Investment Committee

The Investment Committee is responsible for overseeing the Foundation's assets and reporting to the Board of Trustees, who is ultimately responsible for the management of the Foundation's investment assets.

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 is a senior principal and chair of the board of Forell/Elsesser Engineers. He is the immediate past chair of the board of directors of the Jewish Home of San Francisco, currently serving as chair of the board of Moldaw Family Residences and trustee of the Jewish Home & Senior Living Foundation. He is also a trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation, a trustee and treasurer of the Friedman Family Foundation, director of the Faultline Foundation, and vice president 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. Appointed in 2004.

The portfolio out-performed its customized benchmark in 70% of the quarters since mid-2000.

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.

Janet McKinley retired as chairman of The Income Fund of America and as a director of Capital Research and Management Company (CRMC), which oversees mutual fund assets in excess of $1.3 trillion. In recent years, she has become increasingly involved in efforts to help low-income women and small-scale farmers in developing countries gain access to financial services in order to manage their risks and significantly improve their economic situations. In addition to her role as Chair of Oxfam America, she serves on the boards of Oxfam International, Smith College, the Deutsche Bank Microfinance Consortium Fund, MicroCredit Enterprise, and The Synapse Market Access Fund. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College (Phi Beta Kappa) and attended the University of Krakow, Poland, as a Fulbright Scholar. She also attended the New York University Graduate School of Business.

Sarah Stein is managing director and the deputy director of research at Hall Capital Partners 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 SpringsUplands 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.