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President Debra Boblitt Vice President-Agency Bay Area State Farm |
Debra Boblitt is the current President of the Professional BusinessWomen of California, and she is the Vice President-Agency for the Bay Area Market Area in State Farm's California zone. She joined State Farm in 1988 as an agent in Toledo, Ohio, was named Agency Manager there in 1992 and Agency Field Executive in 1995. She transferred to corporate headquarters in 1998 as Director of Marketing Programs in the Agency Department and was promoted to Assistant Vice President-Agency Sales in 1999. |
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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 Vice President of 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 Linda Conner Sales Vice President AT&T |
Linda Conner is Sales Vice President at AT&T; where she is responsible for serving the communications and networking needs of global customers and supporting a team of sales executives. Prior to joining AT&T; in 2002, she was the Senior Director of Sales for 360 Networks where she opened the Northern California region and established an initial client base. Ms. Conner spent 12 years with Sprint Communications in a variety of business development and sales executive roles including Regional Director of Sales. |
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Director - at - Large Rhonda Zygocki Vice President of Health, Environment and Safety (HES) ChevronTexaco |
Rhonda Zygocki is Vice President of Health, Environment and Safety (HES) for ChevronTexaco. She is responsible for leading HES strategic planning and issues management, compliance and auditing, and emergency response. Ms. Zygocki plays a key role in implementing the company's operational excellence and organizational capability initiatives, which are important elements of ChevronTexaco's business strategy. | |
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Secretary/Treasurer Sharon Powers Tax Director PricewaterhouseCoopers |
Sharon Powers is a Tax Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Francisco. She has 15 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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Director - at - Large Marianne Bordogna President/CEO Cambridge Investments |
Marianne Bordogna is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Investments. She has more than 20 years experience in the communications industry, having also held executive positions with both Accenture and Pacific Bell. Ms. Bordogna holds Master degrees in telecommunications management from Golden Gate University, as well as speech pathology from Edinboro University. She directs the PBWC Academic Scholarship Program. |
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Director - at - Large Patricia G. Williams Director, Silicon Valley Complex Merrill Lynch |
Patricia G. 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 10 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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Emerita Board Member Judy Bloom Development Officer/Director Imprint Giving |
Judy Bloom is the Development Officer/Director of Imprint Giving at the Jewish Endowment Fund and former Director of Employer Services at JVS, a position she held from the past three years. A Founding President of the Professional Business Women of California (PBWC) 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 Boad 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; an 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. |
PBWC's Management Team
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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 produces the California Governor's Conference on Women and Families, which attracts 10,000 attendees annually and is America's largest conference for businesswomen. 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 of Women in Technology. |
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PBWC Program Director Tina Frank |
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PBWC Director of Registrations Susann Thon |
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