Board of Trustees

Dr. Barrett is chairman and president of BASIS Schools, Inc., and an operator of charter schools in Arizona, Texas, and Washington, DC. He is a leading advocate for improving education in the United States and has been involved in the creation or leadership of numerous organizations working in this field. Dr. Barrett retired as chairman of Intel Corporation in May 2009. He joined the company in 1974 as a technology development manager. In 1992, he was elected to Intel’s board of directors and was named chief operating officer in 1993. Dr. Barrett became Intel’s fourth president in May 1997 and chief executive officer in 1998. He was named chairman of the board in May 2005.

Dr. Barrett earned a BS, MS, and PhD, all in materials science, from Stanford University between 1957 and 1964. After graduation, he joined the Stanford University Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and remained there until 1974, rising to the rank of associate professor. Dr. Barrett was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom from 1964 to 1965 and was a Fulbright Fellow to the Technical University of Denmark in 1972. He is the author of over forty technical papers dealing with the influence of microstructure on the properties of materials and wrote a textbook on materials science, The Principles of Engineering Materials (1973).

Dr. Barrett chairs Change the Equation, a national science, technology, engineering, and math [STEM] initiative, STAND for Children Arizona, and the National Forest Foundation. He is vice chair of Science Foundation Arizona and co-chairs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advisory Board. He is a board member of Achieve, Inc., an education reform organization working to raise academic standards and graduation requirements; K12 Inc.; and Society for Science and the Public. He served until 2009 as chairman of the United Nations Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development, which works to bring computers and other technology to developing parts of the world.

Mr. Thompson served as president and chief executive officer of Orbital ATK, a global aerospace and defense technologies company. He retired June 30, 2018. He co-founded Orbital ATK’s predecessor, Orbital Sciences Corporation, in 1982 and served as the company’s chairman, president, and chief executive officer at the time of its merger with Alliant Techsystems in 2014. Orbital Sciences was engaged in the development and deployment of small- and medium-class space and rocket systems for scientific, defense, and commercial customers.

Prior to co-founding Orbital in 1982, Mr. Thompson was special assistant to the president of Hughes Aircraft Company’s Missile Systems Group and was a project manager and engineer on advanced rocket engines at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. As a college student, he worked on the first Mars landing missions at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and on Space Shuttle projects at the NASA Langley Research Center and Johnson Space Center.
Mr. Thompson is Board Chair of the California Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and served as its president from 2009 to 2010. He is also a Fellow of the American Astronautical Society and the Royal Aeronautical Society and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the International Academy of Astronautics.

Mr. Thompson earned a BS in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976, an MS in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology in 1977, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1981. He has been honored with Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award and Harvard’s Alumni Achievement Award.

Among other accolades, Mr. Thompson was awarded the National Medal of Technology, was honored as Virginia’s Industrialist of the Year, and received the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum Trophy. He was also awarded the International Von Karman Wings Award by the Aerospace Historical Society and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. In addition, he was named High-Technology Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. Magazine, was selected as Satellite Executive of the Year by Via Satellite Magazine, and was presented with the World Technology Award for Space by The Economist.
 

Anne Bonaparte is a serial entrepreneur and company builder with deep experience scaling emerging enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity companies through high growth stages and acquisition to become market leaders that endure. Anne’s experience leading $500M divisions of leading tech companies complements her multiple CEO successes including SolidCore (McAfee), Buzzsaw (Autodesk), Tablus (EMC), BrightPoint (ServiceNow) and Appthority (Symantec).

Anne has extensive functional leadership in strategy, go-to-market, and executive development and is especially gifted at organizational transformation and operational acceleration. She enjoys mentoring executives, coaching underrepresented young leaders, and advising organizations to advance their impact with her consulting business, Three Degrees. Anne began her career at IBM and Hewlett Packard and developed her early strategy skills at Bain & Company. Anne serves on the board of a leading winery, Schramsberg Vineyards, and founded a nonprofit, DeathWise, to change the conversation about death and dying.

Anne Bonaparte graduated, with Distinction, from the Harvard Business School and holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Stanford University. Lucky in love (35 years and counting). Mother of three extraordinary millennial women. Avid world explorer.

Co-chief Investment Officer and Partner at private investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman, Suzanne Brenner jointly leads the firm's manager selection, capital allocation, and investment decisions.

Before joining the firm in 2017, Suzanne was Senior Vice President and CIO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she oversaw the management of the museum’s $3.2 billion investment portfolio. Prior to the museum, she was the Director of Investments and Assistant Treasurer of The Rockefeller Foundation, and before that, she worked as a consultant to several Louis Marx Jr. private equity companies. She began her career at Ernst & Young.

