If given the choice to stay in a lucrative C-suite role at one of Silicon Valley’s most storied companies or dive headfirst into a leadership role at a nonprofit, which would you pick?

For Bryan Neider ’78, the answer was simple. He had spent more than two decades at Electronic Arts—joining pre-IPO and eventually rising to senior vice president, CFO of Worldwide Studios, and COO of global operations, guiding operational efficiency and product quality. After 25 years, he started asking himself: What’s next?