Robert Katz, President
Affiliations: Principal of Robert Katz Consulting. Retired
President and CEO, U.S. Natural Resources, Inc., Menlo Park, California. Former
Board Chairman of Yosemite Park & Curry Co. Former Chairman
and CEO of Citizens Holdings. Founder or co-founder of nine manufacturing
or financial services companies. Business text author and former
instructor at Stanford, Harvard and Dartmouth Graduate Schools of Business.
Co-incorporator and first Chairman of Planning Commission, Town of
Portola Valley; Commissioner, California State Park & Recreation
Commission. Resident of Portola Valley.
UC Berkeley, B.A.; Stanford Business School, M.B.A; Harvard Business
School, D.C.S.
Board Member since 2004
Dan Martin, Vice President
Affiliations: Vice-President of Business Development and 5th employee of internet real estate start-up called HomeGain, based in Emeryville, CA. Active volunteer for Trust for Public Land, San Francisco Office. Previous work at the US-China Business Council in Washington, D.C. as Manager of the Investment Program. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Resident of Oakland.
Duke University, B.A. Economics & Comparative Area Studies-East
Asia; Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University
of Virginia, M.B.A.
Board Member since 2006
Betsy Herbert, Secretary
Affiliations: Environmental Analyst, San Lorenzo Valley
Water District; Commissioner, Santa Cruz County Commission on the Environment;
former Chair, Santa Cruz Watershed Management Technical Advisory Task
Force; County of Santa Cruz Timber Technical Advisory Task Force; State
of California Board of Forestry Subcommittee on Exemption Logging. Former
board member of environmental and community service organizations. Resides
in Santa Cruz.
Ph.D., Environmental Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Board Member since 2001
Richard L Conniff, Treasurer
Affiliations: President and Chief Executive Officer
of Focus Business Bank, headquartered in San Jose, California. Board
member of First Community Housing; Chairman of the Investment Committee
of Via Rehabilitation Industries, Inc. Endowment Fund; Advisory Board
member, Symphony Silicon Valley and the DeanÕs Advisory Board, College
of Business, San Jose State University; Member, Rotary Club of San
Jose. Resident of San Jose.
Cal State Long Beach, B.S. Accounting; San Jose State University, M.B.A.
Board Member since 2004 |
Kevin Flynn
Affiliations: Senior Manager, Security Technology Marketing, Wireless and IP Communications at Cisco Systems; Active member of NAIL: Neighbors Against Irresponsible Logging; Previous employment at Apple Computer. Member, Surfrider Foundation. Resident of Los Gatos.
Board Member since 2007
William N Harris
Affiliations: California licensed professional engineer and retired vice president of AWD Technologies and Quality Assurance Manager of Guy F. Atkinson Company. Treasurer, Myrtle L. Atkinson Foundation; President, Friends of Menlo Park Library; member American Nuclear Society, California Map Society, Menlo Park Historical Association, Stanford. Member University Libraries and Stanford Music Guild. Resident of Menlo Park.
California Institute of Technology, B.S. and M.S. Engineering.
Board Member since 1997
Carl King
Affiliations: Founder and President, Mayfield Mortgage; Former
Board President, Hidden Villa; Past employment in semiconductor equipment
industry for Applied Materials and KLA Instruments; former loan officer
at residential real estate lending firm in Palo Alto and founder of
local mortgage brokerage. Resides in Palo Alto.
UC Berkeley, B.A. Chemical Engineering; Santa Clara University, MBA.
Board Member since 2007
Judith Steiner
Affiliations: Consultant for Center for Excellence in
Nonprofits and former Executive Director of Hidden Villa, an environmental
and multicultural education nonprofit in Los Altos Hills. Founding
director of Innovative Housing of the Peninsula; former consultant for
City of Palo Alto, Peninsula Conservation Center and Co Housing for America.
Board member of the Alumni Consultant Team of Stanford Graduate School
of Business, the East Palo Alto Kids Foundation and Commissioner with
Palo Alto Parks and Recreation Commission. Extensive community volunteer
work on various Advisory Boards and Committees in the Bay Area. Resident
of Palo Alto.
Bucknell University, B.A.
Board Member since 2005
Diane Talbert
Affiliations: Former President of the Woodside High
School Foundation and former Senior Vice-President of Cornish & Carey
real estate; member of Bioneers and volunteer for the National Marine Sanctuaries
and the Santa Clara County Audubon Society. Awarded ÒCitizen of the Year,Ó
Town of Woodside. Resident of Woodside.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, B.S. Child Development; K-12 Teaching Credential.
Board Member since 2007
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Suneil Thomas
Affiliations: Director of Special Projects at The Nature
Conservancy. Works with public officials and facilitates partnerships
with private industry, government agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Formerly real estate attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop and Ellman Burke.
Resident of San Francisco.
J.D., UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco; B.A. Environmental
Policy, The Colorado College, Colorado Springs. Two years undergraduate study,
Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Board member since 2008.
Emily F Thurber
Affiliations: Former chair, Santa Clara County Commission
on the Status of Women; member, Santa Clara County Democratic Central
Committee Executive Board; Regional Director, Region 5, for the California
Democratic Party. Former Washington, D.C. legislative aide to
Senator Alan Cranston and Program Director for the Foreign Student
Service Committee; former co-manager of State Senator Byron Sher's
re-election campaign. Former Board member of the Los Altos Community
Foundation and also of the YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula; Board member
of the Peninsula Democratic Coalition. Resident of Los Altos.
Stanford University, B.A. History.
Board Member since 2001
Ellen C Weaver
Affiliations: Professor emerita (1991) of Biological Sciences at San Jose State University, taught botany, plant physiology. Director of the University Foundation for five years, Interim Executive Vice President. Long time member of the Board of the Varian Foundation, currently member of the Council of the Save the Redwoods League.(Research and Master Planning Committees) Have had many other board memberships. Much published photosynthesis research in peer-reviewed journals.
Western Reserve University, B.A. chemistry; Stanford University, M.A. Biological Sciences; University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. Genetics
Board Member since 1988
Stephen N Wyckoff
Affiliations: Partner, law firm of Wyckoff, Ritchey and Shanle. Past board member of the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County and the Hospice of Santa Cruz; Sierra Club member and active volunteer hike leader for Ventana Chapter. Resident of Santa Cruz.
University of Santa Clara Law School, J.D.
Board Member since 1994 |