She also serves on the boards of several leading New York family trusts, the New York Botanical Garden Investment Committee, and the Emerita Council of 100 Women in Finance, an organization focused on education, leverage, and philanthropy. 

Mr. Crawford is of counsel at the international law firm Jones Day, based in Paris, France. He practices in the areas of international arbitration and litigation, in particular as counsel in commercial arbitration matters before the International Chamber of Commerce and other arbitral institutions. He has acted as arbitrator or mediator in a number of international dispute resolution matters. In addition, he has experience in multijurisdictional aspects of United States and European litigation and in dealing with international joint ventures and other projects and transactions in such sectors as oil and gas, construction, and electronics. Mr. Crawford previously chaired the firm’s dispute resolution practice, and he was partner-in-charge of the Paris office from 1977 to 1994.

Mr. Crawford has served as chairman of the European Council of American Chambers of Commerce (1987 – 1990) and as president of the American Chamber of Commerce in France (1985 – 1988), where he has been a board member since 1976. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Crawford currently serves as vice chairman of the American Hospital of Paris and as a member of the board of the Fondation Carnot, International Council of Haverford College (former chairman), and International House – New York. At Tufts University, he is a member of the International Board of Overseers and both the Advisory Board and European Advisory Group at its Fletcher School of International Affairs.

Mr. Crawford is a member of the French Legion of Honor and Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun. In September 2007 he was honored with the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Prize (Gaimu-daijin Hyosho) for his work in creating the Japanese program at the American Hospital of Paris. At Mr. Crawford’s alma mater, Haverford College, he was the 2006 recipient of the Perry Award for Exemplary Service in Fund Raising. .

Mr. Crawford earned a BA from Haverford College in 1958, an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in 1959, and after attending the University of Paris from 1959 to 1961, a JD from Columbia University in 1964, where he was a member of the Journal of Transnational Law.

Dr. Duffy advises on asset allocation strategy, economic analysis, and portfolio design. He was a founder and Senior Managing Director at the Strategic Investment Group (Strategic), an Arlington, Virginia-based manager of customized portfolios for institutional and private investors. Dr. Duffy previously founded Emerging Markets Management (EMM) and, until its sale to Ashmore, PLC, was EMM’s Treasurer and Managing Director. EMM, established in 1987, was one of the first investment management firms to specialize in the management of emerging market equities. Strategic and EMM were founded in 1987 by members of the senior pension investment team and capital markets department of the World Bank group. Prior to the founding of Strategic and EMM, he was a senior investment officer at the World Bank and an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC.

Dr. Duffy is a former trustee and treasurer of the China Medical Board of New York, Inc., and the successor organization to the China Medical Board division of the Rockefeller Foundation, formed in 1914 to manage the Foundation’s developing interests in medicine and medical education in China.

Dr. Duffy earned a BA in economics from the University of Michigan in 1977 and both an MA and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 1979 and 1985, respectively. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and completed the Series 65 and 3 securities examinations. He is a member the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Washington, DC.
 

Dr. Faber is University Professor Emerita and former chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). From August 2012 to Jun 2014, she also served as interim director of the University of California Observatories. Dr. Faber joined the UCSC faculty in 1972 and in 1996 was named university professor, the highest honor for faculty in the UC system. She is a leading authority on telescopes and astronomical instrumentation and has been closely involved with both the W.M. Keck Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.

Dr. Faber has made significant scientific contributions in the areas of structure and formation of elliptical galaxies; the nature, compositions, and motions of stars within a galaxy as related to its mass; and the streaming motions of large numbers of galaxies. Concepts such as cold dark matter and the Great Attractor are direct results of work by Dr. Faber and her colleagues. Dr. Faber contributed to the first comprehensive model of how galaxies formed and helped to lay the foundation for the now widely accepted notion that most galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center.

