The Board of Governors of Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California 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 presidents and CEOs 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 about 70 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

Peter Hill

Secretary

Robert Sims
Retired Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

Treasurer

Evelyn Dilsaver 
Independent Board Director 

Co-Presidents and Co-Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Gloria C. Duffy
Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California

Philip W. Yun
Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California

Board of Governors

Robert E. Adams
Senior Staff Software 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 

Sigurd Anderson
Founding Partner, City Center Realty Partners LLC

Dan Ashley
Anchor, ABC7 News

Michael Baker
Retired General and Trauma Surgeon

Jeff L. Bleich
Former U.S. Ambassador to Australia

Dr. Mary G. F. Bitterman (Past Board Chair)
President, The Bernard Osher Foundation

Claudine Cheng
Chair, RENEW SF

David Chun
CEO, Equilar

Susie Cranston
COO, First Republic Bank 

Dr. Kerry P. Curtis
Professor Emeritus, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University

Dorian Daley
Executive Vice President (Retired), 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

John Farmer (Past Board Chair)
Retired Partner, Goldman Sachs

Dean Fealk
San Francisco Managing Partner, DLA Piper

Dr. Carol A. Fleming
Principal, The Sound of Your Voice

Leslie Saul Garvin
Associate Director of Program Development in Executive Education, Stanford University Graduate School of Business 

Kenneth Guernsey
Partner, Cooley LLP

Richard Guggenhime
Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie, LLP

Gerald Harris
President, Quantum Planning Group 

Peter Hill
Executive Chairman, Bailard

Ben Holzemer
Partner, Global Head of Human Capital, TPG Global

Mary Huss
Publisher, San Francisco Business Times

Nora James
Vice Chair, National Trust for the Humanities 

Dr. Robert Lee Kilpatrick
Ph.D., Chief Strategic Development Officer, Phenome Health 

Steve Krausz
General Partner, U.S. Venture Partners

Alexis Krivkovich
Senior Partner, McKinsey 

David Leimsieder
Senior Vice President, Bank of America

Dave McMurtry
Chief Business Officer, Aqua Metals, INC.

Lenny Mendonca
Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company

Michelle Meow
Producer and Host, "The Michelle Meow Show"

Anna W.M. Mok (Past Board Chair)
Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP

James A. Moore
Former Managing Partner, J. Moore Partners LLC

DJ Patil
Head of Technology, Devoted Health 

Ken Petrilla
Board Member and Treasurer, Gruber Family Foundation 

Ravi Potharlanka
President & CEO, Wine Country Radio

Carol Possin
Retired Psychologist, Professor, School District Administrator, Teacher, Community Organizer

Andrew Powell
Board Chairman, Landec Corporation

Skip Rhodes (Past Board President)
President, Skip Rhodes and Associates LLC

Yumi Sera
Executive Director of the State of California, Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

George D. Smith Jr.
President and Publisher, Signature Books

David Spencer
Founder, SenSpa

Francesca Sterling
Board Member

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

Sriram Viswanathan
Founding Managing Partner, Celesta Capital

Terry Vogt
Managing Director, Terra Global Capital

Bryan Weisbard
Director, Privacy Planning & Operations, Meta

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 

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**