Office Of The President
Steven J. McCormick, the president and a trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, leads the Foundation’s work to turn bold ideas into lasting change in environmental conservation, science and patient care. With an endowment of over $5 billion in assets and an annual budget of approximately $250 million, the Foundation is among the top ten largest private foundations in the U.S. and one of the largest funders of scientific research and environmental conservation in the world.
Since taking leadership of the Foundation in 2007, Steve has challenged and led the organization to take smart risks and seek new collaborations with partners in the public and private sector. For example, he has championed unusual partnerships like those the Foundation created among bankers and conservationists to conserve millions of acres of rainforests in Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, Costa Rica and the Brazilian Amazon. Under his leadership, the Foundation has made bold investments in science, funding important research when others could not and mobilizing quickly to support projects like measuring the environmental impact of radiation released into the Pacific Ocean from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. Steve has also encouraged innovative partnerships in the healthcare sector, where the Foundation has helped 12 Northern California hospitals reduce sepsis mortality rates by 50 percent.
Steve’s career in the nonprofit sector provides the Foundation with important perspective on the relationships between grantees and the funders. Before joining the Foundation, he spent six years serving as the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). As president, Steve 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, Steve was a founding partner of the Resources Law Group, a firm based in Sacramento which provides mediation 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.
A leader in the social innovation sector, Steve serves on the boards of Independent Sector, Sustainable Conservation and the California Wildlife Officers Foundation. He has also served on the U.C. Berkeley College of Natural Resources Advisory Board. Steve’s work has been profiled in Forbes, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post, and he has been a featured speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival and The Economist’s World Oceans Summit. Steve is also 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 Voters’ Conservation Leadership Award.
Steve holds 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, Guillermo 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. Guillermo 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. He 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.
Guillermo 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.
Sunila Rao is the administrative assistant to the foundation’s chief program officer of the Environmental Conservation Program.
She joined the foundation after 10 years in the venture capital industry where she provided administrative support to companies that invested in start-ups focused on high-tech, biomedical and online consumer sites. Prior to this she worked in marketing communications for various firms in the software, financial and environmental science industries.
Her background includes writing and editing marketing material, event planning and managing proposals for restoring former military bases on the EPA Superfund list.
Sunila earned a B.A in journalism and the natural sciences from Baylor University.
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.
Dan Winterson is a program officer in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Environmental Conservation Program, with a focus on conservation finance.
Dan had previously served as a program director managing 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.
Marina Campos is a program officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Andes-Amazon Initiative.
She has been working in rainforest conservation, especially in the Amazon region, since 1989. Prior to joining the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, she was the program director of Natural Resource Management and Climate Change at Rainforest Foundation US, which she joined in 2010. In this position Marina worked in partnership with indigenous groups and local grassroots organizations in Central and South America to secure rights to their lands, support the implementation of natural management plans and influence policies to protect their resources. She also has served as state coordinator on climate change for the state of Amazonas in Brazil, where she oversaw the design and implementation of state climate change legislation including the first Brazilian payment-for-environmental-services program and the creation of Amazonian first Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation project in the Juma Reserve.
Marina has served as a visiting lecturer at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she coordinated a Strategies for Tropical Conservation seminar. Born and raised in Brazil, she received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology (Botany) from University of São Paulo-Brazil and a Ph.D. in Social Ecology from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
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.
Chris is a program associate for the Andes-Amazon Initiative.
Prior to joining the foundation, Chris spent several months as an intern with Instituto Floresta Viva (IFV), an NGO in the Brazilian state of Bahia, dedicated to conservation and reforestation of the Atlantic Forest in southern Bahia. At IFV, Chris produced a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) guidebook in Portuguese explaining the concept of PES, its potential in southern Bahia, and the steps needed to design and implement a PES mechanism.
Chris graduated summa cum laude in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has travelled extensively in South America and in the Amazon, and speaks Portuguese and Spanish.
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.
Meredith Lopuch is a program officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Marine Conservation Initiative.
