Board Members
BASIC Chairman
Jeffrey Welser, PhD, Vice President and Lab Director, IBM – Almaden Research Center
Bryan Barnhart, Senior Director, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Arthur Bienenstock, PhD, Special Assistant to the President for Federal Policy, Stanford University
Kim Budil, PhD, PhD, Laboratory Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Scott Brandt, PhD, PhD, Vice Chancellor – Research, University of California, Santa Cruz
Poppy Crum, PhD, Head Scientist, Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Mark Davis, Senior Director – Industry Futures Strategic Engagement, Autodesk
Bill Diamond, President, SETI Institute
Christopher Haskell, PhD, Vice President & Head, West Coast Innovation Center at Bayer HealthCare
Norbert Holtkamp, PhD, Deputy Laboratory Director, Stanford Linear Accelerato Center
Daniel Lowenstein, MD, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, University of California, San Francisco
Andrew Mcllroy, PhD, Acting Associate Director, Sandia National Laboratories – California
Maria T. Millan, MD, President and CEO, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)
Prasant Mohapatra, PhD, Vice Chancellor – Research, University of California, Davis
Robert Obana, COO, Gladstone Institutes
Horst Simon, PhD, Deputy Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Darlene Solomon, PhD, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Agilent Technologies
Craig Stephen, Senior Vice President – Research & Development, Oracle Labs
Eric Verdin, MD, President & CEO, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Mark Whiteley, Vice President and Americas Practice Leader – AECOM Strategy + Consultancy
Ex Officio
Sean Randolph, PhD, Senior Director, Bay Area Council Economic Institute
Chairmen Emeritus
Mark Bregman, PhD, Genral Partner, Quidnet Venture LLC
Regis Kelly, PhD, Executive Director, QB3 Institute, & Distinguished Professor UCSF
Adviser
Tom Kalil, PhD, Chief Innovation Officer, Schmidt Futures; former Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
The BASIC mission is to advance the Bay Area’s leadership in innovation.
“A unique environment exists in the Bay Area that has led to its becoming a crucible for innovation. The strong universities and rich sources of venture capital embedded in a tremendously diverse cultural environment make the Bay Area ‘The place to be’ for entrepreneurs. For many years, the Bay Area has nurtured a culture that supports risk taking and experimentation, whether in art, music, or business. the open nature of the culture leads to a sharing of ideas that further stimulates innovation. Today the Bay Area is not only a center of innovation in its own right but is also the key marketplace for the exchange of innovative ideas from around the globe.”
Mark Bregman
BASIC Chairman Emeritus