Gerald Alexanderson (Chairman of the Board of Trustees) is a mathematics professor at Santa Clara University and has served as chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He has also served as President of the Mathematical Association of America.

Gunnar Carlsson is a mathematics professor at Stanford and has also served as department chair. He has held faculty positions at the University of Chicago, University of California at San Diego, and Princeton University. In 2008 he co-founded Ayasdi, a data analysis company based in Palo Alto.

John Fry (Secretary of the Board of Trustees) is founder and CEO of Fry’s Electronics.

Harry J. Saal is active in philanthropy and community affairs in the Bay Area, currently serving as Chair of the Arthritis Foundation Northern California Chapter. From 2002 until 2011 he led the Technical Committee for the US Department of Justice charged with monitoring and enforcing the Microsoft antitrust settlement. Dr. Saal was the founder and CEO of Network General Corporation, the first company wholly dedicated to the area of network diagnostics.

Stephen Sorenson (President of the Board of Trustees) is also a Director of Fry’s Electronics. He previously worked in R&D at Advanced Micro Devices and has managed a non-profit research institute.