THE BOARD

Cole Wilbur is a Trustee and former President of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He was the CEO of this Foundation for 23 years. Prior to that, he served as executive director and CEO of the Sierra Club Foundation. He was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foundations (1999-2000), and in 1999 received the Distinguished Grantmaker Award from the Council on Foundations. Cole was the Interim President and CEO of the Council on Foundations in 2005.

He currently serves on the boards of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Colorado College, the Institute for Global Ethics, Planned Parenthood Mar Monte, the NARAL Foundation and Philanthropic Ventures Foundation; and on the advisory boards of the Sierra Club Foundation, the Entrepreneurs Foundation, and the American Land Conservancy. His past board affiliations include the Council on Foundations, the Foundation Center, Northern California Grantmakers, Peninsula Grantmakers, the Global Fund for Women, the Peninsula Conservation Center, and the University of San Francisco Institute for Nonprofit Management. Cole received both his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford University.