Investment Committee

Stephanie DiMarco, chair, and a Trustee of The San Francisco Foundation, is founder and CEO of Advent Software, Inc., the company she co-founded in 1983. She is a member of the advisory board of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley. She also has served as a member of the advisory board of the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley and is a former trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation board.

David Friedman, a Trustee of The San Francisco Foundation, is president of Forell/Elsesser Engineers. He currently serves as chair of the board of directors of the Jewish Home of San Francisco. He is also a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation, a trustee and treasurer of the Friedman Family Foundation, and a member of the board of directors of Architectural Foundation of San Francisco. He was formerly on the boards of San Francisco Day School and Asian Neighborhood Design.

The Foundation’s portfolio returned 2.8% for Q1 2007, out performing the target benchmark by 50 basis points. 

Rick Hayes is a managing partner of Oak Hill Investment Management. Previously, he was the senior investment officer for the CalPERS Alternative Investment Management Program and served as the elected chairman of the Institutional Limited Partners Association. Prior to joining CalPERS, he worked at McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless Services and was a senior associate with the Bank of America Venture Capital Group.

F. Warren Hellman, a Trustee Emeritus of The San Francisco Foundation, is chairman of Hellman & Friedman, LLC. He is co-chair of the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth and chairman of Voice of Dance. He also serves as a member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors, as well as on the boards of the UC Berkeley Foundation, the Bay Area Council, the Walter A. Haas School of Business, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and salesforce.com/foundation. He is a trustee emeritus of the Brookings Institution and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

John Murray, a Trustee of The San Francisco Foundation, is the CEO of Element98, a technology development and consulting firm. He is a member and past president of San Francisco's Recreation and Park Commission and a member of the board of Summer Search, a support organization for at-risk youth. He is a former member of the State Recreation and Park Commission and served on the City's 2001 Elections Redistricting Task Force.

Gail P. Seneca is chief executive officer and chairman of Luminent Mortgage Capital, a NYSE-traded company. Her many years of managing financial assets include 16 years at Seneca Capital Management, an institutional money management firm that she founded. She has also held senior investment positions at Wells Fargo and Chase. She chairs the investment committee at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and serves as a trustee of the Golden Gate Conservancy.

Sarah Stein is managing director and the deputy director of research at Offit Hall Capital Management LLC. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs & Company and the Fisher Family Foundation, and was an English teacher in Guangzhou, China. She is currently a trustee of the Breakthrough Collaborative, Crystal Springs Uplands School, and KIPP Bayview Academy. She is a former trustee of Princeton University, where she received her undergraduate degree. She earned her Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Education from Stanford University.