summer search national board of directors

Ted Williams
Chair, National Board
Ted Williams became chair of Summer Search National in 2009 and is a Managing Partner at Springbok Partners located in Larkspur California.  Springbok Partners is an investment firm that provides seed capital and consulting in the financial service industry.  Prior to Springbok Partners, he was cofounder and Chairman of AZX Inc., an electronic stock exchange.  Ted is a founding board member of the BASIC Fund which currently gives out over 4500 educational scholarships to low income children who want to attend private schools in the Bay area.  He is the Vice Chair of Marin Country Day School and was a Big Brother at the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Center.  Ted lives in Marin County with his wife and three children.  He received a B.A. in Economics from Boston College.

Harrison Bains
Director, National Board
"Summer Search is the most exciting program I have been involved with that has shown it can positively change underprivileged student's outlooks and goals and put them on a path to productive and rewarding lives." Harrison has had a long career as a banking and corporate finance executive with several banks and corporations, culminating as Vice President, Tax and Treasury of a major pharmaceutical company. He currently serves on a number of non-profit and for-profit boards. Harrison is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He and his wife, Leslie, have two children and one grandchild.

Sarah Barton
Director, National Board and Local Representative, Seattle Advisory Board
Sarah Marcus Barton is a Board member of Summer Search Seattle. She also serves on the boards of the University of Washington Medicine Strategic Initiatives Board and the Henry Art Gallery. She is an OB/GYN currently practicing part-time at Rainier Park Medical Clinic and Harborview Medical Center. Sarah has a B.A. from Williams College and an M.D. from Northwestern University. She and her husband, Rich have three school-aged children.

Cynthia Bengier
Director, National Board and Local Representative, San Francisco Advisory Board
Following a career in consumer banking, Cynthia Bengier is now engaged in working with organizations that prepare young people from all walks of life for leadership.   Cynthia believes that all young people who have the ability deserve the opportunity to get the education they need to succeed. She is an active member of both the National Summer Search board, the San Francisco Summer Search board, Town School for Boys and The Bay School of San Francisco.    She is a co-founder of the Bengier Foundation, whose goal is to provide opportunities for low income youth to reach their potential. 

Cynthia retired from a career in retail banking in 1999, where she most recently was the Director of Strategic Planning and Product Development for Mondex USA, a consortium of major banks engaged in bringing smart cards to the marketplace.  Prior to that, Cynthia worked in management positions in consumer and small business banking at Wells Fargo Bank. Cynthia has an MBA from New York University. She and her husband, Gary Bengier, live in San Francisco.

Stephanie DiMarco
Director, National Board
Stephanie Dimarco is the founder and CEO of Advent Software, a global company with its headquarters in San Francisco.
Advent has been in business since 1983, supporting the technology needs of investment firms across the globe. Advent
also has a long history of civic involvement and philanthropy particularly in youth development and education in San Francisco.
DiMarco received her BS from UC Berkeley and has been an active alum previously serving on the Advisory Board of the Haas School
of Business and currently on the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering. Stephanie and her husband Jim live in Marin County
and have 2 children.

Mark Edwards
Director, National Board and Founding member of the Boston Board of Directors
Mark Edwards is the executive director of OpportunityNation, the next initiative of Be the Change, Inc., the non-profit that co-led the ServiceNation campaign that culminated in the enactment of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act in April 2009. OpportunityNation is attempting to build a national coalition of anti-poverty non-profit organizations, business leaders, leading thinkers, and grass roots organizations in an effort to build support for a non-partisan agenda for change. OpportunityNation will try to launch a sustained campaign that will bring poverty and opportunity into the mainstream debate and result in new federal legislation that will help scale innovative efforts to fight poverty and create opportunity.

Mark was a founding board member for both Summer Search Boston and Horizons for Homeless Children and has served on our National Board since 2006. For four years, Mark chaired a $25M campaign for Horizons for Homeless Children and Mark is currently the co-chair of Summer Search’s $20M Expand the Dream Campaign. Mark was formerly the managing partner of Edwards & Company, Inc., a strategic marketing communications firm specializing in educational institutions and non-profit organizations. Mark is married and has three daughters.

