USC Board of Trustees Flashcards
For Steph's Eyes Only
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Miriam Adelson (Honorary Trustee)
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- Israeli American philanthropist, and doctor.
- Married Sheldon in 1991 (2nd husband) and has since become a prominent Republican Party donor. People say she runs the political show and he listens to whatever she says.
- Founder of Dr. Miriam & Sheldon Adelson Clinic for Drug Abuse Treatment; Research in Las Vegas.
- Parents escaped Nazi Poland to Israel. She is very dedicated to Israel has donated millions to Trump campaign to push her Israeli foreign policy agenda (like the Embassy move).
- Trump recently awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Wallis Annenberg (Life Trustee)
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- Chair, President, and CEO, Annenberg Foundation
- Daughter of publishing magnate Walter Hubert Annenberg.
- Her stepmother Leonore left the leadership of the Annenberg Foundation to Wallis and three of her children: Lauren, Gregory, and Charles in March 2009.
- Wallis Annenberg today carries on her father’s legacy as a public benefactor and donates the family name and fortune to philanthropic projects, largely to benefit Los Angeles County.
- Board of trustees at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Philanthropic projects include Wallis Annenberg PetSpace, Wallis Annenberg GenSpace, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Annenberg Space for Photography, Annenberg Community Beach House, and Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.
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Wanda M. Austin (Life Trustee)
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- Interim President, University of Southern California
- President and CEO (Retired), The Aerospace Corporation. She is the co-founder of MakingSpace, Inc, a systems engineering and leadership development consultant and motivational speaker.
- She was an advisor to Pres Obama in areas of science and technology and served on the USC Board of Trustees since 2010. In 2018, she received the USC Presidential Medallion.
- Degrees in systems engineering and mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in systems engineering from USC.
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Marc. R. Benioff (his wife is Lynn)
Committee Member:
Alumni Affairs and University Development
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- Founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, billionaire internet entrepreneur
- Received BS from USC. After graduating, joined Oracle, & at 23, was named Oracle’s Rookie of the Year and three years later, was promoted to VP, the company’s youngest person VP.
- In 2018 bought Time Magazine for $190 million
- Created the 1-1-1 model of corporate philanthropy, where companies contribute 1% of equity, 1% of employee hours and 1% of product back to the communities it serves.
- He and his wife were recognized as top philanthropists by Forbes’ America’s Top Giver list in 2015, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Philanthropy 50 list in 2010, 2014 2015.
- Major financial supporter of social activism (March For Our Lives, LGBTQ, homelessness, equal pay), & stops his company doing business in states that pass hostile laws related to these issues.
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Corii D. Berg
Committee Member:
Alumni Affairs and University Development
Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy
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- General Counsel, Lionsgate. Serves as the senior legal and business affairs executive
- Board of Councilors, USC Annenberg
- 20-year Sony Pictures veteran - (2009–2018) as senior executive VP and head of Worldwide Business Affairs for Sony Pictures Television production.
- Graduated USC in 1989 with degrees in journalism and political science.
- Received a JD degree from Loyola Law School in 1992,
- 2018–2019 president-elect of the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors.
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Robert D. Beyer
Committee Member:
Executive
Finance and Campus Planning
Investment - Chair
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- Chairman of Chaparal Investments, a personal investment and holding company.
- Previously served as CEO and a member of the board of directors of the TCW Group, and as a member of the Executive Committee of Société Générale Asset Management, which acquired TCW in 2001.
- In 1991, he co-founded Crescent Capital Corp., a leading investment company that was acquired by TCW in 1995.
- In SoCal, he has been a member of the Harvard-Westlake School Board of Trustees since 1995.
- Lives in Los Angeles and Sun Valley with his wife, Catherine, and they have four adult children.
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David C. Bohnett
Committee Member:
Executive
Academic Affairs - Co-Chair
Finance and Campus Planning
Nominating and Governance
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- Chair, David Bohnett Foundation which pledged $15 million to endow and name the David C. Bohnett Residential College in 2016 at the new USC Village, also endowed a chair at Marshall Business school, and a leadership fund at Price School of Public Policy.
- He has a BS from Marshall.
- Founded social networking site GeoCities in 1994, acquired by Yahoo! In 1999.
- Does a lot with LGBT groups (a gay man, experienced isolation a child so really helps organizations to assist this group to succeed).
- Founded Baroda Ventures – venture capital firm investing in tech-related ventures
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Charles F. Bolden Jr. (Honorary Trustee)
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- U.S. Marine Corps Major General and NASA Administrator (Retired), former astronaut
- First African American to head NASA (nominated by Obama)
- Has an MS from USC in Systems Management
- Commanded crew aboard Discovery (first joint American-Russian Space Shuttle mission)
- He has a MAJOR CARRER in the military. Graduated from Naval Academy, Commander in Operation Desert Thunder in Kuwait, just to start.
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Joseph M. Boskovich Sr. (Life Trustee)
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- Was the CEO of Boskovich Farms Inc. – one of North America’s largest growers and shippers of fresh produce which was worth billions when he left. Was Chairman of Grower Shipper Association, and major in the farming/shipping world.
- Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, and Founder, Old West Investment Management. I think he founded this company with his son who was an All-American USC football player (has the same name as his dad but Jr.) Prior to this, he was VP of Aletheia Research Management.