Dr. Faber is co-chair of the Board of Annual Reviews, Inc.; trustee emeritus of the SETI Institute; and, until recently, a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers. She has served as a board member or advisor on numerous commissions and committees at the National Academy of Sciences and other scientific institutions and organizations. Dr. Faber edited Nearly Normal Galaxies: From the Planck Time to the Present (1987) and has authored more than 350 journal articles. She has served on the editorial board and is currently co-editor of the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Dr. Faber has received many honors for her accomplishments. In February 2013, President Barack Obama presented her with the National Medal of Science. Her other awards include the Karl Schwarzschild Medal from the German Astronomical Society (2012); the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s Catherine Wolf Bruce Gold Medal for her lifetime achievements in astronomy (2012); the Franklin Institute’s Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science (2009); Harvard University’s Centennial Medal (2006) and Bart J. Bok Prize (1978); the Medaille de l’Institut d’Astophysique de Paris (2005); the American Astronomical Society’s Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1985); and election to the National Academy of Sciences (1985), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989), the California Academy of Sciences (1998), and the American Philosophical Society (2001). She holds honorary degrees from Swarthmore College (1986) Williams College (1997), the University of Chicago (2006), the University of Pennsylvania (2010), the University of Michigan (2010), and Amherst College (2016).

Dr. Faber earned a BA in physics with high honors from Swarthmore College in 1966 and a PhD in astronomy from Harvard University in 1972. She completed pre-doctoral studies at Carnegie’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in 1971 and was named an NSF graduate fellow, Woodrow Wilson graduate fellow, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow.

Tom Korzenecki is the founder of Grand Avenue Capital Partners, a mid-market investment bank which has been active in raising capital for private companies in China and merger/acquisition transactions for US private companies.

Tom has spent 15 years in the energy industry with Atlantic Richfield and Occidental Petroleum. He worked in chemical and refinery operations, crude oil trading, financial management, strategic planning and was involved in M&A assignments. After his first M&A transaction in Germany in 1979, he became a key adviser in the ENI-Oxy joint petrochemical partnership in Italy and the Oxy acquisition of Cities Service. He is an entrepreneur, acquiring and operating four niche manufacturing companies in the packaging industry. He returned to the deal business founding a FINRA-licensed investment bank, Grand Avenue Capital Partners.

He has been involved on the boards of art organizations in Philadelphia and Los Angeles as well as private company boards in Southern California.

Mr. Korzenecki earned a BS in Fire Protection Engineering and a BS in Chemical Engineering both from the Illinois Institute of Technology, an MBA in Finance from the University of Houston and an MBT in Corporate Taxation from the University of Southern California.
 

Michael Long is the CEO of AnyDATA Corporation. AnyDATA is an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of wireless data products. AnyDATA wireless data devices provide high-speed performance, small form factor, low cost, strong reliability and have been certified by more than 54 carriers in 43 countries. 

Mr. Long is the former Vice President of GMTO (Giant Magellan Telescope Organization).  A co-founder of Premier Wireless, Inc., started in 1993. Premier Wireless designed and manufacturered wireless video, audio and data systems

or use in the CCTV, Broadcast, Military and Law Enforcement markets.  Prior to founding Premier Wireless, Mr. Long was the President of Dynatech Spectrum, a subsidiary of Dynatech Corporation. Dynatech Spectrum designed and manufactured microwave components and wireless video systems. 

Mr. Long has a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Chicago with continued graduate studies at UCLA and Stanford University. He has published a number of articles and is co-inventor on two patents. 

Mr. Long is a trustee of the Mt. Wilson Institute and a member of the University of Chicago’s Physical Sciences Division Visiting Committee, which helps create entrepreneurial approaches to the technologies being developed at the University of Chicago.  He is also a board member of the University of Chicago’s Alumni Club of Los Angeles and a member of the Adaptive Business Leaders Organization. 

Mary Maxon is Carnegie Science's Executive Vice President, working in partnership with the institution's leadership team to develop and execute the near-term plans for future biological and environmental sciences in Pasadena. Prior to her arrival at Carnegie Science, she held senior roles at Schmidt Futures and Berkeley National Laboratory.

Maxon has worked in the private sector, both in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, as well as the public sector, highlighted by her tenure as the Assistant Director for Biological Research at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President, where she developed the National Bioeconomy Blueprint. With her diverse and extensive background in industry, scientific foundations, and both state and federal government, Maxon is recognized as a national leader in science and technology policy.

She earned her Bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry from the State University of New York, Albany, and her graduate degree in molecular cell biology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Christine M. McCarthy, after over four decades as an executive in the finance and media & entertainment industries, now serves on public and private company boards and advises various private equity and strategic investment funds.

Ms. McCarthy served as the Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of The Walt Disney Company from 2015 - 2023. In that role she had responsibility for the Company’s worldwide finance organization, which included brand and franchise management, corporate alliances, corporate real estate, corporate strategy, enterprise controllership, enterprise technology and cyber security, corporate financial planning and analysis, global security, global product and labor standards, investor relations, risk management, tax, and treasury. She most recently served as a Strategic Advisor of Disney from July 2023 until retiring in June 2024.

