Co-Chairs
Andy Barnes
Tom Hart

Executive Director
Gabriel Metcalf

Urban Center Director
Diane Filippi

Vice Chairs
Lisa Feldstein
Linda Jo Fitz
Bob Gamble
Jim Salinas, Sr.
Libby Seifel
Lydia Tan

Treasurer
Terry Micheau

Secretary
Jean Fraser

Immediate Past Chair
Vince Hoenigman

Advisory Council Co-Chairs
Paul Sedway
Michael Wilmar

Board Members

Michael Alexander
Retired Photojournalist
Chair, SPUR Doyle Drive Task Force
Member, People of the Presidio
Former Commissioner, GGNRA
Former Commissioner, Point Reyes National Seashore Advisory Commission
Former Vice Chair, San Francisco Board of Supervisors Doyle Drive Task Force
Former Board Member, San Francisco Beautiful

Jim Andrew, Jr.
Land-use Attorney, Ellman Burke Hoffman & Johnson PC
Chair, SPUR Board Development Committee
Co-chair, SPUR Ballot Analysis Committee
President, Terrace Neighbors Association
Former Board Member, Russian Hill Neighbors
Former Executive Committee Member, Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods

David Baker
Partner, David Baker + Partners, Architects
Board Member, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Advisory Council Member, Donald Terner Prize for Innovation and Leadership in Affordable Housing
2009 Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma Architecture School
2008 Housing Hero: San Francisco Housing Action Coalition
2008 Hearthstone BUILDER Humanitarian Award: 30 Most Influential People in Housing in the Past 30 Years
2008 Wm. S. Marvin Builders Hall of Fame for Design Excellence
2007 Visiting Associate Professor, UC Berkeley College for Environmental Design
2006 John Portman Visiting Critic at the Georgia Institute of Technology

Andy Barnes, co-chair
Owner, Barnes & Company
Chair, SPUR Downtown Transit Center Task Force
Board Member, Yamas Controls
Board Member, Greenbelt Alliance
Board Member, Dean’s Advisory Council, McLaren Business School at the University of San Francisco
Former Lead, Stapleton Development Corporation
Former Lead, Broadacre Pacific Co.
Former Lead, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation

Fred Blackwell
Executive Director, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Former Director, Mayor’s Office of Community Development
Former Director, Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Making Connections Initiative
Fellow, San Francisco Foundation Neighborhood Community Development program

Lee Blitch
Vice President, University Advancement, San Francisco State University
Former President and CEO, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Former Region Vice President, Consumer Marketing, AT&T
Member, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Member, California Business for Educational Excellence Board of Directors
Member, Just for the Kids California Board of Directors
Member, Phase One Communications, Executive Board of Directors
Member, United Way Education Issues Cabinet
Member, San Francisco Market Street Railway Advsiory Board
Member, San Francisco School Alliance Advisory Board

Margo Bradish
Partner, Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
Member, Urban Land Institute San Francisco District Council
Member, ULI Urban Plan and Programs Committees
Lecturer, UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

Pam Brewster
Vice President of Government Affairs, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Treasurer, Charles Schwab Corporation Political Action Committee
Former Head of Alexander Ogilvy’s Tech Policy Communications Practice
Former Chief Spokesperson for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Laurence Burnett
Real Estate Portfolio Manager, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
Former Chair of Housing & Land Use Committee, Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Member, San Francisco Chapter of the Urban Land Institute

Michaela Cassidy
President, Aspen Affiliates
Former Board Member, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Former Board Member, San Francisco Ballet Association
Former Board Member, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

Emilio Cruz
EPC Consultants
Former Vice President, URS Corporation
Former Chief Executive Officer, Hispanic Scholarship Foundation
Former President, San Francisco Board of Education
Former Chief of Staff, Mayor of San Francisco
Former Director of Public Transportation, San Francisco Municipal Railway

Charmaine Curtis
President, Curtis + Partners Development
Former President, A.F. Evans Development
Former Director of Housing Development, Mercy Housing California
Former Project Manager, Holliday Development

Gia Daniller
President, Daniller Consulting
Co-Chair, SPUR Young Urbanists Committee
Former Government Relations Director, Jewish Community Relations Council
Former Field Representative, Senator Barbara Boxer
Former Protocol Assistant, U.S. Ambassador to France in the Paris Embassy

