Brian enjoys Ultimate Frisbee and building LEGO with his family. Brian graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Computer Science. After eight years at WhatsApp/Facebook, Brian left to start the Signal Technology Foundation in 2018.

Tegan is the head of Good Gravy Films, which provides grants and equity funding to independent films, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Monterey Bay Aquarium.īrian has been an engineering leader throughout Silicon Valley, holding various positions at Adobe, Apple, and Yahoo! before co-founding WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2009. She additionally held positions at Yahoo! and the Sundance Institute, and graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a BA in English and Political Science. Prior to establishing Wildcard Giving, Tegan served as the Director of Communications and Strategic Initiatives for the office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. Independent of Wildcard Giving, Brian serves as the Executive Chairman of the Signal Technology Foundation, which strives to make private communication accessible and ubiquitous. Tegan serves as the principal at each of the sister entities, which work together to further civic values, collective responsibility, and our common humanity. In this webinar, learn more about the concept of pluralismpeople of varied backgrounds and beliefs building community, finding belonging, and drawing on their differences to solve shared problemsand explore the challenges and broader considerations of pluralism within a family philanthropy context. Tegan and Brian Acton are the founders and co-chairs of Wildcard Giving, a family of philanthropic entities created following the sale of WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014.

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