Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties is one of 208 autonomous not-for-profit nonsectarian Goodwill organizations affiliated with Goodwill Industries International. Our Board of Directors is composed of local leaders from the business, non-profit, education and public sectors. CEO Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez guides the organization in collaboration with an executive team.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Goodwill's Board of Directors reflect the diversity of the Bay Area. Their professions include legal, retail, auditing, banking, high tech, human services, and non-profit.
Brian Penzel, Board Chair
Stock Plan Director, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
John Power, Board Vice-Chair
Executive Director, The Volunteer Center
Elise Clowes, Board Secretary
Owner, Clowes Law Offices
Michael Stajer, Board Treasurer
Founder/CEO, WineCommune LLC
Suzanne DiBianca
Executive Director, Salesforce.com Foundation
Robert Ginis
Managing Partner, GP Analytics
Jacquelyn Hadley
Partner, Bridgespan Group
Tricia Lesser
Senior Production Director, The Gymboree Corporation
Michael Joseph
Principal, FJM Investments
Christina Polischuk
Managing Director, Black Rock
Shepard Pollack
Retired, Marketing/Business Development Professional
Jane Vaughan
Development Partner, Menlo Equities
Michael Weir
Unified Communications Sales Manager, Microsoft
Frank Williams
Director, Senior Ex-Offender Program, Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services
PRESIDENT AND CEO
DEBORAH ALVAREZ-RODRIGUEZ
Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez joined Goodwill Industries as President and CEO in March 2004. Known for her dynamic leadership style, and with over 15 years of executive management experience spanning the non-profit, philanthropic, public and private sectors, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez has a track record of catalyzing change within organizations and leading them toward greater innovation, accountability and responsiveness. Throughout her career Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez has consistently aimed to advance disadvantaged individuals and communities by promoting and implementing new policies, services, and business opportunities based on cross-sector collaboration.
Prior to joining Goodwill, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez was Vice President of Silicon Valley's Omidyar Foundation, the family foundation created by the founder of E-Bay, where she developed community building, human services and grant making strategies. Previously, as the Director of San Francisco's Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF), she helped build one of the most comprehensive early childhood education and care systems in the nation and launched one of California's most comprehensive working wage and workforce development initiatives for childcare workers.
Before joining DCYF, Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez specialized in evaluation, strategic planning and health system redesign at the Lewin Group, an internationally recognized health care consulting firm. Previous to that position, she was Founder and CEO of San Francisco's Every Child Can Learn Foundation, Executive Director of Intergovernmental and School-linked Services at the San Francisco Unified School District, and Assistant Director for Budget and Planning for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Ms. Alvarez-Rodriguez is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College.
