I completed the tri-fecta of Los Altos public schools in 1974: Almond Elementary School, Egan Junior High School and Los Altos High School.
I earned my AB magna cum laude in economics from Harvard University where I wrote my thesis on the De-regulation of the Securities Industry. Harvard was an incredibly rich environment that allowed its students the exposure to and engagement with an incredible variety of programs and leaders. I first shook Jimmy Carter’s hand in a meeting of 15 people when he was a little known Governor from Georgia. The Institute of Politics provided an un-paralled exposure to public servants. In 1976 I had the opportunity to escort Leon Panetta from Monterey, former Director of civil rights for the old Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon administration and subsequent Clinton Chief of Staff in the White House.
I played Freshman Tennis and later was the Treasurer for "An Evening with Champions." The Evening was a dormitory driven skating show that has raised over $2.2 million for Cancer Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
I returned to the Peninsula to earn my MBA at Stanford. In addition to co-founding the Challenge for Charity I was one of the leaders of the 1983 Conference on Entrepreneurship.
