Emily F Thurber, President
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

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

Robert Katz, Treasurer and CFO
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

Betsy Herbert, Secretary
Affiliations: Environmental Analyst, San Lorenzo Valley Water District; Environmental advocate and former Chair of 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. Current and former board member of environmental and community service organizations. Resides in Santa Cruz.        
Beloit College, B.A., Northern Arizona University, M.A., UC Santa Cruz, Ph.D. Environmental Studies
Board Member since 2001

Richard L Conniff
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 Dean’s 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 “Citizen of the Year,” Town of Woodside. Resident of Woodside.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, B.S. Child Development; K-12 Teaching Credential.
Board Member since 2007

Ellen C Weaver
Affiliations: Professor emerita (1991) of Biological Sciences and Associate Dean for Development in the College of Science at San Jose State University. Past president of the Association for Women in Science, and founding director of the California Textbook League. Resides in San Rafael.  
Western Reserve University, B.A.; Stanford, M.A. Biological Science; UC Berkeley, Ph.D. Genetics.
Board Member since 1988

Richard P Wheat
Affiliations: Retired physician; past Medical Director of El Camino Hospital. Active conservationist and volunteer. Resident of Carmel.
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, M.D. 
Board Member since 1968

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