Kelly Dearman
Executive Director, San Francisco Urban Community Housing Corporation
Vice President, San Francisco Human Services Commission
Board Member, San Francisco/Marin YWCA
Board Member, Out of Site
Former Staff, San Francisco City Attorney’s Office|

Shelley Doran
Vice President for External and Govt. Affairs, Webcor Builders
Board of Directors Member, Oshman Family Jewish community Center
Board Member, City of Hope San Francisco
Board Member, American Heart Association, Executive Leadership “Go Red for Women” San Francisco
Board Member, Silicon Valley chapter of the Women’s Initiative for Self Employment

Oz Erickson
Principal, Emerald Fund Development Firm

Luisa Ezquerro
Consultant, San Francisco Board of Education
Board President, Mission Neighborhood Health Center
Board Member, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth
Board Member, United Educators of San Francisco
Board Member, Jamestown Community Center
Former Board Member, Mission Economic Development Association

Lisa Feldstein, vice chair
Independent Affordable Housing Consultant
Co-Chair, SPUR Urban Planning Committee
Former Loan Officer, Low Income Investment Fund (formerly Low-Income Housing Fund)
Former San Francisco Planning Commissioner

Linda Jo Fitz
Co-Founder, Kochis Fitz/Quintile
Co-Chair, SPUR Major Donor Committee
Former Executive Director and Board President, San Francisco Architectural Heritage
Author and Lecturer, University of California Berkeley
Author and Lecturer, University of California Los Angeles

Rev. Norman Fong
Minister, San Francisco Presbytery
Deputy Director, Chinatown Community Development Center
Former Director, Donaldina Cameron House youth programs
“Local Hero of the Year,” 2008 KQED award recipient

Jean Fraser, secretary
Former CEO, San Francisco Health Plan
Former Co-Chair, SPUR Transportation Committee
Board Member, Local Health Plans of California
Board Member, California Association of Health Plans
Board Member, San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
Former Commissioner, Geary Bus Rapid Transit Citizen’s Advisory Committee
Former Staff, San Francisco City Attorney’s Office

Frank Fudem
Senior Vice President, BT Commercial Real Estate
Director, BOMA Political Action Committee
Former Director, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Former Director, Leadership San Francisco

Robert Gamble
Senior Management Consultant, Public Financial Management
Former Executive Director, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
Former Chief Financial Officer, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Former Budget Director, City and County of San Francisco
Former Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, City and County of San Francisco

Gillian Gillett
Vice-President, Graffio
Chair, SPUR Transportation Committee
Co-Chair, San Jose/Guerrero Coalition to Save Our Streets
Member, St. Luke’s Hospital Community Advisory Committee
Board Member, Walk San Francisco
Member, San Francisco Community Challenge Grant Program Advisory Committee

Chris Gruwell
Partner, Platinum Advisors
Former Finance Director, Gavin Newsom Mayoral Campaign
Former Finance Chairman, Mayor Gavin Newsom Inaugural Committee

Tom Hart, co-chair
Executive Vice President, Shorenstein Company
Co-Chair, SPUR Business Membership Committee
Former President, Brigham Young University Alumni Association
Board Member, Paramount Theatre for the Arts in Oakland

David Hartley
Former SPUR Development Director
Co-Chair, SPUR Silver SPUR Committee
Former Development Director, San Mateo County Health Center Foundation
Former Vice President, Development and Marketing, Family Service Agency of San Mateo County
Board Member, Bolinas Art Museum
Former Board Member, Fort Mason Center Foundation
Former Board Member, Foundation for San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage
Former Member, San Francisco Landmarks Advisory Commission

Laurie Johnson
Principal, Laurie Johnson Consulting
Corporate Liaison, Fritz Institute
Lead Author, Unified New Orleans Plan
Former Vice President Technical Marketing and Catastrophe Response, Risk Management Solutions, Inc
Former Principal Planner, EQE International (now ABS Consulting)
Former Senior Planner, Spangle Associates

Ken Kirkey
Planning Director, Association of Bay Area Governments
Member, American Institute of Certified Planners
Former Consultant, PMC Conservation and Resource Planning Group
Former Planning Director, Town of Fairfax
Former Interjurisdictional and Smart Growth Consultant, State of Massachusetts
Former Director of Land Protection, Wildlands Trust
Former Senior Planner, Cape Cod Commission

