Office Of The President
Steven J. McCormick is the president and a trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Steve was previously the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), from 2001 - 2007. As president, he led the organization into a truly global presence, leveraging its resources to achieve tangible, lasting results for nature and for people. During his tenure, he oversaw an operating budget of over $500 million, and a highly distributed staff of over 3,000. Under Steve’s leadership, revenues increased significantly, hitting an all-time high of $1.2 billion in 2006.
From 2000 – 2001, Steve was a partner at Resources Law Group, a firm based in Sacramento, which provides transactional and consulting services in land-use and natural resources law and policy, and creates innovative opportunities for conservation philanthropy.
Steve began his career with TNC in 1976 as Western Regional Legal Counsel, and rose through the ranks to spend 16 years as executive director of the California state program. In that role he led an organization-wide effort that created Conservation by Design, the strategic framework that now guides all of TNC’s work in 29 countries and every state in the US.
Steve has served on several boards, including the Advisory Board of the University of California at Berkeley, College of Natural Resources. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and is a Board Member of Sustainable Conservation.
Steve has a B.S. Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Berkeley (1973), where he graduated with honors, and a J.D. Degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law (1976). He also attended the Stanford Executive Program in 1993.
Linda Baron is the executive assistant for the Foundation's president. Prior to this position, Linda was a program associate for the San Francisco Bay Area Program and Communications Department.
Prior to joining the Foundation Linda was an executive assistant to the president and CEO of Banc of America BrokerDealer Services, a division of Banc of America Securities. Previously, she served as executive assistant to the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco. She has also held positions as executive assistant, legal assistant and office manager for a range of organizations, including a labor union, a management labor law firm, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Environmental Conservation
Guillermo Castilleja is the chief program officer for the Foundation's Environmental Conservation Program, which includes the Andes Amazon Initiative, the Conservation International Commitment, the Marine Conservation Initiative, and the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative.
Most recently, Castilleja oversaw and coordinated World Wildlife Fund’s global conservation efforts, leading the development of global priorities for the network, overseeing implementation of its activities, and monitoring progress and assessing impact. Castilleja came to WWF International in 2006 after serving as Senior Vice President for Field Programs for World Wildlife Fund in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and Regional Director for the Latin America and Caribbean Secretariat. Castilleja was the representative of WWF in Mexico for six years, where he led the development of one of the largest field programs in the WWF network. Before joining WWF in 1991, he worked for the World Bank and the National Wildlife Federation.
Castilleja graduated from the National University of Mexico (1980), and received a master’s degree in forestry (1983), a master’s degree in philosophy (1985), and a doctorate in forest ecology (1991) from Yale University.
Genny Biggs is the communications manager for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Genny worked for the Foundation from 2001-2005. Before rejoining the staff, Genny worked for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Conservation and Science Program and for the Environmental Grantmakers Association. Previously, she held positions at National Geographic Magazine, the Sierra Club, and Green Seal.
Genny holds a master’s in international relations (M.A.) and a master’s in environmental management (M.E.M.) from Yale University. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Vanderbilt University.
Charles Conn is a senior advisor for the Environmental Conservation Program and the Wild Salmon Ecosystem Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Charles co-founded Citysearch and as CEO led the company through its mergers with USA Network's Ticketmaster Online and Ticketmaster, as well as its initial public offering in 1998 and acquisitions of Microsoft Sidewalk, Match.com, and other companies. Prior to that, Charles was a partner with McKinsey & Company, where he served as leader of its Growth Strategy Practice.
Charles is a graduate of Boston University, Harvard Business School, and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Maureen Geesey is the program associate for the Environment Program and the Wild Salmon Ecosystem Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Maureen worked for First Data Corporation where she supported the legal department in both employment and intellectual property law.
Maureen received a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in History from Colorado State University and her Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Colorado with a focus on International Relations.
Frank Merry is a program officer for the Environmental Conservation Program at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Frank served as an associate scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) in Massachusetts. Previously, in a joint appointment with WHRC, Frank was a research fellow in environmental studies at Dartmouth College, and was also a visiting assistant scientist with WHRC and a research scientist in International Forestry at Virginia Tech. Prior to his work with WHRC, he worked as a resource economist in Brazil at the Instituto do Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM). He has authored or co-authored more than fifty works on topics in international forestry, land economics, agroforestry and small farm systems.
Frank is from Trinidad and Tobago and holds a Ph.D. in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida, a M.Sc. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Virginia Tech, and a B.Sc. in Food and Resource Economics from the University of Florida.
Daniela Murcio is a senior administrative assistant in the Environmental Conservation Program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Daniela worked in online operations at Google Inc. She held previous positions at LVMH, McKinsey & Company, and the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.
Daniela received a B.A. from the Universidade Paulista in Brazil and also attended the Alliance Française in Paris.
Luis A. Solórzano is the Program Director of Environmental Science. Previously, Luis served as the initiative lead for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
A native from Colombia, Luis’ scientific career began with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama studying the evolution and ecology of marine organisms in the Caribbean and western Pacific. At Princeton University he did landscape-level research on the ecology of sustainable biomass plantations for energy generation in northeast Brazil and modeling the large-scale geographic patterns of forest and savanna vegetation in eastern South America. Working with the Woods Hole Research Center, he studied the governing principles of functional interactions between vegetation, climate and soils in eastern Amazon and was member of the Amazon-Scenarios modeling and simulation group.
Before joining the Foundation Luis directed the science unit of the Andean Center for Biodiversity Conservation at Conservation International where he designed and set out a program to develop and employ spatial modeling and monitoring tools for strategic planning and implementation of field conservation actions.