Before coming to the Foundation, Meredith spent more than a decade working on international marine fisheries and market-based conservation solutions at the World Wildlife Fund. Most recently, she served as director of their Major Buyer Initiative. Through this initiative Meredith worked with major seafood buyers such as Walmart, SYSCO, Kroger, SUPERVALU, Costco, and King and Prince to encourage and assist them in using their purchasing power to secure seafood from environmentally sustainable sources, to assess current seafood supply chains for sustainability of supply, and to use their supply chain to improve fisheries around the world. Earlier, she worked as deputy director of WWF’s Sustainable Seafood Initiative, and prior to that was a senior program officer in their Fisheries program. Throughout this period Meredith helped fisheries globally through fishery improvement efforts and MSC certification. Key accomplishments include helping the first Japanese fishery and the first tuna fishery to become MSC certified.
Meredith holds an M.S. from Stanford in earth systems science with a focus in marine conservation, fisheries science, and environmental economics. She also holds a B.S from Stanford in biology with a focus in marine biology, and a B.A. in economics.
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.
Mary Turnipseed is the Arctic fellow for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Marine Conservation Initiative.
Before joining the Foundation, Mary was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis where she studied the global seafood market. Previously, Mary worked for Blue Ocean Institute, coordinating seafood research and outreach for its From Sea to Table initiative. Prior to that, she contributed to the National Science Foundation’s Long-Term Ecological Research Project at Palmer Station in Antarctica. Mary’s work has been published in Science, Ecology Law Quarterly, and Annual Reviews in Environment and Resources.
In 2010, Mary received a Walter B. Jones Memorial Award for Excellence in Coastal and Marine Graduate Study from NOAA for her Ph.D. work on US ocean law and policy at Duke University. She also has a master’s degree in biology from the College of William and Mary and a B.S. in biology from Haverford College.
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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.
Patient Care
George W. Bo-Linn, MD, is the chief program officer for the Foundation's Patient Care Program, which include the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis commitment.
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.
Susan Baade is a program associate for the Patient Care Program.
Before joining the Foundation, Susan was the program manager for the Clinic Leadership Institute Emerging Leaders (CLI) program at the Center for the Health Professions at UCSF. Susan has also held positions at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the Center for Bionic Medicine at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
Susan received a B.A. in political science and art history from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a M.P.H in health policy from the George Washington University.Kim Coaxum is an administrative assistant for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Patient Care Program and San Francisco Bay Area Portfolio.
Before joining the Foundation, Kim worked as the donor relations coordinator for the Rush-Copley Medical Foundation in Aurora, IL, where she managed the donor gifts and acknowledgements programs. Prior to that, she handled benefits for CD Group, Inc., which specializes in managed services for Oracle JD Edwards enterprise solutions. Kim also worked for American Express Business Travel in Phoenix, AZ, among other roles in business in varying capacities.
Dominick L. Frosch is a fellow in the foundation’s Patient Care Program.
Before joining the Foundation, Dominick served as associate investigator at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and associate professor of medicine at UCLA. For over a decade he conducted research on shared decision-making and developing, evaluating and implementing patient decision support interventions. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and serves as deputy editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Dominick completed his Ph.D. in clinical health psychology at the University of California, San Diego and a fellowship as a Robert Wood Johnson health & society scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. Camellia Pham is the program manager for the Patient Care Program, with a focus on aligning its strategic priorities with its operations. She reports directly to Dr. George Bo-Linn, the program’s chief program officer.
Before joining the Foundation, Camellia worked as a grantmaking operations associate at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she provided support to the Office of General Counsel and to the Local Grantmaking Program. More recently, Camellia was the Program Manager at Good Ventures, a relatively new San Francisco based foundation focused on alleviating global poverty. She also worked for Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer (PINCC), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing treatment and aid for women with cervical cancer in developing countries.
Camellia received a B.A. in social work with an emphasis is psychology and a minor in education from the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a graduate of U. C. Berkeley’s Biology Scholar’s Program.
Ruth Shaber, M.D. is a fellow in the foundation’s Patient Care Program.
Ruth started her career in health care at the Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center in 1990. From 1997 to 2003, she served as chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In 1999 and 2000, she served as chairman for The Permanente Medical Group’s Obstetrics and Gynecology chiefs, and from 2001 to 2007 she served as the director of Women’s Health for the Northern California division of Kaiser Permanente. She is also the founder of the Women’s Health Research Institute in Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Region.
Most recently, Ruth has been the Medical Director at the Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute. At CMI she worked with Kaiser Permamenente's regional and national leaders to apply the best evidence and successful systems approaches to create reliable clinical performance. Ruth’s specific areas of focus have included cardiovascular disease prevention, behavioral health, maternity and cancer care.
