Board of Directors
The Board of Directors of the Pasadena City College Foundation consists of volunteer business and community leaders from the Pasadena area. While governing the Foundation, the Board works to generate funds for PCC in order to provide an affordable and accessible college education for all who have the desire to succeed.
Executive Committee
President: Gloria Scharre-Pitzer, Partner; Palermo, Barbaro, Chinen and Pitzer LLP
Vice President: Don Schweitzer, Law Offices of Donald P. Schweitze
Secretary: Hoyt Hilsman, Screenwriter and Journalist, Creative Media Consultant
Treasurer: Wade Winter, CFA
Immediate Past President: Bill Hawkins, Managing Director, Overton Partners
Members:
* denotes Member, Executive Committee
Geoffrey Baum | Executive Director | Michelson Philanthropies |
Glenn Bowie | Business Solutions Consultant | Sprint/Nextel Communications |
Dianne Bukata | Retired Partner |
Hahn and Hahn LLP |
Sheldon Bull | Screenwriter, Producer, Director | |
Ron Carter | Managing Director | The Carter Agency |
Dana Dattola | Account Executive | Weaver & Associates |
Gloria de Olarte | President | Gloria de Olarte, MD, Inc. |
Erika Endrijonas, PhD | Superintendent/President | Pasadena City College |
Rob Floe | President and CEO | Floe Financial Partners |
Carmella Grahn | Director of Finance, Planning, and Operations | Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy |
Mark S. Harmsen | Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Board | Tribune Publishing |
William Krantz, CFA | Retired Principal | Boston Partners Asset Management |
Cynthia Kurtz | Retired City Manager/Advisor | City of Pasadena/CORE |
Nancy Lan, Ph.D | VP of Research and Drug Discovery | Cocensys Inc. |
Robert "Bob" Miller | President/Chairman of the Board | Pasadena Tournament of Roses |
Charmayne Mills Ealy | Director of Operations | STEAM:CODERS |
Michael Mitchell | VP/Wealth Manager | Fidelity Investments |
Stephen Miyabe | Market President | Northern Trust Agency - Pasadena |
Ryan Newman | CCO/COO | Poplar Forest Capital |
Gilda Pettit, MBA | Retired Vice President | City National Bank |
RC Schrader | Managing Director Latino Practice Group | Bolton & Company |
Jack A. Scott, EdD | Former President | Pasadena City College |
Charles Stanislawski | President | Stanislawski and Company, Inc. |
Justin Tsui | President/CEO | 1MEDiX & TeamLogic IT of Pasadena |
Craig Washington | Tournament of Roses |
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Advisory Members are former PCC Foundation Board directors who have been invited to maintain a non-voting involvement with the Board. As part of the Advisory Board, members may attend meetings, receive minutes and be invited to Foundation sponsored events. Most importantly, Advisory Membership allows the Foundation to continue to profit from the counsel and support of experienced former directors.
Scott Bell | President | YAN'S Cleaners and Laundry |
Vivan Chan | CEO | Asian Link Marketing |
Robert L. Cheney | Retired Senior Mgr. | Bell & Howell |
Mel Cohen | Owner | Mel Cohen Insurance Services |
John C. Cushman, Esq. | Attorney-at-law | |
Jon Fuhrman | Retired Application Development Manager | |
Julie Gallant | Senior Investment Mgr | Wells Fargo |
William E. Goldmann, PhD | Retired Political Science Professor | PACCD |
Preston Howard | Managing Broker | Rose City Realty, Inc. |
Jackie Jacobs, PhD | ||
James Kossler, Ed.D | Former President | Pasadena City College |
Mark Ladesich | CPA | |
Hon. Carol J. Liu | Former California State Senator | |
Sandi Mejia-Ramirez | CFO | CiBA Property Management |
Roberta "Bobbie" Moon | Owner | New Moon Textiles |
William Opel, PhD | President Emeritus | Huntington Medical Research Institutes |
Dianne Philibosian, PhD | Director, Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing | CSU Northridge |
Clara Potes-Fellow | Institute for Philanthropic Excellence East Valley Community Center | |
Dick Ratliff | Retired Owner | Christian Company |
Estela Richeda | Attorney-at-Law | |
Janet J. Rose | Community Volunteer | |
James Sarni, CFA | Managing Principal | Payden & Rygel Investment Management |
L.R. “Lonnie” Schield Jr. | Principal | Building Industry Partners |
Phyllis Specht | Emerita Faculty | Mt. San Antonio College |
Lisa A. Sugimoto, EdD | Retired Educator | Pasadena City College |
Ladd Thomas, D. Mus | D. Mus., Professor of Music and Chair | Organ Dept., USC, Thornton School of Music |
William E. Thomson, Jr. | Attorney and Former PACCD Trustee | |
Winston Uchiyama, PhD | Retired Vice President | Research and Development, Dial Corporation |