Protected: Ambassador Thomas F. Stephenson

Ambassador Thomas F. Stephenson is the former chairman of the board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and a longtime partner of Sequoia Capital, a prominent Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. He previously spent 22 years at Fidelity Investments in Boston, where he helped found Fidelity Ventures. More recently Mr. Stephenson served a 19-month stint as the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, bridging the end of the George W. Bush administration and the start of the Obama administration. He has also served as a member of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers, and its Executive Committee, and as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. At Hoover, he helped Senior Fellow George P. Shultz form the Shultz-Stephenson Energy Task Force, which has developed a series of comprehensive and coherent energy policy recommendations for the United States.