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Keith Adams CFO, Like.com • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Keith Adams is the CFO at Like.com. He brings over 25 years of executive, financial expertise and entrepreneurship Management. Keith's broad experience includes developing new business models, IPO's, and raising debt and equity from private sources. Prior to joining Like.com, Keith was CFO at OpSource where he lead the company through 3 rounds of equity financings, raised and restructured its debt, and brought the company to profitability. His past experience also includes Andale where he was the CFO, CFO at Appshop, VP of Finance at Centerbeam, Corporate Controller at RealNetworks, Sr. Director of Finance & Operations at Oracle. In addition, he was CEO and founder of Zero260, an Indian-based Finance BPO for technology companies. Keith holds a CPA certificate, CMA certificate and a degree in Accounting from University of Wisconsin. Return to top  Karen AldenConsultant, • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Karen has twenty years of business experience, primarily in the areas of marketing and strategic planning. She spent many years in the cable television industry, holding senior executive positions at the Walt Disney Company, Fox Television, the Home Shopping Network, and USA Networks. Her most recent full-time position was as CEO of Dr. McDougall's Right Foods, Inc. Karen is currently contributing her management and marketing experience in the non-profit realm. She is a member of the Steering Committee for Harvard Business School's Community Partners Program, which provides pro bono consulting to Bay Area non-profits. She also serves on the board of directors of Hope Street Group, a bipartisan organization that develops policies that enhance economic opportunity. Karen has served on local boards or provided consulting services to a variety of Bay Area organizations, including the following: - Peninsula Symphony Orchestra - E3--Education, Excellence and Equity - Redwood City Police Activities League - Destiny Arts Center - Center for Youth - Peninsula Bridge Program Karen graduated with a BA from Boston College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is currently working toward a Certificate in Early Childhood Education and has completed numerous courses in non-profit management and grantwriting. Return to top  Jennifer AnastasoffPresident, EnCorps Teachers Program • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Jennifer Anastasoff has over 10 years of experience in education and community service. Her work includes teaching in the classroom through Teach for America, serving as an analyst in the California Legislature, and working in a for-profit education corporation. She has been a speaker at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and has presented papers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and at the Comparative International Education Society Conference. Ms. Anastasoff has a Masters in Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she received the prestigious Public Service Fellowship. She also has a Bachelors degree from the University of California, Irvine in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science. Return to top  Mike AndersFounding Partner, Iconiq Capital • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Unaffiliated Michael Anders is a founding partner of Iconiq Capital, a global multifamily office based in San Francisco. Prior to his current role, he worked at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity Investments and Societe Generale (in Paris and London). He received his B.A./B.S. in Political Science and Communication Studies from the University of Rhode Island, as well as a certificate in International Economics from Columbia University. He lives in San Francisco, CA with his wife Delphine, and their three children, Lella, Romeo and Luna. Return to top  Denise AptekarDirector, PayPal • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Technology Denise is the Director of Risk Management Strategy at PayPal. Her past roles at PayPal were in content and product management, the latest one being the Director of Product Management for Consumer Protections and Risk Management. Denise led PayPal's early efforts to allow consumers to use their bank accounts to fund online payments. She was responsible for building the bank funded payment model, as well as an accompanying patented risk model that assesses the risk of instant online bank payments. She also was part of the team that designed a patented system for building an online dispute resolution system that allows buyers and sellers to work out their transaction related complaints directly with one another. Prior to PayPal, Denise worked on PlanetWeb's parental control software which enabled parents to limit what websites their children could access online. Previously she was the Content Manager for eDaycare.com, a start up whose goal was to place webcams in daycare centers so that parents could watch their children remotely during the day. Denise is active in a range of volunteer and philanthropic activities. She completed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Leadership Development Program, has interned with Senator Barbara Boxer and at the American Jewish Committee's National Office in Washington, D.C. and is a member of the San Francisco Jewish Community Endowment Fund's Young Funders' Forum. Denise enjoys participating in intellectual and political discourse, hiking and traveling. Denise earned her B.A. from Stanford University in Political Science. Return to top  Timothy ArnoldChief Auditor, Visa Inc. • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Tim joined Visa as Chief Auditor in February 2008, and is responsible for leading the Global Internal Audit and Forensic Investigations teams. He reports directly to the Board of Visa Inc., and is an active participant on Visa's Executive Management Committee, Corporate Risk Committee, Ethics & Compliance Committee, and Enterprise Risk Management Leadership Team. Prior to Visa, Tim was Senior Vice President at State Street Corporation in Boston; Head of Enterprise Risk Management and Sarbanes Oxley Compliance at Washington Mutual's Card Services Division in San Francisco; and Senior Vice President with American Express Company in New York. Tim began his career with Fleet Bank in Boston (now Bank of America) after receiving a B.A. in Economics from Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. Tim is a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Financial Services Auditor, and is a member of the Institute of Internal Auditors, the Association of Fraud Auditors, and the Commonwealth Club of California. Return to top  Adam Bad WoundMajor Gifts Associate, California Academy of Sciences • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Adam is a development professional and sociologist of philanthropy and civil society. He works as Major Gifts Associate at the California Academy of Sciences, a world-class scientific and cultural institution in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Certified in research administration at Stanford University, Adam previously served the Haas Center for Public Service and Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Adam is active on numerous nonprofit boards and community organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and served on the advisory board of the Third Millennium Philanthropy and Leadership Initiative at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. He currently serves on the steering committee of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy Bay Area Chapter. Adam holds a B.A. with double majors in multicultural studies and religion from St. Olaf College; M.A. in education from Columbia University; M.A. in education policy and M.A. in sociology from Stanford University. Return to top  Deborah BarronAttorney, Farella Braun + Martel • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Deborah Barron is an associate in Farella Braun + Martel's Business Litigation and Employment practice groups. Ms. Barron represents clients in a variety of complex civil litigation in state and federal court. Prior to joining Farella Braun + Martel, she clerked for the Honorable Ronald Gilman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She also served as an extern for the Honorable Susan Illston of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Return to top  Andrew BartlowVP Human Resources Business Partner Team Leader, Wells Fargo • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education After living in 7 states over the past 12 years, Andrew Bartlow relocated to San Francisco in 2007 in what he hopes will be his final move. He currently serves as the Vice President of Human Resources at Wachovia Bank, supporting over 5000 team members across the Western US, and is now deeply involved in the Wells Fargo merger. The son of Midwestern educators and entrepreneurs, Andrew has held a number of recruitment and HR leadership roles within several start-ups and some of the world's largest organizations, including General Electric and Pepsi. He received a B.A. in Organizational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana, attended the Graduate School of Labor and Employment Relations as an Ingersoll Rand Corporate Fellow, sits on the Alumni Board of that program, and currently holds a SPHR certification. Andrew is a co-founder of Wachovia Volunteers in the Bay Area, serves on the California Advisory Council of the BizWorld Foundation, and when he is not volunteering, he sails, skis, and competes in beach volleyball tournaments. Andrew strongly believes in engaged philanthropy, and hopes to use his skills in strategic planning, leadership development, org design, and change management to further strengthen the support that the Full Circle Fund provides to its grantees. Return to top  Hannah BascomMBA Leadership Associate, PG&E • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Hannah Bascom is currently in a leadership rotational program at Pacific Gas & Electric Program. Her first rotation has been in the Customer Energy Solutions Group where she manages PG&E's low income program as well as the governance process for PG&E's energy efficiency products. Hannah graduated in 2010 from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, where she concentrated in Strategy, Economics, General Management and Entrepreneurship. Prior to business school, Hannah worked at two nonprofits in Boston. First at Citizen Schools, a leading national educational reform organization, where she ran a Master's Program for the organization's Fellowship. Afterwards, Hannah spent a year managing an entrepreneurship program at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, which promotes economic development in cities through private sector engagement. Hannah grew up in Sunapee New Hampshire, which has 2,500 people and one stop light. Ironically, she concentrated in Urban Studies at Brown University, where she graduated in 2005 with a BA with Honors. Return to top  Matt BauerPresident, BetterWorld Telecom • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Matt has worked to improve communities in the U.S. and abroad in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors for more than 20 years. Before co-founding BetterWorld Telecom in 2002, Matt served in a series of leadership roles in the telecommunications and power industries, including the AES Corporation, NETtel Communications and Valucom. He has helped to start or significantly grow a number of non-profits over the past 10 years including the Charleston, SC-based Lowcountry Local First, the Sitar Center for Children and the Arts in Washington, DC, and Atlanta-based True Colors Theatre Company. Matt is a member of the Social Venture Network and on the board of directors for the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, GreenNonprofits, the Noisette Foundation, and the Charleston Regional Alliance for the Arts. He holds a BA in Telecommunications from Indiana University, an MBA from The George Washington University and has completed executive coursework at MIT. Matt is co-editor and co-author of the upcoming Green Non-Profits Handbook, to be published by Wiley & Sons in late 2009, and speaks often on the topic of sustainability in the telecommunications industry and local living economies, most recently at the 2009 CTIA Green Telecom Summit, the Atlanta GreenBusinessWorks Expo, and the Association for Enterprise Opportunity Regional Flavor Cluster Conference. Return to top  Josh BeckerGeneral Partner, New Cycle Capital • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Josh has a long history as a business entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and General Partner of New Cycle Capital, an early stage venture capital firm working with entrepreneurs who want to want to change the world. New Cycle's investments include OPower, Renewable Funding, PeoplePower, GoalSpring, Saber es Poder, and Terrapass. Josh is a National leader in clean energy policy as well as clean energy investing. He is a co-founder of both Cleantech for Obama and the Clean Economy Network (www.cleaneconomy.net). Previously he was at Redpoint Ventures, DCM, McKinsey & Co, Netscape, and Agile Software. He was the 2nd employee at EarthWeb, which went public in 1998. In 2000 Josh founded Full Circle Fund and continues to serve as Board Chair. He was recently a project lead in building GreenCitiesCalifornia.org. For the last six years he has been on the Board of Full Circle Fund grantee, One Economy (www.one.economy.com), and is Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for the University of California at Merced. He has a MBA and JD from Stanford and serves on the Advisory Board for the Stanford Business School Fund. Return to top  Sophia BelloliAssociate Attorney, Hanson Bridgett LLP • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Sophia Belloli practices water law, environmental law, land use law and litigation at Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco. Sophia advises public and private clients on water issues and environmental and CEQA/NEPA compliance. She is experienced in water quality and hazardous substance litigation, as well as water rights disputes and water transfers. Sophia received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2005, her B.A. from UCLA in 2002, and is a member of the State Bar of California. Sophia is active in pro bono legal activities in San Francisco, including the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights' Asylum Project, through which she provides legal representation to indigent refugees. Sophia is also a member of the Junior League of San Francisco. Sophia has taught legal writing and research to first-year law students at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and contributed articles to Argent Communications Group's California Water Law & Policy Reporter. As a law student, Sophia externed with the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Pasadena, California. Return to top Nicole Bien Ph.D. Candidate, University of Sydney • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Nicole currently conducts comparative research on summative and formative assessment data use and its impact on student achievement in the U.S. and in Australia through the University of Sydney. Her other research interest focuses on inclusive education. Nicole's Ph.D. research interest combines her business experience, and passion for educating disadvantaged student population, which began with her non-profit involvement as a school tutor, board, advisory and executive committee member with the Mountain View/Los Altos school district, Fresh Lifeline for Youth, and Resource Area for Teachers. Prior to immersing herself in academic research, Nicole spent over a decade managing brand and product marketing, market research and operations for multinational companies. She created and launched multiple industry-leading behavioral targeting products that brought in new and profitable revenue streams. She also launched Y! Local, Y! Answer and Y! Translator globally. At General Motors, she launched a brand campaign for the first American auto joint venture in China. Leveraging the strong brand equity that Nicole helped build, and guided by the market insights of her team, GM built China's first domestic luxury vehicle along with a global car for the neighboring emerging markets, a major revenue contribution to GM's overall business today. Nicole holds a MA in Education from the University of Sydney, MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Yale University. Return to top Radha Blackman Executive Director, The HAND Foundation • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Radha Blackman is the Executive Director of The HAND Foundation, a private foundation focused on economic development and the field of philanthropy. Previously she was the Director of Development at PARSA Community Foundation. Radha's experience includes working as a program associate in the external affairs department at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. She also served as the Director of Administration at the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN), where she helped launch iEARN's programs in South Asia and the Middle East. She was a Fulbright scholar in Bulgaria where she conducted research in civic education. Radha earned an M.A. in International Educational Development from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a B.A. from Smith College in Asian History. Return to top  Mikhal BouganimPrincipal, Compass Financial Communications • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Mikhal is a strategic communications/investor relations consultant who develops targeted communications that improve valuation and expand shareholder support. She founded her own firm in 2000 after working at two top NY-based agencies, Dun & Bradstreet, the Consulate General of Israel in Boston. She graduated from Brandeis and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She currently serves as a mentor for Endeavor, a non-profit organization