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Trustee
Greg Amadon grew up in California. Amadon is a visionary who possesses the unique ability to imagine the possibilities and create products not generally thought possible - in the case of his last company- Terabeam (Free Space Laser communications) that created a 24 inch laser optical transceiver that when hung in an office window, delivered bi-directional gigabit local loop connectivity to the internet. As CEO, Amadon raised over $500 million in private financing for Terabeam.
An inventor at heart, Amadon also founded three other companies, Virtual IO (3D heads up display headsets); Cellular Technical Services (fraud prevention software for cellular telephone carriers) and Portable Technologies (real-time cell phone rental system for rental car companies). He also built a high power telescopic video camera system while at CBS News to record video from distances of up to five miles away that was used extensively during the Reagan White House. Amadon received a ...
Trustee
Karen Heim-Amadon grew up on a large family farm in Iowa. Her entrepreneurial spirit, curiosity and desire to further her education drew her to New York City, where she attended Westchester College. After working in the fashion industry and attending college, Karen and her partners opened a real estate rental company and, later, a real estate sales company. Her real-estate career spanned 15 years beginning in the early 1990's as a young entrepreneur with Real Renters LTD, and later a building sales firm Heim Realty LLC. During the years of the Internet boom as an angel investor, Karen and her associates garnered critical acclaim when they wired the first residential building Manhattan with T1 Internet access at a time when dial up service was still in its infancy. The East Village T1 project garnered international attention when Reuters wrote the first article before a press release was even out ...
Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Development; CFO, (Retired), eBay, Inc.
Gary Bengier capped a 23-year business career by building and leading the financial team in the early formative years at eBay. From 1997 to 2001 he was eBay’s chief financial officer, during which time he led the company’s initial and secondary public offerings. Deeply involved with the company’s strategy, Mr. Bengier helped grow eBay to over $9 billion in gross traded merchandise sales. He also served as S.V.P. for strategic planning before retiring at the end of 2001.
With a focus on financial and strategic roles, Mr. Bengier has participated in a variety of new technologies, including the internet, semiconductor chip design, computer peripherals, scientific instrumentation, and biotechnology. Prior to eBay in 1997, Mr. Bengier was vice president and chief financial officer of VXtreme, Inc., a developer of Internet video-streaming products. From 1993 through 1996, Mr. Bengier was corporate controller at Compass Design Automation, a ...
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Senior Managing Director, Brock Capital and Chairman, United Rentals Inc.
Jenne K. Britell, Ph.D., is a Senior Managing Director of Brock Capital, LLC. She was formerly the Chairman and CEO of Structured Ventures, Inc, advisors on financial services business and product strategy to U.S. and foreign companies. She is a board member of three NYSE companies, United Rentals, Inc.(URI);* Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK);** and Quest Diagnostics Inc. (DGX).*** She is also a director of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund and the U.S. Russia Foundation, and a Sustaining Trustee of the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Dr. Britell is a former senior executive of GE Capital. At GE Capital, until March 2000, she served as the Executive Vice President of Global Consumer Finance and President of Global Mortgage and Commercial Banking. Previously, she was President and CEO of GE Capital, Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Vienna, she had responsibility for the GE Capital consumer and commercial ...
Trustee
John Chisholm Ventures
John Chisholm has three decades of experience as general manager, entrepreneur and executive. In 1997, he founded and served as CEO/Chairman of CustomerSat (acquired by MarketTools), a leading provider of enterprise feedback management systems. A pioneer in online marketing research, in 1992 he founded and served as CEO/Chairman of Decisive Technology (now part of Google), publisher of the first desktop and client-server software for online surveys. Earlier he worked at HP, Xerox, and Grid.
He is a trustee of The Seasteading Institute; a member of the Development Committee of the MIT Corporation; chairs the Santa Fe Institute Development Committee; chairs the MIT Club of Northern California; and through the MIT Venture Mentoring Service helps young entrepreneurs start new high-tech businesses. He has also chaired the Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society, one of Stanford’s twelve independent laboratories; served on the visiting committee of the MIT ...
Trustee
President, Collins Capital
Michael Collins has been President of Collins Capital since 1982; which today is a group of “Fund of Funds” invested in multi-manager strategies utilizing alternative, non-traditional liquid investment strategies internationally
Prior to Collins Capital ...