Travis Kiyota
Director of Governmental Relations, Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Former Manager of Regulatory and Public Affairs, RCN Corporation
Former Senior Policy Advisor, Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Former Program Officer, U.S. Department of Justice
Former Staff Aide, Mayor of Los Angeles

Patricia Klitgaard
Real Estate Development and Management
Co-Chair, SPUR Silver SPUR Committee
Former SPUR Treasurer
Former Officer, San Francisco Jr. League

Richard Kunnath
President/Chief Executive Officer, Pankow Management Company Ltd.
President, Design Build Education and Research Foundation
Board Member, Charles Pankow Foundation
Member, American Arbitration Association Northern California
Board Member, National Chairman for the Design Build Institute of America

Ellen Lou
Associate Partner, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
Licensed Architect
Certified City Planner
Co-author, Transbay Redevelopment Area Design for Development Plan
Co-author, 1990 Mission Bay Master Plan

Janis Mackenzie
Founder, MacKenzie Communications, Inc.
Member, Bay Area Business Community
Board Member, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Board Member, Saint Francis Hospital Foundation
Board Member, Fort Mason Foundation
Board Member, British American Business Council

John Madden
CEO, Madden Associates
Former Chief Assistant Controller, City and County of San Francisco
Elected Member, Retired Employees of City and County of San Francisco Executive Board
Former Member, Transport Workers San Francisco Municipal Railway Trust Fund
Former Member, Muni Improvement Fund

Jacinta McCann
Principal, EDAW / AECOM
Co-Chair, SPUR Disaster Planning Committee
Fellow, Institute of Urban Design, New York
Former Principal-in-Charge, Sydney 2000 Olympic Projects
Former Board Member, National Capital Planning Authority

Mary McCue
President/Chief Executive Officer, MJM Management Group
General Manager, Yerba Buena Gardens
Director, Treasurer, Yerba Buena Alliance
Director, Treasurer, Downtown Parking Corporation

John McNulty
Architect, MBH
Founding Principal, MBH Architects
Member, American Institute of Architects
Member, National Council of Architectural Registration Boards

Chris Meany
Co-Managing Member, Wilson Meany Sullivan, LLC
Co-Chair, SPUR Capital Campaign Committee
Board of Directors, San Francisco Architectural Heritage
Current Developer, Treasure Island, Bay Meadows
Developer, Ferry Building, One Powell, Flood Building, The Pruneyard
Former, Aston Development Corporation

Ezra Mersey
Founder and Principal, Jackson Pacific Ventures
Board Member, Community Housing Partnership
Member, Mayor’s Green Building Council
Member, Technical Advisory Committee, San Francisco Planning Department
Former Managing Director, Tishman Speyer Properties
Former Executive Director, Kajima Urban Development

Peter Mezey
Retired Executive Vice President and General Counsel, U.S. Leasing
Chair, SPUR Audit Committee
Co-Chair, SPUR Ballot Analysis Committee
Former San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority Commissioner
Former San Francisco Parking and Traffic Commissioner
Former President, San Francisco School Board

Terry Micheau, treasurer
Retired Civil Engineer, O’Brien Kreitzberg, Inc.
Chair, SPUR Investment Committee
Co-Chair, SPUR Business Membership Committee
Member, San Francisco Bond Oversight Committee
Board Member, San Francisco GBLT Center
Former Member, San Francisco Transportation Authority CAC

Leroy Morishita
Vice President, Administration and Finance, San Francisco State University
Board Member, American Association for Higher Education
Board Member, Society for College and University Planning
Board Member, Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California

Dick Morten
Former Group Manager, Andersen Consulting
Co-Chair, SPUR Disaster Planning Committee
Member, Lake Merced Task Force
Former Vice President of Economic and Public Affairs, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

Tomiquia Moss
Director, Community Justice Center of the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco
Former Director of Community Organizing, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
Board of Directors President, North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit Corporation

Mary Murphy
Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Named six times to “100 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business,” San Francisco Business Times
Named “California Lawyer of the Year,” 2007 California Lawyer magazine

Paul Okamoto
Architect Partner, Okamoto Saijo Architecture
Co-Chair, SPUR Sustainable Development Committee
Former Loeb Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Former Board Member, Urban Ecology
Former Board Member, Greenbelt Alliance Board

