Steve Barclay currently serves as UCSF’s Senior Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration.  He came to UCSF in April 1994.  Prior to then, he spent 12 years at UC Berkeley where he was Associate Vice Chancellor of Business and Administrative Services.  He manages a large, complex portfolio of central campus responsibilities.  Units that report to him include:  resource management and budget, information technology, human resources, accounting and internal controls, material management, risk management, internal audit, police, auxiliary services, capital projects and facilities management.  Barclay chairs the Chancellor’s Executive Budget Committee, Information Technology Governance Committee, Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, Capital Projects Management Committee and Bioterrorism Committee.  He is currently serving his ninth year on UC’s Retirement Board and his fourth year as a Director of San Francisco’s Chamber of Commerce.  He holds an MBA from St. Mary’s College and a BA from San Jose State University and has a total of 31 years of management experience in public universities.

Robert J. Birgeneau was appointed Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley in September 2004.  He is an internationally distinguished physicist, and a leader in higher education well known for his commitment to diversity and equity in the academic community. Before coming to Berkeley, Birgeneau served four years as president of the University of Toronto. He previously was dean of the School of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he spent 25 years on the faculty. He is a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences, has received many awards for teaching and research, and is one of the most cited physicists in the world for his work on the fundamental properties of materials. Birgeneau received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in 1966. He served on the faculty of Yale for one year, spent one year at Oxford University, and was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories from 1968 to 1975. At Berkeley, Birgeneau holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Physics in addition to serving as Chancellor.

France A. Córdova was appointed Chancellor of the University of California, Riverside in July 2002. She is a nationally recognized astrophysicist. Prior to joining UC Riverside, Córdova was professor of physics and vice chancellor for Research at UC Santa Barbara. Before joining UC Santa Barbara, she served as chief scientist at NASA from 1993 to 1996. Córdova headed the department of astronomy and astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University from 1989 to 1993. She was a member of the staff of the Space Astronomy and Astrophysics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1979 to 1989, where she also served as deputy group leader. Her scientific career contributions have been in the areas of observational and experimental astrophysics, multi-spectral research on X-ray and gamma ray sources, and space-borne instrumentation. Córdova is the winner of NASA's highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, and was recognized as a 2000 Kilby Laureate, a prestigious award for contributions to society through science, technology, innovation, invention, and education. Córdova graduated from Stanford University cum laude with a bachelor's degree in English and attained a Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by Loyola Marymount University in 1997.

Carlos E. Cortés is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside.  Since 1990 he has served on the summer faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education and since 1995 has been on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication.  His most recent books, The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity and The Making – and Remaking –of a Multiculturalist, were published by Teachers College Press.  He is co-author of the new Houghton Mifflin Social Studies series, senior consultant for the new McDougal Littell World History series, and Creative/Cultural Advisor for Nickelodeon's Peabody-award-winning children's television series, "Dora the Explorer," and its sequel, "Go, Diego, Go!," while he also performs his one-person autobiographical play, A Conversation with Alana: One Boy's Multicultural Rite of Passage.  A consultant to many government agencies, school systems, universities, mass media, private businesses, and other organizations, Cortés has lectured widely throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia on the implications of diversity for education, government, private business, and the mass media.  

Denice Denton was appointed Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz in February 2005. Prior to joining UC Santa Cruz, Denton was dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW), the first woman to hold such a position at an NRC-designated Research One university. She has held academic appointments at the University of Massachusetts, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, and the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where she worked from 1987, leaving as professor in the Departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Chemistry to become dean at UW. Denton has earned an international reputation for effective advocacy supporting access to science, math, and engineering opportunities for women and minorities. In May 2004, she was among nine scholars honored by the White House with a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, recognizing her role as a major leader in enhancing diversity in science and engineering. She earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT also awarded her three other degrees, including a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, the Electrical Engineering degree, and a Master of Science in electrical engineering.

Michael Drake was appointed Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine in July 2005.  Previously, he served as University of California Vice President for Health Affairs, overseeing education and research activities at UC's 15 health sciences schools.  In that capacity, he also oversaw the UC Special Research Programs, including tobacco-related disease research, breast cancer research and HIV/AIDS research; the California/Mexico Health Initiative and the California Health Benefits Review Program. Drake was also Steven P. Shearing Professor of Ophthalmology and the Senior Associate Dean for Admissions and Extramural Academic Programs at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine.