Chairman and CEO, Los Alamos National Bank
Mr. Enloe has served as president and chief executive officer of Trinity since 1979. He is a member of the Board’s Loan, Funds Management, Technology, Trust and Strategic Planning Committees. Mr. Enloe has also served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Los Alamos National Bank since 1994.
In addition to his service to Trinity, Mr. Enloe is committed to New Mexico charities and economic development efforts. Mr. Enloe is chairman of the Governor’s Business Advisory Council, Los Alamos Economic Development Research Park Committee and the New Mexico Banker’s Association Legislative Committee. Mr. Enloe is also treasurer of the New Mexico Economic Development Corporation. Additionally, he serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of the State Private Equity Investment Committee, Los Alamos Economic Development Committee, Los Alamos Technical Associates, Inc., MIOX Corporation, and a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation, the Industrial ...
Science Board Co-Chair, External Professor
Wohlford Professor, Stanford University, Biological Sciences
Marcus Feldman was born and raised in Perth, Australia, the son of Simon and Ida Feldman. Although both of his parents encouraged him to follow his own interests and passions, his father, an engineer, liked math and before long young Marcus had picked up the penchant. “He was happy that I did,” recalls Feldman.
It was anything but a passing fancy. At the University of Western Australia, Feldman first earned his bachelor of science degree in 1964, then just two years later, his master of science in mathematics from Monash University in Australia. From there, he ventured to the United States to get his doctorate in mathematical biology at Stanford University, after which he returned to Australia where he had accepted a teaching position at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
Two years later, however, Feldman was back in California, joining Stanford’s biology faculty in 1971. There, he began using ...
Science Board, External Professor
James Tobin Professor of Economics, Yale University, Economics
John Geanakoplos (b. 1955) received his B.A. in Mathematics from Yale University in 1975 (summa cum laude), his M.A. in Mathematics and his Ph.D. in Economics under Kenneth Arrow from Harvard University in 1980. He started as an Assistant Professor in Economics at Yale University in 1980, becoming an Associate Professor in 1983, Professor in 1986, and the James Tobin Professor of Economics in 1994. He is currently the Director of the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics. He was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society in 1990 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999. He was awarded the Samuelson Prize in 1999 (for work on lifetime financial security), and was awarded the first Bodossaki Prize in economics in 1994. In 1990-1991 and again in 1999-2000 he directed the economics program at the Santa Fe Institute, where he remains an external professor ...
Trustee, Science Board
Distinguished Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
Murray Gell-Mann is one of today’s most prominent scientists. He is
currently Distinguished Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He is also
Robert Andrews Millikan professor emeritus at the California Institute
of Technology, where he joined the faculty in 1955. In 1969, he
received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of
elementary particles. He is the author of The Quark and the Jaguar,
published in 1994, in which his ideas on simplicity and complexity are
presented to a general readership.
Among his contributions to physics was the "eightfold way"
scheme that brought order out of the chaos created by the discovery of
some 100 kinds of particles in collisions involving atomic
nuclei. Professor Gell-Mann subsequently found that all of those
particles, including the neutron and proton, are composed of
fundamental building blocks with very unusual properties that he named
“quarks.” That idea has since ...
Chairman, Alternative Investment Group
Stewart Greenfield divides his time between environmental activities and hedge fund investing. His firm provides conservative multi-manager hedge fund partnerships for endowments and individuals. For many years he has helped preserve tropical rain forests, as a means of reducing global warming and preserving species. His Environmental Venture Fund, in conjunction with the Nature Conservancy, has initiated projects that have preserved over 18 million acres in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile, Panama, and elsewhere. He also has been actively involved in air pollution reduction efforts.
Stewart Greenfield’s primary career had been in venture capital. He co-founded Oak Investment Partners in 1978, served as its Chairman, and specialized in funding start-up networking and data storage companies. Oak funded hundreds of technology companies. He organized the advanced Programing Technology Department at IBM in the late ‘50s, and in 1971 joined DLJ as a VP and General Partner of the Sprout Group. With his ...
