Seminar Moderator Pete Thigpen

Pete Thigpen

Stanford University, AB Economics and MBA

U. S. Marine Corps Officer, 3 years in a fighter squadron

Levi Strauss & Company, 24 years, positions included:

• President, European Division
• President, Levi Strauss-USA
• President, The Jeans Company
• Senior Vice President, Operations
•  Member of the Board

Member of the Boards of four publicly traded corporations over the last fifteen years.

Experience in education includes:

• Board of Trustees, Branson High School, current
• Board of Trustees, Kentfield, CA School District, 4 years
• Board of Trustees, Mills College, 9 years
• Board of San Francisco Volunteers, 5 years
• Board of Josephson Institute of Ethics, 5 years
• Volunteer, Marin City Children's Program, 5 years
• Volunteer, Junior Great Books, Bacich/Kent, 3 years
• Lecturer in Ethics & Great Books, Graduate School of Business, University of California
• Moderator and Senior Fellow, The Aspen Institute