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) where he served in that capacity from 2001 - 2007. As president, he led the organization into becoming a truly global enterprise, operating in 30 countries as well as every state in the U.S. 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 from all sources increased significantly, hitting an all-time high of $1.2 billion in 2006.
Prior to his role as president and CEO of TNC, from 2000 - 2001 Steve was a founding partner of the 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 around the world.
Steve serves on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, and the boards of Independent Sector, Sustainable Conservation, and the California Game Wardens Foundation. He has also served on the U.C. Berkeley College of Natural Resources Advisory Board. Steve is the recipient of the Chevron Conservation Award, the Edmund G. Brown Award for Environmental and Economic Balance, the John Pritzlaff Conservation Award, and the California League of Conservation Voter's Conservation Leadership Award.
Steve has a B.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California at Berkeley (1973), where he graduated with honors, and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law (1976).
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.
Daniela Haber 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.
Jennifer Rea is a program associate for the Foundation’s Environmental Conservation Program. 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.
Luis A. Solórzano is the program officer for environmental science at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. 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.
Dan Winterson is a program officer in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Environmental Conservation Program, with a focus on conservation finance.
Previously, Dan managed the Foundation’s commitment to Conservation International and the Foundation’s support to Forever Costa Rica. Prior to joining the Foundation, Dan worked at McKinsey & Company where he led client engagements in strategy, organization, and performance management. Dan also worked as vice president at Teach For America where he led the organization’s 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.
Heather Wright is a program officer for the Environmental Conservation Program.
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
Avecita Chicchón is the program director for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Avecita joins the Foundation with over 25 years of experience in natural resource use, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development in Latin America, with a particular emphasis on the Amazon. Avecita served as the executive director of the Latin America and Caribbean Program at Wildlife Conservation Society from 2003-2010, where she managed conservation programs in 15 countries that led to significant on-the-ground conservation achievements. Prior to her time at WCS, Avecita was a program officer at the MacArthur Foundation, responsible for grantmaking on conservation and sustainable development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean, and she was the Peru program director at Conservation International.
She received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology with an emphasis on natural resource use and conservation issues from the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL.
Paulina Arroyo is a program officer for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Born in Ecuador and raised in Alexandria, Virginia, Paulina went to Ecuador for a “brief” period to do field work after graduating from college. Seventeen years later, she had dedicated her professional attention to working on conservation and development issues in Ecuador, focusing on local community participation in park and natural resource management. For several years she worked with grassroots Ecuadorian environmental NGOs, leading community conservation projects in the Andes and Amazon regions. Her strong commitment to participatory conservation led her to The Nature Conservancy, where she expanded her geographic scope to Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, and Venezuela. Recently, she served as the Conservancy’s Andes Amazon program manager, and as director of the Indigenous and Communal Lands Global Strategy.
Paulina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo, Canada and has carried out post-graduate studies in gender and natural resource management at FLACSO-Ecuador. She is bilingual in English and Spanish, and also speaks Portuguese.
Leo is a program officer for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Leo worked with the Conservation Strategy Fund, establishing and consolidating their first field programs in Latin America by leading international technical teams and strengthening institutional relationships. As lead conservation economics analyst, mentor, and instructor, Leo researched the economics of land use, protected areas, sustainable businesses, biodiversity, and infrastructure development, and he has trained nearly 500 conservation practitioners, researchers, and governmental officials in a multitude of countries. Leo was also an invited lecturer of the National Institute of Amazonian Research, and has lectured several MBA courses in Brazil, stimulating business professionals to assess corporate sustainability practices. He was a member of the international team of experts of The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity for Regional and Local Policy, and has extensive field experience as a researcher in the Mamirauá and Amanã Sustainable Development Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon and as a resident and biologist in the Pantanal Wetlands. He has written numerous publications and helped guide policy decisions, from reducing deforestation to increasing the economic value attributed to ecosystems.
Leo has a M.Sc. in conservation biology from the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, UK, a M.B.A. with a focus on strategic business management from UNA University, Brazil, and a B.Sc. in biological sciences from UFRGS, Brazil. He is a native of Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.
