Ed has and Engineering degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA for SUNY- Buffalo. He recently retired from a 37 year career in the Chemical industry where he worked in Sales and Marketing. He looks forward to helping the Education Foundation with their mission of supporting education improvement through our school district while recognizing and motivating our teacher via our grant programs.

Adam has been actively engaged in the San Ramon Valley school district for the past 5 years and is the current President and a past Treasurer and past Director for the Bollinger Canyon Education Fund (an elementary school affiliate of the SRVEF). In addition, he is currently a part of the Citizens for Quality Schools / Measure C leadership team helping to pass a ballot initiative in support of quality education in the San Ramon Valley.

Adam is a Bay Area native, the son of two educators and graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Economics. He and his wife Kristina have lived in San Ramon since 1998 and have two daughters in the SRVUSD school system.

Resident of the valley since 1978, resides in Diablo, married, wife Karen, both children are products of the SRVUSD, daughter Megan received her doctorate in Physical Therapy and son Kevin, Masters degree in Enviornmental Law, but basis of their educations was SRVUSD.

Recently retired after 22 years as the Parks and Community Services Director for the City of San Ramon, Jeff has had extensive involvement with the SRVUSD since 1987 working on various partnership programs and facilities in San Ramon including the development of every school park in the City of San Ramon.

Jeff also continues to serve as co-chair of the San Ramon Valley Business and Education Roundtable Student Recognition Project, and has been involved with this program for over 20 years, recognizing excellence in our high school students in over 20 categories.

Raised in Southern California, he received a bachelors and masters degree from San Jose State University, he is another product of public education in California.

Jonathan is Director of Market Development in Advanced Analytics at IBM. He is the current chair of our Grants Committee and is working with DonorsChoose.org on a new partnership. He has previously served on the board of the Coyote Creek Learning Fund and as president for the Club Sport Marlins Swim Team for three years. He is a masters swimmer and lives with his wife Julie in Danville. His son currently attends Montair Elementary School in Danville.

 
Marianne Gagen was elected to the SRVEF Board in December 2008. In addition to serving as the liaison with the Endowment Committee, she is on the Community Science Center committee and has co-chaired the Annual Dinner held at Bridges Restaurant for the past 2 years. She joined the Endowment Board in 1997 while she was serving on the San Ramon Valley Unified School District's Board of Education, a position she held for 12 years.

Her interest in education and young people is life long. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Secondary Teaching Credential from UC Berkeley in History and French. Before joining the School Board, she taught fulltime and part time for 18 years and was active in PTA and the Danville-Alamo American Association of University Women. She currently serves on the St. Mary's College School of Education's Corporate Advisory Committee, and Contra Costa County's Family and Children's Trust Fund Advisory Committee. She and her husband Bill have lived in Danville since 1973 where they raised their three sons.

She has been the recipient of the 1992 State of California's 7th Senatorial District's Woman of the Year, Del Valle Council of PTA's Honorary Service, and in 2006 Danville Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Award.

Terry Koehne (pronounced Kay-nee) is the Community Relations Coordinator for the San Ramon Valley Unified School District. In his role with the school district, he acts as spokesperson for the district and its 28 schools, deals with all levels of community, business and media relations, trains employees on effective communication and community relations, maintains the district's website, and serves on various community and district committees and boards including:

• The San Ramon Valley Education Foundation
• The San Ramon Chamber of Commerce
• Leadership San Ramon Valley
• San Ramon Valley YMCA
• East Bay Heart Association
• San Ramon Valley Coalition on Youth Safety and Development

A Bay Area native (Pinole, California) and former Radio Sports Broadcaster (KSFO, San Francisco), Terry is married (Christine) with two children (Trevor and Rachel) and currently resides in San Ramon.

Originally a native of Southern California, Chad and his family moved to the Bay Area in the year 2000 and relocated to San Ramon in 2006.  He is a Certified Public Accountant and brings with him over 12 years of experience in Public Accounting, Tax and Financial Statement preparation.

After serving in the United States Marine Corps he pursued and received his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Accounting, from California State University, Fullerton.  Chad is a Pilot and is very passionate about flying.  He is also a Wounded Warrior Project volunteer.  He has a daughter in 3rd grade who attends elementary school in San Ramon.

Andrea was raised in Alamo, California. She graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with a degree in Political Science, then received her law degree from American University, Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Ritigstein began her legal career as an attorney at Baker and Hostetler, LLP, in Los Angeles, practicing intellectual property litigation on behalf of major motion picture studios. After several years in private practice, Ms. Ritigstein made the transition to in-house positions, first at Concorde-New Horizons, and later at Fox Television Studios. At Fox, she negotiated and drafted numerous employment, talent and distribution agreements, and advised executives and talent as to the requirements of various union agreements.

Ms. Ritigstein is currently an attorney for Stubbs and Leone in Walnut Creek, California. She is married and has a son attending John Baldwin Elementary school and lives in Danville, California.

 
Paula Silva has lived and worked in the San Ramon Valley for the past 5 years.  She currently works for Iron Horse Interactive as their Business Development Liaison in digital multi-channel marketing.  She has served on the Board of Directors for the San Ramon Chamber of Commerce and currently serves on the Rotary Club of San Ramon's Board of Directors as their Youth Projects Coordinator. Paula has her degree in Political Economy of Industrial Societies from UC Berkeley. 

Mark has been committed to children and education for over 20 years. He was a board member and President of the Board for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of the Peninsula and a member of the Active 20/30 of San Francisco devoted to fundraising for underprivileged youth. Over the past 6 years at John Baldwin he has served as Auction Chair for 2 years and President of the Cougar Education Fund (affiliate of the SRVEF) for the past 2 years. He also served on the leadership team for the Measure C vote as chair of the Fundraising Committee. In addition to school roles Mark has been President of the Sycamore Swim Team for 3 years and a Danville Little League coach for 6 years.

Along with volunteering, Mark is the CEO of a global company that develops and distributes specialty retail concepts to the Travel Retail industry. He also enjoys cooking and the San Francisco Giants!

Mark's volunteer roles "are a necessary balance in my life while giving back to our community".