked first on Capitol Hill and later in the Office of Conservation and Solar at the U.S. Department of Energy. Mr. Westly returned to California to become special assistant to the President of the California Public Utilities Commission. While there, he published two books on alternative energy and the utilities. Mr. Westly also held senior positions at Sprint Communications, Netcom, and WhoWhere?.

Mr. Westly holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where he served on the faculty for five years. Mr. Westly and his wife, Anita, run the Westly Foundation, which provides education and health care services for children and underserved communities throughout California.
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