2026–2027 Members of the Board

James C. Bean ’77 was provost of Northeastern University in Boston (2015–2020). Before this, he was senior vice president and provost at the University of Oregon (2008–2013) and dean of the Lundquist College of Business (2004–2008). Bean spent 24 years at the University of Michigan, including appointments as the Ford Motor Company co-director of the Tauber Manufacturing Institute, associate dean for graduate education and international programs in the College of Engineering and associate dean for academic affairs. He earned master’s and doctorate degrees in operations research from Stanford University and a bachelor of science degree (mathematics; honors and distinction) from Harvey Mudd College.

Bean is past president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), a charter Fellow of the Institute and 2010 winner of the George E. Kimball Medal. He served on the regional board for U.S. Bank and was chair of the Arts and Business Alliance of Eugene. He also has served as a member of the Corporation Visiting Committee for Engineering Systems at MIT and the Oregon Innovation Council.

Bean lives in Portland, Oregon.

Joe Beda is a technologist with a history of working across many parts of our industry from web browsers to real time communication systems to cloud computing to AI.  He started his career at Microsoft working on Internet Explorer and client platforms before moving on to Google. During his tenure at Google he started Google Compute Engine and helped start Kubernetes. He then co-founded Heptio and, after 2 years, sold it to VMware. Joe was at VMware for several years helping to create the Tanzu suite of products.  

After a break away from the keyboard, Joe joined the startup Stacklok as CTO.  Stacklok is building a Kubernetes hosted AI platform for enterprises to not just deploy AI, but actually make it work for their business. 

Joe holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College and lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Rachel (a medical doctor and also an HMC alum) and their two children.

David is the CEO, President and Board member of Janux Therapeutics a company that he founded Janux in 2017 to develop tumor-specific cancer therapeutics in order to improve patient safety and efficacy for this important class of drugs. David brings more than 25 years of seasoned executive management, company creation, and successful partnering coupled with broad disease and drug development expertise to his role as Janux CEO. Prior to Janux, David served as CSO or CEO of multiple drug discovery and development companies that have created numerous clinical programs and partnerships with large pharma. These include Sitari (celiac disease) partnered with GSK, Afraxis (oncology) partnered with Genentech, and RQx (anti-bacterial) partnered with Genentech. Before that, David was Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery and Development at Phenomix, where he guided the discovery and development of clinical programs to treat diabetes and hepatitis C. Earlier in his career, David held positions of increasing responsibility in biotech at Affymax and large pharma at Bayer Pharmaceuticals. As director at Bayer, his group contributed to multiple clinical programs in oncology, obesity, and diabetes.

David earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Cornell University and a B.S. in chemistry from Harvey Mudd College, and he received post-doctoral training under then University of California, Berkeley professor: Dr. Peter Schultz.

Bruce is a California native who graduated from HMC in 1974. Upon graduation, he spent 2 years in the Peace Corps in Ghana as a Chemistry teacher. Upon returning to the U.S., he earned an MBA at UCLA. He worked in financial functions with ARCO and then as CFO/COO for American Funds, a subsidiary of the Capital Group. Sharon/Bruce split time between Orange County and Bozeman, Montana. Bruce enjoys cycling and fly fishing.

Howard Deshong III is the managing partner of Galileo Partners, a single-family office based in Los Angeles. He serves on the boards of several non-profits, including The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands (where he Co-Chairs the Board) and the Annenberg School for Communication Trust at the University of Southern California. He is also currently on the boards of two private technology companies: OWL ESG, Inc., headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and Heron Skill Systems, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Deshong earned a bachelor of science degree (physics) from Harvey Mudd College, and a MALD and PhD (on counter-terrorism policy) from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He worked on defense-related issues at the RAND Corporation for six years followed by three years at a nonpartisan Congressional agency. Howard then entered the private sector, joining Oppenheimer Investment Advisers in 2001. He left that firm to help start Bristlecone Value Partners in 2004 and founded Galileo Partners in 2007.

