Our Trustees

Trustees

The Honorable Dick Ackerman
Attorney at Law | State Senator (Ret.)
Ackerman Consulting

Philip K. Anthony, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, The CoreGroup

Duraid S. Antone*
Chief Operating Officer
CorFlow Inc.

Pamina E. Barkow ’03, MBA ’16
CEO & Co-Founder, PI Medical Partners
Orange County Pain Management

Amer A. Boukai ’87
President, Continental Food Mgmt.

Richard K. Bridgford, Esq.
Partner, Bridgford, Gleason & Artinian

Jane Buchan, Ph.D.
CEO, Martlet Asset Mgmt. LLC

Paul E. Butterworth ’81
CTO, VANTIQ

Mary K. Carrington, J.D.
Attorney at Law

Hazem H. Chehabi, M.D.
Owner & President
Newport Diagnostic Center

Salma A. Chehabi ’99, ’09, M.S. ’13
Genetic Counselor
Newport Diagnostic Center

Carol J. Choi ’85*
Founder, United Exchange Corporation

Eugene W. Choi ’86, MBA ’01
President & CEO
United Exchange Corporation

D. Robinson Cluck ’78*
Chairman & Co-Founder
Canterbury Consulting

Kate W. Duchene, J.D.
President & CEO
Resources Global Professionals

Lucy Dunn
President & CEO (Ret.)
Orange County Business Council

John R. Evans
Regional Managing Director (Ret.)
Wells Fargo Bank

Douglas K. Freeman, J.D.
Executive Chair & CEO
OC Music & Dance

Jennifer Friend Smith ’95, J.D.*
CEO, Project Hope Alliance 

John D. Gerace ’87
President
Calabri Biosciences, LLC

Howard Gillman
Chancellor, UC Irvine

Terry D. Godfrey ’86
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Learning Policy Institute

Oscar Gonzalez
Co-President, Northgate Markets

Denise Hall, J.D.
Retired Attorney 

Brian T. Hervey, CGPP, CFRE
Vice Chancellor, University Advancement
& Alumni Relations, UC Irvine
(Foundation President)

Julie Hill*
Corporate Director, Anthem
Lord Abbett Mutual Funds
(Immediate Past Chair) 

John C. Hueston, J.D.
Founding Partner, Hueston Hannigan LLP

Gary H. Hunt
Partner, California Strategies, LLC

Hans Imhof
Partner, K5 Ventures

Sandra J. Jackson
Co-Founder, Samueli Academy

Frank Jao
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Bridgecreek Group, Inc. 

Anthony K. Jones
Senior Executive Vice President of Operations (Ret.)
CommonSpirit Health

Elim Kay
Managing Partner, LOK 360 CO., LTD.

Yang-Uk Kim
Founder, The Kim Yang Group

Dulcie A. Kugelman
President & CEO, Kugelman Family Foundation

Jack M. Langson
President, Investment Building Group

Shanaz S. Langson
Investment Building Group

Adeline Yen Mah, M.D.
Founder
Falling Leaves Foundation

Robert A. Mah, Ph.D.
Founder
Falling Leaves Foundation

Mohannad S. Malas
Principal, IRA Capital

Farzad Massoudi ’84, M.D.
Neurosurgery Specialist
Mission Hospital – Mission Viejo

James V. Mazzo*
Executive Chairman, Neurotech, LLC 

Paul Merage
Chairman, MIG Capital

Marci Lerner Miller, J.D.
Partner, Potomac Law Group, PLLC

Shawn R. Miller, J.D.
CEO & Founder, Archwest Capital

Kristen S. Monson ’82, MBA ’86
Executive Vice President (Ret.)
Pacific Investment Mgmt. Co.

Michael A. Mussallem
Past Chairman and CEO (Ret.)
Edwards Lifesciences LLC 

Stacey Nicholas*

Eloy Ortiz Oakley ’96, MBA ’99
President & CEO
College Futures Foundation

Greg Palmer
Chairman & CEO
Supplemental Healthcare

Twyla Martin Parsky
President, Mont Pelerin Capital LLC
President, Charles D. & Twyla Martin Fdn. 

James J. Peterson*
Chair and Founder, Mobix Labs, Inc.

Sheila K. Peterson

William F. Podlich
CEO (Ret.), Pacific Investment Mgmt. Co.

Robert E. Romney, M.S. ’83
Entrepreneur, Investor, and Philanthropist

Cheryll R. Ruszat
Executive Director
Montessori Schools of Irvine

Richard J. Ruszat
President, Montessori Schools of Irvine

Kathleen R. Santora

Mark K. Santora*
Chairman of the Board (Ret.),
Panzura

Michael Schulman
Managing Director
H&S Ventures, LLC

Gary J. Singer ’74, J.D. | Foundation Chair
Retired Partner, O’Melveny & Myers LLP

Ruben A. Smith, J.D.
Partner, Frost Brown Todd LLP

Justice Sheila Prell Sonenshine (Ret.)
JAMS Neutral

Hal S. Stern, Ph.D.
Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor, UC Irvine

Timothy L. Strader Sr.
Chairman, Starpointe Ventures

Lucy Sun
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs and Co. (Ret.)

Marilyn P. Sutton, Ph.D.*
Consultant, Public Policy & Higher Education

James Irvine Swinden
Museum President, The Irvine Museum

David L. Tsoong, M.D.
Chairman & President
Pinnacle Resources International, Inc.

Vicki Vasques ’81
Owner & Chairwoman, Tribal Tech, LLC

The Honorable Gaddi H. Vasquez
U.S. Ambassador (Ret.)
Sr. VP of Government Affairs, Edison Int’l & Southern California Edison (Ret.)

Joe C. Wen
Founder and CEO, Formosa Ltd.

Dean A. Yoost*
Author & Board Member
Pacific Life Insurance Co.

 

Ex-Officio Trustees

Peter J. Fischler ’80
Managing Director, DF1 Trading
(School of Social Ecology)

Steve A.N. Goldstein, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., F.A.A.P.
Vice Chancellor, Health Affairs

Susan K. Hori, Esq.
Manatt, Phelps & Philips, LLP

Land Use Partner and OC Administrative Partner
(Claire Trevor School of the Arts)

Val Janness, Ph.D.
Chair, Academic Senate
Distinguished Professor, Criminology, Law & Society

Sam Jilanchi ’94
Managing Partner, Qwan Companies
(School of Humanities)

Timothy A. Kashani ’86, MBA ’88
CEO, IT Mentors, Inc.
(Donald Bren School of ICS)

Tiffany Ana Lopez, Ph.D.
Dean, Claire Trevor School of the Arts

William M. Maurer, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Social Sciences

Lindsay A. Miller ’08
Sr. Tax Manager, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

(UC Irvine Alumni Association President)

Mary Lou Ortiz
CFO & Vice Chancellor, Division of Finance and Administration

Peter Trepp ’88
CEO, InnoPath Therapeutics
(School of Social Sciences)

Lars T. Walton, Ed.D.
Associate Chancellor &
Chief of Staff, UC Irvine 

Emeriti Trustees

Arnold O. Beckman, Ph.D. (In Memoriam)    

Donald Bren

Thomas H. Nielsen                        

Martha A. Newkirk ’72, M.A. ’76, Ph.D. ’81 (In Memoriam)

Joan Irvine Smith (In Memoriam)

Ted Smith

Thomas T. Tierney

*Executive Committee Member