Stanford University

Mr. deRegt is Chief Risk Officer at Morgan Stanley. Previously, he was a senior advisor of Aetos Capital, providing oversight in areas of investment strategy, overall operations and risk management. Prior to joining Aetos Capital in January 2003, Mr. deRegt headed the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities businesses for Morgan Stanley. He was a member of the Firm's Management Committee and had a variety of responsibilities relating to different Fixed Income businesses, including the Firm's Government Securities business and certain international businesses. Mr. deRegt is a graduate of Stanford University. He currently is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Eagle Hill School. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of PASE - The Partnership for After School Education.

Susan Packard Orr is the founder and CEO of Telosa Software, a company started in 1986 to provide fundraising and other software to nonprofit organizations. Prior to starting Telosa, Susan worked as a programmer at Health Computer Services at the University of Minnesota and as an economist at the National Institutes of Health. Susan currently serves as a trustee of Stanford University, the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, and the Packard Humanities Institute. She served for seven years on the board of Hewlett-Packard Company. Susan holds an M.S. in computer science from New Mexico Tech, and an M.B.A. and B.A. in economics from Stanford University.

Fouad A. Tobagi is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University. He teaches three courses in networking: Introduction to networks, Internet protocols and standards, and multimedia communication over the Internet. He conducts research in fast packet switching, high speed local area networks, storage area networks, congestion control, differentiated services, multimedia networking, video streaming, voice over IP, packet radio and satellite, and performance evaluation of network systems. Prior to joining the faculty of the school of Engineering at Stanford University in 1978, he was a Research Staff Project Manager with the ARPA project at the Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, and engaged in research in Packet Radio Networks, including protocol design, and analysis and measurements of packet radio networks. In 1991, he co-founded Starlight Networks, Inc., a venture concerned with multimedia networking and the first to develop IP video streaming systems, and served as Chief Technical Officer until August 1998. Dr. Tobagi has published extensively in the field of computer communications networks, covering packet radio and local area networks, fast packet switching, and multimedia networking. He coauthored the first papers on Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) and provided an in-depth and comprehensive analysis thereof. He conceived Expressnet, a high speed fiber optics local area network, and implemented a prototype thereof. He studied the performance of narrowband and spread spectrum channel access protocols in multihop packet radio networks. He developed novel architectures for fast packet switches for Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. He performed research into integrated services networks supporting voice, video, and traditional data applications. Dr. Tobagi is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions in computer communications and local area networks. He is the winner of the 1981 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award in the field of Communications Systems for his paper "Multiaccess Protocols in Packet Communications Networks" and co-winner of the IEEE Communications Society 1984 Magazine Prize Paper Award for the paper "Packet Radio and Satellite Networks". He is also the co-winner of the 1998 Kuwait Prize in Information Sciences, administered by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. He has served as Associate Editor for Computer Communications in the IEEE Transactions on Communications for the period 1984-1986, and Editor for Packet Radio and Satellite Networks in the Journal of Telecommunications Networks for the period 1981-1985; he also has served as guest editor for a number of special issues, namely, the special issue on Local Area Networks of the IEEE Journal on Selelected Areas in Communications (November 1983), the special issue on Packet Radio Networks of the Proceedings of the IEEE (January 1987), and the special issue on Large Scale ATM Switching Systems for B-ISDN of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (October 1991). He is currently serving as editor for several journals. Dr. Tobagi is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and has served as an ACM national Lecturer for the period 1982-1983. Fouad A. Tobagi received the Engineering Degree from Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, France, in 1970 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1971 and 1974, respectively.

Satre is a graduate of Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a J.D. from the University of California at Davis. He attended the Senior Executive Development Program at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management in 1982. Satre has been given many honors and awards during his career including being elected by the AGA to the Gaming Hall of Fame, awarded the East Coast Gaming Congress Lifetime Achievement Award as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Gaming Summit. Satre has been named Gaming Executive of the Year by the Casino Journal and selected as Best Chief Executive in the Casino and Hotel Industries by the Wall Street Journal.

Dr. Moncarz’s efforts are focused particularly on the energy sector, including assistance in power plant development projects, and in the oil and gas industry in programs implementing risk management in system operations. With a background in civil engineering, Dr. Moncarz has worked in the areas of reinforced and prestressed concrete, the study of concrete distress due to material problems and adverse conditions, cracking of concrete, wood mechanics, steel structures, earthquake engineering and seismic assessments, field and analytical structural failure investigations, structural analyses of transmission towers, and investigations of offshore platform capsizing. Dr. Moncarz is a Stanford Certified Project Manager skilled in means and methods on complex projects and program organization and management. For over 15 years Dr. Moncarz has worked on projects associated with energy. He leads Exponent’s Energy Initiative Program with an emphasis on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), oil, natural gas, and renewable resources. Dr. Moncarz has conducted energy policy studies focusing on gas for Central Asian Republics and Bangladesh. Dr. Moncarz serves as a Consulting Professor in the Civil Engineering Department of Stanford University. He is also Chairman of the U.S.-Polish Trade Council of Silicon Valley,and serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Global Trade Council. Dr. Moncarz serves on the National Center for Research and Development of Poland by appointment of the Polish Government.

