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 two years. Maryles Casto is the current Chair of the Board of Governors. 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
Maryles Casto
Founder and CEO, Casto, The Travel Company
http://www.casto.com/
Vice Chair
Anna W.M. Mok
Managing Partner, Client Excellence, Deloitte & Touche LLP
http://www.deloitte.com/
Secretary
William F. Adams
Attorney, William F. Adams Law Offices
Treasurer
Lee J. Dutra
San Francisco Office Managing Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
http://www.ey.com/
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Gloria C. Duffy
The Commonwealth Club of California
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/
Board of Governors
Dan Ashley
Anchor, ABC7 News
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/
Massey J. Bambara
North Bay Market President, Bank of America
http://www.bankofamerica.com/
Ralph Baxter
Chairman and CEO, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
www.orrick.com/
Dr. Mary G. F. Bitterman
President, The Bernard Osher Foundation
http://www.osherfoundation.org/
John L. Boland
President, KQED
http://www.kqed.org/
Michael R. Bracco
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Bank of the West
https://www.bankofthewest.com/
Helen A. Burt
Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
http://www.pge.com/
Michael Carr
President and CEO, Onyx Management Group LLC
Dennis A. Collins
Retired President and CEO, The James Irvine Foundation
Mary B. Cranston
Retired 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
Joseph I. Epstein
President, Sierra Steel Trading LLC
http://sierrasteeltrading.com/
Jeffrey A. Farber
CEO, Koret Foundation
http://www.koretfoundation.org/
Carol A. Fleming, Ph.D.
Principal, The Sound of Your Voice
http://www.speechtraining.com/
Leslie Saul Garvin
Vice Chair, Silicon Valley Advisory Council
Dr. Charles Geschke
Co-chair of the Board, Adobe Software, Inc.
http://www.adobe.com/
Jacquelyn Hadley
Partner, The Bridgespan Group
http://www.bridgespan.org
Edie G. Heilman
Principal, 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
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/
John Leckrone
Director of Venture Development, Adobe Systems, Incorporated
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/
Don J. McGrath
Managing Partner, Diamond Bear Partners
http://diamondbearpartners.com/
Frank C. Meerkamp
Executive Partner, Accenture
http://www.accenture.com/
Hon. Barbara Pivnicka
CEO, San Francisco Global Trade Council
Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic
Hon. Richard Pivnicka
Honorary Consul General, Czech Republic
Legal Advisor to the Board, Board Member, Gerson Bakar & Associates
Rev. Stephen A. Privett S.J.
President, University of San Francisco
http://www.usfca.edu/
Dr. Mohammad H. Qayoumi
President, San Jose State University
http://www.sjsu.edu/
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
The Denning Director for the Center for Global Business and the Economy
Founding Partner, RiceHadley Group
http://www.hoover.org/
Brian D. Riley
San Francisco Branch Manager, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management
http://www.ml.com/
Fred A. Rodriguez
Partner, VLP Law Group LLP
http://www.virtuallawpartners.com/
Robert Saldich
Retired President and CEO, Raychem Corporation
Joseph W. Saunders
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Visa Inc.
http://www.visa.com/
George M. Scalise
Private Investor
Lata Krishnan Shah
Principal, Shah Capital Partners LP
http://www.shahcap.com/
Charlotte Mailliard Shultz
Chief of Protocol, City and County of San Francisco and State of California
George D. Smith, Jr.
President & Publisher, Signature Books
http://signaturebooks.com/
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
Charles Travers
Businessman and Investor
Robert Walker
Executive Director, The Frank H. and Eva B. Buck Foundation
http://www.buckfoundation.org/
Daniel J. Warmenhoven
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Chairman, NetApp Inc.
http://www.netapp.com/us/
Dr. Colleen B. Wilcox
Former Superintendent of Schools, Santa Clara County
Russell M. Yarrow
General Manager, Corporate Relations, Chevron Corporation
http://www.chevron.com/
Jed York
President and CEO, San Francisco 49ers
http://www.49ers.com//
Advisory Board
Karin Helene Bauer
Hon. William Bradley
Dennise M. Carter
Rolando Esteverena
Steven Falk
Amy Gershoni
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
Rose Guilbault
Claude B. Hutchison Jr.
Dr. Julius Krevans
Richard Otter
Joseph Perrelli
Toni Rembe
Victor J. Revenko
Renée Rubin
Connie Shapiro
Nelson Weller
Judith Wilbur
Dennis Wu
