Kathryn A. Hall, Founder, Co-Chair
Kathryn Hall is Founder and Co-Chair of Hall
Capital Partners LLC, and she is a member of the firm's Executive Committee and Investment Review Committee.
Before founding the firm in 1994, Ms. Hall was a General Partner of Laurel Arbitrage Partners, a risk
arbitrage investment partnership that she founded in 1989. Prior to that, she was a General Partner of HFS
Management Partners (predecessor to Farallon Capital Partners), HFS Partners I, and Hellman & Friedman. Ms.
Hall began her career at Morgan Stanley where she worked in both the risk arbitrage and mergers and
acquisitions departments.
Currently, Ms. Hall serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Additionally, she serves on the Board of Trustees and is Chair of the Investment Committee of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). Ms. Hall is a member of the Board of Directors of the UCSF
Foundation, is Chair of the Board of Directors of the UCSF Foundation Investment Company, and is Chair of
the Investment Committee and a member of the Finance Committee of the Smithsonian Institution. Ms. Hall also
serves on the Board of Directors of the McEvoy Group, the San Jose Earthquakes, Ariat International, Cohn
Robbins Holdings Corporation, and is Co-Executive Chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions LLC.
Ms. Hall served as the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University from 2011 to 2019, and as a
trustee from 2001-2005 and 2006-2019. She also served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the
Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO) from 2008 to 2011 and as a director from 1998 to 2011.
Additionally, Ms. Hall previously served as a member of the Federal Reserve Bank's 12th District Economic
Advisory Council. Ms. Hall has also served on the boards of a number of civic and educational organizations
in the Bay Area throughout her career.
Ms. Hall graduated cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Economics and earned an
M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Fred Cohen, M.D., D.Phil
Dr. Cohen is the co-founder and Chairman of Monograph Capital Partners, a pan-Atlantic life sciences
investor. He is also a senior managing director and co-founder of Vida Ventures, a life sciences venture
capital group and serves as a senior adviser to TPG where he was a partner for many years. Previously he was
a professor in the departments of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, Medicine, and Biochemistry and
Biophysics at UCSF. He served as chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism and directed an
active research program in the areas of prion biology, structure-based drug design, bioinformatics, and
heteropolymer chemistry. Dr. Cohen is a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and the American College of Physicians. He received numerous awards and honors, including
the Burroughs-Wellcome New Initiatives in Malaria Research Award, the LVMH Science Pour L'Art Prize (shared
with Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, MD), a Searle Scholars Award, and Young Investigator awards from the
European Society of Endocrinology and the Western Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Cohen graduated
magna cum laude from Yale University and earned a doctorate in Molecular Biophysics from Oxford University
and his medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine
and endocrinology training at UCSF. He serves on the boards of CareDx, Intellia, Progyny and UroGen, as well
as several privately held life sciences companies.
Melinda Ellis Evers
Ms. Evers is a Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Ellis Partners, one of the leading commercial real
estate developers and investors in the San FranciscoBay Area. Ms. Evers’ primary responsibilities are to
formulate and oversee company strategy and operations as well as lead capital raising for the firm. Melinda
started her real estate career with A.R. Jarvis & Company, a regional mortgage brokerage firm and spent
seven years in acquisitions and portfolio management with Grubb & Ellis Realty Advisers.
Ms. Evers holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A.
from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is a Member of Lambda Alpha, the Urban Land Institute,
the Stanford Professionals in Real Estate, and the Policy Advisory Board of the Fisher Center for Real
Estate and Urban Economics. Ms. Evers is a guest lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and
the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and serves as a mentor to young women across the industry. Ms.
Evers’ past board affiliations include The Foundation for San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage, Bay Area
Mortgage Association, Homeless Prenatal Program, San Francisco Day School and Safe and Sound. She is
currently a board member of The UCSF Foundation Investment Company.
Cheryl E. Frank
Cheryl E. Frank is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. She has 23 years of investment experience
and has been with Capital Group for 20 years. Earlier in her career at Capital, as an equity investment
analyst, she covered health care services and software companies in both the U.S. and Europe. Prior to
joining Capital, she was a fixed income derivatives marketing associate at J.P. Morgan. She holds an MBA and
a certificate in global management and public management from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a
bachelor’s degree in environmental science and public policy from Harvard College graduating cum laude.