Robert C. Dynes is a physicist and an expert on semiconductors and superconductors, and the 18th president of the University of California, assuming those responsibilities on October 2, 2003. Since 1996, he had served as chancellor of UC’s San Diego campus.  Dynes came to UC San Diego in 1991 after a 22-year career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he served as department head of semiconductor and material physics research and director of chemical physics research. His numerous scientific honors include the 1990 Fritz London Award in Low Temperature Physics and his 2001 election to the Council of the National Academy of Sciences, a society to which he was elected in 1989. A native of London, Ontario, Canada, and a naturalized United States citizen, Dynes holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Western Ontario and master’s and doctorate degrees in physics and an honorary doctor of science degree from McMaster University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mark R. Laret has been the Chief Executive Officer of the University of California San Francisco Medical Center since 2000.  Laret leads one of the most distinguished health care institutions in the world. His career in health care management spans more than 25 years. He served for 15 years at UCLA Medical Center in marketing and strategic business development and as chief executive officer of UCLA Medical Group. From 1995 to 2000, he was CEO of UC Irvine Medical Center. Laret actively participates in national health policy issues through his membership in three national organizations - the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the Council of Teaching Hospitals of the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the University Healthsystem Consortium. He also serves on several state and local level organizations. He earned a bachelor's degree at UCLA and a master's degree at the University of Southern California. Both degrees are in political science.

Weldon Latham is a senior partner with the national law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and chairs its Corporate Diversity Counseling Group. Latham advises several Fortune 200 companies and governmental agencies, addressing a wide range of diversity issues, including crisis management and diversity enhancement. Latham chairs the Deloitte Diversity Advisory Board and serves as a member of the Deloitte Women’s Initiative. He also serves on the Congressional Black Caucus Corporate Advisory Council and Diversity Best Practices Council. Latham is an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, and previously taught at the University of Virginia and Howard University Schools of Law. He has served on the Georgetown University Law Center Board of Visitors, the American University Board of Trustees, and the Board of Directors for George Mason University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of District of Columbia Foundation. Latham also has a history of government service including serving as Assistant General Counsel, White House Office of Management and Budget during the Ford Administration; as HUD General Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary during the Carter Administration; on a Department of Defense Advisory Committee during the George H. W. Bush Administration; and on the Small Business Administration National Advisory Council during the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. Latham holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Howard University, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and a Certificate of Executive Education from Dartmouth College, Tuck School of Business.

Enrique J. Lavernia is Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis, appointed in 2002, having previously served as Chair and Chancellor‚s Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at UC Irvine. His research interests include synthesis of structural materials and metal matrix composites with particular emphasis on processing fundamentals; thermal spray processing of nano-structured materials; spray atomization and deposition of structural materials; solidification processing of metal matrix composites; synthesis and behavior of nano-crystalline materials; and mathematical modeling of advanced materials and processes. Lavernia, the 1998 Biochemical and Biochemical Engineering Materials Science "Science Teacher of the Year" at UC Irvine, was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2000 and a Fellow of ASM International, 1998. His honors include fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Iketani Science and Technology Foundation of Tokyo, Japan, and Rockwell International. Named Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation, Lavernia also received a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research. He earned his B.S. in Solid Mechanics from Brown University in 1982, his M.S. in Metallurgy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from M.I.T. in 1986.

Tina Mallie is the Chief Administrative Officer for Zurich North America Commercial. In this role she provides oversight and ensures alignment with the Corporate Center for several functional areas including Human Resources, Communications, Risk Management and Internal Audit.  Before joining the Zurich organization in 2002, she was Chief of Staff for the Global Partner Affairs leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. From 1992 to 1999, Mallie was a professor in the Department of Accountancy at Miami University. She earned her B.S. and MBA from Tennessee Technological University and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee.

Matthew Massengill is executive chairman of the board of directors for Western Digital Corporation (WDC). He was named executive chairman in October 2005, after having served as chairman since 2001 and as chief executive officer since 2000.   Massengill started at WDC as a product engineer in 1985, when the PC was in its earliest stages. He held various engineering and marketing positions and was named vice president of marketing for the Personal Storage Division in 1993.  From 1998 to 2000, Massengill served as chief operating officer of WDC with responsibility for worldwide operations.  From 1997 to 1998, he served as general manager of the company’s Enterprise Storage business in Rochester, Minn.  Before joining WD, Massengill served Ford Aerospace and Communications Corporation for three years as a research engineer. An active member of his business and local communities, Massengill currently serves on several boards of directors, and he is vice chairman of the CEO Roundtable program at the University of California at Irvine.  Massengill received a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Purdue University in 1983.

Susan Millard is Vice President of Strategic Talent Management at Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters.She joined Johnson & Johnson in December 2002 as Vice President for Human Resources, DePuy Worldwide Franchise. In this position, Millard had accountability for the Human Resources function for the DePuy Franchise, a $3 billion global orthopaedics business. In March 2004, Millard assumed the position of Vice President, Strategic Talent Management, a newly created position for Johnson & Johnson and the Corporate Human Resources organization.  This position was established as a critical focal point and resource for the strategic management of talent across the corporation.

