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Chair of the Advisory Council
- Colleen Wilcox, Executive Director, Joint Venture Silicon Valley Alliance for Teaching
- Richard Alejandro, Executive Manager, American Diabetes Association
- Elaine Alquist, Former Assemblywoman, California State Assembly
- Stan Arterberry, Chancellor, West Valley Mission College Community College District
- Jim Bettinger, Director, Knight Fellowships Program
- Tom Bondi, Principal, Berger/Lewis Accountancy Corp
- Michael Brandis ,, Esq, Pacific Bell
- Dennise Carter, President, Carter McNulty
- Maryles Casto, President, Casto Travel
- Terry Christensen, Professor, Dept of Political Science, San Jose State University
- Sunny Claggett, Partner, SK Consulting
- Jaleh Daie, Executive Partner, Aurora Equity LLC
- Rod Diridon, Executive Director, Mineta Transportation Institute
- Rod Diridon, Jr, City Clerk, City of Santa Clara
- Gloria Duffy, CEO, Commonwealth Club of California
- Gary Fazzino, Director, Government Affairs, Hewlett-Packard
- Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
- Barbara Harley, Executive Director (retired), IBI
- Bill Highlander, Director, Public Relations (retired), Calpine Corp.
- Scott Knies, President, Downtown Association
- Jim Koch, Administration Director, Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University
- Matt Levine, President, SourceUSA
- Henry Manayan, President, Transpacific Capital Corp.
- Carol Mayer Marshall, President, Carol Mayer Marshall & Associates
- Jeanette Morgan, Mgr. Governmental Affairs, National Semiconductor
- Datta Nadkarni, Consultant, Marketing & Sales Strategy Consulting
- Bill Peacock, President & CEO, Advanced Biodetection Corporation
- Jay Pinson, Director, Pinson Institute
- Barry Posner, Dean,Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
- Walt Reichert, Mgr. International Business Center, Hewlett-Packard
- Mark Ritchie, President, Ritchie Commercial
- Meredith Rudof Weiss, Volunteer Coordinator, Commonwealth Club/Silicon Valley
- Bob Saldich, President and CEO (Retired), Raychem Corp.
- David Sandretto, Executive Director (Retired), Second Harvest Food Bank
- Leslie Saul Garvin, former Director, Public Policy, TechNet
- Joan Semeria, Communications Manager, United Defense lp
- Ann Skeet, Former President, American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley
- Katherine Strehl, Director, External Affairs, BART
- Tom Vertin, Western Division Manager, Silicon Valley Bank
- Keith Watt, President, Le Petit Trianon
- Cole Wilbur, Trustee, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
- Stephen Wright, Director of Corporate Communications, SunPower Corporation
Marwan Muasher
Arianna Huffington
Ben Stein