THE TECH | 1 ANNUAL REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY FISCAL YEAR 21-22 Published April 2023
Letter from the President & CEO and the Board Chair
In the last few years, the educational system has faced unprecedented challenges. Both educators and students were compelled to adapt to unfamiliar teaching and learning methods. During these times organizations like The Tech become increasingly important. An increased demand for resources from teachers, as well as the desire for activities from students and families, was met by The Tech. We are filled with gratitude and pride because our team rose to the occasion and worked tirelessly to respond to these needs.
In May 2021, The Tech re-opened our doors and welcomed back our community. We loved seeing hundreds of thousands of curious children and the smiling faces of educators and parents by their side.
Our largest new exhibition, Solve for Earth, continues to inspire. It addresses the world’s most pressing problem — climate change. Through interactive displays and cutting-edge technology, students are able to explore innovative solutions and gain a deeper understanding of how to protect the planet’s natural resources. This includes the development of a hands-on lab experience for school groups using the Sustainable Cities presented by Ford exhibit, which allows visitors to become city planners, making decisions about sustainable land use, energy sources, and transportation.
Board of Directors
(July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022)
Mala Anand, Microsoft
Manny Barbara
Marimo Berk, The Creekside School
Ann S. Bowers, Emeritus
Cindy Chavez, Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors – District 2
Gloria Chen, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Juan Cruz, Franklin-McKinley School District
Somesh Dash, IVP
James C. Deichen, Suntrust Robinson
Humphrey (ret.)
Christopher S. DiGiorgio, Board Chair, Accenture (ret.)
In today’s world, it is more important than ever to provide students with opportunities to learn collaboratively, engage in hands-on activities, and discover their potential through play. With COVID restrictions eased, The Tech was once again able to offer field trips to our local community. Our learning team rebuilt our facilitated experiences to encourage collaboration while maintaining a safe educational environment. The response was overwhelming. Schools eagerly returned, buses arrived, and students flocked to The Tech Interactive. We were proud to serve as a valuable educational resource during this challenging time.
We continue to be humbled by the dedication and resilience of our team and their dedication to our community. We reacted to the needs around us, solidifying our position as a resource for innovation and a leader in STEM education. We will continue to do so as we expand our efforts in the years to come.
We are proud to be a part of this team, and we look forward to continuing our journey together.
Mohana Dissanayake, Deloitte
Carl Eschenbach, Sequoia Capital
Aymeric Gisselbrecht, Atomica
Raquel Gonzalez, Board Secretary, Bank of America
Mike Heald, Accenture
Bill Heil
John Heinlein, Ph.D., Sonatus
Gerald D. Held, Ph.D., The Held Group
Dave House
Shannon Hunt-Scott, Board Co-Vice Chair, The Scott Foundation
Joe Kava, Google
Tina Knauss, Board Treasurer, PwC
Randy Krenzin, CFP, Morgan Stanley
Patrick McGovern, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Lisa Millora, San José State University
Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu, Ph.D., Applied Materials
Janine Pelosi, Zoom
Daniel Perez, Clover Wireless
Roger Quinlan, Coherent, Inc.
Matthew Sapp, Board Co-Vice Chair, Chair-Elect, EY
Chad Seiler, KPMG
Katrina Stevens, President & CEO, The Tech
Judy C. Swanson, The Swanson Foundation
Dan Warmenhoven
Steve Young, HGGC
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Katrina Stevens President & CEO Chris DiGiorgio Board Chair
2022: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
General Admission
The Tech Interactive
Total FY22 attendance: 156,338
Museums for All attendance: 5,333
Top
3 Most Popular Exhibits &
Fiscal Year 2022: July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022
IMAX Dome Theater
Total FY22 attendance: 37,774
Top 3 Films
Body Worlds Decoded
Solve for Earth
Who are our visitors?
27% are first-time visitors
73% are repeat visitors
42% of visitors visited two times or more
How was their visit?
Outstanding Excellent Good
Why do visitors come?
