Trustees

Board of Trustees Back row, left to right: Uri Treisman (senior advisor), Bob Schwartz, Phil Daro, Penny Noyce, Alan Friedman
Front row, left to right: Lester Strong, Ann Bowers, Ron Ottinger

Ann S. Bowers
Ann S. Bowers is the Chair of the Board and the founding Trustee of the Noyce Foundation, which is focused on  improving math and science instruction and learning in public schools.  Previously, her career was in human resource management in California's Silicon Valley.  She was the first Director of Personnel for Intel Corporation and the first Vice President of Human Resources for Apple Computer.  In both of these high-growth start-up companies and in her consulting practice, she created and implemented the worldwide human resources policies and practices that fostered the growth of organizational excellence.

Currently, Ann is the Chair of the Board of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, and board member of Civic Ventures and Music@Menlo.  She is a Trustee Emerita and Presidential Councillor at Cornell University.  She received a B. A. from Cornell University and an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Santa Clara.

Pendred Noyce, M.D.
Pendred Noyce was Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Massachusetts State Systemic Initiative Program and of PALMS, a $16 million NSF-funded State Systemic Initiative to improve mathematics, science, and technology education in Massachusetts. Currently, Penny chairs the board of the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy in Massachusetts. She also serves on the boards of the Concord Consortium, the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications (COMAP), and TERC, all in Massachusetts, as well as the Libra Foundation of Portland, Maine. She has been a Trustee of the Noyce Foundation since its inception in 1990.

Robert Schwartz
Robert Schwartz is Academic Dean and Bloomberg Professor of Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the former President of Achieve, Inc. and education program director of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Earlier in his career Bob was a high school English teacher and principal, an education advisor to the Mayor of Boston and the Governor of Massachusetts, an assistant director of the National Institute of Education, and Executive Director of The Boston Compact. He co-chairs The Aspen Institute’s Education and Society Program and serves on the boards of The Education Trust and the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy. Bob has been a Trustee of the Noyce Foundation since 2004.

Alan J. Friedman
Alan J. Friedman is a consultant in museum development and science communication. For 22 years he served as Director of the New York Hall of Science, New York City's public science-technology center. Under his leadership the Hall won special recognition for encouraging new technologies, creating new models for teacher training, serving an extraordinarily diverse audience, and evaluating the effectiveness of informal science learning. The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognized Dr. Friedman with its Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology for 1996-97. He is the recipient of the Association of Science-Technology Centers' Fellow Award and the American Institute of Physics’ Andrew Gemant Award. Before serving at the New York Hall of Science Alan worked at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, and the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley. Alan became a Trustee of the Noyce Foundation in 2007.

Lester Strong
Lester Strong is the CEO of Experience Corps, which helps elementary school students who are struggling in reading by recruiting people 55 and over to tutor and mentor them. Currently Experience Corps is serving more than 20,000 children in 22 states across America.  For more than ten years Lester has been a leader in educational entrepreneurship and development. He recently served as the Chief Development Officer for the BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life) Foundation, which provides tutoring and mentoring services to 12,000 underserved children.  His efforts doubled the foundation's endowment and propelled expansion from three to five cities: Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, New York and Springfield, MA.  A long-time proponent and practitioner of meditation, Lester was also CEO of the SYDA Foundation, an educational organization that provides instruction in yoga and meditation in 46 countries. Lester spent 25-years in the television industry as an executive, producer, reporter and anchor in Charlotte (WBTV), Atlanta (WSB), New York (ABC Entertainment) and Boston (WHDH).  His work earned him a host of national and regional awards, including five regional Emmy Awards and a White House commendation from President Ronald Reagan.  Lester also serves as a member of the Board of Visitors at Davidson College.  He holds a bachelor's degree from Davidson College and is a graduate of the Columbia Business School's Institute for Non-Profit Management as well as receiving an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Endicott College.  He became a Trustee of the Noyce Foundation in 2010.

Philip Uri Treisman (senior advisor)
Uri Treisman is professor of mathematics and of public affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the founder and executive director of the University's Charles A. Dana Center, an organized research unit of the College of Natural Sciences. Uri serves on the Carnegie–Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics & Science Education, launched in 2007. He also serves on the Leadership Team of the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP), chair of the design teams of two SERP laboratories. Uri is a founder and chair of the steering committee of the Urban Mathematics Leadership Network. Among numerous other awards received throughout his career, Uri was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992 and later "2006 Scientist of the Year" by the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University for his outstanding contributions to mathematics. Uri received a B.S. (summa cum laude) in Mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles and received his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. Uri has been a consultant to the Noyce Foundation since 2002.

Phil Daro (Emeritus)
Phil Daro is the Senior Fellow for Mathematics of America’s Choice and a co-director of Tools for Change at the University of California at Berkeley. He previously served as Executive Director of The Public Forum on School Accountability, as well as directed the New Standards Project (leader in standards and standards-based test development) and Research and Development for the National Center for Education and the Economy (NCEE). He also directed large-scale teacher professional development programs for the University of California including the California Mathematics Project and the American Mathematics Project, and has held leadership positions within the California Department of Education.