VIP Honor Roll of Donors


As part of the USC Viterbi Innovation Partners, the following supporters are helping current and future students in their quests to be great engineers. To be a part of this elite group means you are helping us to grow engineering at USC to a higher level of excellence. Thanks to your gift, you are leaving an important philanthropic legacy that helps to make an impact on the lives of our students, who will in turn, make a positive difference in our community, nation and the world.

NOTE: The VIP members listed below are donors who made a gift in support of USC Viterbi during our 2024-2025 school year
(As of July 1, 2024).

If for some reason you don't see your name on this list and you are a VIP member, call us at 213.821.2921 and we'll fix this. We want to make sure all VIP members are acknowledged accordingly. 

Dean's Circle ($10,000+)

Nancy Adams and Scott Schoen
Christopher Adamson
Brenton Ahrens
Ron and Rachel Antevy
Roxanne and John Basso
Michael and Michelle Belicki
Sameer and Malini Bhatia
Ran Bi
Brandon and Janet Blaylock
Emil Britt
Gary and Mary Buntmann
Thomas and Cynthia Burke
Brett and Kay Christiansen
Ali and Rowshan Daneshy
Santanu and Kelly Das
Dwipal Desai and Sudipta Bhowmik
Mary Louise Des Rochers
Sandra Evers-Manly
Michael Flanigan
Joseph and Lori Flowers
Alan and Jean Fohrer
Shirley Foster
Adam Gibbons
Erin and James Goodrich
Frank and Marilyn Goppel
Howard Heitner and Betsy Newman
Michael Hendershot and Melina Patterson
Barbara Hippensteel
David Jeng and Madeline Ng
Nancy Kelly
Manika and Peeyush Khanna
Rostam and Mary Khoshsar
Tae-Yong Kim
Mark Kolokotrones
David Kyser PhD
James and Katherine Lau
Siyang and Yaguang Li
Daben Liu and Weiqing Mao
Inge Marcus
Harry and Christina McKinney
Mark Mendez and Olivia Wang
Vibhu Mittal and Sujata Banerjee
Mihaela Moldoveanu
Peter and Iona Morgan

Mamta and Ujjual Nath
Leida and Anthony Neidecker
Michael and Karen Neuman
Charles Ng and Jennie Jiang
Won and Anna Ng
Usha and Mayan Patel
Ken and Charlotte Richardson
Dan Rowan and Stephanie Shum
Alexander and Mariette Sawchuk
Stephen Schrank and Mickie Brennan
Robert and Sharon Sclabassi
Steve and Kimberly Sellinger
Walter and Patricia Singer
Shirley and David Traum
Peter and Susan Trelenberg
Byron and Laurie Vielehr
Colleen and Christian von Eckartsberg
Walter and Fannie Wang
David and Betsy Werner
Albert and Michele Williams
Gloria Wilson
Scott and Susan Wilson
Patricia Winter and Michael Bigger
Andrew Witkowski
Gefferie Yee-Madera and Ananias Madera
Shiao-Ping Yen
Robert Yowell
Ron Zeff
Dora and Paul Zhang
Eric Zhuang

Visionaries Circle ($5,000-$9,999)

Bridget Bell
Robert and Ruth Cheney
Kaveh Dehghani
Neil and Anjini Desai
Joan Dorman
Shaomu Guo and Zhanyun Liu
Steve and Kristy Hennessee
Martin and Akieva Jacobs
Gerald and Janet Kohlenberger
Kyle Koerner
Myrna and John Lam
Edward Leng
Ying Lyu and Kun Wang

Christopher and Sheriden Mansfeld
Charles Rennie and Teresa Nakashima
Kok-Yew See and Ewe See Ooi
Allegra Segura
Marshall and Patricia Solem
Jabin Sufianto
Sean and Jamie Sugai
Cathleen Tryon
Daniel Welsh
Donald Williams
Kiyoung Yang
Yuan Yao and Xinxin Wu
Stephen and Jacqueline Zimmer

Sustainers Circle ($2,500-$4,999)

Lubna and Mahmoud Abu-Dayeh
Vincent Anderson
Ron and Judy Blackwelder
John Borghese
Pamela Dekema and Dick Champe
Jian Chen and Li Xiao
Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka and Jamie Ozaki
James and Carolyn Goodin
Susan and Philip Hines
Charles and Barbara Hinzman
Hai Hong
Ayanna Howard
Che-Wei Huang
Max and Diane Johnson
Lisa and Dean Karahalios
Niusha Khoshsar
Richard and Sharon Kobayashi
Kamal Kumar
Edward Lee
John and Nayana Lewis
Ning Li
Lisa and Christopher Morgan

