BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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1 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Laura Spivy Board President Laura has a diverse business background with experience in corporate finance, private equity investing, and general business management and operations. She has served on the SFDS Board of Trustees since 2008, and also serves on the Board of Trustees of Gateway Public Schools. Laura received an Economics/East Asian Studies B.A. from Wesleyan University and her M.B.A. from Stanford University. Laura and her husband Greg have a son Spencer (2014) and three children in second, fourth, and seventh grades at SFDS. Rita Abraldes Rita Abraldes is a co-founder of Charanga Restaurant, bringing innovative Pan- Latin cuisine to San Francisco s Mission District. In 2007, she opened Paladar Café Cubano, a Cuban lunch café located in San Francisco's Financial District. Rita is also the food and dining consultant for R3lish, a start-up company that seeks to strengthen the connection between business owners and their clients and thus build communities that support our neighborhoods. She received her undergraduate degree in U.S. History from Vassar College and a graduate degree in History from Stanford University. She has taught history at various Bay Area community colleges and to high school students at the College Preparatory School in Oakland. Rita s engagement in the school community includes volunteering for admissions tours and active participation in the Parent Group on Diversity and SEED. She is especially dedicated to working with young people and recently served as a tutor in the Breakthrough Program at SFDS. Rita and her partner, Brie Williams, have a son in second grade at SFDS and a daughter in preschool.

2 Katie Albright Katie Albright is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, a local community-based organization. Katie is in her fifth year serving on the SFDS Board of Trustees, and also served on a number of other nonprofit boards and government commissions. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. from Williams College. Katie and her husband Jake have a son Ben (2014) and a daughter in sixth grade at SFDS. Reed Colley Reed Colley is a Senior Vice President of Advent Software in San Francisco, where he focuses on corporate strategy and acquisitions. Reed has been in financial services software for over 14 years. Reed and his wife, Katie Colley, are founders and trustees of Do Something Great Today Foundation, which is focusing on creating technology to enable donors to give of their time and resources more effectively to the charities of their choice. He has served on the SFDS Board of Trustees since Reed graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1998 with degrees in Economics and Engineering Science. Reed and Katie have four children, two of whom are in second and fourth grades at SFDS. Tommy Davis '96 Tommy Davis is currently a second year MBA student at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. Prior to starting at Stanford in 2011, Tommy spent 3 years as an investment associate at General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. Prior to General Atlantic, Tommy spent 3 years as an Investment Banking analyst at Morgan Stanley, in both their financial institutions M&A group and the financial sponsors group. He graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in 2005, majoring in Government and Legal Studies and minoring in Spanish. He graduated from San Francisco Day School in 1996 and joined the Board of Trustees in Tommy has two sisters who are also SFDS graduates: Louise (1995) and Jeannie (2012). Cathy Cockrum Dean Cathy Dean has 15 years of managerial experience in financial services, industrial manufacturing, and high technology businesses. Since 2002, she has contributed to a number of not-for-profit organizations, including serving on the Board of Gateway Public Schools for nine years, and chairing Gateway s Board of Trustees

3 from For the past five years, Cathy has served on the national Board of Directors for Reading Partners, as this organization has grown from serving 850 to 7500 students annually, and she recently concluded her first year as the national Board Chair. Cathy is in her tenth year as a parent at SFDS, and has been active in a variety of activities at the school including as a member of the advisory board for Breakthrough Collaborative at SFDS. Cathy has also served as a room parent (twice), co-chair of the Parent Group on Diversity (2 years), and co-chair of Parent Education (3 years). Cathy received her A.B. from Brown University and her MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business. She and her husband Sandy have a daughter Sarah (2014) and two children at SFDS attending sixth and seventh grade. Humberto Bert Galleno Bert is the founder of Gravity Capital Group, a corporate development and strategic planning services firm working with early stage and mature companies. Bert has served on the SFDS Board of Trustees since 2012, is currently a trustee of the Reading Partners Bay Area Regional Board, and previously served as the President of the Board of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. At San Francisco Day School, Bert is a member of and has chaired the Parent Group on Diversity. He has also been an officer of the Parents Association serving as the Diversity Chair. Bert and his wife Lareina have two sons in second and sixth grade at SFDS. Lexie Fisher George 00 SFDS Alumni Board President Lexie is currently a fifth-grade reading teacher at KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy. After graduating from SFDS in 2000, Lexie attended Lick-Wilmerding High School and then matriculated to Middlebury, a small liberal arts college in rural Vermont. Lexie graduated as an art history major and discovered a passion for education. After college, she joined Teach for America, an organization that places recent college grads to teach in low-income schools across the United States. She served a two-year commitment as a fifth and sixth grade writing teacher at a charter school in Brooklyn and received a Masters degree in education at Hunter University in New York. Lexie has served as President on the SFDS Alumni Board since 2013.

