Thomas M. Siebel
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Siebel is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of C3. He is the Chairman of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company with interests in investment management, commercial real estate, agribusiness, and philanthropy. Mr. Siebel was the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Siebel Systems. From 1984 through 1990, he was an executive at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Siebel serves on the board of advisors for the Stanford University College of Engineering, the University of Illinois College of Engineering, and the University of California at Berkeley College of Engineering, and is a member of the Princeton University Board of Trustees. He is a director of the University of Illinois Foundation and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is the chairman of the board for the American Agora Foundation. Mr. Siebel is the founder and chairman of the Meth Project Foundation and the Siebel Scholars Foundation, and chairman of the Siebel Foundation. Mr. Siebel is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received a BA in history, an MBA, and a MS in computer science.
Edward Abbo
Mr. Abbo is President and Chief Technical Officer of C3. He was formerly Senior Vice President at Oracle Corporation responsible for Oracle’s application and SaaS products including CRM and ERP & Supply Chain products. Prior to joining Oracle in 2006, he was Senior Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer for Siebel Systems. During his twelve-year tenure at the company, he was a member of the Siebel executive management team, Founder’s Circle of first employees, and led Engineering, Industry Products, and Sales Consulting organizations. Prior to Siebel Systems, he worked in a variety of sales and consulting roles at Oracle Corporation.
Mr. Abbo earned a M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. degree in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University.
Spencer Abraham
Mr. Abraham is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Abraham Group, a business consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. He served as Secretary of Energy, United States Department of Energy, from 2001 through January 2005. Previously, he was a United States Senator, representing the State of Michigan from 1995 to 2001. From 1993 to 1994, he was of counsel to the law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone. He was co-chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee from 1991 to 1993 and Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 1983 to 1991.
Mr. Abraham is the non-executive chairman of AREVA, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the French-owned nuclear company, and chairman of Green Rock Energy, a clean coal gasification/carbon capture company. He also serves on the boards of Occidental Petroleum, ICx Technologies, and Deepwater Wind, a developer of offshore wind power.
Mr. Abraham holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he co-founded the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He later co-founded the Federalist Society.
Jay Dweck
Jay Dweck was formerly Managing Director and Global Head of Strategies and Technology for the Institutional Securities Group at Morgan Stanley, and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he was the head of Core Strategies, and then Equities Strategies for the Global Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs. He was also the chief technology officer for Fixed Income, Equities and Financing Strategies. Mr. Dweck has served as president of 100% Software Solutions; vice president of Simulation Sciences Inc.; president of JSD Simulation Service Company; vice president of the Merix Corporation; and as a member of the MIT Energy Lab.
Mr. Dweck is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Mathematical Association of America (MAA). He serves on the board of the Perlman Music Program and the MIT Chemical Engineering Visiting Committee and is a patron of Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Dweck received BS, MS and Engineering degrees in Chemical Engineering, and a BS in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Patricia House
Pat House is the co-founder, vice chairman, and senior vice president of strategy at C3, an enterprise software company providing global solutions for energy, resource, and emissions management. She co-founded and served as vice chairman and executive vice president of Siebel Systems, a $2B CRM (customer relationship management) software company. Before joining Siebel Systems, she held managerial and executive positions at Verbatim, Oracle, and Frame Technology. Ms. House is chairman of the Mary Mae Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing affordable housing for teachers, and is a member of the board of directors of First Virtual Group, the Hewlett Foundation, and The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University.
Richard C. Levin
Richard C. Levin is President of Yale University and Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics. Before becoming president in 1993, he chaired the economics department and served as dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He has been a member of the faculty since 1974.
Mr. Levin is recognized as an advocate and leader of the emerging role of higher education in responding to the challenge of sustainable development locally and globally. He established an Office of Sustainability in 2005, and during that year endorsed an aggressive greenhouse gas reduction target and strategy for the University. In 2007–2008, President Levin convened the leadership of Yale’s peer institutions nationally and internationally, challenging each of these universities to respond to the pressing issue of climate change.
Mr. Levin serves on the President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology. He is a trustee of the Hewlett Foundation, a director of Climate Works and American Express, and is also a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. He served on a bipartisan commission to recommend improvements in the nation’s intelligence capabilities and chaired a major review of the nation’s patent system for the National Academy of Sciences. President Levin holds honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Peking, Tokyo, and Waseda universities and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mr. Levin received a B.A. from Stanford University and studied politics and philosophy at Oxford University, where he earned a B.Litt. degree. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.
