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Member Biographies
Martha Fay Africa
Partner, Hodge/Niederer/Cariani
Martha Fay Africa is a Partner with Hodge/Niederer/Cariani. She brings strategic industry and functional expertise across business sectors throughout the United States. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Africa was a founding member of Major, Hagen & Africa (now, Major, Lindsey & Africa) where she placed experienced attorneys worldwide in partner level and in-house positions in law firms, corporations, and universities. Some of Ms. Africa s clients included: The Nature Conservancy, Texas Pacific Group, Silicon Valley Bank, Stanford Research Institute, The California Independent System Operator (The California ISO), the University of California, Blue Shield of California, Levi Strauss, Southern California Edison and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ms. Africa is a member of the Blue Ribbon No Glass Ceiling Task Force and the Committee on Employment of Minorities; both groups are affiliated with the Bar Association of San Francisco and address concerns relating to minority and female lawyer advancement. She sits on the editorial board of Law Technology News, a publication of The American Lawyer. Ms. Africa served as liaison to the American Bar Association s (ABA) Commission on Women from the Law Practice Management Section and founded Women Rainmakers, an ABA organization devoted to training women lawyers in the art of networking and practice building.
Ms. Africa is a member of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Council, and serves on a number of non-profit boards. She has authored many articles and is a public speaker on issues of interest to business and legal professionals.
She has been the recipient of the Cornerstone Award at Chatham College, the Golden Hammer Award for contributions enabling women and minorities to break the glass ceiling, the Award of Merit from the San Francisco Bar Association, and is a College of Law Practice Management Fellow of the American Bar Association.
Prior to entering the search profession, Ms. Africa s earlier career was in service to educational institutions including Boalt Hall School of Law, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Duke University Medical Center. Ms. Africa, also known as Marty, graduated from the University of California with a B.A. in English/Art History.
Bernie Bulkin, PhD, FRSC, FRSA, FEI
Chief Scientist for BP, Retired
Chairman, AEA Technology plc
Venture Partner, Vantage Point Venture Partners
Bernie Bulkin is a leading voice on issues related to energy and environment. His activities span business, government advisory, and educational roles. He is Chairman of AEA Technology, a leading environmental consultancy, Chairman of Swedish company Chemrec AB, and a board member of Severn Trent plc and Accelergy Corporation. He is venture partner with Vantage Point, associated with their Clean Tech practice. Bernie is Commissioner for Energy and Transport at the UK Sustainable Development Commission, and a member of the Government s Energy Board. He is a Professorial Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge and he serves on numerous charitable boards. He is the author of more than 100 papers and two books. Dr Bulkin was formerly Chief Scientist of BP.
Ed Carson
Chairman and CEO, Retired
First Interstate Bancorp
Ed Carson retired as Chairman and CEO of First Interstate Bancorp. He is an active philanthropist who has made a generous gift for the Scripps Seaside Forum. For many years, he has directed the ARCS fellowship to SIO there are currently two Carson fellows. He has served on the Boards of the Arizona Council for Economic Education, Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, Phoenix Executive Club and many others.
James V. Cimino
Regional Managing Director
Private Client Services, Wells Fargo Bank
Dr. Cimino was awarded a PhD in neurophysiology from the University of California, Berkeley and earned a Masters of Business Administration degree in Finance and Security Analysis from the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson Graduate School of Management. His undergraduate work was completed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree.
Dr. Cimino resides in Rancho Santa Fe, California with his family. He is on the board of directors for the Barrio Logan College Institute, the California Trust for Public Land, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Scripps Stevens Cancer Center and the University of California, San Diego Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
Dennis DeConcini
Consultant, Parry, Romani, DeConcini and Symms
United States Senator (Retired)
Member of the Arizona Board of Regents
Senator DeConcini served three terms in the United States Senate from Arizona 1977-1995, Senior Senator 1987-1995. Prior to election to the Senate, he pract iced l aw in Arizona and Washington, DC. Senator DeConcini is currently a consultant to Parry, Romani, DeConcini and Symms. Senator DeConcini resides in Arizona and Southern California.
