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 are affiliated with 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. Evelyn Dilsaver is the current chair of the Board of Governors. The board is comprised of 51 members. 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 nonvoting members of the board.
Board Leadership
Board Chair
Evelyn Dilsaver
Independent Board Director
Board Vice Chair
Martha Ryan
Co-Founder, Daric Inc.; Former Trustee and President, The California State Summer School for the Arts Foundation
Secretary
Dr. Jaleh Daie
Managing Partner, Aurora Equity LLC
Treasurer
John Farmer
Retired General Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Gloria C. Duffy
The Commonwealth Club of California
Board of Governors
Robert E. Adams
Engineer, Google
Willie Adams
President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union; Vice President, The San Francisco Port Commission
Scott Anderson
Chief Economist, Bank of the West
Dan Ashley
Anchor, ABC7 News
Dr. Mary G. F. Bitterman (Past Board Chair)
President, The Bernard Osher Foundation
John L. Boland
President Emeritus, KQED
Charles M. Collins
President & CEO, YMCA of San Francisco
Mary B. Cranston (Past Board Chair)
Retired Senior Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Susie Cranston
Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning, First Republic Bank
Dr. Kerry P. Curtis
Professor Emeritus, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University
Dorian Daley
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Oracle Corporation
James Driscoll
Privacy and Transparency Lead, Google
Joseph I. Epstein (Past Board President)
President, Sierra Steel Trading LLC
Jeffrey A. Farber
CEO, Koret Foundation
Dr. Carol A. Fleming
Principal, The Sound of Your Voice
Leslie Saul Garvin
Postgraduate Public Service Assistant Director, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University
Hon. James C. Hormel
Former Ambassador to Luxembourg; Founder and Chairman, Equidex Inc.
Mary Huss
Publisher, San Francisco Business Times
Lata Krishnan
Principal, Shah Capital Partners LP
Dr. Mary Marcy
President, Dominican University of California
Lenny Mendonca
Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company
Michelle Meow
Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show"
Anna W.M. Mok
Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
DJ Patil
Head of Technology, Devoted Health
Bruce Raabe
Founder and President, Relevant Wealth Advisors
Skip Rhodes (Past Board President)
President, Skip Rhodes and Associates LLC
Bill Ring
Senior Vice President, Investment Counselor and Regional Director, Capital Group Private Client Services
George M. Scalise
Private Investor
Charlotte Mailliard Shultz
Chief of Protocol, City and County of San Francisco and State of California
George D. Smith Jr.
President and Publisher, Signature Books
David Spencer
Founder, SenSpa
James Strother
Senior Executive VP and General Counsel (retired), Wells Fargo & Company
Hon. Tad Taube
Founder and Chairman, Taube Investments; Founder and Chairman, Taube Philanthropies; Honorary Consul, Poland
Marcel TenBerge
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch
Charles Travers
Businessman and Investor
Don Wen
Operations Leader, PwC’s Private Company Services
Dr. Colleen B. Wilcox
Former Superintendent of Schools, Santa Clara County; Colleen Wilcox Sculpture
Brenda Wright
Senior Vice President & Director of Community Relations (West Region), Wells Fargo & Co.
Mark Zitter
Chair, The Zetema Project
Past Board Chairs and Presidents
* Past Chair
** Past President
Dr. Mary G. F. Bitterman*
J. Dennis Bonney**
John Busterud** (deceased)
Maryles Casto*
Hon. Ming Chin**
Mary B. Cranston*
Joseph I. Epstein**
John Farmer*
Dr. Joseph R. Fink**
Rose Guilbault*
Claude B. Hutchison Jr.**
Dr. Julius Krevans** (deceased)
Anna W.M. Mok*
Richard Otter**
Joseph Perrelli**
Toni Rembe**
Victor J. Revenko**
Skip Rhodes**
Renée Rubin**
Richard Rubin*
Robert Saldich* (deceased)
Connie Shapiro**
Nelson Weller**
Judith Wilbur**
Dennis Wu**
