Board of Directors

The Bay Area Council unites top business leaders to help solve the region’s toughest challenges and steward its leadership in a connected world.

Board of directors

Mark Adkins
President
San Francisco Chronicle
Gregg Alton, J.D.
Executive Vice President, Corporate and Medical Affairs
Gilead Sciences Inc.
Gilbert Amelio
Senior Partner
Sienna Ventures
Chris Apostolopoulos
President, South Bay Division
KB HOME Northern California
Laurence Baer
President
San Francisco Giants
Anne Bakar *
President & CEO
Telecare Corporation
Andrew Ball
President & CEO
Webcor Builders
Gregory Becker
President and CEO
SVB Financial Group
Omar Benjamin
Executive Director
Port of Oakland
Thomas Bishop
SVP, West & Construction Services/VP, Strategy
URS Corporation
Kofi Bonner
President
Lennar/BVHP
Teresa Briggs
Managing Partner, San Francisco Practice
Deloitte
William Brown
CEO
Central Garden & Pet Company
Steven Buster
President and CEO
Mechanics Bank
Mike Caprio
Area President, Northern California
Republic Services
Keith Casto
Partner
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Richard Cerussi
President & General Manager
NBC 11 KNTV
Rachelle Chong
Vice President of Government Affairs
Comcast
A. W. Clausen
Retired Chairman & CEO
Bank of America
Paul Cook
Chairman Emeritus
SRI International
Joseph Cook II
Senior Managing Director, California
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Michael Covarrubias
Chairman & CEO
TMG Partners
Ronald Cowan
Chairman & CEO
Harbor Bay Isle Associates
Steven Currall
Dean, Graduate School of Management
University of California, Davis
C. David Cush
President and CEO
Virgin America
Laura D'Andrea Tyson *
S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management
University of California, Berkeley
Weili Dai
Co-Founder
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
John De Luca, Ph.D.
Senior Advisor
E & J Gallo Winery
Lloyd Dean
President & CEO
Dignity Health
Christopher DiGiorgio
Northern California Managing Director
Accenture LLP
Paula Downey
President and CEO
AAA Northern California Nevada & Utah Insurance Exchange
Robert Duffy
Partner
A T Kearney, Inc.
Lee Dutra *
Office Managing Partner
Ernst & Young LLP
John Eddy *
Principal
Arup North America Ltd.
Mark Edmunds
Vice Chairman & Regional Managing Partner
Deloitte
Christopher Eldridge
Director, Regional Development
T-Mobile
Kevin Elliott
Senior Vice President
Hill & Knowlton
Ted Fang
Editor
Asian Week
Joseph Fink *
President Emeritus
Dominican University
Guy Gecht
CEO
Electronics For Imaging
Michael Ghielmetti
President
Signature Development Group
Andrew Giacomini
Managing Partner
Hanson Bridgett LLP
Jim Gonzalez
Managing Partner
Jim Gonzalez & Associates, LLC
George Halvorson
Chairman & CEO
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Hospitals
Joerg Heidrich
SVP/Global Head, Product Supply Biotech & Berkeley Site Head
Bayer Corporation
Jeffrey Heller
President
Heller Manus Architects
Richard Henry
President, North Pacific Division
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Jim Henry
Market Managing Partner
PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP
Peter Hillan
Senior Vice President
Fleishman-Hillard, Inc.
Jeffrey Hoopes
President
Swinerton Incorporated
Timothy Hoxie
Partner
Jones Day
Mary Huss
Publisher
San Francisco Business Times
Robert James
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Greg Johnson
President & CEO, Franklin Resources, Inc.
Franklin Templeton Investments
Todd Kaufman
Director, State and Local Government Affairs
Genentech, Inc.
James Keenan
Senior Vice President, United Services
United Airlines
Donald Knauss
Chairman & CEO
The Clorox Company
Luke Kowalski
Vice President, Corporate Architecture Group
Oracle Corporation
Richard Kramlich
General Partner/Co-Founder
New Enterprise Associates
Sylvia Kwan
Chairman
Kwan Henmi Architecture & Planning, Inc.
Janet Lamkin
California State President
Bank of America
Matthew Le Merle *
