Tim Gill
An American software entrepreneur and philanthropist, Tim Gill started the Denver, Colorado-based Gill Foundation in 1994. The foundation is dedicated to advancing equality by supporting nonprofit organizations that serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and allied individuals, as well as people with HIV/AIDS. Since its inception, the Gill Foundation has invested more than $178 million in nonprofit organizations throughout the country.
Tim has always been an advocate for civil rights. In addition to funding the gay and lesbian movement for equal rights, 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, a project of the Gill Foundation, Tim has provided financial support to numerous organizations which serve the general public, including nearly $1 million to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
Tim is founder and former chairman of Quark, Incorporated. He is recognized for revolutionizing the publishing industry with innovative, affordable, page-layout software. Tim founded Quark, Inc. in 1981 with a $2,000 loan from his parents and worked to build Quark, Inc. into a leading developer of page-layout software.
Tim and his husband, Scott Miller, live in Denver, Colorado.
Urvashi Vaid
Urvashi Vaid is an attorney and organizer in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) and broader social justice movement, and has served on the Board of the Gill Foundation since 2004.
She is the Director of the Engaging Tradition Project at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, a project that studies how tradition based arguments are deployed against, and by, the LGBT and feminist movements.
Vaid is the former executive director of the Arcus Foundation, a global social justice and conservation funder. She was Deputy Director of the Governance and Civil Society program of the Ford Foundation. Vaid held several leadership positions at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, including serving as its Executive Director, Media Director, and Director of its Policy Institute think-tank. She is a former staff attorney for the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she initiated the organization’s work on HIV/AIDS in prisons.
Vaid is author of Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation (Anchor, 1996); co-editor, with John D’Emilio and William Turner, of an anthology on public policy history titled Creating Change: Public Policy, Sexuality and Civil Rights (St. Martin’s Press, 2000). Her forthcoming book, Irresistible Revolution: Race, Sex, Class and the LGBT Imagination, will be published by Magnus Books in the Spring of 2012.
Vaid is a graduate of Vassar College and Northeastern University School of Law.
John Barabino
John Barabino was elected to the Gill Foundation’s board of directors in September 2010. An entrepreneur and executive of pioneering Internet companies like Google, DoubleClick, and Firefly, John’s aptitude for taking businesses and developing them from the ground up also extends around the globe to businesses he built and ran in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
At Google, John developed and directed the search engine’s multi-billion dollar syndication and distribution team that bridged and built strategic partnerships with worldwide companies like Apple, America Online (AOL), Amazon, eBay, The New York Times, France Telecom, and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT). He was also part of the founding team of Google’s Policy & Government Affairs office in Washington, D.C.
Following Google, John consulted with the Environmental Defense Fund to help drive policy and programmatic work around the smart grid, a data gathering and transmission system to help manage and predict energy supply and demand. One part of his project was the Pecan Street Project, an innovative public-private initiative to develop a local clean-energy power system for the city of Austin, Texas, where the Environmental Defense Fund is working with the city and Austin Energy on becoming the “utility of the future.”
John started his career in global business management and consulting with The Boston Consulting Group in London. He is a graduate of Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and Harvard Business School, where he was a Fulbright and Baker scholar. His studies also include graduate studies at the University of California Berkeley’s School of City & Regional Planning.
In addition to the Gill Foundation, John also serves on the board of the Community Foundation of Utah.
John and his husband, David Huebner, live in Salt Lake City, Utah with their son, Miles.