Mr. Smith has extensive experience in an advisory role for boards of directors regarding corporate governance, independent director duties and the fiduciary duties of directors and management. Mr. Smith is committed to community service. Mr. Smith serves on the Board of Trustees of such organizations as Stanford University, The Collaborative Education Partnership, The National Kidney Foundation of Georgia, Prevent Blindness Georgia and The Rabun Gap Nacoochee School. He also served on the Presidents' Counsel of the Woodruff Arts Center, Alumni Board of Governors at The Westminster Schools, and Leadership Atlanta. Mr. Smith is a member of the MBA Advisory Board and has served as lecturer and executive in residence at The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Mr. Smith is married to Maria Susana Gancedo. They have four children and live in Ansley Park. Most of their time is dedicated to their children. They like to travel particularly to South America, which is where Mrs. Smith grew up and Mr. Smith's business takes him from time to time. Mr. Smith's personal interests include golf, music, architecture and the outdoors.

As Nuance?s Vice President and General Manager for the Care Business Unit, Lynda Kate Smith is responsible for the strategy and execution of the Company?s care/call center business, which includes solutions for business to consumer, business to business and business to employee operations. Prior to assuming the General Manager role, Smith served as a strategy consultant to the Company and was the Chief Marketing Officer for the legacy Nuance operation prior to the Company?s acquisition in 2005. Smith began her call center/customer care career in the late 90?s with Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories (a subsidiary of Alcatel) where she served as a marketing executive and ultimately the Company?s SVP of worldwide marketing. Smith has also held executive marketing and sales positions at Lockheed Martin Telecommunications, American Eurocopter, MBB Helicopter Corporation and Multi-Service Corporation. Smith holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simpson College and a master degree in business administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Smith is on the faculty of Stanford University where she serves as a guest lecturer for the Management Science and Engineering Department.

Frank Higgins has served as a director since April 2004. Since March 2000, Mr. Higgins has served as a partner with Second Avenue Partners, which he co-founded. From 1983 to 1999, Mr. Higgins worked for Microsoft, most recently as Group Vice President of the Interactive Media Group. Mr. Higgins is a director of Advanced Digital Information Corporation and a number of privately held companies. Mr. Higgins also serves on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University. Mr. Higgins holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School and a B.A. from Stanford University.

Luis G. Nogales is the Managing Partner of Nogales Investors, LLC, a private equity investment firm. He was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Embarcadero Media, Inc. from 1992 to 1997, President of Univision Communications, Inc., from 1986 to 1988, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Press International from 1983 to 1986. He is a director of Southern California Edison Co., Edison International and Arbitron. Mr. Nogales has been a director of the Company since 1995.

Edwin Meese, III was the U.S. Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1988 and a Counselor to the President from 1981 to 1985. As Attorney General, he chaired the Domestic Policy Council and the National Drug Policy Board and was a member of the National Security Council. He served previously as Director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management and a Professor of Law at the University of San Diego, and as the Executive Assistant and Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan's gubernatorial staff. A graduate of Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), Mr. Meese is Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and served as a member of the Iraq Study Group. Mr. Meese is also a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Mr. Allen joined VRI in 2004 after a 27 year career as a lawyer in Seattle. Mr. Allen was formerly general counsel to the Vacation Internationale Owners Association before becoming a VRI employee and assuming the position of General Manager of Vacation Internationale (VI). Based in Bellevue, WA, Mr. Allen oversees resort development and acquisition, marketing and sales, and resort operations for VI. During his legal career, Mr. Allen served the hospitality and travel industry, including timeshare development, sales and operations, and was managing partner of his firm. Mr. Allen is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Stanford University, is a member of ARDA, and a Board member of Seattle Goodwill Industries.

Jerry Yang, a Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, Calif., co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. He served as chief executive officer of the company from June 2007 to January 2009. Mr. Yang, a leading force in the Internet media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the world's most recognized brands. Since the company's founding, Mr. Yang has been a key member of the executive management team. His focus at Yahoo! over the years has included corporate strategy, Yahoo!'s technology vision, strategic business partnerships and international joint ventures, and recruiting key talent. In addition to serving on the Yahoo! Board of Directors, Mr. Yang currently serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Yahoo! Japan, and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., and is also on the Stanford University Board of Trustees. Mr. Yang holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program.

