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The Board of Trustees


Officers of the Board

Sandra Timmons ’81Chair
Philanthropist and Community Leader

Pradeep K. Khosla, President
Chancellor, UC San Diego

Ann Spira, Executive Vice President
Vice Chancellor of Advancement, UC San Diego

Leo Spiegel ’83, Immediate Past Chair
Managing Partner, Spiegel Capital Management

Pelin Thorogood, Chair-Elect
Executive Chairman and Co-founder, Radicle Science

Matt Newsome ’91, Treasurer
Strategic Advisor, Cubic Transportation Systems


2026-2027 Board of Trustees

Erikk Aldridge ’91
Vice President, Impact, LA28
Alumni Board President

Wendy Kwok ’99
Principal, Sunstate Development, LLC

Sherry Bahrambeygui ’86
Founder, Chestnut, LR, LLC

Jeanne Lawrence
Columnist, New York Social Diary

Sara Baxter Hutcherson ’90
CFO, Gracenote 

Yufeng (Jeff) Li
CEO, Founder, and President, CorDx, Inc

Laurie Black
President and CEO, LJ Black Consulting

Bosco Luján, MBA ’12
Executive Director,
Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management

Deborah Bronston-Culp ’80
Founding Partner, Samothrace

Jerrilyn T. Malana ’86
Chief Deputy,
San Diego County District Attorney's Office

Andy Chedrick
Self-employed

Gabriela Manriquez, B.S. ’89, M.P.I.A. ’97
Property Manager, Board Member

Grace Chui-Miller ’93
CFO and Founding Partner, Correlation Ventures

James Moffatt ’80
President, JSM Advisors

Una Davis
Philanthropist and Community Leader

Shelley O'Connor ’83
Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley

Craig L. Foster ’94
Chief Financial Officer, Pax8

Dene Oliver
CEO, OliverMcMillan and OliverInterests

Bobbie Gilbert
President, Jon & Bobbie Gilbert Family Foundation

Miles Palmer, MA ’78, PhD ’80
Founder, 8 Rivers Capital and NET Power

Taner Halıcıoğlu ’96
Founder, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI)

Gregory Papadopoulos ’79
Venture Partner,
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA)

Steve Hamerslag
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, TVC Capital

Rafael Pastor
Advisor,
Corporate Governance and International Relations

Martin Hartono ’96
CEO and Founder, GDP Venture

Harry Rady
CEO and Senior Portfolio Manager,
Rady Asset Management

Larry Hershfield
CEO, Ranch Capital

Sam Ramji ’94
Co-Founder and CEO, Sailplane

Ralph Ho ’94
Start Up Advisor

Lynn Schenk
Attorney, Office of Lynn Schenk

Gary Jacobs ’79
Founder and Managing Director,
Jacobs Investment Company LLC

Tim Scott ’87
President and CEO, Biocom California

Sheri Jamieson ’73
Philanthropist and Community Leader

Drew Senyei
Private Investor

Alexander Khalessi, MD
Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery
Faculty Appointee

Munjal Shah ’95
Co-founder and CEO, Health IQ

Robert Koenigsberger ’87
Founder, CIO, and Managing Partner,
Gramercy Funds

Vickie Turner
Partner Emerita, Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP

James Kralik
Managing Director, Linden Street Capital Limited

Alfred Zollar, MA ’76
Advisor, SIRIS Capital Partners and SolarWinds

Ken Kroner, PhD ’88
CEO, Pluribus Labs LLC