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 as of
July 1, 2022.
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.Â
Dean's Circle ($10,000+)
Nancy Adams and Scott Schoen
Terry and Leslie Adams
Kristen and Brian Andersen
Tim and Sandra Archer
Garo Armen
Sonny and Jo Astani
Sudhindar and Sumana Balakrishna
Michelle and Michael Belicki
The Bell Family
Steven and Christine Bellon
Ronald Blackstone and Jamie Mohn
Brandon and Janet Blaylock
Christopher and Andrea Borch
Ross Boucher
Stephen Cheung and Yuen May Yu
Brett and Kay Christiansen
Michael and Mirka Christenson
Patrick Chraghchian and Marlene Markari
Helen Chuang-Wei and David Wei
Steven and Wendy Cohen
Heather Cruz and Michael Nitabach
Kenneth and Joy Dahlberg
Ali and Rowshan Daneshy
Neil and Anjini Desai
Steven Dorfman
Alex Durairaj and Kay Devgan-Durairaj
Nizar Elias
Jonathan Emami and Zareen Siddiq
Joseph and Lori Flowers
Jean and Alan Fohrer
Robert and Shirley Foster
Patrick and Bonnie Fuscoe
Charles and Julia Ghailian
Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg
David Ginsberg and Wendy Hoffman
Shalini Govil-Pai and Rajesh Pai
Stayce Harris
Ross Hikida
Manuel and Mary Johnson
Kathy Kemper James and Gail Kerry
Rostam and Mary Khoshsar
Carol Kieschnick
Robin and Mark Kistler
Gregory Kozielec and Susan Watts
Vahe Kuzoyan
Gerald and Janet Kohlenberger
Nancy Kelly
Lester and Margery Lewis
Stella Li
Curtis Ling
Daniel and Edna Maneval
Mary and John Mason
Thomas and Carolyn Matthews
Henry and Christina McKinney
Frank and Hoori Melkonian
Satish and Marina Nandapurkar
Ujjual and Mamta Nath
Michael and Karen Neuman
Charles Ng
Won and Anna Ng
Dan gunnar Mika Nystroem
Donald and Marian Paul
Anand Ramakrishna and Soumya Subraman
Dan Rowan and Stephanie Shum
John and Carol Sartori
Dina and Eric Schimpf
The Schlesinger Family Foundation
George Schnerk
Stephen Schrank
Robert and Sharon Sclabassi
Walter and Patricia Singer
Dean and Belinda Soiland
Guruprasad and Ashwini Srinivasamurthy
John Sullivan
Cecilia, Keith and Paul Terasaki
Dom and Tia Tran
Shirley and David Traum
Robert and Cari Walsh
Annie Wang
Fannie and Walter Wang
David and Betsy Werner
Albert and Michele Williams
Pamela and Warner Williams
Gloria Wilson
Scott and Susan Wilson
Ta-Kuang Yang and Tienhui Chang
Anush and Armen Yemenidjian
Alexandr Yesayan
Nariman and Shervin Yousefi
Yanmin Zou and Liming Lu
Eric Zhuang
Visionaries Circle ($5,000-$9,999)
Nancy Adams and Scott Schoen
Terry and Leslie Adams
Kristen and Brian Andersen
Tim and Sandra Archer
Garo Armen
Sonny and Jo Astani
Sudhindar and Sumana Balakrishna
Michelle and Michael Belicki
The Bell Family
Steven and Christine Bellon
Ronald Blackstone and Jamie Mohn
Brandon and Janet Blaylock
Christopher and Andrea Borch
Ross Boucher
Stephen Cheung and Yuen May Yu
Brett and Kay Christiansen
Michael and Mirka Christenson
Patrick Chraghchian and Marlene Markari
Helen Chuang-Wei and David Wei
Steven and Wendy Cohen
Heather Cruz and Michael Nitabach
Kenneth and Joy Dahlberg
Ali and Rowshan Daneshy
Neil and Anjini Desai
Alex Durairaj and Kay Devgan-Durairaj
Nizar Elias
Jonathan Emami and Zareen Siddiq
Michael Flanigan
Joseph and Lori Flowers
Jean and Alan Fohrer
Robert and Shirley Foster
Patrick and Bonnie Fuscoe
Charles and Julia Ghailian
Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg
David Ginsberg and Wendy Hoffman
Shalini Govil-Pai and Rajesh Pai
Stayce Harris
Ross Hikida
Manuel and Mary Johnson
Kathy Kemper James and Gail Kerry
Rostam and Mary Khoshsar
