BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Marily MondejarMarily Mondejar (President)
President
Filipina Women’s Network

Marily Mondejar is a senior business leader with wide-ranging global experience as an entrepreneur, strategist and advisor to leading organizations. She was raised in an entrepreneurial family environment, which owned multiple business operations in publishing, security intelligence services and movie production. She began her career with the largest distributor of U.S. consumer goods in the Philippines and went on to become one of only two women in sales management for the Thailand distributor for Time Life Books Southeast Asia before joining the Security Pacific National Bank as one of its officers and Lee Hecht Harrison as a career transition consultant.

Her extensive work experience as a woman of color and being financially responsible for her young family steered her to start her own  organization development and career coaching practice.  She advised executives on leadership and career derailment issues, and consulted on corporate image strategies, merger implications, scenario planning, and how to maximize performance, through work with executive teams, alliance-building, and inter-cultural communications.  Select clients included Cemex, Siebel, and Webex.

In 2009, she ended a notable 25-year business career to devote full-time as the founding president of the Filipina Women’s Network, the nonprofit association for women of Philippine ancestry in the U.S., an organization she grew from 50 members in 2002 to over 4,800 list members today. The Filipina Women's Network received  the Organization of the Year award during International Women's Day 2010 sponsored by the Global Arts and Education.

Marily serves (and has served) on nonprofit boards and commissions including the Sweatfree Procurement Advisory Group, the Justice and Courage Oversight Panel, Leadership California, Filipino American Arts Exposition, Image Industry Council International, the American Society for Training and Development, to name a few.  In 2010, she was honored by the California Asian Pacific Islander Joint Legislative Caucus (nominated by Speaker Pro Tem Fiona Ma) with the Award for Excellence in Civil Rights.  

Marily was recently appointed by Mayor Ed Lee to the San Francisco Redistricting Task Force that will redraw the boundaries for San Francisco's 11 supervisors' districts, laying the groundwork for the city's political future for the next decade.


Diana Reyes BaughmanDiana Reyes Baughman
Manager of Corporate
Public Affairs
Chevron Corporation
(Vice President)

Diana Reyes Baughman is currently Manager of Corporate Public Affairs in California for Chevron Corporation, one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies.  Prior to this role, she was General Manager of Global Communications for Chevron’s Downstream operations, and she also directed global brand and marketing communications and for the company’s Global Lubricants business unit.

Before joining Chevron in 1997, she worked at two start-up companies: first as Marketing Communications Manager for a start-up company called Teletrac which was later acquired from Vodaphone, and secondly as Marketing Manager for Nextel Communications.

Diana started her communications and marketing career as an account executive with the global advertising agency Young & Rubicam, where she managed AT&T, United Postal and General Foods accounts and then moved to Saatchi & Saatchi where she managed the Toyota account.

Diana is an award winning communications professional who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from New York University. Originally a native of Baltimore, Maryland, she has enjoyed living in California for many years and currently resides in Oakland where she enjoys restoring her home, cooking and gardening.  She is also an avid skier and loves to travel.


Barbara Mark, Ph.D.Barbara Mark, Ph.D.
CEO and Founder
Full Circle Institute

Barbara Mark, Ph.D. is a consulting psychologist, consultant and executive coach. She works with ambitious and high-achieving female executives and women business owners.

Dr. Mark has been brought into the confidence of thousands of professional women seeking to maintain inner balance while facing diverse external demands, personal ambition, and the desire to feel satisfied and fulfilled personally and professionally. She has been working with women in business for nearly three decades across all industries from micro-business to Fortune 100 companies and has supported their success in the constantly changing landscape for female executives.

She is passionate about supporting women in leadership. "Today's global environment requires that we work together for the betterment of all. Women naturally bring skills to the table that are invaluable on the current global playing field. Life serves up many changes, opportunities, and challenges. My goal is to help and inspire women to face them with courage, passion, grace, and wisdom."

She completed her masters in Humanistic Psychology with a focus in adult development and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology with a focus in human potential and leadership. She is also certified in meditation instruction, stress management, and Interactive Guided Imagery, a process of creating change through visualization and focused attention.

