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University of Southern California / 5 Board of Trustees Chairman Ming Hsieh, Chief Executive Officer, President and Daniel M. Tsai, Chairman, Fubon Financial Edward P. Roski Jr., President and Chief Executive Chairman, Cogent, Inc. Ronald N. Tutor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Officer, Majestic Realty Company Ray R. Irani, Executive Chairman, Occidental Petroleum Tutor Perini Corporation Corporation Andrew J. Viterbi, President, Viterbi Group, LLC Members Suzanne Nora Johnson, Former Vice Chairman, Willis B. Wood Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Wallis Annenberg, President and Chief Executive The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Officer (Retired), Pacific Enterprises Officer, Annenberg Foundation Lydia H. Kennard, Chairman, KDG Development & Wanda M. Austin, President and Chief Executive Construction Consulting Life Trustees Officer, The Aerospace Corporation Kenneth R. Klein, Chairman, President and Chief Malcolm R. Currie, Chairman of the Board and Lisa Barkett, Attorney and Community Leader Executive Officer, Wind River Systems, Inc. Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Hughes Aircraft Thomas J. Barrack Jr., Founder, Chairman and Chief John Kusmiersky, President, The Brickstone Company Executive Officer, Colony Capital, LLC Companies Gavin S. Herbert, Chairman Emeritus, Allergan, Inc. Marc Benioff, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Daniel D. Lane, Chairman, Lane/Kuhn Pacific, Inc. B. Wayne Hughes Sr., Chairman, Public Storage, Inc. salesforce.com Mónica C. Lozano, Chief Executive Officer, impreMedia, Glorya Kaufman, Founder, The Glorya Kaufman Dance Joseph M. Boskovich Sr., Chairman and Chief and Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, Foundation Investment Officer, Old West Investment La Opinión John F. King, President and Chief Executive Officer Management, LLC John C. Martin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, (Retired), The Weingart Center Gregory P. Brakovich, Managing Partner, Crossroads Gilead Sciences, Inc. William Lyon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Capital Group, LLC Kathleen L. McCarthy, Chairperson, Thomas and William Lyon Homes Rick J. Caruso, President and Chief Executive Officer, Dorothy Leavey Foundation Alfred E. Mann, Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Caruso Affiliated Jamie McCourt, Founder, Jamie Enterprises, and Officer, Advanced Bionics Corporation Alan I. Casden, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Former President, CEO and Co-owner, Los Angeles Gordon S. Marshall, Chairman of the Board (Retired), Casden Property Company, LP Dodgers Marshall Industries Ronnie C. Chan, Chairman, Hang Lung Group Limited John Mork, Chief Executive Officer, Energy Corporation Harlyne Norris, Trustee, Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris and Hang Lung Properties Limited of America Foundation Yang Ho Cho, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Jerry W. Neely, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Toshiaki Ogasawara, Chairman and Publisher, Korean Air (Retired), Smith International, Inc. The Japan Times Christopher Cox, President, Bingham Consulting, LLC, C. L. Max Nikias, President, University of Southern J. Douglas Pardee, Chairman of the Board Emeritus, and Partner, Bingham McCutchen, LLP California Pardee Construction Company Frank H. Cruz, President, Cruz & Associates Robert Padgett, Emergency Physician, retired Joan A. Payden, President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard DeBeikes Jr., President, DeBeikes Investment Jane Hoffman Popovich, Chairman, Hoffman Payden & Rygel Company Properties Frank Price, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, David H. Dornsife, Chairman of the Board, The Herrick Blake Quinn, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Price Entertainment, Inc. Corporation Officer, Quinn Group, Inc. Allen E. Puckett, Chairman Emeritus, Hughes Aircraft Michele Dedeaux Engemann, Community Leader Lorna Y. Reed, Community Leader Company Daniel J. Epstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Barbara J. Rossier, President, Rossier Enterprises Bruce M. Ramer, Partner, Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown Officer, ConAm Management Leonard D. Schaeffer, Chairman and CEO of Wellpoint Steven B. Sample, President Emeritus, University of Frank J. Fertitta III, Chairman and CEO, Station Casinos William J. Schoen, Chairman of the Board, Health Southern California and Fertitta Entertainment Management Associates, Inc. Richard J. Stegemeier, Chairman Emeritus, Unocal Carol Campbell Fox, Education Consultant William E.B. Siart, Chairman, ExED Corporation Chengyu Fu, Chairman, Sinopec Corporation Robert H. Smith, Robert H. Smith Investments and Peter V. Ueberroth, Contrarian Group, Inc. Stanley P. Gold, President and Chief Executive Officer, Consulting Gin D. Wong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Shamrock Holdings, Inc. Jeffrey H. Smulyan, Chairman