Co-founder and executive director of Proposition 71, California's $3B stem-cell initiative; CIRM chief of staff; Navigenics CBO; Vineti co-founder and CEO — and a friend of Hare's
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In Jonathan Hare's account (S-190). A friend: a former Stanford student who led California's stem-cell initiative, whom he then got to know well at Navigenics, introduced by David Agus, its founder.
The public record, at web grade. Co-founder and executive director of Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative of 2004 — the $3 billion measure that created the state's stem-cell agency — where she helped conceive and draft the initiative, raised $30 million for the campaign, and built the country's largest patient-advocacy coalition; then chief of staff at the resulting California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Chief business officer at Navigenics until its sale to Life Technologies in 2012; healthcare new-business creation at GE Ventures; co-founder and chief executive of Vineti, the supply-chain software platform for cell and gene therapies; board seats including BioLife Solutions and the ARM Foundation for Cell and Gene Medicine; a 2016 Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow; and, as of 2025, a Mayo Venture Partner. Stanford MBA and MA/BA in English.
The Berg question. Hare's surmise (S-190) is that she and Agus surely knew Paul Berg. No source documents it — but Berg was among the most prominent scientific advocates for stem-cell research, and Proposition 71 is exactly where the inventor of recombinant DNA and the initiative's executive director would meet. She is the person best placed to say, and the record asks her.
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Bill Haseltine's introduction; the oncologist to Redstone, the moguls and Andy Grove; a major mentor — and the relay request on this page is live
Open →the Prop 71 surmise — hers to confirm1980 Nobel in Chemistry for recombinant DNA; organizer of Asilomar 1975; first director of Stanford's Beckman Center; the biochemist whose lunch turned Jobs toward NeXT — and a narrator of the Jobs documentary
Open →Stanford MBA1990–92 — the faculty, the classmates, and the prize he gave up
Open →friendConsilient Architect — the node this graph was seeded from
Open →CBO — now a pageThe personal-genomics company of David Agus and Dietrich Stephan; sold to Life Technologies in 2012; the room where two of the record's friendships were made
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