Advisors

Champions of Science & Industry

Marye Anne Fox, Ph.D., Chancellor, UC San Diego

Paul M. Jacobs, Ph.D., CEO, Qualcomm

Jay M. Short, Ph.D., President & CEO, BioAtla

Mark P. Stevenson, Ph.D., President & CEO, Life Technologies

Roger Tsien, Ph.D., 2008 Nobel Laureate, UC San Diego

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., President & Chairman, J. Craig Venter Institute

Executive Committee

Charles Bergan, Vice Presdent of Engineering, Qualcomm

Phil Gay, President, Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair

Katherine Katardjief, Dean, College of Science & Math, California State University San Marcos

Steve A. Kay, Ph.D., Dean, Division of Biological Science, UC San Diego

Al Kern, Ph.D., Director of Biotechnology Programs, Cal State San Marcos

Jason B. Khoury, CEO, Pacific Scene Family of Companies

Jeffrey W. Kirsch, Ph.D., Executive Director, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

Bill Kowba, Superintendent, San Diego Unified School District

Sherri S. Lightner, Councilmember, City of San Diego

Stanley Maloy, Ph.D., Dean, College of Sciences, San Diego State University

Paul Negulescu, Ph.D., VP Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.

John Pettitt, Corporate Lead Executive-San Diego, Northrop Grumman Corporation

Thomas R. Scott, Ph. D., Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University

Jay M. Short, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO, BioAtla, LLC

Ken Slaght, Ph.D., VP/General Manager, General Dynamics

Charles Tu, Associate Dean, UC San Diego School of Engineering

Heather Virdo, Head of Corporate Giving, Life Technologies

Geoffrey M. Wahl, Ph.D., Professor, Gene Expression Laboratory, The Salk Institute

Cynthia J. Warner, President and Chairman, Sapphire Energy

David R. Webb, Ph.D. (Committee Chair), Adjunct Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Intitute

Education Advisory Committee

Katie Carlstrom, Education Director, Life Technologies

Debbie DeRoma, Education Director, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

Antonio DeMaio, Ph.D., Prof. of Surgery & Vice Chairman of Research, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Linda Doughty, Director, CalSOAP

Shelley Glenn Lee, Deputy Director, ScienceBridge, UC San Diego

Steve Lombard, Director of Communications/Public Information, Oceanside Unified School District

Robert Manroe, High School Science Teacher, Sweetwater Union High School District

Karyl T. O'Brien, Community Relations, Escondido Union High School District

Steve Rodecker, Science Curriculum Coordinator, Sweetwater Union High School District

James Rohr/Ashley Nekoui, Chief Scientist/K-12 Coordinator, SPAWAR Systems Center, U.S. Navy

Nancy Taylor, K-12 Science Coordinator, San Diego City Office of Education

Loren Thompson,, Ph.D., Assistant Vice Chancellor, UC San Diego

Dave Tupper, Project Director, IDEAS Grant, Lakeside, Santee, El Cajon Valley School Districts

Don Whisman, Science Program Manager, San Diego Unified School District

Festival Content Committee

Steven Briggs, Ph.D. Professor, Division fo Biological Science, UC San Diego

Gavin Fischer, Head of R& D, Bioreagents & PCR, Agilent Technologies

Robert Manroe, Science Teacher, Sweetwater Union High School District

Bill Proffer, AVP for Technology, Chief Systems Engineer, SAIC

Volunteer Committee

Sherrie Bainer, Qualcomm

Erika Cayton, Buck Consultants

Debbie Chen, UC San Diego

John DeWitt, Chair, Lee Hecht Harrison

Ange Mason, San Diego Supercomputer Center

Kathleen Solomon, SAIC