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Charlotte Guyman, Chair
Charlotte Guyman is chair of the UW Medicine Board. She earned her bachelor's and master’s of business administration degrees from the UW and was general manager of MSN Internet sales and marketing for Microsoft. She also has worked on MSNBC and several Microsoft consumer project lines. Guyman has developed learning software for adults and children and the pioneering internet travel application, Expedia. She has served as general manager of Kids and Games software for Microsoft, as well as director of international marketing and director of consumer division marketing. Guyman became a director in 2003 for Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
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Shan Mullin, Vice Chair
J. Shan Mullin is vice chair of the UW Medicine Board. He is the former chair of the boards of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and a partner in the Seattle office of Perkins Coie law firm. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and a law degree from the UW.
Mullin has served as a leader for numerous community organizations and is now a board member of the Alki Foundation and the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce. He is chairman of the Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation board and a member of the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Board.
Mullin was named Citizen of the Year in 1995 by the Municipal League of King County. In 2004, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the UW Law School and the A.K. Guy Award for Volunteer Service from the YMCA.
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Mark A. Emmert
Mark A. Emmert is the 30th president of the University of Washington. Emmert's top goal as president of the UW is to further expand the University's stellar national and international standing. Before coming to the UW, he served as chancellor of Louisiana State University and chancellor and provost of the University of Connecticut. He was a J.W. Fulbright Administrative Fellow and a visiting scholar in Melbourne. Emmert was an American Council on Education Fellow and served as chair of the Council of Academic Affairs for the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. He is co-chair of this council's Board of Oceans and Atmosphere. Emmert received his bachelor's degree from the UW and a master's degree and doctorate in public administration from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.
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Alan Frazier
Alan Frazier is the founder and managing partner of Frazier Healthcare Ventures, which has raised seven venture capital funds representing $1.8 billion and invested in more than 100 emerging life science companies since 1991. Frazier serves on the boards of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Ascension Orthopedics, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Calixa Therapeutics, Nuon Pharmaceuticals, Portola Pharmaceuticals and Trilogy Health.
Frazier earned a bachelor’s degree from the UW and serves on the boards of the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association and the Western Washington University Foundation. In addition, he is a member of the UW Medicine industry advisory committee and the advisory council for the J. David Gladstone Institute, which is associated with the University of California San Francisco.
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Michael D. Garvey
Michael Garvey is chairman of Saltchuk Resources, Inc., a holding company with investments primarily in the maritime industry. He practiced law with the firms of Preston Thorgrimson and Garvey, Schubert & Barer, where he was a founding member.
Among his past and current business associations are Ste. Michelle Vintners, the K-2 Ski Co., Columbia River Farms Corp., Cascade Management Corp. (nursing homes), Foss Maritime Co., Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc., Tollycraft Yachts, KCM (architects and engineers) and SeaBear Co.
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Allan C. Golston
As the U.S. program president for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Allan C. Golston oversees education, U.S. libraries, and Pacific Northwest grant programs, as well as U.S. Program Advocacy and Special Initiatives. Golston, who joined the foundation in 1999, most recently served as its chief financial and administrative officer.
Golston's professional experience spans health care, software development, consulting and public accounting. Golston is a certified public accountant and holds a master's degree in business administration from Seattle University and a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Colorado.
Before joining the Gates Foundation, Golston served as director of finance for Swedish Health Services, director of finance and controller for the University of Colorado Hospital and director of business analysis and product development at MIS, Inc.
He is an active community volunteer in several nonprofit regional and national organizations and has served on a number of boards, including New Futures, Philanthropy Northwest and the Public Library of Science. He was a fellow of the British-American Project and a delegate to the United States/Japan Leadership Program.
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Gerald Grinstein
Gerald Grinstein is a former president of the UW Board of Regents. He retired as non-executive chair of Agilent Technologies and currently is a principal of the Madrona Investment Group and a member of the boards of directors for several corporations, including PACCAR, Inc.; Delta Air Lines; Vans, Inc., and the Pittston Company.
He has served as chair and CEO of Western Airlines and Burlington Northern, and is a former partner in the firm of Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis & Holman. He was also chief counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and administrative aide to the late U.S. Sen. Warren G. Magnuson. Grinstein is co-chair of the UW Campaign for Washington and active in community organizations, serving on the boards of the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Foundation and Long Live the Kings. He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and his law degree from Harvard University.
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Sally Jewell
Sally Jewell is president and CEO of REI, a national retail cooperative with three million members. Before joining REI, Jewell spent 19 years in the banking industry, where she held executive leadership roles. Earlier in her career, she worked as an engineer for Mobil Oil Corporation.
