MentorNet Advisory Board

The MentorNet Advisory Board serves to link activities of MentorNet with senior-level, strategic stakeholders in colleges and universities, corporations, government labs and agencies, and professional societies, and other experts. The Advisory Board, while having no legal or fiduciary responsibility for the organization, advises MentorNet on matters concerning program development, partnership relations, and strategic directions for the future. Members serve for three-year terms, and are expected to be active in attending annual meetings and providing advising via other media.

Stacy Blake-Beard

Associate Professor, Simmons School of Management
Research Faculty, Center for Gender in Organizations
Simmons College
Boston, MA

Kathleen Buechel

Brit d'Arbeloff

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Catherine Didion

Director, Committee on Women in Science & Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC

Mary Fernandez

Director, Large-Scale Programming
AT&T Labs - Research
Florham Park, NJ

Janie Fouke

Provost and Senior Vice President
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Marye Anne Fox

Chancellor
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA

Joan Girgus

Professor, Department of Psychology
Special Assistant to the Dean of Faculty
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Fiona Gleeson

Director, Data Management Division
IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
San Jose, CA

Teresa Helmlinger Ratcliff

Assistant Vice Chancellor, Extension & Engagement
Immediate Past President, National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC

Carol Henton

Vice President, Western Region
Information Technology Association of America
San Mateo, CA

Wayne Johnson

Vice President, University Relations Worldwide
Hewlett-Packard Company
Palo Alto, CA

Steve Kang

Chancellor
University of California, Merced
Merced, CA

Martha Kanter

Chancellor
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Los Altos Hills, CA

Nancy Lane

Project Director, Women in SET Initiative
Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom

George Langford

Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY

Marissa Mayer

Vice President, Search Products & User Experience
Google
Mountain View, CA

Susan Metz

Senior Advisor, Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science
Past President, WEPAN
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ

Susan Monaghan

Vice President, Human Resources
Cisco Systems
San Jose, CA

Carol Muller

President, Blue Sky Consulting
Consulting Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Founding CEO, MentorNet
Palo Alto, CA

Karl Pister

Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Civil Engineering
Chancellor, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

James Plummer

Dean, School of Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

Jean Rhodes

Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Boston, MA

Sally Ride

President & CEO
Sally Ride Science
San Diego, CA

Christine Riley

Julie Shimer

CEO & President
Welch Allyn, Inc.
Skaneateles Falls, NY

Lee Sproull

Professor of Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Vice Dean, Academic Affairs
New York University
New York, NY

Katherine Tobin

Governor
Consultant, Tobin & Associates
United States Postal Service
Washington, DC

Sheldon Wettack

Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry Department
Dean of Faculty Emeritus, Harvey Mudd College
Hope College
Holland, MI

Telle Whitney

President and CEO
Member, CRA-W
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABIWT)
Palo Alto, CA