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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Marsha Clark
James R. Doty
Tony Hoeber
Darlene Markovich
Thomas A. Nazario
Jim Schuyler
Randy Taran
Tenzin N. Tethong
Tom Thorning
Tom Trabin
Marsha Clark has over 30 years experience as a Speech Pathologist, Program Specialist, Quality Improvement Trainer and Educational Consultant serving children, parents and community agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of the 1996 Valley of Hearts Education Award from Parents Helping Parents. Marsha volunteers at Tara Home, a residential facility for the dying, located at Land of Medicine Buddha, in Soquel, California. She received her M.A. in Education from San Jose State University.
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James R. Doty, M.D. is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University. In addition to being a neurosurgeon, he is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has given support to a number of charitable organizations including Children as the Peacemakers, Global Healing and Family & Children Services. These charities support a variety of programs throughout the world including those for HIV/AIDS support, blood banks and medical care in third world countries and peace initiatives. Most recently, he founded Project Compassion working with both the Stanford Neurosciences Institute and the Stanford Tibetan Studies Initiative examining the neural basis for compassion and altruism.
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Tony Hoeber has held senior positions at Sun Microsystems, GO Corporation, and Software Publishing Corporation in the course of his 20-year career in Silicon Valley. Mr. Hoeber has co-founded a number of companies, including Digital Paper and IQ Commerce, and holds a number of software patents.
Tony was the founding Executive Director of the Foundation, serving in that role until December 2006. In that role he built the current organization and initiated or supported most of the projects that are currently in place.
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Darlene Markovich has held senior positions during her 28-year career at ALZA Corporation in marketing, human resources management, learning and development, communications and community relations. She has collaborated on numerous film projects, curated art exhibitions, and coordinated public events. In 1997, Darlene was awarded the Founder's Award, the highest achievement within ALZA. Ms. Markovich currently serves as President of the Committee of 100 for Tibet.
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Thomas A. Nazario teaches law at the University of San Francisco School of Law and is an expert on the rights of children. He has also worked for the US State Department, the United Nations and the Tibet Justice Center, and was a contributing researcher on a report to the UN entitled A Generation in Peril, the Lives of Tibetan Children under Chinese Rule. More recently, he has been instrumental in developing programs that serve Tibetan refugee children in Dharamsala, India, and helped to facilitate a visit to the University of San Francisco by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Jim Schuyler is CEO of Red7 Communications, which provides technology strategy, business systems and knowledge management services to startup companies. He was recently the VP Internet Technology for LeapFrog Enterprises, and VP Distance Learning Systems for Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio. He has founded or helped to start a number of companies, including DesignWare, Britannica Software, T/Maker's Electronic Direct division and WICAT Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University.
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Randy Taran founded Spring Communications in 1993 to develop and produce youth-oriented television and film programming. Her most recent venture is SpringBoard to Peace, a non-profit organization that develops peace-related projects in collaboration with other groups, including The Dalai Lama Foundation and Roots & Shoots. Recent projects include The Peace Wall and the film Focused on Peace. Randy received her MBA from New York University in Marketing & International Business.
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Tenzin Tethong is the founder of key Tibet initiatives in the U.S. including the Tibet Fund, Tibet House-New York, and the International Campaign for Tibet. He is a former Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in New York and Washington, D.C., and former Chairman of the Kashag, the Tibetan Cabinet. Mr. Tethong currently serves as Chairman of the Committee of 100 for Tibet and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He is also President of The Dalai Lama Foundation.
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Thomas Thorning has over 25 years of experience in management, business development, and community activism. He was the co-founder of R&T Marketing, a successful coin-operated toy business. Mr. Thorning holds a bachelor’s degree from Wabash College, and has completed graduate classes in Buddhist studies at the Naropa Institute and the University of Wisconsin. He serves on the board of Vajrapani Institute, a Tibetan Buddhist center in Boulder Creek, California.
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Tom Trabin is Executive Director of the Software and Technology Vendors’ Association whose member companies provide information technology to behavioral health and human service organizations. He consults to federal and state governments on mental health policy and standards, has over sixty professional publications, and maintains a small clinical practice. He earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Counseling Psychology at U. Minnesota, an M.S. in Management at Stanford University Business School, and an M.A. in Philosophy at Delhi University. Tom has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism for over thirty five years.
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