Ruth received her B.A. from Yale University and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She served her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at University of California in San FranciscoBetty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative
George W. Bo-Linn, MD, is the chief program officer for the Foundation's Patient Care Program, which include the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis commitment.
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.
Marybeth Sharpe is the program director for the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative within the Foundation's Patient Care Program.
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 in the Foundation's Patient Care Program.
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 in the Foundation's Patient Care Program.
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.
Kate Weiland is a program officer for the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative.
Before joining the foundation, Kate was the senior research manager at LanguageMate, a health technology start-up in New York City, where she managed clinical research studies evaluating health communications solutions and maintained partnerships with community-based organizations. Previously, she was special projects planner for a children’s health program at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Kate holds a BA in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, and an MPH in health policy from Columbia University.
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
George W. Bo-Linn, MD, is the chief program officer for the Foundation's Patient Care Program, which include the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis commitment.
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.
Camellia Pham is the program manager for the Patient Care Program, with a focus on aligning its strategic priorities with its operations. She reports directly to Dr. George Bo-Linn, the program’s chief program officer.
Before joining the Foundation, Camellia worked as a grantmaking operations associate at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she provided support to the Office of General Counsel and to the Local Grantmaking Program. More recently, Camellia was the Program Manager at Good Ventures, a relatively new San Francisco based foundation focused on alleviating global poverty. She also worked for Prevention International: No Cervical Cancer (PINCC), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing treatment and aid for women with cervical cancer in developing countries.
Camellia received a B.A. in social work with an emphasis is psychology and a minor in education from the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a graduate of U. C. Berkeley’s Biology Scholar’s Program.
San Francisco Bay Area
Kenneth Moore is the director of the San Francisco Bay Area Portfolio 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.
Land Conservation
Gary Knoblock is a program officer for Land Conservation within the San Francisco Bay Area Portfolio.
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 and Technology Museums
Janet Coffey is a program officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with a focus on Science Learning.
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, investing in the development of new technologies, supporting top research scientists and bringing together new, often groundbreaking, scientific partnerships. The program’s portfolio—designed to advance scientific innovation and discovery—includes the Marine Microbiology Initiative, a plant science collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a new Data-Driven Discovery Initiative and commitments to the California Institute of Technology and Thirty Meter Telescope.
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 serves as president-elect for the Genetics Society of America, and 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. Vicki 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.
Aanika is a program associate with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Science Program, with a focus on the physical sciences.
Prior to her current role, Aanika worked in the Grants Administration department at the Foundation. She was previously a teaching assistant in the anthropology department at the University of British Columbia and served as a research and administrative assistant for a civil liberties institute in Berkeley. She has also held an internship at the International Rescue Committee working with international refugees, and volunteered as a tutor for foster youth in Santa Rosa, California.
Aanika earned a M.A. in anthropology from the University of British Columbia. Her master’s thesis research was comprised of an ethnographic analysis of an organization that provides shelter and housing to women and children in the Bay Area. She received a B.A. in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Janet Coffey is a program officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with a focus on Science Learning.
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.
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.
Julia Metzner is the program manager for the Science Program, with a focus on aligning its strategic priorities with its operations. She reports directly to Dr. Vicki Chandler, the program’s chief program officer.
Previously, Julia was the program associate for the Science Program's Marine Microbiology Initiative. Prior to joining the foundation, she worked as a teaching assistant in both biology and chemistry at Oberlin College and 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.
Dusan Pejakovic is a program officer for physical science at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Dusan 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 and modeling investigations of collisional processes relevant to atmospheric modeling, surface-catalyzed atom recombination, electrical and thermal transport properties of ultrahigh-temperature ceramics, and novel materials for hypersonics.
Dusan holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ohio State University and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. His dissertation work included investigations of polymer-based magnets and photoinduced magnetic effects.
Ann Saunders is the administrative assistant for the Foundation’s Science program.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Ann was an executive assistant at Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm. Ann has also held many volunteer administrative positions in Silicon Valley schools and Boy Scouts. Previously in her career, Ann worked in corporate finance, and within the financial services industry.
Ann holds a B.A. from Marietta College, and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jasan Zimmerman is a program associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Science Program.
Prior to coming to the Foundation, Jasan worked at Genencor, conductingresearch in molecular biology and helping with report writing and science project management. Since 2007, Jasan has been an active nonprofit volunteer in many different capacities and has also participated in the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program as a peer reviewer regarding clinical trials and research grants.
