Jeff Raikes

Advisory Board Chair, Stanford PACS; Co-Founder, Raikes Foundation

Jeff Raikes is a co-founder of the Raikes Foundation with his wife, Tricia. The foundation works toward a fair and just future where all young people have the support they need to achieve their full potential. Key areas of focus include reimagining an educational system that creates conditions for all students to succeed; ensuring housing stability for youth; building a fair and representative democracy; and advancing impact-driven philanthropy.

Jeff is the former CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where he led the foundation’s efforts to expand opportunity and improve outcomes for people around the world. Before joining the foundation, Jeff was president of Microsoft’s Business Division and served as a member of the company’s senior leadership team that set the overall strategy and direction for the company.

Currently, he is part of the ownership group of the Seattle Mariners and serves on its board. He also serves on the boards of Costco Wholesale Corporation, the Raikes School at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Green Diamond Resource Company, EpiCrop Technologies, EpiMethyl Analytics, Lumen Bioscience, and Hudl. After ten years of board service, Jeff is Chair Emeritus of Stanford University.