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ING BOARD OF TRUSTEES Board Co-Chairmen: Javed Patel, Sr. Vice President, General Manager, Datacom Javed Patel serves as Semtech's Sr. Vice President, General Manager-Transport/Datacom Business Unit. This business unit was formed following the acquisition of Sierra Monolithics, Inc. by Semtech Corporation. Prior to that Mr. Patel was President and CEO of Sierra Monolithics since October, 2006. Before joining Sierra Monolithics, Javed spent several years in senior management positions at Quake Technologies, ANADIGICS, Tropian, and WJ Communications addressing wireless handset and infrastructure markets, as well as optical communication and CATV markets. Mr. Patel holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the University of Kansas and an MBA degree from Drexel University. Javed has a keen interest in interfaith dialog and charitable causes focused on education and development of underprivileged children. Javed is married with two children. Randy Pond, Executive Vice President, Cisco Systems, Inc. Randy oversees Cisco organizations of Corporate Quality, Customer Service & Operational Systems, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal Affairs, and Worldwide Manufacturing. He also chairs the Business Process Operations Council and Business Oversight Board, two strategic executive councils within Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, Randy was vice president of finance, chief financial officer, and vice president of Operations at Crescendo Communications. He has also held various finance and operations positions at Versatec, David Systems, Xerox Corporation, Schlumberger, and Arthur Andersen. Randy is the board president for the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and economics from Ball State University in Indiana. Learn more about Randy Pond. Board Officers: Maha ElGenaidi, Founder & Chief Executive officer, ING Board President. Maha is the founder of ING and author of training handbooks on outreach for American Muslims as well as training seminars for public institutions on developing cultural competency with the American Muslim community. Recently named by the San Jose Business Journal as one of Silicon Valley's 2010 Women of Influence, Maha is active with many state and federal government agencies and was a former commissioner on Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante's Commission for One California as well as the Santa Clara County Human Relations Commission. She currently serves on the California Three Rs Advisory Committee and is an Advisor to California's Commission on Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) for cultural diversity and hate crime prevention. Maha has been recognized with numerous civil rights awards, including the "Civil Rights Leadership Award" from the California Association of Human Relations Organizations, and the "Citizen of the Year Award" from the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. She is pursuing a graduate degree in religious studies at Stanford University and received her bachelors degree in Political Science and Economics from the American University in Cairo. She is married and lives in Santa Clara, California. Arshia Baig, Senior Manager, SGI Board Treasurer & Finance Committee Chair. Arshia is a seasoned finance professional with ten years of experience in a variety of high growth companies including five years at a big four accounting firm. Arshia is currently a Senior Manager at SGI and is responsible for corporate governance and the Company’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings. She also recently completed overseeing the merger and integration of two public companies. Arshia has held management level positions at Visa and Comcast and began her career at KPMG in Toronto. She received her Honors Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada and is an active member of the Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco. Arshia is a California Certified Public Accountant as well as a Chartered Accountant with the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Arshia is married with two children. Yusuf Safdari, Senior Counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Board Secretary. Yusuf focuses on sophisticated corporate and securities matters for public and private companies, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, international transactions, strategic alliances, private equity investments, and venture capital investments. He has counseled many large U.S. public companies and financial institutions as well as foreign multinational companies on corporate structuring issues and securities compliance matters. In addition, Yusuf has extensive experience in representing technology and emerging growth companies at every stage of their lifecycle. During his career, he has represented many global corporations, including the Carlyle Group, Hewlett-Packard, General Dynamics, Sun Microsystems, Trimble Navigation, Harley-Davidson, Global Asset Capital and various investment banks. Yusuf has also represented many venture-backed companies including Opsware, Zenprise, WaferGen, XStor, GoFish, MatrixView, Vertical Systems, BL Healthcare and many others. With a special interest in India-based businesses, he has represented the Carlyle Group India Pvt. Ltd., Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd., Reliance Capital Ltd., Hindustan Lever, Sobha Renaissance Information Technologies, Navneet Publications among others. Yusuf is a Charter Member of the Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and has served as a guest