Carol Kieschnick
Gregory Kozielec and Susan Watts
Vahe Kuzoyan
Gerald and Janet Kohlenberger
Nancy Kelly
Lester and Margery Lewis
Stella Li
Stacey and Richard Liekweg
Curtis Ling
Christopher and Sheriden Mansfeld
Gurgen Martikyan
Mark Mendez and Olivia Wang
Carolyn Nakaki and Michael Lewis
Lily and David Nakatani
Roshan and Korina Patel
Addie Richburg
Robert Schaaf
Steve and Kimberly Sellinger
Marshall and Patricia Solem
Richard and Cathy Tryon
Thomas and Lisa Van Dorpe
Suhua Xiong
Sustainers Circle ($2,500-$4,999)
Vincent Anderson
Sameer and Malini Bhatia
Matthew Boatman and Rachel Morford
Wengsong Chu and Pancheng Wang
Kyle Clark
Kaveh Dehghani
Pamela Dekema and Dick Champe
James and Carolyn Goodin
Jacklyn Harper
Max and Diane Johnson
David Jeng and Madeline Ng
Sandra and Rajesh Lall
Yen Lee and Fang Liu
Qing Ling and Ling Mei
Michelle and Near Margalit
Seung Yeon Rhee and Young Mann Heo
Kok Yew See and Ewe See Ooi
Ayman Siraj
Jason Starke
Jared and Joyce Stout
Robert Weinstein and Alvina Louie
Tzyh-Yung Wuu and Ming Shen
Li Xiao and Jian Chen
Innovators Circle ($1,000-$2,499)
Brian and Christine Acarregui
Jorge and Betty Acuna
William and Cheryl Anson
Ron and Rachel Antevy
Theodore Barben and Carol Kiel-Barben
Richard and Jean Bentwood
Emmet Berkery
Judith and William Bishop
Ron and Judy Blackwelder
Jeffrey and Megan Blesener
Marty and Nancy Bradley
Michael Burke
Valentina Calaza
Jia Chen
Yiwen Chen and Jennifer Xie
Anson Cheng
Katrina Chiang and Hsuei-Tung Kao
Jimmie Chin
Douglas and Kim Chrissan
Jean Chow and Corinna Lam
James and Marilyn Cook
Steven Craw and Sara Jo
James Dunn
John Essmiller and Kimberly Hirabayashi
William Fame
Mark and Nanette Fissell
Wilson Fu
Gary Gitelson
William and Joy Greene
Omar Hamid and Nazish Zaman
Edsel and Susan Hamilton
Thomas Hasenberg
Michael Hawkins
Yanyan He
Dina Heredia
Kenneth and Fredlyn Hill
Fengduo Hu and Lynn Hsu
Allie Husari
Garrett and Rosemary Jeong
Jennifer and Stephen Johnson
David Julifs and Roxann Marumoto
Clifford Ker
Erin Kettwig
Danielle and David Kilpatrick
Ines and Walker Kirby
Christopher Kittides and Barbara Havens
Esther Kletter
Olatokunbo and Bose Labisi
Thomas and Jill Lagatta
Jaren and Ronald Landen
James and Barbara Lashbrook
Milton and Ella Lau
Sophia Leshing
John and Nayana Lewis
Norman and Joan Lewis
Gregory and Serene Lim
Jason Lin
Shihhao Liu and Pei-Ling Chen
Samuel Meng and Randy Shen
Jim and La Nell Mimmack
Walter and Cindy Okitsu
Jeremy Ong
Harvey and Esther Olifson
Erik Ougland
Nicholas Parish and Sandra Bowman-Parish
Shuhui Peng and Lin Chen
Bradford and Becky Pierce
Victor and Yuliya Piterbarg
Matthew Plec
Jerry and Marilyn Porter
John Pozzi and Mona Foch
Steven and Mae Quan
Charles Quick
Suwan Asiri Rathugamage
Matthew Rettagliata
Mary and David Reynolds
Abraham and Elyssa Romo
Evaristo Roque
Hans-Peter and Venda Schmid
Javier and Daisy Segovia
Howard and Laura Selznick
Ermanno Signorelli
Roger Sit
Paul and Jennifer Snitko
Andrew and Katie Sohn
Frank Spasaro
David Stern
John and Cynthia Sudduth
Gregory Szu-Tu
Wei Tan
Angelina Tave
Snehal Thakkar
Donald Thoma and Petra Jelonnek
Chiang and Carmen Tom
Vu Tran and Vivian Diep
Christine Turner
Kimberly Twombly
Verdi Wahjosoedibjo and Alexandra Baroek
Christopher and Lorri Walker
Pancheng Wang and Wensong Chu
Xianzhi Wang and Ying Cui
Jeffrey and Linda Way
Freda Webb
Robert and Karen White
Sidney and Frances Wielin
Donald Williams
Elly Wong and Sonia Hung
Ryan Wong
Wei Xu
Binwei Yang and Jia Chen
