Who We Are: Barbara Gee

Vice President of Programs

Barb Gee has 35 years of experience in the computer and non-profit industries, where she has held a variety of management positions in virtually all functional areas. After 6 years with Hewlett-Packard and 5 years with Silicon Graphics, Barb started her own consulting practice in January of 1991. Since starting her consulting practice, Barb has worked in the private, non-profit and public sectors, both as an Interim Executive Director, as well as an Organizational Consultant. She recently served as the Executive Officer of Human Resources for the Oakland Unified School District, and currently serves as the Vice President of Programs for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.

Barb received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, with honors, from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978. She received a Master’s degree in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1986.

In addition, she has served on a variety of Boards and Commissions, as well as having served as a key faculty member of the Washington Academy of Community Development (where she taught Organizational Management).

Barb loves travel, movies and hanging out with her many Bay Area-based  nieces and nephews. She attended the 1995 Women’s Conference in Beijing (while serving as a commissioner on the Womens Commission of San Mateo county), and has traveled to India and Cuba with Global Exchange.

Officers

  • Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President & Corporate Secretary

Corporate Counsel

  • Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Staff

Our Founder

Board of Trustees

  • Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
  • Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
  • Robin Abrams, Investor
  • Anushka Anand, Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director and COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary
  • Mark Bregman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
  • Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
  • Nancy E. Cooper, Retired, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, CA Technologies
  • Kelli Crane, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Information Solutions, LexisNexis
  • Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, Intuit
  • Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
  • Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
  • Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Brian Pawlowski, CTO and Senior Vice President, NetApp
  • Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
  • Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
  • William Wulf, Former President, National Academy of Engineering
  • Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Margaret Ashida, Emerita (Term: 2003- 2009)
  • Linda Bernardi, Emerita (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
  • Maria Klawe, Emerita (Term: 1996-2011)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

Individual and Organizations

Board of Advisors