lecturer at TiE and Stanford University Law School. He received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Members at Large: (Listed in alphabetical order) Rob Davis, Police Chief, City of San Jose, California Police Chief Davis is a 28-year veteran of the San Jose Police Department. He began as a Police Officer in 1980, promoted to Sergeant in 1989, Lieutenant in 1993, Captain in 1998, Deputy Chief in 2001, and Police Chief in 2004. In his various roles prior to becoming San Jose City’s 8th Police Chief, he managed the SJPD’s Bureau of Investigations, commanded the Violent Crimes Unit (Gang Unit), managed a variety of core functions for the San Jose Police Department from personnel to training functions, project managed the automation of the department’s information system, taught Professionalism and Ethics at the local Police Academy, taught Peace Officers Standards and Training [POST] to California POST Trainers, and consulted in Central America for the U.S. State Department. Learn more about Rob Davis. Jerry Doyle, Chief Executive Officer, EMQ Children and Family Services Jerry has worked with emotionally troubled youth for over 40 years, including more than 35 years at EMQ. His leadership has enabled the agency to grow from a small residential program to a full continuum of care that includes short and long-term residential treatment, short-term intensive day treatment, 24-hour crisis intervention, and many other comprehensive services. Jerry serves on numerous committees that help troubled youth, including the growing problem of child abuse and neglect. In his former role as president, he has led the direction of the California Council of Community Mental Health Agencies, the California Alliance of Child and Family Services Association, the Association of Mental Health Contract Agencies in Santa Clara County and the Association of United Way Agencies. Today, Jerry continues to be an active member on many of these associations' boards and Rotary International. In 2006, Jerry was awarded the Harold C. Piepenbrink Award for Excellence in Behavioral Healthcare Management by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare for his innovative work to help children, youth and families. He received his M.A. in Social Work from the University of California at Berkeley. Raghib Husain, Chief Technical Officer, Cavium Networks Board Development Committee Chair. Raghib has been in high-tech industry for about twenty years. He is one of the founders of Cavium Networks. Currently he is serving as Chief Technology Officer and Corporate Vice President of Software Engineering at Cavium Networks. Prior to Cavium Networks, Raghib has held senior technical roles at Cisco, a network equipment company and Cadence Design Systems, an EDA design services company. Prior to that, Raghib served at VPNet, an enterprise security company, of which he was a founding team member. At VPNet, he was a key contributor to the design of the first commercial IPSec based VPN (Virtual Private Network) gateway. Raghib has multiple patents issued and pending. Raghib also Chairs EEMBC Networking Benchmark Group; he is on the PACC board of trustees and an OPEN charter member. He received a BS degree in Computer Systems Engineering from NED University in Karachi, Pakistan, and an MS degree in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University. He is married with three children. Shazia Makhdumi, head of Market Development, Mamapedia Shazia has spent most of her career in the technology industry, as an investor, entrepreneur and intrapreneur. She is presently head of Market Development at Mamapedia, a premier online community for moms, where she is responsible for bringing compelling and relevant group deals to over 3.5 million moms. Most recently, she co-founded and was the CEO of ColorfulStories, a startup allowing users to quickly and easily create personalized books using a social media platform. Previously Shazia was a principal at Outlook Ventures, focused on sourcing, evaluating and negotiating early-stage consumer Internet deals. Her industry experience includes Netscape Communications / AOL where she was in charge of business development efforts for technology acquisition, licensing and partnerships, as well as product and partner marketing for the company’s e-commerce solutions. Shazia is also an advisor to a number of early stage startups. Shazia started her career as an equity analyst at Goldman Sachs, making investment recommendations on companies in the semiconductor industry. Additionally, she spent time as a circuit design engineer at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, where she completed her Master's thesis. Shazia holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Stanford. She enjoys living in San Francisco with her husband and two young sons. Yousuf Mazhar, Venture Capitalist, De Novo Ventures Yousuf is an investment professional with De Novo Ventures in Palo Alto, focused on medical device and biotechnology venture investing. Yousuf works closely with many portfolio companies on strategy and management and specializes in clinical areas of electro physiology, pulmonology, spinal orthopedics, wound care, and aesthetic dermatology. Yousuf began his career as an investment banker with the Fixed Income Derivatives group at UBS in New York and in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice with both H&Q and J.P. Morgan in San Francisco. Yousuf then worked at Kaiser Permanente in Competitive Intelligence which led him to co-develop the organization’s first internal M&A practice for hospital acquisitions. He also was a Manager with Kaiser Ventures