Gerald ("Jerry") Sanders is the founder of San Francisco Science™ and its Managing Director.

Mr. Sanders is a member of the New York and California Bar Associations, and a former law clerk to The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and to Judge O. M. Trask of that Circuit. He is an Honorary Consul, accredited to the State Department on behalf of The Republic of Haiti.

A former Navy SEAL with Israel's storied Naval Commando Unit, Mr. Sanders is a graduate of Queens College, New York, and of The University of Texas Law School, in Austin. He also is a "certificant" in Mexican Constitutional Law from The Autonomous University of Mexico and in German Socio-economics from The Goethe Institute of Bonn.

Mr. Sanders began his professional career in international finance and corporate law at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, a New York City law firm. As a business attorney, he represented foreign governments in international transactions and prominent families of substantial wealth both in the US and abroad. After several years in Europe and the Middle East, he returned to San Francisco to lead The Shaw Group, an incubator of medical device companies. He was an advisor to the founding group of AVE (now Ave-Medtronics) and several years later, he started three of his own medical device companies ("X-Cardia", "S-cubed" and "NeoVision"). These companies became the platform for San Francisco Science™.

Mr. Sanders is on the board of several start-up companies and is profiled as a "case study" in The Harvard Business School MBA curriculum ("Entrepreneurship"; "Power and Influence"). He lectures periodically at the Harvard, M.I.T., Northwestern and Stanford business schools and at the Hoover Institute.