Luis holds degrees in Biology from the National University of Colombia and M.A in Evolutionary Biology and Ph.D. in Ecology from Princeton University.
Heather Wright is a program associate for the Environment Program with a focus on the Conservation International Commitment.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Heather was a manager with Conservation International's Rapid Assessment Program where, in collaboration with partner organizations and scientists, she traveled to global hotspots to conduct rapid biological inventories and published the survey results and conservation recommendations. Heather's long-standing commitment to ecology and conservation science has led to her involvement with a variety of conservation-related organizations including the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Chicago Field Museum/CIMA, League of Conservation Voters and Friends of the Osa. She has conducted extensive field research in Central and South America, West Africa and French Polynesia.
Heather received a B.S. in Biology and a Minor in Scandinavian Literature from UCLA and her Masters degree in Environmental Science from Yale University's School of Forestry & Environmental Studies with a focus on tropical ecosystems.
Andes-Amazon Initiative
Jason Cole is a program officer with the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Jason worked for five years with Conservation International's Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund serving as the monitoring and evaluation director and then as the South America grant director. Nearly three of his five years at CI, Jason was based in Brazil where he managed grant portfolios for the Atlantic Forest region of Brazil, in addition to portfolios covering the Andean countries of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Before this he co-founded DevWorks International, a consulting firm specializing in project design and monitoring and evaluation, where he worked mainly on World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank projects in Africa and Latin America. Jason began his international development work by managing emergency relief projects in Angola under several of the UN peace processes through the mid-90s.
Jason received a B.A. in Economics from Earlham College and spent a year at the London School of Economics. He also earned a M.A. in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
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Paul E. Little is a program officer for the Foundation’s Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Paul taught in the Anthropology Department at the University of Brasilia, and has also taught at the University of Azuay and the University of Cuenca, in Ecuador. In 2000, he occupied the Elena Amos Latin American Eminent Scholar Chair for the Center for International Education at Columbus State University, Georgia. Most recently, his research has focused on the social and environmental history of Ecuadorian and Brazilian Amazonia. Paul has also studied Indigenous and mestizo societies of the Ecuadorian Andes, and has extensive knowledge of the Lakota (Sioux) peoples of the Great Plains through residence and research on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. He has wide-ranging experience in public policy and research to support sustainable development and environmental conservation. Paul served as a voting member of the Brazilian Federal Advisory Council on Traditional Knowledge, a member of the National Steering Committee for the World Bank/Global Environmental Facility’s Small Grants Program, and a member of the Board of Directors for the International Institute of Education of Brazil. He has written and edited numerous scholarly articles and books, and has organized several events in scientific congresses. His awards include an Honorable Mention for the Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira Prize for Social Science Research from the University of Brasilia, Brazil (2006), Scholarship for Research Projects in Ecology and Society from the Brazilian Anthropological Association/Ford Foundation (1994), and a scholarship award for Doctoral Research Design from the National Association for Graduate Research in the Social Sciences (1994). Paul is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and has a working knowledge of German, Lakota, and Quichua.
Paul holds dual Ph.D.s in Anthropology from the University of Brasilia and in Latin American Studies from the Latin American Graduate School of Social Sciences. He has a M.S. in Education from Black Hills State College in Spearfish, South Dakota, and a B.A.in Anthropology from Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
Georgia Pessoa joined Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation as a program officer in March 2007.
She was previously the legal advisory and compliance coordinator in WWF-Brazil, where she coordinated a working team called “Ecological IT – Nature Deserves This Stimulus” searching for fiscal incentives or benefits from Income Tax (IT) to help national environmental projects. Georgia also coordinated the environmental policies of Audit and Environmental Secretariat of Ceará State in Brazil. Her first contact with the environmental field was while she worked at Funbio as a legal advisory.
She has a Bachelor in Law (UNIFOR – University of Fortaleza - CE), a M.B.A. on Economical and Private Company Law (FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas Rio de Janeiro – RJ), a post graduation course Latu Sensu on Intellectual Property Rights (PUC - RJ - Pontifical Catholic University – RJ) and a Master Degree on Environment Management (CEFET- CE – Federal Center of Technological Education in Ceará - Brazil).
Kirsten Silvius is a program officer for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Born and raised in Venezuela, Kirsten completed her higher education in the United States. She received a B.A. degree in Biology and Romance Languages from Bowdoin College, Maine, and both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Zoology Department at the University of Florida. Trained as a terrestrial ecologist, her research has focused both on plant-animal interactions and on wildlife use and management by local and indigenous peoples. She has studied a diversity of animal species in Venezuela and Brazil, including agoutis, parrots, peccaries, beetles, and parasitic wasps, and has worked on wildlife management issues with the Xavante, Yanomami and Macuxi people of Brazil and Guyana.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Kirsten was a research specialist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Environmental Center, where she gained experience with watershed management issues and environmental impact regulations. Earlier she held adjunct professor positions and taught ecology courses at Florida Atlantic University and the State University of New York's School of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Ana Cristina Villegas is a program officer for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Ana grew up in Medellin, Colombia, and attended the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri - St, Louis.
Ana’s research has included the eco-physiological response of plants to changes in rainfall and atmospheric concentrations of CO2, plant population demography, and the influence of animal-plant interactions on forest regeneration. For four years she was an adjunct faculty with Duke University working with undergraduate education programs with the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) in Costa Rica.