Trustee, Science Board, External Professor
Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Computer Science/Engineering/Psychology
John H. Holland is professor of computer science and engineering and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan; he is also external professor and member of the executive committee of the board of trustees at the Santa Fe Institute.
Professor Holland was made a MacArthur fellow in 1992 and is a fellow of the World Economic Forum. He serves on the Advisory Board on Complexity at the McDonnell Foundation.
Professor Holland has been interested for more than 40 years in what are now called complex adaptive systems (CAS). He formulated genetic algorithms, classifier systems, and the Echo models as tools for studying the dynamics of such systems. His books Hidden Order (1995) and Emergence (1998) summarize many of his thoughts about complex adaptive systems.
CEO and Founder, Wolf Asset Management International LLC
Mari Kooi is the CEO and founder of Wolf Asset Management International LLC, the principal company of the Wolf Group of Alternative Investment Companies. Wolf International manages over a billion in assets for institutional clients around the world. Products include fund of hedge funds and direct hedge funds. Ms. Kooi gained experience in all alternative markets during her 18 years at Cargill Incorporated. She held positions as a trader, trading manager, and President of Cargill Asset Management. Specifically she has operating experience in commodities, transportation, money market derivatives, currencies, fixed income derivatives, equity derivatives, emerging country markets, distressed credit markets, distressed real estate, mortgage securities, and tax advantaged securities. Ms. Kooi’s career began in physical commodity trading. Beginning in 1984 Ms. Kooi was one of the founding investment managers of Cargill’s in house hedge fund. This was later spun out as the Black River Fund. While at Cargill ...
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Managing Partner, Dryad Partners
Henry Lichstein is Managing Partner of Dryad Partners, his consulting company. He takes interim CEO/CFO roles, consults for technology-based companies, and serves on boards.
From 1970 to 2000 Henry was with Citibank, holding positions in financial control, treasury, technology strategy, and advanced development efforts. He did the early work on Citi’s commercial Web sites, Smart Card and Electronic Commerce activities, spoke on payments and E-Commerce in the US and China, and made a number of successful technology investments. He held Treasury, Financial Control, and other staff jobs, and wrote a report for the Group of 30 on Clearance and Settlement in the world’s securities markets.
Henry joined Palisades Ventures in 2000, focusing on broadband technology investments, and worked with venture companies. He was CFO of PrivaSys, a transaction card company; Interim CEO of Roubini Global Economics in New York City; and Interim CFO at Lucix, a satellite ...
President, Lynch Enterprises
Dan Lynch used to be found walking in vineyards in dusty loafers, with a pair of clippers in his back pocket and a refractometer close at hand. Dan's a plant guy ("They stay where you put them and generally respond to love," he quips) and has been ever since growing up east of Los Angeles and accumulating one of the largest cactus collections in North America. The plants took up his family's whole back yard and earned Dan a back-hall pass at the famous botanical gardens at the Huntington Library near Pasadena.
As committed as he was to the collection, he displayed characteristic decisiveness in letting it go. "When your mind's made up, do it, darn it," he says articulating a cornerstone of his life philosophy, and when he left home to attend Loyola University in Los Angeles, he donated his collection to Claremont College and never ...
Chair & CEO (Retired), Dynamac Corporation
Diana MacArthur co-founded Dynamac Corporation, a science, engineering, and technology company specializing in natural resources management and ecological restoration; environmental management and compliance; life, earth, and space sciences; and defense services and homeland security. Dynamac provides services to more than 20 federal agencies, including NASA, EPA, and DOD, and numerous state, regional, and commercial clients. Earlier, Mrs. MacArthur was the Director of the Washington, D.C., office and Vice President of a public relations firm in the Interpublic Group; was Director of the Office of Private and International Organizations, the Peace Corps; and managed a health education clearinghouse and outreach center for General Electric, which was under contract to an NIH institute.
In recognition of her expertise in science and technology policy and technology transfer, Mrs. MacArthur was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). She participated in PCAST studies on ...
Trustee
Chief Investment Strategist, Legg Mason Capital Management
Michael Mauboussin joined Legg Mason Capital Management as chief investment strategist in 2004. Prior to joining Legg Mason, Michael was a managing director and chief U.S. investment strategist at Credit Suisse. Michael joined Credit Suisse in 1992 as a packaged food industry analyst. He is a former president of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York and was repeatedly named to Institutional Investor's All-America Research Team and the
Wall Street Journal All-Star survey in the food industry group.
