Founder

Tad Taube

Tad Taube is the chairman of Taube Philanthropies and also serves as president of the Koret Foundation. He is chairman and founder of the Woodmont Companies, a diversified real estate investment and management organization. He was chairman and CEO of Koracorp Industries (successor to Koret of California) from 1973 until its merger with Levi Strauss in 1979. He has served as trustee of the University of Notre Dame de Namur, the University of San Francisco, and as governor of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

At his alma mater, Stanford University, Mr. Taube is founder and advisory board chair of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, established in 1986. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and serves on its Executive Committee, and was founder and past chairman of the advisory board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR).  In addition, Mr. Taube is past chair of the Stanford Athletic Board. His involvement in Stanford Athletics includes his family's principal gift to Stanford's Taube Family Tennis Stadium and his significant support of Stanford's new football stadium, built in 2006.

Mr. Taube was a founder of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1982 and was principal owner of the Oakland Invaders football franchise. A member of the Lincoln Club, the Commonwealth Club and numerous other civic organizations, he has received a number of prestigious service awards and recognitions, including the Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award presented by United Way in 1998, the Scopus Award from the Hebrew University in 1985, and an honorary doctorate degree from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in 1995.

In 2004, the President of the Republic of Poland awarded Tad Taube Poland's highest civilian medal - the Commander's Cross - and three years later, in 2007, the Republic of Poland named Mr. Taube Honorary Consul for the San Francisco peninsula region.

Also in 2007, Mr. Taube received the Corporate Citizenship Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Forward newspaper recognized him as one of its Forward Fifty most influential Jews in America.

Mr. Taube holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford University and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He is married to Dianne Panos Taube and has six children ranging in age from 5 to 50.