Ana also was a diplomacy fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) working at the US Department of State in the Office of Ecology and Terrestrial Conservation on US policy impacting biodiversity, conservation, and forest issues, particularly in the context of international conventions (e.g. Convention on Biological Diversity, World Intellectual Property Organization and Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species).
Conservation International
Dan Winterson is the Program Director for the Foundation’s Conservation International Commitment. Dan had previously worked on the Program Finance team.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Dan was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company where he led client engagements in strategy, organization, and performance management. At McKinsey he served a rotation as a community fellow leading projects for non-profits, foundations, and government institutions. Dan also worked as vice president at Teach For America where he led the organization’s fundraising and revenue-generation efforts and served on the governing management team.
Dan received his A.B. from Harvard University, where he was a Harvard National Scholar, and his M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Jennifer Rea is a program associate for the Foundation’s Conservation International Commitment. Jennifer was previously a program assistant for the Science Program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Jennifer worked at the Atomic Heritage Foundation, a non-profit organization in Washington, D.C., dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Age. She also served as an assistant for the Office of the Vice President and Secretary of Princeton University.
Jennifer received an A.B. in History of Science and a minor in Visual Arts from Princeton University.
Marine Conservation Initiative
Barry Gold is the program director for the Marine Conservation Initiative.
Barry comes to the Foundation with many years of experience in science, conservation, and philanthropy. Before joining the Foundation, he managed the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s efforts to develop a scientifically credible framework for ecosystem-based management of coastal-marine systems. He also directed their work to more effectively link science with policy and decision-making. Prior to that, Barry was chief of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center where he led an effort to understand and restore the Colorado River ecosystem throughout the Grand Canyon. Barry has extensive experience working at the interface of environmental science and policy and has held senior positions at the Department of the Interior, the US House of Representatives, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Barry received a B.S. from the University of Miami, an M.S. from the University of Connecticut, an M.A. from George Washington University and a D.Sc. from Washington University.
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Meaghan Calcari is a program officer in the Marine Conservation Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Meaghan was an evaluator for Conservation International where she evaluated community-based conservation and development projects in the Philippines and Indonesia. Meaghan also taught environmental education at the St. Louis Science Center in Missouri, and in middle schools in Illinois, Indiana, and North Carolina. She currently facilitates a marine conservation funder working group in the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity.
Meaghan received a B.S. in Environmental Science and Psychology from the University of Notre Dame, a certificate of International Population and Reproductive Health from the University of Michigan and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment with a focus on coastal resources. During her undergraduate education, Meaghan studied at Columbia University's Biosphere 2 Center in Tucson, Arizona.
Mandy Ford is a program associate for the Marine Conservation Initiative.
Prior to coming to the Foundation, Mandy was a technical recruiter at VMWare Inc. Previously, she worked in recruiting with STS International and Apple, Inc.
Mandy has a B.S. in Conservation and Organismal Biology from San Jose State University.
Emily Goodwin is a program officer in the Marine Conservation Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Emily worked as the program coordinator for a nonprofit river advocacy organization in her home state of Georgia. She has also taught estuarine ecology to middle and high school students with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and worked on marine policy issues with Congressman Gilchrest (R-MD) in Washington, DC.
Emily received her B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University.
Rachel Strader is a program officer in the Marine Conservation Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Rachel studied in Bermuda and Newfoundland, where she focused on the socioeconomics of commercial fisheries and the biology of coastal ecosystems. She also was a Summer Student Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Policy Center and an intern at the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance in Saco, Maine.
Rachel received a B.S. in Biology with a minor in Sociology from Union College in Schenectady and a Master of Environmental Management (M.E.M.) from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment.
Kate Wing, Program Officer, National & Cross-Cutting
Kate Wing is a program officer in the Marine Conservation Initiative.
Prior to joining the Foundation she was an independent ocean policy and communications consultant working with fishing and conservation organizations. During her eight years with Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) she focused on the creation of marine protected areas, developed state legislative and budget conservation priorities, and participated in the development of several fishery management plans, including the Pacific Council’s HMS FMP and California’s abalone management and recovery plan. Kate’s academic background is in marine biology, including a season in Antarctica.
She holds a master’s degree from the University of Washington’s School of Marine Affairs and served as a Knauss Sea Grant Fellow on the Senate Commerce Committee.
Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative
Aileen Lee is the program director for the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative.
Prior to joining the Foundation Aileen was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company where she led client engagements in strategy, operations, and organizational effectiveness across a range of sectors.
Aileen attended Yale University, where she received a B.A. with majors in Political Science and East Asian Studies. Aileen received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, and was admitted to the California bar.
Charles Conn is a senior advisor for the Environmental Conservation Program and the Wild Salmon Ecosystem Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Charles co-founded Citysearch and as CEO led the company through its mergers with USA Network's Ticketmaster Online and Ticketmaster, as well as its initial public offering in 1998 and acquisitions of Microsoft Sidewalk, Match.com, and other companies. Prior to that, Charles was a partner with McKinsey & Company, where he served as leader of its Growth Strategy Practice.
Charles is a graduate of Boston University, Harvard Business School, and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Ivan Thompson is a program officer with the Wild Salmon Ecosystem Initiative.