An active leader in the community, Jewell is a member of the UW Board of Regents. She is also on the board of the National Parks Conservation Association and is one of the founding board members of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust, a nonprofit coalition dedicated to preserving and enhancing the 100 miles of open space land along I-90. In addition, Jewell is active with the nonprofit Initiative for Global Development, a group of business leaders working to end global poverty. A graduate of the UW, she has been active in many nonprofit and civic leadership roles in her 30-year business career.
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Richard E. Jones
Richard E. Jones is the president and CEO of the Washington Society of Certified Public Accountants. Prior to assuming that role in 2005, Jones worked for Ernst & Young for more than 30 years in San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle.
Jones, who holds a bachelor’s degree from University of California at Berkeley and attended Northwestern University, has been an active board member for several Seattle health-care institutions. He served as a board member for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. He also has been a community member of the UW Medicine board’s compliance committee. In addition, Jones has served on the board of directors for the Pacific Science Center.
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Julie A. Nordstrom
Julie A. Nordstrom is a full-time parent to three children and a part-time community volunteer. She has served on the board of Seattle Children's Home and on the advisory board of Child Haven. Nordstrom has volunteered at Seattle Children's in several capacities, and she is currently working on projects for UW Medical Center and Seattle Children's. She participated in Leadership Tomorrow and completed the program in June 2005. Nordstrom was formerly an associate for the law firm of Stafford, Frey, Cooper and Stewart, where she worked in the construction and surety division. She was also a law clerk for Justice James Dolliver of the Washington Supreme Court. She earned her law degree from Seattle University and her bachelor’s degree in political science from the UW.
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Dennis I. Okamoto
Dennis I. Okamoto is a 1970 graduate of the UW with a bachelor’s degree in general business. Okamoto has held many significant leadership positions in local business and community organizations. He retired in 1996 as regional vice president for US West, now Qwest. Okamoto served in Gov. Booth Gardner's cabinet as director of the Department of Revenue and is a past president of the Japan America Society. He serves as director and treasurer of the board of Watermark Credit Union.
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Paul G. Ramsey, M.D.
Dr. Paul G. Ramsey is the chief executive officer of UW Medicine and dean of the UW School of Medicine. He graduated from Harvard College in 1971 with honors in biochemistry and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1975. Following completion of residency training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Ramsey came to the UW in 1978. He served as coordinator of student teaching for the Department of Medicine from 1982 to 1990 and was associate chair of the department from 1988 to 1990. Ramsey was appointed chair of the Department of Medicine in 1992 and became the first holder of the Robert G. Petersdorf Endowed Chair in Medicine in 1995. He served as chair of the Department of Medicine until June 1997 when he was appointed vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. Ramsey has received the Distinguished Teacher Award from the UW School of Medicine’s graduating class three times (in 1984, 1986 and 1987) and the Margaret Anderson Award from the UW graduating class of 1989. The latter award recognizes exceptional support of medical students.
Ramsey is noted for developing methods to assess physicians’ clinical competence. He has been the principal investigator on several research grants related to assessment of physicians’ clinical skills and has served as a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Faculty Scholar in General Internal Medicine for five years. Ramsey received the John P. Hubbard Award from the National Board of Medical Examiners in 1999 in recognition of his research contributions in the field of physician evaluation. He has served on many national committees and is a member of several professional organizations. He is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians and of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Herman Sarkowsky
Herman Sarkowsky, a 1949 UW graduate, is president of Sarkowsky Investment Corporation and has been in the home building and construction business since 1950. He was a partner in Frederick & Nelson department stores and developer of the 62-story Key Tower in downtown Seattle. Sarkowsky was an owner and managing partner of the Seattle Seahawks and managing partner and owner of the Portland Trailblazers Basketball Club.
Sarkowsky is active in UW affairs, having served in the past as president of the alumni Fund, chairman of the President’s Club, board member of the Alumni Association, as well as trustee and chairman of the University Hospital Board. He also has served as a member of the Board of Regents and chaired the first capital fund drive for the UW School of Medicine and medical center. He also served as a member of the executive committee of the UW Foundation Board.
In addition, Sarkowsky has been chairman of the board of trustees of Seattle Children’s foundation and was the board chair of the Seattle Art Museum.
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JoAnn Taricani
JoAnn Taricani is a UW associate professor and chair of the Division of Music History at the UW School of Music. She received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in music history and has published articles in the fields of American and Renaissance music, including work on music written by the novelist Henry Fielding, published by Oxford University Press in 2004. At the UW, she has chaired the provost's Academic Advisory Committee on Legislative Matters and the Faculty Council on University Relations, and served on several presidential task forces. She served as the faculty legislative representative and subsequently worked in the UW Office of Government Relations. From 2003 to 2005, Taricani was special counsel to the president of the University of Michigan, where she continues to provide services as a consultant on university events.
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