leading investments in healthcare technologies. Prior to De Novo, Yousuf worked in Business Development with Tengion, a leading regenerative medicine company. He holds a Bachelors in Finance from the Wharton School, an MBA with Honors from the Wharton School, and a Master’s in Biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering. Yousuf is married with one child. Atif Rafiq, head of Yahoo! News, Product Marketing & Strategy Atif works for Yahoo!, where he's held leadership positions in Yahoo Local and Yahoo News. He is currently responsible for product marketing and strategy for Yahoo News on a global basis and previously held responsibility for monetization, business development and market strategy for Yahoo Local within the North America region. Previously, Atif was co-Founder and CEO of a venture-backed start-up, Covigna, where he raised over $10mm and managed a 30-person organization over several years. An early entrant to the web space, Atif joined AOL in 1996 as a founding member of its corporate strategy and business development team. He's also worked at Audible (now Amazon) and Goldman Sachs, where he was a financial analyst. He is the co-Founder of Help over Twitter, www.helpOT.com, a social good initiative that allows local businesses to share information about causes they support using social media, and is the author of Speed Media Blog, www.speedmediablog.com. Atif received an MBA from the University of Chicago and completed his undergraduate from Wesleyan University with a major in mathematics-economics. He resides in the Bay area with his wife and three children Members at Large - Scholars (Listed in alphabetical order) Imam Tahir Anwar South Bay Islamic Association Imam Tahir Anwar is an American Muslim Imam (religious leader) who has been around Imams since the day he was born. Namely his father and grandfather (his first teachers), and his two brothers, who are also both Imams in California. Born in London, Imam Tahir moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1983 and made San Jose his home. Upon completing his religious studies in India, he has been serving as the Imam of one of the oldest mosques in the country, the Islamic Center of San Jose, since 2001. He is also the head of the Islamic Studies Department, and a teacher at Granada Islamic School in nearby Santa Clara, an institution in its 26th year. After serving on the Human Rights Commission for the City of San Jose for over 5 years, Imam Tahir now serves on the Human Relations Commission for the County of Santa Clara. He also sits on Zaytuna College’s Management Committee as well as other panels and boards. Imam Tahir has been leading a group to perform Hajj for several years, with CNN twice covering this pilgrimage. He currently resides in San Jose, California with his wife and two sons. Shahzad Bashir, PhD Stanford University Dr. Bashir is Associate Professor, Graduate Director and head of the Abbasi Islamic Studies Program at Stanford University. He specializes in Islamic Studies with primary interests in Sufism, Shi'ism, and the intellectual and social history of Persianate Islamic societies (Iran and Central and Southern Asia). He is the author of Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: the Nurbakhsiya Between Medieval and Modern Islam and Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis. He has recently finished a book project entitled Bodies of God's Friends: Sufis in Persianate Islamic Societies and is currently working on a comparative study of Persian historical and hagiographic narratives from the late medieval to early modern period. Imam Alaeddin El-Bakri Saratoga Islamic Center Imam Alaeddin El-Bakri began his study of Islam at a young age in North Africa and continued his education in the Islamic sciences in Jordan, learning from predominant scholars in the Muslim world. He has served the Muslim community in the United States in numerous capacities, serving as Imam at several Islamic centers and helping to establish full-time and weekend Islamic schools. He has also served as founding board member of IMAN (Inner City Muslim Action Network) in Chicago, as a book editor for IQRA and also as an advisory board member in many Islamic organizations. Having been trained in both the Islamic sciences and secular education, Imam Alaeddin has the ability to appeal to various audiences and his main focus is in helping Muslims develop a deep understanding of the self, life and faith. He currently serves as Imam at the Saratoga mosque in California. Sister Marianne Farina, PhD Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology Marianne Farina, CSC, Ph.D. is a religious sister of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Notre Dame, Indiana. She is an assistant professor at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California. Sister Marianne teaches courses that focus on subjects such as Social Ethics, Virtue, Sexual Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Islamic Philosophy, Human Rights, Faith Formation, and Muslim-Christian Dialogue. She received a Master of Arts in Pastoral Theology from Santa Clara University and a Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Boston College. Sister Marianne worked for 11 years in Bangladesh as a teacher, pastoral assistant and school supervisor. While in Bangladesh she ministered with Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Tribal families and communities. With more than 25 years of experience in education and pastoral ministry, Sister Marianne has worked in education and social development projects that promote social justice and interfaith dialogue. Over the last three years, she has traveled in Africa and Indonesia as a delegate and teacher covering topics such as "Religion and Democracy," "Methods for Cross-Cultural Understanding," "Interfaith Dialogue," and "Human Rights." Charles Haynes, PhD First Amendment Center Dr. Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum. He writes and speaks extensively on religious liberty and religion in American public life. Haynes is best known for his work on First Amendment issues in public schools. Over the past two decades, he has been the principal organizer and drafter of consensus guidelines on religious liberty in schools, endorsed by a broad range of religious and educational organizations. In January 2000, three of these guides were distributed by the U.S. Department of Education to every public school in the nation. (See also A Parent's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools, A Teacher's Guide to Religion in the Public Schools and Public Schools & Religious Communities.) Haynes is the author or co-author of six books, including First Freedoms: A Documentary History of First Amendment Rights in America (2006) and Religion in American Public Life. His column, Inside the First Amendment, appears in newspapers nationwide. He is a founding board member of the Character Education Partnership and serves on the steering committee of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools and the American Bar Association Advisory Commission on Public Education. He chairs the Committee on Religious Liberty of the National Council of Churches. Widely quoted in news magazines and major newspapers, Haynes is also a frequent guest on television and radio. He has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and on ABC’s "Evening News." In 2008 he received the Virginia First Freedom Award from the Council for America's First Freedom. Haynes holds a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate from Emory University. Reverend Andrew Kille, PhD Interfaith Space & Interfaith Center at the Presidio Andrew is the founder and director of Interfaith Space in San Jose, California, and also serves as Editor of Bay Area Interfaith Connect, the newsletter of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio in San Francisco. A graduate of Stanford University in English Literature, he attended seminary at the American Baptist Seminary of the West in Berkeley, California. He served on the staff of the Grace Baptist Church in San Jose, California for fifteen years, before returning to school. He received the first Ph.D. granted in psychological biblical criticism from the Graduate Theological Union. His interest in psychology and the Bible began during his years as a pastor and was nurtured through the work of Morton Kelsey, John Sanford, Elizabeth Howes and the Guild for Psychological Studies, and Carl Jung. He has contributed to several volumes of psychological biblical criticism, and is the author of Psychological Biblical Criticism (Fortress Press, 2001 ISBN 9780800632465) in the Guides to Biblical Scholarship series and co-editor with Wayne G. Rollins of Psychological Insight into the Bible: Texts and Readings (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2007 ISBN 9780802841551). Dr. Kille has served as both co-Chair and Chair of the Psychology and Biblical Studies Section of the Society of Biblical Literature. In 2007, he became the editor of The Bible Workbench, a study resource on the Bible rooted in a psychologically informed approach. Farid Senzai, PhD Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and Santa Clara University Farid Senzai is a Fellow and the Director of Research at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU). He is also an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at Santa Clara University. Senzai has been a research associate at the Brookings Institution, where he studied U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, and a research analyst at the Council on Foreign Relations, working on the Muslim Politics project. He served as a consultant for Oxford Analytica and the World Bank and is on the advisory board of The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. Senzai received his M.A. in international affairs from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in politics and international relations from Oxford University. Farid is married with one child. Imam Faheem Shuaibe Waritheen Islamic Center Imam Shuaibe serves the Oakland community in California and is an accomplished speaker, delivering lectures on many college and university campuses and participating on several television panels. He is also the author of many books as well as hundreds of recorded lectures. As a world traveler who has made hajj and umrah twice, Imam Shuaibe has participated in several international delegations on various educational, interfaith, and peace missions. These trips included visits to Saudi Arabia, Rome, Sudan, and Malaysia. Often cited by the media, Imam Shuaibe has been interviewed by the Muslim Journal, the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, the New York Times and many other media agencies including KPIX-TV where the Waritheen Mosque and Clara Mohammed School were featured in a weeklong special on Muslims. In recognition of Imam Shuaibe's insightful and compassionate leadership for over 20 years, he has received the keys to several cities across the country, the Phi Beta Sigma's Notable Citizen award, and special recognition from the Waritheen Mosque where he frequently hosts the radio and television programs. Other Links . . .  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