- MBA from Marshall Business School
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Robert A. Bradway
Committee Member:
Executive
Executive Compensation - Co-Chair
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- Chairman and CEO, Amgen, a biopharma company. Has an MBA from Harvard.
- Before that he was managing director at Morgan Stanley in London & headed corporate finance activities in Europe for them.
- He was named one of 25 most influential people in biopharma
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Jeanie M. Buss (Honorary Trustee)
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- Co-Owner, CEO & Governor, LA Lakers (daughter of real estate investor Jerry Buss).
- At 19, was general manager of the LA Strings a pro tennis team her dad owned.
- Married Steve Timmons in 1990, but divorced 3 years later, saying “I never put my marriage first…it was always business which attracted me.”
- Posed nude in the March 1995 issue of Playboy.
- Was engaged to former Lakers coach & NY Knicks Pres. Phil Jackson (they were together for 17 years until they broke off engagement).
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Charles G. Cale (Life Trustee)
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- Managing Member, Griffin Opportunities, LLC
- In 2017 pledged $15 million to USC Village residential college that is named for them
- Was vice president of sports for the 1984 LA Olympic Organizing Committee (was also super involved in other Olympic games).
- Received Gold Medal of Youth & Sports from French Govt. in 1984
- Endowed Charles Griffin Cale Director of Athletics’ Chair in 2011 at USC
- BA from Stanford and master’s from USC School of Law
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Rick J. Caruso
Committee Members:
Executive
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- Founder and CEO, Caruso
- Been president of LA Police Commission and a member of the Board of Water & Power Commissioners (no wonder!)
- BS from USC, Law Degree from Pepperdine. Recognized as Alumnus of the Year by Pepperdine School of Law in 1995
- The Caruso Catholic Center & Our Savior Parish Church on USC was endowed and named after he gave $9 million. In 2015 they donated $25 million to USC to endow and name the USC Tina & Rick Caruso Dept of Otolaryngology.
- Named “Developer of the Year” by LA Business Journal
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Ronnie C. Chan (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman, Hang Lung Group Limited and Hang Lung Properties Limited. As of 2014, it was one of the largest real estate developers in Hong Kong.
- Director of Enron Corp. and a member of its audit committee when it filed for bankruptcy.
- MBA from USC. Donated $20 million to USC.
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Chris Cox (Life Trustee)
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- President, Morgan Lewis Consulting, LLC; Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
- Former Chairman of the US Securities & Exchange Commission, a 17-year Republican Congressman, and member of the White House staff in the Reagan Administration
- BA from USC, MBA & JD from Harvard.
- Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in the House of Reps (obviously he has A LOT about his time as a Congressman and Chairman that I won’t get into).
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Frank H. Cruz (Life Trustee)
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- President, Cruz & Associates, a consulting firm he founded Veteran broadcaster. Former chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- A founder of Telemundo and Spanish KVEA-TV where he was VP and general manager.
- Former news reporter and anchor for KABC and KNBC & won an Emmy for coverage. A big guy in Spanish broadcasting here.
- Went to USC. Also a member of Annenberg Board of Counselors and boards related to Hispanic businesses
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Michele Dedeaux Engemann (husband is Roger)
Committee Member:
Executive
Academic Affairs
Student Affairs - Co-Chair
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- Community Leader, actor, philanthropist
- BA from USC in Drama. Past President of USC Alumni Ass. Board of Governors, member of Trojan League of LA. Board of Councilors of School of Dramatic Arts. Recognized as one of USC’s Women of Distinction in 2008.
- They donated $15 million to create a modern Student Health Center in their nameat USC.
- She is the daughter of Trojan baseball coach Rod Dedeaux, part of 3 generations
- Her husband had a money-management firm that he sold to Phoenix Investment Partners in 1997.
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David H. Dornsife
Committee Member:
Academic Affairs
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- Chairman of the Board, The Herrick Corporation, a steel corp.
- Donated $200 million to USC, where the Dornisfe College of Letters, Arts, & Sciences was named in their honor. They are VERY involved with USC in science research as well.
- Active supporters of World Vision & do a lot in Africa with this organization in partnership with the Conrad Hilton Foundation.
- Received University Medallions from Nikias and the USC College Dean’s Medallion. He went to USC and so did his parents.
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Suzanne Dworak-Peck (Life Trustee)
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- A social work practitioner, she made a gift of $60 million to name and endow the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
- Founded the NASW Communications Network Inc., which provided the media and entertainment industries with information and resources for social issues
- Dworak-Peck serves as chair of the School of Social Work Board of Councilors.
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Daniel J. Epstein (Life Trustee)
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- Executive Chairman and Founder, ConAm Management
- Real estate developer was president of American Housing Guild, director of National Multi-Housing Council, started an apartment developer in Dallas.
- Serves on USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Development, & USC School of Engineering
- BS in Engineering from USC
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Michael A. Felix
Committee Member:
Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy
Investment
Nominating and Governance
Student Affairs
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- Senior VP (Retired), Capital Group Companies. Global head of investment operations
- President of the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors.
- BA from USC Marshall Business in 1983.
- Served in many volunteer roles, including past chair of the USC School of Dramatic Arts Board of Councilors, USC Caruso Catholic Center Advisory Board and USC Latino Alumni Advisory Council.
