Board of Trustees
Team-Up for Youth's Board includes leaders in the arenas of public policy, public health, professional and collegiate athletics, private philanthropy, and the media.
Walter J. Haas, Chair
Mr. Haas serves on the Levi Strauss & Co. Board of Directors. From 1988-1995 he held several positions in the Oakland A's Baseball Company, including President and Chief Executive Officer. He is the Co-Chair of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, a trustee of the Urban School, and a trustee of the Golden Gate National Parks Association and the Walter and Elise Haas Fund.
Harris Barton
A former collegiate All American and a Super Bowl winner with the San Francisco 49ers, Barton is a Founding Partner at HRJ Capital. HRJ is a private equity investment firm in Silicon Valley with over $1.5 billion in assets under management distributed between thirteen funds in venture capital, buyout, real estate and hedge. Barton graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in Finance. He is married with three children.
Steven R. Bell
Steven R. Bell is President of the Northern California region of Northern Trust where he is responsible for the company's investment management, trust and estate planning, private and business banking and financial consulting business in Northern California. Steve received his A.B. degree with honors in economics from Duke University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude. He received his M.B.A. degree in Finance from the University of Chicago. He has served as a board member with various charitable, civic and educational organizations in Chicago and San Francisco. His wife Susan is Vice President for the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Parker Blackman
Parker Blackman has worked in public interest communications, advocacy and organizational development for over 12 years. He is currently the lead strategist at Fenton Communications in San Francisco. Blackman formerly served as press secretary for Arianna Huffington's run for governor of California; as a communications advisor for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; and as the Executive Director of Washington Public Interest Research Group. A volleyball player while at Stanford University, he currently coaches with Oakland's Starlings Volleyball Club.
Mark Gainey
Mark Gainey co-founded Kana Communications, an enterprise software firm, in 1996. He served in several capacities including chairman, CEO and president, from 1996 to 2000. Prior to Kana, Mark worked for TA Associates, a Boston-based venture capital firm. Gainey currently serves on the board of directors for Alter-G, Strava, and BoardVantage, Inc.
Judge Thelton Henderson
Judge Henderson is a recognized leader in the civil rights movement and has an esteemed reputation as a lawyer, educator, jurist, and as a U.S. District Court Judge appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980. He was the Justice Department's first African-American lawyer in the Civil Right Division and a dean at Stanford Law School, where he established the minority recruiting program and helped diversify the student body and assisted in creating Stanford's clinical program. Judge Henderson also played football at Cal, his alma mater and attributes his personal success to the tremendous impact that one of his childhood coaches had on his life.
Ira Hirschfield
Ira S. Hirschfield is President and a trustee of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. Prior to joining the Fund, Mr. Hirschfield was Director of Philanthropy for Rockefeller Family and Associates and President of The Philanthropic Collaborative. Currently, Mr. Hirschfield serves as a trustee of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund. Previous board service includes the Heron Foundation, Council on Foundations; Independent Sector; National Center for Family Philanthropy; Guidestar; National Center for Responsive Philanthropy and several Rockefeller Family Philanthropies.
John P. Levin
Mr. Levin is co-founder and senior partner of the law firm Folger Levin LLP. He is involved in a wide range of community activities and has served on numerous boards. Mr. Levin served for ten years as a member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, the last five as vice chair. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Stanford Hospital and Clinics and co-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation.
Nate Levine
Mr. Levine consults for nonprofit organizations, foundations and philanthropists. Over the past 25 years, he has worked for various nonprofits which have provided services in the cultural, educational and recreational fields, including the Jewish Community Federation, Stanford Law School and most recently, the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, which he led through a successful rebuilding campaign.
Mark Mastrov
Mr. Mastrov, a native of Oakland, California, founded 24 Hour Fitness in 1983 with a single facility in San Leandro, California, and built a fitness empire of over 420 clubs located in 16 U.S. states and five Asian countries, plus some of the world's best known international fitness brands. Supporting youth fitness has always been a top priority and area of focus for Mr. Mastrov. He has served as a board member on the Andre Agassi Foundation since 2005 and joined the TUFY board in 2009.
Jennifer Maxwell
Ms. Maxwell is an accomplished competitive runner, mother of six and co-founder of PowerBar with her late husband Brian, a former world-class marathoner. Ms. Maxwell is widely recognized for her innovative leadership style. She has received the Haas Women in Leadership Cora Jane Flood Philanthropy Award for her outstanding support to the Haas School of Business through the establishment of the Brian Maxwell Fellows Program, which she created in 2006. Ms. Maxwell is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Nutrition and Food Science, 1988.
Greg McAdoo
Greg McAdoo is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital, focusing on semiconductor and systems investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2000, Greg was President and CEO of Sentient Networks (CSCO). Greg has held senior engineering and executive level management positions at Cisco Systems, Sourcecom, Micom Communications and Datability Systems. Greg received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
Angela Nomellini
Ms. Nomellini graduated from Stanford University in 1975 with a BA in English. She also has a J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law (1978). Her interest in education began when her eldest son started school and she became active at both the local school and district level. Among other activities, she served as a Local Panel parent member for Partners in Literacy, a collaboration of schools from Hillsborough, San Bruno and Millbrae funded by a grant from the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative. Currently she is a member of the Hillsborough School District Board of Trustees, the Stanford Schools Corporation Board and the Stanford University School of Education Advisory Council. She is also chair of the Student-Athlete subcommittee of the Stanford Athletic Board.
Thomas A. Patterson
Mr. Patterson is a general partner at Madrone Capital Partners, a private investment firm based in Menlo Park. He was formerly a partner at the private equity firm of Weston Presidio. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1988 and rowed on the Crimson's varsity lightweight crew team. He returned to Harvard and earned an MBA in 1993. Tom also serves as a director-at-large for the Montana Land Reliance.
Arnold Perkins
Mr. Perkins is the former director of the Alameda County Public Health Department and former director of the county's Alcohol and Drug Department. He is a board member of the Haigh Scatena Foundation and on the San Francisco Foundation's Koshland Award Committee. He served as Chair of the Bay Area Multicultural Institute, a trustee of the United Way of the Bay Area, and Chair of the California School of Professional Psychology.
Joan Ryan
Joan Ryan is an author and a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley. She is also a media consultant for the San Francisco Giants. Her first book, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters, was named one of the top 100 Sports Books of the 20th Century by Sports Illustrated in 2000.
Dave Stewart
A native of Oakland, he spent 15 seasons in the major leagues and was a member of three world championship teams. As a pitcher for the Oakland A's, he posted four consecutive 20-win seasons. He was formerly the pitching coach and Special Assistant to the General Manager of the San Diego Padres. Mr. Stewart was also the Assistant General Manager for the Toronto Blue Jays. A long-time community activist, he established and directs the Dave Stewart Foundation.
Sylvia Mei-ling Yee, Ph.D.
Ms. Yee is Vice President of Programs at the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. She has served as the board chair of numerous national, state and local organizations, including Family Support America, Asian Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, the Foundation Consortium and the Bernal Heights Community Foundation. In addition to Team-Up for Youth, she helped launch several major initiatives including the San Francisco Beacon Initiative and the Bay Area School Development Program. For many years, she taught at the secondary and university levels and is the former Executive Director of St. John's Educational Thresholds Center. Ms. Yee received her doctorate in educational administration and policy from Stanford University, and has authored two books, Careers in the Classroom and Got Me a Story to Tell.