Prior to becoming CFO of The Walt Disney Company in July 2015, Ms. McCarthy served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Real Estate, Alliances and Treasurer, The Walt Disney Company. In that role, she was responsible for the enterprise-wide management of a variety of functions, including corporate finance, capital markets, financial risk management, international treasury, insurance, pension and investments, global cash management and treasury operations, enterprise consumer payment, and credit and collections. She also oversaw corporate alliances, strategic sourcing, and the company’s global real estate organization, including development, portfolio management and facilities management.

Prior to joining Disney in 2000, Ms. McCarthy was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Imperial Bancorp from 1997 to 2000. She held various finance and planning positions, including treasury and investor relations, at First Interstate Bancorp from 1981 to 1996, and was elected Executive Vice President, Finance at First Interstate Bancorp in 1993.

Ms. McCarthy currently serves as a director of The Procter & Gamble Company and is the Chair of its Audit Committee, is a director of FM Global and the Chair of its Finance Committee and joined the board of Flutter Entertainment in July 2024. Her philanthropic boards now include serving as Trustee of the Westridge School in Pasadena, and as a Trustee and Chair of the Finance and Operations Committee of Carnegie Science, an independent research institution dedicated to advancing scientific investigation, research, and discovery in service of humankind. She has previously served on boards of numerous other civic and educational organizations, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Smith College, and Phoenix Houses of California, Inc.

Christine has received numerous leadership and finance awards and has been named multiple times to Treasury & Risk’s “100 Most Influential People in Finance,” the Top 100 Irish American Business Leaders, and Business Insider’s “The 15 Most Influential Women in Finance.” In 2015, she was the recipient of Treasury Today’s Adam Smith “Woman of the Year” award. In 2016 she received Los Angeles Business Journal’s “Executive of the Year” award and was honored as one of the Entertainment Diversity Council’s “Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment.”

Ms. McCarthy completed her bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences at Smith College and earned an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

John Mulchaey was named Carnegie Science's 12th President in November 2024—the culmination of 30 years of scientific excellence and leadership. Immediately prior to his presidency, Mulchaey served as the institution's Deputy for Science for four years, which ran concurrently with his decade as the Director and Crawford H. Greenewalt Chair of the Carnegie Science Observatories, the organization’s division for astronomy and astrophysics research. As President, Mulchaey oversees the research and business functions across Carnegie Science three scientific Divisions, composed of research sites on the East and West Coasts and telescope facilities in Chile.

Mulchaey is a respected astronomer, well-regarded for his work on groups and clusters of galaxies—most of which, including our own Milky Way, exist collectively. These systems can be important laboratories for studying the processes that shape galaxies throughout their lifetimes, from their formation through their evolution. Early in his career, Mulchaey led the research group that revolutionized our understanding of galaxy groups by revealing the existence of large amounts of dark matter in their compositions. More recently, he was part of the teams that discovered the first known binary quasar system and that first watched a fast radio burst in real time.

He joined Carnegie as a postdoctoral fellow, after a graduate student fellowship at the Space Telescope Science Institute. At the conclusion of his fellowship, he received a Staff Scientist appointment. Dr. Mulchaey was named Director in 2015 after five years as Associate Director for Academic Affairs. He earned his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree in the same from Berkeley. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society’s Committee on Astronomy and Public Policy and the Weber Prize Selection Committee.

In 2020, Mulchaey received the Rotary Club’s Helios Humanitarian Star Award in acknowledgment of his longstanding efforts at promoting outreach events and activities to share astronomy with enthusiasts of all ages throughout the Los Angeles area.

He created the popular Observatories Astronomy Lecture Series at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, and gives upwards of 50 talks each year to groups around Southern California and across the country. He also launched a program for gifted high school students from Southern California to gain exposure to what it’s actually like to be a scientist.

Stephen Quake is the Lee Otterson Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University and is Head of Science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where he oversees CZI’s science grant programs, technology development, and the CZ Biohub Network. He received a B.S. in Physics and M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1991 and a doctorate in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar in 1994. He began his faculty career at the California Institute of Technology in 1996, where he rose through the ranks to become the Everhart Professor of Applied Physics and Physics. He joined Stanford in 2005 to help found and lead Stanford’s new Bioengineering department as it grew to nearly two dozen faculty members. He was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 2006-2016.

