Board of Directors

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  Robert Kaufman

  President
  Robert Kaufman grew up in Manhattan Beach, CA and attended UC Berkeley, where he studied political science and business administration. Since graduating from Berkeley, Robert has worked in the... Read more
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  Rob Ruby z”l

  Immediate Past President
  Rob is a native Detroiter who graduated from University of Michigan and Wayne State Law School.  He retired after practicing law for thirty years. He and his wife, Eileen, are members of Temple... Read more
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  Susie Marcus

  Vice President
  Susie is a freelance graphic designer whose projects vary from logo design, brochures, invitations, and newsletters. She met her husband Ross at the University of Colorado, Boulder, at Hillel. He... Read more
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  Tammy Plotkin-Oren

  Treasurer
  Tammy Plotkin-Oren is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®) and Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC).  She is the principal and owner of TPO Financial and Insurance Services in Oakland, CA. As a... Read more
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  Lauren Brandt

  Secretary
  Originally from the East Coast, Lauren earned a degree in public relations from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Early in her career she worked in Tel Aviv... Read more
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  Mark Brilliant

  Born in New York City and raised in Denver, Colorado, I received my bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1989. I then taught social studies at Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, New York from... Read more
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  Richard Carmel

  Richard is a Radiation Oncologist at John Muir Cancer Institute in Concord and Walnut Creek. He received his BA from the University of California, 1966; His MD from Harvard, 1971 and his residency at... Read more
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  Lenny Cohen

  Lenny retired in 2012 after practicing Gastroenterology. Lenny earned his degree from Yale in 1972. He and his wife Linda are skiers, cyclists and long-time congregants at B’nai Shalom Synagogue.... Read more
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  Judy Davidoff

  Judy V. Davidoff is a special counsel in the San Francisco office and a former member of the firm's Executive Committee. She previously served as Co-Practice Group Leader for the Real Estate, Land... Read more
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  Joey Freeman

  Joey Freeman is the Chief Education Policy Consultant for Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom. In that role, he directs the Lieutenant Governor's agenda surrounding early childhood, K-12 and public... Read more
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  Elizabeth Friedman Branoff

  Elizabeth Friedman Branoff currently serves as a Senior Director, Development at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.  Over six years in her role at Berkeley-Haas, she has raised major... Read more
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  Oren Gabriel

  Oren Gabriel currently serves as Chief of Staff to the CFO of the University of California. Oren provides strategic guidance, decision making, resource planning, policy development, communications and... Read more
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  Aviv Gilboa

  Aviv Gilboa works at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He leads the firm’s business development practice to cultivate strategic partnership opportunities between early... Read more
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  Bruce Goldberg

  Bruce spent 12 years at Genentech in a variety of leadership roles in drug development. As a Life Cycle Leader (LCL) he led multi-disciplinary teams to develop and optimize the long-term value of... Read more
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  Barbara Gross Davis

  Immediate Past President
  Barbara Gross Davis is Vice President of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Senior Commission. WASC accredits four year colleges and universities in California, Hawaii and the Pacific... Read more
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  Shachar Kariv

  Shachar Kariv is the Benjamin N. Ward Professor of Economics and Department Chair, and former Faculty Director of Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab). His research in experimental and... Read more
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  Emily Marthinsen

  Assistant Vice Chancellor Emily Marthinsen, UC Berkeley’s Campus Planner, heads the office of Physical and Environmental Planning (PEP).  She is responsible for the campus design review process,... Read more
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  Kevin Perkins

  Kevin Perkins holds degrees in Economics and Environmental Policy from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently works at Libitzky Property Companies, specializing in the operation and... Read more
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  Bob Tandler

  Bob Tandler, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, is the Co-CEO of Fritzi Realty and Co-Managing Member of Tehama Partners, LLC which have developed high-rise residential real estate in San Francisco's... Read more
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  Nadav Shem-Tov

  Nadav Shem-Tov was born and raised in Israel. When he was 16, he moved to Texas where he completed his high school and college education. After graduating, Nadav returned to Israel and joined an elite... Read more
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  David Vogel

  David Vogel is Professor Emeritus in the Haas School and Business and the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a faculty member for 42 years.... Read more
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  Ilene Weinreb

  Ilene was born and raised in Kansas City, MO and went to the University of Chicago, where at 19 she married a medical school student, Marvin Weinreb. Ilene continued on to earn a Master’s of... Read more