Among the other groups involved in the merger are: directors for Stanford Health Services, who have already approved the combination; a committee, created by the UCSF and Stanford presidents, to choose some directors to run the new, merged USHC; the UCSF Foundation, the main fund-raising arm for the S.F. medical school, which has lobbied for the merger; and the nonprofit Bay Area Life Science Association, which was created to help design the future UCSF campus at Mission Bay, which will be surrounded by a biotech research park and which may or may not be intimately connected to the merger, depending upon whom you believe.
The chart on these two pages illustrates some of the many connections among the public and private figures who have influenced what is almost certainly the largest privatization of a governmental entity in California history. The connections do not explain the push to create USHC; rather, they describe the political context in which a massive, unprecedented, and fiscally questionable merger was proposed and publicized and pushed to the edge of reality.
UCSF Foundation Board of Directors
UCSF fund-raising arm and merger advocates.
Barbara Bass Bakar
Former CEO, I. Magnin
(wife of real estate developer Gerson Bakar)
Brook Byers
Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers venture capital firm
Specializes in life science, medical, and biotechnology companies
Director, at least 10 medical and pharmaceutical companies
Director, Western Association of Venture Capitalists
J.M.D. Cha
Director, C.M. Capital Corp. real estate investment company
Partner, Charter Ventures, venture capital firm specializing in life sciences and high technology
Executive director, Cha Chi Ming Ltd., investment firm, Hong Kong
A.W. Clausen
Former CEO, BankAmerica Corp.
William Coblentz,
Senior partner/attorney, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer
Kenneth Coleman
Senior vice president, Silicon Graphics Inc.
David Coulter
CEO, BankAmerica Corp.
Goery Delacote
Director, Exploratorium
Roger Evans
General partner, Greylock Management Corp. venture capital firm
C. Richard Kramlich
General partner, New Enterprise Associates venture capital firm
Specializes in medical instruments and devices
Director, at least three medical and biotech companies
Sandra Lloyd
Film producer
Co-manager, Ceylon Petroleum Inc. venture capital firm
Robert MacDonnell
General partner, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co.
David Melnick
Attorney, Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Flinn, Matzger & Melnick
Former chairman, Mount Zion Hospital Board of Directors
Ellen Magnin Newman
President, Ellen Newman Associates
Leader, Municipal Fiscal Advisory Committee to the Mayor
William Oberndorf
Partner, SPO Partners investment firm;
San Francisco Partners investment group
Kenneth Rainin
Chairman, Rainin Instrument Co. medical instrument company
Jeanne Robertson (chairwoman)
Former president, Friends of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute
(wife of investor Sanford Robertson)
John Robson
Senior adviser, Robertson Stephens & Co. investment firm
Specializes in biotechnology and drug company partnerships
Director, various pharmaceutical companies
Former director, Chiron Corp. pharmaceutical company
Leslie Tang Schilling
President, L.T.D.D. Inc., Golden Bay Investments, commercialreal estate investment firms
W. Clarke Swanson
CEO, Swanson Vineyards
Chairman, Napa National Bank
F. Van Kasper
Chairman, Van Kasper & Co. investment firm
Governor, National Association of Securities Dealers
Danielle Walker
(wife of Brooks Walker Jr., SFMOMA chairman and The Gap Inc. director)
University of California Board of Regents
The Board of Regents is scheduled to vote on final approval of the merger Sept. 18.
William Bagley
Attorney, Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott, San Francisco
Clients include Catellus Development Corp.
Stockholder, medical supply company
Roy Brophy
Retired developer, Sacramento
Frank Clark Jr.
Attorney, Los Angeles
Ward Connerly
President, Connerly & Associates Inc. land use planning firm, Sacramento
John Davies
Attorney/judicial appointments secretary, Gov. Pete Wilson, San Diego
Director/stockholder, Winfield Industries
Owner, Mission Bay Golf Center
Stockholder, pharmaceutical and medical equipment companies
Tirso del Junco
Surgeon, former chairman, California Republican Party, Los Angeles
Stockholder, pharmaceutical and drug testing companies
Alice Gonzales
Retired director of California Employment Development Department, Rocklin
Sylvia Sue Johnson
Partner, Johnson Machinery Co., Riverside
Meredith Khachigian
(Wife of attorney/political consultant Kenneth Khachigian), San Clemente
Howard Leach
Investor, Leach Capital, San Francisco
Stockholder, various interests including some biotechnology
David Lee
Chairman, CMC Industries Inc., Santa Clara
Stockholder, biotechnology company
Kathryn McClymond
Student, religious studies, UC Santa Barbara
Velma Montoya
Member, U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, Los Angeles
Stockholder, medical technology company
S. Stephen Nakashima
Attorney, Nakashima & Boynton, San Jose
Gerald Parsky
Investor, Aurora Partners, Los Angeles
Stockholder, medical technology company
Peter Preuss
Executive director, The Preuss Foundation
Stockholder, various pharmaceutical and medical supply companies; Stockholder, Catellus Development Corp.
