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Dr.
Penny Patterson received her Ph.D. in Developmental
Psychology from Stanford University where, as a graduate
student in 1972, she began working with one-year-old
Koko, a western lowland gorilla, thus beginning the
longest ongoing interspecies communication study ever
undertaken. For 30 years, Dr. Patterson has worked with
Koko, who has advanced further with sign language than
any nonhuman. Able to reveal her thoughts and feelings
through the use of 1,000 gestural words, Koko provides
unique insight into the mind of a gorilla. |
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 Ronald
Cohn, PhD Treasurer of the Board Vice President and Photo-Documentarian, The Gorilla Foundation Dr. Ron Cohn has been with the project from its inception and shares Dr. Patterson's life-long commitment to the gorillas. Ron serves as an authority figure for Koko and his presence is an integral part of their daily routine. His award winning pictures and films of the gorillas have helped to make the Gorilla Foundation a well known organization around the world. Prior to co-founding TGF/Koko.org, Dr. Cohn received a PhD from the University of Illinois. He was a cell biologist at the Stanford Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics and did much of the initial ground breaking research in genetic engineering and membrane structure. He also discovered that adult cells make hyaluronic acid from glucosamine and led the way for glucosamine treatment for arthritis. |
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 Mary
C. Sanford Secretary of the Board Director Emeritus÷Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Ltd. Mrs. Mary C. Sanford (Maizie) comes from a family with a long-standing background in Maui agriculture. Her grandfather, H.A. Baldwin, was head of the Maui Agricultural Co. and descendant of Protestant missionaries from New England in 1830. Her father, J. Walter Cameron, was head of Maui Pineapple Co., Ltd. Maizie graduated from Dana Hall School in 1948, and Smith College in 1952. Maizie has served on the Board of Maui Land & Pineapple Co. for 25 years, and is currently Director Emeritus. Additional board service includes: Haleakala Ranch Co., and these non-profit organizations: J. Walter Cameron Center, Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, Hawaiian Mission Childrenâs Society, and the Gorilla Foundation. Currently Maizie writes two columns for the Maui Newsâ monthly employee newsletter and is also writing a bi-monthly column in the Maui News for its centennial year. The Maui News was a family-owned daily, founded in 1900. It was sold in February 2000 to Ogden Newspapers, West Virginia. Maizie has made possible the donation of 70 acres of land from Maui Land & Pineapple Co. for the Gorilla Foundation's Maui Ape Preserve (MAP). This gift is made in memory of her son, Allan G. Sanford, and the MAP Sanctuary is dedicated to Mr. Sanford. |
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 Vint Cerf Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Google Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. With his colleague, Robert Kahn, Cerf received the U.S. National Medal of Technology in 1997 for co-founding and developing the Internet. In 1994 and 1998 respectively, Kahn and Cerf were honored as Marconi Fellows. They received the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005 they received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2008 they received the Japan Prize. Vint Cerf served as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2000-2007 and is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from 18 universities. |
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 Avery
B. Chumbley Former Hawaii State Senator Senator Chumbley has been a State Senator since 1994, representing the 6th District, South and East Maui-North Shore Kauai. In the Senate, he has served as the Vice President of the Hawaii State Senate, 1999 to present; Co-Chair, Senate Judiciary Committee, 1996 to present; State House 1992 to 1994; appointed Commissioner & Hawaii Steering Committee Member, Education Commission of the States (ECS); Directorate of Public Policies, World Sustainable Agriculture (WSAA); appointed Maui Representative, Hawaii State Board of Agriculture; appointed Maui Historic Commission. He is also President of the Wailuku Agribusiness Co., Inc. & General Manager at the Maui Tropical Plantation. Averyâs community involvement includes: President, Maui County Fair Association; Board Member, Maui Economic Develo  pment
Board; Board Member, Maui Visitors Bureau; Board Member,
Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center; and Member, American
Cancer Society |
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 Michael
Douglas Founder, Preston Willis Goup; Former VP Global Marketing, Sun Microsystems Mike Douglas leads a company that provides strategic advisory services to B2B companies. He was previously with Sun Microsystems, Inc. from 1990 through 2010, where he held executive roles in marketing and sales operations, most recently serving as VP of Global Marketing. A transplanted Candian who moved to California in 1995, Mike held executive and VP positions with technology companies TRW, NBI and Teltone, and was Chairman of UNIX International Canada. A graduate of UWO and McMaster University with degrees in Biology and an MBA, Mike was a teaching faculty member of McMaster for two years. |
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 Betty White Ludden Actress and Animal Welfare Advocate Betty White, American actress, comedian, and former game show host, is known for her television roles on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls, and more recently on Boston Legal and Hot in Cleveland. Her career has spanned over 70 years, during which she has won seven Emmy Awards and received 20 Emmy nominations. She is also the first woman ever to receive an Emmy for game show hosting. She is recognized for her affiliation with animal charities such as "Actors and Others for Animals" and the Morris Animal Foundation. Koko and Ms. White have become good friends, mutual fans and powerful partners for helping the great apes. |
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 Peter
Roberts Vice President of Human Resources, Harbor Freight Tools Peter Roberts, previously Vice President of North American Human Resources for Pioneer Electronics and Vice President of International Human Resources for Office Depot and Viking International, has extensive experience in operations management and Human Resources in the corporate world. He has been in his present position since 2006 and is responsible for all Human Resources activities for Harbor Freight Tools, a national retailer with over three hundred (300) stores as well as catalog and e-commerce operations. |
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 Larry Tesler
Board' Finance Committee Head Consultant; Former VP Amazon.com; Former Chief Scientist Apple Computer Mr. Tesler's career history features management roles at world-class companies like Apple, Amazon.com and Yahoo!. Following his graduation from Stanford University in 1965, Tesler conducted research at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. During the seventies, he worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where he originated interaction techniques like cut, copy and paste that are now ubiquitous. From 1980-1997, he held various positions at Apple. From 1990-2004, he served on the Board of ARM, the company that designs the microprocessors powering most mobile electronic devices. Tesler first met Koko in 1989 after a group he headed at Apple developed a gorilla-proof Mac. |
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| Stewart Cheifet, Scientific , Former host of the award winning PBS series Computer Chronicles, Northern CA | ||
| Elizabeth S. Fry, Management Consultant, Nevada City, CA | ||
| Ruth B. Heller, Kentfield, CA | ||
| Barry Munitz, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| Michael Sack, Certified Public Accountant, San Francisco, CA | ||
| Phillip M. Shaw, Jr., Attorney at Law, San Francisco, CA | ||
| Jonathan Steel, Hampshire, England, Advertising Executive, formerly with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners | ||
| James R. Wheeler, Oceano, CA, Audio-Visual Media Expert | ||
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| Dr. H. S. Robert Glaser, Professor of Biology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany | ||
| Dr. Edward J. Maruska, Executive Director, Cincinnati Zoo | ||
| Dr. Peter G. Veit, Regional Director for Africa, Center for International Development and Environment, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C. | ||
| Dr. Richard Wrangham, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MS | ||
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