- His two daughters were Song Girls at USC.
- His wife is on the Board of Councilors of the Kaufman Dance School
- Received the Alumni Service Award in 2014
- As a trustee, he plans to continue to strengthen diversity and inclusion efforts and build stronger connections with young alumni.
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Carol L. Folt
Committee Member:
Executive
Academic Affairs
Alumni Affairs and University Development
Finance and Campus Planning
Investment
Nominating and Governance
Public Affairs
Student Affairs
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- The 12th president of USC. She assumed her duties on July 1, 2019.
- Was previously the 11th chancellor, and the 29th chief executive, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the first woman to hold the post.
- Was previously provost (chief academic officer) and interim president of Dartmouth College.
- She graduated from UCSB in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in aquatic biology, then a master’s degree in biology from UCSB, and a doctorate in ecology from UC Davis in 1982.
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Helene Galen (Honorary Trustee)
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- Foundation Chair, Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children
- Widow of Louis Galen, successful banker
- They have given around $50 million to USC (hence the Galen Basketball area is named after him which he basically funded).
- She lives in Rancho Mirage and gives a lot of money to schools and the arts in the Palm Desert area.
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Stanley P. Gold (Life Trustee)
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- President & CEO of Shamrock Holdings, Roy E. Disney’s private investment company.
- Was on the Walt Disney Co’s board of director. He and Roy resigned to publicly campaign to oust then CEO and Chairman Michael Eisner.
- Past Chairman of the board of trustees at USC and the Law School,
- Graduated from UCLA and earned a law degree from USC.
- Pledged $100,000 to USC’s Institute of Armenian Studies.
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Jane Harman (Honorary Trustee)
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- Director, Pres, CEO, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Former U.S. Rep for California’s 36th district as a Democrat was ranking Dem on Homeland Security’s intelligence subcommittee
- Father escaped Nazi Germany
- Law degree from Harvard; taught at Georgetown Univ.
- Served as special counsel to Dept. of Defense under Carter White House
- Entered California gubernatorial race in 1998, but lost Dem nomination to Gray Davis.
- 2nd husband was Sidney Harman, an audio pioneer. He retired, bought Newsweek Magazine in 2010 and founded The Academy for Polymathic Study at USC, died in 2011.
- Scandal: In 2009, NSA intercepted a phone call between her & an agent of Israeli govt, where she allegedly agreed to lobby the Justice Dept to reduce/drop criminal charges on 2 employees of AIPAC in exchange for support for her campaign to chair the House Intelligence Committee. Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General at the time, blocked Justice Dept lawyers from investigating because the Bush admin needed her to support their warrantless wiretapping program that got exposed later (she never got charged, but Pelosi denied her to chair the House intelligence committee although she was in line).
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Gavin S. Herbert (Life Trustee)
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- Founder (Retired), Allergan Inc.
- Chairs Roger’s Gardens here (?), and Regenesis in San Clemente. He’s been on the board of different pharmaceutical companies.
- Lives in O.C. (assuming your dad knows him).
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Ming Hsieh (Life Trustee)
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- Billionaire Chinese-born American entrepreneur. Founder of Cogent Systems in 1990.
- BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from USC (came from China).
- Cogent received numerous government contracts including the Dept. of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Prisons, FBI and Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- Was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015.
- In 2006, donated $35 million to USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering’s Dept. of Electrical Engineering, it was renamed the USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.
- In 2010, he donated $50 million to USC for cancer research.
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Tamara Hughes Gustavson (Life Trustee)
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- Trustee & largest shareholder, Public Storage. It says she’s an “American Billionaire.” She’s the daughter of Wayne Hughes, founder of Public Storage (who is a Life Trustee).
- BS from USC in Public Affairs. Married with 2 children.
- Used to work for her dad but quit to raise her kids in 2003
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John M. Iino
Committee Member:
Alumni Affairs and University Development
Student Affairs
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- An attorney and global chief diversity officer with the law firm Reed Smith, an international practice with more than 3,000 employees around the world.
- He recently completed a two-year term as president of the USC Alumni Association
- Earned a law degree at USC and was the first Asian American Gould alumnus on the school’s Board of Councilors.
- Included among the top 500 “Most Influential People in L.A.” by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 2018 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Asian Business Awards in 2016.
- Received the President’s Award from the USC Alumni Association in 2017.
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Ray R. Irani (Life Trustee, wife is GHADA
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- Former Chairman & CEO of Occidental Petroleum. Now is CEO of Ray Investments.
- Worked at Oxy for over 20 years, was named successor by Armand Hammer. Under him, Oxy grew to become the nation’s 4th largest oil & gas company. Bad Ass!
- Born in Lebanon. BS from the American Univ of Beirut, Ph.D. in Chemistry from USC.
- Holds 150 patents, awarded the chevalier of the French National Order of the Legion of Honor, the highest award given by the French govt to citizens & foreigners.
- Retired as CEO in 2011 after the CA State Teachers’ Retirement System & Relational Investors, two major Oxy Investors, objected to Oxy’s compensation policies and wanted to replace long-term board members. They protested Irani’s salary which was major (his compensation exceeded Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobil, lots of scandal with that).