Eric Jacobson is the program associate for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Eric served as the communications officer for EcoLogic Development Fund, managing communications strategy design and implementation. He previously worked in the marine program at Wildlife Conservation Society and at several other environmental non-profit organizations, working on Latin American conservation, municipal energy efficiency, environmental education, and political campaigns.
Eric received his M.A. in conservation biology from Columbia University, where his thesis research investigated the regeneration of mahogany from planted seedlings on man-made clearings in community forests of southern Quintana Roo, Mexico. He received his B.A. in biology from the University of Pennsylvania and studied with the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Erin Dovichin is a program officer for the Wild Salmon Ecosystems Initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Erin was the associate state director for The Nature Conservancy in Alaska where she oversaw the Conservancy’s conservation programs statewide, including shaping its wild salmon conservation efforts in the Tongass, Bristol Bay, and the Matanuska-Susitna watersheds. She has extensive experience in convening and facilitating diverse stakeholders in seeking collaborative solutions to high-conflict, natural resource management issues.
Erin received her B.A. in American Studies and English from Dickinson College and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Literary Arts from the University of Alaska Anchorage.
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.
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.
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 Learning and Land Conservation.
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.
Marina Kipnis is the administrative assistant for the Legal Department and the San Francisco Bay Area program.
Marina brings to the Foundation years of experience in the grantmaking field. Before joining the Foundation, Marina worked as an analyst with the City of San Jose where she administered grants for youth and community programs and supported the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force. Prior to that, she was the grants manager at the Beldon Fund, an environmental foundation in New York City. Marina also served as an AmeriCorps VISTA after college, working with organizations that serve the homeless in downtown Los Angeles.
Marina holds a B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from CUNY School of Law.
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.
Marybeth
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 Department 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.
Elizabeth Malcolm is a program officer for the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Liz served as the medical director for chronic disease programs and outcomes at Sutter VNA and Hospice, where she developed, implemented, and studied disease management programs focusing on improving the quality of care transitions. While at Sutter, she served in leadership roles for the Advanced Illness Management program and for a system-wide re-design of heart failure care to improve the transition from hospital to home. She has worked as a primary care doctor in several community clinic settings. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant for the RAND Corporation on disease management and quality of care projects.
Liz received her MD from New York Medical College and completed her internal medicine residency and chief residency at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics. She was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship at UCLA, where she also obtained a master’s degree in health services research.
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.
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 Learning and Land Conservation.
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.
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 Learning
Janet Coffey is a program officer for Science Learning in
the San Francisco Bay Area Program.
Janet brings to the Foundation almost 20 years of experience
in science education as researcher, teacher, and policy maker. Her research and
teaching interests lie in science education at the intersection of assessment
and student learning, primarily in the elementary and middle school years. She
has also worked with physics and biology faculty to reform undergraduate
science education. She has published and presented extensively in science
education, received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and
recognition for teaching and graduate student mentoring. She recently was on
the faculty at the University of Maryland, College of Education. Janet also
taught middle school science and worked as a staff member at the National
Research Council during the development of the National Science Education Standards.
She received both her B.A., in human biology, and her Ph.D.,
in science education, from 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 has been a program director for the Science Program since 2010. She leads the $300 million Caltech and the $250 million Thirty Meter Telescope commitments. She also serves as lead on a variety of Science “standalone” grants in areas as far-ranging as Astrophysics, Geology, Condensed Matter Physics, Remote Sensing, and Sustainable Energy Technology, and helps to define new areas of interest for Foundation science investments. Prior to this, she was the senior program officer for Science at the Moore Foundation from 2008-2010.
Before joining the Foundation, Cynthia worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Chemistry, Materials, and Life Sciences Directorate.She served as principal investigator for numerous projects, and developed, ran and analyzed global atmospheric computer simulations to understand the role of energy-based emissions on the troposphere and stratosphere. Cynthia has published numerous journal articles and invited book chapters on her work, and presented them in talks nationally and internationally. She also developed and co-chaired a biweekly atmospheric science seminar series. Cynthia served 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 after-school science to elementary students.
Cynthia earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology.
