Experience

C3 AI

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Member, Board of Directors

  • 2010 - Present

  Redwood City, CA C3 IoT is a full-stack development platform that enables the rapid design, development, and deployment of the largest scale enterprise applications that leverage big data, telemetry, elastic cloud computing, analytics, machine learning, and social human computer interaction models.



Alta Advisers Limited

• United Kingdom
• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member, Advisory Board

  • 2013 - Present

  London, UK Alta Advisers Limited is a family investment office active in public equities, leveraged buyouts, venture capital, real estate, hedge funds, fixed income, and natural resources employing fundamental analysis.



Temasek, North America

• Member, Advisory Board

  • 2016 - Present

  San Francisco, CA Temasek is an investment company based in Singapore supported by 11 offices globally whose $242 billion portfolio covers a broad spectrum of industries including financial services, telecommunications, media, and technology.



Yale University-

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs

  • 2013 - Present

  New Haven, CT The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs is a principal driver of Yale’s efforts to internationalize its curriculum and deepen the University’s engagement abroad.

• Assistant, Associate, and Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics

  • Jul 1974 - Apr 2014

  New Haven, CT As a professor, supervised 62 doctoral dissertations, chaired the economics department, and led research programs in industrial organization, regulatory reform, and the economics of technological change.

• President

  • Jul 1993 - Jun 2013

  New Haven, CT As President, led broad expansion and modernization of the university. Initiatives include investing over $5.5 billion in the renovation and construction of university facilities, advancing economic development in New Haven, strengthening Yale’s programs in science, engineering, and medicine, and putting Yale on course to reducing campus greenhouse gas emissions by 43 percent by 2020. Launched Yale’s early efforts in online education. Co-founded Yale- NUS College in Singapore.



American Express

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Member, Board of Directors

  • 2007 - May 2019

  New York, NY American Express is one of the world’s leading multinational financial services corporations known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque business.



William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

• Philanthropic Fundraising Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Member, Board of Directors

  • 1999 - 2019

  Menlo Park, CA The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is a private charitable foundation that advances ideas and supports institutions to promote a better world.



Coursera

• United States
• E-Learning Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• CEO

  • Apr 2014 - Jun 2017

  Mountain View, CA Transforming lives through access to high-quality education. Since joining the company in March 2014, Coursera has expanded its global platform to serve more than 23 million registered learners, partnered with 146 of the world’s leading universities, and doubled revenue every year. Led Coursera's foray into the enterprise market with Coursera for Business launch in August 2016.



Foresite Capital

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member, Advisory Board

  • 2014 - Jun 2017

  New York, NY Foresite Capital Management is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in middle market, buyouts, growth capital and late stage investments.



Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consulting Professor

  • 2014 - Jun 2017

  Stanford, CA The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research is a research organization committed to scholarship that helps address the real-world challenges facing governments and businesses in the United States and around the world.