- Served on boards of the American Petroleum Institute, Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation, The Wynn Resorts, member of the U.S.-Russian Business Council, the Los Angeles Town Hall and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.
- Donated $20 million toward the residential college at USC Village named after him & mom.
- Hold 2 faulty chairs, the Ghada Irani Chair at Keck & another at the Engineering school in his name. Also, the Ray R. Irani Hall at USC Chemistry Dept.
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Glorya Kaufman (Life Trustee)
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- Philanthropist. Widow of Donald Bruce Kaufman, who with Eli Broad co-founded Kaufman & Broad, now known as KB Home. Broad’s wife, Edythe is her first cousin.
- In 2011, donated millions to USC to establish the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, and the construction of the Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center.
- Founder of the Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation
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Lydia H. Kennard (Life Trustee)
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- President & CEO, KDG Construction Consulting
- Since 2007 served as a founding principal of Airport Property Ventures, an operator and developer of general aviation facilities
- Exec. Director of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) from 1999 through 2003 and again from 2005 to early 2007, managing the country’s second-largest airport systems.
- Doctorate from Harvard Law, Master’s in City Planning from MIT, BS from Stanford (shit).
- A former trustee of the RAND Corp, & member of California Air Resources Board
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Kenneth R. Klein
Committee Member:
Executive
Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy - Chair
Student Affairs
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- Chairman of the board, CEO and president of Wind River Systems Inc, a tech company
- Dual BS degree in biomedical and electrical engineering from USC, gave $8 million in 2005 to establish the Klein Institute for Undergraduate Engineering Life.
- Worked at Mercury Interactive Corp, Daisy Systems, Hughes Aircraft. Member of USC Viterbi School of Engineering Board of councilors
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John Kusmiersky (Life Trustee)
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- Founding partner of Brickstone and Chairman of Brickstone Senior Living. Brickstone is a group of privately held real estate companies.
- Managed and sold 17,000 apartment units nationwide, then worth more than $350 Million in the aggregate, many of which he converted to condominiums.
- Doctor degree from USC and has served as a Trustee of the University since 1986. On the Boards of USC Hospital, the Norris Cancer Hospital, Keck School of Medicine.
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Jaime L. Lee
Committee Member:
Executive
Academic Affairs
Alumni Affairs and University Development - Co-Chair
Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy
Nominating and Governance
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- CEO, Jamison Realty, Inc.
- Served as president of the USC Alumni Ass Board of Governors (youngest and first Asian American woman to do so). BA from USC and Law Degree. Provost member of USC Ass. and a lecturer at USC Gould, Price School of Public Policy and Marshall School of Business.
- Appointed by Mayor Garcetti, elected president of the LA Board of Harbor Commissioners, which oversees the Port of Los Angeles. Served as board president and commissioner of the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System
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Kathy Leventhal (husband is Richard)
Committee Member:
Executive
Nominating and Governance
Public Affairs - Chair
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- Former media executive who was the founding publisher of Allure magazine. Began her career at Condé Nast Publications in 1983 as sales manager of Glamour magazine, then advertising director at Vanity Fair.
- She went on to be named publisher of Vanity Fair in 1993 before leaving the media industry to focus on family.
- Member of the USC President’s Leadership Council and a co-chair of the executive board of the USC Parent Leadership Circle.
- Richard is chairman and CEO of Fedway Associates
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Claude Mann (Life Trustee)
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- Philanthropist. The fourth wife of her late husband is Alfred Mann, a physicist, inventor, entrepreneur (lots of aerospace work).
- Born during WWII in a Berlin concentration camp but escaped back to France. She is Catholic though, but her father, a diplomat, was active in the French Resistance and went to jail for hiding Jews from the Nazi’s.
- Received lots of awards & sits on boards related to Jewish causes (Alfred is a jew).
- Alfred donated more than $174 million to USC, establishing Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at Engineering school
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Kathleen L. McCarthy (Life Trustee)
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- Chairperson, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation (those are her parents). Her dad Thomas co-founded Farmers Insurance Group & are OG Trojans.
- Dedicated $30 million for the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation Honors Hall at USC Village. That’s not even close to how much they’ve given to USC! Leavey family name is all over the campus.
- She was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1986, making her one of USC’s longest-serving trustees. Not sure what Frank does.
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William J. McMorrow
Committee Member:
Executive
Alumni Affairs and University Development - Co-Chair
Nominating and Governance
Public Affairs
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- Chairman and CEO, Kennedy Wilson, global real estate investment platform that he purchased in 1988.
- Executive Board of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate and endowed the William J. McMorrow Global Real Estate Program at the USC Marshall School of Business.
- Been in the banking industry for 17 years. He was Executive VP and Chairman of the Credit Policy Committee at Imperial Bank in LA and a Snr. VP of Fidelity Bank.
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John Mork (wife is Julie)
Committee Member:
Finance and Campus Planning
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- Founder & CEO, Energy Corporation of America, one of the top 50 energy companies
- MS in Petroleum Engineering from SC. Played baseball at USC too.
- In 2011, they gave $110 million — the single largest gift in the university’s history for undergraduate scholarships — to create the USC Mork Family Scholars Program.
- In 2005, they provided the $15 million naming gift for the USC Viterbi School of Engineering’s Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.
