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

Gregg Alton, J.D.
Executive Vice President, Corporate and Medical Affairs
Gilead Sciences Inc.
Maria Amundson
General Manager-Silicon Valley
Edelman
Chris Apostolopoulos
President, South Bay Division
KB HOME Northern California
Laurence Baer
President & CEO
San Francisco Giants
Anne Bakar
President & CEO
Telecare Corporation
Andrew Ball *
West Coast President
Suffolk Construction Company
Gregory Becker
President and CEO
SVB Financial Group
Kofi Bonner
President
Lennar/BVHP
Teresa Briggs
Managing Partner, Bay Area
Deloitte LLP
David Brown *
Partner
A T Kearney, Inc.
William Brown
Chairman
Central Garden & Pet Company
James Bryski
Senior Vice President , Regional Commercial Executive
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
Curtis Burr *
Chief Executive Officer
Burr, Pilger & Mayer LLP
Keith Casto
Partner
Cooper, White & Cooper LLP
Richard Cerussi
President & General Manager
NBC 11 KNTV
Bruno Cohen *
President & General Manager
KPIX/KBCW TV
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
Weili Dai
Co-Founder
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
John De Luca
Senior Advisor
E & J Gallo Winery
Lloyd Dean
President & CEO
Dignity Health
John Del Santo *
Managing Director, Global Insurance Industry
Accenture LLP
Paula Downey
President and CEO
AAA Northern California Nevada & Utah Insurance Exchange
Anthony Earley Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
John Eddy
Principal
Arup North America Ltd.
Robert Edwards *
CEO
Safeway, Inc.
Kevin Elliott
Senior Vice President
Hill+Knowlton
Ted Fang
Editor
Asian Week
Hank Fore *
Regional Senior Vice President, California Region
Comcast
Michael Ghielmetti
President
Signature Development Group, Inc.
Andrew Giacomini
Managing Partner
Hanson Bridgett LLP
Dianne Glynn *
Office Managing Partner, Redwood Shores
Ernst & Young LLP
George Halvorson
Chairman & CEO
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., and Hospitals
Kristin Hebert
Managing Partner
The Caldwell Partners International
Joerg Heidrich
SVP/Global Head, Product Supply Biotech & Berkeley Site Head
Bayer Corporation
Jeffrey Heller
President
Heller Manus Architects
David Hennefer *
President
Pacific Eagle Holdings Corporation
Richard Henry
President, North Pacific Division
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Jim Henry
Market Managing Partner
PwC 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
Gregory Johnson
President & CEO, Franklin Resources, Inc.
Franklin Templeton Investments
Todd Kaufman
[Retired] Director, State and Local Government Affairs
Genentech, Inc.
Donald Knauss
Chairman & CEO
The Clorox Company
Luke Kowalski
Vice President, Corporate Architecture Group
Oracle Corporation
Sylvia Kwan
Chairman
Kwan Henmi Architecture & Planning, Inc.
Janet Lamkin
California State President
Bank of America
James Levine
Managing Partner
Montezuma Wetlands LLC
Luke Lucas
Sr. Manager, Strategic Coverage, Engineering and Operations Team
T-Mobile
Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann
President, Citibank California
Citi
Stacy Magill
CFO
Ghilotti Construction Company
Tarkan Maner
Vice President & GM, Cloud Client Computing
Dell Wyse
George Marcus
Chairman
Marcus & Millichap
Paul Markovich
President and CEO
Blue Shield of California
John Martin
Director
San Francisco International Airport
Duncan Matteson
Chairman
The Matteson Companies
Stephen Mayer *
Founder & Managing Partner
SD Mayer & Associates, LLP
Peg McAllister
Senior Vice President
Lee Hecht Harrison
George McCown
Managing Director
American Infrastructure Funds
Kenneth McNeely
President, AT&T California
AT&T
Alexander Mehran
President and CEO
Sunset Development 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.
Leroy Morishita
President
California State University, East Bay
R. Clark Morrison
Partner
Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
Monique Moyer
Executive Director
Port of San Francisco
Narayan Nallicheri
Partner
Oliver Wyman Financial Services
Laurie Nash *
Managing Partner
Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc.
Jack Nelson
Office Managing Partner
Reed Smith LLP
Jay Paxton
Managing Director Attorney
Buchalter Nemer
Jes Pedersen *
President & CEO
Webcor Builders
Perry Pelos
Head of Commercial Banking
Wells Fargo & Company
Olga Perkovic
Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning
URS Corporation
Russell Preite
Regional President, NorCal/Nevada/Hawaii
Verizon Wireless
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
Director and Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company, San Francisco
McKinsey & Company
Clinton Reilly
Chairman & President
Clinton Reilly Holdings
George Roberts
Founding Partner
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Dennis Rodriguez *
Chief City Executive - LA, SD & SF
Siemens
Garth Saloner
Dean, Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Julie Sattler
Vice President, SSC Operations
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Joseph Saunders
Executive Chairman [Ret.]
Visa Inc.
Leslie Tang Schilling
President
L.T.Diversified Development, Inc.
Robert Schmitt
General Manager
Clear Channel Outdoor
Karl Schroeder
President, Northern California Division
Safeway, Inc.
Glenn Shannon
President & COO
Shorenstein Properties LLC
William Sharp
Managing Partner
Sharp + Kemm
J. Michael Shepherd
Chairman & CEO
Bank of the West
Todd Smith
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Sutter Health
John Sobrato
Chairman
The Sobrato Organization
Larry Sonsini
Chairman
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Stanley Taylor
Partner
Nossaman LLP
Timothy Tosta *
Partner, Real Estate & Finance
McKenna Long & Aldridge
John Trefethen
Chairman
Trefethen Vineyards Winery
Laura Tyson
S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management
University of California, Berkeley
Michael Walker
President, Northern California
U.S. Bank
Michael Webber *
Dean, School of Management
University of San Francisco
Rick Welts
President and COO
Golden State Warriors
Mark Whiteley
Principal & Global Science and Technology Practice Leader
Cannon Design
Elizabeth Wiecha
Northern California District Director
T.Y. Lin International
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
Leslie Wong *
President
San Francisco State University
Jed York
President & CEO
Forty Niners Football Company, LLC
Rhonda Zygocki
Executive Vice President, Policy & Planning
Chevron Corporation

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