Quake’s research has explored the nexus of biology, physics and technology development. His research in microfluidic device physics led to the invention of the biological integrated circuit – chips with tens of thousands of microfabricated valves and other assorted plumbing elements. Quake developed applications of these devices in areas in fields as diverse as structural biology, biochemistry, genetics and cell biology. Many of the technologies currently used for single cell genomics trace their origin to Quake’s discoveries in this field. Quake’s early career work in single molecule biophysics led him to the invention of the first single molecule sequencing technology, which he used for an early example of human genome sequencing. He then began exploring other applications of genomics, which led him into immune repertoire analysis, diagnostics and the development of non-invasive tests for fetal aneuploidy and organ transplant rejection.

Quake’s contributions to the development of new biotechnology at the interface between physics and biology have been widely recognized. Honors include the Prize for Convergence Research (National Academy of Science), The Max Delbruck Prize in Biological Physics (American Physical Society), the Gabbay Prize for Biotechnology and Medicine, the Human Frontiers of Science Program Nakasone Prize, the MIT-Lemelson Prize for Inventors, the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics, the American Society of Microbiology’s Promega Biotechnology Award, and the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing’s Pioneer of Miniaturization Award. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the American Physical Society. He has published more than 300 peer reviewed papers which have cumulatively been cited more than 100,000 times, and his h-index is 155. He is one of the most prolific inventors in the world and is named inventor on 179 US patents, as well as many more international patents.

Ray Rothrock is the former CEO of RedSeal. RedSeal provides network infrastructure security management solutions.  He is also partner emeritus at Venrock, an early-stage venture capital firm specializing in the energy, healthcare, and technology sectors.

Prior to RedSeal he was a general partner at Venrock, one of RedSeal’s founding investors. At Venrock he invested in 53 companies including over a dozen in cybersecurity including Vontu, PGP, P-Cube, Imperva, Cloudflare, CTERA, and Shape Security. He is on the board of Check Point Software Technology, Ltd. an original Venrock investment, and Team8, both Tel Aviv–based companies. Ray Rothrock is also a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation board.

A thought leader in cybersecurity and longtime investor in the sector, he was a participant in the White House Cybersecurity Summit held at Stanford University February 2015.

Ray Rothrock holds a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A & M University, a MS in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School.

Ray Rothrock is the author of the book Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?

Cristián Samper is the Managing Director and Leader for Nature Solutions at the Bezos Earth Fund, overseeing work related to the protection and restoration of nature, as well as the transformation of food systems. 

Prior to joining Bezos Earth Fund, he served as President & Chief Executive Officer of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) for a decade from 2002 to 2012, overseeing the largest network of urban wildlife parks, hosting four million visitors each year, and carried long-term field research and conservation programs in more than 60 countries.

Prior to joining WCS, Dr. Samper served as Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and was the founding director of Colombia’s Alexander von Humboldt Institute. 

He served as Chair of the science advisory body of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and was one of the leaders of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Samper has served on several boards, including the Harvard Board of Overseers, the American Alliance of Museums, the World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and several boards of the CGIAR for agricultural research.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Academy of Sciences of Colombia and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Raised in Colombia, Dr. Samper studied biology at the Universidad de Los Andes and earned his MA and PhD from Harvard University.

David N. Spergel is the President of the Simons Foundation. He is the Charles Young Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Princeton University and was the Founding Director of the Center of Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in NY. Spergel received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1982 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). After a year of study at Oxford University, he received his PhD from Harvard in 1985. After two years as a long-term member at the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the Princeton astrophysics faculty in 1987, where he was also Associate Faculty in the Departments of Physics and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He served as Department Chair from 2006 to 2016. During his term as chair, the department was consistently ranked as #1 by US News and World Reports and by the NAS. In 2016, he became the Founding Director of the Center for Computational Astrophysics. In 2021, he assumed leadership of the Simons Foundation.

Spergel is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, the Breakthrough Prize, the Gruber Prize, the Shaw Prize, Sloan Fellowship and the Presidential Young Investigator award. The American Astronomical Society recognized his contributions with its Warner Prize, the Heinemann Prize and his selection as its inaugural Kavli Lecturer. Time Magazine listed Spergel in its 2001 issue as one of America's top scientists and in its 2012 issue as one of the 25 most influential people in Space. Spergel has served as chair of the NAS Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, the NAS Space Studies Board, NASA Astrophysics subcommittee, and as a member of the NASA Advisory Council. He is currently chair of the IAU committee on international collaborations, editor of the Princeton Series in Astrophysics. For his contributions to NASA, he was awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Service Award.

