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Board of Directors

The Science Foundation Arizona board of directors is comprised of distinguished and respected leaders from Arizona, as well as highly talented experts in academia, R&D and business from the United States and internationally.  Board members include:

Donald Budinger

Phoenix, Arizona (Chair)
Mr. Budinger is founder and president of Rodel Inc., a startup that grew to become the world’s largest manufacturer of the surface finishing chemicals used to make computer chips, rigid memory disks and specialty optics.  He is currently chairman of The Rodel Foundations, and chairman of The Arizona College Scholarship Foundation.

Craig Barrett, Ph.D.

Phoenix, Arizona (Vice Chair)
Dr. Barrett is chairman of the board of Intel Corp. and a leading advocate for improving education in the U.S. and around the world. He became Intel’s 4th president in 1997 and chief executive officer in 1998. He is the first-ever chair of the UN Global Alliance for Information and Communications Technology; an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering; and he established the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University.

Erich Bloch

Washington, District of Columbia
Erich Bloch is currently director of The Washington Advisory Group where he advises on corporate R&D management and strategic planning for academically based research enterprises.  He led the development of the IBM System 360 stretch supercomputer that revolutionized the computer industry and earned him the National Medal of Technology in 1985.  President Ronald Reagan appointed Bloch to be the director of the National Science Foundation.  He is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

William Harris, Ph.D.

Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. Harris is the president and chief executive officer of Science Foundation Arizona.  He served as founding director general of Science Foundation Ireland; designed and led several industry/university R&D collaborative programs for the National Science Foundation; served as National Science Foundation director of Mathematical and Physical Sciences; and vice president of research at the University of South Carolina.  Dr. Harris is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Leroy Hood, Ph.D., MD

Seattle, Washington
Dr. Hood is president and co-founder of the Institute for Systems Biology.  His current research focuses on cancer biology and type I diabetes.  He previously served as William Gates III Professor of Biomedical Sciences and as the founding chairman of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington.  He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute of Medicine.  Dr. Hood has received numerous awards for his research, inventions and innovations.   Read More >>>


 

Anita Jones, Ph.D.

Charlottesville, Virginia
Dr. Jones is a university professor in the Department of Computer Science and Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia.  She served from 1993 to 1997 as director of Defense Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense and oversaw the science and technology program, research laboratories and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  In addition, she served as vice chair of the National Science Board and is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

 

Ira Levin, Ph.D.

Bethesda, Maryland
Dr. Levin is a senior research leader and a deputy director of intramural research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  He is the Leader of the Molecular and Biophysics Research Section at NIH and an expert in membranes, structural biology and imaging.   Dr. Levin is internationally recognized for his spectroscopic accomplishments and has been honored with many awards.

 

Frank McCabe

Dublin, Ireland
Mr. McCabe is a leading figure in national and international business.  He retired as general manager and vice president of technology and manufacturing for Intel Ireland.  Formerly, he served as European director of G.E. Semiconductor Business and executive vice president of Digital Equipment Corp.

Robert Millis, Ph.D.      

Flagstaff, Arizona
Dr. Millis is a planetary astronomer and director of Lowell Observatory, one of the largest privately managed astronomical research institutions in the nation.  He is a renowned expert in studies of the outer solar system and serves on the board for the Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy; Arizona Arts, Science and Technology Academy; and Flagstaff Forty.

  

Gary Jones

Tucson, Arizona
Mr. Jones is serving as Chairman of the Board of ArkeX and Ingrain companies.  Both organizations are startup geophysical/geological technology companies offering services to oil and gas companies.  Formerly, Mr. Jones served as President of Schlumberger's WesternGeco Division and President of Baker Hughes Atlas Division.  He has a life long interest in energy, particularly focused on solar energy, desalinization and geothermal energy.  He is a member of the SFAz board serving on the SFAz Audit Committee.

Rick Myers

Tucson, Arizona
Mr. Myers is a former IBM development vice president.  Today, he is the chairman of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council and is also a member of the Tucson Airport Authority, Investment Board Committee for Tucson Medical Center and National Advisory Board for the University of Arizona Science Center.

Martina Newell-McGloughlin, Ph.D.

Davis, California
Dr. Newell-McGloughlin directs the University of California's Biotechnology Research and Education Program (UCBREP), that includes all ten campus sites and the national labs at Livermore, Berkeley and Los Alamos, New Mexico.  She is an internationally recognized authority on biotechnology with a broad knowledge of biotech-related research in academia and industry.