Dana Emery
Director and Former Chair, National Board
Dana Emery has been involved with Summer Search since the early 1990s, first as a mentor to one of our students and then as a board member of the San Francisco Bay Area program. She is an Executive Vice President and Manager of the Fixed Income Department at Dodge & Cox. She joined the firm in 1983, and is a member of the Fixed Income Investment Policy Committee, Operations Committee and the Board of Directors. Ms. Emery is a shareholder of Dodge & Cox, and a Trustee of the Dodge & Cox Funds. Dana holds a B.A. from Stanford University. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Chartered Investment Counselor. Dana is a member of the Advisory Board of the Fixed Income Forum and Co-Chair of The Credit Roundtable. She is also a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee. She currently serves on the Board of Regents of St. Ignatius College Preparatory and is a former board member of Town School for Boys, Bay Area Discovery Museum and La Casa de las Madres. Dana served as Chair of Summer Search National from 2003 – 2009. Dana is married to Bob Emery and is the mother of three boys.

Bob Friend
Director, National Board and Local Representative, San Francisco Advisory Board
Bob has been a passionate supporter of Summer Search since 1995, just completing his recent role as chairman of Summer Search San Francisco. Bob is president of Howard Properties of San Francisco, a privately held real estate investment company. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he serves as president of the Friend Family Foundation, a trustee of the Bernard Osher Foundation, the Koret Foundation, the Sandler Foundation, the Moldaw Foundation and the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture.  He has been married to his wife Michelle for 38 years, and they have one daughter, Nicole.

Nancy Goldenberg
Director, National Board and Local Chair, Philadelphia Advisory Board
Nancy Goldenberg is presently the vice president of the Center City District, a privately-funded business improvement district whose mission is to insure that Philadelphia’s downtown area is known widely as a clean, safe and attractive place to work, visit, shop and dine.  She is responsible for managing the CCD’s strategic planning initiatives and special projects, as well as programs of CCD’s affiliated organizations, the Central Philadelphia Development Corporation and the Central Philadelphia Transportation Management Association.  Prior to joining the Center City District in December 2000, Nancy served for three and a half years as the Program Administrator for the Fairmount Park Commission’s Natural Lands Restoration & Environmental Education Program, a $26.6 million dollar privately-funded program to restore the natural areas of Philadelphia’s park system.  Nancy also worked for Fairmount Park from 1989-1990 in the capacity of a planning consultant, producing From Falls to Fairmount: A Master Plan for the River Drives.

From 1993-1997, Nancy served as the Director of Public Information for the Center City District.  Before that, she was the Assistant Township Manager in Lower Merion Township, PA. Nancy was also a legislative assistant for Philadelphia City Councilwoman Joan Specter from 1984 through 1989.

Nancy received her bachelor of arts degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and her master degree in city planning from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  She is the current chair of the Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Commission, chair of Summer Search Philadelphia, a board member of PennPraxis and the Fairmount Park Conservancy, and founder of Philadelphia Outward Bound.

Robin Klaus
Director, National Board and Local Representative, North Bay Advisory Board
Robin Klaus is chairman of Club One, and is a seasoned professional in and out of the fitness industry. Having served as the President and COO of Unisen, Inc., a leading manufacturer of treadmills and other cardiovascular training equipment, he is familiar with worldwide health club market and trends. He is also currently the Chairman of Five Continents Fitness, a company with fitness club operations in Singapore. Prior to Unisen, he co-founded several successful leasing companies. Mr. Klaus has served on numerous public and private company Boards of Directors. He also served as Chairman of the American Sports Institute. In his spare time, Robin enjoys mountain biking and is a skilled endurance horseback rider.  Robin joined the North Bay Board in 2004 and the National Board in 2006.  He chairs the Strategy and Expansion committee.

Kasey Craig McJunkin
Director, National Board and Local Representative, Silicon Valley Advisory Board
Kasey Craig McJunkin is passionate about education and helping kids reach their potential.  Having benefited greatly from experiential education herself, she feels fortunate to have found Summer Search and is inspired by its impact.   Kasey formerly ran Regional Marketing for Jamba Juice.   Prior to Jamba, she worked as a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group. After deciding to leave the business world to get directly involved with kids, she worked as a teacher and tutor for middle schoolers in math and Spanish. Kasey is currently a board member of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford as well as a tutor at Eastside College Prep. Kasey received a B.A from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. She lives in Menlo Park, CA with her husband and two daughters.

Jim Milligan
Director, National Board
Jim joined the Summer Search National Board in January 2009. After 20 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., Jim recently retired as Managing Director and Regional Manager of the firm's Private Wealth Management business in San Francisco. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a current trustee of the San Francisco Ballet, and has recently served on the boards of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, Stanford Business School Alumni Association, Bay Area Council, and the San Francisco Committee on Jobs. He and his wife, Stephanie, have been long-time supporters of Summer Search. They have three children, Matthew, Grace, and James.