Matthew Ferri is a founding partner at PDT Partners, a quantitative investment firm based in New York. Ferri joined PDT in 1997 when it was a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley. PDT Partners became an independent investment manager in 2013.

Ferri completed his undergraduate studies at Rice University and his graduate studies at MIT. He has a B.S. (mechanical engineering), M.S. (electrical engineering and computer science) and M.S. and PhD (nuclear engineering). His doctoral thesis research at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center focused on superconducting magnet designs for advanced tokomak experiments.

Among other interests, Ferri supports the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at MIT, serves on the advisory board for the Songs of Love Foundation and is a member of the steering committee for the PDT / Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics partnership.

Originally from Colorado, Ferri lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. He often spends weekends in the Upper Hudson Valley, where he enjoys cycling, skiing, hiking and relaxing by the pond.

Dr. Kathleen Fisher is the Chief Executive Officer of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) in the United Kingdom. Previously, she served as the Director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA, where she helped set the agency’s strategy for programs in AI, cybersecurity, and high-assurance systems. In this role, she oversaw the AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), which demonstrated that AI systems can autonomously find and fix software vulnerabilities at speed and scale.

Prior to her directorship, Dr. Fisher was a Program Manager at DARPA. She led the High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program, which pioneered the use of formal methods to create vehicles with mathematically proven resilience against cyberattacks.

Dr. Fisher was a Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University, where she served as Department Chair for five years. Her research focused on advancing the theory and practice of programming languages to produce secure and reliable software. She is a Fellow of the ACM, the AAAS, and the Hertz Foundation.

Kathy French ’97 is senior vice president, Environmental, Health and Safety on the Asset Management team at LS Power. Kathy and her team ensure environmental permit compliance at the company’s fleet of electric generating stations and related energy infrastructure as well as support due diligence efforts. Kathy has been part of LS Power for over 24 years. Kathy received her B.S. (engineering) from HMC and her M.S. in environmental engineering from Drexel University. She has been a licensed professional engineer in Missouri since 2004.

In the full HMC spirit of interdisciplinary STEM for a better world, Eun Bin Go ’15 initially trained as a wet-lab chemist with hopes to develop new therapeutics for life-threatening diseases, and now she works as a software engineer at a Seattle-based biotech company that provides immune system genotyping services to cancer centers across the country and around the world. Prior to this role, she worked as a software developer and scientific consultant at a lab automation startup. Excited about improving the STEM learning experience for the next generation while also giving back to her community, Eun Bin consistently volunteers at local STEM outreach events, most notably with the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association, which hosts the Southern California event of its annual National Math and Science Competition on the HMC campus. 

Eun Bin graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2015 with a B.S. degree (chemistry & biology) and earned her chemistry PhD from UCLA in 2021 as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She has been an active member of the HMC Alumni Association Board of Governors (AABOG) since 2021.

Murray Goldberg was a tenured faculty member in the department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia researching the effects of technology in learning. In 1995 he went on to develop WebCT, the world’s first commercially successful Learning Management System for higher education. He left the university to launch and lead the company which grew to 350 employees serving 14 million learners at 4,000 organizations in 80 countries. Goldberg is widely acknowledged as one of a small number of key pioneers in the field of Learning Management Systems and has given over 250 invited presentations and keynote addresses on the subject of Learning Management Systems around the world.

Among other awards and distinctions, Goldberg was awarded the prestigious Killam teaching prize during his first year as a faculty member at UBC; the Manning Award for Innovation; the Canarie IWay Award for his contributions to information technology; the New Media Hyperion award for his contributions to learning technologies; and an honorary doctorate from the Southern Cross University for his pioneering work in shaping educational technologies. He was named by Backbone Magazine as one of the top 15 Canadians in digital media.

Robert L. Gould ’87 (mathematics) is on the teaching faculty in the UCLA Department of Statistics, where he serves as vice chair of the undergraduate statistics program. Driven by a belief that you can see lots of things by looking, he has co-authored an introductory statistics textbook designed for community college students and founded the American Statistical Association DataFest competition, a national data analysis competition and celebration of all things data. He earned a PhD (mathematics) from UC San Diego in 1994 and has been on the faculty at UCLA ever since. As lead investigator of the Mobilize project, he is the co-author of what is believed to be the first data science curriculum for high school students and which is currently taught in the Los Angeles Unified School District as well as several other districts in California. He is a proud alum of the dorm formerly known as “New” West Dorm and South Dorm.

