Isaac Stein
President
Waverley Associates, Inc.
Isaac Stein is the president of Waverley Associates Inc., a private investment firm. He
also is a trustee of Stanford University and a director of the James Irvine Foundation.
Mr. Stein received a BA in economics and mathematics from Colgate University in 1968.
He graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School in
1972. Mr. Stein was a partner at the San Francisco law firm of Heller, Ehrman, White &
McAuliffe until 1979. From 1979 to 1983 he was vice president, secretary, and treasurer
of Raychem Corporation. In 1983, he formed Waverley Associates. From 1990 to 1992,
he served as chairman of Esprit de Corp and from 1991 to 1992 was its acting CEO. During
1993 Mr. Stein served as special assistant to the president of Stanford University.
Mr. Stein previously served as chairman of the board of trustees of Stanford University and
was chairman of both Stanford Health Services and UCSF/Stanford Health Care. He also
has served as a director of Stanford Management Company; a director of both Stanford
University Hospital and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital; and as a member of the
national advisory board to the Haas Center for Public Service. Mr. Stein is a member of the
Stanford Humanities and Sciences Council and the Interdisciplinary Biosciences Advisory
Council. He was a two-term member of the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors.
Mr. Stein was a founding member of the board of directors of the Entrepreneurs Foundation
and is a member of the international advisory council of the Economic Development
Board of Singapore. He also serves as chairman of Maxygen Inc.; a director of Alexza
Pharmaceuticals Inc.; a director of the American Balanced Fund Inc., International Growth
and Income Fund, Inc., and The Income Fund of America Inc. (all affiliated with the
Capital Group Companies); and a director of several privately held corporations. Mr. Stein
previously served as a director of a number of public companies, including ALZA Corporation,
Symyx Technologies, American Century Group of mutual funds, CV Therapeutics Inc.,
Raychem Corporation, Micro Mask Inc., and Up-Right Inc.
Mr. Stein is married and the father of two children, Josh (Dartmouth ’95, Stanford
MBA ’99) and Sarah (Princeton ’97, Stanford MBA ’02). He and his wife, Madeline,
reside in Atherton, California.