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. Martha C. Ryan 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
Martha C. Ryan
Co-founder, Daric, Inc.
Board Vice Chair
John Boland
President Emeritus, KQED
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
Co-Founder and CTO, Effodio, Inc.
Willie Adams
President, International Longshore and Warehouse Union; Vice President, The San Francisco Port Commission
Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez
Independent Board Director
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
Claudine Cheng
Chair, RENEW SF
David Chun
CEO, Equilar
Charles M. Collins
President Emeritus, YMCA of San Francisco
Mary B. Cranston (Past Board Chair)
Retired Senior Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Susie Cranston
COO, 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
Evelyn Dilsaver (Past Board Chair)
Independent Board Director
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
Gerald Harris
President, Quantum Planning Group
Peter Hill
Executive Chairman, Bailard
Mary Huss
Publisher, San Francisco Business Times
Michael Isip
President, KQED
Nora James
Vice Chair, National Trust for the Humanities
Dr. Robert Lee Kilpatrick
Ph.D., Chief of Staff, Phenome Health
Lata Krishnan
Principal, Shah Capital Partners LP
Alexis Krivkovich
Senior Partner, McKinsey
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
Ken Petrilla
Board Member and Treasurer, Gruber Family Foundation
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
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
Principal, Brenda Wright, LLC
Mark Zitter
Chair, The Zetema Project
Past Board Chairs and Presidents
* Past Chair
** Past President
Dr. Mary G. F. Bitterman*
J. Dennis Bonney**
Maryles Casto*
Hon. Ming Chin**
Mary B. Cranston*
Joseph I. Epstein**
John Farmer*
Rose Guilbault*
Claude B. Hutchison Jr.**
Anna W.M. Mok*
Richard Otter**
Joseph Perrelli**
Toni Rembe**
Victor J. Revenko**
Skip Rhodes**
Renée Rubin**
Richard Rubin*
Connie Shapiro**
Nelson Weller**
Judith Wilbur**
Dennis Wu**
