Board

List of 15 members.

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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, which markets hedge funds to institutional investors in the U.S. and Europe.

  
  

  Bill serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Farm School (Thessaloniki, Greece). He has previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Center for the Collaborative Classroom (Alameda, CA), Cornerstone Literacy (New York, NY) and St. Paul’s School (Concord, NH).

  
  

  He graduated from Cathedral School, St. Paul’s School, and Princeton University.

   
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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.

• Kristin Chandna 

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  Kristin Chandna grew up in Los Angeles, CA, and has lived in San Francisco for the past 10 years with her husband, Rishi, and their four children (Evan '27, Emma, Ella, and Esme). Kristin is a full-time parent, an active volunteer in the community, and a burgeoning real estate developer where she designs, builds, and manages residential properties.

  
  Kristin is dedicated to the educational institutions that have impacted her family’s life. She is an Admissions Ambassador and the Co-Chair of the Auction for Cathedral School for Boys. She is a member of the Lone Mountain Children’s Center Board of Directors where she serves on the HR Committee. Additionally, Kristin spent three years volunteering with Harvard Business School. She helped launch the Bay Area HBS Alumnae Circles Program, served as Regional Chair of the San Francisco Leadership Committee, and helped set the Program’s global strategy.
  
  

  Earlier in her career, Kristin was the Director of Corporate Strategy at Walmart Stores Inc. in Bentonville, Arkansas where she led a team of internal consultants, worked with Investor Relations, and managed the quarterly Board Meeting and Strategic Planning and Finance Committee processes for Walmart. Kristin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in American Studies from Stanford University. Kristin is passionate about cooking Italian and Indian food, interior design, hiking, and skiing.
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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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  Jessica Flemming 

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  Jessica grew up in San Diego and graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Human Biology with a focus on Humans in Organizations. She started her career working with Fortune 500 companies, global investment and commercial banks, professional service firms, and technology startups. She has created several internal operations organizations and call centers designed to implement technology and serve clients. She has helped with internal implementations of mergers and acquisitions, reductions in workforce, procurement optimization and restructuring, creation of corporate intranets, and a new hire orientation program for a company averaging 80 new hires per week. For the last ten years, she has worked as a consultant in the public sector, serving state governments in healthcare and social services administration.
  
  Jessica and her husband Dave are parents to David in 6th grade at Cathedral and Katie and Carter, twin daughters at Lick Wilmerding High School. They love cheering for the San Francisco Giants and volunteering as a family to support the Giants Community Fund, Good Tidings Foundation, Richmond Neighborhood Center, San Francisco/Marin Food Bank, Compass Family Services, Friends of the Urban Forest, and their beloved schools. They also love supporting local farmers and venturing out of the city to pick pumpkins, strawberries, cherries, and peaches and have chopped down their own Christmas tree for 15 years in a row.
  
  Jessica is the great-granddaughter of an Episcopal-Methodist Minister who established a church as an elder of the Muskogee (Creek) Nation in Eastern Oklahoma. She is passionate about Native American representation, racial equity, and social justice.
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  David Forbes 

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  Byron Gill 

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  Byron and Rika Gill came to San Francisco in 2007 from Tokyo, where he had spent the prior 15 years. Byron is a founder and investment manager of Indus Capital Partners, an asset management company focused on Asia. From its beginning in 2000, Indus has grown to be one of the largest Asia-focused fund managers in the world with offices in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and London as well as San Francisco. Prior to starting Indus, Byron ran the Tokyo office for Soros Fund Management. Before becoming an investor, Byron spent just under ten years in investment research at Solomon Smith Barney and Swiss Bank also in Tokyo.

  
  

  Byron was born in Tokyo in 1968 where his father was responsible for running Gillette's Japan operation. After relocating to the US, Byron's family settled in Houston, Texas where he and his younger sister spent their years until college. Byron attended Brandeis University just outside of Boston, where he received a scholarship. He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in economics in 1991. Byron had always maintained an interest in Japan as well as a proficiency in the language and moved back to Tokyo where he began his career in finance.

  
  

  In 2005 Byron married Rika Sato, who had just made a career shift from internet marketing consultant to French trained chef. Two years after arriving in San Francisco, their son Nathan Zenichiro Gill (Class of 2023) was born. Nathan's sister, Wynter Yoko, was born in 2012.

  
  

  Since moving to San Francisco, the Gills have gradually integrated with the community through a combination of good friends, school activities, and philanthropy. Byron sits on the Board of Directors at the Basic Fund, a San Francisco based organization that provides scholarships for underprivileged Bay Area youth to enter private K-8 schools. Byron is also actively involved in the Napa based Lao Rehabilitation Foundation, a small organization that performs medical missions in remote areas of Laos, as well as building fresh water pipelines for disparate Lao communities. Byron has accompanied doctors and engineers to northern Laos in each of the last five years. Both Byron and Rika are very involved with the Montessori Children's House of the West Coast from where Nathan graduated last year, and where Byron is a Board Member in charge of the school's Strategy Committee.
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  Coreen Hester 

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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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  Sandra Lee 

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  Sandra Lee is a San Francisco native who attended St. Rose Academy and Convent High School. She is married to Frank Mong, a St. Ignatius College Prep grad, and has two children, Dylan, in 8th grade at Cathedral, and Stella, in 5th grade at Charles Armstrong School. Her professional experience includes working for General Mills, a consumer foods company, in category management and as a national account manager. More recently, she is involved with property management. For six years, Sandra served on the board for a public high school mentoring program, the Big Sibling Program. She also spent four years on the steering committee of Golden Gate Mother's Group for Kids Activities and Community Support. Sandra has been actively involved in her children's schools, volunteering for roles as a class parent and treasurer as well as chairing a preschool gala. She is always interested in discussing food, nutrition and learning differences, not necessarily all together. On the weekends, Sandra is an avid hiker and loves a good HIIT class. This year, she will have made her family hike every San Francisco urban park hiking trail and is focusing on trails in the greater bay area.