Admiral Robert Foley
United States Navy, Retired
Vice President for Laboratory Management
University of California, Office of the President
Retired Admiral S. Robert Foley was appointed vice president of the University of California for laboratory management in October 2003. As vice president, he has responsibility for UC's management of the three national laboratories it administers on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration. Admiral Foley served in the Navy for 35 years and held several operational commands, including commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet. In 1985, following his military career, Foley served as President Reagan's assistant secretary of energy for defense programs, where he had responsibility for the nation's nuclear weapons complex, including the UC-managed Los Alamos and Livermore laboratories as well as the country's other nuclear weapons plants and facilities.
In 1988, Foley was named president of the Advanced Technology Group at ICF Kaiser Engineers. In 1991, Foley joined the Raytheon Company, where he served as vice president for commercial marketing, president of Raytheon Japan, and vice president of Asian Operations for Raytheon International, Inc. Foley received his master's degree in international affairs from George Washington University in 1968. He graduated from Naval War College in 1968 and was recognized as a Distinguished Graduate of the Air War College. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the French Legion of Honor, the Japan Order of the Rising Sun (First Class), the U.S. Navy Distinguished Service Medal, and the Secretary of Energy's Gold Medal for Distinguished Service.
The Honorable Daniel S. Goldin
Chairman and CEO, The Intellisis Comanies
The Honorable Daniel S. Goldin is the Chairman and CEO of The Intellisis Companies, which focus on the development of next generation neurobiologically inspired computers and high tech consulting. Previously, as NASA Administrator from 1992-2001, he directly served three U.S. Presidents: George H. W. Bush, William Jefferson Clinton and George W. Bush. Prior to NASA, he served as Vice President and General Manager of TRW Space and Technology Group, now Northrop Grumman. He began his career at NASA s Glenn Research Center working on electric propulsion systems for interplanetary travel. Mr. Goldin is a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Geographic Society, the National Academy of Engineering and the Scripps Advisory Board. Mr. Goldin also serves on the Board of Directors of AOptix Technologies. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Competitiveness and a Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1962 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and the UCLA Executive Management Program in 1983.
Stuart Goode, Chair
E.M. Warburg Pincus & Co. (Retired)
Mr. Goode is a private investor and fromer partner of Warburg Picus & Co., a private New York based venture banking and investments management firm. He was associated with the firm from 1981 through 1996, and has over thirty years of experience as an investments professional. Stuart was born and raised west of Chicago, and received a B.S. and M.B.A from Northwestern University. He resides in New York City and Bridgehampton, New York.
George Haligowski
Imperial Capital Bancorp, Inc.
George W. Haligowski has served as Imperial Capital Bancorp, Inc. s Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer since inception. He has also served as the Bank s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since 1992, and was the Bank s President from 1992 to October 1997. In 2000 he was again appointed as President of the Bank. From 1990 to 1992, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Principal of Halivest International, Ltd., an international finance and asset management company. He was previously employed as a Vice President by Shearson Lehman Hutton (1988 to 1990) and Prudential-Bache Securities (1983 to 1988), and by Avco Financial Services as Regional Director of its Japanese branch operations (1976 to 1981), as Training Coordinator for Avco Thrift and Loan (1976) and as a Branch Manager (1974 to 1976). Mr. Haligowski s post secondary education consists of the following programs: He graduated from the Securities Industry Institute held at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. He also became an alumnus of the Harvard Business School by completing the Owners Presidents Management Program. He completed the Advanced Management Program at the University of Southern California. He received his Masters of Banking diploma from L.S.U. Graduate School of Banking. Mr. Haligowski also serves on several boards, including Operation Hope, Chairman Emeritus of the Young Presidents Organization of San Diego, and is Chairman of the University of California San Diego Scripps Institute of Oceanography's Advisory Board the Director's Cabinet.
