Board of Trustees
As a private corporation, USC is governed by a board of trustees which has approximately 55 voting members. The board is a self-perpetuating body, electing one-fifth of its members each year for a five-year term of office.
Voting Members
Wallis Annenberg
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Annenberg Foundation
Wanda M. Austin
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Aerospace Corporation
Lisa Barkett
Attorney and Community Leader
Thomas J. Barrack Jr.
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Colony Capital, LLC
Marc Benioff
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, salesforce.com
Joseph M. Boskovich Sr.
Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Old West Investment Management, LLC
Gregory P. Brakovich
Managing Partner, Crossroads Capital Group, LLC
Rick J. Caruso
President and Chief Executive Officer, Caruso Affiliated
Alan I. Casden
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Casden Property Company LP
Ronnie C. Chan
Chairman, Hang Lung Group Limited and Hang Lung Properties Limited
Yang Ho Cho
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Korean Air
Christopher Cox
President, Bingham Consulting, LLC, and Partner, Bingham McCutchen, LLP
Frank H. Cruz
President, Cruz & Associates
Richard DeBeikes Jr.
President, DeBeikes Investment Company
David H. Dornsife
Chairman of the Board, The Herrick Corporation
Michele Dedeaux Engemann
Community Leader
Daniel J. Epstein
Chairman and Founder, The ConAm Group
Frank J. Fertitta III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Station Casinos
Carol Campbell Fox
Education Consultant
Chengyu Fu
Chairman, Sinopec Corporation
Stanley P. Gold
President and Chief Executive Officer, Shamrock Holdings, Inc.
Tamara Hughes Gustavson
Partner, American Commercial Equities
Jane Harman
Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ming Hsieh
Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman, Cogent, Inc.
Ray R. Irani
Executive Chairman, Occidental Petroleum Corporation
Suzanne Nora Johnson
Former Vice Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Lydia H. Kennard
Chairman, KDG Development & Construction Consulting
Kenneth R. Klein
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Wind River Systems, Inc.
John Kusmiersky
President, The Brickstone Companies
Daniel D. Lane
Chairman, Lane/Kuhn Pacific, Inc.
Mónica C. Lozano
Chief Executive Officer, impreMedia, and Publisher and Chief Executive Officer, La Opinión
John C. Martin
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Kathleen L. McCarthy
Chairperson, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation
Jamie McCourt
Founder, Jamie Enterprises, and Former President, CEO and Co-Owner, Los Angeles Dodgers
John Mork
Chief Executive Officer, Energy Corporation of America
Jerry W. Neely
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Smith International, Inc.
C. L. Max Nikias
President, University of Southern California
Robert Padgett
Emergency Physician (Retired)
Jane Hoffman Popovich
Chairman, Hoffman Properties
Blake Quinn
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Quinn Group, Inc.
Lorna Y. Reed
Community Leader
Edward P. Roski Jr. (Chairman)
President and Chairman of the Board, Majestic Realty Company
Barbara J. Rossier
President, Rossier Educational & Mental Health Enterprises, Inc.
Leonard D. Schaeffer
Founding Chairman and CEO, WellPoint, Inc.
William J. Schoen
Chairman of the Board, Health Management Associates, Inc.
William E. B. Siart
Chairman, ExED
Robert H. Smith
Robert H. Smith Investments and Consulting
Jeffrey H. Smulyan
Chairman of the Board, Emmis Communications
Steven Spielberg
Principal Partner, DreamWorks SKG
Mark A. Stevens
Managing Partner, S-Cubed Capital
Special Limited Partner and Former Managing Partner, Sequoia Capital
Ronald D. Sugar
Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Ratan N. Tata
Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons, Tata Industries, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals
Daniel M. Tsai
Chairman, Fubon Financial
Ronald N. Tutor
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tutor Perini Corporation
Andrew J. Viterbi
President, Viterbi Group, LLC
Willis B. Wood Jr.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Pacific Enterprises
Life Trustees
Malcolm R. Currie
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), Hughes Aircraft Company
Gavin S. Herbert
Chairman Emeritus, Allergan Inc.
B. Wayne Hughes Sr.
Chairman, Public Storage, Inc.
Glorya Kaufman
Founder, The Glorya Kaufman Dance Foundation
John F. King
President and Chief Executive Officer (Retired), The Weingart Center
William Lyon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, William Lyon Homes
Alfred E. Mann
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Advanced Bionics Corporation
Gordon S. Marshall
Chairman of the Board (Retired), Marshall Industries
Harlyne Norris
Trustee, Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Toshiaki Ogasawara
Chairman and Publisher, The Japan Times
J. Douglas Pardee
Chairman of the Board Emeritus, Pardee Construction Company
Joan A. Payden
President and Chief Executive Officer, Payden & Rygel
Frank Price
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Price Entertainment, Inc.
Allen E. Puckett
Chairman Emeritus, Hughes Aircraft Company
Bruce M. Ramer
Partner, Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown
Steven B. Sample
President Emeritus, University of Southern California
Richard J. Stegemeier
Chairman Emeritus, Unocal Corporation
Peter V. Ueberroth
Contrarian Group, Inc.
Gin D. Wong
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gin Wong Associates
Honorary Trustees
Verna B. Dauterive
Helene Galen
Merwyn C. Gill