Board of Trustees
Aron works closely with BSR's 250 member companies, providing advice and counsel on the full spectrum of social and environmental issues. Under his leadership, BSR has grown its staff by 50 percent and significantly expanded its global presence. Aron joined BSR in 1995 as the founding director of its Business and Human Rights Program, and later opened BSR's Paris office in 2002, where he...
With over 25 years of experience, Karen is passionate about working with brands and technologies that change our lives.
At Yahoo! Inc., Karen was the company's 17th employee and top marketing executive for six years. She served as a key force in building Yahoo as a leading global brand, overseeing marketing for all Yahoo properties, including 23 international versions. Her awards...
Debra is a director and adviser to a number of organizations in Silicon Valley. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits, the Entrepreneur’s Foundation, the Institute for the Future, the Valley Medical Foundation, the National Academy of Human Resources Foundation and the Board of Trustees for Facing History and Ourselves. Debra is on the...
Born in Oakland, California in a time and place of great social change, Rod Falcon attended nearby UC Berkeley to better understand what was happening. There he studied history and social change as an undergraduate and public policy as a graduate student. After working one summer enforcing the Voting Rights Act for the Justice Department, he realized that public policy was not as future...
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During Gorbis’ tenure with IFTF and previously with SRI International, she has worked with hundreds of organizations in business, education, government, and philanthropy, bringing a future perspective to develop vision and strategies, improve innovation capacity, and design new products...
More than ten years ago Jean brought her lifelong passion for visual metaphors and more than twenty years of experience in information design, design strategy, branding and graphics production management to IFTF. Her broad experience helped IFTF move toward new ways of presenting research material visually through maps, digital stories and many other methods.
She currently serves on the...
Michael Kleeman is a senior fellow at the University of California
San Diego (UCSD) working with the School of International Relations and
its affiliated Institute for Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). His
current activities focus on disaster communications, emerging markets
and conflict area communications, and the utilization of mobile devices
in health...
Ellen R. Marram has spent over 35 years anticipating market trends and emerging consumer needs, and building profitable brands and companies that address them. She has recently joined the Health and Health Care 2020 Advisory Board, and since 2006 she has served as President of the Barnegat Group LLC, her business advisory firm. From 2000-2005 she was a Managing Director of North Castle...
Larry Smarr became founding director in 2000 of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a University of California San Diego/UC Irvine partnership. He holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in the Jacobs School’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD. For the previous 15 years as founding director of the National Center for...
Biographical background at: http://www.LawrenceWilkinson.com