supporting entrepreneurs in developing markets. Return to top  Anne Boyd RabkinIndependent Consultant, Boyd Rabkin Consulting • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Anne Boyd Rabkin has worked in the nonprofit sector for a decade, executing communications, advocacy and evaluation strategies for public health and environmental nonprofits. She currently runs Boyd Rabkin Consulting. Anne was previously at Resource Media, a nonprofit communications consulting firm, where promoted news coverage on energy and climate science and helps journalists localize the story about global warming. At PATH, a global health organization, Anne worked on the Reproductive Health and Children's Vaccines Programs. Her work has resulted in articles in leading news outlets, such as The New York Times and Science magazine, a variety of publications, and increased awareness among policymakers, physicians and community leaders about health policy issues ranging from cervical cancer prevention to the Rotavirus vaccine. Anne's global health experience includes consulting for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and working at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC. Before PATH, Anne worked on the evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Library Program, assessing the impact of public access computing on low-income communities. Anne holds a Master's in Public Administration from the University of Washington and a B.A. in Sociology, Phi Beta Kappa, from the Pennsylvania State University. Return to top  Michelle BranchAttorney & Founder, Branch Law Group • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Michelle Branch's interests straddle the academic, business and art worlds. Close to completing a Ph.D. in history at UC Berkeley, her dissertation examines the social implications of consumption practices--particularly eating--in the nineteenth-century U.S. On the business side, she runs a boutique law practice specializing in venture-backed and IP transactions. Having trained for several years as an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Michelle served as interim general counsel for the publicly traded company, Media Arts Group, Inc. and the senior corporate associate for Google Inc. Involved in the contemporary art scene, Michelle advises the Alvin Baltrop Trust, based in New York City. Michelle holds undergraduate and law degrees from Stanford University. Return to top  Annette BrintonPrincipal, Wealth Manager, Waypoint Wealth Partners • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Annette is a principal at Waypoint Wealth Partners, a wealth management firm in San Francisco. Prior to co-founding Waypoint Wealth Partners, Annette had her own firm and worked as a Client Advisor for two independent wealth management firms in the Bay Area. Annette is a CFP and a CPA and has over 17 years of experience as a finance professional. She started her career at Ernst & Young in 1991 and spent over 10 years in corporate finance and operations. She has worked extensively in 22 countries around the world including a year living in Hong Kong and three years in London. Annette holds a BA in Business Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and earned a graduate certificate from the UC Berkeley Personal Financial Planning Program. She is an active member of the Financial Planning Association and strong supporter of Women's Initiative and Junior Achievement. Annette lives in San Francisco with her husband Adrian and is an avid traveler and enjoys cycling, snowboarding, cooking and entertaining in her free time. Return to top  Stephen BronsteinCOO, IODA • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Steve is the Chief Operating Officer at IODA, a digital music distributor for independent record labels. Steve has been involved with digital music for over eighteen years, starting at Media Touch / Media Digital Systems, where he oversaw manufacturing of the Media Touch studio automation product line. In 1996, Steve founded WebYes, Inc, an industry pioneer Application Service Provider acquired by Breakaway Solutions in 1999. After the acquisition, Steve drove the operational integration effort and ran the product management group for Breakaway ASP hosting. Prior to joining IODA, Steve worked with early stage social media, Internet services and music promotion companies in San Francisco and Hong Kong. Steve attended the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology; he holds a BSE in Finance from the Wharton School of Economics and a BSE in Systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Return to top Stephen Brooks VP, Charitable Planning Consultant, Fidelity Charitable • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Stephen Brooks is a vice president and a charitable planning consultant for Fidelity Charitable, a national donor advised fund program and a leader in providing charitable solutions to financial advisors and their clients, helping them to achieve their philanthropic goals. Mr. Brooks came to Fidelity Charitable with many years of sales experience in the financial services industry. In his former position, he was in intermediary sales at Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Inc. Prior to that, he held several sales and sales management roles at Merrill Lynch, Wachovia Securities and Arthur Andersen. Mr. Brooks received his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and an MBA degree from Colorado State University. Return to top Jordan Brophy-Hilton Director, Program Engagement, New Teacher Center • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Jordan is the Director of Program Engagement for the New Teacher Center, a national non profit dedicated to accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers. Prior to joining NTC, Jordan worked as an administrator in the Curriculum and Assessment department for the Chicago Public Schools, and taught first grade as a Teach for America corps member. At NTC, Jordan directs the expanding pipeline of NTC clients, working directly with state and district superintendents and other leadership to implement the NTC approach to new teacher support. Jordan also oversees RFP, contract and grant efforts for new client partnerships. Jordan has a BS from Syracuse University and a Masters in Education from Harvard University. Return to top  Lucy BurnsMarketing Analyst, Oodle, Inc. • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Lucy Burns, originally from Colorado, lived on the east coast for 5 years, before settling in San Francisco. She received a degree in Mathematics and Spanish from Skidmore College where she was actively involved in on campus activism and the Spanish society. Since moving to the bay area Lucy has worked in both Analytics and Marketing at Oodle Inc. a social classifieds start up. In her free time she enjoys writing, learning new languages, hiking in the bay area and playing Ultimate Frisbee. Return to top  Andrew ByrnesPartner, Covington & Burling, LLP • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Andrew Byrnes is a partner at Covington & Burling, a global full-service law firm. He has represented some of America's most innovative companies and individuals in the software, semiconductor, telecommunications and internet sectors, in patent and complex commercial disputes, and in intellectual property transactions. In addition, he has represented pro bono a Chinese asylum applicant and an elderly victim of a predatory lender, among others. Andrew is also active in charitable causes. He is a Director of the Commonweal Institute, a non-profit progressive think tank, and emcees the Cystic Fibrosis Research, Inc. annual educational conference. In addition, he served on Redwood City's Housing & Human Concerns Committee. Recently, Andrew traveled to rural Cameroon to build houses with a Habitat for Humanity Global Village team. Andrew has been active in Democratic Party politics since he was 12 years old. Most recently, Andrew served as Chair of the San Mateo County Democratic Party. Andrew received his B.A., with honors and distinction, in political science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. Return to top  Eva Camp• Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Eva serves on the Board of Full Circle Fund. A mother of three children, she dedicates her time to improving education. She currently leads the Parents Association with over 600 volunteers and serves on the Board of Trustees at Head-Royce, her children's school. She also serves on the Board of National Equity Project (formerly BAYCES), which coaches people to become the leaders who deliver on the promise of a quality education for every child in America. Eva worked for more than 10 years at Microsoft, marketing some of the company's most successful products, including Word, Office and consumer titles. Her last role there was Director of Market Planning and Analysis for Microsoft's line of home products. Other highlights at Microsoft include helping lead the turnaround in the company's Japanese application software business during a 3 year stint in Microsoft's Far East region and leading the first worldwide launch of Microsoft Office in over 25 languages. Prior to Microsoft, she worked in product management at Proctor & Gamble. Eva has a BA from Harvard University Eva has a BA from Harvard University. Return to top  Jeff Camp• Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Jeff Camp grew up in California, attending public schools in the Bay Area. During high school he developed an interest in education policy as an active member of the California Association of Student Councils. He earned his BA at Harvard in East Asian Studies, where he studied Japanese. He worked for 12 years at Microsoft in Redmond and Tokyo in roles in marketing, product leadership, and general management. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2001, Jeff has been a very active member of Full Circle Fund's Education Circle, which he now chairs. He is the lead author of the Education Impact Guide, a summary of competing strategies for improving education in California. Jeff is a frequent speaker and writer on education issues. He served on the California Governor's Committee on Education Excellence, and was a reviewer for the Race to the Top competition. Return to top  Michelle CarreonBuyer Merchandising Admin Asst, Levi Strauss & Co. • Cooordinator member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Growing up on the border of Texas and Mexico, Michelle's involvement in social work on both sides of the border developed into a passion for travel and economic issues. After receiving her BA from Loyola University Chicago she traveled for four months visiting 10 countries in 2 continents. On her return to the States she pursued a career in small business development as a Marketing Consultant for a national franchise (BAB, Inc.) of "Mom-and-Pop" cafés focusing on grassroots efforts for four years. She continued to assist sole proprietors in the massage industry by providing marketing tools and services in the role of Retention Manager for the largest non-profit association of massage therapists (AMTA) in the country before moving to San Francisco in 2009. She has continued to pursue her passion in small businesses development and economic opportunity by coaching and consulting small business owners nationally while contracting for CB Richard Ellis Property Management and volunteering with The Volunteer Center of San Francisco. Return to top  Margret CarusoPartner, Quinn Emanuel • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Margret Caruso is a partner in the law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, which she joined in 2002 in its New York Office. Margret moved to Quinn's Silicon Valley Office in 2005. where she focuses on trial and appellate work, primarily in intellectual property fields. Margret has litigated significant copyright, trademark, and false advertising matters, including the use of and "theft of ideas" copyright cases involving television shows and films. Margret has a B.A. from Boston University in Politics and Public Policy and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. Return to top  Katherine CaseyProgram Associate, Education Pioneers • Community Fellow member • Impact Circle: Education At Education Pioneers, Katherine is part of a national movement to develop innovative leaders for the education sector. Her belief that visionary, collaborative leadership can transform education was sparked in college when she co-directed a youth mentorship program, taught with the East Palo Alto Stanford Academy, and developed teaching materials for Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. At Stanford's Haas Center for Public Service, Katherine developed student leaders and co-taught a course on education equity. She participated in the Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs, studying local policy at the Mayor's Office, California School Employees' Association, and SF School Alliance. Most recently, she learned from a range of schools, out-of-school programs, and education advocates at the Silver Giving Foundation. Katherine is active in the community, serving on the Board of Directors for the Mission Learning Center and volunteering with the Haas and Coro Centers. She was a member of Northern California Grantmakers' Summer Youth Project and was a San Francisco New Leaders Council Fellow in 2009. Katherine received her degree in American history from Stanford. Return to top  April ChouPartner, NewSchools Venture Fund • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education April Chou is a partner in the West Coast office of NewSchools Venture Fund. As part of the leadership team, April has responsibility for investment strategy and management. She also leads the organization's development efforts and is currently raising NewSchools Fund IV, which will invest in early-stage, innovative organizations to improve public education so that all children have access to a high quality education. April has been with NewSchools since 2004. In her previous role, she focused on expanding the NewSchools Network and developing communities of practice to strengthen the knowledge, learning and impact of NewSchools' portfolio organizations. During this time, she also worked with the KIPP Foundation to shape its network growth strategy and helped KIPP Bay Area Schools transform its governance structure from six separate schools into a charter school management organization. April's experience spans the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Prior to joining NewSchools, she was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in San Francisco, Beijing, and Washington, DC, where she advised clients on strategy, organization, and operations. As a Nonprofit Practice Community Fellow, she served nonprofit clients and helped build the firm's knowledge base about the social sector. April received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. She completed her graduate work at Stanford University, where she received an MBA from the Graduate School of Business and an MA from the School of Education. Return to top  Katie ColendichAttorney, O'Melveny & Myers LLP • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Katie is a transactional attorney with O'Melveny & Myers LLP in San Francisco. Her practice focuses on representing issuers and investment banks in registered offerings and private placements of debt and equity. Katie also advises corporations on securities law compliance, disclosure issues and corporate governance matters. Katie received her B.A. in English and her B.S. in political science from Santa Clara University, with honors, and a J.D. from the University of Washington, School of Law. Katie is on the board of directors of TMC Development Working Solutions and a supporter of Spark and the International Museum of Women. In her free time, Katie enjoys tennis, traveling, classical guitar, running and learning new languages. Return to top  Paul CollinsExecutive Director, College Summit • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education With a B.A. from Duke University (1986), and an M.A. in Organizational Development and Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies (2000), Collins brings to College Summit a variety of experience in the public and private sectors. Collins spent 12 years working as Assistant Vice President and Relationship Manager at ChaseMellon Shareholder Services. Prior to his work at ChaseMellon, Collins served as a Crisis Intervention Teacher with the New York City Board of Education. Return to top  Amy CurrinProgram Officer, The HALO Trust • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Amy currently works in fundraising and development for The HALO Trust, the world's leading humanitarian landmine clearance organization. She spent her first few weeks at HALO learning to demine in Sri Lanka and also spent time learning Explosive Ordnance Disposal in Angola. Prior to joining HALO, she worked in London in a Business Development role for Marie Curie Cancer Care, one of the UK's largest charities. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BA in Communication (hons) from the University of Cincinnati. Return to top  Carolyn DaviesConsultant, The Boston Consulting Group • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Carolyn Davies is a member of The Boston Consulting Group's Education and Global Health practices. She has worked and volunteered in education organizations and nonprofits across the globe, including spending a summer with the United Nations Development Programme's Growing Sustainable Business initiative in Moldova. She holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University, and joint MBA and MA in Education degrees from Stanford University, where she served as co-president of the Graduate School of Business Student Association. Carolyn enjoys modern fiction, board games, dance, triathlons, and spending time at the restaurants and dive bars in San Francisco's Mission District, where she calls home. Return to top  Melissa DaviniResearch Associate & Executive Administrator, Medicines360 • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Melissa is personally and professionally committed to international development, women's empowerment, and global health. Her first taste of international development was with the Peace Corps, where she served two years in Thailand as an education volunteer. She then worked for the Institute of World Health in logistics, solidifying her dedication to the field of global health and initiating her passion for social enterprise. Melissa obtained a Masters in International Development from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins and also has a BA in literature from UCSB. She now works for Medicinces360, supporting the growth of this young non-profit pharmaceutical company with research. A Bay Area native, she is excited to be home and re-engaging with the local grassroots movements for which this area is so famous. Return to top  Kate DeYoeNon-Profit Program Consultant, • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Kate had an 8-year career as a business consultant, most recently at Deloitte & Touche. She has diverse experience; quantifying economic damages in litigation matters associated with business disputes, quantifying lost profits after the temporary cessation of business or business units, and providing economics consulting regarding the intercompany transactions of multinational corporations. Kate transitioned to the non-profit sector to focus on poverty alleviation, and has served as a consultant to numerous organizations focused on homelessness, affordable housing, asset building and microenterprise. Kate sits on the board of directors of BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency), is a member of the Grantmaking Committee of the Berkeley Community Fund, and is a graduate of Leadership Berkeley. She earned a BS in Business Administration from Bucknell University. She enjoys an eclectic mix of music, skiing AND snowboarding, cycling, and rock climbing. Return to top  Harrison DillonPresident & Chief Technology Officer, Solazyme, Inc. • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Harrison Dillon is the President, Chief Technology Officer, and co-founder of Solazyme. Dr. Dillon is a pioneer and thought leader in the renewables field. He and Jonathan Wolfson started Solazyme in their Palo Alto garage at a time when few in Silicon Valley had heard of the concept of biofuels. From garage startup to a sector leader, Dr. Dillon has guided the company's renewable oil production technology development through numerous phases. In 2010 Dr. Dillon was the highest ranked scientist in Biofuels Digest's "Top 100 People to Know in Bioenergy." He is an inventor on over 30 of Solazyme's patents and patent applications. Dr. Dillon's scientific training in the field of microbial genetics began in the Microbiology and Immunology Department at Emory University. His later research was performed in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah, where he received his Ph.D. in genetics. Dr. Dillon went on to manage the biotechnology patent portfolio of the University of Utah in the University's Technology Transfer Office. Dr. Dillon received a J.D. from Duke University School of Law and is licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He is a member of the State Bar of California and was an Associate in the Biotechnology Group at Townsend and Townsend and Crew. Dr. Dillon has authored articles in scientific, business, and legal journals. Return to top  Stephen DodsonPresident and Portfolio Manager, Bretton Fund • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Stephen Dodson is currently a Portfolio Manager at Bretton Fund. Prior to that he was President of Parnassus Investments, an investment management firm in San Francisco. He started at Parnassus Investments in 2002 and has worked in a number of areas within the firm, including investment research, shareholder services, technology and compliance. Before Parnassus, he worked for the venture capital group of Advent International, a private equity firm. Stephen covered the software and communication sectors, identifying early-stage companies for venture investment. Previously, he worked in the investment banking group of Morgan Stanley in New York and Menlo Park. He has a BS in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco. He serves on the National Advisory Council of UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies and the Board of Directors of Full Circle Fund. Return to top  Nick DriverVP, School Support and Development, California Association of Charter Schools • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education As the Vice President of School Development and Outreach for the California Charter Schools Association's Northern California Region, Nick provides an array of services for existing charter schools and supports charter developers who are interested in opening up new charter schools in the Bay Area and Northern California coastal regions. Nick earned a Bachelor's Degree in Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and speaks fluent Mandarin. He brings a diverse background in journalism, international affairs, and education activism to his charter school work. He supports 200 schools in the northern half of the state, and his local advocacy and support for charters has led to the creation of more than 100 new charter public schools during his tenure, while supporting existing charter schools to grow stronger and to focus on increasing student achievement. Nick continues to be involved in local education reform efforts. He has served on San Francisco Unified Board of Education's Parent Advisory Council, and assisted PAC becoming voting members of the SF Board of Education. Nick has spent a significant part of his career working in China, first as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and United Press International, and then running two political and economic research firms. Return to top  Penny DyerCEO, Curriculum Design Institute • Community Fellow member • Impact Circle: Education Penny Dyer is currently the CEO of Curriculum Design Institute, a curriculum and instructional development company, in business since 1996. She recently served as director of professional development and implementation for Edgenuity, an educational software and service company that provides an on-demand, instructional analytic system to enable K-12 districts systematic integration of curriculum, instruction, and assessment that predictably increases student achievement. She was Chair of the Education Department at JFK University. She has worked in the field of education since 1972 and has been actively involved in professional development programs for teachers since 1976. She taught at the K-12 levels as an English teacher and Reading/Language Specialist, worked as a school district administrator, and taught at the university level for the CSU, UC, and private schools. Dr. Dyer worked delivered and designed professional development programs for educational textbook and software publishers as well as for technology hardware companies (e.g., Apple Computer, Scholastic, Houghton Mifflin) and for numerous school districts throughout the United States. She directed the CDI staff for over 11 years and understands the group's capabilities and productivity levels. She is President of ITTT, a non-profit, 401c3 organization focused on obtaining and evaluating grant projects for schools. Recently with CDI and ITTT, she completed a successful technology enhancement project at Lodi Unified School District funded through a $800,000. two-year Enhancing Education through Technology State Department of Education Grant that she and her staff secured and directed. Return to top Aimee Epstein Site Development, Recurrent Energy • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Aimee Epstein assists with the procurement of environmental entitlements and discretionary permits for Recurrent Energy, a leading distributed generation solar developer. She is a primary company liaison with biological and agricultural resource experts and is responsible for the creation of effective mitigation for potential project impacts through collaboration with scientists, consultants, and government agency representatives. Prior to Recurrent Energy, Aimee worked as an environmental consultant and contributed to the assessment of renewable energy facilities and transmission infrastructure per the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. In additional to renewable energy, Aimee is deeply interested in clean transportation alternatives, environmental education and outreach, and the advancement of educational opportunities for children with developmental delays and learning differences. Aimee holds a M.S. and B.S. in Earth Systems, an interdisciplinary program in environmental science, from Stanford University. Return to top  Sid EspinosaDirector of Citizenship, Microsoft Corporation • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Sid Espinosa is the Mayor of Palo Alto, CA, where he has been a leader in establishing public-private partnerships and creating bridges between businesses, non-profits, government agencies and the community. He previously served as the Vice-Mayor of Palo Alto. He has a long history in politics and public policy, with service in the Clinton White House, the Justice Department as an advisor to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, and a U.S. Ambassador's office. Sid is also a widely recognized expert in philanthropy and corporate social responsibility, having previously served as the Director of Global Philanthropy for Hewlett-Packard and as the current Director of Citizenship for Microsoft. In these and other roles, he has created strategic programs to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in non-profits and schools on every continent around the world. Sid serves on numerous nonprofit, business, and industry association boards, and he holds degrees from Wesleyan University (where he is on the board of trustees) and Harvard University. Return to top  Bryan EsterlyUnderwriter, Arch Capital Group • Circle Coordinator member • Impact Circle: Environment Bryan Esterly completed undergraduate degrees in Economics and Political Science at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Throughout his university career, Bryan was a dedicated student leader. Experience in leadership included representing Cal Poly's 20,000 students on the California State Student Association's Board of Directors, chairing the university's political advocacy and lobbying group, and playing an active leadership and advocacy role in sustainable policy and renewable energy solutions. Currently an underwriter in financial insurance for Arch Capital Group, Bryan analyzes the equity risk of public companies from a Directors and Officers Liability perspective. Bryan remains active in his community and environmental/energy solutions and policies. Return to top  Casey FarmerProgram Assistant, Rogers Family Foundation • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Casey joined the Rogers Family Foundation in the spring of 2010. Previously, Casey was the School Manager at Leadership Public Schools College Park. As a Teach For America Corps Member, she taught Special Day Classes to high school students with learning disabilities Youth Empowerment School (YES) in East Oakland. During her tenure as a special educator, she acquired a passion for special education law which she continues to use today as an advocate for special needs students. For her Master's in Education, she evaluated the need for advocacy amongst low-income families of special needs students. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco where she studied Sociology and Public Service and served as student body President. Beyond education policy, she enjoys sports, being outdoors, cooking, reading, and volunteering on political campaigns. Casey lives in North Oakland. Return to top  Ruthanne FeinbergPartner, Glocap Search • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Ruthanne is a Partner at Glocap Search, LLC. She joined Glocap Search LLC with several years experience in hi-tech/international marketing where she worked for Oracle, Lucent, and later Volera, a Novell subsidiary. Prior to business school, she worked in business development for the French Trade Commission of San Francisco where she assisted French technology companies to establish a presence in the USA. She began recruiting as a student ambassador to Admissions team at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business in which she continues to play an active role in her post-MBA life. A native of San Francisco, Ruthanne enjoys running marathons, speaks fluent French and loves indie/foreign films. She is on the National Advisory Council of Donors Choose (www.donorschoose.org) and enjoys membership in NDN, Association of Women MBA's, and Network 20/20 among other professional organizations. Ruthanne has a BA in International Relations from UC Santa Barbara and an MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Return to top Matt Finick • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Currently I am serving on two advisory boards and consulting for new media startups in the Bay Area. Prior to moving back to the Bay Area in late-2009, I served in various senior finance/operations roles at Marvel Entertainment for the last six years. Prior to joining Marvel, I was a senior research analyst at Thomas Weisel Partners, covering the Internet and leisure products. Return to top  Nathan FisherMcKesson • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Nathan joined Full Circle Fund with a background in public education and organizational development. Currently he is working at McKesson in executive communication and change management. Nathan has an MA in Teaching from Brown and an MBA from Stanford, and has a passion for improving education through small schools. He is equally passionate about the Red Sox. Return to top Jennifer Forster • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Jennifer Forster is currently working as an independent consultant and advisor to private equity funds in the Bay area. Prior to this role, she worked for Generation Investment Management in London, an investment management firm founded by Al Gore and focused on sustainable, long-term capital allocation. Prior to Generation, Jennifer was a Vice President at Summit Partners - a growth equity fund based in Palo Alto. She has also worked at the Walt Disney Company and started her career at Goldman Sachs in New York. Jennifer attended Middlebury College and holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Return to top  Michael FrostVice President, CBRE • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Michael Frost is an avid fisherman, environmentalist, and expert in high performance buildings. He works in brokerage for CBRE, representing tenants and landlords in lease and sale transactions. Michael was the first LEED AP broker in the entire Bay Area region and promotes sustainability in the built environment in his brokerage career. He serves on the executive committee of the CBRE Sustainability Practice Group. This specialty practice leads the industry and the CBRE enterprise in making real estate decisions that maximize profit, benefit environmental and human health, and minimize environmental impact. Michael works in the CBRE, Palo Alto office and represents tenants in the Bay Area and other markets around the country. Return to top  Randy Goldstein• Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Randy Goldstein has spent his entire career working in the fields of energy and the environment with a wide variety of energy sources and technologies most recently, he was a co-founder, Director and CEO of OptiSolar Inc. He has a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a MS in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania. Return to top  David GrecoVice President, Western Region, Nonprofit Finance Fund • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity David Greco brings more than 20 years experience working for social change from leading one of the nation's largest educational programs for at-risk youth to working on national conservation initiatives. David currently serves as Vice President, Western Region for the Nonprofit Finance Fund, leading NFF's efforts to build the capacity and the financial health of nonprofits loans, capital grants, asset-building programs, and a variety of advisory services throughout the western United States. Prior to joining NFF, he served as Vice President of Professional Services for the Youth Leadership Institute (YLI), directing YLI's national training and consulting services helping to create more sustainable communities by bringing youth and adults together to identify issues and to create local solutions. Previous experience includes five years at Jossey-Bass Publishers where he launched a new social leadership publishing line focused on providing resources for nonprofits and individuals engaged in social change. David has also served as the Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager for the National Wildlife Federation, and Director of Programs for the Horatio Alger Association working with economically disadvantaged youth. David is active in the community and serves in a number of volunteer positions including the Conservation and Energy Committees for the San Francisco Chapter of the Sierra Club, Global Exchange, and a Board Member for MicroChange working to link sustainable development and microfinance. Originally from Philadelphia, David earned his M.A. in Political Science from Villanova University and B.S. in History & Politics from Drexel University. Return to top  Kirsten GreenManaging Partner, Forerunner Ventures LLC • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Kirsten is the founder of Forerunner Ventures, an early stage investment firm focused on partnering with technology enabled consumer companies. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Serena & Lily, Inc. and OhSo Clean, Inc., two of Forerunner's portfolio companies. Prior to Forerunner Ventures, Kirsten worked at Montgomery/Banc of America Securities where she held positions as an equity research analyst covering the Specialty Retail sector and later joined an internal team managing a $600+ million portfolio, where she was the lead consumer-focused investment professional. In addition to her work with Full Circe Fund, Kirsten is an advisory board member of Spark, a San Francisco based non-profit organization focused on supporting Grassroots Women's Organizations around the globe. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Business Economics, and holds a CPA license and a CFA certification. Return to top  Adam Gross• Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Adam Gross is an investor in technology startups, including Heroku, GetSatisfaction and Patheon. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Dropbox. Gross also spent seven years at salesforce.com as Vice President of Platform and Developer Marketing, where he helped grow the company from early-stage to over $1b in revenue. Previously, Gross co-founded Personify, a web analytics company, and did telecommunications policy consulting at Stanford Research Institute. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Gross held internships at the World Bank and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Return to top  Pamela HawleyFounder and CEO, UniversalGiving • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Pamela Hawley is the founder and CEO of UniversalGiving (www.UniversalGiving.org), a social entrepreneurship nonprofit which helps people give and volunteer with the top-performing projects all over the world. UniversalGiving Corporate is a customized version for Fortune 500 companies, which leads their CSR strategy and NGO Vetting. UniversalGiving's vision is to "create a world where giving and volunteering is a natural part of everyday life." Pamela is a winner of the Jefferson Award and was profiled on CBS (http://cbs5.com/video/?id=56678) and BusinessWeek (http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2008/ca20081224_387821.htm). She has traveled in more than 25 countries, volunteering in microfinance in India, with the handicapped in Cambodia, and in the earthquake crisis in El Salvador. She was also a co-founder of VolunteerMatch, and an avid "Dukie." On the side, she loves improv, performing at Groundlings, Upright Citizens Brigade, Second City, and BATS. Number one in her life is family, and one of her greatest joys is taking care of her nephews and niece. Return to top  Asiff HirjiSenior Director, TPG Capital LP • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Return to top  Chris HobbsPartner, Tapit Partners • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Investor and advisor to young companies. Veteran of startups and global corporations, specializing in finance, corporate development and operations. Return to top  Jules HodderArea Retail Sales Manager, AT&T • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Jules Hodder is a graduate of AT&T's Leadership Development Program (LDP), which she entered upon completing her MBA from the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. LDP is AT&T's flagship talent management program for high achievers with outstanding leadership potential. In her current role with AT&T, as an Area Retail Sales Manager, Ms. Hodder oversees a multi-million dollar operation that includes 7 company owned retail stores and 115 employees. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona where she dedicated her studies and post-graduation work to the field of International Conflict Resolution. Ms. Hodder is a certified volunteer mediator and crisis intervention counselor and has hands-on experience working with the local district attorney as a community mediator. As a Caux scholar, Ms. Hodder worked in Switzerland with parties from conflict torn regions that included Northern Ireland, the Baltics, and Western Africa. Ms. Hodder serves on the Board of Directors of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management Alumni Association. She is an active member of Northern California's Network of Executive Women, Invent Your Future Enterprises, and National Association of Women MBA's. Return to top  Natasha HoehnExecutive Director, Silver Giving Foundation • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Natasha Hoehn traces her passion for social justice and education to her years as a junior high school English teacher in the South Bronx. A graduate of Yale University and now the Education Program Officer for the Silver Giving Foundation in San Francisco, Natasha is a public school advocate and emerging policy wonk. Natasha is President of the Board of the Future Leaders Institute and is also a musician and founder of a women's vocal ensemble in San Francisco, Musae. Return to top  Chuck HornbrookPrincipal Consultant, Itron • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Chuck Hornbrook is a Principal Consultant who recently joined Itron from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E). At PG&E, he was the Senior Manager of the utility's Solar and Customer Generation Group, accountable for managing the US's largest solar and distributed generation programs. The group's tasks included program operations, marketing and outreach, measurement and evaluation, and regulatory and legislative policy. The group collaborated with PG&E's transmission and distribution organization on distributed generation and AMI infrastructure. The group also worked with PG&E's energy procurement team on identifying options for utility-owned solar generation and filing an application with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) for utility-owned fuel cells. Prior to managing the Solar and Customer Generation Group, he worked in PG&E's Sustainable Communities Program, where he collaborated with developers on leading edge communities and cities with the goal of reducing their carbon footprint through energy efficiency and distributed generation efforts. Before joining PG&E, Mr. Hornbrook was the Director of worldwide support and services for a technology company located in Foster City, California. Return to top  Catherine Hutton MarkwellCEO/ Executive Director, BizWorld Foundation • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Catherine Hutton is the CEO and Executive Director of the BizWorld Foundation, an education non-profit that promotes entrepreneurship, business and financial education for youth. Catherine's finance career started as financial advisor for PaineWebber then Smith Barney. Before her move to the nonprofit section she was an investment banker at Fortrend International in San Francisco. She has served on the board of Financial Women's Association of San Francisco (Chair, Financial Woman of the Year event) and chaired various fundraising committees for the Junior League of San Francisco. Currently she is serving as a board director for the Futures Leaders Institute, Oakland, CA. She holds a Director's Certification from Anderson School of Business. Catherine has worked with numerous corporate foundations and has been doing philanthropic work since early in her career. She attended University of California at Santa Barbara. Return to top Jared Hyatt Head of Partnerships and Distribution, VideoSurf, Inc • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Jared Hyatt heads partnerships and distribution for videosurf.com, a video search solution that combines the brand impact of TV with the measurability of SEM. Before videosurf, Jared worked at Google on their Content Acquisition Team where he focused on helping the top 50 media companies syndicate their content to Google's users. Before Google, Jared was on the Corporate Strategy and Business Development Team at Discovery Communications. At Discovery, Jared worked on new media acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Jared is interested in education and education policy. During college, he served as an advisor to the Dean of the community service organization where he led a team to evaluate existing service projects and made recommendations on how to improve them. He graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in History and a minor in Public Policy. Return to top  Kim JacobsonVP Business Development, Oodle, Inc. • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Kim brings expertise in developing and marketing integrated communication software and services for industry pioneers such as Excite@Home, Macromedia and Palm Computing. At Macromedia, she managed the launch of the Flash 2004 product line to 500 million users and one million developers worldwide. Prior to Macromedia, she managed the broadband communications products for Excite@Home, servicing 27 cable broadband providers and 17 million web customers worldwide. Her entrepreneurial interests led her to help launch two growing software start-ups, MailFrontier and ePochrates. Jacobson holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MA in Education in Learning, Design, Technology from Stanford Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Return to top  Mark JacobsteinVP, Product Management, Qualcomm iSkoot, Inc. • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Unaffiliated Mark is VP of Product Management at Qualcomm iSkoot, Inc. iSkoot brings leading web services like Facebook, Twitter and Skype to mobile handsets around the world, delivering rich consumer experiences with minimal impact on operator networks. Prior to that, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Charles River Ventures. He also served as the EVP at Silicon Valley-based loopt, Inc., a ground-breaking social mapping startup backed by Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates. Before joining loopt, Jacobstein was the founding President for Digital Chocolate, one of the world's largest publishers of mobile games, which raised more than $20M in venture capital from Sequoia Capital, KPCB, and Sutter Hill. He was also the CEO and founder of Small World Sports, the world's first online fantasy sports business, where he raised more than $20M from Flatiron Ventures, SCP, CCP and NBC before selling the business to Paul Allen's The Sporting News. In addition, Jacobstein co-founded Small World Software, an Internet technology consultancy, which he sold to iXL in 1998. He then served as the SVP of sales and business development for iXL's New York office before its 1999 IPO. Jacobstein studied Computer Science at Harvard University and began his career as a software developer at Bloomberg L.P. Return to top  Anica JohnAttorney, Corporate Development, Bloom Energy • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Anica currently serves as Corporate Development Attorney for Bloom Energy, a Silicon Valley venture backed fuel cell company. Prior to joining Bloom, Anica co-founded Sarva IP and was responsible for management and oversight of operations. Anica began her practice of law at a nationally known tax litigation boutique. Having represented taxpayers before the United States Tax Court and United States Court of Federal Claims, Anica has significant litigation experience. She earned her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law and served as a summer law clerk for U.S. District Judge John A. Houston and U.S. Fifth Circuit Judge Carl E. Stewart. Prior to law school, Anica served as a research associate for the Stanford Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory, concentrating on structural mapping of brains affected by Williams Syndrome. Anica earned her B.A. from Villanova University. Anica is a founder of the Partnership for Green Development, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting green energy in rural and underdeveloped regions of India. The Partnership for Green Development has brought solar panel technology to two villages in India and continues in its mission to light up the subcontinent. Return to top Lucy Johns Analyst, Dodge & Cox • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Lucy Johns works at Dodge & Cox, Investment Mangers, focusing on corporate bond trading and research. She previously worked as an Investment Banking Analyst at Merrill Lynch in New York and Senior Product Manager at NBCi. She holds a B.A. from Williams College and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. Return to top  Jennifer JohnsonPrincipal, 454 Marketing • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education; Global Economic Opportunity Jennifer has over 18 years experience in market strategy, product marketing, marketing communications, and business development -- in both venture-backed start-ups and public companies. In her consulting practice over the last eight years, Jennifer has served in interim marketing executive positions for key clients such as: Agile Software (now Oracle), the Apollo Group (University of Phoenix), Instill (now ItradeNetwork), Genius.com, Global Healthcare Exchange, Neoforma, Commerce One, Solidcore (now McAfee), Voltage Security and YouSendIt. Her unique focus is leading strategic projects for companies who are in transition -- whether that involves implementing new marketing processes, launching a new product, transitioning from a service to a product company, or entering new markets. Jennifer uniquely focuses on establishing solid marketing positioning and messaging to support outbound marketing campaigns and field enablement. Jennifer provides executive teams with the leadership and extra muscle needed to deliver on their key initiatives. Prior to her consulting role, Jennifer has held various management positions at Sybase, Versata and other emerging technology organizations. She is an accomplished industry speaker and has been published in leading trade publications. She holds a B.A. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a concentration in Asian economics and politics from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. P90X-er, novice gardener, and board member for the Burlingame Community for Education Foundation, Jennifer really devotes the majority of her time trying to raise three happy, well-adjusted little citizens and to manage her husband's unrelenting home "improvement" efforts. Return to top  Jenny JordanEducation Pioneers Fellow, Aspire Public Schools • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Jenny moved to the Bay Area this summer to join Aspire Public Schools as an Education Pioneers Fellow. Aspire runs 34 high-performing charter schools throughout CA, and Jenny supports communications and fundraising efforts. Previously, she served as the Director of External Affairs at Boston's Brooke Charter Schools, the top-performing K-8 public schools in the entire state of MA. She also worked as an Associate Consultant at The Bridgespan Group, where she provided strategy advising to nonprofits and foundations. She graduated from Harvard College with a magna cum laude degree in English Literature. She's excited to be living out on the West Coast for the first time, and is very much looking forward to her first winter here after seven years in snowy, snowy New England. Return to top  Robin JoyVice President of Marketing, Caring.com • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Robin is Vice President of Marketing at Caring.com, where she oversees the advancement of the brand and the site's visitor growth, working to ensure that family caregivers find help when they need it most. Robin has executive experience focusing on marketing, strategy, and general management for both top-tier start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Caring.com, Robin was Director of Marketing at Intuit, where she led marketing for QuickBooks, the nation's leading small-business financial software. She has worked across a broad spectrum of technology and consumer-focused companies, including AltaVista, Clorox, Digeo (formerly Moxi Digital), Mercer Management Consulting, and Odwalla. Robin holds a B.A. from Dartmouth, an M.A. with honors from the University of Melbourne, and an M.B.A. from Stanford. Return to top  Brian KaplanVice President, New Teacher Center • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Brian Kaplan is the Vice President of Development at New Teacher Center (NTC), a national non-profit raising the effectiveness of new teachers across America. Prior to NTC, Brian served as Vice President, Development and Marketing at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation. Prior SVEF, Brian worked in the Office of Development at Stanford University where he oversaw the gift processing function. Prior to Stanford, Brian held management positions at several high tech companies including Octel and Nuance Communications before founding his own consulting practice. His personal interests include coaching AYSO soccer, biking, studying history, and volunteering. Brian lives in Palo Alto with his wife, Stephanie, and two children. He loves camping with his family and completed the Outward Bound backpacking program in Utah. Brian holds an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at Berkeley and an MA Ed. from Stanford University. In addition, he is a trained facilitator in inter-personal dynamics from the Stanford GSB. Return to top  Leslie KeilAttorney, Hanson Bridgett LLP • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Leslie is a business attorney with Hanson Bridgett LLP in San Francisco, whose practice focuses on corporate law and business transactions, including corporate formation, private equity and debt financing, contracts, M & A, intellectual property licenses, and investments funds, as well as commercial real estate acquisition, sale, financing, and leasing. Leslie is a member of the National Ski Patrol and volunteers with the Tahoe Backcountry Ski Patrol in Truckee. Return to top  Gabrielle Kivitz• Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Gabrielle has more than 10 years experience on Wall Street as a senior equity analyst, and has been recognized as a Wall Street Journal All-Star Analyst for her stock-picking achievements. She started her finance career as an investment banker, focusing primarily on high-growth companies. She has worked closely with management of companies ranging in size from startup to more than $20 billion in revenue, evaluating competitive position, business strategy, growth opportunities, challenges, financial