Donald R. Stanski, MD is an anesthesiologist/clinical pharmacologist who has served as a director of Aspect since 1996. He received his medical degree from the University of Calgary, Canada, his anesthesiology training from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston and his clinical pharmacology training from the University of California, San Francisco. He has been on the faculty of the School of Medicine, Stanford University since 1979 and served as Chairman of the Department of Anesthesia from 1992 to 1997. He served as Vice-President, Scientific and Medical Affairs at Pharsight Corporation from 1998 to 2001. He is currently a Professor of Anesthesia at Stanford University.

Dr. Fernando S. Mendoza is professor and chief of the division of general pediatrics at Stanford University, School of Medicine. His research focuses on the health of US Hispanic children with a particular focus on immigrant children. He has served on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families from 1996 to 1998. Recently, he co-authored a paper on prevention of childhood obesity in Mexican-American children and adolescents as part of a binational conference on childhood obesity sponsored by the Institute of Medicine and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica. Dr. Mendoza also has been associate dean of minority programs at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1983, and in this position has developed a number of programs to increase the numbers US Hispanic medical students and faculty. In addition, in his role as a medical educator, he was president of the Hispanic Serving Health Professions Schools Inc. (HSHPS), a non profit consortium of 23 US medical schools and four public health schools directed at increasing the number of Hispanic physicians and medical faculty as well as developing research on health issues pertinent to the US Hispanic population. HSHPS through a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control has developed public health educational programs for medical students interested in Hispanic health as well as two conferences on US Mexico border health issues. Dr. Mendoza has been recognized by the Association of American Medical Colleges, the National Hispanic Medical Association, the California Latino Medical Association, and Hispanic Business Magazine as a leader in Hispanic health care.

Ann M. Arvin, MD, is Lucile Packard Chair in Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology/Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her administrative positions include Chief of the Pediatric Diseases Division of the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and Associate Dean of Research, Stanford University. She received her MD from the University of Pennsylvania, and her postdoctoral training in infectious diseases from Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco. She has research interests in varicella-zoster virus and in viral vaccines in children and adults.

Anna Gatti is Partner of myQube.Previously, she was Senior Economist and Advisor at the World Health Organization where she led several international projects. From 1997 to 2001 she served as researcher and faculty at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Bocconi University (Italy), University of Trento (Italy), and the Business School Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Brazil). She is still a visiting professor at Stanford University, UC Berkeley and Bocconi University. Anna Gatti is editor and author of several publications in organizational theory, innovation and knowledge transfer, and she has been invited to present papers to many conferences and seminars worldwide. She holds a degree in Business Administration and a Ph.D in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University, a post-doc in organizational behavior from Stanford University.

Dr. Anne H. Ehrlich, Senior Research Associate, Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University.

Dr. Bill Austin is a marine biologist trained at Stanford University in the U.S. but living and working in British Columbia for the past 30 years. He is executive director of the Marine Ecology Centre, a non profit aquarium dedicated to fostering education, awareness and stewardship of our marine environment.

Charles Steele, Ph.D., is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department of Stanford University. Professor Steele received his Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Stanford University and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A.and M. University. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Solids and Structures and a Fellow of the ASME. Professor Steele is also in the ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews Advisory Committee and Publications Committee. He is a Fellow and past President of the American Academy of Mechanics. His current research interests include asymptotic analysis and computation, biomechanics, mechanics of hearing, noninvasive mechanical measurement of bone and soft tissue, and plant morphogenesis.

As an extension of the bio-informatics mining of genomics and proteomics content, Dr Chichester's working in the private sector, has proceeded to generate important results in the area of biological data representation (thesauri), information retrieval, and the design of new knowledge engineering processes. Working as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at Stanford University, Dr. Chichester acquired an extensive understanding of the processes of data mining from sequence databases. Subsequently, she moved to Switzerland to join Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio), SA as a Senior Scientist. She specialized in the design and performance evaluation of biological information retrieval systems and the user interaction with those systems. Presently, she continues to works closely with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Swiss-Prot database group. Dr. Chichester has conducted extensive molecular and cell biological bench work studying the mechanism of action of the cytochrome P-450 enzyme system. She has focused on the mechanisms of cytotoxicity caused by environmental contaminants using both molecular biological and protein biochemical techniques.

