Advisory Board

H. Michael “Mike” Williams, ’82 Economics

Former Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, University of California, Berkeley

Mike Williams was director of Intercollegiate Athletics at Berkeley from 2014 to 2018, overseeing $1 billion in sports facilities and the 1,200 members of the Cal Athletics community that includes coaches, staff, and student athletes. During Mr. Williams’s tenure as director, Cal won 11 team national championships and 21 Olympic medals. He began his career at Data Resources and also worked at Bank of America. He joined Barclays Global Investors in 1993 and left the company in 2009 as vice chair of capital markets. Mr. Williams is a former UC Berkeley Foundation trustee and...

Natasha C. Wong, ’97 Political Science

Vice President, Avery-Tsui Foundation

Natasha Wong began her career in San Diego as the executive director of the Chinese Service Center. Under her leadership, the center provided social services ranging from job referrals to free financial literacy courses to low-income Chinese. She helped implement the first IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program for the mono-lingual Chinese community and ensured that hundreds of Chinese restaurant workers earned food sanitation training from the San Diego Health Department. Ms. Wong was also the principal of the Chinese School of San Diego, the city’s oldest private...

Po Chi Wu, ’66 Math & Music

Co-Founder, Futurelab Consulting

Po Chi Wu is an Innovation Evangelist and an Investor in Human Capital. He is an active Advisor at SkyDeck, the incubator/accelerator program at UC Berkeley and advises several startups around the world. His passion for making a difference has grown over several decades of experience as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and educator in Silicon Valley and in Greater China, most recently as an adjunct professor teaching entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and at UC Berkeley. He is a co-founder of Futurelab Consulting, which focuses on new technologies, including artificial...

Laura W. Young, ’84 History; J.D. ’87

Managing Partner, Wang & Wang

Ms. Young is a partner in the US-China law firm of Wang & Wang. She received her B.A. and JD from UC Berkeley. She serves as Vice Chair of the UC Berkeley Foundation Board of Trustees. She serves on the Rausser College and University Library Advisory Boards and is Chair Emerita of the Hearst Museum Advisory Board. She is a director of the Wang Family Foundation, Secretary General of the International Association of Law Schools, Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Kozminsky University Law School, in Warsaw, Poland, and a Board member of the Museum Trustees Association. She...