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


Vice Chair
Maryles Casto
Founder and President, Casto, The Travel Company
http://www.casto.com/


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/
Ralph Baxter
Chairman and CEO, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
www.orick.com
John L. Boland
President and CEO, Northern California Public Broadcasting, Inc.,
http://www.kqed.org/
Helen A. Burt
Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
http://www.pge.com/
Michael Carr
retired National Manager of Franchise Recruiting, BP Oil Company
Jack Cortis
Northern California Regional President, BNY Mellon Wealth Management
http://www.bnymellon.com/
Mary B. Cranston
Senior Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
http://www.pillsburylaw.com/
Dr. Kerry P. Curtis
Professor Emeritus, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University
http://www.ggu.edu/
Dr. Jaleh Daie
Managing Partner, Aurora Equity LLC
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/
Lee J. Dutra
San Francisco Office Managing Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
http://www.ey.com/US/EN/Home
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
Executive Chairman, Academix Direct
http://www.academixdirect.com/
Lisa Frazier
President and CEO, The Bay Citizen
http://baycitizen.org
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
Principle, Sequoia Leadership Consulting
www.sequoialeadership.com
Hon. James C. Hormel
Former Ambassador to Luxembourg; founder and Chairman, Equidex, Inc.
Mary Huss
Publisher, San Francisco Business Times
Lata Krishnan
Vice Chair, American India Foundation
http://aifoundation.org/
Principle, Shah Management
http://www.shahcap.com/
Don J. McGrath
Managing Partner, Diamond Bear Partners
http://diamondbearpartners.com/
Jill Nash
Chief Communications Officer and VP of Corporate Affairs, Levi Strauss & Co.
www.levistrauss.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 A. Privett S.J.
President, University of San Francisco
http://www.usfca.edu/
Dan C. Quigley
Executive Director, Oakland Schools Foundation
http://www.oaklandschoolsfoundation.org
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
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
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, Corporate Relations, Chevron Corporation
http://www.chevron.com/


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


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: 07/23/2010 10:50


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