Spend time together Educational experience
Fun/entertainment
18%
31% 31%
Quality of the experience 34% 40% 15%
57%
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IMAX Dome Theater
Staff
See a specific exhibit, event, or show Educational 8.6 Entertainment 8.3 Value 8.1
Helpfulness 9.1
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2022
The Tech Academies program has proven to be a durable model for how to train STEM educators in the Bay Area’s underserved communities. Educators receive professional development, help train their peers, and then use these skills to enrich the classroom experience.
1,058 total educators impacted by The Tech Academies in 2022
33,986 total students taught engineering by these educators in 2022
Learn more about this incredible program: thetech.org/techacademies
The Tech has partnered with the Stanford Genetics Department to offer the virtual Book a Biologist program. This program matches local middle and high school teachers with scientist guest speakers, providing students with authentic STEM role models who work to inspire the next generation of scientists.
Participants: 2,725
The Tech has launched its largest exhibition, Solve For Earth, addressing the world’s most pressing problem — climate change. This new 5,000-squarefoot space includes 15 experiences that inform, recharge hope, and empower people of all ages to take action.
Inspiring Minds Online
As The Tech works to expand our reach, we’re investing more into the millions of people who engage with our educational resources through our website, social media, or email each year. This investment included a long-awaited update to our popular Ask a Geneticist site.
The Ask a Geneticist blog is a popular online resource that provides answers to real questions asked by people from around the world. Visitors can search through hundreds of available articles or submit new questions that may be answered by scientists from the Stanford Genetics Department.
Membership
Members: 2,324
Volunteers
The Tech’s mission wouldn’t be possible without our volunteers! The people who come together to make exhibits and special events unforgettable for visitors are an incredible group.
Total volunteers: 162
Total service time: 10,000+ hours
Field Trips & Facilitated Experiences
Total Field Trip Participants: 26,079
52% Title I 38% Participated in a lab
Title I Field Trips Participants: 13,632
Participants in Labs: 8,368
Participants in Virtual Labs: 2,336
Ask a Geneticist | askageneticist.org
New site launched on March 1, 2022
In the first year since the site launched: Pageviews: 4,253,990
Users: 3,265,038
The Tech at Home website | thetechathome.org
Total unique visits: 49,128
Social Media
Impressions: 8.9 million
Engagements: 332,556
Video views: 497,643*
*YouTube, Zigazoo & TikTok
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The Tech for Global Good
The exhibit and special program introduced new laureates — people who are using tech to improve lives all over the world.
The Tech Challenge
We can’t wait to hear what you build! That’s what we said to teams who participated in the 2022 Tech Challenge, Kinetic Commotion, presented by Amazon. For the 35th annual Tech Challenge, participants in Grades 4 to 12 built devices that made sound using kinetic energy. We saw wind-up xylophones, Rube Goldberg music boxes, and tons of other creative displays of engineering.
The 2022-23 laureates
Blue Sky Analytics
Founded in 2018 (India)
Presented by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Blue Sky Analytics is a geospatial data intelligence company leading the fight against air pollution, water crisis, and environmental degradation with near-realtime information on key environmental indicators.
Buzz Solutions
Founded in 2017 (United States/CA)
Presented by Judy and Erica Swanson Buzz Solutions uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to detect faults and anomalies for power utilities in power line inspections. Using Buzz Solutions, power utilities can help prevent wildfires, power outages, and other climate change effects on the physical infrastructure of the grid.
Ushahidi
Founded 2008 (Kenya)
Presented by NetApp
The Ushahidi platform helps global clients enact social change by creating projects that survey and hear from their communities, allowing grass roots movements and conversations to take root.
Wild Me
Founded in 2008 (United States/OR)
Wild Me’s platform, Wildbook, blends structured wildlife research with artificial intelligence, citizen science, and computer vision to speed population analysis of animal species around the globe and develop new insights to bring an end to extinction.
2021-22 James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian, presented by Applied Materials
Reid Hoffman
Entrepreneur, Cofounder of LinkedIn, philanthropist, investment in technology to benefit humanity.
