Department: Board

Liz Simons is chair of the board of the Heising-Simons Foundation. A former teacher, Liz worked in Spanish-bilingual and English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms, and subsequently founded Stretch to Kindergarten, a spring-summer early childhood education program. She currently serves as chair of the board of The Marshall Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization …

Caitlin Heising is vice chair of the Heising‐Simons Foundation, a family foundation based in Los Altos and San Francisco, California. She received a Master of Public Administration at the London School of Economics (LSE) with a focus on social impact, graduating with distinction in 2020. Previously, she worked with Article 3 Advisors, a human rights and …

Mark Heising is vice chair of the board of the Heising-Simons Foundation. Mark established Medley Partners in 2004, a firm specializing in private market investments. Before that, he founded VLSI Cores, a company focused on the design and licensing of cryptographic integrated circuits. He is named in six U.S. Patents in cryptography, data compression and …