Our Staff and Leadership

MentorNet Staff

Board of Directors

We would like to recognize our Board of Directors, leading the e-mentoring network for diversity in engineering and science.

  • Mary Fernandez

    Mary Fernandez
    Chair

    Director, Large-Scale
    Programming AT&T Labs
    Florham Park, NJ
  • Jo Anne

    Jo Anne Miller
    Vice-Chair

    CEO
    RNM Engineering, Inc.
    San Luis Obispo, CA
  • David Porush

    David Porush
    Board Member

    President & CEO
    MentorNet
    San Jose, CA
  • Pat Laughlin

    Pat Laughlin
    Treasurer

    VP/CFO
    Illinois Institute of
    Technology
    Chicago , IL
  • Sarah Saltzer

    Sarah Saltzer
    Board Member

    General Manager
    Chevron Environmental
    Management Company
    San Ramon, CA
  • Ginna Raahauge

    Ginna Raahauge
    Board Member

    Vice President, IT
    Cisco Systems
    San jose, CA
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    Don Pearman
    Board Member

    Senior Advisor; Bechtel National Inc.
    Phoenix, AZ

Advisory Board 

The MentorNet Advisory Board serves to link activities of MentorNet with senior-level, strategic stackholders in colleges and universities, corporations, government labs and agencies, and professional societies and other experts.

  • Stacy Blake-Beard
    Associate Professor, Simmons School of Management
    Research Faculty, Center for Gender in Organizations
    Simmons College
    Boston, MA
  • Marissa Mayer
    Vice President, Search Products & User Experience
    Google
    Mountain View, CA
  • Susan Metz
    Senior Advisor, Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science
    Past President, WEPAN
    Stevens Institute of Technology
    Hoboken, NJ
  • Kathleen Buechel
  • Brit d�Arbeloff
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Catherine Didion
    Director, Committee on Women in Science & Engineering
    National Academy of Sciences
    Washington, DC
  • Susan Monaghan
    Vice President, Human Resources
    Cisco Systems
    San Jose, CA
  • Carol Muller
    President, Blue Sky Consulting Consulting Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
    Founding CEO, MentorNet
    Palo Alto, CA
  • Janie Fouke
    Provost and Senior Vice President
    University of Florida
    Gainesville, FL
  • Marye Anne Fox
    Chancellor
    University of California, San Diego

    La Jolla, CA
  • Karl Pister
    Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering,
    Emeritus, Civil Engineering
    Chancellor, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
    University of California at Berkeley
    Berkeley, CA
  • Joan Girgus
    Professor, Department of Psychology Special Assistant to the Dean of Faculty
    Princeton University
    Princeton, NJ
  • James Plummer
    Dean, School of Engineering Stanford University
    Stanford, CA
  • Fiona Gleeson
    Director, Data Management Division
    IBM Silicon Valley Laboratory
    San Jose, CA
  • Jean Rhodes
    Professor, Department of Psychology University of Massachusetts, Boston
    Boston, MA
  • Teresa Helmlinger Ratcliff
    Assistant Vice Chancellor, Extension & Engagement
    Immediate Past President, National
    Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
    North Carolina State University
    Raleigh, NC
  • Sally Ride
    President & CEO
    Sally Ride Science
    San Diego, CA
  • Carol Henton
    Vice President, State & Local Government
    TechAmerica
    Santa Clara, CA
  • Christine Riley
  • Julie Shimer
    CEO & President
    Welch Allyn, Inc.
    Skaneateles Falls, NY
  • Wayne Johnson
    Vice President, University Relations Worldwide
    Hewlett-Packard Company
    Palo Alto, CA
  • Lee Sproull
    Professor of Business, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
    Vice Dean, Academic Affairs
    New York University
    New York, NY
  • Steve Kang
    Chancellor
    University of California, Merced
    Merced, CA
  • Katherine Tobin
    Member of the Board of Governors United States Postal Service
    Washington, DC
  • Martha Kanter
    Undersecretary, Department of Education
    U.S. Government
    Los Altos Hills, CA
  • Sheldon Wettack
    Visiting Professor of Chemistry, Dean of Faculty Emeritus, Harvey Mudd College, Hope College
    Holland, MI
  • Nancy Lane
    Project Director, Women in SET Initiative
    Department of Zoology
    University of Cambridge
    Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Telle Whitney
    President and CEO
    Member, CRA-W
    The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABIWT)
    Palo Alto, CA
  • George Langford
    Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
    Syracuse University
    Syracuse, NY

Did You Know?

Protégés in the MentorNet program consistently report

  • An increased confidence in their success in science or engineering
  • An increased desire to pursue a career in their field
  • A high degree of satisfaction with their MentorNet experience.

Mentors in the MentorNet program consistently report

  • The personal satisfaction of knowing that they have helped someone else.
  • Professional development, including better mentoring skills to use within their company.
  • Increased levels of commitment to their fields and their employers.
  • Opportunities for self-reflection and self-renewal.

By The Numbers

31,011Matches Since 19971,132Current Matches771Employers Represented231Protégés Ready to Match349Mentors Ready to Match

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What Others are Saying

"Mentoring in today's environment is a critical tool in the toolbox for success. The inherent lack of link between business and academics presents an awesome chasm for many, especially women, to face and bridge. Mentoring provides an outstanding opportunity to assist students in this endeavor." - MentorNet Mentor

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