Officers | 2025 - 2026

Dan Liebling, MS

Chair
BS '02 | Staff Engineer, Google Research | Seattle, WA
Frederic Caldwell, BS

Vice Chair, Leadership
BS ’96 | Partner Engagement, Netflix | San Jose, CA
Tara Gomez-Hampton, PhD

Vice Chair, Finance
PhD '11 | Director of Medical Affairs, Johnson & Johnson MedTech | Pasadena, CA
Miral Kim-E, PhD

Vice Chair, Governance
BS '78 | Portfolio Manager and Partner, Frontier Global Partners | La Jolla, CA

Directors | 2025- 2026

John Abbott, PhD

BS ’74 | Development Fellow (Retired), Corning Incorporated | Elmira, NY
Rebecca Adler Miserendino, PhD

BS ’06 | Principal, Lewis-Burke Associates | Bethesda, Maryland
Amanda Cashin, PhD

PhD '06 | Builder & Investor Life Science Company | San Francisco, CA
David E. Chavez, PhD

BS '96 | Scientist 5, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Ranchos de Taos, NM
Ken Diest, PhD

PhD '10 | Research Manager & Tech Lead at Meta | Kirkland, WA
Edgardo García-Berríos, PhD

PhD ’11 | Research Scientist, Manager, KLA Corporation | San Jose, CA
Daina Paulikas

BS '02 | Deep-Sea Mining Entrepreneur; Transformation and Strategy Advisor | Boston, MA and London, UK
David Peisner, MD

BS EE '74 | Maternal-Fetal Medicine Physician, Retired | Harrisburg, PA
Zachary A. Rivkin

BS '14 | CEO, Gatsby | Austin, TX
SK Sharma, PhD

PhD '05 | Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus | San Diego, CA
Jasmine Soria Sears, PhD

BS '12 | Hardware Systems Engineer, Reality Labs, Meta | Kirkland, WA
Liz Stameshkin, JD

BS '03 | Special Counsel, Cooley LLP | Pacifica, CA
Nate Thomas, PhD

PhD '19 | Vice President, Strategy & Analytics at HGenium | Pasadena, CA
Evan Tsang, BS

BS ’99 | Vice President, Skylar Consulting | Pasadena, CA
Jay Turner, MBA/MS

BS ’01 | Senior Manager, Program Management – LA28 | Torrance, CA

Staff