Pete Van Kuran
President
About Peter
Pete Van Kuran and his wife Virginia have been living in Palo Alto, on the San Francisco Peninsula, for over 50 years. Pete has been an avid climber and backpacker since his first trip to Tuolumne Meadows in 1958. Since then, he has made more than 60 trips into the Yosemite backcountry. Today he enjoys introducing his grandchildren to the joys of the High Sierra and especially Yosemite.
Now retired, he spent an active career in business, working for a variety of Silicon Valley icons including Hewlett Packard, Tandem Computers, and Wind River Systems. Most of his business activities have been customer focused either in sales or marketing and business operations, and he brings this background to help Balanced Rock move to the next stage of its development. Pete serves as President of the Board for Balanced Rock and as treasurer for another Yosemite non-profit: Restore Hetch Hetchy. He is also an active project participant of the Alumni Consulting Team of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.