Connie & Kevin Chou HallA Partnership for Haas Preeminence

Cementing our position as one of the country’s most competitive business schools takes the strength of partnership and community. Thanks to the donors listed on these pages, who helped bring our state-of-the-art facility to fruition, Berkeley Haas will evolve new approaches to business education. We’ll also have the country’s greenest academic building (see p. 12).

Connie & Kevin Chou Hall is completely student focused—there are no offices, just spaces for instruction and collaboration. With flexible classrooms and technology to support digital education, Chou Hall nurtures cutting-edge learning modes and environments—both on campus and online.

The building also allows for new initiatives, like our undergraduate Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program in collaboration with Berkeley’s College of Engineering. M.E.T. is part of our “science in business” vision that will lead to more interdisciplinary, dual-degree programs at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

The interior design, set around the central staircase in the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Atrium, encourages people to engage and collaborate with one another.

Heralding the Future of Management Education

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Dr. Connie Chen and Kevin Chou, BS 02

The building was named after Chen and Chou in recognition of their gift of up to $25 million, the largest personal gift by an alumnus under the age of 40 in UC Berkeley history. Chen is a physician and co-founder of the digital health startup Vida Health. Chou, chairman and CEO of KSV eSports, co-founded mobile gaming company Kabam. The couple is passionate about educational access for all and wants to support Berkeley’s continued role as an economic mobility engine.

Carol and Warren “Ned” Spieker Jr., BS 66

Ned Spieker is the managing partner of the private real estate firm Spieker Partners and lead partner for the building. He found ways to cut costs and construction time, provided funding, and encouraged others in the Haas community to support the project. Spieker Forum is the sixth-floor event space for 300 people where important and inspiring ideas can be broadcast to the world.

Sharon and Barclay Simpson, BS 43

Barc Simpson, who passed away in 2014 at the age of 93, was the founder and chairman of Simpson Manufacturing Co. The Simpson Family Executive Education Suite sits on the fourth floor of the new building.

The Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund

Douglas Goldman, MD, BA 74, is chairman and founder of Certain Inc. and a philanthropist. The Lisa and Douglas Goldman Atrium encompasses central space on the first and second floors.

Sue and Robert G. O’Donnell, BS 65, MBA 66

Bob O’Donnell is a retired senior VP and director of Capital Research and Management Company. The new building completes a quad around the Robert G. O’Donnell Courtyard, which has vitalized Haas’ outside meeting areas, providing a larger, more inviting, and flexible space.

The $60 million Chou Hall was 100 percent privately funded by alumni and friends—just like the original Haas campus. Several founding donors (one of whom prefers to be anonymous) were instrumental in ensuring its construction.

Founding Donors Led the Way

Deloitte Foundation ClassroomOur gold-level Deloitte donors listed below helped fund the first-floor classroom accommodating 140 students. In all, 231 Deloitte employees raised over $3 million since 2004, making theirs the largest corporate gift to the building.

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Anonymous Ken & Joni AveryDoug & Robin BartonHeidi & Josh BersinHannah Caine & FamilyRob & Gail (Fletcher) CrawfordJim DavisSam & Laurie Doolittle Kerry FrancisGerry & Betty Fujimoto Ritva & Clarence HoughtonMike & Dede HuffmanGeorge KellyGeorge & Janet KeltsIn Honor of Jennifer KempScott & Vicki KempMark & Ann Kenyon Mark & Shawn Klender Christopher & Marjorie LeeDoug & Jan McEachern FamilyKathleen McEligot Anna Mok in honor of Lau Sok Han MokJim & Bonnie Mountain Lisa Nicolini Larri & Lynn OdlandEric R. & Barbara Fanning Roberts Jack & Jodie Russi FamilySandra & Ted ShiraiJerome P. SolariMary & Peter SwentzelTim & Ann van Oppen Larry and Robyn Varellas

First Floor Second Floor1 Lisa and Douglas Goldman Atrium 2 Building accessibility by Mel and Vera Bacharach 3 Bradley and Susan Shuster 4 Deloitte Foundation Classroom 5 In Mem of Max Herzog by A Herzog 6 Joffa and Ellen Dale 7 Tad and Jackson Freese 8 David C. C. Cheung (by Gilda & Thomas H. Cheung) 9 Tomek Ulatowski Classroom 10 Hsioh Kwang Wu Family Wall

1 Lisa and Douglas Goldman Atrium 2 Robert G. O’Donnell Courtyard 3 Jim and Stephanie Gamble Creekbed and Garden 4 Cafe Think 5 Lori De Soto and Melissa Held 6 Howard and Patti Lee Wang 7 Yang Bie-Jia and Chen Kong-Qi (by Rong Lu) 8 Barbara & Gerson Bakar Classroom

Over the past 20 years, enrollment at Berkeley Haas has nearly doubled to more than 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students in seven degree programs. Chou Hall increases the Haas School’s space by a third.

Chou Hall is designed for interaction—among students, faculty, alumni, and top business leaders and thinkers, a vibrant atmosphere for catalyzing inspired collaborations.

Head of the Class

Alumni gifts allowed us to build an environment that engages the minds of future business leaders, with tiered and flexible classrooms, AV-equipped meeting rooms, and ample breakout spaces. All classrooms are equipped for video capture (live streaming or recorded) with cameras that follow the speaker and audio/video teleconferencing.

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1 S.K. and Angela Chan Classroom 2 Levin Family Classroom 3 Justice, Justice Foundation Classroom (by Melody & Jerry Weintraub) 4 Joanne and Jon Goldstein 5 The Howards’ Lair (by Marcia A. & Bradford R. Howard) 6 Bryon T. Sheets 7 The Helzel Family 8 In Memory of Robert R. Dalziel (by the Robert Witter Family Foundation) 9 Kwee and Aratani Classroom 10 Fred and Kathi De Grosz Lounge 11 Herman and Irene Boschken 12 In Memory of Meena Duggirala (by Kamalnayan Duggirala) 13 Full-Time MBA Alumni

1 Otellini Family Classroom 2 Prescott Ashe Classroom 3 Carol Meyer Classroom 4 Grant and Suanne Inman 5 Tim and Annette Ryan 6 The Holmstrom Family Fund 7 Shantanu and Reni Narayen 8 John and Nancy Jo Cappetta 9 Simpson Family Executive Education Suite 10 In Memory of Tom Mulcahy 11 John and Elizabeth Foraker 12 The Spivack Family

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The courtyard entrance, spanning a dry creek bed, marks the location of Strawberry Creek, an important campus landmark. The creek, too deep to expose, now runs through two underground culverts on either side of the building, connecting back up next to the Women’s Faculty Club just west of Chou Hall.

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1 Gilbert Michael Meyer Classroom 2 Lisle and Roslyn Payne Classroom 3 Fairchild-Martindale Fdn. (by Sarah M. Keller & Stephen F. Keller) 4 Supramu Santosa 5 Simmons Vogelheim Family 6 Susan and Palmer Jackson 7 Paul J. Cortese 8 Shields Family Lounge 9 For Capt. CW Seigrist (by Barbora & Alan D. Seigrist) 10 Yuen Kwok Jun and Yuen Tat On (by Yolanda H. Yuen & Harton K. Ma) 11 Wesley DiPaola

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Kurt BillickThomas W. BordenEdwin C. CallanBarbara J. Desoer & Marc J. DesoerLaurie M. & Samuel J. DoolittleGap Inc.Constance B. Moore & Roger D. GreerBetty & William A. HaslerJudith D. & Clifford H. HiggersonTed Janus & Kathleen Kelly JanusThomas M. JuterbockJanice E. Bohman & Eric J. KellerJasvinder S. KhairaNancy LeventhalMelissa T. RaphaelyJohn S. RiccitielloRobina RiccitielloMargaret N. Robarts & Drew L. RobartsGayle I. & Theodore J. SaengerRowena L. Singer & Marc E. SingerPatti L. & David A. Stadlin

Lead architect Cathy Simon, of Perkins+Will, who taught for many years at UC Berkeley and designed Haas’ Robert G. O’Donnell Courtyard, created Chou Hall with 24,300 square feet of exterior windows so that our vibrant, intellectual energy could be seen day and night. Additionally, all floors have balconies, enhancing the view and connection to the Bay Area.

“Chou Hall is designed to encourage community, both within Haas and within the greater community that surrounds us,” says Dean Rich Lyons, BS 82. “Overlooking the San Francisco Bay Area from our magnificent event space gives you a sense of perspective of the innovation ecosystem of which Haas is a part.”

An atmosphere of creative energy pervades Chou Hall.Some 17,000 square feet of writeable surfaces, including whiteboards, writeable paint, and glass, invite ingenuity.

Chou Hall owes its existence to the support of the strong Berkeley Haas network, including the donors listed here. It creates a space that will continue to foster these important connections.

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Connie & Kevin Chou Hall is on track to be the country’s greenest academic building. The building’s Zero-Waste initiative—a first for this nation’s business schools—aims to divert 90 percent of waste from landfills and achieve Zero-Waste certification by summer 2018. The effort is led by a group of staff and students from Haas and the College of Natural Resources.

Setting a New Standard

Part of the building faces campus and the city and part engages with nature and poetic redwoods, a nod to UC Berkeley’s rich duality of an urban campus surrounded by natural beauty. Some have even likened Spieker Forum (shown right) to a tree house.

Green and wellness features of the building were supported by donations from Marcella & Stuart N. Bernstein, BS 86.

Designed to be 40 percent more energy- and water-efficient than similar buildings, Chou Hall is also the first academic building in the country designed for both LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum and WELL certifications, the latter a designation reflecting a focus on user health and well-being.

University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Development & Alumni Relations Office2001 Addison Street, 1st Floor Berkeley, CA 94720-1990

Connie & Kevin Chou Hall

Developer: Partnership for Haas Preeminence Architects: Perkins+Will General Contractor: Vance Brown Builders

Photos: Noah Berger, Jim Block, Karl Nielsen, Blake Marvin, and Dan Williams —Printed on 30%+ post-consumer recycled paper.

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Thanks to Rich Lyons, BS 82, for his extraordinary vision and leadership as Berkeley Haas dean from 2008–2018.