Prior to joining the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Ivan worked as a senior advisor with Tides Canada Foundation and as a Northern Rivers project director with the Sage Centre providing strategic and organizational support to collaborative conservation initiatives in British Columbia’s wild salmon ecosystems. He also worked as ForestEthics' Community and Economic Advisor on the Great Bear Rainforest campaign which led to the protection of large tracks coastal rainforest, a new ecosystem-based approach to forest practices, and significant new public and philanthropic investments in conservation-based economic development for indigenous communities. Ivan's earlier conservation efforts included the development and implementation of new consensus-based public participation models in resource management as well as work with BC Wild in a process that led to the doubling of British Columbia's protected areas network. Ivan began his professional life in the 1980's as a counselor and educator, working in treatment centers, alternative programs and Outward Bound schools in Ontario, British Columbia and Australia. Over time he moved to the post secondary system and educational leadership. He worked as Dean of Education with Northwest Community College focusing on natural resource programs and as a private community and workforce training consultant.
Ivan holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Economics from the University of London, an M.Ed in Counselling from University of Victoria, a B.Ed in Outdoor and Experiential Education from Queens University, and a B.A. in Psychology from McMaster University.
Michael Webster is a program officer with the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Michael worked as a postdoctoral research associate for the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) at Oregon State University. While with PISCO he ran a kelp forest monitoring project in Oregon and helped coordinate numerous research projects.
Michael received a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Ph.D. in Zoology from Oregon State University.
San Francisco Bay Area
George W. Bo-Linn, MD, is the chief program officer for the Foundation's San Francisco Bay Area Program, which includes the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis Commitment, and areas of focus including Science and Technology Museums and Land Protection.
George comes to the Foundation with over 25 years of extensive executive leadership and expertise in the field of healthcare including medical research, private practice, health insurance plans, nursing and physician organizations, and health/hospital systems. Most recently George was the senior vice president and chief medical officer at Catholic Healthcare West, the largest non-profit hospital system in the western United States. His responsibilities included all aspects of clinical quality, patient safety and satisfaction, risk management, resource utilization management, clinical information systems (including privacy and security), and healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and others). He is the author of numerous scientific publications, lectures extensively nationally and internationally and serves on several boards of national healthcare organizations.
George holds a B.A. from Rice University, and an M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. His residency in internal medicine was at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, gastroenterology, and he had a subspecialty fellowship at the University of Texas, post-fellowship training at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Germany, and received his Masters of Healthcare Administration at the Carlson School of Business, University of Minnesota.
Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative
Marybeth Sharpe is the program director for the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Marybeth was a vice president with American Express where she led strategic analysis for their small business group. She has also taught economics at the University of Chicago, worked for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and served as an associate principal with McKinsey & Company in New York.
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graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the College of William and Mary and received a Ph.D. in Economics with a focus on labor economics from the University of Chicago.Karyn DiGiorgio is a program officer with the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative.
Karyn has more than 25 years of nursing experience in a variety of clinical settings, most recently in the Emergency Department at UCSF. Previously, she worked with the Digital Health Division of Intel, managed healthcare facility design at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and worked in nursing at Thomas Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia.
Karyn holds a B.S. in Nursing from Georgetown University and a M.S. in Nursing and Health Policy from UCSF. She also holds a M.S. from Drexel University.
Angela Hue is a program associate for the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Angela worked as a Student Research Assistant at the University of California, Davis Western Center for Ag Health and Safety, and as a Lab Research Intern in the Dept of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior. Previously, she spent a summer working at University of California, San Francisco’s Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute helping to coordinate, collect and analyze clinical study data.
Angela received a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Psychology from University of California, Davis.
Amy Mushlin is a program officer for the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Amy served as an engagement manager in McKinsey & Company's New York Office, where she managed projects for pharmaceutical and other healthcare companies. Earlier in her career, she managed online advertising and e-commerce accounts for Juno Online Services, served as an investment banking associate at Goldman Sachs and taught English at a hospital in China.
Amy received a B.A. from Yale University and a M.B.A. in Finance and Management from Columbia Business School.
Stacy Walder is a program officer for the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Stacy was a management consultant for The Chartis Group, a firm dedicated to improving the financial and strategic management of healthcare organizations. Additionally, she has worked in the healthcare industry in marketing and campaign management roles with Biogen Idec, a biotech firm in San Diego, and with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society in Los Angeles.
Stacy received a B.A. in Communications Studies from University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
George W. Bo-Linn, MD, is the chief program officer for the Foundation's San Francisco Bay Area Program, which includes the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis Commitment, and areas of focus including Science and Technology Museums and Land Protection.
George comes to the Foundation with over 25 years of extensive executive leadership and expertise in the field of healthcare including medical research, private practice, health insurance plans, nursing and physician organizations, and health/hospital systems. Most recently George was the senior vice president and chief medical officer at Catholic Healthcare West, the largest non-profit hospital system in the western United States. His responsibilities included all aspects of clinical quality, patient safety and satisfaction, risk management, resource utilization management, clinical information systems (including privacy and security), and healthcare professionals (physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and others). He is the author of numerous scientific publications, lectures extensively nationally and internationally and serves on several boards of national healthcare organizations.
George holds a B.A. from Rice University, and an M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine. His residency in internal medicine was at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, gastroenterology, and he had a subspecialty fellowship at the University of Texas, post-fellowship training at the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University in Germany, and received his Masters of Healthcare Administration at the Carlson School of Business, University of Minnesota.
Stephanie Ramirez is a program associate for the San Francisco Bay Area Program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Stephanie worked as the Events & Fundraising Coordinator for the UC Berkeley SAGE Scholars Program. She also served as the Head Resident Guidance Advisor and Instructor for Upward Bound Summer Program at the National Hispanic University and as a Research Assistant with the Greenlining Institute.