Dr. Mark is recognized expert on adult development and is a sought-after coach by women who are looking to make appropriate and actionable personal and professional decisions at any stage of their lives and careers. Helping her clients find clarity around everything from how to deal with strategic career challenges to avoiding hot flashes in the boardroom makes her an invaluable asset to every woman in business.

She continues her professional training and personal development on a regular basis to stay current with local and global trends in leadership as well as staying at the top of her own game. As a result she remains a thought-leader in the areas of personal development, leadership, and cross-generational communication. She is the recipient of the “2010 History Maker – Most Power Women of the Bay” Award and is a frequent keynote speaker.
 
She lives in San Francisco with her husband.


Cathy CampbellCathy Campbell
Director of Diversity &
Inclusion Strategy
Charles Schwab & Company, Inc. 

Over the course of her twenty year career, she has led the development and implementation of corporate-wide initiatives in the financial services and software technology industries.  

In her current role, Ms. Campbell has integrated diversity and inclusion within the design of leadership and employee development, workforce planning, talent pipeline development, Employee Resource Group programs; as well as in financial fitness programs to further Schwab’s purpose - To Help Everyone Become Financially Fit.

Prior to Schwab, Ms. Campbell has served in a variety of roles responsible for Human Resources consulting, employee relations, business analysis and metrics, EEO investigations, and Affirmative Action compliance.  

Ms. Campbell currently serves as a founding Board Director for the California Diversity Council, Chairperson of the Northern California Industry Liaison Group Steering Committee and founding corporate sponsor of the “When She Speaks” Leadership Series in San Francisco produced by RAL & Associates.

Ms. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.  She and her husband are both native San Franciscans and enjoy life in the Bay Area with their two children.

Peg McAllisterPeg McAllister
Senior Vice President
Lee Hecht Harrison

Peg McAllister is Senior Vice President in the San Francisco office of Lee Hecht Harrison.  In this position, Peg consults with corporate clients for Career Transition and Outplacement, Career Development and Leadership and Change Consulting and Executive Coaching, providing customized solutions.

Peg has more than 25 years of experience in the Northern California market in leading and creating human capital solutions.  Peg served as Vice President of Adecco Employment Services, where she successfully integrated the Western Division of Olsten Staffing Services ($770 MM). She has extensive experience in building national strategic business relationships with Fortune 500 companies and developing strong, high performance service teams.

Peg holds an MBA from California Lutheran University.  Her professional development includes coursework in leadership development, teamwork and change management.  She was awarded Olsten’s highest honor, The William Olsten Line Leadership Award for exceeding goals by 52%, building customer relationships that foster loyalty and her achievements in human capital development.  She has received multiple Lee Hecht Harrison Presidents’ Awards for Outstanding Performance and Team Excellence.  

Peg is an Executive Board Member of the Bay Area Council and is active with the Strategic Development Committee.  She also serves on the Friends of the San Francisco Commission on Status of Women, as a mentor for Bay Area Girl Scouts, and a ChristCare Leader at Trinity Lutheran Church. She is often called upon by media and the community to comment on employment, workforce regeneration, retention and leadership trends.


Patricia M. BovanPatricia M. Bovan
Director
Business Development Contracts
Symantec Corporation
(Corporate Secretary)

Patricia leads the Global Contracts group for Symantec’s Support Services business unit. She has focused her legal and business professional career negotiating and closing large technology contracts in hardware and software areas, revenue generating deals and strategic corporate transactions for HDS, Sun, Symantec, Kellogg and an SRI technology start-up.

She is active in women’s and community issues and currently leads the San Francisco Chapter of the Symantec’s Women’s Action Network, where she has collaborated with the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women to implement the Gender Equality Principles initiative. She is past Co-Chair of the Women for Women International San Francisco Circle. Patricia received the Queen’s Bench Bar Association Annual Merit Award.  She was appointed Queen’s Bench Officer and Director in 2007 and also served as Director of the Queen's Bench Foundation in 2007 and 2008. In 2007 the National Conference of Women’s Bar Associations granted an Annual Public Service Award to a Mentoring Program she led at Juvenile Hall for five years.

Patricia received her B.A. from Cornell University, and J.D. from Case Western Reserve. She was commissioned through Cornell’s Army ROTC leadership program, with active duty with the 101st Air Assault-Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky.

Patricia is joining the California's Issues and Trends Class 2011 sponsored by Leadership California.