Shamit Grover ’05 is CEO of Vesper Company. Vesper Company partners with founders and management teams to scale content, technology and services companies by providing aligned, long-term capital and active support. Previously, he was a managing director in the Private Capital Group of MSD Partners where he led or supported the firm’s investments across tech-enabled, business and financial services. Prior to joining MSD Capital, Grover was at Merrill Lynch, where he worked in the global private equity and mergers and acquisitions groups. He received his bachelor’s degree from Harvey Mudd College (double major in engineering and economics/CMC).

Hayden A. M. Hatch, M.D., PhD ’12, is a resident physician in child neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry and Biology from Harvey Mudd College before attending the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he received his M.D., M.S., and PhD in Neuroscience. His doctoral research focused on elucidating the pathogenesis of rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders associated with intellectual disability, epilepsy, and autism spectrum disorders.

Hayden currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the KARES (KDM5C Advocacy, Research, Education, and Support) Foundation and on the Leadership, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of the Child Neurology Society. He is also a member of the Harvey Mudd College Pre-Health Advisory Board and an Alumni Admission Ambassador for the Office of Admission. He previously served on the Harvey Mudd College Alumni Association Board of Governors (AABOG) from 2021 to 2024.

During his time at Harvey Mudd, Hayden served as Judiciary Board Chair, Junior Class President, and Editor-in-Chief of The Muddraker. He currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, with his two cats, Neptune and Blue, and collection of rare and exotic plants.

Dylan oversees a pool of diversified public and private investments at Arden Road, including a portfolio of direct technology Venture Capital investments. He also serves on the Boards of several private companies in industries ranging from Software to Agriculture. Previously, Dylan worked for many years as an engineer, and he is the author of several technical papers and four US patents.

Dylan holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Yale University, and a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Dylan served as a member of the Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees from 7/1/2005 until 6/30/2017. During his tenure he served on the Board Affairs, Academic Affairs, Investment, Physical Plant and Campus Planning, Student Affairs and Investment Committees, servicing as the Chair of Investment Committee from 2012 until 2015. His passion for sustainability, the environment and ways in which human design interacts with and influences the world, allowed him to thoughtfully guide a process to establish the Hixon Center for Sustainable Environmental Design and endowed professorship that funded the appointment of the inaugural director of the Hixon Center.

Albert J. Lee is the founding principal of Summit Consulting, a Washington D.C.-based consultancy. He has extensive experience managing consulting engagements involving diverse teams of experts and professionals.

Prior Summit, he was a senior consultant at Bates White LLC, where he specialized in economic damages. Lee participated in some of the largest litigated matters handled by Bates White. He was also a manager at KPMG. His clients included many Fortune 500 companies. At Summit, Lee has led a number of high-profile engagements and served as a testifying expert. Under his leadership, Summit was recognized byInc. Magazinein 2015 and 2016 as one of the fastest growing firms in the U.S. Summit also earned the 2015 Seal of Distinction Award from WorldatWork Alliance for employee work-life balance.

A frequent lecturer at universities, Lee received his PhD from UCLA and a B.A. from USC. He served as the UCLA Centennial Campaign chair for the New York region, and is a member of the board of visitors of the UCLA Economics Department. Leespends the bulk of his free time enjoying the company of his family, supporting local charitable organizations. He hails from Hong Kong and visits Asia frequently but spent his formative years in New York City. Southern California is his second home.

Chris has more than 30 years of professional experiences in investment banking and investment management. Currently, he is senior partner at FAA Investments (Farron, Augustine & Alexander LLC) and an executive mentor at The ExCo Leadership Group. Previously, he worked at large global financial institutions including Deutsche Bank AG, UBS Investment Bank and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.