Learn more about this inspiring program: techforglobalgood.org
We welcomed teams from as far away as Puerto Rico to our virtual showcase where they demonstrated months of hard work to our volunteer judges from Silicon Valley and beyond. The sound of young innovators creating, designing, and building was inspiring to everyone involved.
Total participants served: 8,373
42% of participants identified as female
31% of teams came from Title I schools
Learn more about this program: thetech.org/techchallenge
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Main Program Exploring Engineering
Library workshops and activity handouts 1,040 (260 teams) 2,055 5,278
with The Tech Challenge
AND OUR SUPPORTERS
Volunteers, donors, and the City of San José make our mission possible. The Tech Interactive could not be a resource to young people and educators without this generous group of supporters. Thank you!
Fiscal Year in Review
Total revenue, including in-kind contributions, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, was $17.3 million, with contributed revenue accounting for $11.1 million, or 64%, of total revenue. Public support was $3.6 million, or 21% of total revenue. Earned revenue was $2.1 million, or 12% of total revenue; this includes general admission and IMAX ticket sales, memberships, and facility rentals. Investment income was $0.5 million, or 3% of total revenue.
Expenses for the year were $20.2 million. The $2.9 million shortfall was covered by an endowment release of $1.7 million and restricted contributions received in previous fiscal years. The unrestricted beginning and ending cash balances for the fiscal year were $2.6 million and $3.2 million, respectively.
The Tech received a second $1.9 million forgivable loan from the federal government’s Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and had its second PPP loan for the same amount, which was received in the 2021 fiscal year, fully forgiven.
2022 Revenue and Expenses
In addition, The Tech received $1.7 million in Shuttered Venue Operator Grants (SVOG) from the Small Business Administration to help cover the historic levels of earned revenue loss and to support reopening. All SVOG funds went to support payroll costs. At the start of the fiscal year The Tech was open weekends only, as of October 2021, 4 days a week, and as of December 2021, 6 days a week. Receiving federal funds over $750,000 required a federal single audit, which we passed, and is part of the audited financials.
Some 75% of The Tech’s expenses were for education programs, 17% for marketing and administration, and 8% for fundraising. The $1.9 million PPP loan helped replace earned revenue that was lost until our visitors were ready to come back in greater numbers and more schools were able to bring back field trips; these funds bridged the revenue gap allowing The Tech to maintain and hire new staff as we resumed full operations.
The Tech’s financial stewardship enabled it to retain the highest possible four-star rating issued by Charity Navigator, one of America’s leading independent charity rating services.
6 | ANNUAL REPORT 2022 FINANCIAL REPORT
year is July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022 Revenue Expenses Contributions $11,117,228 Earned $2,083,527 Public $3,607,245 Investment $546,098 Total $17,354,098 Total $20,217,580 Programs $15,163,071 Marketing and Administration $3,456,019 Fundraising $1,598,490 64% 21% 12% 3% 75% 17% 8% Contributions $11,117,228 Earned $2,083,527 Public $3,607,245 Investment $546,098 Total $17,354,098 Total $20,217,580 Programs $15,163,071 Marketing and Administration $3,456,019 Fundraising $1,598,490 64% 21% 12% 3% 75% 17% 8%
Fiscal
Endowment Update
The beginning and ending balances for The Tech’s endowment were $27.3 million and $23.9 million, respectively. Since 2014, The Tech has contributed all endowment draws to an operating reserve fund, to be used for expenses when financial performance is significantly weaker than expected. The operating reserve fund fiscal year-end balance was $3.2 million and is included in the unrestricted cash balance.
CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND GOVERNMENT DONORS
(July 1, 2021, to June 30, 2022)
Inspirational
$1,000,000 and above
City of San José
Small Business Administration
Benefactor
$250,000-$999,999
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Visionary
$100,000-$249,999
5 Media
Amazon Lab126
Applied Materials, Inc.
