Board

List of 14 members.

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  Christina Alvarez 

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  Christina Alvarez is the Executive Director of Episcopal Impact Fund, a grantmaking organization that promotes innovative, long-term solutions to address the root causes of poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to this, she managed fundraising, communications, public relations, and media relations as Senior Director of Development at Episcopal Community Services (ECS), San Francisco's largest non-profit provider of services for people experiencing homelessness, extreme poverty, and food insecurity in our city. Before ECS, she served as the Executive Director of The Gubbio Project, which provides space and sanctuary for unhoused people in need of safe, compassionate respite during the day.
  
  Christina is the mother of two Cathedral students, Elliott '27 and Silas '30. Christina currently serves on the Parents Association's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee. When not driving the boys to soccer practice, she enjoys hiking, swimming, and reading.
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  Michele Bell 

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  A native Texan, Michele Bell has called San Francisco home for 17 years. After working in Advertising and attending Parsons School of Design in Manhattan, she and Scott moved to the Bay Area. Here Michele pursued her creative talents in fashion and jewelry design while simultaneously tutoring children at the San Francisco Day School and the Hamlin School. Finding her time with students rewarding and fulfilling, she then was an Associate Teacher at Burke’s school for one year before starting her own family with Scott. While raising her two oldest children, Michele began writing for a parenting blog, PopSugar Moms. When she became pregnant with her third child, Michele put her keyboard down and turned all of her attention to her family and their schools. 

   

  Finley is a seventh grader at Burke’s and little brothers Sanders and Charlie are respectively in fifth and second grades at Cathedral. Michele has brought her classroom and parent experience to her childrens’ schools in various ways. She has served as room parent, gala chair, Vice President and President of a Parents’ Association, and taught as a substitute when given the opportunity. Like most any other parent, Michele and Scott place a high value on their childrens’ education. It is the reason she is an enthusiastic and dedicated volunteer at their schools.

   

  Currently, Michele has started her own photography business selling mostly landscape images. She is also using her photography to help small businesses brand themselves on social media. When she’s not carpooling her kids around town, you can find Michele crafting with felt, spray painting forestry, putting glitter on wood chips, or posting on Instagram.
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  William Bennington '79 

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  Bill Bennington is the managing director of Bridgewater James Limited, LLC, a boutique investment bank regulated by FINRA and SIPC whose main activity is raising institutional assets for selected hedge funds and private equity funds. Bridgewater James works with endowments, foundations, family offices, pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, and fund of funds in the U.S., Europe, and the Gulf.
  
  Bill’s other board roles have included serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the American Farm School (Thessaloniki, Greece); Board Member and Alumni Fund Chair of St. Paul’s School (Concord, NH); Board Member and Development Committee Chair of The Center for the Collaborative Classroom (Alameda, CA); and Board Member and Chair of the Development Committee of Cornerstone Literacy (New York, NY).
  
  Bill graduated from Cathedral School, St. Paul’s School, and Princeton University. In 1985 his Princeton four won the National Collegiate Rowing Championships. Bill and his brother Jeff (a Captain in the U.S. Navy) were the third set of twins to graduate from Cathedral School. Bill actively supports Grace Cathedral and the Episcopal Impact Fund.
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  Chad Boeding 

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  Chad Boeding is the CEO/founder of EPIQ Capital Group, a private multi-family office headquartered in San Francisco. Prior to EPIQ, he was co-founder/Partner at ICONIQ Capital. Prior to this, he was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and Vice President at Goldman Sachs.

  
  

  Mr. Boeding received his B.S. in Engineering from the University of Illinois,

  Champaign/Urbana and his MBA in Finance and Accounting from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.  He has over nineteen years of experience in financial management. Chad lives in San Francisco with his wife Kristine, son Austin and daughter Blake.
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  Ronald Clark 

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  Ronald Clark is a native of San Francisco, where he and his wife Ashley have lived since 2011, after spending a little over a decade on the East Coast. Their son Oliver is a proud member of CSB’s Class of 2028.
  
  Ronald currently serves as Vice President of Investor Relations and Capital Markets at Eventbrite. Previously, he worked with the management teams and board of directors at Yelp and Levi Strauss & Co., serving as Director of Investor Relations and Director of Corporate Development, respectively. Ronald began his career working as an Equity Research Analyst at AllianceBernstein and J.P. Morgan in New York and London.
  
