Board of Directors

United Way of the Bay Area’s Board of Directors is a dynamic group of leaders deeply committed to cutting Bay Area poverty.

United Way of the Bay Area Board

  • Chair of the Board of Directors
    Susan Sutherland
    Senior Vice President and Director,
    Office of Minority & Women Inclusion
    Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Chief Executive Officer
    Anne Wilson
    Chief Executive Officer
    United Way of the Bay Area
  • Immediate Past Chair
    Beth Cobert Director
    McKinsey & Company
  • General Counsel &
    Chief Ethics Officer
    Jeffrey Wohl
    Partner
    Employment Law Department
    Paul Hastings LLP
  • Treasurer
    Gwendolyn J. Wong
    Community Volunteer
  • Secretary
    Charles Custer
    Partner
    Gordon & Rees LLP
  • Assistant Secretary
    & Governance
    Loretta Walker
    Vice President
    External Affairs
    Bay Area
    AT&T California
  • Audit
    Margaret Baker
    Partner, Ernst & Young LLP
  • Community Investment
    Susan Portugal
    Senior Vice President
    CSR Philanthropy Director
    Global Corporate Social Responsibility
    Bank of America
  • Labor
    Tim Paulson
    Executive Director
    The San Francisco Labor Council
  • Marketing
    Noah Lichtenstein
    Business Partnerships & Strategy
    Rearden Commerce

Members at Large

  • Michelle Banks
    Executive Vice President
    General Counsel
    Gap, Inc.
  • J. Edward Blakey
    Executive Vice President Wells Fargo
    Commercial Mortgage Group
  • Mike Dillon
    Partner
    PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  • Cassie Doyle
    Consul General
    Consulate General of Canada
    San Francisco
  • Michael C. Dorsey
    Managing Partner
    The Westly Group
  • Patrick O. Duterte
    Director Solano County Health
    & Social Services
    Department
  • Lance Fox
    Executive Vice President
    & Regional Managing Director
    Wells Fargo Bank
  • Todd Galloway
    District Operation Manager
    UPS North California
  • Timothy Geraghty
    Region President Northern
    The Northern Trust Company
  • Shelley Kessler
    Executive Secretary,
    Treasurer San Mateo
    County Central Labor Council
  • Joe W. Laymon
    Vice President,
    Human Resources Chevron
  • Arthur Louie, CPA
    Partner Louie & Wong, LLP
  • Al Moore
    Attorney, Community Volunteer
  • Nish Nadaraja
    Brand Director at Twist
  • James Olson
    Partner
    Jones Day
  • Ronald Peyton
    Chairman and CEO
    Callan Associates Inc.
  • Terry S. Schwakopf
    Senior Advisor
    Regulatory and Capital Markets
    Deloitte & Touche LLP
  • Stephen Seymour
    Managing Director
    District Operations
    FedEx Express
  • Velu Sinha
    Partner
    Bain & Company, Inc.
  • Regina Stanback Stroud, Ed. D.
    President
    Skyline College
  • J. Michael Stedman
    Senior Executive Vice President
    Real Estate Industries Union Bank NA
  • Sherry Tennyson, Ed. D.
    Executive Director
    American Canyon Family
    Resource Center
  • Robert B. Thompson
    Vice President &
    Investment Manager
    Dodge & Cox, Inc.
  • William R. Withington
    Vice President/General Manager
    Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company