- Member of the Chief Executives Organization and the World Presidents’ Organization, and a past director of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
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Oscar Munoz
Committee Member:
Executive
Executive Compensation
Finance and Campus Planning - Co-Chair
Investment
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- CEO, United Airlines. Was with AT&T, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo as well
- Munoz has twice been named among the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Business magazine. He was named “Communicator of the Year for 2017” by PRWeek.
- He went to Marshall Business school.
- He was CEO when the passenger was bloodied and dragged off a flight to make room for the United Employee, AND the pet dog who died when the flight attendant forced the dog in the overhead bin! Still is CEO.
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Rod Y. Nakamoto
Committee Member:
Executive
Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy
Student Affairs - Co-Chair
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- Co-founder, theUgroup at Merrill Lynch. Financial planner
- Was the president of the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors and led the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association from 2011 to 2013.
- Graduated from Marshall Business School
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Carmen Nava
Committee Member:
Executive
Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy
Finance and Campus Planning
Nominating and Governance - Chair
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- Senior VP – Premium Care and Customer Loyalty (Retired), AT&T’s Entertainment Group. She was with AT&T for more than 30 years.
- Named one of the “Top 100 Most Influential and Notable Hispanics” in tech for 2015 and 2016, & Latina Style Magazine recognized her as one of the nation’s “Top 5 Latina Executives” of the year.
- Served as a member of the USC Alumni Association’s Board of Governors and currently serves on the Corporate Advisory Board for the USC Latino Alumni Association.
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Jerry W. Neely (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman & CEO (Retired), Smith International, Inc., an oil services company.
- Was Chairman of Petroleum Equipment Supplies Ass., & Past Chairman of the YPO (very involved with YPO looks like).
- Director of Norris Cancer Hospital & a bunch of other stuff including American Petroleum Institute, and the YPO. Oil guy.
- BS from USC and was a recipient of the USC Alumni Merit Award.
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Shelly L. Nemirovsky
Committee Member:
Executive
Academic Affairs - Co-Chair
Alumni Affairs and University Development
Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy
Student Affairs
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- From Boston originally. Got her BA from USC. Does a lot of charity work in the Boston area which is where her main focus.
- Her & her husband, Ofer gave $15 million to endow and name a residential college at USC Village. Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Residential College.
- Her husband is with HarbourVest, a private equity firm, a senior adviser to the company.
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Dominic Ng
Committee Member:
Finance and Campus Planning
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- Chairman & CEO, East West Bank in California (very profitable). Won a ton of award.
- Born in Hong Kong, BA from the University of Houston. Serves on board of Mattel, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Keck, Annenberg Foundation’s Investment Committee.
- Also involved with UCLA, United Way, & Town Hall of LA. First Asian American campaign chair for United Way of Greater LA in 2000.
- Named by Forbes as 1 of 25 most notable Chinese Americans & one of the most influential people in LA. Received Bank of the Year by American Banker in 2017.
- Does a lot to promote Chinese American business and frequent speaker including at Federal Reserve Bank, Milken Institute, U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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C. L. Max Nikias (Life Trustee, wife is Niki)
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- President Emeritus, USC. Holds the Malcolm R. Currie Chair in Technology & Humanities.
- Been at USC since 1991, as a professor, director of national research centers, dean, provost, & president. Holds faculty appointments in electrical engineering & the classics.
- Born in Cyprus, went to University in Athens, Greece, then Ph.D. at State University of New York.
- In 2011, announced a $6 billion fundraising campaign for USC, which was the largest in the history of higher education. By 2017, it had surpassed the $6 billion mark—18 months ahead—bringing to USC, on the average, $900 million per year.
- Under his leadership, USC began major construction initiatives including:
- Wallis Annenberg Hall for journalism
- USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience
- Dauterive Hall for social sciences
- Fertitta Hall for business
- Kaufman International Dance Center
- McKay Center for athletics
- Uytengsu Aquatics Center
- Engemann Student Health Center
- New Cinematic Arts building
- University Club at Stoops
- Soto Building,
- Currie Residential Hall
- Norris Consultation Center on the Health Sciences Campus
- AND the most prominent project, the USC Village
- In renewing USC’s athletic heritage, The NYT selected him among a few as a figure “who make sports” little corner of the world a better place.
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Q
Suzanne Nora Johnson (Chair)
Committee Member:
Executive - Chair
Academic Affairs
Alumni Affairs and University Development
Executive Compensation
Finance and Campus Planning
Investment
Nominating and Governance
Public Affairs
Student Affairs
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- A corporate lawyer, she was Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, chair of the Global Markets Institute, head of the firm’s Global Investment Research Division. Harvard law graduate
- She serves on the corporate boards of American International Group (AIG), Intuit Inc., Pfizer, and VISA, Inc. Also, Co-Chair of the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Institution for Science, and on the boards of the American Red Cross, World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council, The Broad Foundation, the Markle Foundation, RAND Health. She’s pretty major.
- Forbes ranked her at 34 on its 2006 list of “The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women”
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Joan A. Payden (Life Trustee)
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- President & CEO, Payden & Rygel, named “U.S. Bond Manager of the Year” in 2003 by Global Investor Magazine. Started in 1992.
- Prior, was managing director at Scudder, Stevens & Clark, where she rose to become the first woman partner of the firm.