Jasan received an M.S. in microbiology from Loma Linda University and a B.A. in biology from Whittier College. He is about to complete his Masters in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco.
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.
Data-Driven Discovery
Dr. Vicki Chandler is the chief program officer for the Foundation's Science Program, investing in the development of new technologies, supporting top research scientists and bringing together new, often groundbreaking, scientific partnerships. The program’s portfolio—designed to advance scientific innovation and discovery—includes the Marine Microbiology Initiative, a plant science collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a new Data-Driven Discovery Initiative and commitments to the California Institute of Technology and Thirty Meter Telescope.
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 serves as president-elect for the Genetics Society of America, and 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. Vicki 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.
Chris Mentzel is a program officer in the Science Program at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, focused currently on launching the Data-Driven Discovery Initiative, one of the Foundation's newest, which aims to enable scientists to turn the scientific data deluge into opportunities to address some of today's most important research questions. Chris identifies the people, advanced instrumentation and information technologies that help solve important data-rich science questions.
Prior to his current role at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Chris led the grants administration department and also worked as senior network engineer for the organization. Before that, he held positions as a systems engineer and integrator at the University of California, Berkeley, and at various internet consulting firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chris received his bachelor of arts in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently pursuing a master's in management science and engineering at Stanford University. He is an active member of the broader eScience, Big Data and open science communities, serving on a number of advisory boards and program committees, and occasionally finds time to engage in more direct technology development, teaching/coaching, new venture strategy and non-profit management.
Marine Microbiology Initiative
Ajit Subramaniam is the program director of the Marine Microbiology Initiative.
Ajit is a biological oceanographer with expertise in biogeochemical cycles, remote sensing, bio-optics, and phytoplankton physiology. He has worked on understanding the processes that can explain why particular species of phytoplankton grow where they do, the factors that cause such blooms, that lead to their demise, and the consequences of these blooms. Ajit has more than 20 years of research experience and has participated in over 50 research cruises. He comes to the foundation from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University where he was a Lamont Associate Research Professor. He served as a program manager in the Biological Oceanography Program at the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2008-2009.
Ajit earned his Ph.D. in Coastal Oceanography and M.S. in Marine Environmental Science from SUNY, Stony Brook.
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.
Fransheska Rivera Vega, Program Associate
Plant Science Collaboration with HHMI
Dr. Vicki Chandler is the chief program officer for the Foundation's Science Program, investing in the development of new technologies, supporting top research scientists and bringing together new, often groundbreaking, scientific partnerships. The program’s portfolio—designed to advance scientific innovation and discovery—includes the Marine Microbiology Initiative, a plant science collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a new Data-Driven Discovery Initiative and commitments to the California Institute of Technology and Thirty Meter Telescope.
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 serves as president-elect for the Genetics Society of America, and 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. Vicki 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.
Jasan Zimmerman is a program associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s Science Program.
Prior to coming to the Foundation, Jasan worked at Genencor, conductingresearch in molecular biology and helping with report writing and science project management. Since 2007, Jasan has been an active nonprofit volunteer in many different capacities and has also participated in the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program as a peer reviewer regarding clinical trials and research grants.
Jasan received an M.S. in microbiology from Loma Linda University and a B.A. in biology from Whittier College. He is about to complete his Masters in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco.
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, investing in the development of new technologies, supporting top research scientists and bringing together new, often groundbreaking, scientific partnerships. The program’s portfolio—designed to advance scientific innovation and discovery—includes the Marine Microbiology Initiative, a plant science collaboration with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a new Data-Driven Discovery Initiative and commitments to the California Institute of Technology and Thirty Meter Telescope.
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 serves as president-elect for the Genetics Society of America, and 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. Vicki 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 operating officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Reporting to the president, he aligns administrative operations in furtherance of the Foundation’s strategic goals and in support of 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
Erin Hart, director of communications, oversees internal and external communications efforts to support the foundation’s programs, initiatives, grantees and other partners.
Before coming to Moore, Erin was an executive vice president at Fenton, where she managed the health practice, guided non-profit branding work and developed campaigns for clients including The California Wellness Foundation, YMCA, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Beacon Initiative and others. Prior to joining Fenton, Erin managed her own firm and was a senior vice president with GolinHarris. She also served as Florida’s environmental education director and held posts at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and Florida Marine Research Institute, among others.