Separately, Chris is also a board member for the Matthews Asia Funds in San Francisco and strategic advisor for various startups in Silicon Valley. He had also served on multiple corporate boards for public companies based in Australia and China. His charitable board appointments include the UC Berkeley Library System, Haas School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council and Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

With a passion of applying engineering methods to solving financial markets problems and providing long-term societal benefits to our global community, Chris is teaching (part-time) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an associate professor of science practice in financial mathematics.

Chris received his BS in mechanical engineering and MBA in finance from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed the advanced management program (AMP178) at Harvard Business School and obtained an ALM Degree in international relations (US-China economic relations) from Harvard Extension School.

Tony is an Internet technologist, with a lifelong interest in routing protocols, the Internet, router architecture, and software development. He pioneered the initial deployment of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the primary protocol that interconnects Internet service providers and ensures that Internet traffic is delivered correctly. After helping transition the Internet to BGP, he co-authored the specification for the current version of the protocol, BGP4.

As part of the team that developed the world’s first hardware packet forwarding silicon, the Silicon Switching Engine, he designed and developed the system level code that computed the forwarding table. He instigated the development of the world’s first commercial core router, the Gigabit Switch Router. As a very early employee of Juniper Networks, Tony led the development and introduction of MPLS Traffic Engineering, technology that goes beyond routing protocols to avoid Internet traffic jams. Tony co-founded Procket Networks, a startup to build core routes, that was acquired by Cisco in 2004.

Tony has been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force/Internet Research Task Force since 1991, has co-chaired the Classless Inter-Domain Routing Deployment, IS-IS, MobileIP, Time-Variant Routing and Multiprotocol Label Switching working groups and the Routing research group. He has authored more than 30 Requests for Comments, which specify protocols for the Internet, and more than 30 patents.

Outside of work, Tony enjoys biking, rock climbing, hiking, whitewater rafting, snorkeling, karting and other high-performance driving. He has two children, is currently a VP Juniper Fellow, and lives in Los Altos, CA.

Tyler Mingst P’22 is co-founder and chairman of Intriva Capital, a European-based private equity investment business. Before founding Intriva, he was a partner with Apollo Management’s distressed loan group in London, focused on credit portfolio acquisitions and restructurings, and where he and his family lived for nine years before returning to the U.S. in 2014. Prior to London, Mingst managed due diligence assignments with Ernst & Young’s global real estate team while based in Germany, China and Thailand. These immersive international experiences instilled an understanding and deep appreciation of different cultures and methodologies for doing business. Mingst received his B.A. from The Colorado College and his MBA and master’s of architecture degree from UCLA. Mingst and his wife, Heather (SCR ’91), have two sons and live in Santa Monica, California. He enjoys open-water swimming and working on car and bicycle projects in his garage.

Karen Morrison ’08 is the director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). Since joining the department in 2018, Morrison has worked to advance major human health and environmental policy issues related to pesticide use in California.

Morrison has worked in the intersection of science, policy and society at the state and local level throughout her career. This includes positions with the California Senate Environmental Quality Committee, where she analyzed legislation and organized legislative oversight, and as a science advisor with the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. Morrison also served as a commissioner on the Environment and Utilities Commission with the city of West Sacramento.

Morrison earned a PhD (chemistry) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. (chemistry) from Harvey Mudd College. She and her family live in Sacramento, California.

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Obosa Obazuaye ’14 graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (HSA concentration in Japanese) and has since attained a Master of Advanced Study in Wireless Embedded Systems from UCSD (2019), and an Associate of Arts in Music (focusing on violin performance) from MiraCosta College (2024). He currently lives in Escondido, California, and has worked as a software engineer at Viasat Inc. in Carlsbad since 2014, mainly working on embedded software for complex software-defined radio systems on the RF Environment Generation team. He has also played violin with the MiraCosta College Symphony Orchestra since 2014, currently acting as the violin II section leader. 