Stephanie received a B.A. in Mass Communications and International Political Economy and a minor in City and Regional Planning from University of California, Berkeley. She also completed the Advanced Project Management Certificate Program at Stanford University.
Land Conservation
Gary Knoblock is a program officer for the San Francisco Bay Area Program.
Before joining the foundation, Gary served as the executive director of the Point Reyes National Seashore Association, where he led programs for endangered species protection, habitat restoration and oversaw environmental education programs. He has served in leadership positions in two San Francisco nonprofit organizations serving the homeless, worked for an international school of business in France and for the American Association of Museums in Washington, DC.
Gary holds a B.A. from Grinnell College, Iowa, and completed Masters-level coursework at Indiana University.
Science and Technology Museums
Stephanie Ramirez is a program associate for the San Francisco Bay Area Program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Stephanie worked as the Events & Fundraising Coordinator for the UC Berkeley SAGE Scholars Program. She also served as the Head Resident Guidance Advisor and Instructor for Upward Bound Summer Program at the National Hispanic University and as a Research Assistant with the Greenlining Institute.
Stephanie received a B.A. in Mass Communications and International Political Economy and a minor in City and Regional Planning from University of California, Berkeley. She also completed the Advanced Project Management Certificate Program at Stanford University.
Science
Dr. Vicki Chandler is the chief program officer for the Foundation's Science Program, which includes the Marine Microbiology Initiative, the California Institute of Technology Commitment, and the Thirty-Meter Telescope Commitment.
Prior to coming to the Foundation, Vicki served as Director of the BIO5 Institute at the University of Arizona, a prominent interdisciplinary research center that addresses leading edge research and translates that research to applications in medicine and agriculture. At UA, she was a Regents’ Professor in the departments of Plant Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology and held the Carl E. and Patricia Weiler Endowed Chair for Excellence in Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her pioneering research investigated the regulation of gene expression in plants and animals.
Vicki has been honored with the Presidential Young Investigator Award, the National Science Foundation Faculty Award for Women Scientists and Engineers, the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award, and was named a Searle Scholar. Vicki is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has served on national advisory boards and panels for the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She served on the National Science Foundation Biological Directorate Advisory Committee from 2001-2004, the National Research Council Committee on Defining and Advancing the Conceptual Basis of Biological Science and was elected to the governing council of the National Academy of Sciences in 2007. Chandler has chaired or co-chaired several national conferences, and has served in an editorial capacity for journals including Plant Physiology, Genetics, Science, and the Annual Review of Plant Biology. She is a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the American Society of Plant Biologists, the Genetics Society of America, the International Society of Plant Molecular Biology, and the Rosalind Franklin Society. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Genetics Society and the International Society Plant Molecular Biology, and was President of the American Society of Plant Biologists.
Vicki has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco and a B. A . in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.
Cynthia Atherton is a program officer for the Science Program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Cynthia worked with the CMELS Directorate (Chemistry, Materials, Earth, Life Sciences) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, most recently as a deputy group leader. From 1986-2008, she served as principal investigator for numerous investigations, and also developed, ran and analyzed global atmospheric computer simulations for national and international studies including the IPCC Assessment Report 4 (2007). Previously, she served as an engineer in the Air Pollution Division at the U.S. EPA New England Regional Laboratory. Cynthia has written more than 20 journal articles and invited book chapters, and she developed and co-chaired a biweekly seminar series on atmospheric science from 2004-2006. The National Academy of Sciences invited Cynthia to serve on the National Research Council Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry from 1999-2001.
Cynthia also has extensive community service and volunteer experience, leading wilderness adventures and serving as a counselor for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in Northern California, and teaching hands-on-science to elementary school children in Pleasanton.
Cynthia earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis, her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her B.S. from the California Institute of Technology.
David Kingsbury is a senior science fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
From 2004 to 2009, David served as the chief program officer for the Science Program. Before joining the Foundation, David was the chief executive of a biotechnology-consulting firm. He held executive posts at both Chiron Corporation and ValiGene, a French functional genomics company located in Paris. From 1992 to 1997, David was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has also served as a professor of Microbiology at George Washington University and professor of Virology at the University of California, Berkeley. David was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1988 and chaired two White House committees on biotechnology policy and regulation.
David has published nearly 100 research papers and reviews focused on the genetics and biochemistry of viruses and, more recently, computational biology. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Biology and is the author of a review text in Medical Microbiology. David sits on several scientific advisory boards and is a board member of the Community of Science, a company he helped establish while at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
David earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
Chris Mentzel is a program officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Previous to his present position, Chris worked as the manager of Grants Administration and senior Network Engineer for the Foundation. He also held positions as a systems engineer and a systems integrator at the University of California, Berkeley and various internet consulting firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chris earned a B.A. in Mathematics with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Camellia Pham is a program associate for the Science Program.
Before joining the Foundation, Camellia worked as a program representative and a grants assistant at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she provided support to the Local Grantmaking Program and the Grantmaking Operations Department. Previously, she worked for Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer (PINCC), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing treatments and aid for women with cervical cancer in developing countries.
Camellia received a B.A. in social work with an emphasis is pyschology and a minor in education from the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a graduate of U. C. Berkeley’s Biology Scholar’s Program.