Director, various companies, including DepoTech Corp. and Dome Imaging Systems Inc.
Tom Sayles
Vice president, Southern California Gas Company
Ex Officio Members
Richard Atkinson
President, University of California
Stockholder, various pharmaceutical companies, including DepoTech Corp.
Cruz Bustamante
Speaker, California Assembly
Gray Davis
Lieutenant governor
Delaine Easton
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Judith Levin (alumni representative)
Portola Valley
Charles Soderquist (alumni representative)
President, Technology Development Center
Pete Wilson
Governor
Bay Area Life Science Association (BALSA)
The public-private partnership driving the design and development of the future UCSF Mission Bay campus.
Gerson Bakar
Chairman, Gerson Bakar & Associates
T. Robert Burke
AMB Institutional Realty Advisors
Donald Fisher
Chairman, The Gap Inc.
John Larson
Chairman/attorney, Brobeck, Phelger & Harrison LLP
Sanford Robertson
Chairman, Robertson Stephens & Co. venture capital firm
Invest in medical technology, biotechnology, and medical services
William Rutter
Chairman, Chiron Corp. pharmaceutical company
Llyod Smith
Professor, UCSF
USHC Board of Directors
Directors of the new, nonprofit corporation formed in anticipation of the merger of University of California, San Francisco and Stanford University medical centers.
Richard Atkinson (UC)
President, University of California
Stockholder, DepoTech Corp. and other pharmaceutical interests
Eugene Bauer (Stanford)
Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
Richard Behrman (independent)
Managing director, Center for the Future of Children, David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Gerhard Casper (Stanford)
President, Stanford University
Haile Debas (UCSF)
Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco
Tirso del Junco (UC)
Surgeon
Lee Goldman (UCSF)
Chair and professor of medicine, University of California, San Francisco
F. Warren Hellman (independent)
General partner, Hellman & Friedman investment firm
Director, American President Lines Inc.
Former director, UCSF Foundation
Howard Leach (UC)
Investor, Leach Capital
Woodrow Myers Jr. (SHS)
Director of health care management, Ford Motor Co.
Denise O'Leary (SHS)
Director, Alza Corp. pharmaceutical company
Director, Western Association of Venture Capitalists
Former general partner, Menlo Ventures
Richard Rosenberg (independent)
Retired CEO, BankAmerica Corp., Mastercard International
Isaac Stein (SHS)
President, Waverly Associates
Director, Alza Corp., CV Therapeutics pharmaceutical companies
Judith Swain (Stanford)
Chair and professor of medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Open seat (UCSF)
School of Medicine
Stanford Health Services Board of Directors
The merger requires approval from both the UC Board of Regents and the Stanford Health Services Board.
Eugene Bauer
Dean, Stanford University School of Medicine
Richard Behrman
Managing director, Center for the Future of Children, David and Lucille Packard Foundation
Peter Bing
Doctor, Los Angeles
Gerhard Casper
President, Stanford University
LaDoris Cordell
Judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court
Gary Glazer
Director, National Cancer Institute training program, Dept. of Radiology
Peter Gregory
Senior associate dean for clinical affairs
Robert Halperin
Former CEO, Raychem Corp.
Consultant, Greylock Management Corp.
Director, Avid Technology pharmaceutical company
John Kelly
Investor
John Lillie
Former chairman, American President Lines Inc.
Director, The Gap Inc.
Ernest Mario
CEO, Alza Corp.
Linda Meier
Fund-raiser
Director, Peninsula Community Foundation
Malinda Mitchell
Acting president
Woodrow Myers
Director of health care management, Ford Motor Co.
Denise O'Leary
Former general partner, Menlo Ventures
Director, Alza Corp. pharmaceuticals
John Scully
Partner, SPO Partners investment firm
Isaac Stein
Founding partner, Waverly Associates investment firm, Palo Alto
Director, Alza Corp.; CV Therapeutics
Committee to name the outside directors of USHC board
This group was chosen by the UCSF and Stanford presidents to select the three outside directors to the nonprofit board.
William Coblentz
Attorney, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer
Donald Fisher
Chairman, The Gap Inc.
Robert Halperin
Former CEO, Raychem Corp.
Consultant, Greylock Management Corp.
Director, Avid Technology pharmaceutical company
Ernest Mario
CEO, Alza Corp. pharmaceutical company