William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation
Davidson Family Foundation
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
National Institutes of Health
NetApp, Inc.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health
Zoom Video Communications
Founding
$50,000-$99,999
Adobe Systems Incorporated
eBay
EY
Intel Corporation
Intuitive
Monterey Peninsula Foundation, host of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
PwC Charitable Foundation
Seagate Technology, Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Qatalyst Partners LP
Principal
$25,000-$49,999
Anonymous
Accenture
Allen & Company
Amgen Foundation
Arm Bank of America
Annual endowment draws
Deloitte
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Google, Inc.
Greylock Partners
The Franklin and Catherine Johnson Foundation
KPMG LLP
LinkedIn Corporation
Marvell
Mayfield Fund Foundation
Oracle Corporation
Quest Foundation
Renesas Electronics
Research Foundation of SUNY
Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation
Siegel Family Endowment
Synaptics
J.A. Unruh Family Foundation
Xilinx, Inc.
Underwriting
$10,000-$24,999
Asset Management Company
Boston Scientific Foundation
Robert E. and Adele Boydston Foundation
First Tech Federal Credit Union
GlobalLogic
Glynn Capital Management
Goldman Sachs
Stanley E. Hanson Foundation
Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction, Co.
Hitachi
IBM
KLA Foundation
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Micro Lithography, Inc.
Microchip Technology, Inc.
The MOCAFoundation
NXP Semiconductors
oneZero Financial Systems
Samsung Semiconductor
Star One Credit Union
Toeniskoetter Construction
Workday
Investing
$5,000-$9,999
Abracon
Cadence
Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust
First Solar, Inc.
Forever Young Foundation
Mirnahill Foundation
Monolithic Power Systems
Morrison Foerster Foundation
Northrop Grumman
Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner
Stella B. Gross Charitable Trust
Watry Design, Inc.
Sponsoring
$2,500-$4,999
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
InnovateEDU, Inc.
Valley Water
Varian Medical Systems, Inc.
Entrepreneurial
$1,000-$2,499
Cindy Chavez for Santa Clara County Supervisor
Compass Cares Silicon Valley Community
Generous Heart Ministry
Questex LLC
Stanford Blood Center
Target
In-Kind
Accenture
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Arm
Atlassian
Autodesk, Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Google, Inc.
Tallo
Zoom Video Communications
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INDIVIDUAL DONORS
Inspirational
$1,000,000+
Denise Foderaro and Frank Quattrone
Visionary
$100,000 -$249,999
Ann S. Bowers
Barbara and Bill Heil
Reid Hoffman
The Scott Foundation
The Swanson Foundation
Charmaine and Dan Warmenhoven
Founder
$50,000-$99,999
Marimo Berk
Grimm Family Fund
David Hitz
Gloria Chen and John Kibarian
J&K Lau Foundation
Lorry Lokey
Deedee McMurtry
The Moore Family Foundation
Wendy and Eric Schmidt
Smith Family Foundation
Principal
$25,000-$49,999
Kira Snyder and Allen Blue
Eileen and Christopher DiGiorgio
Ann Howard and John Doerr
Julie Heil
Connie and Jerry Held
Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation
Shannon and Joseph Kava
Wendy Holcombe and Carl Kawaja
Neeru and Vinod Khosla
Maureen Langan and David Mewes
The Milligan Family Charitable Fund
Nachtsheim Family Foundation
Innovator
$10,000-$24,999
Leslie and Barry Ariko
Penelope and E. Ronald Blake
Chambers Family Foundation
Gloria and Michael Chiang
Esther John and Aart de Geus
Kathy and James Deichen
Susan and John Diekman
Ana and Carl Eschenbach, Jr.