Justin Peterson ’85 is the chief technology officer of Tradeweb, where he oversees the development of all trading platforms, infrastructure systems and cyber security globally. He was appointed CTO in April 2020 and previously served as managing director and head of institutional technology at Tradeweb. In that position, he was responsible for leading ongoing development of the firm’s electronic platforms and trading systems. He joined Tradeweb in 1999 to help drive development of pricing and trading software, later managing the global support team and European technology group. He is a longstanding member of the firm’s management team and served on Tradeweb’s Global Operating Committee for many years.

Peterson has more than three decades of experience in computer science and development, with over 20 years dedicated to the financial services sector. He was a vice president at Citibank, managing development of web-based customer delivery and payment systems for its corporate bank and improving its electronic funds transfer system. Prior to that, he worked at NYNEX Science and Technology, focusing on telephone network planning software. Earlier, he developed computer-aided integrated circuit design tools at Hughes Aircraft Company.

Peterson holds a B.S. (engineering) from Harvey Mudd College and a PhD and M.S. (both computer science) from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Autumn Preskill ’09 is an engineer, technologist and sustainability enthusiast. She is passionate about educational access, as well as using technological solutions to solve human problems at local, national and global scales. She was the first person in her family to graduate from college and graduated from Harvey Mudd College (engineering). While at Harvey Mudd, Preskill cofounded the campus chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World and worked with emeritus HMC board member Andrea Leebron-Clay to organize a development trip for faculty and students to a small village in Kenya. In 2015, Preskill received her PhD in energy and resources from UC Berkeley, where she studied the effects of energy storage and renewable energy on the electricity grid, supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. After graduating she worked as a software engineer at several startups. She actively supports several other organizations, including Robin Hood, Math for America, and Give Directly. Preskill currently resides in New York City with her husband, Ben (’09) and their two young children.

Amyn Rajan is an entrepreneur with expertise in mobile, Business Intelligence, data access, data analytics, cloud and Big Data. Rajan has been involved in starting four successful companies. Rajan is a founding member of the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Applied Sciences Faculty Advisory Board and chaired its Board for the first eight years, during which they created the first Masters of Big Data program in Canada as well as established the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Technology at SFU. Rajan is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Scleroderma Association of BC. Previous positions held include Chief Strategy Officer, Bit Quill Technologies; CEO, Simba Technologies; CEO, Orbital Technologies; and VP Engineering, Orbital Technologies. Rajan earned his Bachelor of Science, Computing Science Honors in 1993 from SFU.

Shashank Samant is an executive chairman for Hitachi Digital, chairman of the board for GlobalLogic (a Hitachi Group Company), board member for Hitachi Energy, and strategic advisor for Hitachi Ltd. Digital Solutions and Services.

Shashank is motivated by applying technology to help create the world the way it should be — through developing amazing products, intuitive and engaging experiences, and bringing physical and virtual worlds seamlessly together to make the magic happen for millions. After 34+ years in the technology industry across 20+ countries, and building two multi-billion dollar global digital technology service companies, his mission is now to help other CEOs forge their paths to success.

Prior to his current strategic advisory, investment, and board roles, Shashank had a 14-year tenure as CEO and president of GlobalLogic, which led to record-breaking exits and strategic acquisitions. Through these roles, he helped Fortune 1000 companies achieve their digital ambitions, ensuring employee engagement toward innovation and digital transformation excellence.

Outside of the boardrooms, Shashank focuses his efforts presenting on global digital transformation and innovation, and demonstrating his commitment to society, energy, clean air, and water.

He sits on the board of directors of leading public and private companies including Office Depot Corporation, Rackspace Technology, Eureka Forbes, and Cyderes.

In addition, Shashank is on the software advisory council of Mercedes-Benz, and sits on the board of governors for UC Irvine’s Center for Digital Transformation.

Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Shashank was the president of Ness Technologies, where he founded and built their product engineering services business and grew it to a successful IPO on the NASDAQ exchange in 2004. Prior to Ness, Shashank was the general manager for Hewlett-Packard’s Verifone line of business, a global innovator and leader in Point of Sale (POS) and payment technologies.

