Board & Advisors

Our Board of Directors

June Sugiyama

June has been in corporate philanthropy sector for over 24 years specializing in identifying the power of technology for social good. She’s led the Foundation’s transition towards Empowering Women and Girls through Technology, aligning programs with Vodafone’s expertise in technology & innovation. She also created the Foundation’s Wireless Innovation Project, a competition designed to seek the best wireless technology to address critical global issues. The program identified 30 entrepreneurs who are impacting over 65 Million lives, addressing poverty, health, environment, disaster relief and technology access. Since then, the program has transitioned to a partnership with MIT Solve.

June served on boards and in advisory capacities for several foundation and nonprofit organizations, most notably on the Advisory Committee of the Vodafone Group Foundation & United Nations Foundation Technology Partnership’s M Health Alliance, and Foundation Center.

Terry Nathan

Terry Nathan has co-founded and participated in early-stage start-ups in both the software and learning spaces. From 2004-2018, he was president of IYRS School of Technology & Trades, an industrial arts, post-secondary school for makers and builders. Prior to IYRS, he co-founded and served in executive positions for two software companies - one in the publishing industry; the other related to digital asset and content management systems. During this period in the 1980s-90s, he worked with both start-up publications and many of the largest publishers, including McGraw-Hill, Reed Elsevier, Forbes Media, Transcontinental Media, Condé Nast, and Hachette Publications.

He has a BA in humanities from Shimer College, formerly part of The University of Chicago, and a MFA in literature and writing from the University of Montana’s Writer’s Workshop.

Marito Garcia, Ph.D.

Marito Garcia currently serves as Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at Center for Global Initiatives at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, USA. He is also adviser to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank in education technology and online learning, and digital credentialing employing blockchain technology. As a former World Bank Sector Manager for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean Region, he was responsible for a $2.8 billion portfolio of education programs in 32 countries, covering K-12 education, skills and workforce development, and higher education. In addition, he spearheaded program innovations in skills and workforce development as Lead Economist and Manager for the New Economy Skills for Africa Program, which introduced online learning and MOOCs for training, business process outsourcing (BPOs) and online outsourcing.

Marito is author of several books in consumer economics, conditional cash transfers, and education technology. He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and completed an Executive Program at the Harvard Business School.

Nathan Gloier

Nathan Gloier is Chief Information Officer at Crescent Bank, a regional bank where he is focused on modernization and building a growth foundation. Previously, he was a Group Vice President and technology leader at CBRE, led technology product teams at Capital One, consulted for Fortune 500 companies and built software and product strategy for several early stage startups in Southern California.

Nathan has an MBA with emphasis in Finance from San Diego State University and a BS in Cognitive Science with specialization in Computation from the University of California, San Diego. At UC San Diego, he was involved with the Interactive Cognition Lab and the lab's research of Online Learning delivery.

Sarah Loos

Sarah Loos is a software engineer at Google Research who has worked on logical analysis and formal verification of distributed hybrid systems, and deep learning for theorem proving. She completed a Ph.D. in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, creating differential Refinement Logic for comparing and verifying hybrid systems. During her time at CMU, Sarah was a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Sarah has previously served on the board of trustees and board of advisors for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.