Christopher F. Edwards has been an ILASS member since its founding in 1986 and has served on the board of directors for 12 years including a time as chairman. Chris has been involved in spray combustion experiments and general spray theory and modeling. He feels ILASS provides a forum for hearing about the advancements in sprays from all technical areas and applications. Chris is Associate Professor at Stanford University, Thermosciences Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Deputy Director for the Global Climate and Energy Project and Director of the Advanced Energy Systems Laboratory. The focus of his research is to establish new ways to conduct the energy transformation process such that the conversion is cleaner, more efficient and more controllable than has been possible with traditional technologies.

Dr. Gutelius is a specialist in Islamic African societies, and is frequently consulted for his views on political and social developments in the region. He has led a number of technology-focused community development projects in the Middle East, North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to his role as partner at Ishtirak, Dr. Gutelius is Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, where he leads research on community development, technology, and microeconomics in the Islamic world. Dr. Gutelius holds Ph.D./M.A. degrees in Economic History from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. in History and International Relations from Principia College. He speaks Hassaniyya, Darija, Arabic and French.

David E. Liddle was elected to the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company in 2000. Since 2000, Dr. Liddle has been a partner at U.S. Venture Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Between 1992 and 1999, he served as president of Interval Research Corporation, a Silicon Valley-based laboratory and incubator for new businesses focusing on broadband, consumer devices, interaction design and advanced technologies. Previously, Dr. Liddle founded Metaphor Computer Systems in 1982 and served as its president and CEO. He has also held executive positions at Xerox Corporation and IBM.

Dr. Feinstein is Associate Professor of Operations and Management Information Systems at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. Dr. Feinstein is cofounder of VMN Group LLC, a quantitative consulting company. He also teaches in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Feinstein has over 25 years of experience in research, teaching and application of mathematical methods and modeling. His areas of expertise include optimization methods, dynamic systems analysis, and probabilistic modeling

Elaine Elinson is a Senior Communications Counselor who teams with the McKinney staff to assure that social justice campaigns win value-added communications assets beginning with strategic planning phase. She works closely with the firm's senior staff to assist in drawing the arc of public education campaigns grounded in sustained and tested communications tactics. Based in San Francisco, Elaine brings more than three decades of experience to the firm. She has served as the Public Information Director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California where she directed media and publicity campaigns on a wide variety of issues, including race and the death penalty, juvenile justice, reproductive rights, language rights, immigrants' rights, racial profiling and the right to dissent. She has worked on national media campaigns and is a consultant for the Institute for Journalism Justice at Stanford University . Elinson is the author and/or editor of several popular ACLU publications, including We Have Rights Too But What are They?. As exquisite in the genre of fiction as she is in news writing, Elaine is currently working on her first novel.

Frank Wolak is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of research are industrial organization and empirical economic analysis. He specializes in the study of privatization, competition and regulation in network industries such as electricity, telecommunications, water supply, natural gas and postal delivery services. He is the author of numerous academic articles on these topics.. He has worked extensively on the market design and monitoring of competitive electricity markets in California, New York, England and Wales, Norway and Sweden, Spain, Zealand, and Australia. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Research Associate of the University of California Energy Institute in Berkeley. Professor Wolak has served as a consultant to the California and U.S. Departments of Justice on market power issues in the telecommunications, electricity, and natural gas markets. He has also served as a consultant to the Federal Communications Commission and Postal Rate Commission on issues relating to competition in network industries. He is the Chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee for the Independent System Operator of the California Electricity Supply Industry. In this capacity, he has testified several time at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on issues relating to market monitoring and market power.

Gunnar Carlsson is Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. He has served as Chair of the Stanford Mathematics Department, and has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago, University of California (San Diego), and Princeton University.

Dr. Kroo is professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He has been a key collaborator in the development of natural laminar flow technology, particularly in establishing methods to determine the extent of laminar flow and optimize the configuration of a supersonic aircraft. Dr. Kroo received B.S., M.S. and PhD degrees from Stanford University, the latter in 1983 for research in aeroelasticity and flutter. He has consulted for all major airframe manufacturers and serves on numerous government committees and research organization.

A California Board Certified Physician Assistant, Jeffrey Manese PAC is a recent graduate of Stanford University's Physician Assistant Program. Prior to graduating from the program, Jeffrey served as a Physical Therapist at the University, having received his MS from Long Island University in 1995. His many interests include cooking, arts and crafts, and performing arts. He and his partner, David, reside in Oakland.

Mr. Scully has been a director since October 2003 and was appointed Chairman of the Board in December 2003. Mr. Scully currently serves as managing director of SPO Partners & Co., a private investment firm he co-founded in 1991, and is a director of Plum Creek Timber Company and the privately-held Hotel Equity Funds. He also is a Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Stanford University and the Vice Chairman of Stanford Hospital and Clinics. In addition, Mr. Scully is chairman and founder of the Making Waves Educational Program. Mr. Scully holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and an A.B. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.