California Institute of Technology
Cynthia Atherton is a program officer for the Science Program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Cynthia worked with the CMELS Directorate (Chemistry, Materials, Earth, Life Sciences) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, most recently as a deputy group leader. From 1986-2008, she served as principal investigator for numerous investigations, and also developed, ran and analyzed global atmospheric computer simulations for national and international studies including the IPCC Assessment Report 4 (2007). Previously, she served as an engineer in the Air Pollution Division at the U.S. EPA New England Regional Laboratory. Cynthia has written more than 20 journal articles and invited book chapters, and she developed and co-chaired a biweekly seminar series on atmospheric science from 2004-2006. The National Academy of Sciences invited Cynthia to serve on the National Research Council Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry from 1999-2001.
Cynthia also has extensive community service and volunteer experience, leading wilderness adventures and serving as a counselor for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts in Northern California, and teaching hands-on-science to elementary school children in Pleasanton.
Cynthia earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis, her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her B.S. from the California Institute of Technology.
Marine Microbiology Initiative
Mary Maxon, Ph.D., is the program director for the Marine Microbiology Initiative.
Mary comes to the Foundation with many years of experience in basic and applied microbiological scientific research, and experience in the areas of science policy and the funding of scientific research. Before joining the Foundation, she was deputy vice chair at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), California’s stem cell research granting agency where she developed the intellectual property policies for CIRM grantees, and helped architect the administrative infrastructure for stem cell research grants in California. Prior to that, Mary led the anti-infective drug discovery efforts at Cytokinetics, a biotech company in South San Francisco, and developed genetic engineering technology for unsequenced microorganisms at Microbia, a biotech company in Cambridge, MA. At the Roche Institute for Molecular Biology, Mary discovered novel genes and regulatory pathways involved in amino acid metabolism in bacteria.
Mary received a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from the State University of New York at Albany, a Ph.D. in Molecular Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley and did postdoctoral training in Genetics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Jon Kaye is a program officer with the Marine Microbiology Initiative.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Jon was a science policy fellow selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and hosted at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. There he developed research and policy strategies aimed at mitigating the risks and consequences of naturally occurring or intentionally introduced human, animal, and plant diseases.
By training Jon is a marine microbial ecologist. He spent seven months at sea investigating deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities in the North and South Pacific oceans. He has also helped the American Museum of Natural History and the PBS television program NOVA with projects related to hydrothermal vents.
Jon earned a B.S. in Geology–Biology at Brown University and a Ph.D. in Oceanography at the University of Washington. After graduate school, he was a post-doctoral researcher in the Microbiology Department at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst.
Kelly Kryc is a program officer with the Marine Microbiology Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Kelly worked in Washington, D.C. for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program where she was responsible for implementing their long-range strategic plan. Kelly is a paleoceanographer who studied the geochemical record of climate change in Antarctica.
Kelly received a B.A. in Geology from Middlebury College, an M.S. in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, a Ph.D. in Earth Science from Boston University, and did post-doctoral research at Stanford University.
Thirty Meter Telescope
Jim Omura is the program officer for the Thirty-Meter Telescope Commitment.
A UCLA professor of Electrical Engineering for 15 years, with stints in Australia and Brazil as a visiting professor, and founder of two Silicon Valley companies, Jim has extensive experience as an educator and also in the business world bringing technical products and services to market. He was the founder of Cylink, a marketer of network security and wireless products, and served as its chairman, CTO, and acting CEO. He has co-authored several textbooks, including Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook and Principles of Digital Communications and Coding, and published over 100 technical papers. Jim is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. In 2009 he was inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame.
Jim received his B.S. and M.S. from MIT and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
David Kingsbury is a senior science fellow at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
From 2004 to 2009, David served as the chief program officer for the Science Program. Before joining the Foundation, David was the chief executive of a biotechnology-consulting firm. He held executive posts at both Chiron Corporation and ValiGene, a French functional genomics company located in Paris. From 1992 to 1997, David was on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has also served as a professor of Microbiology at George Washington University and professor of Virology at the University of California, Berkeley. David was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 1984 to 1988 and chaired two White House committees on biotechnology policy and regulation.
David has published nearly 100 research papers and reviews focused on the genetics and biochemistry of viruses and, more recently, computational biology. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Biology and is the author of a review text in Medical Microbiology. David sits on several scientific advisory boards and is a board member of the Community of Science, a company he helped establish while at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
David earned his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Washington, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
Communications
Genny Biggs is the communications manager for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Genny worked for the Foundation from 2001-2005. Before rejoining the staff, Genny worked for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation's Conservation and Science Program and for the Environmental Grantmakers Association. Previously, she held positions at National Geographic Magazine, the Sierra Club, and Green Seal.
Genny holds a master’s in international relations (M.A.) and a master’s in environmental management (M.E.M.) from Yale University. She received a B.A. in English Literature from Vanderbilt University.
Evaluation, Technology & Facilities
Kenneth Moore is the director of Evaluation & Technology at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Ken comes to the Foundation with 24 years of experience in the semiconductor industry where he held various positions in operations planning and control, computer systems development, and supply chain and logistics management. Prior to joining the Foundation, he worked at Signetics Corporation in Sunnyvale, California and later at Phillips Semiconductors.
Ken holds a degree in business administration. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Exploratorium in San Francisco and the school board of Bullis Charter School in Los Altos.
Vince Bohner is the graphics and Web user interface designer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Vince worked in design for a variety of dotcoms in California.
Vince received a B.S. in Product Design and a B.A. in Studio Art from Stanford University. He also spent a year studying at the Institute of Art in Chicago.
Ian Campbell, Senior Server and Network Infrastructure Engineer
Ian Campbell is a senior server and network infrastructure engineer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Ian worked at LucasArts Entertainment Co. where he served as a senior network administrator for LucasArts, THX, and Lucas Learning. Ian has also held positions at Buzzsaw.com, and consulted for a variety of companies.
