Global Advisory Board

The Global Advisory Board is comprised of distinguished leaders in business, engineering, the sciences, law, and other relevant fields.  They have a personal interest in the Institute and are committed to its success. Members of this group serve as advocates, provide input on strategic direction, and directly support growth and success of the Institute.
 

	Jeffrey O. Henley (Chair) is chairman of Oracle Corporation. Previously, Henley was Oracle's chief financial officer and an executive vice president and is a member of Oracle's board of directors and its executive management committee. Prior to joining Oracle, Henley served as executive vice president and CFO at Pacific Holding Company, a privately-held company with diversified interests in manufacturing and real estate; and as executive vice president and CFO at Saga Corporation, a multi-billion dollar food service company. Henley is also a member of the Board of Governors for Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
	John Fielder is president of Southern California Edison (SCE), one of the nation's largest electric utilities. Previously, he was senior vice president of SCE's Regulatory Policy and Affairs, responsible for developing and implementing regulatory policies and managing proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission and other regulatory agencies. Fielder is a member of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Board of Advisors. He earned his law degree from Pepperdine University Law School, his M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
	Randy Komisar joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a partner in 2005. He was a  co-founder of Claris Corporation, served as CEO for LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics. He was a founding Director of TiVo where he is currently chairman of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Earlier Komisar served as CFO of GO Corporation and Senior Counsel for Apple Computer, following a private practice in Technology Law. Komisar holds a JD from Harvard Law School and is a Consulting Professor of  entrepreneurship at Stanford University and author of the best-selling book The Monk and the Riddle, and co-author of Getting to Plan B.
	Arun Majumdar is the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After being on the faculty of Arizona State University (1989-92) and University of California, Santa Barbara (1992-96), he began his faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 1997. He currently holds the Almy and Agnes Maynard Chair Professorship in the College of Engineering and is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. In addition to his faculty appointment, Majumdar serves as the Director of the Berkeley Nanosciences and Nanoengineering Institute.
	Michael McQuade is Senior Vice President for Science & Technology at United Technologies Corporation. McQuade has also held senior positions with technology development and business oversight at 3M, Imation and Eastman Kodak. He obtained his Ph.D. in experimental high-energy physics for research on hadronic charm quark production performed at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. McQuade is a member of the American Physical Society and the advisory boards of the Schools of Engineering at Yale University, the University of California Berkeley, and the University of Connecticut.
	Matthew Tirrell is the Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at University of California, Berkeley. Tirrell was formerly the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his undergraduate education in Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in 1977 in Polymer Science from the University of Massachusetts. He has co-authored about 280 papers and one book and has supervised about 70 Ph.D. students. Professor Tirrell has been a Sloan and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of both the U.S. and Indian National Academies of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.