Brad Paul
Senior Program Officer, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Former Consultant, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Former Consultant, North of Market Planning Coalition
Former Consultant, University of California, San Francisco
Former SF Deputy Mayor for Housing and Neighborhoods, 1988-1992

Tim Paulson
Executive Director, San Francisco Labor Council
Vice President, San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
Board Member, United Way of the Bay Area
Board Member, San Francisco State University Labor Archives Center
Board Member, City College of San Francisco Labor Studies
Board Member, Mayor's Disaster Preparedness Council

Chris Poland
CEO, Degenkolb Engineers
Co-Chair, SPUR Disaster Planning Committee
Fellow, Structural Engineers Association of Northern California
Chairman, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program Advisory Committee
Chairman, Strong Motion Instrumentation Program Strong Motion Advisory Committee, California Seismic Safety Commission
Chairman, American Society of Civil Engineers Standards Committee on Seismic Rehabilitation
Chairman, Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee on Structural Safety, Washington, DC
Chairman, Council of American Structural Engineers Executive Committee
Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Member, Seismological Society of America
Member, American Institute of Architects

Teresa Rea
Principal, Real Estate Planning Strategies
Co-Chair, SPUR Capital Campaign Committee
Co-Chair, SPUR Bay Discovery Cruise
Former Member, Architectural Selection Committee for the Urban Center
Member, SPUR Building Committee

Byron Rhett
Deputy Director, Planning & Development, Port of San Francisco
Former Senior Project Manager, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
Former Planner, Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation
Former Special Assistant, City Manager’s Office, Kansas City, Missouri

Bill Rosetti
CEO, J&R Associates
Founding Member and Board Member, Coalition for Better Housing
Founding Member, Jobs & Housing Coalition
Founding Member and Board Member, Bank of San Francisco
Former CEO, Prudential Realty of Northern California
Founder, TRI Realtors

Jim Salinas, Sr., vice chair
Vice President, Carpenters Union, Local 22
President, Latino Democratic Club
Delegate, San Francisco Labor Council
Board Member, Mission Hiring Hall
Former San Francisco Planning Commissioner
Former San Francisco Recreation and Park Commissioner

Victor Seeto
Board Director, International Hotel Senior Housing
Board Treasurer, Kearny Street Housing
Board Treasurer, Indochinese Housing Development Corp.
Former Project Director, Neighborhood Preservation Project
Former Drug Program Planner, Office of the San Francisco County Drug Program Coordinator

Libby Seifel, vice chair
President, Seifel Consulting
Lecturer, University of California Berkeley Extension
Editor, California Affordable Housing Handbook
Principal Author, Community Guide to Redevelopment
Editor and Principal Author, Community Guide to Redevelopment

Chi-Hsin Shao
Founder & President, CHS Consulting Group
Board Member, Yerba Buena Alliance
President, Asian American Architects and Engineers
Former Vice President, KORVE Engineering
Former Principal, Cambridge Systematics
Former Deputy Commissioner, Boston Transportation Department

Raphael Sperry, AIA, LEED AP
Registered Architect
Green Building Consultant, Simon & Associates
National Board Member, Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility
Member, San Francisco Municipal Green Building Task Force
Founder and Director, Architects, Designers, and Planners for Social Responsibility National Prison Design Boycott Campaign

Bill Stotler
Principal, FME Architecture + Design
Chair, SPUR Individual Membership Committee
Volunteer, Wheelchair Foundation/VNHelp Partnership

Stephen Taber

Lydia Tan
Executive Vice President, COO, BRIDGE Housing Corporation
Co-Chair, SPUR Housing Committee
Commissioner, Santa Clara County Planning Commission
Director, Northern California Community Loan Fund
Member, Housing Advisory Committee, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group

Michael Teitz
Professor Emeritus, University of California Berkeley
Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
Member, American Planning Association and American Institute of Certified Planners
Former Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor, University of California Merced
Former Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California Berkeley
Former President, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning

Michael Thériault
Secretary-Treasurer, San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council
Executive Board Member, San Francisco Labor Council
Executive Board Member, California State Building and Construction Trades Council
Executive Editor, Organized Labor
Commissioner, San Francisco Building Inspection Commission
Vice President, Young Community Developers
Vice President, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Industrial Relations Research Association
Advisory Board Member, Mission Housing Development Corporation