Ian earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire.
Sue Crockett is the senior administrative assistant at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Sue worked at Bank of America for 25 years.
Juliet Lanfried is the receptionist for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to coming to the Foundation in 2005, she held several positions in merchandising and event planning, including serving for five years as the events assistant for the Mill Valley Film Festival. Juliet has also been a professional jewelry designer for over 20 years, and creates sterling silver, freshwater pearl, and semi-precious beaded jewelry. Juliet holds a degree in Fashion Merchandising and Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising in Los Angeles.
Mark Sanchez is the facilities manager of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Mark worked for six years at an environmental consulting firm focused on cleaning local Navy bases for public use. He also held positions with two dotcom companies in California.
Mark received a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Sukie Uppal is the training and technology support engineer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Barry Weiss is the director of Information Services at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Barry comes to the Foundation with over 20 years experience in the computer technology sector. Prior to joining the Foundation, Barry managed the Bank of America Executive Office's computer technology.
Barry holds a B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Purdue University.
Finance & Accounting
Susan Au is the director of finance at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Susan was a senior financial analyst with Sun Microsystems. She also held positions at Deloitte & Touche, SBC Communications and Vodafone.
Susan received a B.A. in Accounting from San Francisco State University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. She is also a Certified Public Accountant.
Blake Barthold is an accountant at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Blake worked as an accounting consultant for two years at Robert Half International.
Blake received a B.A. in Business Management Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Jancy Goh is the controller at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation Jancy served as an accounting manager, having served in that capacity at two dotcoms, Asimba and Live Capital. Jancy was also assistant controller for Legacy Partners, a property management and development company.
Jancy received a B.S. in Management from the University of London.
Vy Huynh is a financial analyst for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to coming to the Foundation, Vy was an accounting manager at Keep In Touch Wireless. Previously, Vy served as a senior auditor at Deloitte & Touche, where the Packard Humanities Institute was one of her clients.
Vy is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of San Francisco.
Human Resources
Bob Miller is the chief talent officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Reporting to the president, he serves as a thought partner to senior leadership on talent strategies, responsible for translating the Foundation’s vision into efficient and coordinated teams, accountabilities, and results.
With more than 40 years of human resources experience, Bob’s background includes leading compensation and benefits functions in four large companies and providing human resources consulting services to clients of two major consulting firms. He has worked in a variety of industries including consulting, engineering and construction, telecommunications, high technology manufacturing, and financial services. His functional expertise includes human resources strategy development, board-level executive compensation work, and broad-based compensation and benefits management. Most recently, Bob served as a Partner at Mercer Human Resource Consulting, where he managed relationships for a number of the firm’s major Bay Area clients. Previously, he held positions at Bechtel Group, Inc., Pacific Telesis Group, The Wyatt Company, Varian Associates, and Bank of America. He also served as the National Chair and member of the Board of WorldatWork, is a faculty member for WorldatWork’s basic and advanced certification courses on executive compensation and accounting for non-financial professionals, and was a board member of the Pacific Business Group on Health. He is a Certified Compensation Professional, Certified Benefits Professional, and a Global Remuneration Professional.
Bob attended the University of California at Berkeley.
Fay Wong, Human Resources Operations Manager
Fay Wong is the human resources operations manager at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Fay worked in a variety of accounting, Human Resource and payroll positions with the Academy of Art University, the law firm of Graham & James and several dotcoms.
Fay received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of San Francisco.
Investments
Denise (Villars) Strack is the chief investment officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before assuming the CIO position, Denise was the director of Private Equity and Real Assets for the Foundation. Previously, Denise served as director of Private Equity at Stanford Management Company where she oversaw investments in private and long-biased public equity relationships and was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company in its private equity and financial services practices group.
Strack received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an M.B.A. both from Stanford University.
Alison Barad is director of Private Equity for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Alison worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions group in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley in New York. Most recently, she served as a Development Officer with the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, an international network of non-profit medical camps for children with life-threatening illnesses. In this capacity, she focused on external relations for the Association’s operations in California and Ireland.
Alison received a B.S. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Niles Bryant is the director of Real Assets at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Niles served as Associate Director of Investments at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where he worked on Carnegie’s real estate and resources investing program. Prior to his tenure at Carnegie, Niles was an attorney focused on capital markets transactions.
Niles graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan with a degree in Classical Archaeology, earned his J.D. at the Duke University School of Law, and received an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Felicia Chiu is the director of Public Equities and Fixed Income at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Previously, Felicia worked for Farallon Capital Management, where she evaluated equity and credit opportunities. Prior to Farallon, she was active in the asset management industry at Hellman & Friedman, Barclays Global Investors and Morgan Stanley.
Felicia graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a B.S. in Economics.
Kevin English is an investment associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In this role, he works with the Foundation’s director of Hedge Fund Strategies.
Before joining the Foundation, Kevin worked as a private equity investor at GI Partners in Menlo Park. Previously, he was an investment banking analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. in New York.
Kevin holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Bucknell University.
Carrie is the executive assistant and office manager for the Investment Team.
She comes to the Foundation with more than 14 years of experience supporting senior executives.
Carrie attended Kennesaw State University outside Atlanta, GA, and received a degree in communications with a directed study in human resource management.
Peyton is an investment associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In this role she works with the Foundation's directors of Real Assets and Private Equity.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Peyton was an analyst in J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking Division in Chicago. She also served on the Special Olympics Young Professionals Development Board.
