Advisors to the Board
WHO WE ARE
A group of committed leaders and community members who uphold NCRC’s mission
and propel the organization into the future.
Malin Burnham
Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield
Former: Chairman of John Burnham & Co., Burnham Pacific Properties and Chairman of the Advisory COlmcil of Sorrento Associates; Past Founder and Director of First National Bank of San Diego
Boards/Community Involvement: Trustee of The Burnham Institute, Dean’s Advisory Council of The Rady School of Management at the University California, San Diego
Carol Littlejohn Chang
Dean Emeritus, UC San Francisco School of Dentistry and Health Planning Consultant
Boards/Community Involvement: Chair, UCSD Foundation Board of Trustees; Chair, Balboa Park Conservancy Board of Trustees; Past Board Member, National Conflict Resolution Center; Past Chair, Moores Cancer Center Board at UC San Diego; Past President, San Diego Women’s Foundation; Past President, Board of Trustees, Fleet Science Center
Christine Forester
Former: Architect, Managing Partner, Russell Forester, FAIA, and Associates.
Current: Principal, Christine Forester Catalyst
Civic Engagement: Member, Design Advisory Team, Obama Presidential Center Committee, Obama Foundation; Board Member, President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities; Board of Directors, OFA, Organizing for Action, Organizing for America, Obama for America; Board Member, Democratic National Committee (DNC); Vice Chair, Obama National Finance Committee; Advisory committee, Senator Barack Obama’s Arts Policy Committee and Urban Policy; Board Member, Verified Voting Foundation; Board Member, Finance Committee, Common Purpose Project; Board Member, Finance Committee, Unity Fund; Award recipient, keynote speaker, annual gala (2013), San Diego County Democratic Party.
Selected Boards: Director’s Council, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Board of Trustees, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center; Chair, Governance Committee, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center Foundation; Board of Trustees, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Chair, Architectural Committee and Nominating Committee, Museum of Photographic Arts; Honorary Board, The New Children’s Museum; Advisory Panel, San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture; Advisory Board, Marketing Committee and Retail Bank Strategy Task Force, International Savings Bank.
Bobbie A. Gilbert
Past Chair
Retired, Marriage & Family Therapist
Boards/Community Involvement: Past Board Chair NCRC; Planned Parenthood Board; ACLU Board; UC San Diego ArtPower; Jewish Community Foundation Board.
Jeanne Herberger
Trustee, The Herberger Foundation
Boards/Community Involvement: Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts Dean’s Leadership Cabinet; founder, Arizona Women’s Education and Employment, Inc;; Founder, The Arizona Women’s Forum; Founder Visionaries for a Vital Arizona; Sanford, Burnham, Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Trustee.
Nora Taylor Jaffe
Former: Montessori Aide; SAT Prep Teacher; and Pregnancy Options Counselor/Reproductive Health Assistant at Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest
Boards/Community Involvement: San Diego Museum of Man, Trustee; Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest (PPPSW); Board Alumna and Philanthropy Committee member.
Jessie J. Knight Jr.
Former: Chairman, SDG&E; Chairman, Southern California Gas Co.; and Executive Vice President of External Affairs, Sempra Energy
Boards/Community Involvement: Board Member, San Diego Padres Baseball Club; Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
Connie Matsui
Chair of the Board of Directors, Halozyme Therapueutics
Former: Board of Governors, The San Diego Foundation; Interim Chief Executive Officer, The San Diego Foundation; Executive Vice President, ; Biogen Idec, Inc; IDEC Pharmaceuticals; Wells Fargo Bank; Chair, San Diego Grantmakers; President/Board Chair, Girl Scouts
Jack Raymond
Chairman & CEO, The Raymond Companies
Former: Chair, North Inland Civil Alliance; Founding Chair, Escondido Charitable Foundation, Chair, the San Diego Foundation Board of Governors
Boards/Community Involvement: San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, LEAD San Diego, Escondido Education Foundation and the Escondido Chamber of Commerce, Cal State University, San Marcos, President’s Advisory Council; ; He is the recipient of the San Diego Corporate Director of the Year for Nonprofits; ; Escondido Business Leader of the Year; and Escondido Volunteer of the Year; Retired Officer, U.S. Army Reserve.
Ted Roth
President and Head of Investment Banking, ROTH Capital Partners, LLC
Boards/Community Involvement: Board Member and Past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center; Board Member and Past Chairman of the San Diego Sports Commission; ; Past Chair of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce and the California Democratic Leadership Council; Former Member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego Padres Baseball Team
Jeff Silberman
President and CEO, Carleton Management, Inc.
Former: Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith
Boards/Community Involvement: Past Chair-Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego; Past Chair-Francis Parker School; Past President-Congregation Beth Israel; Chair Elect-University of California San Diego Foundation; and President-Seacrest Holdings Corp
Lori Walton
Philanthropist
Former: Sales and marketing for Black & Decker, Allergan pharmaceuticals and Ray-Ban
Boards/Community Involvement: Board member at Spay and Neuter Action Project; Freedom Dogs; Girl Scouts; UCSD Athletics; Green Beach America; NBA Behind the Bench; San Diego Symphony Sweethearts; San Diego Public Library; UCLA Foundation
Christopher Weil
Chairman of the Board, Christopher Weil & Company, Inc.
Boards/Community Involvement: San Diego Grantmakers; San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival; Patricia & Christopher Weil Family Foundation; Jacobs Family Foundation/Jacobs Center for Community Innovation; UCSD Foundation.