Michael G. McCaffery
Mike McCaffery is co-founder and chief executive officer of Makena Capital Management. From September 2000 to June 2006 he was the president and CEO of the Stanford Management Company, the university subsidiary charged with managing Stanford University’s financial and real estate investment. Prior to Stanford Management Company, Mr. McCaffery was chairman and chief executive officer of Robertson Stephens & Company, a San Francisco based investment bank and investment management firm.
Mr. McCaffery holds a BA from Princeton University; a BA honors and an MA as a Rhodes Scholar from Merton College, Oxford University, Oxford, England; and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mr. McCaffery is a director of KB Home, and is a member of the advisory boards of Accel Ventures, RS Investments, Sageview Capital and Silver Lake Partners. He is a trustee of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust.
Condoleezza Rice
Dr. Rice is a professor of Political Science at Stanford University and the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. From January 2005 through 2009, she served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States. Prior to serving as America’s chief diplomat, she served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001 through 2005. In June 1999, she completed a six-year tenure as Stanford University’s Provost, during which she was the institution’s chief budget and academic officer. She has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1981.
Dr. Rice has served as a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California, and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as the Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Dr. Rice earned her bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her master’s from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded nine honorary doctorates.
S. Shankar Sastry
S. Shankar Sastry is currently the Dean of Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. From 2004 to 2007 he was the Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology in the Interests of Society), an interdisciplinary center spanning UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced, and Santa Cruz. In February 2007, he was appointed the faculty co-director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Dr. Sastry has served as Chairman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley from January 2001 through June 2004. From 1999 to early 2001, he was on leave from Berkeley as Director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA. From 1996-1999, he was the Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley.
Dr. Sastry received his Ph.D. degree in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was on the faculty of MIT as Asst. Professor from 1980-82 and Harvard University as a chaired Gordon Mc Kay professor in 1994. His areas of personal research are embedded and autonomous software for unmanned systems (especially aerial vehicles), computer vision, computation in novel substrates such as quantum computing, nonlinear and adaptive control, robotic telesurgery, control of hybrid and embedded systems, network embedded systems, and software. Most recently he has been concerned with cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection, and has helped establish an NSF Science and Technology Center, TRUST (Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies).
Mayo A. Shattuck III
Mayo Shattuck is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Constellation Energy, a Fortune 200 company which owns energy-related businesses, including a North American wholesale power marketing and merchant generation business and the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, an energy delivery utility serving Central Maryland. Prior to joining Constellation Energy, he was with Deutsche Bank where he served as Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown and, during his tenure, served as Global Head of Investment Banking and Global Head of Private Banking. From 1997 to 1999, he served as Vice Chairman of Bankers Trust Corporation, which merged with Deutsche Bank in June 1999. From 1991 until 1997, Mr. Shattuck was President and Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Alex. Brown Inc., which merged with Bankers Trust in September 1997.
Mr. Shattuck currently serves as a Director of Gap Inc. and is Chairman of its Audit and Finance Committee and is a Director of Capital One Financial Corporation and is Chairman of its Compensation Committee. He is a member of the Board of Edison Electric Institute (“EEI”) and is Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (“INPO”). Mr. Shattuck is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine and is Chairman of the Board of Visitors of the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
He received a BA from Williams College and an MBA from Stanford University, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar. Mr. Shattuck has received an honorary Doctor of Public Service degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Stephen M. Ward, Jr.
Mr. Ward is the retired CEO of Lenovo, the international company formed by the merger of Lenovo of China and IBM’s PC business. As CEO of Lenovo, Mr. Ward established the global management team, the strategy, and the operational structure of the company. Prior to joining Lenovo, he was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of IBM’s Personal Systems Group, responsible for IBM’s Retail Store Solutions Division, IBM’s Personal Systems Group, and IBM’s Personal Computing Division. During his 26 years at IBM, Mr. Ward held a number of management and executive positions, including that of chief information officer. Mr. Ward is a founder and a member of the board of directors and the executive committee of e2open, a software-as-a-service-based, multi-company supply chain solutions provider. He is a director of E-Ink, the electronic paper display company. Mr. Ward is also a director of Carpenter Technology, a specialty metals company. Mr. Ward holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo.