Advisory Board
Advisory Board
John F. Sandy Smith
Stanford IRiSS Board Chair
Partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Kathy Chou
Stanford IRiSS Board Vice Chair
Vice President of Research and Development Operations and Central Services for VMware
Vice President of Research and Development Operations and Central Services for VMware
Eric Ball
General Partner, Impact Venture Capital
Cathy Benko
Former Vice Chairman and Managing Principal, Deloitte LLP
Nicholas Bloom
William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University
Henry Brady
Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy
Farah Champsi
General Partner at Alta Partners
Roger Clay
Former President, Insight Center for Community Economic Development
Mary Dent
Former CEO of Green Dot Bank
Craig Falkenhagen
Former National Chair of the Stanford Fund
Jeanette Garretty Reinhard
Chief Economist & Managing Director
Thomas Geiser
Private Equity Advisor
Birong Hu
Financial Controller at SV Tech Ventures
Rich Jaroslovsky
Vice President for Content and Chief Journalist at SmartNews
Cindy Lang
Founder of Go To Girl Brazil
Hong Seh Lim
President, Mil Kered Inc.
Doyle McManus
Director of the Journalism Program at Georgetown University
John McMurtry
Senior Mechanical Engineer at Applied Precision Design
Michael McPherson
President Emeritus of the Spencer Foundation
Gretchen Milligan
Founder of Board Focus, Retired
Hema Sareen Mohan
Former Nonprofit Executive and Senior Aide, CA Senate
John O’Farrell
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Gloria Principe
Chair, Silicon Valley Committee, Human Rights Watch
Donna Schweers
Independent Management Consulting Professional
Matt Snipp
Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences
Director of Secure Data Center
Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Engagement
Director of Secure Data Center
Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Engagement
Allan Thygesen
President of the Americas at Google
Mark Vander Ploeg
Board Member at The Spencer Foundation
Karen Cook
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology, IRiSS Faculty Director
Michael Tomz
William Bennett Munro Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for American Democracy
IRiSS Deputy Director
IRiSS Deputy Director
Chris Thomsen
IRiSS Executive Director
