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SUPPORT
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CONTACT
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The Commonwealth Club of California
San Francisco: 595 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Phone: (415) 597-6700 Fax: (415) 597-6729 E-mail us
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Governors of The Club
The Board of Governors of The Commonwealth Club reflects the strong commitment among Bay Area leaders to The Club's public affairs role. Members of the Board represent a wide variety of business and civic organizations.
Board Members oversee The Club's activities through a number of committees, working closely with the President and CEO and The Club's staff.
The Board Chair serves for one year, renewable for an additional year. The Board is comprised of 43 members and four officers. Past Presidents and past Chairs of The Club's Board also sit on the Board as voting members for three years following their leadership tenure, then for life as non-voting members of the Board.
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Board of Governors | Massey J. Bambara Market Executive, Bank of America http://www.bankofamerica.com/ | Noah Buffett-Kennedy Law Student | Helen A. Burt Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company http://www.pge.com/ | Jeff Clarke President & CEO, Northern California Public Broadcasting, Inc. http://www.kqed.org/ | Jack Cortis Northern California Regional President, BNY Mellon Wealth Management http://www.bnymellon.com/ | Dr. Kerry P. Curtis Professor Emeritus, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University http://www.ggu.edu/ | Evelyn S. Dilsaver Former Executive Vice President, Charles Schwab; President and CEO, Charles Schwab Investment Management | Timothy C. Draper Founder and Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson http://www.dfj.com/ | Joseph I. Epstein President, Sierra Steel Trading LLC http://sierrasteeltrading.com/ | Rolando Esteverena Serial Entrepreneur | Jeffrey A. Farber CEO, Koret Foundation http://www.koretfoundation.org/ | Dr. Carol A. Fleming Principal, The Sound of Your Voice http://www.speechtraining.com | Karen Francis Former Chairman/CEO, Publicis & Hal Riney http://www.hrp.com/ | Lisa Frazier Partner, McKinsey & Company http://www.mckinsey.com/ | Dr. Charles Geschke Co-chair of the Board, Adobe Software, Inc. http://www.adobe.com/ | Rose Guilbault Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Publishing, AAA of Northern California, Nevada and Utah http://www.aaa.com/ | Jacquelyn Hadley Partner, The Bridgespan Group http//www.bridgespan.org/ | Edie G. Heilman Retired, Senior Vice President, Charles Schwab & Co. | Hon. James Hormel Former Ambassador to Luxembourg; founder and Chairman, Equidex, Inc. | Mary Huss Publisher, San Francisco Business Times http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/ | Lata Krishnan Vice Chair, American India Foundation http://aifoundation.org/ Principle, Shah Management http://www.shahcap.com/ | Hon. L. W. (Bill) Lane, Jr. Former U.S. Ambassador to Australia Retired Publisher, Sunset Publishing http://www.sunsetmagazine.com/ | Don J. McGrath Chairman and CEO, BANK of the WEST http://www.bankofthewest.com/ | Marcela C. Medina Retired, Vice President and General Manager, Univision, KDTV-14 http://www.univision.com/ | Hon. Barbara Pivnicka Honorary Consul, Slovak Republic | Hon. Richard Pivnicka Honorary Consul General, Czech Republic Legal Advisor to the Board, Board Member, Gerson Bakar & Associates | Father Stephen Privett President, University of San Francisco http://www.usfca.edu/ | Dan C. Quigley Retired, Director, Charitable Contributions, Pacific Gas and Electric http://www.pge.com/ | Skip Rhodes President, Skip Rhodes and Associates, LLC http://skiprhodes.com/ | Dr. Condoleezza Rice Senior Hoover Fellow and Professor of Political Science, Hoover Institution, Stanford University http://www.hoover.org/ | Fred A. Rodriguez Principal, The Rodriguez Law Group | Robert Saldich President and CEO (Retired), Raychem Corporation http://www.raychem.com/ | Joseph W. Saunders Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Visa Inc. http://www.visa.com/ | Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Chief of Protocol, City and County of San Francisco and State of California | Valari D. Staab President & General Manager, KGO-TV/DT ABC7 http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/ | James Strother Executive VP and General Counsel, Wells Fargo & Company http://www.wellsfargo.com/ | Hon. Tad Taube Founder and Chairman, Taube Investments Honorary Consul, Poland | L. Jay Tenenbaum Partner (Retired), Goldman Sachs & Co. http://www.gs.com/ | Charles N. Travers Businessman and Investor Community Volunteer | Thomas Vertin Chief Operating Officer, Silicon Valley Bank http://svb.com/ | Robert Walker Executive Director, The Buck Foundation http://www.buckfoundation.org/ | Dr. Colleen B. Wilcox Former Superintendent of Schools, Santa Clara County http://www.sccoe.org/ | Russel M. Yarrow General Manager, California Corporate Affairs, Chevron Corporation http://www.chevron.com/ |
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Advisory Board | Karin Helene Bauer
| Hon. William Bradley
| Dennise M. Carter
| Steven Falk
| Amy Gershoni
| Richard N. Goldman
| Heather Kitchen
| Amy McCombs
| Hon. William Perry
| Ray Taliaferro
| Nancy Thompson
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Past Presidents | Shirley Temple Black
| J. Dennis Bonney
| John Busterud
| Hon. Ming Chin
| Dr. Joseph R. Fink
| William German
| Eugene Herson
| Claude Hutchison
| Dr. Julius Krevans
| Bruce Mitchell
| Richard Otter
| Joseph Perrelli
| Toni Rembe
| Victor Revenko
| Renée Rubin
| Connie Shapiro
| Nelson Weller
| Judith Wilbur
| Dennis Wu
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Last Updated: 01/04/2010 16:40
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