Stephen BOURDOW

Stephen Bourdow was crew for Paul Foerster in the Flying Dutchman class at the 1992 Olympics. Bourdow started sailing on Cowan Lake in Ohio at age 10. Later in his career, he raced single-handed boats, racing Lasers for over 15 years, and competing six times at the Laser World Championships.

Bourdow attended Tulane, graduating in 1989, and then obtained an MBA from Santa Clara University in 2003. In between he spent eight years at Stanford as the head sailing coach and associate campaign director for major gifts. From 2004-13 Bourdow was senior director of development for the Santa Clara University school of engineering. He then spent several years as executive vice-president in charge of sales at Focal Upright Furniture, before becoming chief development officer at Positive Coaching Alliance, a non-profit that was founded at Stanford in the Department of Athletics in 1998.