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President
Patricia Williams
Director, Silicon Valley Complex
Merrill Lynch |
Patricia Williams is the Director of the Silicon Valley Complex at Merrill Lynch, which includes the San Jose, Cupertino and Carmel offices, as well as those in Asia Pacific. She has been with Merrill Lynch for 16 years, the first ten as a Financial Advisor in the Menlo Park office, and subsequently serving the company as Sales Manager and Resident Manager. Ms. Williams, who serves on the company's national diversity task force, received her BA from Vassar College. |
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Secretary/Treasurer
Sharon Powers
Tax Director
PricewaterhouseCoopers |
Sharon Powers is a Tax Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. She has 17 years of experience providing tax consulting services to multinational clients, primarily in the natural resources industry, and for the past 5 years, Ms. Powers has been active with the San Francisco Global Trade Council. She holds a BS degree in Business Administration from California State University, as well as a Master of International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina. |
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Past President
Debra Boblitt
Vice President-Agency
Bay Area State Farm |
Debra Boblitt is the Vice President-Agency for the Bay Area in State Farm's California Zone where she develops vision, strategy and direction for 443 agents and a leadership team of 33. In her 15 years with State Farm, she has served as Agency Field Executive, Director of Marketing Programs, and Assistant Vice President-Agency Sales. As past president of the Professional Business Women of California (PBWC) and current board member, Ms. Boblitt champions the advancement of women through mentoring, leadership development and the pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities. She was recently quoted in PINK magazine and interviewed on Channel 7’s “View from the Bay.” |
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Past President
Jackie McNab
Vice President of Quality and Six Sigma Executive
Western Digital |
Jackie McNab is the past President of the Professional BusinessWomen of California and the World Wide Factory Quality and Six Sigma Executive for Western Digital, currently based in Thailand. Previously, Ms. McNab served as Vice President of Customer Engineering for Quantum Corporation, where she was responsible for customer satisfaction, new product qualification, quality, design assurance and product engineering. |
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Director - at - Large
Ann Barlow
Partner and Senior Director
Peppercom Strategic Communications |
Ann Barlow is a Partner and Senior Director at Peppercom Strategic Communications where she is responsible for setting agency direction, growing the business, creating new offerings, servicing clients and managing teams in the New York and San Francisco offices. Over the past two decades, Ms. Barlow has counseled executives at companies such as GE, Tyco, TIAA-CREF, Panasonic and C.R. Bard, leading hundreds of branding and re-branding, corporate reputation and issues-related campaigns. Previously, she led Interpublic Group-owned Mindstorm Communications where she oversaw operations, client services and business development. |
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Director - at - Large
Cliff Bell
Chief Information Officer
Phoenix Technologies |
Cliff Bell is the Chief Information Officer of Phoenix Technologies. Prior to that, he was Vice President and Chief Information Officer at two Internet startup companies from 1999 to 2002. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Bell served as Regional IT Director at Iomega Corporation based in Singapore and has held IT management positions at Bay Networks and Apple Computer. He earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Wabash College and an M.B.A. in finance from Purdue University's Krannert School of Business. |
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Director - at - Large
Ann Cameron
Vice President/Marketing
The Golden 1 Credit Union |
Ann Cameron is Vice President/Marketing at The Golden 1 Credit Union. She has over 20 years experience in the financial services marketing industry. She began her marketing career at Wells Fargo Bank and eventually moved to Sacramento where she held a marketing position at Sacramento Savings Bank. Ms. Cameron serves on the board of R.I.T.E. (Reaching Independence through Education), a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities. |
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Director - at - Large
Sandra Gauthier
Strategic Programs Group Manager
Intel Corporation |
Sandra Gauthier leads the Global Supplier Management Group at Intel Corporation. Prior to that she managed the Strategic Programs Group in the areas of risk and controls, policy and compliance, contingent workforce, business development and diversity, market intelligence, benchmarking, customer relationship management, and construction e-business. With over 20 years of experience in the high tech sector including positions at Xerox and Western Digital, Ms. Gauthier has received numerous recognitions in the areas of quality improvement, low-cost sourcing, and leadership. |
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Director - at - Large
Laura Wallace
General Manager of Microsoft's Northern California Enterprise Sales
Microsoft |
Laura Wallace is General Manager of Microsoft's Northern California Enterprise Sales organization where she is responsible for software sales, marketing and service to Microsoft's 200+ enterprise customers and partners in Northern California. She has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector as the director of sales for Pixion, Inc., Vice President and General Manager of SoftQuad Software, senior management positions at Lotus Development, and ten years at IBM in software development, sales and sales management. Ms. Wallace holds a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from Vassar College. |
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Executive Director
Ruth A. Stergiou
Principal
Planning Dynamics, Inc. |
Ruth Stergiou is the founding Executive Director of PBWC and Principal of Planning Dynamics, Inc., the event production company that specializes in producing educational events for women. She produced the California Governor's Conference for Women for seventeen years, which attracted 10,000 attendees annually. A faculty member in the San Jose State University Professional Development Center, Ms. Stergiou is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. |
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Emerita Board Member
Eunice Azzani
Senior Client Partner
Korn/Ferry International |
Eunice Azzani is a Senior Client Partner in the San Francisco office of Korn/Ferry International. She joined the firm in 1985 and became a managing director in 1990. In 1995 she received the "Women Who Make a Difference Award" from the San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women. Two years later she received the Eleanor Reynolds Award from the Association for Executive Search Consultants. She was the 1999 Chair of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. |
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Emerita Board Member
Judy Bloom
Development Officer/Director
Imprint Giving |
Judy Bloom Bloom is the Development Officer/Director of Imprint Giving at the Jewish Endowment Fund and former Director of Employer Services at Jewish Vocational Service in San Francisco. A Founding President of the Professional Business Women of California while she served as the District Director for then Assemblywoman Jackie Speier, Ms. Bloom was also the former Executive Director of Resourceful Women. |
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Emerita Board Member and Founder
Jackie Speier
State Senator
California State Senate |
Jackie Speier was elected to the 8th Senate District in 1998 with more than 79 percent of the vote. The chair of the Senate Insurance Committee, she also sits on the committees of Appropriations, Energy, Utilities and Communications, and Transportation; the Select Committee on Bay Area Transportation; and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee. Senator Speier earned a BA from the University of California Davis and a law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. |