- Board of Visitors of UCLA Anderson School, a trustee at Loyola Marymount Univ. Gave $5M to USC in 2015 to prepare underprivileged LA teens for college.
- She was let go from an oil firm years back as a chemical engineer and then discovered the world of bonds & investments.
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J. Kristoffer Popovich (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman, Hoffman Associates. Old school trojan family. The Hoffman Foundation, (run by him since his late wife is their daughter), donated to endow the Jane and Kris Popovich Chair in Cancer Research at the USC Norris Cancer Center. They have given millions and millions throughout the years. Big LA family.
- Jane’s (his wife) dad was Les Hoffman, had a solar cell technology company. Super involved with USC for more than 60 years. Jane died a few years ago.
- Some of the things they have done: Leslie Hoffman Hall of Business Administration at Marshall (Hoffman Hall), the Elaine Stevely Hoffman Medical Research Center at Keck, Leslie Hoffman and Elaine Hoffman Chair in Cancer Research at Keck.
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Frank Price (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman and CEO, Price Entertainment, Inc. WAS head of Universal TV in the 1970s; President, and later Chairman and CEO, of Columbia Pictures; and president of Universal Pictures (greenlit movies like Out of Africa, Tootsie, The Karate Kid, Gandhi just for starters)
- Was Chairman of Board of Councilors for USC School of Cinema-Television where he put together a board that with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, David Geffen…
- Also done a lot of TV but he’s big time in the film industry.
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Dallas Price-Van Breda (Honorary Trustee)
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- Philanthropist, major art collector. Biggest donation to MOCA in 2000 ever. A trustee, founder and president emeritus of the museum.
- Expert climber scaled the Seven Summits, highest mountains of each of the 7 continents. A pilot and former co-commissioner of basketball for the 1984 Olympics.
- She was VP and a major shareholder of the American Golf Corp. until the company’s sale in 2002 (I think her dad David Price founded the company which became the largest golf course management company in the world). Also, a major shareholder of National Golf Properties, a real estate investment trust.
- I think they have a house in the Vintage in the desert with a ton of art in it.
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Blake Quinn (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman and CEO, Quinn Group, Inc. Caterpillar heavy-equipment distributor
- YPO member. Graduated from USC in business
- Met his wife at SC who also graduated from there
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Bruce M. Ramer (Life Trustee)
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- Partner, Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passman, Inc., a firm specializing in entertainment and media matters. Reappointed to the CPB Board of Directors by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the Senate on March 2019.
- Has a ton of award and on a lot of boards including chair of the USC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, member of the Board of Councilors of the USC Annenberg School, Board of Governors of the Center for the Digital Future at SC Annenberg; member of the Board of Councilors of the USC Gould School of Law
- Named one of the 100 most powerful lawyers in CA by California Business Lawyer and one of the top 100 lawyers in CA by the Daily Journal.
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Lorna Y. Reed (Life Trustee)
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- Her family has Reed family trust. Member of the USC Board of Trustees since 1982. I have no idea where the money is from though. Can’t find anything
- Founder and first president of the USC/Norris Hospital Auxiliary.
- Breast cancer survivor so Norris named the hospital’s research unit the Lorna Young Reed Breast Cancer Research Unit
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Edward P. Roski (Life Trustee)
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- Billionaire Real estate businessman (#97 in Forbes). President and Chairman of the Board, Majestic Realty Co. & a Marshall graduate
- Tried to build a stadium in Industry, CA to attract an NFL team before Rams did. He built Staples Center with a partner. He is a minority owner of the LA Lakers and half-owner, of the Los Angeles Kings with Anschutz (also was part of Las Vegas Stadium project for the Raiders but pulled out).
- Elected chairman of the board of USC in 2007. The USC Roski School of Fine Arts was renamed after his wife, Gayle, following a $23 million donation to the school in 2006.
- Vietnam War Vet, served in the US Marine Corp.
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Amy A. Ross
Committee Member:
Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Privacy
Public Affairs
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- Biotech Executive (Retired). Started a cancer diagnostics lab, Snr. VP of scientific operations at Nexell Therapeutics, ass. biologist at Cal Tech.
- Was Pres of the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors, member of Town and Gown of USC, Women of Troy & Trojan Society of Hospitals
- Ph.D. in experimental pathology from Keck School
- Founding member of USC’s first alumni group for LGBT Trojans in 1992. Endows the Amy Ross LGBT Health Scholarship at USC, given to a student whose work demonstrates a commitment to promoting LGBT health and wellness.
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Frederick J. Ryan Jr.
Committee Member:
Public Affairs
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- Publisher & CEO, The Washington Post. Was president of Allbritton Communications Company and founding CEO and president of Politico.
- Was chief of staff for Ronald Reagan (1989–1995) and serves as chairman of the board of trustees for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. He helped design, fundraise, & oversee construction of the library (also was a pallbearer at his funeral, his Assistant at the White House as well).
- BA and Law Degree from USC
- He made a personal contribution to the Reagan Library by purchasing the Ronald Reagan Pub in County Tipperary, Ireland. It was disassembled and transported by container ship to LA where it was reassembled under Air Force One at the Library.
- Director of the White House Historical Assoc, now is the Chairman. On Ford Theatre’s Board with Ghada, also been Patron of the Prince of Wales Foundation (knows Charles).
