Alumni Advisory Board

Andy Barkett ‘02 Co-Chair
Chief technology Officer
Korbit
Peninsula

Stephanie Blazek ‘13
Kentfield School District, Department of History
Marin

Marcus Castain ‘93
Associate Director, Parker Career Management Center
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Santa Monica

Michael Coke ‘92
Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Palo Alto

Melanie Colburn ‘03
Director, Market Transformation and Development – U.S. Green Building Council
San Francisco

Eric Davis ‘93
EVP, General Counsel, Secretary, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
San Rafael

Regina Eberhart ‘94, ‘05 MBA
Consultant
Retired, SVP, Williams Sonoma
San Francisco

Craig Enenstein ‘90
Chief Executive Officer
Corridor Capital, LLC
Los Angeles

Toby Frankenstein ‘06
Head of Storytelling, CRC Media
San Francisco

Thomas Gooley ‘87
Chief Operating Officer
Cetera Financial Group
La Jolla

Edwin Gutierrez ‘94
Head of Emerging Market Sovereign Debt
Aberdeen Asset Management
London

Puneet Kakkar ‘05, ‘08 JD
Assistant United States Attorney/Justice Attaché to France and Monaco
Los Angeles

Lawrence “Larry” Kao ‘02
Supervisor, DTC Content Operations, Disney Media Entertainment Distribution Technology
Los Angeles

Alan Karras
Special Assistant to the Dean, Social Sciences
Associate Director, Political Economy, UC Berkeley
Berkeley

Zachary Kruth ‘07
CFO EarnUp
Mountain View

Afsheen Lebastchi ‘98
Director, Engineering Capacity & Program Management at Google
Mountain View

Jennifer Maag ‘91
Founder and Managing Director, Capital Concepts International
Switzerland

Christopher Martin ’89
Senior Managing Director
Capital Partners Group Pte., Ltd.
Singapore

Steve Park ‘90
CEO Peebles Investments
Honolulu and Korea

Katy Reynolds ’87
Founder & CEO, Shibusa Systems
New Orleans

Bret Rosen ‘95
Emso Asset Management
New York

Mark Rosenberg ’02, ’07 MA, ’12 PhD
Co-Founder and CEO, GeoQuant
Los Angeles

David Salaverry ‘98
Managing Director, CFO for Corporate Responsibility & Morgan Health
Treasurer Foundation at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
New York

Alison Shimada, ‘86, Co-Chair
Wells Fargo Asset Management
Emerging Markets Senior Portfolio Manager
San Francisco

Steve Suda ‘81
Managing Partner, SLVC
San Francisco

Tracy Tuens ‘88
Managing Director, SVB Private
Corte Madera

Jessica Uhl ‘89
President, GE Vernova
Seattle

Steven Vogel ’87 MA, ’93 PhD
Director, Political Economy
Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, Professor of Political Economy and Political Science
Berkeley

Esa Stephanie Y. Yu ‘98 Political Economy and Rhetoric
Managing Director, Strategy for Expressworks International
San Francisco Bay Area, California

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