Board of Directors
Board Officers
Carl Agers II, Chairman ↓
ThoughtMatrix, Inc.
Vice President
Jodi Krause, Vice Chairman ↓
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Director, Council & Board Effectiveness
Amanda Hurley, Treasurer ↓
Grant Thornton LLP
Audit Manager
David Hershfield, Secretary ↓
PayPal Financial Services
Sr. Director of Global Experience
Board Members
Barbara Hanly ↓
Genentech
Sr. Program Manager
Cedric Martin ↓
21st Century Insurance & Financial Services
Claims Unit Manager
Joseph Nezwek ↓
FP International
President
Andrew J. Wong ↓
Attorney at Law
Mark Yolton ↓
SAP Labs, LLC
Sr. Vice President, SAP Community Network
Board Officers
Carl Agers, II, Chairman
ThoughtMatrix, Inc.
Vice President
Carl Agers is Vice President, Marketing Services for ThoughtMatrix, a San Francisco based digital design and development agency. Carl is a marketing and business development veteran with over 25 years of experience. Prior to joining ThoughtMatrix, Carl founded the marketing consultancy, Tager Group, which he merged with Decision Counsel, a technology marketing and Internet strategy firm where he served as the Vice President of Strategy.
Previously, Carl served as the Senior Director of Marketing for USWeb/CKS, where he managed global product and marketing initiatives. Carl was also instrumental in launching several groundbreaking wireless communications products for Motorola during his tenure there as a field marketing manager, including many joint marketing initiatives with industry leaders Dell, Compaq, HP and IBM. Additionally, his team managed merchandising and channel marketing programs for CompUSA, Radio Shack/Tandy, Incredible Universe, and CellStar the largest retail cell phone distributor in the United States. Carl was a Senior Product Manager in Dell's portable products group, successfully launching many products globally.
Carl's nonprofit experience and leadership also runs deep. He has served as an active board member for Unity Care for the last 10 years and was voted in as the Board President in 2002. Carl serves on the board of Potter's Clay a marriage and family renewal project and is currently Vice Chair of the Council of Elders for Saratoga Federated Church.
Jodi Krause, Vice Chairman
Cisco Systems
Director, Council & Board Effectiveness
Jodi Krause is currently the Director of Council and Board Effectiveness in Cisco's Corporate Positioning organization. In this role, she leads a team that is accelerating the expertise, capability and results of Cisco's Councils and Board structure through a repeatable model that combines process, technology and culture. Cisco's collaboration model has built a culture of shared goals using an organizational structure based on cross-functional Councils and Boards to make strategic business decisions. This collaborative evolution is part of a company-wide transformation to enable a seamless, global, faster, virtual and easier experience for Cisco's customers, partners, and employees.
In her previous position at Cisco, Jodi led the Organization & Leadership Development team for Cisco's Product Development organization, a world-wide engineering function of over 22,000 employees located in over 100 countries. She was responsible for coaching the senior executives to improve their team performance and effectiveness, and also led the planning, development, implementation and organizational change management efforts for strategic business initiatives such as employee engagement, culture evolution, and inclusion & diversity.
Prior to joining Cisco in 2004, Jodi worked in various HR management and OD positions at Intuit, GE, and Westinghouse. Jodi has a master's degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and a bachelor's degree in Industrial & Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Amanda Hurley, Treasurer
Grant Thornton LLP
Audit Manager
Amanda Hurley is an audit manager at Grant Thornton LLP providing audit services to companies in the technology, consumer product, and not for profit industries. She serves both public and private companies, including large, established businesses as well as start-up and growth companies, with both domestic and international operations. Her technology industry experience includes technology hardware components including medical and sensor devices, software license arrangements, software-as-a-service, and online media. In addition to having working knowledge of complicated US GAAP including technical expertise in business combinations, share-based compensation, and software revenue recognition, Amanda has established her ability to teach and mentor associates and has led several technical trainings both at the local and national level.
Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Amanda worked for Eisner LLP, a large regional public accounting firm in New York City focusing on retail, distribution, and financial service clients. Prior to starting her career in accounting, Amanda worked in the Student Academic Consulting Center of Baruch College developing and teaching curriculum for freshman learning community groups. She also tutored students, earning the outstanding tutor of the year award. Amanda graduated summa cum laude from Baruch College in New York City with a BBA in Accounting.
David Hershfield, Secretary
PayPal Financial Services
Sr. Director of Global Experience
David is a Sr. Executive, currently working at PayPal, as a Sr. Director of Global Product & Experience Organization. Prior to joining PayPal, David worked at Adobe, Ascend Communications/Lucent, Sprint, where he led teams of communicators, product managers, marketing managers, designers, writers, software developers, and customer service representatives. In various smaller companies, David has led teams of virtually every function, while helping to grow revenue and engaged customers.
