Board

Stephanie Cohen

Vice-Chair

Stephanie is Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and a senior member of the Industrial Department and the Merger Leadership Group in the Investment Banking Division (IBD). In 2008, she managed Conflicts and Business Selection for IBD in the Americas. Prior to that, she was a vice president from 2004 to 2007 in the Industrial Department and Merger Leadership Group in San Francisco. Earlier in her career, Stephanie worked in New York in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department.

Cathy Cockrum Dean

Board Treasurer

Cathy graduated from Brown University and Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. She has 15 years of experience in financial services, industrial manufacturing, and high technology businesses. Most recently, Cathy worked at Oracle Corporation in product management. Over the last 14 years in San Francisco, she has taken leadership roles with the Brown Club of Northern California and the Junior League of San Francisco. Cathy also serves on the board of trustees for Gateway High School, a charter school in San Francisco.

Steve Dostart

Board Secretary

Steve develops commercial real estate in the Palo Alto area. He founded the Dostart Development Company, LLC in 1999 after working for a Palo Alto developer, John Mozart, and the Trammell Crow family in Dallas, Texas. He was also a summer associate at Goldman, Sachs & Co. during his time at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Steve graduated from the Graduate School of Business in 1990 as an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Susan Hayes

President and CEO of Interplast, the first international humanitarian organization to provide reconstructive surgery for the world’s poor. She has 15 years of management, fundraising and media experience in public broadcasting, including serving as vice president for development and publicity for the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association. Susan was also a political science instructor at Syracuse University and the University of South Carolina, and a project manager for public policy think tank, Syracuse Research Corporation. She also serves on the board of Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Gatos, California.

Ellen Kaye Fleishhacker

Ellen Kaye Fleishhacker is a Partner and Director of the Business Department at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, a San Francisco based law firm. She has served on the boards of The Reading Tree and the Urban Service Project.

Lance Fors

Board Chair

Lance Fors received his BA from UC-Berkeley and his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in molecular biology. Lance was then Founder and CEO of Third Wave Technologies, building it into a leading publicly-traded biotechnology company, which made products that enabled the early detection and treatment of cervical, colorectal, liver and other cancers. Since selling Third Wave for $600 million, Lance has focused on social change and entrepreneurship.

In social change, Lance focuses on empowering our best social entrepreneurs by acting as a thought partner and mentor. He works with several dozen organizations per year at inflection points in their development on their funding, talent and program models and how to transform their impact. Lance has also been the long-term board chair of New Teacher Center, Reading Partners and Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund (SV2) helping them achieve up to 75% compound annual growth and become leaders in their fields. In addition, Lance is chair of the International Association of Social Venture Partnerships, a board member of Growth Philanthropy Network and Jumpstart, and lectures on the potential of nonprofit boards to provide transformational leadership.

In social entrepreneurship, Lance is the Founder and CEO of a provider of housing for individuals with disabilities. He acquires, modifies and then rents out select properties long-term to enable individuals with special physical or mental needs to live independently. Lance is also lead director and co-owner of Lance Construction Supplies, an inventor on dozens of patents, and an Ernst and Young entrepreneur of the year award recipient.

Kristyn Klei Borrero

Committed to transforming urban education, Dr. Kristyn Klei Borrero has 17 years of experience in public education. Kristyn is the Chief Program Officer and Co-Founder of the Center for Transformative Teacher Training (CT3). CT3’s work focuses on transforming the practices of teachers, coaches and school administrators to become more culturally relevant and positively impact school achievement through the use of immediate coaching technologies.

Before co-founding CT3, Kristyn was a classroom teacher in Ohio and California, where she became the principal of an independent, urban charter school at age 27. She was the turn-around principal of East Palo Alto Charter School and the founding principal of Berkley Maynard Academy in Oakland. Both schools were recognized for exceeding state academic benchmarks.

As Director of Innovation at Aspire Public Schools she was responsible for securing a $60 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In her role as Interim Area Superintendent at Aspire, she also provided direct support and coaching for in-service principals. She has a doctorate from University of California, Berkeley in Educational Leadership.

Chris Nelle

Chris is Senior Vice President and Regional Manager for Union Bank of California, where he is responsible for a $1.4B portfolio of corporate and middle market banking services in central California extending from Merced to the Oregon border. Chris has been named Union Bankʼs Region Manager of the year twice in the past four years. Prior to Union Bank, he worked as Regional Vice President for Bank of America and Regional Credit Manager for Wells Fargo. From 1996-2007 he served on the board of the Sutter Regional Medical Center, serving as board chair from 2006-7 and finance committee chair from 1996-2006. He has also served on the boards of the San Jose Museum of Art, Good Samaritan Hospital, and First Tee of Greater Sacramento.

Andrea Rice

Andrea served on the Reading Partners board from 2006-7 before relocating to Washington DC. She is the founder and president of a web-based startup called GottaMentor and formerly served as Director of Industry Collaboration for Stanford's Media X Initiative. She also has worked as a Managing Director for Deutche Bank and Volpe Brown Whelan.

Tania Wilcox

Tania is the education grant-making leader for SV2, a Silicon Valley-based venture philanthropy organization. Tania also currently serves as the Board Chair for Breakthrough San Jose, a regional branch of the Breakthrough Collaborative, a national nonprofit that increases educational opportunity for high-potential, low-income middle school students by involving college and high school students as mentors and teachers. Tania served as the Executive Director of several education nonprofits in the Bay Area and helped lead nationwide replication of the Breakthrough Collaborative program model as a former National Program Officer for the organization.

San Francisco/Oakland Regional Board

Ann Barber
Will Evers
Bert) Galleno
Ritu Nagpal
Ravi Paidipaty
Katie Shattuck

Silicon Valley Regional Board

Ashu Agrawal
Michelle Cale
Kim Carpenter
Ethel Chen
Joan Karlin
Michael Liou
Katherine Morris
Suzy Papazian
Leticia Ramos
Cathy Siciliano

Sacramento Regional Board

Hon. David Abott
Sue Miller
Chris Nelle
Stacy Paragary
Cathy Rodriguez
Yasmin Seyal
Fred Teichert
Jane Tsai Weaver

Los Angeles Regional Board

Lyndsay Harding
Anne Pedersen
Candice Poindexter
Lis Rodriguez
Art Silbergeld
Anne Truscott

Washington, DC Regional Board

Ian Cameron
Mimi Houstoun
Laura Jehl
Kara Kennedy
Sara Meade
Andrea Rice
Rick Spees
Margery Yeager