Ellen Taus Joins Simons Foundation Board of Trustees

The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce that financial executive Ellen Taus has joined its board of trustees.

Taus was the Rockefeller Foundation’s chief financial officer and treasurer from 2008 to 2018. In this capacity, she was responsible for the stewardship of the organization’s financial strategy. She oversaw the Rockefeller Foundation’s audit, tax, budgeting, insurance, cash management, compensation and benefits functions.

Before joining the Rockefeller Foundation, Taus was CFO of Oxford University Press USA, overseeing the publishing house’s business operations in the United States. From 1999 to 2003, she served as CFO of the Electronic Publishing Division of the New York Times Company, and previous to that was vice president and treasurer of the New York Times Company. Taus’ earlier experiences were as vice president for corporate finance for Macy’s and CFO for the American Museum of the Moving Image. She holds an MBA in finance and marketing from Columbia University and earned a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University. She completed Stanford University’s Stanford Executive Program in 1999.

Taus joins fellow Simons Foundation trustees Cori Bargmann, a neurobiologist and geneticist; physician-scientist Emery Brown; mathematician and physicist Ingrid Daubechies; mathematician David Eisenbud; investor and business leader Bill Ford; organizational advisor and investment professional Andrew Golden; physicist Peter Littlewood; mathematician Jill Pipher; computer scientist William H. Press; molecular biologist and vice chair Shirley M. Tilghman; and co-founder and chair Marilyn H. Simons.