Board

List of 16 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 

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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.
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  Jon Burgstone 

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  Jon Burgstone works as a professional investor, serving as Managing Director of Symbol Capital LLC, a private investment partnership. Before Symbol Capital, Burgstone was an Adjunct Professor of Engineering and the Founding Faculty Chair of the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at the University of California, Berkeley.

  
  

  Earlier in his career, Burgstone was CEO and co-founder of SupplierMarket, an internet software company serving global enterprises. SupplierMarket was acquired for $1.1B by Ariba, Inc. and the product is now named Ariba Sourcing. SAP subsequently purchased Ariba.

  
  

  Burgstone earned a BS in Engineering from the University of Illinois, an MS in Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Burgstone received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Illinois.

  
  

  He serves, and has served, as a Trustee of the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, on the President’s Council of the United Religions Initiative, on the Board of Visitors at the University of Illinois College of Engineering, and as an Advisor to the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.
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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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  Abbey Doolittle 

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  Abbey Doolittle was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she attended San Mateo High School.

  
  

  She earned her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. In her career as a management consultant with Bain & Company, she served clients in the Retail, Private Equity and Aerospace & Defense sectors. A full-time parent today, she continues to make time to advise women-run small businesses. She also serves on the Futures Without Violence Council.

  
  

  Abbey lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons, who attend Cathedral School for Boys. She is passionate about architecture and design.  She also enjoys traveling, fly fishing, trying new recipes with her family and listening to music. You can find her most Sunday mornings with a strong cup of coffee and the NYTimes crossword in hand.

  
  

  At Cathedral, Abbey has held several roles in the school community, including two years chairing the annual auction. She is currently the President of the Parents’ Association, and is a member of the Finance and Development Committees.

   
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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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  Greg Gretsch 

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  Katherine Hanson 

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  Naureen Hassan 

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  Naureen Hassan is the Chief Digital Officer for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, responsible for the business’s digital strategy and delivery. This includes digital and social marketing to help advisors grow their practices, new digital investment products for advisors to use with their clients and the online and mobile platforms used by Morgan Stanley Wealth Management’s 3.5 million clients.

  
  

  Previously, Naureen was the executive vice president leading Investor Services segments and platforms at Charles Schwab and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. In this role, she was responsible for the strategy, client experience and web and mobile channels supporting the individual investors who hold $1.3 trillion client assets at Schwab. She also led the team that developed Schwab Intelligent Portfolios,

  an industry-leading automated investment advice product. During her time at Schwab, she also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Schwab Bank and was a member of its Board of Directors and had leadership roles in Schwab Advisor Services, the leading custodial platform for nearly 7,000 independent advisory firms.

  
  

  Naureen holds a BA from Princeton University, where she graduated magna cum laude, and a Master’s of Business Administration from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. She is on the board of the California Academy of Sciences and the Cathedral School for Boys, both in San Francisco.

  
  

  Naureen is the mother of Asher ’24 and Alia.
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  Judy Hilbrich Sheppard 

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  Judy Hilbrich Sheppard has enjoyed a number of roles throughout her 15 years at Cathedral: fifth-, sixth- and eighth-grade Math teacher, High School Placement Director, Yearbook Advisor, Language Structures teacher and Fifth-Grade Basketball Coach. This year Judy joins the Cathedral Board of Trustees as the Faculty Representative.

   

  Ms. Hilbrich Sheppard received her B.S. degree in Marketing and Advertising from Ball State University and her Masters in Business from the University of Notre Dame.

   

  Outside of school, she loves to spend time with her husband, Doug, and high school-aged children Isabel and Nicholas,'18. Judy comes from a huge family in Indiana and is a robust sports fan, reader, and pilates devotee. She can often be found enthusiastically cheering on her students, her kids, or the Notre Dame Fighting Irish!
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  Thayer Hopkins 

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  Burns Jones 

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  Burns Jones has served as Cathedral's Headmaster 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 Headmaster, Burns coaches soccer and runs the student law club at Cathedral.
  
  
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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.

   
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  Carlton Linnenbach 

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  Carlton W. Linnenbach is the Chief Operating Officer for the Systematic Active Equity (SAE) investment team within BlackRock, Inc. Earlier in his career, he worked at West Pacific Capital Management, a public equity investment fund he co-founded, as well as Behrman Capital and Robertson, Stephens & Co.

  
  

  He earned a BA degree in politics and economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996, and an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2003.  Carlton graduated from Cathedral School for Boys (CSB) in 1987, and was a chorister in the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys.

    

  Since graduating from Cathedral, Carlton served as a CSB Trustee and President of the Alumni Association from 1999 to 2001, and as a member of the Alumni Advisory Council.  He and his wife, Asheley, reside in San Francisco with their daughter, Lucy (Burke’s ’23), and son, George (CSB ’25).