Board of Directors

Professor Henry is the Dean of the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. A former John S. and James L. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, Professor Henry served as the Washington Post's Africa Bureau Chief and has won awards from the Associated Press and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial for his reporting. He is the author of a racial history, Pearl’s Secret (University of California Press, 2002) and American Carnival (University of California Press, 2007), which examines the problems of the news industry’s adjustment to the digital age. A graduate in Politics from Princeton University, Professor Henry earned his Master's degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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.

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.

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 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.