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Presidio School of Management has assembled a committed, passionate team of leaders to collaboratively build and manage the distinctive MBA, MPA and Executive Certificate programs in Sustainable Management. The team consists of former university administrators, leaders in sustainable business organizations and non-profit agencies, and a wide array of professionals from diverse fields.

Administration | Board of Directors | Advisory Board

Steven Berger
Chairman, iParadigms; President, NYF Properties

Larry Brilliant, M.D.
Executive Director, Google Foundation; Founder of Seva Foundation; Founder of The Well; Co-founder and CEO of Cometa Networks, a joint venture of AT&T, IBM & Intel

Rick Bunch, M.B.A.
Co-Author, Beyond Grey Pinstripes: Preparing MBA's for Social & Environmental Stewardship.

Julie Burton
Director, Project Kid Smart

Chip Conley
CEO and Chairman, Joie de Vivre Hospitality

Dianne Dillon-Ridgely
Environmental & Human Rights Activist; Director, Interface, Inc.

Janine Firpo
International Education Specialist, Hewlett-Packard Company

Robert Freling
Executive Director, Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)

Roger Hickey
Co-Director, Campaign for America's Future

Mark P. Jordan, M.B.A.
Board Chair, Waterkeepers

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., J.D.
Chief Prosecuting Attorney, Riverkeeper; Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council; President, Waterkeeper Alliance

Robert Klein
Chair, Stem Cell Policy Board, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Eric Leenson, M.B.A.
Co-founder, President/CEO, Progressive Asset Management, the first SRI brokerage firm; co-founder, La Pena Cultural Center

George Leonard
Author; Co-founder of Esalen Center for Theory & Research

Peter Liu
Initial Founder and Vice Chairman of New Resource Bank

Donald F. MacIntyre, Ph.D.
Educational consultant; former President, The Fielding Institute

Richard McCline, Ph.D.
Co-Director, Ohrenschall Center for Entrepreneurship, San Francisco State University

Michael Murphy
Co-founder and Chairman, Esalen Institute

Teresa V. Pahl, J.D.
Partner and head of the Business Section of the San Francisco law firm of Hanson Bridgett

Douglas Paxton, Ph.D.
Founding Program Director of the Presidio MBA in Sustainable Management

F. Noel Perry
Managing Director, Baccharis Capital, Inc.

Vicki Randall, J.D.
Owner Moose & Wallaby Consulting, Inc; Currently of counsel, and former partner with Hanson Bridgett 

Mary Swig
International Woman Entrepreneur of the Year; CEO, Mary Green Enterprises

Alison Weeks, M.A.
Co-founder of the Presidio MBA in Sustainable Management and former Dean of Students

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