Erik Ougland
Elena and Eugene Pushin
Robert Schaaf II
Michael Steinberger and Katherine Delfosse
David Stern
Christopher and Shiela Tom
Kun Wang and Ying Lyu
Ching and Jennifer Wei
Elizabeth and Richard Werhel
Jim Zhao

Innovators Circle ($1,000-$2,499)

Theodore Barben and Carol Kiel-Barben
William and Judith Bishop
Dave Brown
Ling Buscher
Anchung Chang and Shu-Jiao Lin
Jay Chen
Anson Cheng
Katrina Chiang and Hsuei-Tung Kao
Jimmie Chin
Douglas and Kim Chrissan
Wensong Chu and Pancheng Wang
Kathleen and William Colleran
James and Marilyn Cook
Ty and Jasmine Dempsey
Laura and Chris Duke
Siavash Gharib
Donald Glover
Lotte Hohmann
Steven Huang
Lan Jiang
Weihong Jing
Lisa and Dean Karahalios
Wissut Kasayapanand
Kerri Keslow
Ines and Walker Kirby
Karla and Martin Kurtanich
Olatokunbo and Bose Labisi
Thomas and Jill Lagatta
Ella and Milton Lau
Roger Lester
Huiwen Li and Jianlin Zeng
Xuesong Li
Qing Ling and Ling Mei
Nancy Lipson and John Gaensbauer
Yeon-Chaw and Hsiu-Mei Liu
Kate Livingston

Lisa Machii Greengrove and Keith Greengrove
Eric and Heidi Nystrom
Roxann Marumoto and David Julifs
Eric and Heidi Nystrom
Jeremy Ong
Jeffrey Petterson
David Poff
Steven and Mae Quan
John Rallis and Mary Lynn Bergman-Rallis
Matthew Rettagliata
Thomas and Doran Richart
Evaristo Roque
Hans-Peter and Venda Schmid
Andrew and Katie Sohn
Jared and Joyce Stout
John Strouzas
Gregory Szu-Tu
Patricia Whitehead
Yir Yueh
Bill and Diana Zehrbach
Vincent Zeimis III
Zhaohui Zhang and Ling Shang
Baiteng Zhao
Wugang Zhao and Tyan Wu

Partners Circle ($500-$999)

Gregorio Abreu
Roy and Joan Adams
James and Esther Ahn
Vicente Alvarez
Christy Becker
Richard Berg
Harold and Denise Bopp
Mary Bouwkamp
Marty and Nancy Bradley
Edward Cabott
Mark Christenson
Matt Cordner
Dara and Robert Cox
Keith Chugg and Janeen Volsey
Eric and Mikiko Davis
Dingxiong Deng
Jignesh and Nameeta Desai
Chyi-Feng Ding
Robert Divis
Michael Dolan
Ling-Li Dong
James Dunn
Ron and Courtney Evans
Kei and Tomoko Fukuda
Prudencio and Marlyn Gaspar
Frank and Carolyn Gayer
Roy Glantz
Michael Gorman
Francis and Gloria Gularte
Dina Heredia
Xuan Hong and Jun Chen
Robert Jue
Keith Kelley
Sungill Kim
Robert Kin
Barbara Larsen and Stephen Alland
Sandra Lash
Eric Lee
Alexander Leung
Kai Li
Mengzhe Li
Wei Li
James Lindeman
Janet Lonneker

Karen Meyer and Richard Michelman
Jim and La Nell Mimmack
Michael Mount
William Mullooly
Soe Lwin
Larry Melenberg
Ramana Murty
Emily Newton
Kenzie Nguyen
Bethany and John O'Hollaren
Harvey and Esther Olifson
Evan and Jenny Peng
Anthony Planinac
Armando Rivera II
Abraham and Elyssa Romo
Satwindar and Manjit Sadhal
Pedram Safi and Najmeh Rahimi
Annie and Robert Salo
Ashwin Sathe
David and Donna Schwien
Gary and Mary Seigel
Manpreet Singh
Bruce and Myrtis Springer
Robert and Marsha Tellez
Tara Trinh
Ellis Wasson
Jeffrey and Linda Way
Yude Wei
Karen and Robert White
Scott Whitman and Francie Casey-Whitman
Katherine and Daniel Wong
Dan Yee
Nicholas Young
Tina Young
Stefan Zeltner
Lang Zhan and Wei Dong
Peng Zhang
Qianqian Zhang
Biao Zhou
Binghua Zhou
Wei Zong and Xinrui He

Thank You to all of our VIP Members for your generous and continuous support.

Published on July 26th, 2017

Last updated on December 23rd, 2024