4 Fif Ghobadian Fif Ghobadian is currently a Senior Loan Officer with Guarantee Mortgage in San Francisco. For over 20 years, Fif held financial positions at firms such as Levi- Strauss & Co., The Gap, Inc., Clorox, and McKesson. Fif has served on the SFDS Board of Trustees since 2010, and was a board member at Pacific Primary for four years and the president of the board for two of those years. Fif has also been on the board of GirlSource, a San Francisco non-profit organization that provides leadership and developmental opportunities to low-income teenage girls and The Impala Racing Team, a competitive women s running team. Fif holds a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College with a double major in economics, accounting and math. Fif has a son Spencer (2014) and a daughter in seventh grade at SFDS. Dawn Hartman PA President Dawn has been an active member of the SFDS community since her daughter started kindergarten in 2010, co-chairing the Admission Committee from and serving as Vice President in Dawn has participated in several SFDS Parent Groups (Diversity and Education), while also serving as a leader of the Adoptive Families Group. She holds a B.A. in history from UCLA (magna cum laude) and continued her studies in the Stanford University graduate program, focusing on United States history. Dawn s daughter is currently attending fourth grade at SFDS. John Hayashi John Hayashi is a tax attorney at Thompson Tax & Associates, LLC, a firm he cofounded 13 years ago. At SFDS, John began serving on the Board of Trustees in 2012, and has also participated as Volunteer Chair of the Parents Association (PA) and an officer of the PA Executive Committee. Additionally, he was a co-chair on the Parent Volunteer Committee for Admission, participated in developing the SFDS Strategic Plan, and was a member of the Head of Upper School Search Committee three years ago. John earned a degree in business management and managerial science from M.I.T. and his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. A third generation Japanese-American, John and his wife Elisa have a daughter in seventh grade at SFDS.

5 Janet McKinley Janet McKinley began her professional career in retail buying and currently owns Janet McKinley Interiors. Janet received her bachelor s degree from Cornell University and a professional certificate from New York School of Interior Design. Passionate about education, she has spent the last 25 years supporting institutions and programs that inspire and support learning. Janet is currently on the Board of the SF Film Society, serves on the Education and Exhibits Committee of the California Academy of Sciences and manages several endowed undergraduate learning and development grants. She has also served on the boards of Saint Luke s Hospital Foundation, SF University High School, and the California Academy of Sciences. She has served on the SFDS Board of Trustees since 2012, has been involved in three capital campaigns, and is a former chair for the education and trustee committees. Janet and her husband Tom are parents of Sara 95, Thomas 98, and Kathryn 01. Ken McNeely Ken McNeely is President of AT&T California, the largest domestic market for AT&T Inc. As such, he leads AT&T s workforce in the state of more than 35,000 employees. This is Ken s fourth year serving on the SFDS Board of Trustees. Ken has served as a room parent, admissions volunteer, member of the Parent Group on Diversity and Annual Fund volunteer. He is also a trustee at The Little School and Bay Area Council, where he chairs the education committee. He earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his J.D. from Howard University School of Law. Ken and his partner Inder have two children attending second and fourth grade at SFDS. Gabrey Means Gabrey Means is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Grow Marketing, an engagement marketing, social media and public relations shop founded in San Francisco in Grow has crafted award-winning campaigns for a range of clients from Google and LVMH to Pepsi and GE. Gabrey is married to fellow entrepreneur and Creative Director, Tommy Means. The Means lend their creative talents and time to support their passions from producing fundraising films, opening their home and offices for community-building fundraising events, and lending their brand expertise to support a range of beloved organizations. This is Gabrey s second year on the SFDS Board of Trustees. Gabrey holds a B.A. in

6 Journalism from Washington & Lee University. Gabrey and Tommy have two children in third and fifth grade at SFDS. Raj Moorthy Raj Moorthy is a co-founder and Partner at Pivot Point Capital (PPC) and brings experience and expertise derived from more than fifteen years of public market and private equity investing. Prior to co-founding PPC, Raj worked in private equity at the Audax Group. He concentrated on identifying and executing operationally focused leveraged buyouts. His transactions ranged across industries, but centered on well-positioned businesses undergoing significant change. Previously, he worked at Advanta Partners, where he completed leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in the business and information services sectors. He also cofounded and served as CFO for a European technology-based start-up. He began his career in the mergers & acquisitions group of Credit Suisse First Boston. Raj received his B.A. with honors from University of Western Ontario and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Raj and his wife Sasha have two children at SFDS attending Kindergarten and second grade. Alicia Nogales Alicia Nogales has a diverse background in film, television, and arts education. Alicia is a Co-Advisory chair of First Exposures, a project of the Tides Foundation. First Exposures is a nationally recognized one-to-one mentoring program, which provides free weekly photography classes to underserved youth. This is Alicia s sixth year serving on the SFDS Board of Trustees. Alicia and her husband Greg have a son Jack (2014) and two sons in seventh and eighth grade at SFDS. Jenny Pearlman Jenny Pearlman is the Community Education & Communications Manager of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center. Previously, Jenny consulted for a variety of nonprofits on communication and strategy issues and worked for several years as a lawyer and education advocate with the nonprofit law firm, Public Advocates. Jenny serves as a board member of Community Initiatives, an advisory board member of San Francisco Breakthrough, and on the Grants Committee for Hedge Funds Care. At SFDS, Jenny joined the Board of Trustees in 2010 and has been a room parent, art volunteer, and member of the Diversity Committee. Jenny received her bachelor s degree from Georgetown University and law degree from

