Leadership & Board
Leadership
Adam Tobin, Executive Director/CEO
Liz Austerman, Deputy Director
Fred Patton, Chief Financial Officer
Brian Linke, Director of Operations
Daniel Stanton, Director of Education
Foundation Board
Board Officers
Mary Ellen Tong, Board Chair
Business Consultant
Jennifer Liebeler Michael, Vice Chair
Land and Biodiversity Manager, Chevron
Vanita Chhabra, Treasurer
Adam Tobin, Board Secretary
Executive Director/CEO
Board Members
Rajiv Bhatia
Vice President of Product, Roblox
Aisha Brown
Government & Community Relations, Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Bill Bruner
NASA/Commercial Space Relationship Manager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jan Chabala, Ph.D.
Retired Physicist
Moyra Contreras
Educator
Glen Dahlbacka, Ph.D.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chris Ellison
Founding Partner, Ellison, Schneider & Harris
Alex Filippenko, Ph.D.
Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Sheryl Gorchow Stuart
Nonprofit Consultant
Dan Kammen, Ph.D.
Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley
Michael Levi, Ph.D.
Senior Lead Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Janet Macher, Sc.D.
Retired Public Health Researcher
Gerald McKeegan
Retired Space Programs Manager, Orcon Corporation
Dr. James Mittelberger
Executive Director, The Center for Elders Independence
Annie Mudge
Partner, Cox, Castle & Nicholson, LLP
Fred Patton
Retired CFO
Eric Rudney
President, Rudney Associates
John Spees
Founding Partner & Manager, Granite Capital Management
Robert Spencer
Principal, Urban Economics
Hon. Sheng Thao
Oakland City Councilmember, District 4
Leonard Tramiel
Dan VanDerZanden
Retired, Energy Research and Technology, Chevron
Eugene Wong
Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
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
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
