Board of Directors
Paul Leonard, Chair
West Coast Director, Center for Responsible Lending
Paul opened the Center for Responsible Lending’s (CRL) California office in spring 2006 and directs state policy and outreach efforts. Prior to joining CRL, Paul was a public policy consultant focused on housing and community development, welfare reform, and other anti-poverty issues. Prior to 1999, Paul was a political appointee at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, serving as Acting Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development from 1994 to 1998.
Greg Powell, Vice Chair
Intuit, Group Marketing Manager
Greg is a Group Marketing Manager at Intuit for their small business products such as Quickbooks, Payroll, Payments. He previously worked as a Brand Manager at Armored Auto Group for the Armor All and STP brands, formerly owned by the Clorox Company. He has also worked on the Hidden Valley and Glad brands at Clorox. Prior to Clorox, Greg worked as a consultant at SRI Consulting Business Intelligence in Menlo Park, CA, where he wrote subscription and custom research reports on technology and emerging trends. Prior to that, Greg worked at Organic Inc., a web design consulting company. Greg graduated from Princeton University with a BA degree in History and has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
MEMBERS
Chris Grapes
Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting
Chris is currently a Senior Consultant for Deloitte Consulting in their Organization and Talent Human Capital department. Chris graduated from the University of California, Haas School of Business with her MBA in 2011. Prior to Haas, Chris worked for Unilever for five years as an Associate Brand Manager on various personal care brands, including Dove, AXE, Degree and Sunsilk. There she worked on innovation strategy and execution, market strategy and deployment, and managed day-to-day operations. During her time at Unilever, Chris was also very active in her community. Specifically, she led a team that was in charge of deploying local grant-making funds for Unilever, volunteered as a Taproot Foundation pro bono nonprofit consultant advising local nonprofits on their brand strategy, and served as an Executive Board Member on Friends of the Parks, a Chicago park advocacy organization.
Lindy Hahn
Vice President, Morgan Stanley
Amy Hsiao
Brands Manager,
Marketing Division, Clorox Company
Amy is currently a Brand Manager on Clorox Liquid Bleach for the Clorox Company. During her time at Clorox, Amy has also helped manage the Pine-Sol and Brita businesses. Prior to Clorox, Amy worked as a consultant at marchFIRST, researcher at Information Resources Inc., as well as a teacher in Japan. Amy graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA degree in Cognitive Science and has an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Amit Kurlekar
Attorney, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
Amit Kurlekar focuses his practice on a wide range of commercial litigation matters. Before joining Akin Gump, Mr. Kurlekar served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge Julio M. Fuentes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit (2003-2004), and to the Honorable Marianne O. Battani, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2001-2003). Mr. Kurlekar received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1998 and his J.D. magna cum laude in 2001 from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a member of Order of the Coif, a member of the Michigan Law Review and the Journal of Gender and Law, and vice president of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association (1999-2000). Mr. Kurlekar is admitted in California and New York.
Martha Laboissiere
Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company
Based in San Francisco, CA, Martha's work focuses on economic development and opportunity creation, more specifically on labor markets, post-secondary education/workforce development, and talent and human capital. She primarily serves Foundations and higher education institutions on topics of strategy, operations and organization. She has led several knowledge efforts on these topic including the reports: "Winning by degrees: The strategies of highly productive higher education institutions", "Changing the Fortunes of America's Workforce: A human capital challenge", "The economic impact of the achievement gap in America's schools", "How Brazil can grow" and "The Emerging Global Labor Markets" Prior to joining the SSO, Martha was a senior consultant at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), a private economics research group within McKinsey where she led knowledge efforts focused on productivity of workforce systems around the world.
Martha joined McKinsey in 2001 in the Sao Paulo office. Prior to joining McKinsey, she was a research fellow at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California-San Francisco and later a Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Brasilia, Brazil. She holds a B.A. in Biology from the University of Brasilia and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
NON-DIRECTORS
Jane Fischberg, President & Executive Director
David Samuels, Assistant Treasurer
Virginia Davis, Secretary
Owner, Virginia's Live a Little
Virginia’s Live A Little is a gourmet food manufacturing company focusing on salad dressings and 4 croutons. Virginia started the business in January 1996 by making just a few bottles of dressing and bags of croutons and walking into small grocery stores to sell. On the weekends, she would sample them out to customers and they loved them. Today, Virginia is a co-owner and operator of Mulberry’s Market in Piedmont, CA.
Deborah Clarett, Treasurer
Vice President for Community Development, US Bank
Deborah has over 27 plus years of management of personnel experience. Deborah currently heads up a new department within LIIF’s Lending Division that manages all loan administration functions, including loan closing, on-going loan monitoring and loan servicing of LIIF’s own portfolio and third party portfolios. Deborah has 30 plus years of real estate lending and loan administration experience. In the past Deborah has worked for several major commercial banks such as Bank of America in the Commercial Home Building Division, which financed the construction of residential homes and in some cases, included construction of infrastructures, such as schools and Wells Fargo in the Commercial Lending Division, which financed construction of commercial and multifamily properties.
Susann Nordrum
GHG Integration Consultant, Chevron Corporation
Susann Blake Nordrum graduated from Michigan Tech in 1986 with a degree in Chemical Engineering, and later received an honorary PhD in Sustainable Science and Engineering. She currently manages greenhouse gas mitigation for Chevron’s refining, production and power generation facilities in California. Susann has been working on the climate change issue for the last seven years, including development and implementation of the SANGEA™ System, a publicly available energy and greenhouse gas emissions estimating system. She chaired the API Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimating Work Group from 2002-2005, and is a Lead Author on the IPCC 2006 Guidelines for Development of National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, for which she received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Prior to her work on the climate change issue, Susann created and implemented a process to incorporate environmental issues into Chevron's capital projects during the early design stages. She has also worked as a process engineer in refining, and provided engineering support to upstream and midstream operations in Chevron.
Susann is married and has 3 daughters. She lives with her family in Northern California, where they enjoy mountain biking, windsurfing and skiing.
Scott Poland
Financial Advisor, Wells Fargo
As a Financial Advisor, Scott helps clients build, manage, preserve and eventually transfer wealth. Before entering the financial services industry, Scott graduated from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business and worked for both public and private companies in real estate, commercial banking, venture banking, and private equity. Scott also serves his local community through his church, the American College for Traditional Chinese Medicine as a Board Member, and the Cancer Support Community as a member of their Leadership Council.
Chad A. Stegeman, Esq.
Partner, Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP.
Chad Stegeman's practice includes a variety of class action, privacy, commercial, employment and intellectual property litigation. He has a breadth of experience ranging from patent and copyright litigation, to securities fraud and option backdating, employment (wage/hour claims as well as harassment and retaliation claims), product liability and unfair business practices matters such as false advertising, Consumer Legal Remedies Act claims and 17200 claims.
Mr. Stegeman received his B.A. magna cum laude in 1995 from Macalester College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. in 2000 from the New York University School of Law, where he was a Robert McKay Scholar and served as the editor in chief of the Environmental Law Journal. After law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Payne, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a member of the California, Missouri and New York bars and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York; the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th and 9th Circuits, and the Supreme Court of the United States.