Before Hewlett-Packard, Shashank was instrumental in establishing IBM’s first India-based software engineering lab, helping globalize IBM’s R&D and software engineering. Shashank started his career at Citicorp, where he was part of the core team that developed the FlexCube banking technology that transformed retail banking.

Michael Schubmehl ’02 spent two decades developing quantitative trading strategies for two leading trading firms in Chicago, Illinois. Mudd prepared him well for the blend of mathematics, data analysis, and software development that defines modern algorithmic trading. After two stints as a clinic liaison, multiple guest lectures, and numerous recruiting trips, he finally joined the HMC Board of Trustees in 2014. He retired from finance in early 2020 to pursue other interests, including climate change, renewable energy, and making the pandemic seem like a fun adventure for his two young daughters. He currently lives in Hinsdale, Illinois.

Robert Shelton was educated at Stanford University (B.S., 1970) and the University of California at San Diego (M.S., 1973; PhD, 1975) and began his academic career at UC-San Diego as an assistant research physicist in 1975. Moving to Iowa State University in 1978, Shelton was promoted to associate professor in 1981 and professor in 1984. He returned to California as chair of the Department of Physics at UC-Davis in 1987 and served in that capacity until 1990, when he was named vice chancellor for research. In 1996 he joined the President’s Office at the University of California as vice provost for research. In 2001 he assumed the position of executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. On July 1, 2006, Shelton began his appointment as the 19th president of The University of Arizona. He retired from this position effective July 31, 2011, to assume the leadership of the Arizona Sports Foundation on August 1, 2011. From March 2014 to February 2017, Shelton served as president of Research Corporation for Science Advancement. In February 2017, he began his presidency at the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization.

Dr. Shelton was a guest scientist at both the Kernforschungsanlage in Jűlich, Germany, and of the Japanese government at the Institute of Metals in Tokyo, Japan; and a visiting professor in the Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée, at the Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland. He has been an active and productive scientist whose work has focused on collective electron effects in novel materials. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and member of Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Shelton and his wife, Adrian A. Shelton, M.S., were undergraduates at Stanford. They have three adult children: Christian Shelton, PhD, a professor of computer science at UC Riverside; Cameron Shelton, PhD, a professor of economics at Claremont-McKenna College; and Stephanie Shelton Crossen, M.D., MPH, an associate professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Valerie Thadhani has dedicated her career to advancing health and well-being through medicine, education, and mentorship. A graduate of Carleton College (B.S., ’89), Dr. Thadhani received her M.D. from the Yale University School of Medicine in 1993. She trained in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and practiced there as an academic primary care physician for 16 years.

In 2017, Dr. Thadhani was asked to help support young children with learning differences in an inclusive independent school. Driven by a longstanding passion for child health and development, Dr. Thadhani made the unexpected career pivot. As the Director for Health and Wellness for the Milton Academy (Milton, MA) she oversaw the learning resources team, providing support to students and their parents so that they could succeed in the school environment. In recognition of her impact on students and families, Milton Academy awarded Dr. Thadhani the Talbot Teaching Award in 2022, the school’s highest honor bestowed upon a faculty member.

Dr. Thadhani has continued to extend the impact of her medical expertise by serving on the Board of Directors of Mosaic Health Center, a free clinic serving uninsured, underinsured, and refugee populations in Clarkston, Georgia, where she chairs the Clinical Care Advisory Committee. In 2023, she joined the HMC Pre-Health Advisory Board, drawing on both her healthcare and educational experience to support students interested in entering the medical field. Beyond her work in healthcare, she enjoys serving on the board of the Georgia Aquarium, chairing their Education, Research and Conservation Committee.

Valerie and her husband, Dr. Ravi Thadhani, moved to Los Angeles, California in 2025. She enjoys spending time with her 3 children, playing the piano, volunteering at a local medical clinic, hiking the hills of Los Angeles, and walking her dog Kona.