Vice President
Booz & Company Inc.
James Levine
Managing Partner
Montezuma Wetlands LLC
Ronald Longinotti
President & General Manager
KPIX/KBCW TV
Erik Lundh
Managing Director
J. Robert Scott
Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann
President, Citibank California
Citi
Stacy Magill
CFO
Ghilotti Construction Company
Tarkan Maner *
President & CEO
WYSE Technology
George Marcus
Chairman
Marcus & Millichap
Paul Markovich
Senior Vice President & Chief Executive
Blue Shield of California
John Martin
Director
San Francisco International Airport
Duncan Matteson
Chairman
The Matteson Companies
Stephen Mayer
President & CEO
Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP
Peg McAllister
Senior Vice President
Lee Hecht Harrison
George McCown
Managing Director
American Infrastructure Funds
James McKenna
President and CEO
Pacific Maritime Association
Kenneth McNeely
President, AT&T California
AT&T
Alexander Mehran
President and CEO
Sunset Development Company
Lenny Mendonca
Director
McKinsey & Company
Deborah Messemer
Managing Partner
KPMG
Harold Messmer
Chairman and CEO
Robert Half International Inc.
Mark Midkiff
Vice Chairman and Chief Risk Officer
Union Bank
Constance Moore *
President and Chief Executive Officer
BRE Properties, Inc.
R. Clark Morrison
Partner
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
Monique Moyer
Executive Director
Port of San Francisco
Narayan Nallicheri
Partner
Oliver Wyman Financial Services
Steve Neal
Chairman and CEO
Cooley LLP
Jack Nelson
Silicon Valley Office Managing Partner
Reed Smith LLP
Jay Paxton
Managing Director Attorney
Buchalter Nemer
Perry Pelos
Head of Commercial Banking
Wells Fargo & Company
Mohammad Qayoumi
President
San Jose State University
David Radcliffe
Vice President, Real Estate and Workplace Services
Google Inc.
Gary Radine
President & CEO
Delta Dental of California
Kausik Rajgopal
Principal
McKinsey & Company
Clinton Reilly
Chairman & President
Clinton Reilly Holdings
Jon Reynolds
Chairman of the Board
Reynolds & Brown
Tuck Rickards *
Managing Director
Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.
George Roberts
Founding Partner
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
T. Gary Rogers
Former Chairman & CEO
Nestlé Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Company
Richard Rosenberg
Chairman & CEO (Retired)
Bank of America
Garth Saloner
Dean, Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Julie Sattler
Vice President, SSC Operations
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Joseph Saunders
Chairman & CEO
Visa Inc.
Leslie Tang Schilling
President
L.T.Diversified Development, Inc.
Karl Schroeder
President, Northern California Division
Safeway, Inc.
Glenn Shannon
President & COO
Shorenstein Properties LLC
J. Michael Shepherd
Chairman & CEO
Bank of the West
L. Stephen Smith
Chairman & CEO
The PMI Group, Inc.
John Sobrato
Chairman
The Sobrato Organization
Larry Sonsini
Chairman
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Thomas Sprinkle
Managing Principal
ROMA Design Group
Thomas Sullivan
Managing Partner
Wilson Meany Sullivan
Stanley Taylor
Partner
Nossaman LLP
John Trefethen
Chairman
Trefethen Vineyards Winery
James Vohs
Chairman Emeritus
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Hospitals
Michael Walker
President, Northern California
U.S. Bank
Keith Wetmore
Chair
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Mark Whiteley
Principal & Global Science and Technology Practice Leader
Cannon Design
John Williams *
President & CEO
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Daniel Winey *
Managing Principal, Pacific Northwest and Asia
Gensler
Paul Witkay
Founder & CEO
Alliance of Chief Executives
Jed York
President & CEO
San Francisco Forty Niners, Ltd.
Kevin Zavaglia
Regional President, NorCal/Nevada Region
Verizon Wireless
Rhonda Zygocki
Executive Vice President, Policy & Planning
Chevron Corporation

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