Richard Hertzberg
CEO, Enpex Corporation
Richard Hertzberg is Chairman, CEO, and President of ENPEX Corporation, a privately held energy company involved in the creation, development, financing, construction, operation and ownership of cogeneration projects, oil and gas production and exploration, and alternative energy projects. He was Chairman of the UCSD Chancellors Associates from 2000 - 2003 and a Trustee for the UCSD Foundation Board of Trustees through 2006. Mr. Hertzberg has a B.A. in Biology from Colgate University and an M.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University.
Sam Iacobellis
Deputy Chairman Rockwell International (Retired)
Sam Iacobellis, Sr., is the retired Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Rockwell International, and also President of Rockwell's North American Aerospace Operations. He also held leadership positions at Rocketdyne (Space & Propulsion, including rocket engines for Saturn V and the Space Shuttle) and served as President of Atomics International (fast breeder nuclear reactors & space nuclear auxiliary power systems). As a top engineer for Rockwell International, he was a leader in the development and production of the B-1B Bomber.
He is a first generation American and a product of Fresno schools. Attending on an athletic scholarship, Iacobellis went on to Fresno State, where he earned a B.S. degree in engineering while playing football for the Bulldogs. He later earned a M.S. degree in engineering from UCLA.
In 2004, Mr. Iacobellis received the International Von Karman Wings Award from the Aerospace Historical Society. In 2003, he was awarded the 23rd annual Howard Hughes Memorial Award. Other honors accorded him include election as an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a Fellow of the International Academy of Astronautics, and being named as UCLA's Engineering Alumnus of the Year in 1980, and California State University - Fresno's Alumnus of the Year in 1982. He holds a patent in rocket engine design and co-holds a patent with Professor Eldon Knuth, his UCLA thesis advisor, in the field of rarefield gas dynamics. Mr. Iacobells served as President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1998-1999) and is currently serving as Chairman of the UCLA Engineering Industrial Advisory Council.
Wayne Kennedy
Senior Vice President Emeritus, University of California
V. Wayne Kennedy joined the University of California's Office of the President as Senior Vice President for Business and Finance in July, 1993 and served in that capacity until retiring on September 1, 2000. At present he serves as the Interim Vice Chancellor for External Relations at the University of California San Diego.
A nationally recognized expert in issues related to the financing of research universities and medical education, Mr. Kennedy previously was Vice Chancellor for Administration at UC San Diego for eight years. Mr. Kennedy's professional activities included past and present membership on numerous boards and committees dealing with technology transfer, government relations, grant and contract policies, private fund raising, and medical education administration. He is also the author and co-author of numerous papers and statements delivered before governmental bodies and agencies and professional and academic organizations. Mr. Kennedy serves on the boards of several not for profit and for profit entities.
John "Mac" McQuown
Entrepreneur
John Andrew McQuown is a co-founder and principal of Diversified Credit Investments, located in San Francisco, a firm that manages portfolios of corporate credit risk for institutional investors. Mac was a co-founder and former Chairman of KMV, a corporate credit risk analytics firm acquired by Moody's Investors Services in 2002. He co-founded and remains a director of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an equity funds investment advisor, and Loan Performance, a specialist firm in residential mortgage risk measurement. Previously, he co-founded Diversified Corporate Loans and Chalone Wine Group. Mac began his business career in the Corporate Finance Department of Smith, Barney & Co., New York. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Mac was the Director of Management Sciences, Wells Fargo Bank, where he was responsible for the effort that resulted in the world's first "index" equity funds. Mac spent two years aboard the USS Wiltsie DD 716, Destroyer Squadron 11, San Diego, where he was Chief Engineer. Mac has extensive scuba diving experience in Southern California and Hawaii waters. Mac attended workshops at Scripps on marine mammals and marine biology. The McQuown family resides in Sonoma, California, where they produce wine grapes, heirloom vegetables, and olive oil. Mac received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University and a M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Gordon E. Moore
Chairman Emeritus, Intel Corporation
Gordon E. Moore is currently Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation. Moore co-founded Intel in 1968, serving initially as Executive Vice President. He became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1975 and held that post until elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1979. He remained CEO until 1987 and was named Chairman Emeritus in 1997. Moore is widely known for "Moore's Law," in which he predicted that the number of transistors that the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year. In 1995, he updated his prediction to once every two years. While originally intended as a rule of thumb in 1965, it has become the guiding principle for the industry to deliver ever-more-powerful semiconductor chips at proportionate decreases in cost. Moore earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology. He is a director of Varian Associates, Gilead Sciences Inc. and Transamerica Corporation. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE and a Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology. He received the National Medal of Technology in 1990.
