Susan Packard Orr

Susan Packard Orr is an American philanthropist and the former chair of the Board of Directors of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. In addition to the Packard Foundation, she is a current or previous board member of several prominent nonprofit organizations including Stanford University and the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford. She also served on the Hewlett-Packard board for 7 years (1993–2001), leaving shortly before the Compaq merger. Orr currently is founder and CEO of Telosa Software. She holds Economics and MBA degrees from Stanford, and a master's degree in computer science from New Mexico Tech. Personal Orr is the daughter of David Packard and Lucile Salter Packard. Like both of them, she attended Stanford University, where she graduated with a BA in economics (1968) and an MBA (1970). After spending time as an economist at the National Institutes of Health, she obtained a master's degree in computer science from New Mexico Tech. She is married to Franklin Orr, who was Under Secretary of Energy for Science in the Obama administration, and is a professor emeritus at Stanford. Philanthropy