Vice President Business Development
Jody Mahoney is vice president business development responsible for developing current and new Institute sponsors and partners willing to grow with ABI as our programs expand in support of our mission. Prior to joining the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Jody was senior director international development with TechSoup, a social enterprise based in San Francisco where she was instrumental in developing the corporate and nonprofit partnerships needed for international expansion. Prior to TechSoup, Jody held many and varied business development, partnership recruitment and technology sales positions. Jody holds a BFA from Antioch College and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.
Who Am I?
My passions include international development, pro-poor policy, access of women to technology, equity and microfinance, writing, travel, gardens, advocating on behalf of breast cancer research, teenagers of all shapes and sizes including my son Josh and AFS exchange sons Timo (Denmark), Daniele (Italy), Eduardo (Spain) and AFS daughter Viivi (Finland), London fashion, Les Soldes in Paris, the Pacific ocean, surfing, bodyboarding, my very tall husband Ira, four sisters and assorted nieces and nephews, wonderful friends, Rue de Rosier, New York anytime, the markets of Cairo, Al-Madinah in Tunis, Delhi, jazz in Warsaw, Camden Locke, Kentish Town, Elephant’s Head Pub, Courage Best Bitter, my Welsh Cardigan Corgi, and finally, laughing—lots and lots of laughing.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, - President and CEO
- Catherine S. Kirkman, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati - General Counsel
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations - Secretary
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Cindy Goral, VP of Operations
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Jerri Barrett, Director of Marketing
- Alexandra Krasne, Development & Industry Partner Manager
- Deanna Kosaraju, Director of Programs
- BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager
- Caroline Simard, Director of Research
- Kim McLeod, Program Associate
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Associate
- Kathy Gee, IT Project Specialist
- Amy Clark, Office Manager/Executive Assistant
Our Founder
Board of Trustees
- William Wulf, Ph.D., Former President, National Academy of Engineering, Board Chair
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund - Vice-Chair
- Margaret Ashida, Director, Diversity and Workforce Programs - IBM Software Group
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & CFO, Mayfield Fund - Treasurer & Vice President
- Francine Berman, Professor, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego and Fellow, ACM
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President, Research and Systems Engineering, Google
- Penny Herscher, President & CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior VP Ethernet and Wireless Systems Technology Group, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Wayne Johnson, Vice President, University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
- Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
- Richard Rashid, Senior VP and VP Research, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow & CTO, Intel
- Cheryl Shavers, Former Undersecretary of Technology, Clinton Administration, & CEO of Global Smarts, Inc.
- Telle Whitney, President & CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Linda Bernardi, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Carole Dulong, Google - Co-Chair
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education - Co-Chair
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Pamela Arya, Executive Director, Applied Minds, Inc.
- Nina Bhatti, Principle Scientist, HP Labs
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Business Process Architecture, Sun Microsystems
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
- Penny Eckert, Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University
- Moira Gunn, MogoTech Media, Tech Nation
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur & Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Carol Muller, President and CEO, MentorNet
- Rebecca Norlander, Technical Assistant to the Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Sarah Revi Sterling,Student, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Janice Stockard, Visiting Professor, Mills College