Gary Greenburg is a program officer in the Foundation’s Science Program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Gary was the vice president for research and a founding member at Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz) where he was responsible for an $80M research grant portfolio. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Arizona School of Medicine, where he led a research effort in development and regeneration of the vertebrate pancreas, and an adjunct faculty member at Pima Community College where he taught courses ranging from introductory biology to anatomy and physiology.
He is internationally known for his pioneering work in epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) for which he received the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Developmental Biology. He has published extensively in cell and molecular biology and has 5 issued patents. Gary spent 12 years in biotechnology, most recently as vice president of research at Reconstructive Technologies, Inc., a San Francisco Bay Area startup company devoted to developing technologies to grow human skin for grafting to severe burns and skin deformities. Previously, as director of gene therapy at Cell Genesys Inc. (CEGE), he led pre-clinical efforts in cell and gene therapy and adoptive immunotherapy.
Gary received his B.A. in biology from the University of California, San Diego and a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University. He was a post-doctoral researcher and Life Sciences Research Foundation Fellow with Nobel Laureate Günter Blobel at Rockefeller University in New York.
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.
Dusan Pejakovic is a program officer for physical science at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
He is a physicist whose expertise spans condensed matter physics, optical and laser spectroscopy, laser-based studies of chemical kinetics, collisional energy transfer in the upper atmosphere, and various methods for physical characterization of materials. Prior to joining the Foundation, he was a staff scientist at SRI International, a non-profit research institute in Menlo Park, CA. There he led and participated in a number of experimental modeling investigations of collisional properties of ultrahigh-temperature ceramics, and novel materials for hypersonics.
Dusan holds a Ph.D. in physics from Ohio State University and a B.S. in physics from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. His dissertation work included discovery and investigations of polymer-based magnets and photoinduced magnetic effects.
California Institute of Technology
Cynthia Atherton has been a program director for the Science Program since 2010. She leads the $300 million Caltech and the $250 million Thirty Meter Telescope commitments. She also serves as lead on a variety of Science “standalone” grants in areas as far-ranging as Astrophysics, Geology, Condensed Matter Physics, Remote Sensing, and Sustainable Energy Technology, and helps to define new areas of interest for Foundation science investments. Prior to this, she was the senior program officer for Science at the Moore Foundation from 2008-2010.
Before joining the Foundation, Cynthia worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Chemistry, Materials, and Life Sciences Directorate.She served as principal investigator for numerous projects, and developed, ran and analyzed global atmospheric computer simulations to understand the role of energy-based emissions on the troposphere and stratosphere. Cynthia has published numerous journal articles and invited book chapters on her work, and presented them in talks nationally and internationally. She also developed and co-chaired a biweekly atmospheric science seminar series. Cynthia served 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 after-school science to elementary students.
Cynthia earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology.
Marine Microbiology Initiative
Ajit Subramaniam, Ph.D., Program Director
Samantha Forde is a program officer with the Marine Microbiology Initiative.
Samantha joined the Foundation with over 10 years of experience as a researcher and educator. She is a broadly trained biologist, with interdisciplinary expertise in evolutionary ecology (including phage), statistics, mathematics, molecular biology, and systems biology. Previously, Samantha was a faculty member at UC Santa Cruz and co-founded Women Evolving Biological Sciences, a professional development program for early-career women biologists, funded by the National Science Foundation. She was also involved with Cal Teach, a California-wide initiative to increase the number of qualified science and math teachers in public schools.
Samantha earned a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from UC Santa Cruz, and conducted her postdoctoral research in microbial ecology and evolution at Stanford University.
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.
Julia Metzner is a program associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Marine Microbiology Initiative.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Julia worked as a teaching assistant in both biology and chemistry at Oberlin College. Previously, she held a biochemistry internship at U.C. Berkeley. She has also volunteered in HIV education, and served as a volunteer tutor in math and science in the Oberlin, Ohio community.
Julia received a B.A. with honors in biology and a minor in chemistry from Oberlin College.
