Board & Advisors

Michael Anders runs a boutique investment group which focuses on building a think-tank of CEO-type clients for macro economic guidance, using client's "brands" for access and co-investing alongside clients in relationship-specific, private deals. Prior to his current role, has worked at Goldman Sachs, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity Investments and Société Générale (in Paris and London ).

In addition to Full Circle Fund, Michael currently serves on the board of DoSomething.org, while advising the White House Office of Social Innovation. He remains active in national politics, as an early member of the Obama National Finance Committee and founding member of the 2006 "Win Back the House" campaign and 2008 "Secure our Senate" effort. 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 . He lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife Delphine, and their three children, Lella, Romeo and Luna.

Josh has a long history as a business entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and General Partner of New Cycle Capital, an early stage venture capital firm working with entrepreneurs who want to want to change the world. New Cycle's investments include OPower, Renewable Funding, PeoplePower, GoalSpring, Saber es Poder, and Terrapass. Josh is a National leader in clean energy policy as well as clean energy investing. He is a co-founder of both Cleantech for Obama and the Clean Economy Network. Previously he was at Redpoint Ventures, DCM, McKinsey & Co, Netscape, and Agile Software. He was the 2nd employee at EarthWeb, which went public in 1998. In 2000 Josh founded Full Circle Fund and continues to serve as Board Chair. He was recently project lead in building GreenCitiesCalifornia.org. For the last six years he has been on the Board of Full Circle Fund grantee, One Economy, and is Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the University of California at Merced. He has a MBA and JD from Stanford and serves on the Advisory Board for the Stanford Business School Fund. He is currently a candidate for California Assembly. See Becker for Assembly.
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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 moved from San Francisco to New York in 2008, and has recently been appointed to a role at the Federal Communications Commission. He is a Director of the National Broadband Task Force, which reports to the Chairman of the FCC and will deliver a National Broadband Strategy to Congress in February 2010. Before moving east, Brian was Senior Vice President of Business Development and Sales at Visage Mobile from 2002 until he helped sell it in May 2008. He previously served as Senior 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 was Executive Director of Channel Strategy and Development, and was integral in negotiating and executing NorthPoint's merger agreement with Verizon. Before NorthPoint, Brian was at Bain & Company where he 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 was most recently 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.

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 is Vice President of Marketing at Caring.com, where she oversees the advancement of the brand and the site's visitor growth, working to ensure that family caregivers find help when they need it most. Robin has executive experience focusing on marketing, strategy, and general management for both top-tier start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Caring.com, Robin was Director of Marketing at Intuit, where she led marketing for QuickBooks, the nation's leading small-business financial software. She has worked across a broad spectrum of technology and consumer-focused companies, including AltaVista, Clorox, Digeo (formerly Moxi Digital), Mercer Management Consulting, and Odwalla.

Robin holds a B.A. from Dartmouth, an M.A. with honors from the University of Melbourne, and an M.B.A. from Stanford.
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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. Pete 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, Pete 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, Pete worked with Ernst & Young LLP in the Warsaw, Poland office in the information technology department.

Pete 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. Pete 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 is a partner in Cooley's business department. He joined the Firm in 2001 and is resident in the San Francisco office. Peter's practice primarily focuses on the representation of emerging technology companies, venture capital firms, private equity firms and investment banks. Peter regularly assists clients with financings and mergers and acquisitions, in addition to entity formation, organization and governance matters, securities transactions, and SEC and stock exchange compliance and reporting. Peter received a J.D. 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. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.
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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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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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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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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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