DCI Advisory Council
Stanford DCI’s Advisory Council consists of leaders from around the world who provide valuable guidance and input to the DCI leadership towards the continued improvement and sustainability of the program.
J. Taylor Crandall
Co-Chair,
Stanford DCI Advisory Council
Founder and Managing Partner, Oak Hill Capital Management
Menlo Park, CA
Isaac Stein
Co-Chair,
Stanford DCI Advisory Council
Emeritus Chair, Board of Trustees, Stanford University; Former founder and President of Waverley Associates, Inc.
DCI 2020
Atherton, CA
Amy Abrams
President, Abrams Foundation
DCI 2022
Brookline, MA
Mary Cranston
Chair Emeritus of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Currently Board Chair of Chemours, a global chemical
company, and a Director of TPG and GoHealth Urgent Care. Former Stanford Trustee. Former Chair of the Stanford Alumni Association. Former Chair of Packard Children’s Hospital Board.
DCI 2024
San Fransisco, CA
Mike Dorsey
Former investment banker and venture capitalist,
Current co-manager of InnovaDons for Impact and
ReacDon Global, sustainability investors
DCI 2018
Woodside, CA
Lofton Holder
Managing Partner Emeritus, Pine Street Alternative Asset Management Company
DCI 2020
Oakland, CA

Kim Parizeau
Former Chair, Middlebury College Board of Trustees
DCI 2018/19
Wellesley, MA
Anju Patwardhan
Director, Productive Longevity at NUS; Board Director
DCI 2017
Singapore
Laura Peterson
Former Vice President, China Business Development, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, The Boeing Company
DCI 2018/19
Seattle, WA
Elizabeth (Liz) Snowden
Co-Founder, Access Health/IAS; Former lecturer in Entrepreneurship, CU Boulder
DCI 2018
Boulder, CO
Warren “Ned” Spieker
Founder and Chairman of Continuing Life Communities
DCI 2016
Atherton, CA
Anna L. Waring
Consultant; Formerly Executive Director of The Foundation for a College Education (FCE)
DCI 2018/19
East Palo Alto, CA