Peyton is a graduate from Indiana University Bloomington Hutton Honors College. She earned a B.S. in Finance from the Kelley School of Business.
Dale Kunkel is the director of Hedge Fund Strategies at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation Dale served as director of Investments at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on all aspects of endowment managements. He has held positions at Capital Market Risk Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and The Laughlin Financial Group.
Dale received a B.S. in Finance from Portland State University and a M.B.A. from Yale University's School of Management. He holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Mitra Lohrasbpour is the public equities and fixed income investment associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, she was a management consultant with Bain & Company. While there, Mitra worked across technology, financial services, and retail industries. She also participated in Bain’s Inspire program, which partnered with San Francisco-based Room to Read.
Mitra graduated with a B.S. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a Burchard Scholar.
Melissa Lopez is a senior investment associate at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. She is focused on broad portfolio initiatives and works across asset classes.
Before joining the Foundation, Melissa was a Research Associate in the U.S. Equities Group at Citigroup in San Francisco. Prior to that, she was an Analyst in the Investment Banking Group at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco. Melissa also worked as a corporate finance advisor in both Sophia, Bulgaria and Shanghai, China.
Melissa received a B.B.A. from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. She also holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Legal & Grants Admin
Bill Green is the general counsel of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Bill spent 15 years as a partner at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco before joining Chiron Corporation in 1990 as vice president, secretary, and general counsel. At Chiron, in addition to his legal duties, Bill was directly involved in the development of Chiron's diagnostic and blood-testing businesses and he also managed the company's alliance with Gen-Probe Incorporated and its joint business with Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Inc. Bill has had a long history of involvement with non-profits including the Blood Centers of the Pacific and the California Foundation for Molecular Biology.
Bill received his undergraduate degree from Yale, and served in the United States Navy before returning to school for a law degree from Georgetown University.
Sasha Abrams is the senior cousel in the Legal Department of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Sasha worked as an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP where she focused on municipal bond financings for a variety of public agencies, including cities, counties, redevelopment agencies, school districts, and housing authorities.
Sasha earned a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law and was admitted to the California bar, and received an A.B. in Psychology from Stanford University.
Ignacio Estrada is the manager of Grants Administration for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Ignacio brings to the Foundation over 12 years experience in Grants Administration. Prior to joining the Foundation, Ignacio served as grants administrator at the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, Illinois.
Ignacio received a BSC from DePaul University. He has also completed the Non Profit Management Certificate Program at Georgetown University.
Addie Lanier is the administrative assistant for Grants Administration at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Addie joined the Foundation in July 2008, after having provided board and executive support for the Independent Television Service and the Mayor's Department of Children, Youth and their Families in the city of San Francisco. Previously, she taught in the San Francisco Unified School District, first in kindergarten from 1995-1998, and subsequently as a middle school librarian from 1999- 2005. Her interests include gardening, yoga, and Jungian psychology. She is married with two children.
Addie received a B.A. in English Literature from University of California, Los Angeles, and a teaching credential from Holy Names College. She also completed graduate work in English and Library Science.
Cathy Manovi is a grants administrator at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Cathy worked in the legal field for 16 years. She has also held positions as an orthodontic technician,
a dental chair side assistant, and a swim instructor, among other pursuits.
Cathy attended Hunter College in New York, and is a current student of the Humanities at Dominican University of California.
Sue Routh is the legal assistant to the general counsel of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Sue worked with Chiron’s general counsel in Emeryville, California. She also held positions with several patent and trademark law firms in Washington, DC, and as the assistant to the president of MCI for 10 years.
Program Finance
Carol Ting is an associate director of Program Finance at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Carol worked at Nonprofit Finance Fund, a national nonprofit service provider where she was the director for the San Francisco Bay Area Program. Carol delivered technical assistance and structured loans for nonprofit organizations to enhance their capacity and sustainability and to manage their organizational growth. She has also held a variety of positions within the financial services industry at Chase Manhattan Bank and Prudential including corporate philanthropy, community development, finance, consulting, and operations.
Carol graduated from Wellesley College and received a M.A. in Private and Public Management from the Yale School of Management.
Shalyn is a Program Finance officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Shalyn was a management consultant at Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco and served clients in the high tech, financial services, and energy industries on strategy and operations projects.
Shalyn received her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Stanford University.
Kristin Gilliss is a Program Finance Officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Before joining the Foundation, Kristin served in the U.S. Peace Corps as a Business Advising Volunteer in the Philippines. Prior to that role, she was a Senior Analyst in investment banking at Raymond James Financial, where she executed mergers and acquisitions for environmental services companies. Kristin also has worked for a variety of domestic nonprofit and public organizations, including Upwardly Global, Low Income Investment Fund, and the U.S. National Park Service.
Kristin received her A.B. from Harvard University and earned her M.P.A. from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, where she was a Dean’s Scholar.
Kristin Schmelz is a Program Finance officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Kristin worked for the Conservation Strategy Fund in Santa Cruz, California. She also served as a business and litigation consultant at Tucker Alan, Inc., now Navigant Corporation, in Denver.
Kristin received her B.A. in Economics from Colorado College.Lauren Tulp is a Program Finance associate at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Lauren worked as a foundation assistant at GMA Foundations, a philanthropic consulting firm in Boston. Previously, she spent a year as a development associate at the nonprofit organization Strong Women, Strong Girls through the Center for Public Interest Careers fellowship program.
Lauren received her B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard College.