Developing a public education campaign to grow and diversify California’s healthcare workforce, Erin led a team that put health workforce issues on the map for policymakers and that promoted opportunities for youth and young adults through the Health Jobs Start Here campaign. Her work with the American Legacy Foundation and state and local health agencies has played a role in lowering youth-smoking rates, reducing tobacco sales to minors and creating access to quit-smoking resources. She served as Florida’s environmental education director and developed campaigns on water quality and quantity, at-risk habitats and endangered species. This work has included everything from media relations (traditional and online) and advertising to special events and advocacy training.
Erin’s crisis communications experience includes work with drinking water, fish kills, oil spills, litigation and high-profile crimes. She has worked with online and traditional media outlets for stories with Today, The Washington
Post, The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wired, regional news outlets and CNN–ranging from TV coverage to its popular Twitter feed. She’s built social media campaigns on a variety of topics and connects online efforts to traditional news media outreach, brand development work and organizing efforts.
Erin has received recognition including SABRE, Wilmer and Women in Social Responsibility awards, and she earned a B.S. in journalism from the University of Florida. She speaks and conducts training at various universities and events and currently works with her alma mater to support the Karel Chair in Public Interest Communications.
Genny Biggs is a communications officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and serves as the media relations contact.
Genny worked for the Foundation from 2001-2005. Before rejoining Moore, 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.
Jessica Nusbaum, Communications Officer
Natalie Ragan is the administrative assistant for both the Communications and Human Resources departments.
Before joining the foundation, Natalie worked in business and operations management for two San Francisco Bay Area cleantech startups where she managed business development, finance, human resources, and networking initiatives. Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Natalie worked at Humane Society International, where she provided research for, developed, and implemented wildlife protection campaigns, and at the Virginia Tech Natural Resources Graduate Program, where she supported the program director in the administration of the program.
Natalie obtained her Bachelor’s degree in biology, with a minor in english writing, from High Point University in High Point, North Carolina and her Master’s degree in wildlife conservation from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Evaluation, Technology & Facilities
Janice Wood, Director of Information Technology
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 technology operations at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Barry comes to the Foundation with over 30 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.
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.
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 the investment and tax manager 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.
Neelima Nair, Investment and Tax Accountant
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.
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.
Eric Pham is a grants administration associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Prior to joining the foundation, Eric worked for the capital planning department at UC San Diego where he assisted with the planning and budgeting for campus projects.
Eric received a B.S. in management science/economics from UC San Diego.
Matt is a grants administrator with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Previously, Matt worked at The Trust for Public Land where he managed the organization’s land transaction management system along with reporting and training. Later he worked as a researcher in the conservation finance department where he worked on data aggregation and management for a GIS enabled land conservation tacking tool.
Matt also contributed to conservation economic return on investment analysis which focused on the investment by local and state levels of government in land conservation. He completed feasibility studies that explored opportunities for sustaining and expanding various funding mechanisms used for public land conservation programs across the country. These reports were used to inform local elected officials and state legislatures.
Matt received his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz in anthropology and a M.A. from San Jose State University in geography.
Human Resources
Bill Davidovich is the director of human resources for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, where he works to optimize the Foundation’s capabilities through its human talent and capital.
Before coming to the Foundation, Bill served as vice president for human resources, facilities, and real estate at Walmart.com. He also held the position of senior vice president of human resources at ABD Insurance and Financial Services, as well as director of corporate human resources for Blue Shield of California. Previously, Bill served in various HR roles at Charles Schwab, Odwalla, and Mervyn’s. His professional affiliations include memberships in both the Society for Human Resource Management and the Northern California Human Resources Association, and is SPHR certified (Senior Professional in Human Resources).
Bill holds bachelor of arts degrees in drama and in international relations from San Francisco State University.
Christine Miller is the human resources manager for the foundation, leading the staffing, onboarding and development programs as well as providing strategic business partner support to the various teams.
Before coming to the foundation, Christine worked at Facebook specializing in employee relations, and previously had been with Virgin America, where she joined the HR team as a founding member prior to the airline’s launch in 2007. She contributed to the rapid growth of the company with the design and creation of innovative team member policies and programs to support the evolving Virgin America culture.
