Council of Advisors

Chair

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

Vice Chair

Oliver Ratzesberger
Chairperson
OpenCorporates Ltd.

Victor Bahl, Ph.D.
Technical Fellow
Chief Technology Officer for Azure for Operators
Strategic Missions and Technologies
Microsoft Corporation

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

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

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
 

Charles Elkan, Ph.D.
Venture Partner, Fellows Fund
Affiliate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego

Peter C. Farrell, Ph.D.
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Founder & Chair Emeritus
ResMed

John J. Fratamico Jr., Ph.D.
Executive Consultant and Board Member

Matt Grob
Chief Technical Officer
Globalstar

Harry Gruber
Co-Founder
JouleOne

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.
Retired 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. 
(Ph.D.​​ '96)
President and CEO
EpiBiologics

Aiiso Yufeng Li (Jeff)
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
CorDx

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

Gioia Messinger
(B.S. ‘84)
Founder & Principal
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)
Strategic Advisor
Cubic Transportation Systems Americas

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

Gary W. Pace, Ph.D.
Entrepreneur
Director
Cardiff Oncology and
Pacific Channel

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

Sam Ramji
 

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

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

Susan Tousi
Chief Executive Officer
DELFL Diagnostics
Member, National Academy of Engineering

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