Thirty Meter Telescope
Cynthia Atherton has been a program director for the Science Program since 2010. She leads the $300 million Caltech and the $250 million Thirty Meter Telescope commitments. She also serves as lead on a variety of Science “standalone” grants in areas as far-ranging as Astrophysics, Geology, Condensed Matter Physics, Remote Sensing, and Sustainable Energy Technology, and helps to define new areas of interest for Foundation science investments. Prior to this, she was the senior program officer for Science at the Moore Foundation from 2008-2010.
Before joining the Foundation, Cynthia worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Chemistry, Materials, and Life Sciences Directorate.She served as principal investigator for numerous projects, and developed, ran and analyzed global atmospheric computer simulations to understand the role of energy-based emissions on the troposphere and stratosphere. Cynthia has published numerous journal articles and invited book chapters on her work, and presented them in talks nationally and internationally. She also developed and co-chaired a biweekly atmospheric science seminar series. Cynthia served 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 after-school science to elementary students.
Cynthia earned her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the University of California, Davis, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology.
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.
Administration
Chris McCrum is the chief administrative officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Reporting to the president, he leads the administrative operations to support the Foundation’s strategic goals and its staff, grantees, and other external partners.
Prior to joining the Foundation, he was the chief administrative officer of Barclays Global Investors (BGI), a large institutional asset manager. In this role he was responsible for human resources, corporate responsibility, real estate, business continuity management, and security. Additionally, Chris served as a member of BGI’s Board and US Executive Committee. During his tenure as CAO, he championed and led a corporate responsibility function that incorporated philanthropy, diversity and environmental affairs. He also served as head of human resources and co-chief financial officer. Prior to his time at BGI, Chris spent two years with internet start-ups, including serving as chief financial officer of a web hosting company. Previously, he worked in finance at Bank of America and with auditing firms Price Waterhouse and KPMG. He is a board member of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco.
Chris holds a B.A. in accounting, with honors, from Exeter University in England. He is also a UK Chartered Accountant.
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.
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 and 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.
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.
Robert Smik, Senior Applications Architect & Lead Developer
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 27 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.
Janice Wood, Director, Technology Solutions
Finance & Accounting
Mary Ann Fake is the director of finance at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Reporting to the chief administrative officer, she is responsible for overseeing the Foundation’s accounting, tax, financial reporting, and budgeting.
Mary Ann has extensive finance experience, with a background in accounting, financial reporting, investments, budgeting, and internal control. Her work has primarily been in the financial services field, including as director of accounting policy at Barclays Global Investors, senior audit manager at Wells Fargo Bank, and a number of accounting and finance positions at Bank of America, including controller at the Bank’s venture capital business and business finance officer for the Credit Risk Management and Human Resources departments. Prior to those positions she worked as a senior audit manager at Arthur Andersen & Co. She has also been active in community activities that support youth sports, music, and development.
Mary Ann is a C.P.A. and graduated with honors with a B.S. in accounting from the University of Colorado.
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.
Grants Admin
Ignacio Estrada is the director 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 associate 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 the grants administrator at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Previously, Cathy was an associate in the Grants Administration department. Prior to joining the Foundation, Cathy worked in the legal field as a litigation secretary for 16 years in three San Francisco law firms, and four years in data management in two New York law firms.
Cathy received her B.A. in Humanities from Dominican University of California, with honors, in 2011.
Impact Planning and Analysis
Kerri Folmer, Director, Impact Planning and Analysis
Erich is an impact planning and analysis officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Erich was a program officer at the Tiger Foundation in New York City, where he worked across all three of Tiger’s main funding areas: Education, Job Training, and Social Services/Youth Development. Erich has also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, in venture capital at Rho Ventures, and in the Mergers & Acquisitions group at J.P. Morgan.
Erich received his B.S. in mathematics and statistics from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Elizabeth Singleton is an impact planning and analysis officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Elizabeth served in a variety of roles for The Dow Chemical Company, including strategic planning for the company’s 2015 Sustainability Goals, business development for the company’s Government Markets group with a focus on aligning the Obama administration’s sustainability efforts with the company’s capabilities, and global business development for Dow’s Energy & Climate Change business. She also lived in Tanzania for four years, where she was the first coordinator for the Tanzania Natural Resource Forum, a civil society network dedicated to achieving equitable, sustainable, and transparent management of Tanzania’s natural resources by linking poverty reduction and development efforts with sound resource management practices.