- MAJOR ALERT. A program obtained from the elite Alfalfa Club Dinner in 2014 indicated that Ryan is the Secretary of that secretive organization (Robert Day goes to this).
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Leonard D. Schaeffer
Committee Member:
Executive
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- Founding Chairman and CEO, WellPoint, nation’s largest health benefits company by the membership. A professor at USC & a Snr. Advisor to a private equity firm
- In 2009, he established a new research center at SC, the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
- In the federal government, served as Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration, was responsible for the U.S. Medicare and Medicaid programs. Also the Asst Sec. for Management & Budget of Dept. of Health and Human Services.
- Received a Hon Doctor of Humane Letters and the inaugural USC Sol Price Award for his lifetime achievements as a business leader, policy expert, and philanthropist
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William J. Schoen (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman, The Schoen Charitable Foundation. Was CEO & chairman of Health Management Associates.
- A Veteran. The Schoen Family Scholarship Program for Veterans Endowment at USC helps Vets get degrees at Marshall or Viterbi School (given this millions).
- Dropped out of high school and joined the Marine Corp at 17 (changed his birth certificate). Served for 8 years then went back and got a graduate degree at USC.
- Received Asa V. Call Alumni Achievement Award from USC
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William E. B. Siart
Committee Member:
Executive
Finance and Campus Planning - Co-Chair
Investment
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- Chairman, Excellent Education Development (ExED), a nonprofit corporation that develops and manages charter public schools.
- Chairman of the board of Great Public Schools Now, a nonprofit that increases the number of quality school choices for children in LA.
- Former chairman and CEO of First Interstate Bancorp, trustee of the Getty Trust
- Was chairman of Walt Disney Concert Hall, member of the board of the LA Philharmonic Assoc, the Performing Arts Center of LA County, and The Music Center Foundation.
- Looks like this guy is very involved in LA with education and music.
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Robert H. Smith (Life Trustee)
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- Robert H. Smith Investments and Consulting in Pasadena
- I can’t find anything on them. There’s a Robert H. Smith business school at the University of Maryland but I don’t know if it’s named after him. If so then he’s a real estate developer and philanthropist who does a lot for historic preservation in the D.C. area and for Jewish causes. I’m not sure though.
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Jeffrey H. Smulyan
Committee Member:
Academic Affairs
Public Affairs
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- Chairman of the Board, Emmis Communications, an Indianapolis–based diversified media company. Doctor degree in law from USC.
- THIS GUY AND OTHERS BOUGHT THE SEATTLE MARINERS FROM YOUR DAD IN 1989 FOR $75 MILLION! Sold to Nintendo in 1992 for $100 mil.
- in 1994, named by the White House to head the U.S. Delegation to the Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunications Union. As a U.S. ambassador, he helped to negotiate an agreement between Israel and the PLO.
- Former director of the National Association of Broadcasters, former chair of the Radio Advertising Bureau, recognized as a Giant of Broadcasting by the Library of American Broadcasting, received the National Association of Broadcasters National Radio Award
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Steven Spielberg (Life Trustee)
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- We all know who he is. Billionaire Filmmaker, one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, most popular director/producer in film history.
- His total work makes him the highest-grossing film director in history.
- From Cincinnati, parents were Orthodox Jews, went to Cal State Long Beach.
- Built DreamWorks with Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen
- Married Amy Irving, their divorce was the 3rd most costly celebrity divorce in history.
- Married Kate Capshaw & I think they’re still married (she converted to Judaism). They have 7 kids between them, one adopted black boy.
- Was among the investors in the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
- Big Democrat and close to the Clintons.
- Donated millions to the USC School of Cinematic Arts with George Lucas.
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Heliane M. Steden (husband is Andy Sieg)
Committee Member:
Executive Compensation
Investment
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- Was Managing Director Merrill Lynch for clients in Mexico. Former professional tennis player from Mexico (German but emigrated to Mexico as a child).
- Competed at Wimbledon in 1981. Named Mexico’s top female athlete in 1985, represented the country in both Federation Cup play and the Pan Am Games
- Her husband, Andy Sieg, is an executive with Merrill Lynch
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Richard J. Stegemeier (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman Emeritus, Unocal Corp. He was chairman, president, & CEO of Unocal. Worked with Northrop Grumman, Haliburton. Oil Man.
- Holds a research faculty in the USC Mork Dept of Chemical Engineering.
- Recipient of Merit award OC Engineering Council and other awards in oil engineering. Also sits of many boards related to oil/engineering
- Very active on boards in the area including California Economic Development Corp, Board governors Town Hall of CA, The Music Center of LA County, Huntington Library, UCLA Anderson School, and lots others! (Chairman Los Angeles World Affairs Council)
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Mark A. Stevens (Life Trustee)
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- Managing Partner, S-Cubed Capital; Special Limited Partner and Former Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital. Was with Intel Corporation and began at Hughes Aircraft. Worked in many tech companies in Silicon Valley
- Founder & Chairman of the USC Stevens Center for Innovation.
- Minority owner and Executive Board Member of the Golden State Warriors, and trustee of the US Olympic Committee Foundation.
- BS from USC in engineering (on the board of that School). MS and MBA from Harvard.