Nicolas C. Nierenberg
Chairman of the Board and Chief Architect, Actuate Corporation
Nico Nierenberg has been a software entrepreneur and innovator for almost 20 years, and founded Actuate in 1993. Prior to Actuate, Nico co-founded Unify Corp., which develops and markets relational database development tools. At Unify, Nico was the chief technical visionary of the company, and led the design of Unify's first product, the UNIFY RDBMS. Prior to Unify, Nico was Systems Software Chief for Rogers, Kirkham and Associates, where he was responsible for developing a number of new products and applications. Nico attended the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, San Diego, where he studied economics and computer sciences.
Clyde Ostle
Group Executive Vice President,
Wealth Management Group And Internet Services Group
Wells Fargo & Company
Clyde W. Ostler is group executive vice president of Wells Fargo & Company. He is responsible for the Wealth Management Group and the Internet Services Group.
Wealth Management Group provides high net worth and affluent clients with products and services in the areas of Private Banking, investment counseling and management, trust and estate planning, and brokerage. Wealth Management Group has more than $200 billion in total assets under administration as of June 2007.
Internet Services provides a full range of products and services online, via a single sign on, for consumers and small businesses. Wells Fargo was the first major financial services company to launch internet banking services and enjoys a #1 market share of active online users among banks.
Joining Wells Fargo in 1971, Ostler has held management positions in Finance, Planning, International, Systems, Investment and Online Banking.
A native of San Diego, he graduated from the University of California at San Diego with a B.A. in mathematics in 1968, and from the University of Chicago with an M.B.A. in 1970. Ostler serves on a number of charitable and business boards.
John Patton
Founder and Chief Scientific Officer - Nektar Therapeutics
Therapeutics Panelist: Pulmonary Platform Technology
John Patton is a biotechnologist, entrepreneur and world renowned expert on the delivery of peptide and protein therapeutics. He co-founded Inhale Therapeutics (now Nektar Therapeutics) in 1990 and has served as Chief Scientific Officer since November 2001 and a director since July 1990. Nektar specializes in the development of new inhaled medicines and the PEGylation of small and large molecule therapeutics for improved efficacy and safety. Nektar developed the first inhaled insulin product which was approved in Jan 2006 in the US and Europe. From 1985 to 1990, Dr. Patton was with Genentech, Inc., the first biotechnology company, where he headed their non-invasive drug delivery activities. Dr. Patton was on the faculty of the Marine Science and Microbiology Departments at the University of Georgia from 1979 through 1985, where he was granted tenure in 1984. Dr. Patton received a B.S. in Zoology from Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, a Ph.D. in Biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego and conducted post doctoral studies at Harvard Medical School and the University of Lund, Sweden, both in biomedicine. Dr. Patton is also a director of Halozyme Therapeutics, and Pikamab Pharmaceuticals, Inc., both biotechnology companies and serves on the Pennsylvania State University, College of Science Advisory Board.
Steve Peace
Senator (ret)
Senator Steve Peace currently serves as the Senior Advisor to John Moores, the Chairman of JMI Services, Inc. He also provides independent consulting on public policy issues to private clients. He serves on the Board of Directors of the San Diego Padres Baseball Team, Killer Tomatoes Entertainment, Inc. and The California Independent Voter Project.