Michael coauthored "Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns," published by Harvard Business School Press. He has also been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School since 1993. Business Week's Guide to the Best Business Schools (2001) highlighted Michael as on of the school's "Outstanding Faculty." In 2004, SmartMoney magazine named Michael as one of its Power 30, a list of "the most influential people ...
President, Maxfield Foundation
Robert R. Maxfield was a co-founder in 1969 of ROLM Corporation, a computer and telecommunications manufacturer, where he served as Executive Vice President and Director until ROLM was acquired by IBM in 1984. Following the merger, he continued as an advisor until retiring in 1988. Since 1988 he has been a Consulting Professor in the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford University, and was a venture partner with Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers from 1989 to 1992. He is President of the Maxfield Foundation, which he founded in 1986 to support scientific research and education. He serves as a Director of Echelon Corporation and a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute. He earned his B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees from Rice University in 1963 and in 1964, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1966 and 1969.
President, Melton Investments
Bill Melton, has been an entrepreneur and investor in the high-tech industry for over 30 years. He founded VeriFone, Inc., the transaction automation company that made credit authorization terminals ubiquitous on retail merchant counters in 1981. From 1991 to 1999, Mr. Melton was an early investor in and board member of America Online. Additionally, Mr.Melton was the initial funder of Transaction Network Systems (TNS), founder and CEO of CyberCash, and an initial funder of other high tech companies including Prio (sold to Infospace Inc.) and Maxager Technology. Mr. Melton is currently an active investor and board member of several early stage venture capital companies. William Melton holds a master’s degree in Asian Studies and Chinese philosophy.
Executive Advisory Board and Cofounder, Insight Venture Partners
Jerry Murdock is a co-founder of Insight Venture Partners and was a Managing Director of the firm until April 2011, when he joined the Executive Advisory Board. Jerry played a leading role in defining the company’s investment strategy, and was primarily responsible for the development of many of the firms portfolio investments. and has spent his career investing in, and building, technology companies that change and positively impact businesses and social practices. Since Insight’s inception in 1995, Jerry has had a defining role in the Firm’s investment strategy and has been primarily responsible for the development of many of the Firm’s portfolio investments.
Jerry is a passionate advocate of:
Since 1999, seven of ...
President, Ann Kendall Richards, Inc.
Ann Nitze of Washington, D.C. is a private art dealer in New York, Washington, and Aspen. She specializes in 19th- and 20th-century paintings and sculptures. Mrs. Nitze makes her home in Washington, D.C. but has also lived in Kinshasa, Zaire and Tokyo, Japan.
Mrs. Nitze serves on the board of the Santa Fe Institute, the Sotheby’s Institute, London, the Thai Support Foundation, FAI Rome, The National Advisory Board of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, and the World Wildlife Fund. She is vice-chairman of the Japan Society Gallery, New York.
Mrs. Nitze is active in the Royal Academy in London, the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Aspen Institute, the Shakespeare Theater, Washington, DC, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Gennadius Library in Athens. Mrs. Nitze graduated from Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, Connecticut; and received her B.A. in romance languages and literature from Radcliffe College. Mrs ...
Trustee
Co-founder and CEO, Omidyar Network; Founder and Chairman, ebay Inc.
On Labor Day 1995, Pierre Omidyar launched eBay as an experiment. He wondered, "What would happen within a marketplace if everyone had equal access to information and tools? Would a level playing field enable individuals to compete alongside big businesses? What if members managed their own transactions and accountability?" At the time, Pierre didn't know the answers to his own questions. Today, his experiment continues to prove the benefits of an open and honest environment. Hundreds of thousands of members make their living entirely on eBay and enjoy the freedome of owning a business. More than 150 million people trust strangers with every transaction. Strangers find common ground where none seemed to exist before.
After eBay's success and its IPO in 1998, Pierre, along with his wife, Pam, co-founded the Omidyar Foundation to fund nonprofits. Yet eBay's tremendous social impact as a for-profit company was demonstrating that ...
