Leadership & Board
Leadership
Adam Tobin, Executive Director/CEO
Liz Austerman, Deputy Director
Tracy Corado, Director of Design & Exhibits
Lisa Salomon, Interim Development Director
Brian Linke, Director of Operations
Louise Waters, Director of the Oakland Space Academy
Shawn Connolly, Chief of Staff
Samantha Stevick, Director of Strategic Sales
Jessica Williams, Director of Public Engagement
Foundation Board
Board Officers
Sheryl Gorchow Stuart
Nonprofit Consultant
Board Chair / Board Secretary
Robert Spencer
Principal, Urban Economics
Vice Chair
John Spees
Founding Partner & Manager, Granite Capital Management
Treasurer
Board Members
Rajiv Bhatia
Vice President of Product, Roblox
Aisha Brown
Chief of Social Impact and Equity, Alameda County
Bill Bruner
NASA/Commercial Space Relationship Manager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jan Chabala, Ph.D.
Retired Physicist
Vanita Chhabra
Investment Planning Practice Lead, Asset Management, Quanta Technology, LLC
Ron Connors
Retired, Merrill Lynch
Moyra Contreras
Educator
Christine Cowsert Chapman
Senior Vice President, Enterprise Business and Technology Modernization
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Glen Dahlbacka, Ph.D.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chris Ellison
Founding Partner, Ellison, Schneider & Harris
Alex Filippenko, Ph.D.
Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Dan Kammen, Ph.D.
Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Levi, Ph.D.
Senior Lead Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jennifer Liebeler Michael
Land and Biodiversity Manager, Chevron
Nema Link
Director of Land Development, Becker Boards
Janet Macher, Sc.D.
Retired Public Health Researcher
Gerald McKeegan
Retired Space Programs Manager, Orcon Corporation
Dr. James Mittelberger
Chief Medical Officer, Center for Elders Independence
Annie Mudge
Partner, Cox, Castle & Nicholson, LLP
Fred Patton
Retired CFO
Eric Rudney
President, Rudney Associates
Mary Ellen Tong
Business Consultant
Leonard Tramiel
Scientist & Educator
Dan VanDerZanden
Retired, Energy Research and Technology, Chevron
Emeritus Board
Lewis Braxton III
Retired Deputy Director, NASA Ames Research Center
Paul Chapman, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Inverness Associates
Jerry Fiddler
Principal, Zygote Ventures
Garrett Gruener
Executive Chairman at Nanōmix
Larry Langs
Investor, Financial Operational and Legal Engineering of Technology Companies
Daniel Miller
Managing Director, The Roda Group
Hon. Jean Quan
Former Mayor, City of Oakland
Hon. Dick Spees
Retired Councilmember, City of Oakland
Hon. Sheng Thao
Mayor, City of Oakland