Will Travis
Executive Director, Bay Conservation and Development Commission
Former Member, Berkeley Planning Commission
Former Board of Trustees Member, Bay Area Council Economic Institute
Member, Lamda Alpha, Society for the Advancement of Land Economics

Jeff Tumlin
Partner, Nelson\Nygaard
Former Director, Urban Ecology, Inc.
Founding Board Member, Bay Area Transportation and Land Use Coalition
Former Chair, San Francisco Joint Open Space Committee

Debra Walker
Artist
Adjunct Teacher, New College of California Creative Inquiry Program
San Francisco Building Inspection Commissioner
Chair, San Francisco Arts Task Force
Northern California vice-chair, California Democratic Party Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Caucus
Founding Member, Coalition for Jobs, Arts and Housing
Founding Member, Artist Eviction Defense Coalition
Former President, Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club

Brooks Walker, III
Partner, Walker Warner Architects, Inc.
Former Board Member, Aim High
Former Board Member, Swords to Plowshares

Michael Wilmar
Partner, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton
Primary author, SPUR Prop E MUNI Reform Measure
Former Executive Director, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

Paul Zeger
President, Pacific Marketing Associates, Inc.Board of Directors, Camp Towonga
Board of Directors, Saints and Sinners
Board of Directors, Pacific Marketing
Former Director, San Francisco Jewish Community Center

Advisory Council

Jonathan Bulkley
Round Hill Pacific

Lynn Bunim
SBC

Douglas S. Chan
Chan, Doi, Marshall & Leal, LLP

Claudine Cheng
Cybertrade Strategies Group

Peggy Chiang
Breuer Consulting Group

Julienne Christensen
Surface Strategy

Linda Crayton
Comcast

Shirley Douglas
Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation

Alfonso Felder
San Francisco Giants

Mortimer Fleishhacker
community leader

Barbara French
University of California, San Francisco

Rod Freebairn-Smith
Freebairn-Smith & Crane

Hillary Gitelman
Napa County Conservation, Development and Planning Department

Bryan E. Grunwald, AIA
Bryan Grunwald Associates

Allen C. Haile
Cal Poly Community & Government Relations

Anne Halsted
Metropolitan Transportation Commission

Jeff Heller
Heller Manus Architects

Stanley Herzstein
international trade consultant

John E. Hirten
retired planner

Vince Hoenigman
Citymark Development

Tom Jones
Dean, College of Architecture and Environmental Design
California Polytechnic State University,  San Luis Obispo

John Kirkwood
Rail Ventures

Gary Kitahata
Kitahata & Co.

Lisa Klairmont
San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority

Mark Klein
Catholic Healthcare West

John Kriken
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP

Adam Krivatsy
Adam Krivatsy & Associates

Thomas LaTour
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, LLC

Jim Lazarus
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

Sandy Mori
Development Director, Kimochi, Inc.

David Lee
Chinese American Voter Education Comm.

Frankie Lee
SOHA Engineers

Toby Levine
community leader

John B. Lowry
retired attorney

Cathy Merrill
Merrill Morris Partners

L. Kirk Miller
Kirk Miller Affiliates

Beverly Mills
artist

Toye Moses
Southeast Community Facility Commission

Bonnie Nelson
Nelson\Nygaard

Lester Olmstead-Rose
La Piana Associates

Michael Painter
MPA Design

James Ream
retired architect

Francis J. Rigney, M.D.
retired physician

Kirby Sack
The Paul Sack Properties

Mike Sangiacomo
Norcal Waste Systems, Inc.

Nicole Sawaya
Pacifica Radio

Gene Schnair
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP

Lynn Sedway
Sedway Group, a CB Richard Ellis Company

Paul Sedway
Sedway Consulting

John Stewart
The John Stewart Company

Robert A. Thompson
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton

Adrianne Tong
Office of the City Attorney

Chuck Turner Jr.
Community Design Center

Tay Via
Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, LLP

Kitti White
Community activist

Wells Whitney
retired physicist

George Williams
Retired, San Francisco Planning Department

Michael Wilmar
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP

Evelyn Wilson
Sunset Parkside Educ. & Action Ctte (SPEAK)

Jane Winslow
J.W. Consulting

Walter Wong
Jaidin Consulting Group