The Foundation has four Trustees: Dr Yan Huo, Dr Sam Lowe, Dr Yu Qiao, and Ms. Nancy Montmarquet. The Trustees meet regularly to review the impact of existing grants and to consider potential new grants.



Trustee

Dr Yan Huo

Yan Huo is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Capula Investment Management LLP. Prior to co-founding Capula in 2005, Yan spent most of his professional career at JPMorgan where he worked in its Derivatives Research and Proprietary Positioning business.

Yan is a Trustee of Princeton University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fudan University and the Huo Family Foundation. He holds a PhD and an MA in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University and a BS in Physics from Fudan University.


Trustee

Dr Sam Lowe

Sam Lowe is a Partner and Chief Financial Officer at Capula Investment Management LLP. Prior to joining Capula in 2006, Sam spent 12 years working for AT&T Labs Research.

He holds a BA in Mathematics from Grinnell College, and an MA in statistics, an MBA and PhD in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University.


Trustee

Nancy Montmarquet

Nancy is a Partner in the New York office of Norton Rose Fullbright LLP, practicing in Trusts and Estates. She counsels individuals, families and business owners on succession and legacy planning and charitable initiatives.

Nancy has a BA in Political Science from St. John’s University. She was a St. Thomas More Scholar graduate of the School of Law, and served on the editorial board of the Law Review.


Trustee

Dr Yu Qiao

Yu Qiao is a Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Structural Engineering, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is also an Executive Committee member of UCSD’s Program of Materials Science and Engineering.

He earned a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, in addition to obtaining a MS degree in Materials Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Mechanics in Beijing, China, and a BS degree in Applied Mechanics at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, China.

Professor Qiao is active in teaching and research in a broad field. His research interests include thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, carbon-negative technologies, advanced energy materials and systems, and space construction.