Stanford Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Council Members

Council Members

Kath Lavidge '74, P '09 – Chair
Former Vice President, American Express Company

Srini Akkaraju PhD '97, MD '00
Founder and Managing General Partner, Samsara Biocapital

Felix Baker '91, PhD '98
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Baker Brothers Investments

Farah Champsi MBA '85
Venture Investor, Trustee, Smith College

Sam Colella MBA '71
Co-Founder, Versant Ventures

Bruce C. Cozadd MBA '91
Co-Founder, Chair, and CEO, Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Antoine Firmenich PhD '94, MBA '96
Founding Partner, Alatus Capital

Lawrence Golub P '20, '23, '23
CEO, Golub Capital

Dana Hayse '85, P '19
Nutrition Educator, former Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco

Justin Hirsch '08
Managing Director and Head of Strategy, Vista Equity Partners

Franklin "Pitch" Johnson '50
Founder, Asset Management Company

Yasunori Kaneko MBA '81, P '09, '13
Managing Director, Skyline Venture Partners, Lead Independent Director, Arcus Biosciences

Sarah Ketterer '83, P '16, '18, '21
Co-Founder and CEO, Causeway Capital Management

Krishna "Kittu" Kolluri P '21
Founder and Managing Director, NeoTribe Ventures

Frank Lee PhD '77, P '11
Founder and CEO, Dragonfly Sciences

Karen Li
Private Investor

Jonathan Lim '93, MS '93, P '23
Co-Founder, Erasca, Inc. and Boundless Bio; Venture Partner, ARCH Venture Partners

Marc Lipschultz '91
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Blue Owl Capital, Co-founder, Owl Rock Capital Partners

Annesley MacFarlane P '16, '20
Start-Up Investor

Jorge Moll
Chairman and Senior Researcher, D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR)

Stephen Pierce '84, P '19, '20, '23
Advisory Director, Goldman Sachs

Alex Popa '02, MS '02
Finance Leaders Fellow, The Aspen Institute

Herald L. Ritch '73, P '02
Founder, DC Advisory US

Vicky Rogers '83, P '11, '18
President and CEO, The Rose Hills Foundation

Richard Sapp '78, P '13, '16
Private Investor

Lily Sarafan '03, MS '03
Co-Founder and Executive Chair, TheKey

Ajay Shah MS '82, P '11, '14
Founding and Managing Partner, Shah Capital Partners and Altos Capital Partners

Darlene Solomon '80, P '15
Independent Director, Materion Corporation and Novanta Inc. 

Isaac Stein JD '72, MBA '70
Founder and Retired President, Waverley Associates

Mark Stevens P '20
Managing Partner, S-Cubed Capital

Judy Swanson P '10
CEO, K&E Management, Ltd.

Virginia Tusher PhD '02, P '27, '28
Trustee, California Academy of Sciences

Lisa Walsh P '16
Board, Breast Cancer Alliance

Danke Wu
Philanthropist, STEM Initiatives

Clara Wu Tsai '88, AM '88, P '21, '25
Executive Director, Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation

Jeffrey Zuttah '08
Head of Platform Finance, Oscar Health

 

Ex-Officio Members

Dean David Studdert
Vice Provost and Dean of Research
Professor of Health Policy (School of Medicine) and Law

Professor Carolyn Bertozzi
Baker Family Director, Sarafan ChEM-H
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor
Professor of Chemistry

Professor Ellen Kuhl
Catherine Holman Johnson Director, Stanford Bio-X
Walter B. Reinhold Professor
Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Professor Kang Shen
Vincent V.C. Woo Director, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Frank Lee and Carol Hall Professor
Professor of Biology and Pathology