Guolin Yang
Matthew Zents
Lang Zhan and Wei Dong
Biao Zhou
Yunan and Cecile Zhou
Partners Circle ($500-$999)
Roy and Joan Adams
Alfred and Karen Aguilera
Mark Ammerman
Sandra and Tim Archer
Jennifer and Robert Atkin
Guiyun Bai and Yuxia Sun
Mark Battjes
Sam Bautista
Lara Bledin and Joel Szekel
Timothy and Carolina Bulow
James Bouwkamp
Peter and Elizabeth Broen
Cathie Byers
Chunli Cai
Cynthia Callaway and Daniel Rodgers
Justin and Monique Capp
Hector and Maricela Castillo
Ron Chandler
Dan and Nancy Chapel
Dru Chavez
Jamin Chen
Jiaxin Cheng
Tsung-Chu Chien and Ting Luo
Lin Choi
Kenneth Chon and Carol Lee
Joanne Cornelius
Natalie and Brian Coultrip
Philip Crandon
Tristan Daifuku
Ross Dakin
Craig and Lillian Davis
Eric and Mikiko Davis
Katherine Delfosse and Michael Steinberger
Michael Dolan
William Domino
Wei Dong and Lang Zhan
Maurene Dorris
John Duckworth
Charles and Lisa Duncan
Michael Engers and Anna Tomzynska
Peter and Lisa Engstrom
Ron and Courtney Evans
Richard and Tuyet Fang
Edwin Franklin
Donald and Karen Froelich
Kei and Tomoko Fukuda
Antonio Gaitan
Richard Geiger
Rashmi Garde and Jeffrey Lund
Prudencio and Marlyn Gaspar
Greg Gawlik
Frank and Carolyn Gayer
Marianne Gordon
Margaret Greco and Kent Morikado
Francis and Gloria Gularte
Mindy Hersh-Walters and Ian Walters
Susan Hines
John and Anne Hogan
Gorik and Anita Hossepian
Pai-Han Huang
Steven Huang
Kenneth Hudnut and Dana Coyle
Linda Hui
Deidre and Shawn Hunter
Hugh Hurt
Monica Ipong
Shehzad Ismail
Xue Jiang
Victor Joe
Shahidah Johnson
Robert Jue
Wissut Kasayapanand
Clifford Ker
William and Teri Ketler
Keith Kelly
Marietta and Robert Kin
Michael Ko
Wang-Chung Ko
John and Lynnette Kooker
Gregory Kulon
Brian Lee
Yi-Hsuan Lee and Anchi Lo
Roger Lester
Kai Li
Xuesong Li
Jiayin Lin
Sanford Litvack and Joanna Swomley
Shizhi Liu
Michael Lucchi
Soe Lwin Kimberly and Michael Lyman
Gene Ma and Xiaoqing Yu
Jing Ma
Efra Madera
Rui Mao
Cynthia Marshall
Azita Martin
Thomas and Nance Mazzola
Jan Messerschmidt
Chauncey and Edith Miller
Nancy Miller
Manavendra Misra and Sarah Kovoor-Misra
Roberto and Traute Montoya
Joseph and Karen Moran
Michael Mount
Ramana Murty
Maggie Nagengast
Kyle Nauman
James Ng
John Nino
Alex Ohanian
Terry and Ann Ohanian
Michael Olwin
Jeremy Ong
Rochelle Oslick
Ju Park
Louis Pasquarelli
Melina Patterson and Michael Hendershot
Arnaldo Paz and Kathleen Zimmerlin De Paz
Mark Pestana
Robert and Andrea Pokelwaldt
John Pozzi and Mona Foch
Huahong Qiang and Lizheng Shi
Rhonda and Frank Rasor
Armando Rivera
Candido and Mary Rocha
Richard and Lelia Rocke
Milton Sakamoto and Shawn Okuda-Sakamoto
Manjit and Satwindar Sadhal
Ashwin Sathe
Jin Shang
Webert Shen and Lisa Ye
Alexander Soriano
Bruce and Myrtis Springer
Charles and Robin Stirling
Sonia Subramanian
Susan and Richard Swanson
Timur and Lauren Taluy
Robert and Marsha Tellez
Chris and Karin Thacker
German Torres
Nguyen Tran
Michael Uy
Russell and Linda Wallace
Lawrence Walter
Michael Wang and Ping Yu
Peter Vo
Kevin Warasila
Runxuan Wei
Scott Whitman and Francie Casey-Whitman
Panduka and Silanthi Wijetunga
Russell Wilson
Ryan Wong
Stephanie and Jamson Woo
James Wykowski
Jungwon Yoon
Robert and Roberta Young
Harold and Hy Yuan
Cynthia Zhang
Meilu Zhang
Peng Zhang
Qianqian Zhang
Xiang and Mengyan Zhang
Zhaohui Zhang and Ling Shang
Biao Zhou
Hudson Zhu
Wei Zong and Xinrui He
Ximing Zuo
Thank You to all of our VIP Members for your generous and continuous support.
Published on July 26th, 2017
Last updated on March 30th, 2023