Our Leadership

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, CZI Co-Founders and Co-CEOs (Our Leadership).

We have a moral responsibility to build a better world for all children in the next generation. We want you to grow up in a world better than ours today.

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, CZI Co-Founders and Co-CEOs (Our Leadership).
PRISCILLA CHAN AND MARK ZUCKERBERG

CO-FOUNDERS AND CO-CEOS

Photograph by Jessica Chou
Photograph by Jessica Chou

Priscilla Chan

Priscilla Chan is co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. As a pediatrician and teacher, Priscilla’s work with patients and students in communities across the Bay Area has informed her desire to make learning more personalized, find new paths to manage and cure disease, and expand opportunity for more people. She is also the founder of The Primary School, which integrates health and education and serves children and families in East Palo Alto and the Belle Haven neighborhood in Menlo Park, California. Priscilla earned her bachelor's degree in biology at Harvard University and her Doctor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her pediatrics residency training in the UCSF Pediatric Leaders Advancing Health Equity program.

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Mark Zuckerberg, CZI Co-Founder and Co-CEO.
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Photograph by Mitch Tobias

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. As the founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, Mark brings a commitment to empowering people and building communities, and deep technical experience to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s work. Mark studied computer science at Harvard University before moving to Palo Alto, California, in 2004.

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Marc Malandro

Marc Malandro is the chief operating officer of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the CZ Biohub Network, where he is focused on optimizing operations across all of the organizations in the CZ Science ecosystem. Marc started as the vice president for science operations and helped build the science program and science team at CZI. Before coming to CZI, Marc served at the University of Pittsburgh as the vice chancellor for technology management and commercialization and the founding director of the Innovation Institute, whose mission was to create, support and sustain a culture of innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration on campus. Prior to joining the university, Marc co-founded Sagres Discovery, a systems biology company focused on the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer. Marc received his bachelor's and master's in biological sciences and Doctor of Science from Youngstown State University. He also holds a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Florida College of Medicine.

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Steve Quake
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Steve Quake

Stephen Quake is head of science at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, where he oversees CZ Science grant programs, technology development, and the CZ Biohub Network. His contributions to science are varied and include invention of the biological equivalent of the integrated circuit, development of whole organism cell atlases, and creation of diagnostics that have made medicine safer by replacing invasive biopsies such as amniocentesis with simple blood tests. Steve has received numerous awards for his discoveries and has been elected to several scientific honorary societies, including the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, The National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Inventors. He has published more than 300 papers which have been cumulatively cited more than 100,000 times. Steve also holds a faculty position at Stanford University, where he is the Lee Otterson professor of bioengineering and applied physics. Previously, he was the founding co-president of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and professor at the California Institute of Technology.

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Our Work in Science
Patricia Brennan
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Photograph by CZI

Patricia Brennan

Patricia Brennan is the vice president of science technology at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Prior to joining CZI, Patricia held leadership roles at Clarivate and Thomson Reuters, where she led product design, product management and platform development. She is also a product coach and advisor to individuals and organizations, where she assists them in honing and growing their product management practices. Patricia has a master's in library and information science from the Catholic University of America and a bachelor's in English literature from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Sandra Liu Huang, Head of Education & Vice President, Product, CZI.
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Photograph by An Rong Xu

Sandra Liu Huang

Sandra Liu Huang is head of education and vice president of product at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Before joining CZI, she was the head of product at Quora, a platform for gaining and sharing knowledge, where she served as their first product manager and oversaw its growth to 100 million monthly unique users. Sandra previously led product development in roles at Google and Facebook, where she managed complex, interdisciplinary teams building tools and products such as Google AdWords and Google AdSense. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University.

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Our Work in Education
David Lee, Chief Investment Officer, CZI.
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David Lee

As the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s chief investment officer, David Lee is responsible for managing CZI’s investment portfolio, which funds the organization’s efforts across science, education, and within our communities. David came to CZI from the Princeton University Investment Company where he worked on asset allocation and the marketable asset categories, including domestic equity, international equity and independent return. Prior to Princeton, David worked at ABN AMRO in London, England. He earned a first-class honors degree in economics and econometrics from the University of York, holds a Master of Science with distinction specializing in quantitative finance from the University of Reading, and received an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is a CFA Institute charterholder.

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Photograph by Maggie Chang

Mark Kim

Mark Kim is the general counsel for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Before joining CZI, Mark was a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson (MTO), where he practiced corporate law, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate governance. While at MTO, Mark played an integral role in the structuring and establishment of both CZI and the CZ Biohub and represented CZI as its lead outside counsel. Mark received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as a student director for the Advocacy for Parents and Children legal clinic, and received his undergraduate degree in biology and East Asian studies from Harvard College. Following law school, Mark clerked for former Judge Pamela Ann Rymer of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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