David has been a Unity Care board member since 2008, and is highly passionate about the organization's mission and contribution to the community. He received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from St. Mary's College of California. David resides in Santa Clara County.
Board Members
Barbara Hanly
Genentech
Sr. Program Manager
Barbara Hanly is a PMP certified program management professional with deep experience in business process and systems implementation within Engineering and IT organizations. She is currently a Senior Project Manager at Genentech working on the systems and data integration required for the merger of Roche and Genentech. Previously Barbara was with Adobe Systems as Senior Program Manager in Engineering Product Process Management for product development tools and process initiatives deployed globally, with Astral Group in IT Business and Systems Management, and with Amdahl Corporations as Director of Information Systems and Business Processes. Barbara has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of San Francisco in Information Systems Management.
Cedric Martin
21st Century Insurance & Financial Services
Claims Unit Manager
Cedric Martin is currently Claims Unit Manager for Farmers Insurance and has worked in the insurance industry for over 20 years. Prior to joining Farmers, Cedric worked in various leadership and management positions with AIG Insurance, AIG/21st Century Insurance and State Farm Insurance. He has extensive experience and success in program leadership, business analysis, claims management, and customer relations.
Cedric joined the Board of Directors of Unity Care Group fourteen years ago and has been on the Executive Committee of the agency for twelve years. He served as the first Counselor of the first residential treatment home that Unity Care Group opened in Santa Clara County in 1993 to provide a safe residential environment, educational assistance and job readiness training for high risk and foster youth. Cedric also serves as a volunteer for the "Minority Citizens Advisory Committee" of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) that assists MTC in increasing participation from communities of color, increasing the touch points throughout the community, and improving education about MTC in communities of color. Cedric is a graduate of San Jose State University.
Joseph Nezwek
FP International
President
Joe Nezwek is the president of FP International, a leading manufacturer of innovative protective packaging materials and equipment based in Redwood City, California. Prior to being named president in January of 2008, Mr. Nezwek held the position of senior vice president of sales and marketing since joining the company in March of 2004. Prior to joining FP International, Mr. Nezwek held a variety of sales, marketing, engineering and general management roles in several industries including oil (Schlumberger), consumer packaged goods (Nestle/Avery Dennison), and durable consumer goods (Ricon). Mr. Nezwek holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from Michigan Technological University and a MBA degree from the University of Virginia.
Andrew J. Wong
Attorney at Law
Andrew Wong is a lawyer specializing in family law serving the Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. He specializes in high conflict divorces with custody issues. His practice brings him into contact with families suffering from the effects of substance abuse, domestic violence and mental health issues. Since graduating from NYU School of Law, Andrew has also worked in securities and real estate law. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Andrew graduated from MIT and worked in the software industry.
Andrew comes to Unity Care as a Latino Board Leadership Academy fellow. With roots in Latin America, Andrew is passionate about the issues facing the Latino community in Santa Clara County. Andrew is dedicated to public service and devotes his life to helping at-risk children and their families. In addition to his work with Unity Care, Andrew volunteers at his church and St. Anthony's soup kitchen in Redwood City.
Mark Yolton
SAP Labs, LLC
Sr. Vice President, SAP Community Network
Mark Yolton leads the professional social networking communities for SAP, the world's largest business application software company. The
SAP communities use social media tools and best practices to enable more than two-million individual members to interact around the clock and around the world in 200+ countries and territories. These interactions focus on Social Innovation, Social Commerce and Social Intelligence.
SAP Community Network (SCN) members connect and collaborate online through blogs, wiki's, discussion forums, a content library, and other community information-sharing and relationship-building capabilities, and they extend their collaboration on public social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and at global in-person events such as SAP TechEd conferences.
Mark has been leading the SAP Community Network for all of his five years at SAP, by way of Sun Microsystems, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and Unisys. His background includes field, regional, and headquarters roles in marketing, communications, emerging innovation areas, the web, and eBusiness. He has degrees from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, and has completed MBA coursework and continuing executive education at LaSalle University (Philadelphia, PA), at INSEAD (France), and at Stanford University (California).
Mark is a Board Observer with InnoCentive, which operates a crowd-sourced innovation marketplace, and he is Board Member of the Unity Care Group, a non-profit agency focused on serving foster children and their families in the Silicon Valley. A Philadelphia native, Mark lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and travels globally as he works with SAP Community Network members, customers, partners, and colleagues around the world.
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