Geschke Foundation
Barbara and John Glynn
Maud and Burton Goldfield
Family Foundation
Isaac Jacob Hall
Kenneth Haughton
Trine Sorensen and Michael Jacobson
Jaynie and William Kind
The Krause Foundation
Janie and Wayne Lambert
David H. Liu Foundation
Ludwick Family Foundation
Makan Family Foundation
Julie Packard
Janine Pelosi
Josie and Daniel Perez
Susan and Richard Roche
Amy and Matthew Sapp
Pamela and Edward Taft
Judy and Les Vadasz
Wheatley Family Charitable Fund
Investing
$5,000-$9,999
Ariko Family Foundation
Barnholt Family Foundation
Bell Family Foundation
Janice and Thomas Berthold
Linda and Joe Bronson
Mary Lee and Edward Cannizzaro
Cushman Family Foundation
Jennifer and Matias Duarte
The Brett & Michelle Galloway Foundation
Eva Grove
Ana Mendez and Rajeev Jayavant
Maureen and David Kennedy
Jennifer and Randall Krenzin
Ann and James Lim
Erica Lockheimer
Katherine and Robert Maxfield
Myriam Curet and Tim McAdams
Cindy and Randy Pond
Hal Powell
Amy Rao
Simon Segars
Donna Dubinsky and Leonard Shustek
Sita Foundation
Lindo St. Angel
Nicolette St. Angel
Sponsoring
$2,500-$4,999
Robert Bynum
Kim and Mohana Dissanayake
Gretchen Walker and Jason Freeman
Joan LeMahieu and Jim Forster
Patricia and Martin Giles
Darlene Markovich and Ronald Haak
Tina Knauss
Michael and Ina Korek Foundation Trust
Shilin Jiang and Gregory Luth
Shawn and Douglas MacKenzie
Alison and Michael Mauzé
Metzger Family Foundation
Shara and David Morishige
Dean O. Morton
Christopher Nelson
David Rhodes
Jeffery Rhoades
Beth and Stephen Robie
Sathaye Family Foundation
Nicole and Doug Scott
Shadi Allen and Chad Seiler
Cindy Pellissier and Ed Snyder
Tosa Foundation
Angela Stribling and Kenneth Washington
Nousheen Eslambolchi and Pete Woodhouse
Entrepreneurial
$1,000-$2,499
Lucia Soares and Miguel Avila
Mechelle and Manny Barbara
Barbara and Frank Barone
Paul Billig
Anastasia Brown
Stephanie D. Brown
Susan and Nicholas Carter
Sandi and Richard Conniff
Ronny Conway
Juan Cruz
Peggy and Yogen Dalal
Davidow Family Foundation
Suzanne Davis
John Decker
Laura and Arnold de Leon
Nancy Blachman and David desJardins
William H. Draper III
Celia and Jim Dudley
Joan and Alan Earhart
Concepción and Irwin Federman
Elwanda and William Fenwick
Fischer Family Foundation
Renu and Dhrumil Gandhi
Marilyn and Bob Garibaldi
Raquel Gonzalez
Hon Mai and Joseph Goodman
Arline and James Harper
Christina and Michael Heald
Peggy Heiman
Phyllis Hsia
Brendan Ittelson
Atsuko and Tim Jenks
Kieve Foundation
Terry and Bill Krivan
Kelly Castellón and Brian Kroneman
Michelle and Michael Kwatinetz
Theodore Lamour
Dan’l Lewin
Laura Becker-Lewke and Reynold Lewke
Karen and Walter Loewenstern
Tom Lu
Rosemarie and Dale Luck
Rhonda and Vinod Mahendroo
Christina and Greg Mayer
Shauna Mika
Lisa Morgan
Sukanya and Omkaram Nalamasu
John Navrides
Thomas Ngo
Jennifer Ondrejka
Anthony and Maria Pappas
Penner Family Foundation
Jan and Don Provan
Kimberly and Chris Pruett
Cathy and Roger Quinlan
Dorothy Reagan
Catherine Rossi-Roos and Mark Roos
Diane Schweitzer and Steve Schramm
Bruno Schueler
Eva and Kent Scott
Sherilyn Scott
Scott E. Smith
Katrina Stevens
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Mary Murphy and Mark Stevens
Teri and Christian Treille
Katherine and Michael Truog
Lee Landry and Robert Ward
Carolyn and Greg Waters
Sean White
Rachel and Jon Wilner
Robert Wise
Elizabeth Wolf
Elizabeth Yin
Supporter
$500-$999
Sherrie and Julian Dibbelt
Benjamin Fennema
Cara Schmidt-Fierro and Alex Fierro
Christopher Friesen
Francisco Imai
Richard Lang
TECH 3.0 CAMPAIGN
$10,000,000+
Ann S. Bowers
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
$1,000,000-$9,999,999
William K. Bowes Jr. Foundation
Ann Howland Doerr and John Doerr
Ford Motor Company
Barbara and John Glynn
Bequest of Michael L. Hackworth
Franklin and Catherine Johnson Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Palo Alto Networks
The Frank and Denise Quattrone Foundation
Charmaine and Dan Warmenhoven
The Anne Wojcicki Foundation
$500,000-$999,999
Anonymous
El Camino Hospital
Google, Inc.
