Our Board
David Dechman
David retired in 2003 from The Goldman Sachs Group as co-head of Private Wealth Management in the Americas. At the time of his departure, the business earned revenue of more than $1 billion, managing roughly $200 billion for wealthy individual investors. »More about David
David joined the firm in 1987, and became a partner in 1998. David was the first openly gay partner of Goldman Sachs and the most senior openly gay person on Wall Street at the time.
David is a board member and treasurer of the Gill Foundation. He also serves on the investment committee for the Arcus Foundation. He is a trustee of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. From 1999-2003, David served as a founding trustee of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, which focuses on high potential youth.
David is a trustee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. He serves as a member of the advisory board of Harvard Business School (HBS) Initiative on Social Enterprise, and is chair of the alumni advisory board for the HBS Social Enterprise Student Club. David is also a member of the Photography Committee of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
David serves on the advisory board of Indivision India Partners, a Mumbai, India based private equity firm which is focused on the consumer sector in that country.
David earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1982, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1987. His prior work experience was in an oil refinery with Chevron Corporation.
David lives in New York City and recently celebrated his 10th anniversary with his partner, Michel Mercure.
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 Tim Gill
A successful entrepreneur, Tim Gill is an active philanthropist who cares passionately about many issues. Through both his philanthropy and socially conscious business practices, Tim is setting a powerful example by valuing all people for their unique talents, backgrounds, and skills. »More about Tim
Tim founded the Gill Foundation in 1994 with the mission of securing equal opportunity for all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender expression. Through the Gill Foundation, Tim provides millions of dollars annually to gay and lesbian and HIV/AIDS organizations along with other charitable causes.
Tim has always been an advocate for civil rights. In addition to funding the gay and lesbian movement for equal rights by supporting hundreds of national and state-wide organizations, he is also a strong supporter of social justice organizations and educational institutions. Tim was one of the first major contributors to the Colorado AIDS Project and has long supported local public radio and television through program underwriting.
Through the Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado, established by the Gill Foundation, Tim has provided financial support to numerous organizations which serve the general public, such as $100,000 to the American Red Cross for flood relief in Fort Collins, Colorado, more than $200,000 to the Colorado Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and nearly $1 million to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
As founder and former Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Quark, Inc., a desktop and internet software company, Tim was recognized as an innovative business leader. Tim founded Quark, Inc. in 1981 with a $2,000 loan from his parents, and worked to build Quark into a leading developer of page layout software for the graphics market.
Tim is an avid snowboarder, parasailer, and hiker, recently reaching the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Tim and his partner Scott Miller live in Denver, Colorado.
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 Urvashi Vaid
Urvashi Vaid was elected to the board of directors in September 2004. Widely recognized for her work as a gay rights activist and leader, she brings a wealth of knowledge, insight and experience to the foundation's mission and to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movement. »More about Urvashi
Urvashi is executive director of the Arcus Foundation, a funder of the LGBT movement and a major international funder of the conservation of Great Apes and their natural habitat. She is an attorney and community organizer who has worked in the LGBT movement for more than two decades. From 2001-2005, Urvashi worked at the Ford Foundation where she served as the deputy director of the Governance and Civil Society Unit of the Peace and Social Justice Program. She worked for many years with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF) in different roles, including as media director, executive director and director of the NGLTF Policy Institute. She is also a former staff attorney with the ACLU's National Prison Project and a former columnist for The Advocate. She is the author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation (Anchor, 1996), co-editor of Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality and Civil Rights (St. Martin's Press, 2000) and has penned numerous articles on gay and lesbian rights.
As a board member, Urvashi is deeply involved in the board's role as an advisor to the foundation, as well as in the development of long-term strategies and objectives.
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