Tad Taube is Chairman of Taube Philanthropies, President Emeritus of the Koret Foundation and Chairman of Woodmont Companies. He was Chairman and CEO of Koracorp Industries, Inc. prior to its merger with Levi Strauss. Taube was Founder of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1982 and was principal owner of its Oakland Invaders Football Franchise. Taube served as Trustee of the University of Notre Dame de Namur, the University of San Francisco, and as Governor of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At Stanford University, in 1986 he was Founder and since then Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Taube Center for Jewish Studies; and Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of SIEPR. In 2007, Taube was named Founder and Distinguished Benefactor of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland. In 2014, Hoover Institution awarded Taube the Uncommon Commitment Award; and Stanford President John L. Hennessy awarded him the Remarkable Generosity Acknowledgment; in 2014, Taube was inducted into the Stanford Real Estate Hall of Fame. He was Director and Chairman of Stanford’s Athletic Board. His involvement in Stanford athletics includes his family's gift to Stanford's Taube Family Tennis Stadium, Stanford’s Football Stadium and his endowment for the Taube Director of Men’s Tennis. In 2007, he received the Corporate Citizenship Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In 2007 and 2013, Taube was recognized by The Forward newspaper as being among the fifty most influential Jews in the US. In 2004, the President of the Republic of Poland awarded Taube Poland's highest civilian medal: the Commander's Cross, and in 2015 the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2007, he was named Honorary Consul for the Republic of Poland. Taube received his BS and MS degrees from Stanford University and served as an officer in the United States Air Force. He is married to Dianne Panos Taube.