  Ronald is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied Economics, and of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received an MBA. He is an active supporter of The Episcopal Church in the San Francisco Bay Area, and recently served as Junior Warden and a vestry member of The Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin. He enjoys spending time outdoors with Ashley, Oliver and their beloved Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier, Jameson, and is an avid skier and sailor.
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  Nina de Clercq 

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  Nina Brown de Clercq grew up in Nashville, TN and attended the University of Virginia. She settled in San Francisco with her husband, Casper, and 3 children, Lucas ‘22, Willem ‘23 and Martin ‘25 who will attend CSB from 2013 until 2025 for a total of 12 years.

   

  Nina’s creativity and idea generation lead to innovation everywhere she goes. She’s known for creating organized ways to connect people, prototyping a health record application, developing the concept for a service calendar at the school, while also managing her family.  When teamed with others passionate about implementing, the impact is powerful.

   

  Nina sits on both the Atticus Trust and MSB Cockayne Fund Boards, working toward the elimination of food waste in the United States. She created the Borrowed Earth Fund, which supports non-profits focused on environmental and education issues that will protect the planet for future generations.

   

  Nina has long been connected with Grace Cathedral. Her mother and sister have served as trustees - Betty Brown (1990’s) and Eliza Brown (2006-2016).  She served on the Carnivale committee for 6 years. Nina is looking forward to being able to serve the CSB community as a trustee.
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  Michael Hanna '94 

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  Michael Hanna '94 is a corporate attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Michael's practice is focused on the representation of private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of aspects, including leveraged acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint ventures, corporate governance, and other corporate matters.
  
  Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Michael was a commercial litigator at Morris Polich & Purdy LLP. Michael's litigation practice centered around real estate and corporate matters, including residential/commercial acquisitions, construction defects, landlord-tenant issues, shareholder claims, business-to-business disputes, and D&O liability.
  
  In addition to Michael’s practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Michael serves on the board of directors of Hanna Winery, Inc., a family-owned and operated business founded by his father in 1985.
  
  A Cathedral alumnus himself, Michael currently has two sons at Cathedral: William '29 and Johnny '31.
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  Thayer Hopkins 

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  Thayer Hopkins is a 5th generation San Franciscan native with longstanding ties to Cathedral School for Boys and Grace Cathedral. His parents were founding trustees of the school, and his brothers and son David (‘98) are graduates. Thayer graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with degrees in fine arts and architecture. He started his architectural and design practice in 1990, a multidisciplinary atelier with a portfolio of Bay Area residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. Many of his projects have been featured in publications and he has been the recipient of several awards.
  
  Thayer served as Trustee and Head of the CSB Buildings & Grounds Committee in the 1990s, overseeing the first expansion of the campus since its origins in 1965. He subsequently was the architect for numerous campus projects before becoming an Honorary Lifetime Trustee. Thayer has also served as founding Director and Treasurer of the San Francisco Architectural Club, member of the Board of Town School for Boys as President of the Alumni Council, Director of the Board and member of the Committee for the Renovation of the California Tennis Club, and currently serves on the Rhode Island School of Design Architectural Advisory Council.
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  Linnea Hur 

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  Linnea Hur grew up in Southern California and began her time in the Bay Area with her undergraduate studies at Stanford University. She went away to medical school at UC San Diego and received her Masters in Public Health, with a focus on International Health, at Harvard University. She returned to the Bay Area in 2001 for her internal medicine residency and remained at Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center as a hospital physician. She has been working as a hospitalist for the last 15 years. More recently she took a detour to follow her passion in public health and served as medical director for a nonprofit telehealth organization that serves clinics for underserved populations.
  
  

  Linnea, her husband, Ben, and their two boys joined the CSB community in 2020. Their older son attends Urban School of San Francisco and their younger son is in the Class of 2024.
  
  

  Linnea is a regular volunteer and supporter of the SF Food Bank, Hamilton Families, and One World Health. She also serves on the board of City Hope San Francisco and YMCA of San Francisco, Richmond Branch. She's an avid runner, board game enthusiast, and lover of HGTV/Food network, unfortunately, her decorating and culinary skills do not reflect this.
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  Burns Jones 

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  Burns Jones has served as Cathedral's Head of School since 2015. Before joining Cathedral, Mr. Jones was the Head of The Canterbury School, an independent, PreK-8 Episcopal day school in North Carolina.
  
