Nancy S. Forster

Nancy Forster is currently an active community service volunteer. She began her career in technology, with 14 years at IBM, first as a systems engineer, then in marketing as one of the first seven women in a sales force of 5,000. Later, Forster became a strategic-planning specialist for the introduction of technology into large corporations. She led her own consultancy, Forster & Associates Consulting, LLC, providing strategic planning, technology planning, and research for a variety of major corporations. That led to conducting research for four years at the MIT Sloan School of Business in strategic planning methodologies.

Forster serves as an advisory council member for Stanford University's Art Initiative. She’s treasurer of the Bald Eagle Association in Park City, Utah. Forster served as board vice-chair of the Family Service Agency of San Mateo County; trustee for the Coyote Point Museum and Santa Lucia Conservancy; fundraiser for Stanford School of Education; capital campaign chair for Crystal Springs School; and executive board member for the Modern Art Council. She’s held multiple community board positions in the areas of education, art, social services, and the environment. A member of the Asian Art Museum, Hoover Institution, Modern Arts Council at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Peninsula Open Space Trust, Forster is also an avid runner and skier, whose other interests include travel, photography, mentoring youth, contemporary art, Asian antiquities, Roman glass, and conservation. She earned her BA from Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, cum laude.