Jeffrey Ubben

Jeffery W. Ubben is a Founder, Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Investment Officer of ValueAct Capital. Prior to founding ValueAct Capital in 2000, Mr. Ubben was a Managing Partner at Blum Capital Partners for over five years. Previously, Mr. Ubben spent eight years at Fidelity Investments where he managed the Fidelity Value Fund. In addition, Mr. Ubben serves as chairman of the national board of the Posse Foundation, is on the board of trustees of Northwestern University, and is also on the board of the American Conservatory Theater. He has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Tom Goldstein

Tom Goldstein is Interim Dean, professor of Journalism, and director of the Media Studies Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a journalism educator for more than 25 years, first at the University of Florida, then at Berkeley (where he served as dean from 1988 to 1996) and at Columbia (where, while on leave from Berkeley, he served as dean of the Graduate School of Journalism from 1997 to 2002). Goldstein worked as a reporter at AP, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He was press secretary to New York City Mayor Edward Koch. Goldstein has written "The News at Any Cost," "A Two-Faced Press," "Journalism and Truth" and co-authored "The Lawyers Guide to Writing Well." He edited "Killing the Messenger: 100 years of Press Criticism." Goldstein is a graduate of Yale and Columbia’s law school and journalism school.

Sandra R. Hernández

Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., is chief executive officer of The San Francisco Foundation. Dr. Hernández is a graduate of Yale University, Tufts School of Medicine, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Prior to becoming CEO of the Foundation, she served as the director of public health for the City and County of San Francisco. She is an assistant clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and maintains an active clinical practice at San Francisco General Hospital in the AIDS clinic. Dr. Hernández currently serves on the boards of Blue Shield of California, the Blue Shield of California Foundation, First Republic Bank, and The Bay Citizen. She is also a trustee of the Western Asbestos Settlement Trust and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Economic Advisory Council, the Public Policy Institute of California Statewide Leadership Council, the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Public Policy Committee, the UCSF Chancellor’s Advisory Board, and the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute Advisory Board. Her prior affiliations include President Clinton’s Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry; the Council on Foundations; the Institute of Medicine’s Committees on the Consequences of Uninsurance and the Implementation of Antiviral Medication Strategies for an Influenza Pandemic; and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Session on Philanthropy. Dr. Hernández also co-chaired San Francisco’s Universal Healthcare Council.

Susan Hirsch

Susan Hirsch is President of Hirsch & Associates, LLC, a philanthropic advising firm that specializes in developing focused giving programs for individuals, family foundations, and corporate foundations. Ms. Hirsch designs governance and decision-making structures for donors seeking to make a real impact in the community, including creating stewardship programs and planning for future generations. Ms. Hirsch also assists corporate clients helps them identify and mesh business and community objectives. Prior to launching Hirsch & Associates in 1999, Ms. Hirsch was the founding executive director at the Mimi and Peter Haas Fund. In addition to The Bay Citizen, Ms. Hirsch currently serves on the boards of San Francisco School Alliance Foundation and the San Francisco Day School.

Diane Wilsey

Diane B. Wilsey is the President of the Board of Trustees of the Fine Arts Museums, and was Chairman of the $200 million campaign to rebuild the de Young. Previously she chaired successful capital campaigns for Grace Cathedral, where she is a trustee, and for the Immaculate Conception Academy. She was also a Coro Fellow, former President of the Women's Board of the Presbyterian Hospital and a trustee of University High School. She is currently chairing a $1.2 billion campaign to build a new Children's, Women's and Cancer Hospital for UCSF at Mission Bay.

Mrs. Wilsey currently serves on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco War Memorial. She is a trustee emerita of Connecticut College and was an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau. In addition to her community and civic engagements, Mrs. Wilsey is the owner of Rutherford River Ranch Vineyards in Napa Valley, is President of the Wilsey Foundation and is CEO of Wilsey Properties.

Andrew Woeber

Andrew Woeber is a Partner/Managing Director at Greenhill & Co., Inc., a global investment banking firm focused on providing independent strategic advice to companies. He leads the firm’s San Francisco office and Western U.S. M&A practice. Prior to joining Greenhill, Mr. Woeber was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and began his career as a lawyer with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City and at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. He has a J.D. from Harvard and an A.B. from Stanford. Mr. Woeber is on the Advisory Counsel of the UCSF Global Health Institute, a Chancellor’s Associate at UCSF and a member of the Audit Committee of the UCSF Foundation.

Lisa Frazier

Prior to joining The Bay Citizen, Ms. Frazier was a partner at McKinsey & Company where she led the West Coast Media and Entertainment practice and advised leading online, broadcast and cable TV, newspaper and information companies on growth strategy, operations, and marketing and sales. Before joining McKinsey & Company, Ms. Frazier spent nine years in the petroleum industry where she held marketing, operations and engineering positions. Ms. Frazier serves on the Board of Governors of The Commonwealth Club, and is an advisory board member of the Texas Tribune and Link TV. She holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

F. Warren Hellman

Warren Hellman’s concern over the decline in local news reporting, arts and culture coverage in the San Francisco Bay Area led to the founding of The Bay Citizen in 2009. He brought together a dedicated group to form the organization and create an innovative model of local journalism.  Mr. Hellman served as our first Chairman of the Board.

Warren Hellman co-founded Hellman & Friedman in 1984. Previously, Mr. Hellman was a General Partner of Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, Matrix Management Company and Lehman Brothers. At Lehman Brothers, he served as President as well as head of the Investment Banking Division and Chairman of Lehman Corporation.

Mr. Hellman’s many civic activities included: President, Voice of Dance; former Chairman and current Trustee Emeritus, The San Francisco Foundation; Member, the Committee on JOBS; Member, Board of Directors & Executive Committee, Jewish Community Federation; Chair, Jewish Community Endowment Fund; Member, Advisory Board of the Walter A. Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley; Trustee, UC Berkeley Foundation; Member, Board of Directors of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Member, Board of Directors of the Bay Area Council; Board member, Salesforce.com/foundation; Chair, San Francisco School Alliance Business Advisory Council; Trustee Emeritus of The Brookings Institution; and, Member, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Mr. Hellman graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and earned an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Rose Roll, Board Secretary

Christian Selchau-Hansen, Board Treasurer