Christine is PHR certified (Professional in Human Resources), and obtained her Certificate in Human Resources Management from San Francisco State University.
Natalie Ragan is the administrative assistant for both the Communications and Human Resources departments.
Before joining the foundation, Natalie worked in business and operations management for two San Francisco Bay Area cleantech startups where she managed business development, finance, human resources, and networking initiatives. Prior to moving to the Bay Area, Natalie worked at Humane Society International, where she provided research for, developed, and implemented wildlife protection campaigns, and at the Virginia Tech Natural Resources Graduate Program, where she supported the program director in the administration of the program.
Natalie obtained her Bachelor’s degree in biology, with a minor in english writing, from High Point University in High Point, North Carolina and her Master’s degree in wildlife conservation from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
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.
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.
Weimeng (Wei) Zhang is an investment associate for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In this role, she works with the Foundation's director of hedge fund strategies.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Wei was a business analyst in the Financial Sponsors group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Investment Banking Division in New York.
Wei is a graduate of New York University, where she earned a B.S. in Finance and Actuarial Science with a minor in Advanced Mathematical Methods. Legal
Nancy Koch is the general counsel and secretary for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In addition to providing traditional legal support, Nancy focuses on refining the Foundation's approach to advocacy, helping program staff design external networks for greatest impact, and forging partnerships with other multi-stakeholder foundations, advocacy groups, and representatives at every level of government.
Prior to coming to the Foundation, Nancy worked in legal and advocacy consulting for a variety of entities concerning strategy, collaboration management, licensing, litigation and intellectual property issues. Most recently, she represented the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine designing and implementing an international network of government stem cell research funders. Previously, her career included legal positions with Chiron Corporation and Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc., and a partnership at the Farella, Braun & Martel law firm in San Francisco.
Nancy has served on the boards of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the Presidio Hill School, and the Bay Area Non-Partisan Alliance. She also played drums in a rock and roll band. Nancy received a bachelor of science degree with honors from Cornell University with a focus on industrial and labor relations, and a law degree from the University of Chicago School of Law.
Sasha Abrams is the deputy general counsel in the Legal Department of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In this role, Sasha focuses on compliance, financial transactions, training and developing potential legal support mechanisms for grantees.
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.
Mandy Tuong is assistant general counsel for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. In this role, Mandy provides legal and business counsel for the foundation’s operations and grantmaking efforts. Her work also supports the foundation’s approach to advocacy and external networks to further its impact.
Before joining the foundation, Mandy served as senior counsel at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a Fortune 500, not-for-profit, financial services company, where she provided legal and business leadership for strategic development, marketing, social media, corporate philanthropy, community affairs, foundation governance, tax, intellectual property and other corporate matters. Mandy was previously an attorney at the Minneapolis-based law firm of Leonard, Street and Deinard P.A. in the in the areas of trusts and estates, probate, tax, trusts and estates litigation. During that time, she committed to nearly 100 hours annually to pro bono legal work.
Mandy has served on a variety of boards, including the Oberlin College Alumni Executive Board, MacPhail Center for Music, and Central Minnesota Legal Services (Legal Aid). She has volunteered regularly for organizations such as House of Charity, the Ohio public school system, and Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, and serves as a mentor in the professional and legal community.
Mandy received a J.D. with honors from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was an editor on the Minnesota Law Review. She also received undergraduate double degrees from Oberlin College and Oberlin College Conservatory in history (B.A.) and piano performance (B.M.)Strategy
Kerri Folmer is the chief of staff and strategy at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Her career has focused on strategy development and organizational change. Before coming to the Foundation, Kerri ran her own consulting business, and previously worked with consulting firms including Price Waterhouse Coopers and Watson Wyatt. She has also served in corporate strategy roles in the high technology and healthcare fields.
Kerri earned her M.B.A. from Santa Clara University, and a B.A. in psychology from San Diego State University.
Erich is a strategy 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.
Yevgeniya Bukshpun is an associate in the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s strategy department.
Prior to joining the Foundation, she served as the environmental budget and policy analyst at the New York City Independent Budget Office, where she evaluated the city’s spending and policy on water and waste management and other environmental services. She has also been involved in academic consultancy projects with the World Bank and the private sector, and served as an intern at UNDP’s MDG Carbon Facility.
Yevgeniya earned an M.A. in international affairs with a focus on international environmental policy and economics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Nicky Conroy, Strategy Officer
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.