Council of Advisors

Chair

Jeff Carter
(B.A. '86)
Vice President, Relational Databases Services
Amazon.com

Vice-Chair

Mary Bui-Pham, Ph.D.
(M.S. ’88, Ph.D. ’92)
VP, Strategy, Operations, and Culture
Indeed.com

Angel R. Bours Zaragoza
President & CEO
Sonora Agropecuaria SA de CV

Robert W. Conn, Ph.D.
Partner, Conn Enterprise Consulting (CEC)
President and CEO, Retired. The Kavli Foundation
Walter J. Zable Distinguished Professor and Dean, Emeritus
Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Glyn Davies
President, Materials and Structural Analysis Division
Thermo Fisher Scientific

Martha G. Dennis, Ph.D.
Principal
Gordian Knot
 

Peter C. Farrell, Ph.D.
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Founder & Executive Chairman
ResMed

John J. Fratamico Jr., Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer Emeritus
Leidos

Matt Grob
Chief Technical Officer
XCOM Labs

Taner Halicioglu
(B.S. ‘96)
Lecturer, Angel Investor, Advisor

Arlene J. Harris
CEO of Dyna LLC
Founder, Chairwoman of Wrethink, Inc.

Steve Hart 
(M.A. ‘80)
Chair, UC San Diego Foundation Board
Co-Founder & CTO
Viasat, Inc.

Waguih Ishak, Ph.D.
VP and Chief Technologist
Corning R&D Corporation
Member, National Academy of Engineering

​Carly Jackson
Chief Technology Officer
NIWC Pacific

Honorary Chairman

Irwin M. Jacobs, Sc.D.
Founding Chairman & CEO Emeritus
QUALCOMM, Inc.
Member, National Academy of Engineering

Sanjay K. Jha, Ph.D.
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Partner
Eclipse Ventures

Rick Kornfeld
(B.S. ‘82)
President and CEO
Kitu Systems

Anantha Krishnan, Sc. D.
Senior Vice President for Energy Group
General Atomics

Ann Lee-Karlon, Ph.D. 
(​M.S.​ '93, ​Ph.D.​​ '96)
Chief Operating Officer
Altos Labs

Asad M. Madni, Ph.D.
President, COO, and CTO
BEI Technologies Inc. (Retired)
Distinguished Adjunct Professor and Distinguished Scientist UCLA
Member, National Academy of Engineering

Rami Mehio
Head of Global Software and Informatics, R&D
Illumina

Gioia Messinger
(B.S. ‘84)
Founder & CEO
LinkedObjects, Inc.

Steve Mollenkopf
Chief Executive Officer
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Applied Materials, Inc.
Member, National Academy of Engineering

Matthew J. Newsome
(B.S. ’91)
Senior Vice President and General Manager
Cubic Transportation Systems Americas

Bahram Nour-Omid, Ph.D.
Chairman and
Managing Partner
Scopus Ventures

Gary W. Pace, Ph.D.
Entrepreneur
Director
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc and Cardiff Oncology and Antisense Therapeutics

Gregory M. Papadopoulos
(B.A. ‘79)
Venture Partner
New Enterprise Associates

Sam Ramji
Chief Strategy Officer
Datastax

Oliver Ratzesberger
Chairperson
OpenCorporates Ltd.

Toby Eduardo Redshaw
Chief Executive Officer
Verus Advisory

Ronald Reedy, Ph.D.
(M.S. ‘81, Ph.D. ‘83)
Co-Founder & CTO Emeritus
Peregrine Semiconductor

Venkata (Murthy) M. Renduchintala, Ph.D.

David Schwab 
(B.A. ‘79)
Founder & Managing Director
Vertical Ventures

Munjal Shah
Co-Founder and CEO
Health IQ

John Smee, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Head of Wireless Research
Qualcomm

Mallik Tatipamula, Ph.D.
CTO
Ericsson Silicon Valley
 

James H. Thompson
Chief Technology Officer
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Susan Tousi
Senior Vice President of Product Development
Illumina, Inc.
Member, National Academy of Engineering

Julie Meier Wright
Retired President & CEO (retired)
San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation