Board of Governors
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
TBA
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
Chief Legal Officer, Cruise LLC
Dr. Mary G. F. Bitterman (Past Board Chair)
President, The Bernard Osher Foundation
J. Dennis Bonney
Retired Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chevron Corporation
Claudine Cheng
Chair, RENEW SF
David Chun
CEO, Equilar
Charles M. Collins
President Emeritus, YMCA of San Francisco
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
Stanley Knight
Travel Entrepreneur
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
Jason Phillips
Partner, McKinsey & Co.
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
Avanish Sahai
Managing Director, Exbourne Group 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
Katie Zoglin
Senior Deputy City Attorney, San Jose City Attorney’s Office
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**