PRESIDENT (RET.) , CSUF
WHY:For five years, oversaw the largest state university in California with 41,000 students.
IN THE NEWS:Retired in July.
QUOTABLE:“Orange County is already experiencing significant workforce gaps in the STEM fields, especially in engineering and computer science, and these gaps will not improve without growing local talent. About 80% of CSUF’s 320,000 graduates live and work within a 50-mile radius of our campus. We cannot continue to import our talent base. Instead, we must build the workforce from within OC.”