of the Board, Emmis Gin Wong Associates Tamara Hughes Gustavson, Partner, American Communications Commercial Equities Steven Spielberg, Principal Partner, DreamWorks SKG Honorary Trustees Jane Harman, Director, President, and Chief Executive Mark A. Stevens, Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital Verna B. Dauterive Officer, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Ronald D. Sugar, Chairman Emeritus, Northrup Helene Galen Scholars Grumman Corporation Merwyn C. Gill Ratan N. Tata, Chairman, Tata Sons Limited Senior Administration of the University C. L. Max Nikias, Dipl., M.S., Ph.D., President Thomas E. Jackiewicz, MPH, Senior Vice President and Thomas S. Leary Jr., B.S., Vice President, Capital Elizabeth Garrett, J.D., Provost and Senior Vice Chief Executive Officer for USC Health Construction and Facilities Management President for Academic Affairs Thomas S. Sayles, J.D., Senior Vice President, Brenda K. Maceo, B.A., Vice President, Public Relations Robert Abeles, MBA, Senior Vice President, Finance, University Relations and Marketing and Chief Financial Officer Carol Mauch Amir, J.D., General Counsel and Secretary Kristina E. Raspe, J.D., MCM, MRED, Vice President, Albert R. Checcio, B.S., Senior Vice President, of the University Real Estate Development and Asset Management University Advancement Randolph Hall, Ph.D., Vice President, Research David M. Roberts, J.D., Vice President, Athletic Todd R. Dickey, J.D., Senior Vice President, Katharine Harrington, Ph.D., Vice President, Compliance Administration Admissions and Planning 6 / University of Southern California Lloyd Silberstein, B.S., Vice President and Executive Alexander Morgan Capron, University Professor, holder Distinguished Professor Director, Capital Construction and Facilities of the Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy This title is awarded on a very selective basis to those Management and Ethics, and Professor of Law and Medicine few professors in the university who have brought special Margo Steurbaut, MBA, Vice President, Finance Manuel Castells, University Professor, holder of the renown to the university through their accomplishments. Courtney Surls, M.Ed., Vice President, Development Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication and The following faculty members have been awarded William Watson, B.S., Vice President, Health Sciences Journalism, and Professor of Communication, the title of Distinguished Professor: Development Sociology, Public Policy, and International Relations Patrick C. Haden, J.D., Athletic Director Marshall Cohen, University Professor Emeritus and Leonard M. Adleman, Distinguished Professor, holder Lisa Mazzocco, MBA, Chief Investment Officer Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Law of the Henry Salvatori Chair in Computer Science, Geoffrey Cowan, University Professor, holder of and Professor of Computer Science and Biological Academic Deans the Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Sciences William W. Holder, Dean, Leventhal School of Leadership, and Professor of Journalism and Norman Arnheim, Distinguished Professor of Biological Accounting Communication Sciences, holder of the Ester Dornsife Chair in Pinchas Cohen, Dean, USC Davis School of Antonio Damasio, University Professor, holder of the Biological Sciences, and Professor of Biological Gerontology David Dornsife Chair, and Professor of Psychology, Sciences and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Robert A. Cutietta, Dean, Thornton School of Music Neuroscience, and Neurology Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished and Kaufman School of Dance Hanna Damasio, University Professor, holder of the Professor of Business Administration Elizabeth M. Daley, Dean, School of Cinematic Arts Dana Dornsife Chair, and Professor of Psychology, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Distinguished Professor James G. Ellis, Dean, Marshall School of Business Neuroscience and Neurology Emeritus of English Marilyn L. Flynn, Dean, School of Social Work Richard A. Easterlin, University Professor, and P. Daniel Dapkus, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Karen Symms Gallagher, Dean, Rossier School of Professor of Economics Engineering and Physics and Astronomy and holder Education Caleb Finch, University Professor, holder of the ARCO/ of the William M. Keck Chair in Engineering Selma Holo, Director, USC Fisher Museum of Art William F. Kieschnick Chair in the Neurobiology Percival Everett II, Distinguished Professor of English Steve A. Kay, Dean, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts of Aging, and Professor of Gerontology, Biological Solomon W. Golomb, University Professor and and Sciences Sciences, Anthropology, and Psychology Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering Jack H. Knott, Dean, Price School of Public Policy Solomon W. Golomb, University Professor and and Mathematics and holder of the Andrew and Qingyun Ma, Dean, School of Architecture Distinguished
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