Kay Miller is Executive Director of Client Relations and Diversity in the UC Office of the President.  In that role, she serves as the Chief Operations Officer for the University’s Retirement and Health and Welfare Plans and Programs, managing those units that serve as the primary points-of-contact for more than 300,000 active, retired, and inactive faculty and staff. Prior to her current appointment, Miller served as Director of UCOP Human Resources and Director of Retirement Services at the Office of the President.  She served as Executive Officer in Campus Human Resources at UCLA before coming to the Office of the President.  Miller also held positions in Human Resources at California State University and the University of Southern California.  Miller graduated magna cum laude from California State University, Dominguez Hills, where she also earned a Master of Public Administration

Alberto M. Pimentel is a Vice President with A.T. Kearney Executive Search and is responsible for managing the firm’s Los Angeles office.  He is a member of the Education/Not-for-Profit practice and oversees the firm’s relationship with Universities, Colleges and Non-Profit organizations in the Western and Southwestern regions of the United States.  Pimentel’s extensive executive search experience includes managing search assignments for a variety of governmental agencies, non­profit organizations, private and public K-12 school systems, community colleges, and private and public universities and colleges.  Prior to joining A.T. Kearney Executive Search, Pimentel was a Principal with Morgan Samuels Company and served as a Consultant in the Education/Not-for-Profit Specialty Practice at Witt, Kieffer, Ford, Hadelman & Lloyd, a national executive search firm based in Irvine, California. Earlier, Pimentel was a Principal in the Los Angeles office of Korn/Ferry International where he was responsible for serving the firm’s education and non-profit clients.  Notable searches during the last two years include:  President, University of California System; Chancellor, UC Berkeley; Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz; Chancellor, UC San Diego; Chancellor, UC Irvine; President, Pomona College; President, Occidental College; and President, Harvey Mudd College.  Pimentel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Los Angeles; a Master of Arts degree in Education Administration from Point Loma College; a Master of Public Administration degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government; and a Master of Education from the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University.

Larry Vanderhoef was appointed Chancellor of the University of California, Davis in April 1994.  He is a biologist and plant biochemist whose research interests lie in the general area of plant growth and development, and in the evolution of the land-grant universities. Prior to becoming Chancellor, he served at UC Davis as executive vice chancellor and provost, executive vice chancellor of the UC Davis Medical Center campus in Sacramento, and acting vice chancellor for academic affairs and research. Before coming to the UC system, he was assistant professor of biology and later professor and head of the department of biology at the University of Illinois. In 2004, Vanderhoef led a UC Davis delegation to Iran in an effort to promote dialogue and scholar exchange, and to promote generally the notion of crossing boundaries to build greater understanding and good will - a continuing personal and professional effort. Also in 2004, he was named one of "20 People Who Made a Difference" in the Sacramento region in the past 20 years. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in biology from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and his Ph.D. in plant biochemistry at Purdue University.

Ellen A. Wartella was appointed as Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Riverside on July 1, 2004.  Prior to joining UC Riverside, Wartella served as Dean of the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin.  As an active scholar whose research focuses on the effects of media on child development, she has written and edited several books and has published numerous book chapters and journal articles on mass media and communications. Wartella is co-principal investigator on a five-year, multi-site research project funded by NSF on the impact of digital media on children's development. Wartella serves on several national boards including the Decade of Behavior National Advisory Committee, The National Academy of Sciences Board on Children, Youth and Families, The Sesame Workshop, Kraft Foods Global Health & Wellness Advisory Council, and The National Educational Advisory Board for the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Wartella earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and completed her postdoctoral research in development psychology in 1981 at the University of Kansas.

Daniel Yankelovich is named by PR Week as among the ten most influential people of the past century in the arena of public affairs, communications, and public relations. Yankelovich has spent more than forty years monitoring social change and public opinion in America. He is a long-standing member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is director emeritus of CBS, US West, the Meredith Corporation, Diversified Energies, and ARKLA as well as trustee emeritus of Brown University and former Chairman of the Educational Testing Service (ETS). He is also trustee of the Kettering Foundation and the Fund for the City of New York. Yankelovich is the author of eleven books, including Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in a Complex World and The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict into Cooperation (which was awarded the 1999 Common Ground Book Award for Achievement in Conflict Resolution). His latest book, Profit With Honor: The New Stage of Market Capitalism, will be published by Yale University Press in April 2006. Yankelovich has recently endowed a Chair of Social Thought in UC San Diego's Department of Social Sciences.