Chair of the Advisory Council
- Tom Vertin, COO, Silicon Valley Bank
- Jim Bettinger, Director, Knight Fellowships Program
- Tom Bondi, Principal, Berger/Lewis Accountancy Corp
- Dennise Carter, President, Carter McNulty
- Maryles Casto, President, Casto Travel
- Terry Christensen, Professor, Dept of Political Science, San Jose State University
- Jaleh Daie, Executive Partner, Aurora Equity LLC
- Diana Diamond, Journalist
- Hon. Rod Diridon, Sr., Executive Director
- Gloria Duffy, CEO, Commonwealth Club of California
- Kirk O. Hanson, Executive Director, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
- 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
- John Leckrone, Director of Venture Development, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Matt Levine, President, SourceUSA
- Henry Manayan, President, Transpacific Capital Corp
- Pamela Martinson, Partner, Bingham McCutchen LLP
- Jeanette Morgan, Mgr. Governmental Affairs, National Semiconductor
- Bill Peacock, President & CEO, Advanced Biodetection Corporation
- Barry Posner, Dean,Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
- Lisa Portnoy, San Jose Office Managing Partner, Ernst & Young
- Mark Ritchie, President, Ritchie Commercial
- James Rosewater, Senior Vice President and Manager, South Bay Commercial Banking Office, Bank of the West
- 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
- David Shane, Vice President, Corporate External Communications, Hewlett-Packard
- David L. Stone, Senior Vice President, Chevron Energy Solutions
- Katherine Strehl, Director, External Affairs, BART
- Lisa Taylor, , Director, sales, Marketing and Business Development, Deloitte Services LP
- Keith Watt, President, Le Petit Trianon
- Cole Wilbur, Trustee, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
- Colleen Wilcox, Executive Director, Joint Venture Silicon Valley Alliance for Teaching
- Stephen Wright, Vice President of Strategic Communications, Silicon Valley Leadership Group
