Four Business Leaders Elected to Board of Children’s Health Foundation

PALO ALTO – Four business leaders — Timothy Brackney, Manuel A. Henriquez, David Lee and William “Bill” Sonneborn — have been elected to three-year terms on the board of directors of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. The foundation fundraises for research, training, and patient care at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, and for pediatric and obstetric programs at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The foundation also supports communications, advocacy, and health care system development to elevate the priority of children’s health in California and enhance opportunities for children to achieve optimal health outcomes.

TIMOTHY BRACKNEY is Northern California regional managing director for Resources Global Professionals, a leading multinational provider of consulting services. Previously, he was senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, working in their audit and then consulting practices. Brackney received a BBA in accountancy from the University of Notre Dame, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a past board member of the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation, and also served on the board of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

MANUEL A.  HENRIQUEZ is co-founder, chairman and CEO of Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (NYSE:  HTGC). Henriquez is a 25-year veteran of the venture capital and financing community, with previous experience at VantagePoint Venture Partners and Comdisco Ventures. He earned a B.S. in business administration from Northeastern University and is a member of the University’s Board of Directors. He previously served on the board of Charles Armstrong School, an independent elementary and middle school that serves students with language-based learning differences.

DAVID LEE is a founder and managing partner of SV Angel, an angel fund with investments in companies such as Twitter, Foursquare, Flipboard, Dropbox and Airbnb. Prior to SV Angel, David was at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage venture firm. He was a founding member of Google’s New Business Development team and led business development at StumbleUpon prior to its sale to eBay. He also was a corporate attorney at leading technology law firms. David has an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford, where he was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow; a J.D. from NYU; and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins.

WILLIAM “BILL” SONNEBORN joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) in 2008. He heads KKR Asset Management, and is CEO of KKR Financial Holdings LLC. Previously, he was president of TCW and CEO of The TCW Funds, Inc. and served on the board of The TCW Group Inc. and Sompo Japan Asset Management in Tokyo. Prior to TCW, Sonneborn spent six years in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in both New York and Hong Kong. He is a graduate of Georgetown University.  He is involved in a variety of non-profit organizations and serves as a director or trustee of the Saint John’s Health Center Foundation and the Los Angeles Council of the Boy Scouts of America.