Vice President Business Development
Jody Mahoney is vice president business development responsible for developing current and new Institute sponsors and partners willing to grow with ABI as our programs expand in support of our mission. Prior to joining the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Jody was senior director international development with TechSoup, a social enterprise based in San Francisco where she was instrumental in developing the corporate and nonprofit partnerships needed for international expansion. Prior to TechSoup, Jody held many and varied business development, partnership recruitment and technology sales positions. Jody holds a BFA from Antioch College and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Who Am I?
My passions include international development, pro-poor policy, access for women to technology, equity and microfinance, writing, travel, gardens, advocating on behalf of breast cancer research, teenagers of all shapes and sizes including my son Josh and AFS exchange sons Timo (Denmark), Daniele (Italy), Eduardo (Spain) and AFS daughter Viivi (Finland), London fashion, Les Soldes in Paris, the Pacific ocean, surfing, bodyboarding, my very tall husband Ira, four sisters and assorted nieces and nephews, wonderful friends, Rue de Rosier, New York anytime, the markets of Cairo, Al-Madinah in Tunis, Delhi, jazz in Warsaw, Camden Locke, Kentish Town, Elephant’s Head Pub, Courage Best Bitter, my Welsh Cardigan Corgi, and finally, laughing—lots and lots of laughing.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer & Vice President
- Deanna Kosaraju, Corporate Secretary
Corporate Counsel
- Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Deanna Kosaraju, Vice President Programs
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, VP of Marketing
- Kirk Ross, Director of Finance
- Caroline Simard, VP of Research and Executive Programs
- Kathy Gee, IT Project Specialist
- Kim McLeod, Leadership Development & Academic Initiatives Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Christine Chiu, Program Content Manager
- TBD, Office Manager
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund – Vice-Chair
- Robin Abrams, Investor
- Prith Banerjee, Senior Vice President, Research, and Director, HP Labs, HP
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer & Vice President
- Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Mark Bregman, CTO, Symantec
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Payroll, Intuit
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Shanna-Shaye Forbes, graduate student, UC Berkeley
- Eugenia Gabrielova, student, Northwestern
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy & Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
- Ike Nassi, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, SAP
- Brian Pawlowski, CTO, and Senior Vice President, NetApp
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Rebecca Norlander, Partner Engineering Manager, Microsoft Online Advertising Platform, Microsoft Corporation – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, VP, Business Development, Harris Crucial Security Programs
- Nina Bhatti, Principle Scientist, HP Labs
- Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Carole Dulong, Google
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education
- Mark Guzdial, Professor in the School of Interactive Computing,
Georgia Institute of Technology - Robin Jeffries, Google
- Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Sarah Loos, PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
- Carol Muller, Department Manager for Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- Elisa Camahort Page, co-founder & COO, BlogHer
- Tracy Prentiss, Vice President, SAP
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Sarah Revi Sterling, Faculty, University of Colorado, Boulder