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Vice Chairman
William Hauck
President,  California Business Roundtable
Mr. Hauck is President of the California Business Roundtable and is a member of the Board of Trustees for California State University which he chaired from 1998-2000. Mr. Hauck has served as deputy chief of staff in the Office of the Governor and as a top aide to two State Assembly Speakers. He was chair of the California Constitution Revision Commission, and he most recently chaired Governor Schwarzenegger’s Constitutional Revision Commission. Mr. Hauck is a member of the CORO Foundation Board of Trustees and the Bob Moretti Memorial Scholarship Foundation.

Directors

Cinthia Haan
Co-Founder and Chairman The Haan Foundation for Children
Mrs. Haan currently oversees the executive management and daily operations of The Haan Foundation for Children, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to education. Mrs. Haan is an active advocate in Washington D.C., securing federal funding for high quality education research. She is President of the POWER4KIDS READING INITIATIVE, a clinical trial of reading interventions in our public schools. Prior to dedicating her skills to education, Mrs. Haan enjoyed over 20 years of success in the business community, beginning as one of the founding team members in Southern Pacific Railroad’s landmark launching of SPRINT through its acquisition by GTE. She held the position of director at Ford Aerospace for many years, before joining OCI. As Executive V.P. of OCI, she proceeded to focus five years executing a series of mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications industry. Prior to retiring from business, Mrs. Haan served as CEO of Syndacon Corporation, and is now devoting all her efforts to education.

A. Lee Blitch
Vice President, University Advancement San Francisco State University
Mr. Blitch served as chair of the Chamber board of directors in 2000 and has been a member of the board since 1997. Prior to joining the Chamber, Mr. Blitch was employed by AT&T for 37 years. Before he retired in 2000, he was AT&T’s region vice president for Consumer Marketing in the Western and Pacific Regions. He is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Education Committee, and serves on the boards of the San Francisco Historical Society Advisory Committee, SF Works, School Alliance Foundation, World Affairs Council, American Chamber of Commerce Executives, National Center for Educational Accountability, Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame and the Municipal Fiscal Advisory Committee for the Mayor. Lee also sits on advisory boards for the San Francisco School Volunteers and the oversight Committee for San Francisco City College Capital Improvements.

Kevin Johnson
Chairman of the Board & CEO, St. Hope Academy
Born March 4, 1966 in an inner-city neighborhood to a 16-year old, single mother, Kevin Johnson learned at an early age the need to work hard to succeed. With a mother often working overtime as a nurse and a father who tragically drowned in the Sacramento River when he was only three years old, Kevin was partially raised by his working-class grandparents. It was through his grandfather’s tutelage that Kevin learned the value of hard work and the principle of always being a good neighbor. A product of the Sacramento City public school system, Kevin excelled in athletics at Sacramento High School and was drafted by the Oakland Athletics following his senior year. It was basketball, however, and the realization that there is no substitute for a quality education, that led Kevin to attend one of the finest public universities in the country. Accepting a full scholarship to the University of California, Kevin helped restore Cal’s basketball program to prominence, setting several school records during his four-year career. In 1987, the Cleveland Cavaliers selected Kevin with the seventh pick in the first round of the NBA draft. Having already founded St. HOPE Academy in 1989 to provide after-school services to young people from his neighborhood, Kevin could no longer sit idly by watching the education system continuously fail those kids from inner cities. An avid student and proponent of the charter school movement, Kevin’s St. HOPE seized an opportunity in 2003 to not only open a K-8 charter school called PS7, but also re-open his alma mater, Sacramento High School, which had been closed by the district as an under-performing school. For the last six years as the chairman of the board and CEO, Kevin has been working tirelessly to lead the efforts of St. HOPE, which now operates six small schools serving nearly 2,000 students from his community.

Lenny Mendonca
Director, McKinsey & Company
Lenny Mendonca is a director in the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company. He co-founded McKinsey's Public Sector practice and the North American Personal Financial Services practice, and has served dozens of corporate, government, and nonprofit clients. Mr. Mendonca leads McKinsey's Strategy Practice, is on the Shareholders' Council of McKinsey (its board of directors), and is the chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute.Mr. Mendonca is the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Economic Forum, Secretary and Executive Committee Member of the Bay Area Council, on the board of directors of the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium, on the board of EdVoice, and a member of the Business Advisory Council for the San Francisco Unified School District. He is also the founder and owner of the Half Moon Bay Brewing Company. He has written and spoken extensively on globalization, economic development, regulation, education, energy policy, health care, financial services, and corporate strategy. He received his M.B.A. and certificate in public management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He holds an A.B., magna cum laude, in economics from Harvard College.

Patricia T. Clary
Chief Operating Officer, HealthNet of California
Clarey, who is based at Health Net Inc.'s corporate headquarters, coordinates government relations efforts for the entire organization and manages the company's government and public affairs activities in California. She reports to B. Curtis Westen, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Health Net Inc. Prior to joining Health Net Inc., Clarey served for two years as vice president of Public Affairs for San Francisco-based Transamerica Corporation, one of the country's largest financial services companies. In this role, Clarey directed all federal, state and local government affairs activities for the corporation and business units, and oversaw the company's Political Action Committee. Prior to this, she served for eight years as deputy chief of staff to former California Governor Pete Wilson. During her tenure in the Wilson Administration, Clarey served as a senior advisor to the Governor on state and federal policy issues, managed the day-to-day operations of the Governor's office and served as the liaison to the National Governors Association and Republican Governors Association.

Greg Stubblefield
President, CA/HI Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Greg Stubblefield heads Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s California and Hawaii operations, overseeing all automotive functions in the two states, including car rentals, fleet services (leasing), car sales, truck rentals, and rideshare services along with administrative operations. He is responsible for a staff of nearly 6,500 employees working in some 800 rental offices Like nearly all of the company’s top executives, Stubblefield, 45, began his career with Enterprise as a management trainee working in a rental office learning the business from the ground up. He joined Enterprise in Southern California in 1982 after graduating from UC Berkeley. At the time, the company had been doing business in the Los Angeles area for only two years and had a rental fleet of approximately 1,600 cars. Today, Enterprise is North America’s largest rental car company, boasting a fleet of more than 50,000 cars in Southern California alone. He’s been involved in various charitable and business organizations and serves or has served on a number of boards of directors, including the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Urban League, the St. Louis University International School of Business and several family businesses. He also serves on the board of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation – the company’s charitable arm – and on the board of the Mayfield Junior School in Pasadena.

President
Jim Lanich, Ph.D.
President, California Business for Education Excellence Foundation                                          Dr. Lanich began his career as an inner city middle school teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 1992, he joined the L.A. County Office of Education. There he led the largest Research and Development Unit of any educational agency in the nation charged with bringing standards based reading and math reform to over 1,700 schools. In 1993, he received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from USC. In 1998, he assumed leadership of Core Curriculum Services for the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools. Here, he developed and led the Academic Achievement Alliance charged with raising the reading and math scores in the 100 lowest performing schools of Los Angeles County. From 2001-2005 he served as the first Director for the Inaugural Broad Prize for Urban Education which awarded $1 million dollars in scholarships to high performing urban school districts in the nation. While serving as the Inaugural director, he also co-founded Just For the Kids-California, the largest longitudinally linked student achievement database in the country. In 2006, he was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to the National Assessment Governing Board which oversees the National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP).He currently serves as the President of California Business for Education Excellence (CBEE) representing California’s business leaders focused on raising student achievement in the state.

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