Board of Advisors
Mark Chandler
General Counsel, CISCO Systems, Inc
Mark Chandler is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Cisco Systems, where he manages a 170-member team of professionals; he has served in that role since 2001. Prior to that, he was Managing Attorney, Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in Paris. He was previously General Counsel of StrataCom, Inc., which Cisco acquired in July 1996, and was Vice President, Corporate Development and General Counsel of Maxtor Corporation, a Fortune 500 manufacturer of computer data storage devices, from 1988-1994. In 1985 and 1986 he participated in the Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program in Bonn and Munich, Germany.
Chandler is also member of the Board of Directors of Lytton Gardens Senior Communities in Palo Alto, California, the Board of Trustees of Belmont Hill School, Belmont, Massachusetts, the Board of Visitors of Stanford Law School and the Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. He previously served as Member and Chairman of the City of Palo Alto Planning Commission and as a Member of the City of Palo Alto Utilities Advisory Commission.
He received a BA in 1978 from Harvard College and a JD from Stanford Law School in 1981. He and his wife Chris Kenrick have three children, ages 21, 19 and 14, and live in Palo Alto, California
Robert Badal
Partner, Heller Ehrman LLP
Mr. Badal joined Heller Ehrman LLP as a partner in 2000 and has more than 30 years of trial experience in antitrust and intellectual property matters. He is a member of the law firm's Antitrust & Trade Regulation and Intellectual Property Practice Groups. Mr. Badal has represented clients in a variety of antitrust, trade regulation, intellectual property,unfair competition and § 17200 engagements, including litigation engagements involving allegations of illegal patent pools,tying arrangements in the patent context, price fixing, price discrimination, predatory pricing, anti-competitive mergers and acquisitions and monopolization and attempted monopolization under both state and federal statutes. Mr. Badal also has an active practice in antitrust counseling and risk avoidance and is extensively involved in the antitrust issues and problems arising from the enforcement of intellectual property rights,including those arising from the standard setting process.
In the technology area, Mr. Badal has been involved in antitrust and copyright/patent/antitrust litigations involving, among others, companies who manufacture or distribute computer chips, peripheral equipment, applications software, proprietary OS software, computer clearinghouse services, computerized point-of-sale equipment and chemical additives. Each of these matters involved the antitrust implications raised by enforcement of intellectual property rights.
Mr. Badal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 magna cum laude with a BA degree and graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1973 with a JD degree.
Roberta Katz
Associate VP Strategic Planning Stanford University and former General Counsel, Netscape Communications Corp.
Roberta R. Katz is an executive officer and director of the Charles and Roberta Katz Family Foundation. She previously was a founder and CEO of Flywheel Communications, a company specializing in the use of technology to manage rights-related transactions and dispute resolutions. Prior to joining Flywheel Communications, She was the President and CEO of the Technology Network (TechNet), a national, bipartisan political network of technology industry executives. At Netscape Communications Corporation, she served for four years as the Senior Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel.
Prior to Netscape, she was the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of McCaw Cellular Communications, now AT&T Wireless, and its subsidiary, LIN Broadcasting Corporation. She has worked as a lawyer in private practice, specializing in corporate law, and was a partner with the firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe in the firm's Seattle office.
Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Katz was a cultural anthropologist. She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, where she specialized in issues of social and cultural change. As a result of her continuing interests in the effects of technological and social change, she conducted a study, under the auspices of the Discovery Institute, of the effects of the Information Age on the American civil justice system. The results of her study were published in 1997 in a book entitled Justice Matters: Rescuing the Legal System for the 21st Century.
Ms. Katz is a member of several Boards of Directors and several Advisory Boards. She was named one of "The Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America" by the National Law Journal and one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers in California" by the Daily Journal, and she has been a frequent public speaker on Internet law and policy issues, legal system issues, social change issues, and technology-workplace issues.
Ms. Katz received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University, law degree from University of Washington Law School, and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is married and has two children.
John Seely Brown
Visiting Scholar USC Annenberg Center and former Director Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
John Seely Brown is currently a visiting scholar and advisor to the Provost at USC. He is also the independent co-chairman of Deloitte's Center for Edge Innovation. He was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002 and also the director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000-a position he held for twelve years. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) and NANO technology. His personal research interests include digital culture and rich media (both of which he pursues at USC), ubiquitous computing, web service architectures and organizational and individual learning. The recipient of honorary PhDs from Brown University, London Business School, Claremont Graduate School and University of Michigan. Dr. Seely Brown is the author of many influential publications on learning, including "Learning in the Digital Age" (2002) and "The Social Life of Learning: How can Continuing Education be Reconfigured in the Future" (2002) and Minds on Fire (2008).