Kaiser Permanente
$100,000-$499,999
Abbott Vascular
Adobe Foundation
Barnholt Family Foundation
Susan and John Diekman
Barbara and Bill Heil
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
House Family Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation
Knight Foundation
The Krause Foundation
James and Rebecca Morgan
Family Foundation
Jami Dover Nachtsheim and Stephen Nachtsheim
National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
John M. Sobrato Jr.
The Swanson Family
Barbara and Steve Young
$50,000-$99,999
Mary Lee and Edward Cannizzaro
Casey and Jack Carsten
Cisco Systems Foundation
County of Santa Clara
Eileen and Christopher DiGiorgio
Geschke Foundation
Connie and Jerry Held
Gloria Chen and John Kibarian
Betty and Gordon Moore
Eliane and Armand Neukermans
Josie and Dan Perez
Christine and Tim Ritchie
Leo M. Shortino Family Foundation
$25,000-$49,999
Anonymous
Marimo Berk
Sonja and William Davidow
Kathy and James Deichen
Robert Grimm
Brendan Iribe
Shannon and Joseph Kava
Susan and Dan’l Lewin
Joanne Harrington and Lorry Lokey
Joyce Milligan
Mozilla
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Cheryl and Lonnie Smith
James P. Verhalen Family Foundation
Jack Wheatley
$10,000-$24,999
Christina and James Barrese
Penelope and Ronald Blake
Jennifer and Charles Boynton
Teresa Briggs
The Mary A. Crocker Trust
Esther John and Aart de Geus
Facebook
Genentech
Linda Yates and Paul Holland
Junior League of Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula
Worth and Andrew Ludwick
Marka and Bill May
Kathleen and Smith McKeithen
Karen and Mark McLaughlin
Michael Petersen
Bobbie and David Pratt
Cathy and Roger J. Quinlan
Renuka and Peter Relan
Amy and Matthew Sapp
Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner
Mauria Finley and Greg Yap
Sandy and Chris Yen
$5,000-$9,999
Anonymous
Association of Science and Technology Centers
Renee and David Crawford
Lori and Joe Fabris
The Abe Farag Family Foundation
Mary Ellen and Michael E. Fox, Sr.
Beverly and Kenneth Haughton
Cathy and Kevin Kimball
Jane and William Kind
Jennifer and Randall Krenzin
The Lawrence Foundation
Monterey County Office of Education
Maria and Anthony Pappas
Dan Rose
Donna Dubinsky and Leonard Shustek
sparkfactor.org
In-Kind
Autodesk, Inc.
Cisco Systems, Inc.
DNA2.0, Inc.
Gibson Dunn
NetApp, Inc.
NeuroSky, Inc.
Nvidia Corporation
Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE
Resonai
Somaxis
Team San Jose
THE TECH LEGACY SOCIETY
Anonymous
Susan and John Diekman
Nancy S. Mueller and Bob Fox
Marion and Robert Grimm
Joan and Mike Hackworth
Maureen and David Kennedy
Karen and Richard King
Terry and Bill Krivan
Laura Becker-Lewke and Reynold Lewke
Deedee and Burton McMurtry
Donald Norling
Marilyn and David Pratt
Charles H. Rulofson
Anne and Peter Thorp
Louise Hornor and Sean Welsh
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Partnerships, Councils and Committees
The Tech is fortunate to receive guidance and vision from a diverse network of some of Silicon Valley’s best. These leaders provide their expertise to a number of programs and initiatives.