Spergel was one of the leaders of the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Prove (WMAP), which measured the age, shape and composition of the universe. Spergel is co-chair of the Roman Space Telescope (formerly, WFIRST) science team. He has played a significant role in designing the coronagraph and in shaping the overall mission.

He has been the primary mentor for over 33 graduate students, 45 postdoctoral fellows, and 60 undergraduates. His mentees are now faculty members at Barcelona, Cambridge, Cardiff, Columbia, Cornell, Cooper Union, Harvard, Max-Planck Institute, NYU, Oxford, Rutgers, UCSB, UCSD, UCL, USC, Texas Tech, U Tokyo, U Toronto, and U Washington. His mentorship has been recognized by Princeton’s Presidential Distinguished Teaching Award and the National Society of Black Physicists’ mentorship award.

Spergel is the author of over 400 papers with over 115,000 citations and an h-index of 127.

Mr. Stone is an external member of the Investment Committee at the Family Office of Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and a former Minister for Science and Innovation in the United Kingdom.  Mr. Stone also advises two U.S. families, a German family, and a French family in a similar capacity.  In addition to these family offices, he serves on the investment committees of the Max Planck Endowment Fund and of the Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom. He serves as an advisor to the General Partner of Advent Life Sciences, also in the United Kingdom, and he chairs a start-up company that is developing novel hydrogen storage technology.

Mr. Stone began his career in 1970 at Phillips & Drew, a London stockbroker firm.  In 1972, he moved to the Ionian Bank in London and, two years later, joined Warburg Investment Management (which later became Mercury Asset Management plc—now part of BlackRock).  He left Warburg in January 1984 to found the Sainsbury family office, which he ran until mid-2008.  More recently, Mr. Stone established the Investment Office of Sir James Dyson, a British industrial designer and founder of Dyson Limited. 

Mr. Stone was a trustee and, for eight years, chairman of Lord Sainsbury’s charitable foundation, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation.  In this capacity, he participated in the establishment of the Sainsbury Laboratory for Plant Molecular Pathology in Norwich.  Mr. Stone was also a trustee of several other Sainsbury family grant-making charities, including the Kay Kendall Leukemia Fund, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, as well as serving on the board of the Social Market Foundation, a non-partisan think tank promoting pro-market and social justice policies.  Mr. Stone earned an MA in psychology, with honors, from the University of Edinburgh in 19700.

Mr. Wais is president of Marwais International LLC, based in Luxembourg.  He spent many years working in his family’s various steel companies, including Caine Steel of Chicago and Pinole Point Steel Co. and the Marwais Steel Company of the San Francisco Bay area, culminating as president and chief executive officer of Marwais Steel.  Mr. Wais earned an AB in history from the University of Chicago in 1963 and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1965.  He was chairman of the American Hospital of Paris; board member of the American Library in Paris USA Foundation; and is a trustee emeritus of the University of Chicago.

Michael G. Wilson began his producing career in 1976, working with Albert “Cubby” Broccoli on The Spy Who Loved Me. Together, they co-produced the next six James Bond films, five of which Wilson also co-wrote. He then went on to produce the hugely successful GoldenEye with his sister, Barbara Broccoli, as well as the next nine Bond franchise releases. Wilson has also produced a number of successful film and stage productions; most recently, he and Barbara produced the box office hit No Time to Die, directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig.

Michael graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963 (engineering). He then received a juris doctor from Stanford Law School and worked for the Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., before joining the law firm Surrey & Morse. There, he became a partner specializing in international tax and business transactions before transferring to EON Productions, of which he is currently Chairman.

Interested in all aspects of still photography, Wilson is recognized as a leading expert on 19th-century photography. In 1998, he opened the Wilson Centre for Photography, one of the largest private collections of photography today, spanning works from some of the earliest extant photographs to the most current contemporary productions. The Centre is a facility for research on the history, aesthetics and preservation of photographs and loans to international museums and galleries.

Fellow of the Science Museum in London, Wilson is also a trustee of Harvey Mudd College, a trustee of the Carnegie Institution for Science, and a trustee of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has recently retired as trustee of the Art Fund and chair of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Wilson and Broccoli are founders of the London Screen Academy and Directors of the Dana and Albert R Broccoli Foundation.

In 2022, he was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire honour for services to film, to drama, to philanthropy and to skills. In 2014, the Producers’ Guild of America honored Wilson with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures and, in 2013, he received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film for Skyfall.

Wilson is married to Jane Wilson, a Scripps College graduate. They have two sons and four grandchildren.