Our Leadership

Board Chair
Peggy White
Diablo Regional Arts Association

Chair-Elect
Danielle Cagan
CSAA Insurance Group

Immediate Past Chair
Leo Scott
Gray-Bowen-Scott

Legal Counsel
Horace Green
Brothers Smith LLP

Leadership Development
Bielle Moore
Republic Services

Communications
Wendy Gutshall
Safeway

Finance
Nathan Edelman
Eide Bailly

Membership
Kim Trupiano
KT Marketing Consulting, LLC

Events
Deneen Wohlford
Kaiser Permanente

Water, Energy & Environment
Vic Baker
Equitify

Opportunity
Sherie Hickman
Sutter Health

Infrastructure
Chadi Chazbek
Kimley-Horn

Peggy White, Chair
Diablo Regional Arts Association

Danielle Cagan, Chair-Elect
CSAA Insurance Group

Leo Scott, Immediate Past Chair
Gray-Bowen-Scott

Ted Angus
AssetMark

Ernie Avila
Contra Costa Water District

Jodi Avina
CFOs 2GO

Brandon Baranco
AT&T

Betsy Biern
Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area

David Bowlby
The Bowlby Group, Inc.

James Brandt
Wells Fargo Advisors

Bob Brown
Western States Petroleum Assn.

Nichol Carranza
Marathon

Erin Cervantes
Cemex

Chadi Chazbek
Kimley-Horn

Ted Clement
Save Mount Diablo

John Coleman
East Bay Municipal Utility District

Linsi Crain
Chevron

Gary Darling
Darling H2O Consulting

Edward Del Beccaro
TRI Commercial Real Estate Services

Mel Davis
Boys & Girls Club

Linus Eukel
John Muir Land Trust

Ella Gower
Miller Starr Regalia

Horace Green
Brothers Smith LLP

Wendy Gutshall
Safeway, Inc.

Tom Hansen
IBEW Local 302

Sherie Hickman
Sutter Health

Steve Hitchcock
Wells Fargo

Brad Holsworth
BPM

Dr. Sheila Hassell Hughes
Saint Mary's College

Michael Jones
BART

David Kelly
Kelly & Associates, LLP

Ryan Lau
AC Transit

David Lee
Nossaman LLP

Devorah Levine
Lesher Foundation

Bob Linscheid
Walnut Creek Chamber

Lynn Mackey
Contra Costa Office of Education

Bryant Mangless
Corteva

Mike McGill
Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

Mojdeh Mehdizadeh
Contra Costa Community College District

John Mercurio
East Bay Regional Park District

Letitia Moore
Holland & Knight

Ann Notarangelo
Martinez Refining Company

James Paxson
Hacienda

Sharon Quesada-Jenkins
John Muir Health

Rebecca Rozen
Hospital Council of Northern and Central California

Andrew Sabey
Cox, Castle & Nicholson, LLP

Cathy Sandeen
California State University East Bay

Heather Schiffman
Contra Costa Association of Realtors

Margot Stanford
F&M Bank

Nathan Edelman
Eide Bailly

Anne Marie Taylor
John Muir Health Foundation

Debbie Toth
Choice in Aging

Kim Trupiano
KT Marketing Consulting, LLC

Shayna van Hoften
Hanson Bridgett LLP

Peggy White
Diablo Regional Arts Association

Deneen Wohlford
Kaiser Permanente

Sarah Yoell
Pacific Gas & Electric

Eric Zell
Zell & Associates

Keith Archuleta
Emerald HPC International, LLC

Teresa Bowen
Past Chair

Angie Coffee
Past Chair

Patty Deutsche
Past Chair

William Gray
Past Chair

Mark Hughes
Philanthropy Awards Founder

Roger Hughes
Past Transportation Co-Chair

Peter McGaw
Past Chair

Ken Mintz
Past Chair

Beverly Lane
East Bay Regional Parks District

Edward Shaffer
Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP

George Smith
Past Chair

Ann Spaulding
Past Water Task Force Co-Chair

Rick Wise
Past Chair