R. James Woolsey
Venture Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners, and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
James Woolsey is a Venture Partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California. Mr. Woolsey also currently is the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group; is a Senior Executive Advisor to the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton; and is Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin Procter. In the above capacities he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues.
Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently (1993-95) as Director of Central Intelligence. From July 2002 to March 2008 Mr. Woolsey was a Vice President and officer of Booz Allen Hamilton. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, now Goodwin Procter, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation, arbitration, and mediation.
During his 12 years of government service, in addition to heading the CIA and the Intelligence Community, Mr. Woolsey was Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973. He was also appointed by the President to serve on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983–1986, as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST). As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969–1970.
Mr. Woolsey serves on a range of government, corporate, and non-profit advisory boards and chairs several, including that of the Washington firm, ExecutiveAction LLC. He serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. He is currently Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger. He is Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. Previously, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983.
Mr. Woolsey has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number of publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta, British Aerospace, Inc., Fairchild Industries, and Yurie Systems, Inc.
Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal).
Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, and intelligence. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey and they have three sons, Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin.
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Donald Kennedy
Bing Professor of Environmental Science and President Emeritus, Stanford University, and former Commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration |
Donald Kennedy is the Bing Professor of Environmental Science and President Emeritus at Stanford University. He received AB and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Harvard. His research interests were originally in animal behavior and neurobiology - in particular, the mechanisms by which animals generate and control patterned motor output. His research group explored the relationship between central "commands" and sensory feedback in the control of locomotion, escape, and other behaviors in invertebrates. Among the issues considered were how environmental variables that could not be "anticipated" by the animal’s genetic endowment could be compensated in fixed behavioral patterns and whether certain circuit arrangements for a given class of motor output were favored in different evolutionary outcomes.
In 1977 Dr. Kennedy took a 2 1/2 year leave to serve as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This followed an increasing academic interest in regulatory policy regarding health and the environment, which included the chairmanship of a National Academy of Sciences study on alternatives to pesticide use and membership of the World Food and Nutrition Study. Following his return to Stanford in 1979, Dr. Kennedy served for a year as Provost and for twelve years as President, a time marked by renewed attention to undergraduate education and student commitment to public service, and successful completion of the largest capital campaign in the history of higher education. During that time Dr. Kennedy continued to work on health and environmental policy issues, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Health Effects Institute (a non-profit organization devoted to mobile source emissions), Clean Sites, Inc. (a similar organization devoted to toxic waste cleanup), and the California Nature Conservancy.
His present research program, conducted partially through the Institute for International Studies, consists of interdisciplinary studies on the development of policies regarding such trans-boundary environmental problems as: major land-use changes; economically-driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies. He co-directs the Environmental Studies Program in the Institute for International Studies, and oversaw the introduction of the environmental policy quarter at Stanford’s center in Washington, DC in 1993.
Dr. Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He holds honorary doctorates from several colleges and universities. He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government.
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TJ Glauthier
Energy Advisor, and former Deputy Secretary and COO
of the US Department of Energy |
TJ Glauthier is an advisor and corporate board member in the energy and “clean tech” sector. He advises companies dealing with the complex competitive and regulatory challenges in the energy sector today. He has also just completed serving on President Obama’s White House Transition Team, where he focused primarily on the energy portion of the economic stimulus bill.
Mr. Glauthier serves on the Boards of Directors of three companies: EnerNOC, Inc., a provider of demand-response services to the electric utility industry; Union Drilling, Inc., a contract natural gas drilling company; and EPV Solar, a manufacturer of thin-film solar panels.
He advises venture capital firms and their start-up companies in “clean tech”. He consults to large corporations and government agencies through association with Booz Allen Hamilton. His pro bono activities include serving on President-Elect Obama’s transition team, on the Advisory Board for Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, and on the Board of Directors of the San Mateo County Resource Conservation District.
From 2001 through 2004, Mr. Glauthier was President and CEO of the Electricity Innovation Institute, an affiliate of EPRI. It was created by the electric utility industry to sponsor strategic R&D programs through public/private partnerships. Under his leadership, it sponsored programs that focused on the “smart grid”, plug-in hybrid vehicles, renewable energy resources, advanced coal technologies, and critical infrastructure security.
Mr. Glauthier was the Deputy Secretary and COO of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from 1999 to 2001. In the capacity of the DOE’s second-highest official, he directed the day-to-day management and policy development of all four of DOE's major lines of business: Defense, Science, Energy, and Environment, including the National Laboratories. He testified frequently before Congress, coordinated with the White House and other agencies, and represented DOE and the President in national and international forums and the media.
Prior to that, he served in the White House for five years as the Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy and Science in the Office of Management and Budget. He worked closely with President Clinton and Vice President Gore and was responsible for budget and legislative negotiations for the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, and Interior, the EPA, NASA, NSF, the Army Corps of Engineers, TVA, Bonneville Power Administration and many smaller agencies.
Earlier Mr. Glauthier spent twenty years at the management consulting firm of Temple, Barker & Sloane, where he was a Vice President and head of the Washington, D.C. office. He advised Fortune 500 companies on corporate financial planning and supported industry groups such as the Edison Electric Institute with economic analyses and testimony on public policy issues, such as acid rain legislation. He also spent three years as Director of Energy and Climate Change at the World Wildlife Fund, focusing on the climate change treaty and technology transfer.
Mr. Glauthier is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and the Harvard Business School.
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