Lorna Lathram, Chair

Tom Reis, Treasurer
Program Director, W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Susan Bell, Secretary
Vice President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Betsy Buchalter Adler, Vice Chair
Principal, Silk, Adler & Colvin

Donna M. Bandelloni
Managing Director, Paul L. Comstock Co.

John B. Ford
Vice President for Development, Stanford University

David Keller
Retired/Social Investor

Willa Seldon
Executive Director, The Tides Center

Molly Tschang
Operations Director, Ethernet Access Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Georgette Wong
Vice President, ICG Financial LLC

Lorna Lathram is former President of the Omidyar Foundation. Ms. Lathram brings experience in creating and launching innovative products and services for the scientific, technology, agricultural and philanthropic sectors. She began her career with the multinational manufacturer, CIBA-Geigy, in their AgriBusiness division where she was involved in field research and the launch of numerous new practices and technologies.

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Thomas K. Reis is a Program Director in the Philanthropy and Volunteerism program at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek Michigan and the former Director of Social Marketing for the Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, Mr. Reis spent nearly five years in Indonesia as a Senior Program Officer with the Academy for Educational Development. He began his career in marketing management positions with the Pillsbury Company and Ringer Corporation. He has consulted in 15 countries and has lived in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

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Susan Bell is Vice President for The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where her responsibilities include directing a cluster of grants supporting effective philanthropy. For 14 years, Ms. Bell worked in development, alumni relations, communications, and strategic planning for Northwestern University (Chicago, IL), the Sierra Club (San Francisco, CA), and Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA). She serves on the boards of the Africa Foundation (Johannesburg) and The Nature Conservancy, Illinois Chapter and the board and executive committee of Openlands Project (Chicago).

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Betsy Buchalter Adler represents many grantmaking and other nonprofit clients at Silk, Adler & Colvin. She is the Chair of the American Bar Association Tax Section's Committee on Tax-Exempt Organizations; founding Chair and current member of the State Bar of California's Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee; and an officer of the Cisco Learning Institute. Ms. Adler lectures on developments in the law of nonprofit organizations and is the author of The Rules of the Road: A Guide to the Law of Charities in the United States (Council on Foundations, 1999).

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Donna Bandelloni is Managing Director of Fiduciary Services at ComstockCo. Previously, she was Managing Partner at Bandelloni & Associates providing philanthropic consulting to the non-profit community and the financial services industries. Prior to establishing her own business, Donna was Director of Advisory Services for the San Francisco Foundation. Preceding her work with The San Francisco Foundation, Donna was Vice President, Senior Philanthropic Consultant with Merrill Lynch Trust Company. She currently serves as board member or advisor to Northern California Planned Giving Council, Marin Community Foundation, Give2Asia, and The University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education.

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John B. Ford is beginning his fifteenth year as Vice President for Development at Stanford University. After graduation from Stanford in 1971 with a BA in history, Mr. Ford worked in development positions at CalTech, the University of Chicago and Stanford, where he began as Associate Director of Medical Development. For 15 years, he has been responsible for all Stanford's gift procurement activities, which last year totaled $469 million.

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David Keller has worked in a number of diverse industries including health care, heavy manufacturing, civil service, and finally High Technology where he worked at increasing levels of responsibility at ROLM Corporation during the 1980's and then at Cisco Systems from 1989 - 2002. He now enthusiastically but modestly pursues social venture philanthropic opportunities.

Willa Seldon joined the Tides Center as Executive Director in October 2003. As co-founder and General Partner of Milepost Ventures, Ms. Seldon established one of the first women-focused venture capital funds. She spent seven years as an executive at AirTouch Communications. Earlier in her career, Ms. Seldon was an executive at Williams-Sonoma and an associate at Salomon Brothers in New York. She was an early Board member and Board President of The Women's Foundation and served as the Founding Board President of GirlSource. Ms. Seldon currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College and several professional advisory boards.

Molly Tschang is operations director for Cisco's Ethernet Access Group. Previously, she was director of business development integration where she lead a global team responsible for the integration of Cisco's acquisitions into all areas of the company's operations. Before joining Cisco in 1998, Molly was a vice president at United States Filter Corporation and a senior management consultant at Deloitte & Touche. She began her career at IBM in sales as a marketing representative. Molly is currently a member of the Cornell University Council, President's Council of Cornell Women, and the Cornell Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise Advisory Council. She works with start-up companies and non-profits in an advisory capacity.

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Georgette Wong is responsible for ensuring that ICG's Legacy Planning group best serves the needs of wealthy families and foundations. Georgette began her financial services career at USBancorp Piper Jaffray. Her professional background includes developing growth plans for entrepreneurial companies, venture capital investing, and socially responsible investments. She brings over a decade of experience in civic and philanthropic involvement. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for CAA, a San Francisco nonprofit corporation that creates and sustains multicultural democracy.

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