7 Georgetown University Law Center. Jenny and her husband Jack McDonald have four children in first, fourth, sixth, and eighth grade at SFDS. Ann Roberts Ann Roberts has a diverse background in strategy and finance and is an active community leader. Ann began her career as a strategic planner for a $1B private enterprise and later as a consultant at Bain & Company. Most recently, she worked in venture capital, spending her last four years helping to run a portfolio company in the education space. Ann is also on the board of the California Tennis Club. Ann began serving on the SFDS Board of Trustees in 2010 and has also held many other roles: Chair for CultureFest: Italia, annual fund class captain, room parent, art volunteer, and member of the strategic planning task force. Ann has a B.A. from Bethany College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Ann and her husband Brian have three children attending fourth, sixth, and eighth grade at SFDS. Topher Solmssen Topher Solmssen is a former Managing Director and Founding Partner of Evercore Institutional Equities at Evercore Partners in San Francisco, where his focus was Media, Telecom and Technology. Topher joined Evercore in 10 from Credit Suisse, where he was Sector Head for the US Equities Media and Telecom group. Topher is also on the Board of Food Runners, an SF-based organization whose network of volunteers picks up excess food and delivers it to those in need, and Outward Bound California, which seeks to change lives though challenge and discovery. This is his third year on the SFDS Board of Trustees. Topher graduated with a B.A. from Hamilton College. He and his wife Courtney Cooney have three children in third, fourth, and seventh grade at SFDS. Thatcher Thompson Thatcher Thompson is an equity investment analyst at Capital Group with research responsibility for U.S. small- and mid-cap business services companies. He has 21 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for seven years. Prior to joining Capital Group, Thatcher was a managing director of equity research at CIBC World Markets, a vice president of equity research at Merrill Lynch, and he also worked at Dain Bosworth. Thatcher holds a bachelor s degree in accounting from Gonzaga University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Thatcher and his wife Jill have a fourth grader at SFDS.

8 Adriana Lopez Vermut Adriana Lopez Vermut started her professional work in the world of start-ups and entrepreneurship. She worked at Viamericas, a money transfer start-up in research and business development and then as a research associate for SpaceVest, a venture capital firm funding technology start-ups. In 2008, Adriana crossed over to the entrepreneurial side and launched Pica Pica Arepa Kitchen in Napa, CA. She has since opened two more locations in the Mission District and in the Castro neighborhood. Adriana also has a strong interest in education and is a Board Member for Aim High, a non-profit organization working with middle-school children to prepare them for high school through intensive summer programs. She is a Trustee at A.C.T. (American Conservatory of Theater) as part of their Education Committee, which has a broad mission to integrate theater in San Francisco schools as well as run one of the country s elite MFA Theater programs. Adriana studied cultural anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. Adriana and her husband Aaron have four children, two of whom are attending SFDS. Grace Won Grace has been a business litigation partner with Farella, Braun + Martel LLP since 2002 and has served as the firm's hiring partner and pro bono chair. Grace serves on the Board of Directors for Children Now, a non-partisan children's advocacy group, and was formerly a member of its Executive Committee. She is serving in her fourth year as a trustee at SFDS, and previously served as President of the Cow Hollow School Board. Grace holds a B.A. cum laude in American History from Harvard University and an M.A. in Anglo-American Literature from University College London. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Grace and her husband Richard Holden have children in third and fifth grades at SFDS. Molly Wood Molly is an educator with deep experience in San Francisco and nationally. She began her teaching career at Benjamin Franklin Middle School in San Francisco, was a founding teacher at the Academy of the Pacific Rim in Boston, and went on to found KIPP Bayview Academy, a college preparatory charter school in San Francisco s Bayview-Hunters Point community. She served as principal at KIPP Bayview for six years, and continues to be involved in the school and KIPP Bay Area Schools. She has also worked with Partners in School Innovation and Teach

9 for America, Uncommon Schools/Teach Like a Champion, and is currently a consultant to education and nonprofit organizations. This is her fourth year serving as a trustee for SFDS. Molly has a B.A., an M.A. in education, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. She and her partner, Dagny, have a son and boy-girl twins.