General Partner, Alloy Ventures
J. Leighton Read, M.D. became a general partner at Alloy Ventures in 2001, after 14 years as a biotechnology entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Affymax NV, under the direction of Dr. Alejandro Zaffaroni. He founded Aviron, a biopharmaceutical company focused on vaccines for infectious disease, where he served as chairman and CEO until 1999 and director until its acquisition by MedImmune in early 2002. Leighton was also a partner in Interhealth Limited, an investment partnership.
Leighton received a B.S. from Rice University in Psychology and Biology (1973), an M.D. from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (1976) and completed internal medicine training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston where he held appointments at the Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health. He is a director of Alexza Pharmaceuticals (NASDQ: ALXA), Cambrios Corp., OPAL Therapeutics, Inc., and Seriosity, Inc., and has ...
Chair, Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute
Director, Proteus Foundation
Jim Rutt is currently studying complex adaptive systems as they manifest themselves in financial markets, social science, and games.
In the world of work (retired April 2001), Jim was CEO of Network Solutions, Inc., which administered the .com, .net, and .org domain namespaces on the Internet. Network Solutions was acquired by VeriSign in 2000 where he served as chief strategy officer. Prior to Network Solutions he either founded or played a key role in several significant information services and network companies: THE SOURCE, Business Research Corp., First Call, Pinpoint Information, and The Thomson Corporation. He has been involved as an investor and/or advisor to numerous early stage technology-based companies.
Other interests include: hunting, fishing, hiking, pyrotechnics, four wheeling, photography, war games, and computer based conferencing.
Mr. Rutt received his B.S. degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975.
President, Santa Fe Institute
JEREMY ARAC SABLOFF (B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1964; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969) is the President of the Santa Fe Institute (2009 - ). Before coming to the Santa Fe Institute, he taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico (where he was Chair of the Department), the University of Pittsburgh (where he also was Chair), and the University of Pennsylvania (where he was the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1994-2004 [and Interim Director, 2006-2007] and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology).
He also was an Overseas Visiting Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge, England. He is a past President of the Society for American Archaeology, a past Chair of Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past Editor of American Antiquity. He served as Chair of the Smithsonian Science Commission and currently is ...
Trustee
Chairman and CEO, Business Resources International
William N. (Bill) Sick is chairman and chief executive officer of Business Resources International, a firm specializing in early-stage high-technology companies.
Since 1989, he has been a co-founder, chairman, active director or advisor of thirteen early-stage companies in the semiconductor, software and biotechnology fields. After exiting most of these companies through IPO’s and sales, he remains active in several companies, including VIRxSYS (genetically engineered treatment for HIV/AIDS) and Acoustic Technologies (audio processing solutions for communications products) and Zounds (hearing aids).
In the 1980s, Mr. Sick was CEO and a director of American National Can Company, created in an LBO that merged American Can and National Can to form the world’s largest packaging company. He managed the merging of the two companies and later its sale and transition to Pechiney, a French aluminum company.
Prior to that time, Mr. Sick served in a variety of positions at Texas ...
Partner, Google Ventures
Mr. Spencer was a co-founder of Excite.com, where he worked as chief technology officer until the company was sold to @Home in 1999. After leaving Excite, Graham founded DigitalConsumer, a non-profit political lobbying group dedicated to preserving “fair use” and other freedoms related to digital media. Most recently, Graham was the co-founder of JotSpot, a wiki website designed for collaboration. JotSpot was acquired by Google in November 2006.
Graham Spencer received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University.
Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Managmen, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co., LLC
David Weinberger is a Managing Director and head of the Portfolio Managment Department of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Co. (PAAMCO). He is also a general partner of O’Connor Partners and former managing partner of its predecessor, The O’Connor Partnerships, a pioneering mathematical trading firm that merged into Swiss Bank in the early 1990’s to form the core of the current UBS Investment Bank. He then spent a decade as a Senior Advisor to UBS and a sometime consultant to others in using a variety of mathematical concepts in finance. Through his roles at O’Connor and UBS, he was responsible for the deal linking Santa Fe-based Prediction Co. with UBS, and was an advisor to and Board member of Prediction. In 2005 UBS formally acquired Prediction Co. in its entirety. A former mathematician, he has served on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute since ...
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