As a member of the State Senate and the State Assembly, Senator Peace represented one of the most diverse districts in California. As an Assembly Member and Senator, he enjoyed broad support of large populations of Latino, African-American, and Asian communities, as well as an unusual level of bipartisan support.
During his time in the Legislature, Peace earned a reputation as the person the Legislature turned to on particularly difficult and complex issues, including landmark reforms of the state s workers compensation system. Senator Peace has been credited with presiding over forums that have been described by the press and citizen groups as "bipartisan", "exhaustive" and "open to a full airing of views."
After completing 20 years in the Legislature, Senator Peace was asked to return to the Capitol to craft a workout plan for a beleaguered state budget. He served for one year as the Director of Finance for the State of California during which time he produced a plan that reduced the state budget deficit by more than $20 billion and rescued that state from an impending cash crisis.
Peter Preuss
Regent, University of California
President, Preuss Foundation
Peter Preuss is president of The Preuss Foundation, which is involved in brain tumor research. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Technical University of Hanover, Germany, and earned his master's degree in mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. In 1970 Mr. Preuss founded Integrated Software Systems Corporation (ISSCO), a San Diego-based company which was the first software company specializing in computer graphics. He served as president and, later, chairman of the board of ISSCO until it was purchased by Computer Associates in 1986. He has served on the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health. In addition, he serves on various high-tech and bio-tech corporate boards. He was appointed to a 12-year term as Regent of the University of California in 1996.
President, Chicago Climate Exchange
Richard L. Sandor is chairman and CEO of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the world s first and North America s only voluntary, legally binding integrated greenhouse gas emissions reduction, registry and trading system. Dr. Sandor is also a research professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Member of the International Advisory Council of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. While on sabbatical from the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1970s he served as Vice President and chief economist of the Chicago Board of Trade. It was at that time that he earned the reputation as the principal architect of the interest-rate futures market. Richard L. Sandor was honored by the City of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade for his contribution to the creation of financial futures and his universal recognition as the "father of financial futures". In October 2007, Dr. Sandor was honored as one of TIME Magazine s Heroes of the Environment for his work as the Father of Carbon of Trading.
Dr. Sandor has been a faculty member of the School of Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, and held a faculty position at Stanford University. He was a visiting professor of Finance at Northwestern University, and was named the first Martin C. Remer Visiting Distinguished Professor of Finance in the Graduate School of Management. He was recently Distinguished Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business where he taught a course on Environmental Finance.
Dr. Sandor has served on numerous committees and boards including the Chicago Board of Trade, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the London Financial Futures Exchange, the Banking Research Center of Northwestern University, the Columbia University Futures Center and the Board of Visitors of the International Program Center at the University of Oklahoma. He assisted the New York Mercantile Exchange on the design of the options contract for crude oil. He was also a member of the International Advisory Board of the March Terme International de France (MATIF), the Financial Products Advisory Committee of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Dr. Sandor was an expert advisor to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on tradable entitlements for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. He was also a participant in the working group for the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market for the South Coast Air Quality Management District, Los Angeles.
Susan L. Shirk
Director, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
Professor, University of California, San Diego
Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, professor of political science, and the first appointee of the Ho Miu Lam Endowed Chair in China and Pacific Relations in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. Professor Shirk first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there ever since.
During 1997-2000, Dr. Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for the People s Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial track-two forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea, and North Korea.
Dr. Shirk s publications include her books, How China Opened Its Door: The Political Success of the PRC s Foreign Trade and Investment Reforms; The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China; and Competitive Comrades: Career Incentives and Student Strategies in China. Her latest book, China: Fragile Superpower, was published by Oxford University Press in April 2007.