Rebecca Thomas ’14 is a software engineering manager, with over a decade of experience at Google. Her tenure included significant contributions to the Kids & Families team, where she developed products such as Family Link and Google Kids Space. She maintains a strong commitment to education as a means to rectify systemic inequities, advocating for the untapped potential within K-12 STEM education. Currently on a break following her work at Google, she is pursuing personal time for reflection and rejuvenation before transitioning into the Edtech sector. Her hobbies include hiking, landscape photography, and creative writing.

She graduated from Harvey Mudd College with a bachelor of science (computer science) and has since acquired a master of education in learning design and technology from the University of Southern California. While at Harvey Mudd College, she served as east dorm proctor.

Michael G. Wilson ’63 began his producing career in 1976, working with Albert “Cubby” Broccoli on The Spy Who Loved Me. Together, they co-produced the next six James Bond films, five of which Wilson also co-wrote. He then went on to produce the hugely successful GoldenEye with his sister, Barbara Broccoli, as well as the next nine Bond franchise releases. Wilson has also produced a number of successful film and stage productions; most recently, he and Barbara produced the box office hit No Time to Die, directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig.

Michael graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1963 (engineering). He then received a juris doctor from Stanford Law School and worked for the Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C., before joining the law firm Surrey & Morse. There, he became a partner specializing in international tax and business transactions before transferring to EON Productions, of which he is currently Chairman.

Interested in all aspects of still photography, Wilson is recognized as a leading expert on 19th-century photography. In 1998, he opened the Wilson Centre for Photography, one of the largest private collections of photography today, spanning works from some of the earliest extant photographs to the most current contemporary productions. The Centre is a facility for research on the history, aesthetics and preservation of photographs and loans to international museums and galleries.

Fellow of the Science Museum in London, Wilson is also a trustee of Harvey Mudd College, a trustee of the Carnegie Institution for Science and trustee of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has recently retired as trustee of the Art Fund and chair of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Wilson and Broccoli are founders of the London Screen Academy and Directors of the Dana and Albert R Broccoli Foundation.

In 2022, he was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire honour for services to film, to drama, to philanthropy and to skills. In 2014, the Producers’ Guild of America honored Wilson with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures and, in 2013, he received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding British Film for Skyfall.

Wilson is married to Jane Wilson, a Scripps College graduate. They have two sons and four grandchildren.

Terence Wong ’09 is the Precision Oncology Medical Strategy, Therapy Selection Lead at Exact Sciences, where he develops and manages the comprehensive and integrated medical strategy for Exact’s Therapy Selection products. Prior to Exact, Wong was a Strategy Insights & Planning Associate Consultant at ZS Associates, where he delivered innovative solutions to pipeline and launch strategy challenges for clients in the oncology biopharma and diagnostics industry. Prior to ZS, Wong was a Clinical Genomics Analyst at Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine, where he analyzed whole genome sequencing data to identify genetic causes for rare disease in critically ill infants and children. In addition, he currently teaches an online genetics course at UC San Diego Extended Studies.

Wong earned a B.S. (chemistry and biology) from Harvey Mudd College, a PhD (biological and biomedical sciences with a concentration in cancer biology) from Harvard University and an MBA with a concentration in healthcare administration from National University. His doctoral dissertation research, completed at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, involved integrating large functional genomic datasets to identify and characterize novel genetic vulnerabilities in cancer.

Bruce W. Worster ’64 retired in 2001 as vice president from JDS-Uniphase Corporation in San Jose, California, a leading supplier for the telecommunications industry. Before JDS-Uniphase, Worster was a physicist at Hewlett-Packard, after which he moved to leadership roles at Measurex, Surface Science Instruments, Tencor Instruments, and Ultrapointe Corporation, where he was founder, CTO and president.. After retirement, he served as a director of Zygo Corporation (2002–2010) and as chair (2009–2010). Worster is also a member of the American Physical Society, and a Trustee of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

He is named on 10 patents for an integrated confocal laser imaging system and related technologies used to analyze defects on silicon wafers during the semiconductor manufacturing process.

Worster graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 1964 with a B.S. (physics). He then obtained an M.A. and PhD in 1971 (physics) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MBA from Santa Clara University in 1977.

Worster resides in Montecito, California, with his wife, Susan.