Shinta HalimShinta Lim
Financial Advisor
Merrill Lynch

Shinta is a Financial Advisor at Menlo Park Merrill Lynch office. As a Financial Advisor, Shinta helps clients determine long term financial goals and develop strategies to manage their personal and business finances. When working with clients she insists on understanding the situation of the people she works with, and helping them come up with clear objectives. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in early 2011 Shinta was an advisor with a large national insurance company, where she worked primarily with business owners of privately held businesses and families with children on their asset protection strategies.

Shinta lives in San Francisco with her husband, Erick, and her dog, a troublemaker beagle called Leo. She believes in giving back to the community and is an active board member and vice president at a couple of non-profit organizations for women and young professionals.


Esther ColwillEsther Cowill
Principal, Deloitte Consulting
(Treasurer)

Esther is a Finance Principal in Deloitte’s Strategy & Operations Consulting practice. With more than 15 years of experience working within Finance, Esther’s experience spans Finance Transformation, Finance Controls and Governance, Finance Organization and shared services, as well as IFRS conversion. Esther has successfully led both domestic and global projects within several industry sectors including energy and resources, logistics and transportation, technology and the public sector. 

Prior to joining Deloitte, Esther spent several years with Royal Dutch Shell in its global finance leadership development program studying for her CMA. She worked in the London, Houston, Rio de Janeiro, and Barbados offices covering several finance functions, including strategic planning, financial reporting, credit, controls, and energy trading risk management. Esther has a Masters degree from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

In addition to her professional activities, Esther is an accomplished mountaineer and public speaker having climbed the “seven summits”-the highest mountain on each of the seven continents-including a successful summit of Mt. Everest in 2005.


Lenore McDonaldLenore McDonald
Director of Development 
Center for Elders' Independence

Raised near Boston, Lenore McDonald moved to San Francisco from New Orleans and has lived in the Bay Area for more than 20 years. Employed in private, not-for-profit higher education since 1993, Lenore earned a degree in business administration at Dominican University in San Rafael while working there full-time as a secretary and project manager and raising two children. In 2004 she made a career switch to development and “never looked back." Lenore has grown as a development professional at Golden Gate University in San Francisco over the past nine years where she currently holds the position of Director of Development for Annual Giving & Alumni Services, soliciting unrestricted annual gifts and overseeing programming for GGU’s 66,000 alumni.

A long-time bicyclist, cycling advocate and a resident of San Francisco now, Lenore commutes daily to and from San Francisco’s Financial District using the green bike lanes on Market Street and organizes a popular bikeride for her North Panhandle neighbors called NOPA VELO. Lenore serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, the largest bicycle advocacy organization in the United States, and chairs the fundraising committee.

She is a fund-raising consultant for St. Cyprian’s Church in San Francisco and organizes gallery shows for renowned digital artist/designer, Rick Helf. She has two grown childrenundefinedNick recently graduated from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and lives in Vail, Colorado;  Lillie lives in San Francisco and is the Event Coordinator for the 2013 America’s Cup Authority. Lenore’s roommate is a 9-year-old blonde American Cocker Spaniel named Jiggs who she answers to diligently.

Previously, Lenore served as chair, finance chair and oversight-committee member of three voter-approved parcel tax and bond measures to augment financing of San Rafael public schools in Marin County, Calif.


Dr. Emily Moto MuraseDr. Emily Murase
Executive Director
San Francisco Department
on the Status of Women
(Ex-Officio)


After serving on the Commission on the Status of Women, Dr. Emily Moto Murase was appointed Executive Director by Mayor Gavin Newsom in July 2004. Dr. Murase  previously served as a director in the first Clinton White House. A Founding Sister of the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute, she currently co-chairs the Parent Teacher Community Council of her daughter's public elementary school, the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program West. She holds an AB from Bryn Mawr College, a master's from the Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies at UC San Diego, and a PhD in communication from Stanford.

Emily resides in San Francisco with her husband Neal Taniguchi, Chief Fiscal Officer at the San Francisco Trial Court, and her two daughters Junko Taniguchi (5), Chief Negotiator, and Erin Murase (2 1/2), Chief Curiosity Officer of the Murase/Taniguchi household.
 
 

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