  Mr. Jones holds a B.A. in English from Sewanee, an M.A. in English from Middlebury, and a J.D. from the University of South Carolina. In 2014, Burns was awarded a Klingenstein Fellowship at Columbia University’s School of Education. He serves as a member of the Board of the National Association of Episcopal Schools, and St. Mary’s School (a girls' high school in Raleigh, NC.) He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Elementary School Heads Association, and a member of the Visionary Heads Group.

  
  

  He and his wife, Elizabeth, have two sons, Wyatt and Crawford, both of whom attend Cathedral School for Boys. In addition to his responsibilities as Head of School, Burns coaches soccer and runs the student law club at Cathedral.
  
  
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  Jorge Klor de Alva 

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  Jorge Klor de Alva, the father of Thiago ’27, was born in Mexico but is a long-time Bay Area resident. Today he is president of Nexus Research and Policy Center, a research institute focused on higher education, and Chairman of the Board of 3DMX, Inc., headquartered in Silicon Valley, whose Mexico-based University of Advanced Technologies offers degrees in computer graphics, game design, and development, cybersecurity, and mobile app technologies. He is a former President of the University of Phoenix and served on the board of its holding company Apollo Education Group, Inc. He is also past Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apollo International, Inc., a global education company serving Europe, India, and Latin America.

  
  

  Previously he was The Class of 1940 Professor at UC-Berkeley, before that, Professor at Princeton University. He has published dozens of scholarly articles, K-8 social studies textbooks, and a high school American history textbook (all published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), along with another 15 books in the social sciences. He also publishes on higher education in numerous U.S., and international media, ranging from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to Issues in Science and Technology and Philanthropy Daily. 

  
  

  Besides serving on numerous editorial boards and as a consultant to, for example, the Educational Testing Service, Graduate Record Exam, and the College Board, he co-chaired the commission that developed a new K-12 social studies curriculum for New York state and served on the Smithsonian Institute Council, the board of the American Association of Higher Education and the Advisory Council on Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation. He earned a B.A. and J.D. at UC-Berkeley and a Ph.D. at UC-Santa Cruz.
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  Carlton Linnenbach '87 

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  Carlton W. Linnenbach is a native San Franciscan and graduated from Cathedral School for Boys (CSB) in 1987. He earned a BA degree in Politics and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996, where he was a member of the men’s heavyweight rowing team. He later earned an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2003.
  
  Carlton is the Chief Operating Officer for the Systematic Active Equity (SAE) platform within BlackRock, Inc.'s Active Equities Group. In this role, he is responsible for the execution of the platform’s strategic initiatives, the Core Portfolio Management function, and the day-to-day oversight of the platform’s non-investment activities. His service with BlackRock dates back to 2009, including his work at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. 
  
  Earlier in his career, he was an Investment Analyst and the Chief Operating Officer at West Pacific Capital Management, a public equity investment fund he co-founded. He was also an Associate at Behrman Capital, a private equity investment firm, and a Financial Analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions department at Robertson, Stephens & Co.
  
  From 1982 to 1987, he was a chorister in the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys. Since graduating from Cathedral, Carlton has served as a Cathedral School Trustee as President of the Alumni Association from 1999 to 2001, and as a member of the Alumni Advisory Council from 2009 to the present.
  
  Carlton and his wife, Asheley, reside in San Francisco with their daughter Lucy (Burke’s ‘23) and son George (CSB ’25).
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  Jessica MacGregor 

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  For nearly 25 years, Jessica has focused her practice on representing lawyers and law firms in legal malpractice actions and fee and partnership disputes, providing ethics counseling and representation before the State Bar, and advocating on behalf of other professionals. The State Bar of California certified her as a Specialist in Legal Malpractice Law and appointed her to serve on the State Bar Legal Malpractice Advisory Commission, which drafts the state-wide legal specialization exam. Jessica chaired the Legal Malpractice Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco for seven years and was responsible for developing attorney education on risk management and legal malpractice issues. Her commitment to educating attorneys on these subjects is not limited to California. Jessica has developed and presented programs for the American Bar Association’s Lawyer’s Professional Liability Section, co-authored its 2016 quadrennial study of legal malpractice claims, and she has served on its Ed Mendrzycki Essay Contest subcommittee for many years.
  
  Jessica has defended multiple jury trials to verdict, including recent high-stakes litigation in San Diego, for which she was recognized as “litigator of the week” by ALM. The Daily Journal declared this same trial one of the most significant defense verdicts in California in 2017. She brings her passion for advocacy to bear on all aspects of litigation.
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  Diana Marchesi