The Tech Challenge Executive Committee
John Heinlein Ph.D.*, Chair, Sonatus
George Apostol, Elastics.cloud, Inc.
Greg Brown, Program Founder, STEM Consultant
Julia Chen, Amazon
Dan Christman, Marvell
John Decker, EY
Chris DiGiorgio*, Accenture (ret.)
Aymeric Gisselbrecht*, Atomica
Mike Heald*, Accenture
Bill Heil*
Brendan Ittelson, Zoom
Rami Kanama, Microchip Technology
Theodore Lamour, Hitachi Vantara
Tristan Moser-Bleil, PwC
Ekta Sahasi, Spikeview Inc.
Thao Smith, eBay
Lindo St. Angel, Amazon
Craig Stein, Synaptics
Noah Zamansky, eBay
The Tech for Global Good Ambassador Steering Committee
Cynthia Irrissou
Erica Krishnamurthy
Lisa Morgan
Chris Nelson
Jennifer Ondrejka
Kent Scott
Nikki St. Angel
Teri Treille
The Tech for Global Good Executive Committee
Patrick McGovern*, Chair, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Marimo Berk*, The Creekside School
David DeVere, 5 Media
Chris DiGiorgio*, Accenture (ret.)
Pascal Finette, Singularity University
Gerald D. Held, Ph.D.*, The Held Group
Shannon Hunt-Scott*, The Scott Foundation
Siobhan Kenney, Applied Materials
Rick Levenson, Rippleworks
Bhargavi Wadhwa, NetApp
Doug Scott, Tectonic Video
Judy Swanson*, The Swanson Foundation
Teri Treille, Ambassador Steering Committee Liaison
Sean White
*Board of Directors, The Tech Interactive
Young Women at The Tech Leadership Council
Courtney Blum, Chair, PwC
Meaux Costello, Buckingham Strategic Wealth
Dr. Myriam Curet, Intuitive
Andy Dugacki, Chase Investments
Bev Huss
Mike Jacobson, Cooley
Jingyuan Nan, Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner
Amberdeep Samra, Ford
Anna Schlegel, Procore
Steve Schramm
Nita Singh Kaushal, Miss CEO
Jacquie Stellmacher, Accuray
Maya Lis Tussing, Fairlight Advisors
STEM Pathways Steering Committee
Pratibha Adamo, The Tech Interactive
Dawn Billman, Stanford Genetics
Erica Barrueto, The Tech Interactive
Rebecca Balster**, Ocala STEAM Academy/ Alum Rock Union School District
Sherry Burch, The Tech Interactive
Gabriela Chairez**, William C. Overfelt High School/ESUHSD
Emily Dilger, Ignited
Lauren Foote, Synopsys Outreach Foundation
Lisa Incatasciato, The Tech Interactive
Maggie Hobstetter, Sobrato Philanthropies
Virginia Lehmkuhl-Dakhwe, San José State University
Julie Mason, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
Berton Mahardja, SEMI Foundation
Kate McGregor, Computer History Museum
Tam Nguyen, Evergreen Community College
Christina O’Guinn**, The Tech Interactive
Amanda Otte, San Jose Public Library/City of San Jose
Jhaid Parreno, The Tech Interactive
Dana Richards**, Santa Clara County Office of Education
Heather Samson, Julia Baldwin Elementary/OGSD
San José Public Library
Nabil Shanin, DataZone/Santa Clara County Office of Education
Abbey Thompson, Stanford Genetics
Esmeralda Tovar, The Tech Interactive
Prinda Wanakule, The Tech Interactive
Michaela Yamashita**, The Tech Interactive
**Work group co-chairs
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INSPIRING THE INNOVATOR IN EVERYONE
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“The Tech is investing in tomorrow’s leaders by teaching them how to tackle big problems with empathy, creativity, and strategic thinking. We believe these skills not only have the power to inspire the future workforce, but have the power to change the world.”
— Gloria Chen, Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President, Employee Experience, Adobe, The Tech Interactive Board member