John Osterweis
Trustee Emeritus, National Board and Co-Founder, Summer Search
As Founding Board President, John started Summer Search with Linda and Sally 18 years ago, seeing Summer Search from a small program of 14 students to a national program that serves students in 7 cities nationwide. John founded Osterweis Capital Management in 1983 to run high net worth, endowment and foundation money.  Before that he spent 14 years as a sell-side analyst covering paper and forest products stocks at firms including J. Barth and E.F. Hutton. John earned his M.B.A. from Stanford in 1969, and received his B.A. from Bowdoin College.  He is married to Barbara and they live in San Francisco. 

Jonathan Pruzan
Director, National Board and Local Representative, New York City Advisory Board
Jon was referred to Summer Search by Cynthia Remec, a friend of Charlotte Ford and Robert Reffkin, who runs a pro bono non-profit executive volunteer recruiting company.  Jon was born and raised in New York City and is a graduate of Horace Mann School. For the past eleven years, Jon has been working for Morgan Stanley Investment Banking and is now the Co-Head of the Global Financial Institutions Group. Prior to working with Morgan Stanley, Jon spent four years working in the Financial Institutions Group of PaineWebber Investment Banking. He has recently joined the Yeshiva University Museum Board. He received a B.A. from Tufts University in 1990. Jon lives on the Upper West side with his wife Lisa Lowenthal and three young children.

Cam Tu Rinsche
Director, National Board
Tu Rinsche serves as Manager, Corporate Citizenship at The Walt Disney Company. She previously served as a Foreign Affairs Officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining the Department in 2006, Tu served as a Policy Analyst and a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in West Africa.

Tu holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs and an Advanced Certificate in African Studies from the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University in New York. She earned her Bachelor’s in International Affairs from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. She is the first Summer Search alumna to join the National Board.

Jabali Sawicki
Director, National Board
Jabali Sawicki is the founding principal of Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant located in Brooklyn, NY. Under Mr. Sawicki's leadership, Excellence aims to prepare its young boys to enter, succeed in, and graduate from outstanding college preparatory high schools and colleges. Prior to founding Excellence, Mr. Sawicki taught Science in Boston at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, the state's most successful urban charter school. Jabali is a graduate of Oberlin College where he received a dual degree in Biology and Philosophy. He is a Summer Search Alumnus, Class of 1995 and a KIPP Fellow, receiving his Master's Degree in Educational Administration from Teachers College, Columbia University. He also currently serves as an Adjunct Professor for Elementary Science at Teacher U at Hunter College.

Bobbi Silten
Director, National Board
Bobbi Silten is currently President, Gap Foundation and Senior Vice President, Global Responsibility for Gap Inc., a global specialty retailer. For more than six years, she has led Gap Foundation, overseeing its global community investments and volunteer programs for 134,000 employees worldwide. In early 2011, Ms. Silten was tapped to lead Gap Inc.’s Global Responsibility practice – encompassing environmental affairs, ethical sourcing, and public policy.

In February 2011, she was sworn in as a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions. The Council provides advice to President Obama on the best ways to mobilize citizens, nonprofits, businesses and government to work more effectively together to solve specific community needs. Ms. Silten is also a founding member of Reimagining Service, a national cross-sector initiative to increase the impact of volunteerism, and currently serves as the chair of the Reimagining Service Council.

Prior to joining Gap Inc., Ms. Silten spent 10 years at Levi Strauss & Co., including five years as President of the U.S. Dockers brand. She started her professional career in advertising and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Bradley C. Svrluga
Director, National Board
Brad has been on the Summer Search Boston Advisory Board since 1999 and actively involved with Summer Search since 1996. He is a founder and Managing Director of High Peaks Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that works with early-stage technology companies in the northeast US. He is a passionate supporter of access and choice in education, and in addition to his work with Summer Search he serves as Chairman of the board of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Foundation and as Chief Cheerleader and After Hours Advisor for his wife’s efforts as Founding Executive Director at the Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter School. He also serves as a Trustee of the Williamstown Theater Festival. Prior to his venture capital career, Brad was a senior consultant with Monitor Company, where he managed projects in the firm's Cambridge, MA, Johannesburg, South Africa, and São Paolo, Brazil, offices. Brad is a resident of Williamstown, MA where he lives with his wife Julia Bowen, and their son, Will. Brad holds a BA in economics from Williams College.