Steve Daetz is the president of the Sandler Foundation, where he has overseen grantmaking since 2007. He previously had a business law practice at the law firm Cooley and was vice president and deputy general counsel at a Fortune 500 company, advising the board and senior management on corporate and securities matters, regulatory compliance, and governance and public policy issues.

A San Francisco Bay area native, Daetz received a J.D. from Berkeley Law, an M.A. from the London School of Economics as a Rotary Foundation scholar, and a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has served on the boards of several nonprofit organizations.