Elizabeth received her AB from Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University, with certificates in Environmental Studies and African Studies. She holds an MBA, with a focus on corporate responsibility and sustainability, from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, where she was a Brian Maxwell Fellow.
Carol Ting, Associate Director of Grantee Approaches
Carol Ting
is the associate director of grantee approaches 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.Lauren Tulp is an impact planning and analysis 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.
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.
Sharon Eshel Gloster is the human resources manager for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Sharon brings nearly 20 years of HR experience in global companies including Cisco, Oracle and Citibank, where she focused on a full range of HR activities including change management, executive and manager coaching, employee relations, process improvement, performance management, and facilitation/training. During her seven years with Cisco Systems’ Mergers & Acquisitions organization, she led or consulted on over 30 HR integrations of small companies spread over 35 countries. While at Cisco, Sharon spearheaded the team responsible for creating much of the HR M&A infrastructure that is still in use today. She has extensive international experience having lived in Israel, Sweden, Greece, Australia, and Canada. She also teaches business communications to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and has a California Adult Education Teaching Credential. Sharon began her career at what is now Price Waterhouse Coopers, leading audit engagements while earning her CPA. She is passionate about environmental conservation and founded the Green Team at her daughter’s elementary school, is a graduate of Acterra’s “2011 Be the Change” program, has led hands-on learning at local bay area schools as an Environmental Volunteer and brought Cool the Earth, a program focused on educating kids about climate change, to the Mountain View-Whisman school district.
Sharon holds a B.S. in business from UC Berkeley, and earned her M.B.A. from NYU’s Stern School of Business, specializing in Human Resources Management and International Business.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 graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
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.
Katherine Krieg is an investment associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In this role she works with the Foundation's chief investment officer on asset allocation, fund flows, performance reporting, and other cross portfolio topics.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Katherine was an associate consultant at Bain & Company. While there, Katherine worked in Bain’s private equity group.
Katherine is a graduate of Williams College, where she earned a B.A., cum laude, in Economics and Psychology.
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 management. He has held positions at Capital Market Risk Advisors, the Rockefeller Foundation, and The Laughlin Financial Group.
Dale received a B.S. in Finance with high honors from Portland State University and a M.B.A. from Yale University's School of Management. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Jamie Lu 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, Jamie was an analyst in Citigroup’s Investment Banking Division in Los Angeles.
Jamie is a graduate of UCLA with a B.A. in Economics and a minor in Global Studies.
Lin Sun is an investment associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In this role, she works with the Foundation’s director of public equities and fixed income.
Before joining the Foundation, Lin worked as an equity research associate in the power and utilities group at Credit Suisse in New York.
Lin is a graduate of Columbia University, where she earned a B.S. in Financial Engineering with a minor in Economics.
Legal
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 counsel in the Legal Department of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In this role, Sasha manages the operations of the Foundation’s Legal Department, including its grantmaking compliance and staff training programs.
Before joining the Foundation, Sasha was an associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in San Francisco. At Orrick, her practice focused on the representation of public agencies, including cities, counties, redevelopment agencies, and school districts, in municipal bond financings. Prior to attending law school, Sasha worked at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, where she supported corporate, securities, and venture capital financing transactions for technology and emerging growth companies.
Sasha holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Stanford University and a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. She is admitted to practice in California.
Marina Kipnis is the administrative assistant for the Legal Department and the San Francisco Bay Area program.
Marina brings to the Foundation years of experience in the grantmaking field. Before joining the Foundation, Marina worked as an analyst with the City of San Jose where she administered grants for youth and community programs and supported the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force. Prior to that, she was the grants manager at the Beldon Fund, an environmental foundation in New York City. Marina also served as an AmeriCorps VISTA after college, working with organizations that serve the homeless in downtown Los Angeles.
Marina holds a B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from CUNY School of Law.
Sarah is the legal analyst for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to her current role, Sarah worked at the Foundation in the Science and Environmental Conservation programs.
Sarah earned a J.D. from Santa Clara University and a B.A. from the University of Arizona, and was admitted to the California bar.