Dr. Shirk served as a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board, the Board of Governors for the East-West Center (Hawaii), the Board of Trustees of the U.S.-Japan Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an emeritus member of the Aspen Strategy Group. As Senior Adviser to The Albright Group, Dr. Shirk advises private sector clients on China and East Asia. Dr. Shirk received her BA in Political Science from Mount Holyoke College, her MA in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Richard Snell
Chairman Emeritus
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation
Dick Snell is Chairman Emeritus of Pinnacle West Capital Corporation. He was Chairman of Pinnacle West and of its subsidiaries, including Arizona Public Service Company and SunCor Development Company, from 1980 until his retirement in 2001, and for most of that period was Pinnacle West's Chief Executive Officer.
A native Phoenician, Dick graduated from Stanford University in 1952 and Stanford Law School in 1954. After Army service, he joined the law firm of Snell & Wilmer which he left in 1981. Through the balance of the 1980s he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ramada Inc. He has been a director of Aztar Corporation, Banc One Arizona Corporation, Central Newspapers, Inc., NAC International, Inc. and other corporations.
Snell has also been Chairman of the Arizona Community Foundation; Phoenix Aviation Advisory Board; Phoenix Community Alliance; Phoenix 40 (now known as Greater Phoenix Leadership); Phoenix Symphony Association; Thunderbird School of Global Management; and Valley of the Sun YMCA. He is a director or member of other community, educational and business associations. He holds honorary doctorates from Thunderbird and Arizona State University. Snell and his wife, Alice ("Dinky"), live in Phoenix. They have three daughters and two grandchildren.
J. Craig Venter, PhD
President, The Center for the Adcancement of Genomics
J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., is regarded as one of the leading scientists of the 21st century for his numerous invaluable contributions to genomic research. He is Founder, Chairman, and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit, research and support organization with more than 500 scientist and staff dedicated to human, microbial, plant and environmental genomic research, the exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics, and seeking alternative energy solutions through genomics.
Their most recent achievement is the publication of the first diploid human genome.
Dr. Venter began his formal education after a tour of duty as a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968. After earning both a Bachelor s degree in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of California at San Diego, he was appointed professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. In 1984, he moved to the National Institutes of Health campus where he developed Expressed Sequence Tags or ESTs, a revolutionary new strategy for rapid gene discovery. In 1992 Dr. Venter founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), a not-for-profit research institute, where in 1995 he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, using his new whole genome shotgun technique. TIGR, which was recently merged into the JCVI, sequenced more than 50 genomes using Dr. Venter s techniques.
In 1998, Dr. Venter founded Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome using new tools and techniques he and his team developed. The successful completion of this research culminated with the February 2001 publication of the human genome in the journal, Science. He and his team at Celera also sequenced the fruit fly, mouse and rat genomes. Dr. Venter and his team at the Venter Institute continue to blaze new trails in genomics research and have recently published several important papers covering such areas as environmental genomics, synthetic genomics and the sequence and analysis of the dog genome.
Dr. Venter, one of the most frequently cited scientists, is the author of more than 200 research articles. He is also the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, public honors, and scientific awards, including the 2001 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, and the 2002 Gairdner Foundation International Award. Dr. Venter is a member of numerous prestigious scientific organizations including the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Society for Microbiology.
Martin R. Wilson
Partner, Miller-Wilson Communications, Inc.
Marty Wilson served as executive director of the Arnold Schwarzenegger Swearing-in Committee, and currently serves as Executive Director of the Governor's California Recovery Team. Prior to forming Wilson-Miller Communications, Marty was the Managing Director for Public Strategies Inc. in Sacramento for five-years; he held a similar position with Burson-Marsteller for six-years. As a longtime associate of and advisor to former California Governor Pete Wilson (no relation), Marty served alongside the former governor in the San Diego mayor's office, the State Capitol and the U.S. Senate. Marty has served as senior fellow for the University of California Los Angeles School of Public Policy, board member for the California State Fair and director of the Coro Foundation, a public affairs training organization.
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