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Mary B. Cranston is the current Chair of the Board of Governors.
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.

Board Chair
Mary B. Cranston
Firm Senior Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
http://www.pillsburywinthrop.com/


Vice Chair
Dr. Mary G. F. Bitterman
President, Osher Foundation
http://www.osherfoundation.org/


Secretary
William F. Adams
Attorney, William F. Adams Law Offices
http://www.wfalaw.com/


Treasurer
Anna W.M. Mok
Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Intl.
http://www.deloitte.com/


President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Gloria C. Duffy
Commonwealth Club of California
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/


Board of Governors
Massey J. Bambara
Market Executive, Bank of America
http://www.bankofamerica.com/
Dr. Natalie Berg
Retired, Regional Vice President, Forest City Development
http://www.forestcity.net/
Noah Buffet-Kennedy
Law Student
Maryles Casto
Founder and President, Casto, The Travel Company
http://www.casto.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. Joseph R. Fink
President, Dominican University
http://www.dominican.edu/
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/
Dr. Charles Geschke
Chairman, Adobe Software, Inc.
http://www.adobe.com/
Richard N. Goldman
President, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Foundation
http://www.goldmanfund.org/
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/
Heather Kitchen
Executive Director, American Conservatory Theater
http://www.act-sfbay.org/
Lata Krishnan
President, American India Foundation
http://aifoundation.org/
CFO, 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/
Fred A. Rodriguez
Principal, The Rodriguez Law Group
Robert Saldich
President and CEO (Retired), Raychem Corporation
http://www.raychem.com/
Charlotte Mailliard Shultz
Chief of Protocol, California Governor's Office of Protocol
James Strother
Executive VP and General Counsel, Wells Fargo & Company
http://www.wellsfargo.com/
Hon. Tad Taube
Director, Taube Investments
L. Jay Tenenbaum
Partner (Retired), Goldman Sachs & Co.
http://www.gs.com/
Charles N. Travers
Community Volunteer
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
Manager, Global Issues and Policy, Chevron Corporation
http://www.chevron.com/


Advisory Board
Karin Helene Bauer
Hon. William Bradley
Dennise M. Carter
Steven Falk
Amy Gershoni
Amy McCombs
Hon. William Perry
Ray Taliaferro
Nancy Thompson


Past Presidents
Shirley Temple Black
J. Dennis Bonney
John Busterud
Hon. Ming Chin
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: 01/09/2008 11:58


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