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Ronald D. Sugar
Committee Member:
Executive
Executive Compensation - Co-Chair
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- Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman Corporation. Served as the chairman of the board and CEO of Northrop Grumman Corp from 2003 to 2009.
- In August 2018 he was unanimously elected as independent Chairman of Uber
- Was Director of Chevron Corporation and Apple, Inc. Engineering degrees from USC and UCLA.
- Appointed by the President to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. He is a trustee of the National Defense Industrial Association, a member of the board of governors of the Aerospace Industries Association and a member of the Conference Board Council of Operating Executives.
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Tracy M. Sykes (husband is Gene)
Committee Member:
Academic Affairs
Nominating and Governance
Public Affairs
Student Affairs
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- Graduated from USC in physical therapy for children. That’s her passion.
- Her husband is co-chairman of Goldman Sachs’ Global Technology, Media, & Telecom Group. Been called the most influential M&A banker working today.
- Created first endowed faculty chair within physical therapy division of USC.
- According to magazine, they paid $40 million cash for their mansion in Bel Air.
- They have a family foundation (Sykes Family Found) that gives to education, youth, culture, health, environment, & policy.
- Involved somehow with the Olympic Committee for LA 2028.
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Ratan N. Tata (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons; Chairman Tata Trusts. Indian businessman
- Turned Tata from an India-centric group into a global business. They acquire Jaguar Land Rover, Tetley Tea, & Corus Steel
- Went to Cornell. He is super major, lots of business around the world.
- Charity: gives to Harvard, Cornell, MIT. I think he gave Op Smile the money to build their Comprehensive Center in India. There’s a hall at Harvard in his name.
- A ton of awards too, no need to list them, but was awarded the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire which is one of Britain’s highest civilian honors.
- He’s a trained pilot and flies his own private jet and other jets (Palmer)
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Daniel M. Tsai (wife is Irene)
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- Chairman, Fubon Group, Taiwan’s second-largest financial services group. Taiwanese billionaire businessman
- Institutional Investor magazine named him the best CEO in Taiwan in 2003.
- Master’s in law from Georgetown. His wife has a masters from USC Annenberg School
- Partners with his billionaire brother Richard. Investors in Taiwan Mobile.
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Ronald N. Tutor (Life Trustee)
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- Chairman & CEO, Tutor Perini Corp., a real estate development company
- Of Armenian descent
- Gives A LOT to USC, helped fund the Ronald Tutor Campus Center and Tutor Hall at the USC Viterbi School. Donated $2 million to the USC Institute of Armenian Studies. In 2014, his wife Alia endowed the Alia Tutor Chair in Reproductive Medicine at Keck.
- Received the Asa V. Call Alumni Achievement Award from USC.
- In 2010 was a lead investor in the $650 million purchase of Miramax Films from Disney, investing between US$50 million and US$35 million. In 2013, he sold his stake to the Qatar Investment Authority.
- He may have dated my mom’s assistant for a hot minute (she had large boobs).
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Peter V. Ueberroth (Life Trustee, wife is Ginny)
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- Lots with him as you know. Sixth Commissioner of Baseball (84-89), chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee (2004-2008), Co-owner, Pebble Beach Company (with Arnold Palmer & Clint Eastwood).
- The organizer of the 1984 Summer Olympics in LA, named Time magazine’s Man of the Year in 1984 because of how well he managed it. LA had a surplus of $232 million when the games were over.
- While Commissioner, he reinstated 2 Hall of Famers, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle, who had been banned because of gambling. Also began an investigation against Pete Rose.
- Was director at Coca-Cola Company, Hilton Hotel Corp, & Adecco.
- Also worked for Kirk Kerkorian after college.
- Ran for Governor of CA in 2003 as an independent.
- He and his wife founded Sage Hill School
- Wrote the book Made in America
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Andrew J. Viterbi (Life Trustee)
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- President, Viterbi Group, LLC. Italian-born electrical engineer/businessman. Founded Qualcomm Inc., invented the Viterbi algorithm. HE IS SUPER MAJOR AT USC!
- He is Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at USC School of Engineering, named after him when he gave $52 million.
- BS, MS from MIT, Ph.D. from USC. Has a ton of award in engineering and science. Gives away a lot to institutes here and Israel (he’s Jewish).
- His wife Erna passed away; his son Alexander died of a heart attack in Mammoth at 40.
- His house (I think he sold after his wife passed) was major. 33 acres in Rancho Santa Fe. Very modern looking, you should look at pics, stunning!
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Wenxue Wang
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- Founder & Chairman, China Fortune Land Development, a large developer of industrial parks in Asia. Billionaire
- Consulted for the National People’s Congress of China, (the legislative body of the central govt), as a member of its Business Group. Also served as a representative of the 11th and 12th People’s Congress for Hebei Province, China.
- Owns the professional soccer team Hebei China Fortune FC, a member of the Chinese Super League.
- Came from very modest means in a small town in northern China. Self-made man.
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Willis B. Wood Jr. (Life Trustee)
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- Was Chairman & CEO of Pacific Enterprises (parent firm of Southern California Gas Co.)
- Went to Harvard
- Was the director of the Great Western Financial Corp.& the Automobile Club of So Cal
- Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Served as a Director of the California Chamber of Commerce, the Los Angeles Business Advisors, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, and Chairman of the Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future.
