Rockell N. Hankin is Chairman of the Board of Semtech Corporation, an analog semiconductor company (Nasdaq) and Chairman of the Board of The Kavli Foundation.

Mr. Hankin has been Chairman or a Board member of seven other listed companies and eleven private companies, as well as other charitable organizations.  He has taught courses in business and law at UNC (Charlotte), UCLA and USC Law School.

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Kavli Foundation webpage: http://www.kavlifoundation.org/rockell-n-hankin

Biosketch

Currently, Mr. Hankin is an Executive in Residence at the McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte. Mr. Hankin has been an adjunct faculty member of UNC Charlotte, teaching Entrepreneurship, of USC’s School of Law teaching a joint course to graduate business school and law students regarding governance and other lessons learned from the Enron Era, and of the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught a graduate course in business strategy and planning as part of the school’s entrepreneurship course of study. He previously held a lectureship position at UCLA’s extension university as well as an associate professorship at California State University, Northridge. Mr. Hankin has presented regularly on corporate governance issues at the Duke Capital Markets Director’s Education Institute, UCLA’s ...

Robert W. Conn is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Kavli Foundation and Zable Professor and Dean, Emeritus, of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego.

Dr. Conn is widely recognized for his academic achievements and leadership in education and research and for his experience in the private sector.

Web Information

Kavli Foundation webpage: http://www.kavlifoundation.org/robert-w-conn

Biosketch

Dr. Conn began his academic career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970 where he became Professor of Engineering Physics, served as founding director of the University’s Fusion Technology Institute and held the Romnes Faculty Chair. Dr. Conn moved to UCLA as Professor of Engineering and Applied Science in 1980 and in 1986 he led the formation of UCLA’s Institute of Plasma and Fusion Research and became its first director.

From 1993 to 2002, Dr. Conn was Dean of the Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego and the Walter J. Zable Professor of Engineering Science. While Dean, he led the School through a period of unprecedented growth in faculty, students and reputation resulting in the School’s current ranking among the top twelve engineering schools in the country. He led major changes in the School’s organizational structure to position it ...

Miyoung Chun is Executive Vice President of Science Programs at The Kavli Foundation.

Dr. Chun’s career spans a wide range of experience in academia and industry. Her academic career began as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and a member of Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute at Boston University School of Medicine in 1995. There she taught in the areas of cell biology and molecular medicine, and conducted research in signal transduction of G-protein coupled receptors.

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Kavli Foundation web page: http://www.kavlifoundation.org/miyoung-chun

Biosketch

From 1999 to 2004 she worked for Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc. as a scientist and project leader, where her research focused on genomics/functional genomics and on molecular imaging in drug discovery and development. She discovered and characterized novel genes that are important to inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases, and has over 30 U.S. and International issued/published patents.

In 2004 she moved back to academia as Assistant Dean of Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), in particular serving the California Nanosystems Institute. She was also appointed Director of International Research Advancement at UCSB. In this role she was active in building partnerships among academia, government and industry around the globe.

Dr. Chun was Vice President of Science Programs at The Kavli Foundation since ...