Sameer Gandhi
Sameer Gandhi joined Accel in 2008 and focuses on consumer, cloud/SaaS, and media companies. He is
responsible for Accel's investments in Aura, Bonobos (acquired by Walmart), CrowdStrike (CRWD),
DecisionLink, Diapers.com (acquired by Amazon), DJI, Donut, Dropbox (DBX), Dropcam (acquired by Google),
Eagle Eye Networks, Fictiv, Flipkart (acquired by Walmart), Freshworks (FRSH), Jet (acquired by Walmart),
Orum, Plex (acquired by Rockwell Automation), Public, Sonatype (acquired by Vista), Spotify (SPOT), Venmo
(acquired by Braintree/PayPal), Wonder Group, and World View Enterprises. Sameer is from Maryland and
graduated from MIT and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
David Harkins
Mr. Harkins joined the UCSF Foundation Investment Company in 2015 as the founding president and chief
investment officer. Previously, he oversaw equity and fixed-income investments as managing director of
public markets for the University of Pennsylvania endowment. Before that, he served as vice president and
head of equities at ICMA-RC, managing the Vantagepoint Equity Funds, and also was an analyst at Montgomery
Asset Management in San Francisco. He also was a Teach for America corps member in New Orleans. Mr. Harkins
is a CFA charter holder and earned his bachelor's and MBA degrees from the University of Colorado.
Adrianna C. Ma
Adrianna C. Ma is the Operating Partner of Index Ventures, a global venture capital firm with investment
offices in London and San Francisco. Previously, Ms. Ma was a managing partner of Fremont Group, a
single-family investment firm, where she spent four years overseeing a portfolio that consisted of actively
managed funds as well as directly owned public and private securities. She chaired the investment committee
and also assisted with Fremont’s direct private equity investments. Prior to joining Fremont Group, Ms. Ma
was a managing director of General Atlantic, where she spent ten years investing in and serving on the
boards of directors of technology-enabled growth companies globally. Before joining General Atlantic, she
was an investment banker for five years in Morgan Stanley’s Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructuring
Department. Previously, she was a project manager at the network server division of Hewlett-Packard Company.
Adrianna is a director of Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT). She also serves on the boards of the MIT
Investment Management Company and the UCSF Foundation Investment Company. She serves on a visiting committee
of the MIT Corporation and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Ma received a BS in
electrical science and engineering, and an ME in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT. She
also received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Kanyi Maqubela
Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm
investing in high-technology companies. He focuses his investment and formation work in enterprise software,
financial technology, digital health,
and new materials. Over the course his career in venture, he has led and participated in four dozen
investments including Cloudtrucks, Impossible Foods, Goldfinch, Tala, Upstart (UPST), reddit, Just,
Outschool, Mural, Earnest (NAVI), Kano (Stem Player), Hellosign and more. He previously served as a Partner
at Collaborative Fund, where he served on boards including Spruce (ZG), True Link, Camino Financial,
Hopscotch, and Buffer. Kanyi is a co-founder at Heartbeat Health, a leading virtual cardiac services
platform, and early in his career before venture ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by NRG) and
was an early employee at Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). Kanyi has also served as a Lecturer and
Adjunct at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, a curriculum adapted from his time as an
undergraduate at Stanford University, where he studied Philosophy.
Ian McKinnon
Ian McKinnon is the Founding Partner of Sandia Holdings, LLC (“Sandia”), the primary investment vehicle for
his family and related entities. Prior to starting Sandia, Mr. McKinnon was a managing partner of Ziff
Brothers Investments. Mr. McKinnon earned his bachelor’s degree in public policy summa cum laude from
Occidental College and his Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School as a Baker
Scholar. Mr. McKinnon is also a founding partner of the sports and entertainment company TEAM8, a principal
owner of the Venezia Football Club of Italy’s Serie B league, and a founding partner of the New Mexico
United pro soccer team of the USL Championship league.
Andrew (Andy) Ach
Mr. Ach is a founding partner at Norcross Hill & Ach and was previously the Chair of the UCSF Foundation
Board of Directors.
Ann Barber
Ms. Barber is a managing director at Hall Capital Partners LLC.
Bill Bowes
The late Mr. Bowes was a philanthropist and founder of US Venture Partners.
Robert Burke
Mr. Burke is the co-founder of three real estate firms including AMB Property (predecessor to Prologis).
Recipient of the UCSF Medal for his leadership role in acquiring the Mission Bay campus site.
Dipanjan (DJ) Deb
Dipanjan “DJ” Deb is a co-founder and the CEO of Francisco Partners
Philip Hammarskjold
Mr. Hammarskjold is Executive Chairman of Hellman & Friedman.
Steve Monosson
Mr. Monosson was previously a partner at Osterweis Capital Management.
William E. Oberndorf
Mr. Oberndorf is the founder of Oberndorf Enterprises, was a co-founder of SPO Partners, and was previously
the Chair of the UCSF Foundation Board of Directors.
Robert Rosner
Mr. Rosner is founder, managing member, and portfolio manager of Buena Vista Fund Management.