position and outlook. Her investment banking experience includes execution of IPOs, follow-on public equity offerings and mergers & acquisitions. As a senior equity analyst, Gabrielle was also regularly interviewed as a featured expert on CNBC TV and was often quoted in leading print publications. Gabrielle serves on numerous philanthropic boards and committees for education, scientific, health-related and arts organizations, and has also received recognition for her fundraising achievements. Return to top  Joe KleinschmidtChief Technology Officer, Leverage Software • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Joe is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Leverage Software, a social networking software startup which helps companies improve communication and collaboration. He is passionate about product innovation and over his career he has helped develop a variety of successful software products for both small start-ups and larger organizations such as Lucent and Macromedia. Joe holds a B.A. from Northwestern University. Return to top Judy Koch Board Member, Bring Me a Book Foundation • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Judy Koch who began her career as a Junior High teacher for 10 years in Los Altos, CA, transitioned to the private sector and in 1989 acquired RSP Manufacturing who provided precision sheet metal and contract manufacturing services to OEM's headquartered in Silicon Valley. In 1997 she sold the company and transitioned FULL CIRCLE back to education in the not-for-profit sector. She founded Bring Me A Book Foundation to further develop and expand the employee benefit program started in the manufacturing company, Bring Me A Book, which provided book bags for parents to take home daily and read to their children - creating the daily ritual of reading aloud to their children. Because many of the employees were English Language Learners, audio recordings were provided so parents could improve their English skills alongside of their children. Judy presently serves on the Board and supports their mission to provide easy access to the best children's books and educate parents to be their child's First Teacher so that children will be prepared to enter Kindergarten ready and eager to learn to read and be successful in school and life. She is a member of the Honorary Board of Global Heritage Fund and the National Council of the American Prairie Foundation. Return to top  Victoria LaviDirector, Demand Generation, Axway • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Victoria is a native Texan and graduate of the University of Texas Business School. She has worked in Marketing for high tech start-ups in the Silicon Valley since 1990; including SuperMac, Netscape and ActivCard. Most recently she founded Bay Area Relief of California, a grassroots organization that mobilized volunteers and collected, sorted and distributed over 2,000 boxes of relief supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Pakistan earthquake. Over the last 18 years Victoria has volunteered for numerous projects around the world, including Hands On San Francisco, project leader and volunteer coordinator; Honduran Emergency Relief (San Francisco), fundraising, volunteer coordinator; Nelson Mandela Reconstruction and Development Programme (Johannesburg, South Africa), worked with corporations to bring basic services to local townships; Red Cross Emergency Shelter Manager, Hurricane Gilbert (San Antonio, Texas), San Francisco Earthquake (Marina Shelter), Oakland Fire; International Visitors Center (San Francisco), Volunteer Diplomatic Core; Year of the Jewish Woman Conference (London, England); Queen Elizabeth Conference Center, coordinator of programs for more than 10,000 participants. Return to top  James Lee• Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education James Lee was most recently Vice President Programs at The BizWorld Foundation, whose mission is to challenge and engage children across the cultural and economic spectrum through experiential learning programs that teach the basics of business, entrepreneurship, and money management while promoting teamwork and leadership in the classroom. Prior to joining BizWorld, James was with The Junior Statesmen Foundation, a $6 million national nonpartisan nonprofit which teaches an experiential civic engagement curriculum to high school students, where he served as a board member, Program Director and also Director of Alumni Relations and Development. During his tenure, James expanded educational programs and built alliances in California and nationwide, directed residential summer academic programs at Stanford, UCLA, and USC, organized large conventions of students focused on current affairs, supported extracurricular civic engagement at hundreds of schools, and helped raise millions of dollars to support experiential education from individuals, corporations, philanthropic organizations, and through earned income revenue. In addition to wide-ranging non-profit board and consultant roles, James ran a multi-million dollar antique import and retail business for many years in the San Francisco area and worked for McKinsey & Company as a strategy consultant to Fortune 500 companies in their San Francisco office, specializing in financial services clients. He also worked in Tokyo for Nikko Securities in their corporate planning department and for Citibank Private Banking in New York City. He currently serves as the Chair of the Development Committee for the board of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center. James grew up in California and is a graduate of Princeton University, where he was a Politics major and wrote his senior thesis on bank deregulation. James is also the past president of the Princeton Club of Northern California and served as chair of the national Alumni Council Committee on Regional Associations. James lives in Oakland with his wife Annie and is very excited to participate in Full Circle Fund. Return to top  Jared LeidermanDirector, Special Projects, New Teacher Center • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Jared Leiderman has worked in the social sector throughout his career. Jared currently manages financial strategies across the organization; previously he led the development of a system to track the growth of new teachers. Jared worked for economic development, conflict management, and education reform with numerous organizations including USAID in Northern Uganda, the Jordanian Parliament, and the International Criminal Court. He has been a mediator for over a decade and has taught workshops on negotiation and communication at Harvard University, Northwestern University, and the U.S. Naval Academy. Jared has an MBA from Harvard Business School where he received a George Foundation Fellowship in Public Leadership, and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he received a Reynolds Foundation Fellowship in Social Entrepreneurship. He received his BA with high honors from Swarthmore College. Return to top  Amy Lesnick• Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Unaffiliated Amy Lesnick holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has over 20 years of leadership experience in business and nonprofits. At Netscape, she was a member of the core team that launched Netcenter, one of the first web portals, and oversaw the company's web-based email service. She has also worked at McKinsey & Company and American Airlines and has held executive management positions at several smaller start-ups. In 2003, Amy decided to apply her business experience full time to serving the community. She began this journey at The Foundation Incubator in Palo Alto where she redefined the organization's strategy and developed new models for growth and partnership. Later, as Vice President of Resource Development at the United Way of the Bay Area, she spent two years working with some of the Bay Area's largest companies to develop their corporate philanthropy programs and to increase employee community involvement. During Amy's tenure, her team raised over $35 million dollars annually for local communities. Amy joined Full Circle Fund as Executive Director in 2005 and until June 2011, led the organization through a high-growth period. Founded in 2000, Bay Area-based Full Circle Fund is an innovative organization fostering the next generation of community leaders and driving lasting social change. Its members leverage their time, money, skills and social networks to identify and help scale programs with the potential to create positive, lasting shifts in the areas of environment, education, technology, and global economic opportunity. An avid explorer, Amy has traveled to more than 75 countries and hiked mountains around the globe, including Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Mt. Rinjani in Indonesia, the Inca Trail in Peru, Patagonia, Mongolia, and the Everest region of Nepal. She has volunteered with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, HandsOn Bay Area, the Junior League, serves on the Steering Committee for the Jefferson Awards and the National Conference for Volunteering and Service. Amy was honored in 2008 and 2009 as one of the "Bay Area's Most Influential Women in Business by the San Francisco Business Times, and in 2010 was inducted into their Forever Influential Honor Roll. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Virgance.com, and on Grameen America's Leadership Council. Return to top Dan Loflin EIR, Globespan Capital • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Dan moved to the Bay Area 6 years ago to help start Trigo Technologies (enterprise software), and has played a number of leadership roles in the company including Sales and Services. Trigo was acquired by IBM in 2004, and Dan now has responsibility for a software business that is based in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to joining Trigo, Dan was a Senior Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company in the Houston, Texas office, where he specialized in Corporate Finance and Restructuring assignments, as well as (ahem) oil and energy trading strategy. Prior to McKinsey, Dan served as the Vice President - Finance for a start-up oil and gas exploration company, as well as an investment banking analyst for Lehman Brothers. Dan has a BA from Columbia University, and a MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. Prior to Full Circle, when he could find a few moments between airports and customers, Dan enjoyed working on the family ranch in Texas, hiking/fishing/camping in Northern California, and was chomping at the bit to become a proficient welder and woodturner. Having joined Full Circle Fund, he expects to ease up on the welding. Return to top  Evan LurieFinancial Advisor, Miceli Financial Partners • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Evan Lurie is a financial advisor in the Bay Area with a 20+ year history of philanthropic involvement. He has been instrumental promoting national organizations dedicated to eliminating hunger (Mazon), fostering education and achievement (Camp SWIFT in Prescott, AZ), and eliminating inequality gaps in early childhood education (Holy Family Day Home in San Francisco). He has worked both on Capitol Hill and the House of Commons, and for Sutro & Co, Montgomery Securities, Hambricht and Quist, and Charles Schwab. He currently resides in Palo Alto with his two children and is active in local zoning, traffic planning, and infrastructure issues. Evan holds a Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University. Return to top  Steven LurieGeneral Manager, Game Studio, Zynga • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Steven Lurie is General Manager of the Mobile group at Zynga, Inc, the leading social gaming company, where he is responsible for launching games on the iPhone and other mobile platforms. Before joining Zynga, Steven worked at MHS Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund in San Francisco that is backed by leading entrepreneurs and industry leaders. Previously, Steven was CEO of Advice Company, which operates several leading Web sites, including FreeAdvice.com, the most visited legal and insurance information advice site for consumers, as well as AttorneyPages.com, a national directory of qualified attorneys. Before then, Steven worked at several venture-backed start-ups in executive roles and in venture capital at Saints Capital. Start-up experience includes Ingenio, where Steven was an early executive and part of the original management team in 1999. Funded by Benchmark Capital, Ingenio pioneered the pay-per-call advertising model and built a successful ad network that was acquired by AT&T's YellowPages.com in 2008. Holding a variety of management jobs in product, marketing, and operations, Steven helped take the start-up from launch to approximately $35 million in annual revenues and net income profitability. Steven holds one US patent and has seven pending patents from his leadership of Ingenio's product team. Prior to Ingenio, Steven held a variety of management roles at Microsoft from 1993-1999. Starting out as the first marketing manager in the newly formed Online Services group, he led a variety of marketing, product planning, business development and business planning teams in the Server Applications and Developer Tools divisions. In these roles, Steven was twice awarded the top product management rating at Microsoft and led the team that amassed the best win/loss record for technical reviews in his division. In addition to having served on a number of local community boards, Steven also served as a mentor for the triathlon team for Team in Training. Steven received his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and his Bachelor of Arts with Distinction and Departmental Honors from Stanford University. Return to top  Doug MandellManaging Partner, Mandell Law Group, PC • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Return to top  Tanya MarstonMarketing Program Manager, Wells Fargo Family Wealth Group • Community Fellow member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Tanya Clark Marston is passionate about finding and implementing entrepreneurial solutions to help nonprofits achieve scale and maximize their impact. Currently, she works for Wells Fargo as a Marketing Program Manager for their Family Wealth Group. She worked with The San Francisco Foundation for over three years as a Program Consultant on strategic planning, public/private partnership initiatives, and business development strategies. Before consulting to the Foundation, Tanya did grantmaking and worked on a number of special projects including co-authoring a national report on Race and Economic Development. Prior to her work in philanthropy, Tanya was the Assistant Director of Extended Education at California College of the Arts, where she was responsible for program, marketing, and budget management. She has served on the Bay Area Advisory Board of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) and is currently a Board Member and Fundraising Chair of Streetside Stories, a literacy arts nonprofit working with underserved youth. While in business school at the University of California, Davis, Tanya was the Director of Community Outreach for the Davis Net Impact Club and managed the Board Fellows Program, a program that connects MBA students to nonprofit boards. A native of Allentown, PA, Tanya holds a bachelors in American Studies from Trinity College, Hartford, CT. Return to top  Trina MartynowiczCleanTech and Emerging Technologies Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Trina Martynowicz's diverse professional background spans a wide range of environmental professions, including environmental science, policy, and engineering. Such efforts include promoting clean technologies to further reduce air emissions, overseeing air emission controls for highly emitting sources, creating national policy in cleaning up highly contaminated sites, and removing harmful pesticides from the U.S. market. She currently works at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in San Francisco in the Clean Energy and Climate Change Office overseeing a national partnership between Federal, state, and local governments and private industries to enhance and expedite innovative clean technologies aimed to reduce regional air pollutants and greenhouse gases in California's worst air quality areas. In addition, she works in the transportation sector with the West Coast Collaborative, a voluntary public-private partnership to reduce diesel fuel use though various tools and partnerships. Trina previous professional experiences include working at the EPA in Washington DC to set regulation and guidance to cleanup the nation's most contaminated Federal properties. Her efforts also led to the creation of unprecedented national policies to minimize adverse environmental impacts of pollution to Native American Indians and environmental justice communities. In additional to her activities with Full Circle Fund, Trina serves on the Board of the Young Professionals in Energy, a non-profit that provides a forum for education, networking and career development for professionals in the energy industry throughout the Bay Area. As a California native, Trina received Bachelors degrees in Environmental Science and Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and as a lover of the Big Apple, received a Masters degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. Return to top  Aaron McDanielRegional Sales Manager, AT&T • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Aaron McDaniel is a Regional Sales Manager for AT&T in San Francisco. In this capacity he manages a team of business to business sales professionals that focus on providing clients with integrated voice and data networks that include mobile convergence and managed services. Through his career, Aaron has held numerous management positions in various business functions from customer care to project management & analysis to field operations. He is also part of AT&T's Diamond Club, recognized being part of the Top 1% of sales leaders worldwide. Aaron is the co-founder of the Jill Wakeman Foundation for Equality, a non-profit organization focused on helping further equality in all aspects of society. Aaron earned a B.S. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he also taught the course, "Leadership & Organizational Dynamics" through the DECAL program. Aaron is a mentor for the Global Social Venture Competition, assisting entrepreneurs with the creation of businesses that bring about positive sustainable social change. Aaron is an avid international traveler and currently resides in San Francisco. Return to top  Salvador MenjivarExecutive Director, OneCalifornia Foundation • Community Fellow member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Salvador Menjivar is the Executive Director of OneCalifornia Foundation, a non-profit organization promoting economic development for low income individuals and small business in Oakland and the Bay Area. In his position Mr. Menjivar has spearheaded numerous initiatives and program to improve the Oakland community. He developed the Community Home Loan Fund, to help advocate for borrowers in the process of foreclosure. He has also led the Foundation in the creation of a program to provide financial education and free checking & savings account for the under banked. Mr. Menjivar has promoted support for emerging business in Oakland and directed OneCalifornia Foundation in the acquisition and growth of a program that provides small business in Oakland the opportunity to sell over the internet. The program, Oaklandunwrapped.org now provides over 100 small businesses with a marketplace to sell on line, as well as educates and encourages shoppers to support local businesses, which strengthens our community. Mr. Menjivar has been in positions of leadership in the private and nonprofit sectors for over fifteen years. While attending school in New York he helped launch an import-export company brokering and selling organic foods from Latin America. He has also directed political campaigns on behalf of the California Democratic Party. Most recently he served as Executive Director of Hamilton Family Center in San Francisco. Salvador has also served on governmental commissions in the Cities of San Francisco and Berkeley. He has volunteered his time on many Boards of Directors in the Bay Area -including the Mission Area Federal Credit Union, as President and Treasurer. He holds a degree in Economics from New York based New School University and an M.B.A from the University of San Francisco. Salvador has recently received several awards, including a local award from the Full Circle Fund for innovation, and a National Achievement Award from the National Alliance to End Homelessness for his work on ending homelessness for families and children. Return to top  Wendy MilletDirector, Pacific Salmon Ecosystems Program, The Nature Conservancy • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Wendy is Director of The Nature Conservancy's Pacific Salmon Ecosystems Program. Before joining The Nature Conservancy in 1999, she was Executive Director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. She also worked at The Conservation Fund, the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment, the California Resources Agency, and U.S. Forest Capital. Wendy serves on the board of the California Council of Land Trusts and the Advisory Board for Save the Redwoods League. She was past co-chair of the Silicon Valley Chapter of Net Impact, a network of leaders committed to using business to create sustainable solutions. Outside of her conservation career, she is founding partner of Gallop Ventures LLC a leadership and coaching business that offers equine-guided programs to individuals, teams, families, and corporations. In addition, she serves on the advisory board of The Flag Foundation and Personal Ponies, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to enhancing the partnership between humans and horses. She holds an A.B. in English and American Literature from Harvard and completed graduate work in Urban and Environmental Planning at University of Virginia, Geography at UCLA, and Resource Economics at University of Washington. Return to top  Deborah MintzDevelopment Director, NewSchools Venture Fund • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Deborah Mintz is the Director of Development for NewSchools Venture Fund, a national venture philanthropy that funds and supports entrepreneurs who provide underserved children with outstanding K-12 public education. Prior to joining NewSchools, Deborah was the Director of Foundation Relations for the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco and a volunteer leader at the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, where she chaired grant making to Israel and overseas communities and worked to strengthen the relationship between this hundred-year old Jewish community philanthropy and Bay Area synagogues. Before moving with her family to the Bay Area, Deborah had a career in land use planning and community development in New York. Deborah was Deputy Director of Land Use for the New York City Council, Director of Housing Coordination in the office of Mayor Ed Koch and senior project manager at Ehrenkrantz and Eckstut AIA. Deborah attended Smith College and Yale University. She holds an Ed M. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard. Return to top  Christopher Mondini• Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Christopher Mondini is an independent consultant, multilingual economist and former US diplomat, working to help companies address the regulatory, political and cultural challenges of their cross border ventures. In prior roles, he worked as a Senior Manager with the Silicon Valley practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, conducting investigations for clients facing fraud or corruption allegations overseas. His recent project destinations have included Brazil, China, Ethiopia, and Senegal. Since moving to San Francisco in 2006, Christopher has been active in a number of civil rights and service organizations. Foremost among these has been Lambda Legal. Christopher was a founding member of Deloitte's Corporate Responsibility Advisory Board and also served as Deloitte's representative to the United Nations Global Compact and World Economic Forum working groups on corruption. He is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service '88 and Johns Hopkins (SAIS) '91. Return to top  Camilla NelsonProgram Manager, Global Social Investment, Hewlett-Packard Company • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Return to top Shannon Nessier Attorney, Hanson Bridgett LLP • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Shannon focuses on representing Hanson Bridgett's litigation clients. Her work concerns the defense of product manufacturers and suppliers in personal injury litigation, as well as defense in Toxic Tort claims. In addition, she has worked on matters involving warning label litigation and Proposition 65 claims. On top of her litigation experience, she advises firm clients on their obligations to Medicare for medical expense reimbursement and assists in the drafting of settlement language in compliance with federal regulations. While attending the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, Shannon served as the executive articles editor for the Hastings Law Journal, interned for the Honorable Katherine Feinstein and volunteered at the San Francisco Superior Court's self-help ACCESS Center. Prior to joining Hanson Bridgett, Shannon taught, coached and coordinated service programs for Bellarmine College Preparatory High School in San Jose. She was awarded the 2005 Educator of the Year by San Jose Magazine. Return to top  Joshua NeubertExecutive Director, Conrad Foundation • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Mr. Joshua Neubert a passionate leader in non-profit management with over 8 years of experience in various not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Neubert currently serves as the Executive Director of the Conrad Foundation overseeing the Spirit of Innovation Awards program - a challenge to high school students to design innovative products using science, technology, and entrepreneurship. Mr. Neubert worked with the X PRIZE Foundation as the Manager of New Mexico State Affairs. During his three years at the X PRIZE, he oversaw a team of 500 volunteers and organized the educational programs of the X PRIZE Cup event gathering over 12,000 K-12 students for various educational aerospace experiences. Mr. Neubert received his Bachelor and Master degrees in Planetary Science from MIT in 2003 and 2004. In 2001, during his time at university, he took on his first non-profit role, leading the "Students for the Exploration and Development of Space." After leaving Boston, Mr. Neubert continued his career as a research scientist studying lunar resource utilization at the University of Hawaii. Mr. Neubert now dedicates his time and effort to ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to reach their fullest potential and create the great solutions that are shaping our future. Return to top  Dee Dee NguyenSr. Philanthropic Advisor, Marin Community Foundation • Community Fellow member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Dee Dee Nguyen is the Sr. Philanthropic Advisor for the Marin Community Foundation. She develops relevant programming to engage and inform a diverse community of donors to promote philanthropy. Formerly, she was with Changemakers to promote social justice philanthropy for community-, ethnic- and tribal-based funds and was a Multicultural Fellow at The San Francisco Foundation. She currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Asian American/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), Northern California Chapter and is Co-Founder of the AAPIP's Bay Area Lunar Giving Circle. Return to top  Melanie NutterDirector of the San Francisco Department of Environment, City and County of San Francisco • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Melanie Nutter is an elected member of the San Francisco Democratic Party and serves as the party's fundraising Vice-Chair. She is also the Deputy District Director for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Prior to this position, she was the Executive Director of the San Francisco Democratic Party from 2003-2005 and was the Principal of Nutter Consulting, a San Francisco-based consulting firm that helps nonprofits and political organizations to raise funds, organize events, manage campaigns and recruit new supporters. Melanie has over fourteen years experience in nonprofit fundraising, events management, grassroots organizing and media relations. As a Principal for Nutter Consulting, she consulted for many organizations including Music for America and SEIU Local 250. In 2002, she worked as the Canvass Director for the San Francisco Democratic Party's SF Vote Project and oversaw two assistant directors and 80 paid staff on Election Day. Before launching her own consulting practice, she was a Senior Consultant at Donordigital where she assisted nonprofits and political candidates in creating online fundraising and marketing campaigns. Melanie also spent two years helping nonprofits and political campaigns with their Internet strategies at 4Charity.com. Prior to her work in online fundraising and marketing, she spent 6 years as a grassroots political organizer with Greenbelt Alliance, the Public Interest Research Groups (PIRG) and Green Corps. She holds a B.S. degree in Communications and Environmental Studies from Northwestern University. Melanie currently serves as Democracy Action's Communications and Framing Co-Chair, as SF Women's Political Committee's (SFWPC) Vice President and as a Board Member of the Richmond District Democratic Club. Return to top  Kelly OliverChief of Staff, Northwest, Microsoft Corporation • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Kelly Oliver is the Chief of Staff for Northwest District at Microsoft. Kelly is responsible for software licensing, customer and partner satisfaction, and operational excellence across the enterprise segment in Northern California, Washington, Alaska, Oregon and Idaho. Previously at Microsoft, Kelly was a sales manager for Midwest District in Chicago responsible for driving revenue, value and growth during industry contraction with enterprise manufacturing customers. Prior to her sales leadership, Kelly was the Central Region Manager for the Developer Evangelism organization and Midwest District Premier Support Services manager. Prior to Microsoft, Kelly spent several years as a consultant with James Martin & Company and Oracle. She graduated with dual business degrees in International Business and Spanish and an MBA with concentration in Management Information Systems. Kelly and her husband, David, live in San Francisco with their yellow Labrador, Ridge. In her spare time, Kelly enjoys rooting for the Chicago Bears & Cubs, running marathons and cycling. Return to top  Jack OswaldCEO, SynGest Inc • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Jack Oswald is CEO of SynGest Inc. and a nationally-recognized entrepreneur focused on commercializing and deploying clean energy solutions. His current focus is at the intersection of energy and agriculture a.k.a."The Three Fs: Food, Fertilizer and Fuel". SynGest is committed to the commercialization of a novel process to convert non-food biomass (e.g. corn cobs, wood chips, etc.) into highly valuable nitrogen fertilizer (NH3) and other advanced renewable biofuels. Jack has been developing a National Clean Energy Strategy: "Clean Energy 2.0, Energy Abundance or Bust". To that end he was a contributing member during the campaign to President Obama's Energy and Environment Policy Advisory Group and was on the steering committee for Clean Tech For Obama (CT4O). He was also a member of the steering committee and has been elected to the board of the Clean Economy Network (CEN) (www.cleaneconomy.net). He is also serving as a Special Delegate to the U.S.-China Clean Energy Forum, an organization focused on large scale clean energy collaboration between the U.S. and China. Jack is also a member of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2 - www.e2.org) DC Advocacy Strike Team. As a member of the Full Circle Fund (www.fullcirclefund.org, hands-on philanthropy) Jack co-led with Josh Becker a team to create the Green Cities California (www.greencitiescalifornia.org) web repository for sharing municipal best practices in sustainability. Jack is also an avid pilot holding Commercial, Multi-engine and Instrument Certificates. Return to top  Braden PenhoetExecutive Director, Innovation Policy & Law, UC Berkeley • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Braden Penhoet is the first Executive Director, (for Innovation Policy & Law) at the newly created Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute ("BECI"). BECI is a facilitator and promoter, of strategic planning, collaborations and external relations. He has practiced corporate and securities law at major law firms, and international environmental law and policy at the Center for International Environmental Law in Washington, D.C. He also has served as a strategic consultant to nonprofit, government and startup company enterprises. Braden holds degrees from Stanford University, the UCLA School of Law, and UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Braden is Co-Chair of the Energy and Environment Circle. Return to top Sam Perry President, Ascendance Ventures • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Return to top  Scott PofcherVice President, Private Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Scott is a partner on a Private Wealth Management team at Morgan Stanley. Clients include multigenerational families, business owners, founders of venture capital and private equity firms and private foundations. The Private Wealth Management group specializes in providing investors with custom-tailored financial solutions and a level of sophistication and access typically offered only to large corporations and financial institutions. Previously, Scott was in similar roles at UBS Financial Services and Merrill Lynch. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Scott created online financial businesses and software for Intuit and served in management positions at several public technology companies. Scott holds a B.A. from Amherst College with honors and an M.B.A from Kellogg at Northwestern University, where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar. Scott is an avid golfer, runner and photographer and stays busy running after two young daughters. He has been active in development both for Amherst and his daughters' schools. Return to top  Jeff PollockPresident, Co-Founder, Heart of Silicon Valley • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Jeff is the Vice President of Real Estate at the Pollock Financial Group. He has evolved from the insurance side of the company and works closely with Jim Pollock and Lincoln Westcott in finding and developing new real estate projects, including securing entitlements to build. Jeff is also responsible for establishing and leading marketing efforts for PFG and improving its overall effectiveness and impact on the community. Jeff holds Life,, Series 6 and 63 licenses and has a bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Pollock founded the Heart of Silicon Valley (www.hosv.org) whose mission is to encourage, empower and engage people with a passion for worthy causes through the sharing of music and community. He works with other noted philanthropists in the area including Sheri and Lisa Sobrato. Jeff is an active songwriter/producer with publishing deals and active memberships at ASCAP and West Coast Songwriters Association. Return to top Melissa Powar Attorney, Powar Growth Management • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education I am a Bay Area native, recently returned from a six year stint in Boston. In addition to volunteer commitments with Mid-Peninsula High School and Amherst College, I run an employment law firm, Powar Growth Management, that helps emerging companies manage and structure their human capital. I graduated with BA degree in American Studies from Amherst College and received my JD from The University of Chicago Law School. I began my legal career at Silicon Valley Gunderson, Dettmer, working with emerging and public companies in managing their human capital. I then became General Counsel of iDrive.com before moving to the East Coast to help spearhead Seyfarth Shaw's emerging companies group. While in Boston, I attended Lesley University, obtained a Master's in Middle School Education, and taught for several years in the independent school system. I have a life-long commitment to philanthropy, volunteerism, and education, and have spent time helping a diverse set of organizations, from the Actor's Shakespeare Project to 826 Valencia. Return to top  Margi PowerHillsborough School Board Candidate, San Mateo Public Library Foundation • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Margi grew up in San Francisco, attended Bowdoin College in Maine, and was a charter corps member with Teach For America in 1990. After teaching, she obtained a Master's in Education Policy from Stanford and subsequently worked at The Learning Company creating educational software and online homework tools before following a boss to eProNet, a career development software start-up. She retired from work in 2000 to stay home with her two children who are now in fifth and eighth grades. Since 2000, Margi has been actively volunteering in her children's schools, heading up the Hillsborough Schools Foundation and chairing strategic planning committees for both the Foundation and the Junior League of San Francisco. She completed the Leadership Program for San Mateo/Hillsborough/Burlingame/Foster City in 2005. Currently, she serves on the San Mateo Public Library Foundation Board, is a grade level advisor for National Charity League, and serves on her middle school parent group board. Margi is also busy campaigning as a candidate for the Hillsborough City School Board (the election is November 8th). Return to top  Elizabeth RamirezProgram Coordinator, Levi Strauss Foundation • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Elizabeth's career has focused on international philanthropy, with specific interest in the role of private funding in development. She is currently Coordinator for the Levi Strauss Foundation. In this role, Elizabeth supports the Foundation's international grant making in four areas: confronting HIV/AIDS stigma and discrimination, advancing worker rights in the apparel industry, helping low-income people save and invest in their futures, and advancing social justice. She began her career in Washington, DC at a foundation supporting the United Nations and its causes. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Bay Area chapter of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy. Elizabeth graduated magna cum laude from George Washington University-Elliott School of International Affairs with concentrations in Conflict & Security and Latin American Studies. She is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Brazil. Return to top  Stephanie RicoVP, Environmental Affairs, Wells Fargo • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Stephanie Rico is vice president of Environmental Affairs at Wells Fargo & Co., a nationwide, diversified, community-based financial services company. In this role she is responsible for communicating the company's environmental initiatives externally, leading efforts to establish banking products that help customers align their values with their financial activities, accounting for the company's carbon footprint, as well as overseeing environmental grant programs. Prior to Wells Fargo, she served as the national contributions manager for Mitsubishi Motors N.A., communication manager at Chicago-based Harris Bank and led several political campaigns focused on resource management, healthcare, and education in California. Stephanie has a BA in Social Science, Interdisciplinary Studies from San Francisco State University and an MBA from DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business. She resides in Mill Valley, California with her husband Joe and ten-year-old son, Joseph. Return to top Jason Rissman Google Mobile Ads, Google, Inc. • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Jason has spent the last two years at Google, where he now is focused on helping build its mobile advertising business. Prior to Google, Jason founded a sustainable lifestyle media company called Shift Media, which won a $100,000 NYU Stern business plan competition. Other past experience includes managing a non-profit theatre company in Chicago, leading a German Internet company's entrance to Spain, and working with micro-entrepreneurs in Nicaragua. Jason is originally from the suburbs of Chicago, and is thrilled to be living in Berkeley. Return to top  Brian RogersExecutive Director, Rogers Family Foundation • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Brian has been the executive director of the Rogers Family Foundation for two years. He is on the Board of Directors of groups in Oakland including Lighthouse Community Charter School and CollegeWorks, the Board of Regents for Bishop O'Dowd High School, and the advisory boards of St. Elizabeth's Elementary School and Aim High Oakland. He has participated in the Oakland School Reform effort which has included the Gates Foundation, Broad Foundation, Dreyer's Ice Cream, Clorox, Kaiser and other local businesses. Before his current occupation, Brian was an English teacher and tennis coach at Bishop O'Dowd High School and manager for a summer camp run by the UC Berkeley Alumni Association. Return to top  Sienna RogersManager, GHG Commercial Strategy, PG&E • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Sienna Rogers is a Manager with Pacific Gas & Electric Company focused on developing its Greenhouse Gas Commercial Strategy. Since joining PG&E through its leadership development program, Sienna has worked on a variety of strategic issues including implementation of climate change legislation and mitigating risks of the physical impacts of climate change. Prior to joining PG&E in 2006, she worked in JPMorgan's Financial Sponsor investment banking group for four years and began her career at Schroder & Co in New York. Sienna received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA from Duke University. Return to top  Andrea RonzaniVice President, Social Responsibility Group, Wells Fargo • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Unaffiliated Andrea Ronzani is Vice President, Community Affairs Manager for Wachovia Bank's Western Region (California, Arizona and Nevada). Andrea joined Wachovia in August 2007 and is responsible for overseeing the Wachovia Foundation's $12 million annual charitable giving program, strategic community initiatives, and employee involvement programs. By integrating philanthropy into business, she believes that companies can be powerful catalysts for positive social change and benefit. Prior to joining Wachovia, Andrea managed Salesforce.com's employee volunteerism program by mobilizing community involvement among employees in the Western U.S., advocated the company's integrated philanthropy model, and created a youth-employee mentorship program. She also managed community relations at McKesson Corporation where she oversaw the company's national community involvement programs for 25,000 employees and guided regional volunteer teams and community activities in 45 cities. She also created and expanded signature McKesson community programs focusing on health and youth development. Before transitioning to corporate philanthropy, she managed audience development and marketing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Andrea holds a B.A. in Political Science and Journalism from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is completing her M.N.A. in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco. An avid traveler, Andrea has volunteered in numerous countries, specifically with refugee women and children. Return to top  Joe RossExecutive Director, Citizen Schools • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Joe Ross joined Citizen Schools as Executive Director of California in 2010. Prior to joining Citizen Schools, Ross worked at Cisco Systems where he led corporate strategy and operations in Mexico for the Linksys and Flip Video brands. During his eight-year military career, Joe Ross served as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for the fleet component of the U.S. Southern Command and was responsible for leading security cooperation programs in Latin America. A Truman Scholar and a fellow of the Truman National Security Project, Ross holds a BA from Yale and a JD from Stanford Law School, where he was 59th President of the Stanford Law Review. Joe is also the parent of three children, ages 14, 9 and 7. Return to top  Kristen SagerPrincipal, Sides & Associates • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Kristen is an experienced entrepreneur, executive, and advisor with over 18-years experience in marketing, product development, operations, and business strategy. She has developed world-class teams and strategies to bring products and brands to market at numerous technology start-ups and larger consumer packaged goods companies. She was a founding management team member at eHow and was named one of Top 100 Marketers by Ad Age for eHow's marketing. She is now a principal at Sides & Associates, a boutique management consulting business based in Silicon Valley that works with high-potential firms, helping them determine and execute growth strategies. In this capacity, she is currently performing the role of Acting Marketing Chief for Ecowell, a healthy, waste-free vending kiosk that is disrupting the beverage industry. Return to top Julie Sammons Co-Founder, Bay Area Biomimicry Network • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Julie Sammons is a biologist and business advisor who applies strategies from the natural world to help organizations learn, evolve, and thrive in increasingly complex environments. Julie co-founded and leads the Bay Area Biomimicry Network, advises bio-curious startups, and is a frequent speaker on nature-inspired innovation. Starting her career as a microbiologist tracking the spread of infectious diseases, she found her niche spreading infectious information, cultivating more than 1,000 strategic partners and millions of media hits for mission-driven education campaigns. She enjoys working with early-stage ventures and served as a Venture Fellow at Investors' Circle and Sustainability Advisor for the Cleantech Open. Julie has a BS in microbiology from the University of California, San Diego, an MBA in sustainable management from Presidio Graduate School, and has worked at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, University of California, and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation. Return to top  Heather SarniMarketing & Recruiting Manager, Greenberg Traurig LLP • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Upon graduating from UCLA, Heather Sarni moved to Little Rock Arkansas to work for Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign in 1992. After working in the Public Affairs Office at the USDOJ for two years, she attended law school at Stanford, graduating in 1998. She has held various professional positions surrounding the law since then, including as a corporate associate at a large San Francisco law firm, a legal headhunter, and her current position as a marketing & recruiting manager at an AMLAW top 10 law firm. Return to top Fred Schnider • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education After moving to California from Washington, D.C. in 1986, I spent the next seventeen years as an attorney in the Alameda County Public Defender's Office, handling mostly adult criminal cases in Oakland and other parts of the county. Since 2004, I have been in private practice, specializing in state and federal criminal appeals. I have a law degree from Georgetown and a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia. I live in Berkeley with my wife, Sue, and two incredible kids, Reid and Owen. Return to top  Steve SchoettlerCo-Founder, Zynga • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Steve is Co-Founder of Zynga. Return to top  Jillian SettleDirector of Communications and Evaluation, Rogers Family Foundation • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Jillian Settle is the Director of Communications and Evaluation at the Rogers Family Foundation. Prior to her position at the RFF, Jillian worked in St. Louis, MO as a Spanish interpreter and in rural Ohio for the Immigrant Worker Project, a legal advocacy, education, and social services organization for low-income Latino immigrants. Jillian attended Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, graduating in 2001 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and Spanish. Return to top  Ritu Sharma• Volunteer member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Ms. Ritu Sharma works in the microfinance area with interest in public policy and advocacy. She works and volunteers with various Microfinance organizations in California including EARN, Women's Initiative, C.E.O. Women and United Way of the Bay Area. Ms. Sharma serves on the board of Emerging Leaders Society, United Way of Bay Area and INFORUM, Commonwealth Club of California. Prior to moving to California, Ms Sharma worked in Financial Literacy and Corporate Volunteer Initiative for eight states at M&I Marshall & Ilsley bank, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Return to top  Andy ShinExecutive Director, Breakthrough San Francisco • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Andy is Executive Director of Breakthrough San Francisco, an educational non-profit supporting motivated, low-income San Francisco students on the path to college and training outstanding college students for education careers. Andy taught sixth grade math and science in Oakland, CA as a Teach For America corps member, and later served as Program Director at Breakthrough Cambridge. He has also done short-term work for The Steppingstone Foundation, Aim High, and Summer Search, where he served as an Education Pioneers Fellow. Andy holds a B.A. in Public Policy and American Institutions from Brown University, and was an Urban Scholars fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, earning an Ed.M. in School Leadership. He lives in Marin with his wife Karlo and daughter Maya. Return to top  Marc SmolowitzExecutive Producer, • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Unaffiliated Marc Smolowitz is an Academy Award nominated documentary film & television producer (The Weather Underground '03, Trembling Before G-d '01), published writer, and media/marketing professional with 17+ years of diverse professional experience across all aspects of the entertainment business. Most recently, he was a Producer at TellyTopia, an Internet/TV/Broadband Media company based in the Silicon Valley where he oversees all creative, production and marketing endeavors. From 2008 to 2010, he served as Chair of the Technology Circle at Full Circle Fund. He has also been the Co-chair of the Community Technology Network (CTN) of the Bay Area since it was founded in 2001 and serves on the Professional Advisory Committee for Digital Filmmaking, Web Design & Interactive Media at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco. Other current involvements include: Advisory Board, The Public Press, an innovative Bay Area journalism project; Grant Maker, Cultural Funding Panels, City of Oakland & County of Alameda. From 2002 to 2007, he was the Development Director & Senior Staff Producer at Access SF - Cable Channels 29/76, the nonprofit that manages community access cable television for the City and County of San Francisco. In this role, he oversaw all aspects of fund raising, marketing and business development and regularly developed quality television programming with local nonprofits partners. From 1995-2001, he was the President/Founder of Turbulent Arts, Inc., an international film and television company that served as a producer, distributor and sales agent for quality independent films from around the world. Notably, the company released LILIES, the film by John Greyson that won the Canadian Genie (Oscar) for Best Picture. In 1998, Turbulent Arts was ranked the 26th largest film company in the United States entertainment market, the 14th among independents (Source: The Hollywood Reporter.) Elsewhere in his career, Smolowitz has served as Executive Director of Petaluma Community Access TV, Programming Coordinator at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Founding Programmer at the Sacramento Festival of Cinema, among other key positions in the media, film, television and not-for-profit space. Return to top  Andy Sohn• Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Andrew recently moved to the Bay Area with his family from Chicago, where he had lived for the past 20 years. Prior to the move, he had been a partner in the real estate group at a mid-sized Chicago law firm and had worked as a commercial and residential real estate broker for a national firm. All the while, Andy has pursued his interests in art, photography and writing. He earned an undergraduate degree in art history and film from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he also attended graduate school in art history and from where he earned an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the Stern School of Business. Return to top Mark Sugarman Managing Partner, MHS Capital • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Mark joined Full Circle in November 2004, and participates in the Education Impact Circle. Return to top  Ryan TakemotoSenior Competition Counsel, Visa, Inc. • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Ryan is a Senior Competition Counsel at Visa Inc. As a member of Visa's global competition team, he advises on various antitrust and competition law issues that arise from Visa's global electronic payments business. Prior to Visa, Ryan was a senior associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco where he practiced antitrust and unfair competition litigation in a variety of industries including natural gas and consumer electronics. He received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Utah and law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Ryan is actively involved with the United Way of the Bay Area and is a member of the Alumni Board of Governors for Hastings College of the Law. Return to top  Bob TinkerPresident and CEO, MobileIron, Inc • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Bob is the President and CEO of Mobile Iron, a venture-backed start-up company located in Menlo Park, California. Investors include Norwest Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, and Storm Ventures. Prior to MobileIron, Bob led the Business Development team for Cisco's enterprise wireless (WiFi) business unit and service provider wireless (WiMax) business unit, a combined $1B business for Cisco. Before Cisco, Bob was one of the first executives and served as the Vice President of Business Development for Airespace, Inc. In March 2005, Cisco Systems acquired Airespace. Prior to joining Airespace, he served as Director of Marketing and as a Product Manager at Vertical Networks, a Voice over IP company funded by Kleiner Perkins and Accel Partners. Before joining Vertical, he served as vice president at NationsBank (now Bank of America), with experience in IT, sales, product management, and operations. Tinker is a member of the Foundation Board of Trustees for the recently opened 10th campus of University of California campus at Merced. Tinker has a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He resides in San Francisco. Return to top  Adam Traeger-HirschfelderProgram Officer, Koret Foundation • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Unaffiliated Program Officer Adam Hirschfelder has a broad range of experience in the nonprofit, government, and philanthropic sectors with particular expertise in the development of public-private partnerships. His Koret portfolio includes youth development programs as well as grants to select community organizations and arts groups. Prior to joining Koret, Adam launched and directed the Public Health Institute's Rx:Volunteer project, one of the first efforts nationally to promote volunteerism and civic engagement among older adults and retiring boomers in health care settings. His research will be featured in a book on altruism to be published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Before that, Adam was Associate Director, Public Affairs, at the Corporation for National and Community Service, the parent agency of the AmeriCorps program and other National Service initiatives. Before serving in the federal government, Adam held business development positions at Sylvan Learning Systems and Scholastic Inc. At Scholastic, Adam also directed the company's strategic philanthropy portfolio. He received his M.A. in Education Policy from Teachers College, Columbia University and graduated with departmental honors from Northwestern University. Adam is active in a range of Jewish activities in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed the American Jewish Committee's Young Leadership Institute, participated in American Jewish World Service delegations from the Bay Area to Africa and South America, and is a member of the San Francisco Jewish Community Endowment Fund's Young Funders Forum. He is also a member of Full Circle Fund, an alliance of emerging Bay Area business and community leaders who address public problems through engaged philanthropy. Return to top  Beth TraskManager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Beth Trask is a manager in the Corporate Partnerships Program at Environmental Defense, a national nonprofit organization that works with leading businesses, including DuPont, Wal-Mart, FedEx and McDonald's, to create innovative tools to improve environmental performance. Beth began her career working for local government and business associations in northern California and later went on to develop national and international conservation initiatives. Beth holds a MPA from Harvard University. Return to top  Rob TriceSenior Managing Director, SK Telecom Ventures • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Unaffiliated Rob Trice brings a variety of domestic and international investing and business experience to SK telecom ventures. Prior to joining SK telecom ventures, he was a co-founding Partner of Nokia Growth Partners, the global growth-stage venture capital arm of Nokia with US$350m under management for direct and fund-to-fund investing. From late 2000 until the end of 2004, he worked at Nokia Venture Partners (now BlueRun Ventures) on early-stage venture investments in the US and overseas. Previously, he worked at DIRECTV in Los Angeles and Tokyo in a variety of operational and business planning roles. Rob also worked as an international policy analyst at a Washington, D.C. based think tank, the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He holds a Master of Arts from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. Rob is based in Menlo Park, California. Return to top  Ron TurielloPresident and COO, Voter Genome Project LLC • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Ron Turiello co-founded and is President and COO of the Voter Genome Project, a full service technology and analytics firm that applies leading-edge technology to perform real-time datamining and help progressive candidates and causes win. Prior to founding the Voter Genome Project, Ron was the senior IP and technology transactions attorney in the Palo Alto office of Skadden Arps where he served as outside intellectual property counsel to numerous technology companies. He also continues to advise high tech companies on intellectual property issues, serving as of counsel to Woodside Counsel, PC. From 2007 until 2010 Ron was the General Counsel and Director of Business Development for Intelligent Integration Systems, Inc.. Ron is the Chairman of the Advisory Board for New Leaders for New Schools, Bay Area. Ron has been active in Democratic politics for 20 years, first as a senior campaign organizer for former U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas, as field director for Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, and as campaign manager for Syracuse, NY City Council President Bob Romeo and more recently raising money for progressive candidates. Ron is a graduate of Boston University (B.A. in Urban Political Development) and Cornell Law School. Return to top  Amie VaccaroFounder & CEO, Cobblestone Solutions • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment Amie Vaccaro is founder and CEO of Cobblestone Solutions. She works with a network of talented individuals to provide clients the highest quality service possible. Amie's passions in life are people, doing more with less, incentivizing positive change and using the power of business to improve lives and save the planet. Previously, Amie has worked as Director of Business Development and Marketing at Viv, which gives consumers an easy and powerful way to drive environmental change. There she was responsible for developing all partnerships and relationships necessary for rapid growth, spearheading investor conversations and other fundraising efforts, and end to end marketing, execution and community building for a new core product launch. As Program Manager at SVT Group, Amie developed an "SROI Lite" calculator tool that provides a consistent mechanism by which organization staff may assess the potential impact and return on investment of disparate programs. The tool has been made a part of SVT's core product suite. While at SVT, Amie was also responsible for managing a team of interns, managing the co-working space, creating marketing materials, developing new business, and recruiting. As an Associate Consultant with Bain & Company, Amie worked with Fortune 500 and nonprofit clients on critical business issues in the healthcare, retail, and utilities spaces. She focused on growth strategy, cost reduction and organizational performance improvement. While at Bain she also founded and led a Green Team for the 300-employee San Francisco office, which achieved significant strides in reducing the company's carbon footprint. At green media company, Green Zebra, Amie refined the venture's sustainable savings guides, built and managed relationships with local businesses, and was instrumental in the development of corporate, government and small business sponsorships. Amie graduated phi beta kappa with a B.S. with high honors from Brown University. She is fluent in Spanish. She writes for TriplePundit, GreenBiz, NextBillion and Sustainable Industries about green business, social and eco-entrepreneurship, and other bright ideas. She is a member of Full Circle Fund's Environment Circle, on the New Leaders Council's Advisory Board, founding member of The Hub and spoke at Net Impact 2009 about finding a green job. Return to top  Krista Van TasselEnvironmental Affairs - Team Member Engagement Manager, Wells Fargo • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Environment As a member of the Wells Fargo Environmental Affairs team, Krista supports the company's Green Teams and Sustainability Agents, who promote environmental innovation and educate team members about their role in supporting our sustainability efforts. Before coming to Wells Fargo, Krista earned her MBA in International Business at Georgetown University. She has also worked in a variety of sustainability and marketing positions in both the nonprofit (Net Impact) and for-profit (Sun Microsystems) worlds. In her free time, she enjoys running, reading and volunteering. Return to top  Russ WallaceCEO, CivicSponsor • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Russ is the founder and CEO of CivicSponsor, a new startup that aims to change the way governments engage their local citizens. A fan of taking the long way round, he arrived at his current position by way of working in a kitchen, studying around the world, slogging through law school, raising funds for venture capitalists, and then starting several other web companies in San Francisco. This is his fourth and most exciting. Other than finding his own path through life, Russ likes his adopted dog Baxter, sailing on the Bay, Sundays at the coffee shop and hanging out with Luis, his Little from Big Brothers Big Sisters. Return to top  Peter WernerPartner, Cooley LLP • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Unaffiliated Peter H. Werner is a partner in Cooley's Business department. He joined the Firm in 2001 and is resident in the San Francisco office. Mr. Werner's practice primarily focuses on the representation of emerging technology companies, venture capital firms, private equity firms and investment banks. Mr. Werner regularly assists clients with financings and mergers and acquisitions, in addition to entity formation, organization and governance matters, securities transactions, and SEC and stock exchange compliance and reporting. Mr. Werner received a J.D. in 2001 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow. Mr. Werner received a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. Prior to law school, Mr. Werner worked as a paralegal in Cooley's Business department, and at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in its Business and Technology group. Mr. Werner is admitted to practice before the California bar and is a member of the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of San Francisco. He serves on the board of directors of the Full Circle Fund, a non-profit engaged philanthropy organization. Mr. Werner has been listed in Northern California Super Lawyers as a Northern California Rising Star (2010). Return to top  Sarah WhitelawAssociate, Hall Capital Partners LLC • Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Sarah joined Full Circle Fund to engage in issues related to education and reform. As a member of the Hall Capital's Portfolio Management practice, she advises clients on investment strategy, portfolio structuring and generational planning. Hall Capital Partners LLC is a privately owned registered investment advisor that builds and manages multi-asset class global investment portfolios for individuals, families and institutions. Prior to joining Hall in 2008, she worked in Morgan Stanley's Private Wealth Management division for two years and spent over five years at Wellington Management Company, an institutional investment management firm. At Wellington, Sarah was responsible for business development and relationship management with West Coast investment consultants to large corporate and public pension plans, endowments and foundations. She began her career in Boston at the investment bank, Brown Brothers Harriman. Sarah received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in International Studies and French from Dickinson College. Additionally, Sarah is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Sarah serves as the Co-Chair of Programming, is a member of the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee for the Financial Women's Association of San Francisco. Return to top  Sarah Wigglesworth• Private Sector member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Sarah is the Co-Chair of the Global Economic Opportunity Circle. She has been interested in global issues since a high-school exchange trip to China, and in economic opportunity since personally participating in the first years of economic transition after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Since moving to the Bay Area in 2007, Sarah has gotten more interested in local and community issues, and is very excited about the GEO Circle's three initial projects. Sarah worked as a management consultant for 10 years, with a focus on strategy and organizational performance. She has also worked in IT business development in Central Europe and venture finance in Central Asia. Sarah holds an AB in Soviet Studies from Harvard/Radcliffe Colleges and an MIA in International Business from SIPA at Columbia University. She enjoys books, food, and being outdoors, and lives in San Francisco with her husband and two young sons. Return to top  Greg WolffFounding President, UnaMesa Association • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Greg Wolff is Vice President of Services Research at Ricoh Innovations and founder of the UnaMesa Association and Chocolate Dividends. Prior to founding UnaMesa, he was a fellow at the Digital Vision program of Stanford University. Greg earned a BA in Cognitive and Brain Science from MIT and an MS in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. At Ricoh Innovations Greg helped create one of the world's first lip reading systems, led a research team to develop the first digital photo story telling device, initiated Ricoh's first Open Source offering, and invented new methods for customer-centric innovation and services research. Greg's research and entrepreneurial activity focuses on a single question: How can we become smarter? Return to top  Ken WunSpecial Assistant to the Chairman, California Democratic Party • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Currently, Ken is the Portfolio Manager at BRIDGE Urban Infill Land Development. Previously, he was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs and worked in the investment management and real estate advisory industries. He earned his B.A. from University of California at Berkeley and his M.S. in real estate development from Columbia University. He served as a Voting Director at California Alumni Association and International Institute of San Francisco. He is also a Term Member of Pacific Council on International Policy and a Charter Member of the Hope Street Group. He has volunteered extensively as a tutor, mentor and big brother. Return to top Clayton Yee • Public Sector member • Impact Circle: Education Clayton has diverse professional experience in technology, finance, and non-profit sectors. He has led product and program development as well as marketing, communications, and fund development. His Silicon Valley experience includes working on microprocessor, graphics, and networking projects at Sun Microsystems, Philips Electronics, and several technology startups. His nonprofit background includes work in education, environment, and workforce development at JVS, St. Anthony Foundation, YMCA, and San Francisco Nature Education. He has also run a currency trading firm. Clayton's experience has instilled an appreciation and understanding of the challenges in creating impact in the social sector and heightened his interest in drawing on the best ideas from both the business world and non-profit sectors to more effectively create social impact. He received his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. A native of San Francisco, Clayton loves to travel the world, but still finds himself rooted in the City by the Bay. Return to top  Amy ZuccheroMember Services Director, Women's Funding Network • Community Fellow member • Impact Circle: Global Economic Opportunity Amy Zucchero is currently the Member Services Director for the Women's Funding Network, a global association of 135 women's foundations with offices in San Francisco, CA. She joined the Network in January 2004 after completing her Masters in Public Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. During her tenure, Women's Funding Network's membership has grown over 25 percent. Amy is actively involved in designing and delivering capacity building services, including leadership retreats and technical assistance grants. Prior to joining WFN, Amy worked with several non-profit organizations focused on social justice including the Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence in Ventura County, California and Tapestry Health in Northampton, Massachusetts. From 2004- 2006, Amy sat on the San Francisco, National Women's Political Caucus board of directors. She spends her free time exploring San Francisco's foggy neighborhoods, hoping to land in the sunny part of town, reading and fiddling with knitting needles. Return to top |
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