Sterling Speirn
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Position: President and CEO
Organization: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Location: Battle Creek, MI
Sterling Speirn is a member of the Self-Regulation Advisory Group.
Sterling Speirn became president and CEO of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation at the beginning of 2006. The Foundation ranks among the world’s largest private foundations, with assets totaling more than $7 billion. It awards grants in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, and seven countries in southern Africa – Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. Prior to his current position, he was the president of the Peninsula Community Foundation in San Francisco, California. In 2003 and 2004, the Nonprofit Times named him one of the 50 most influential nonprofit leaders in the country. He is also a founder and chairman of the Center for Venture Philanthropy, which has launched three social venture funds engaging with the issues of poverty, literacy and environment. He is currently on the board of Northern California Grantmakers, and sits on the board of advisors of Pacific Community Ventures and the Entrepreneurs’ Foundation, and on the Advisory Council of the Global Philanthropy Forum. Sterling earned a Bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Michigan.