2011-2012 Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Jeannie Bruins, President

Biography Pending 

Phil Rose, Vice President

Phil Rose was born and raised in San Jose where he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in business from SJSU. While in graduate school, he worked as an intern for the City of Mountain View. This experience led to a 30 year career in City Management including work with the cities of Los Altos, Placerville, and Mountain View. For the past 35 years, Phil and his wife, Patti, have lived in either Mountain View or Los Altos and have raised their two daughters in Los Altos. After retirement from city management, Phil wanted an opportunity to do more volunteer work in our community and he feels fortunate to be able to do this at CSA.

 Harvey Dixon, Treasurer

Harvey Dixon arrived in the Bay Area in 1947 where he was stationed at Moffett Field in the Navy. He met Beverly, a native of San Jose, and decided she was a good enough reason to stay in the Bay Area and attend Stanford. He has been happily married for 57 years, and have four children and 10 grandchildren.

After receiving his MS in Industrial Engineering, he worked at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) for 27 years in a variety of research and managerial positions. Following SRI I spent 5 years in the Semiconductor Equipment Business, and retired after another 5 years in the Venture Capital Business.

He has been active in a variety of leadership roles at the Los Altos United Methodist Church for the past 50 years. He has enjoyed working for Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together in Silicon Valley, and building houses in Mexico and El Salvador. He served on the Board of the United Methodist Foundation and chaired the Investment Committee. He supported the Alpha Omega shelter program, and is looking forward to a deeper involvement in the work of CSA.

Laura Stefanski, Secretary

Laura Stefanski has been the Director of the Mountain View-Los Altos UHSD Adult School since 2003, the Assistant Director since 1995, and a program coordinator there since 1991. She has a B.A. degree in English from San Diego State University and an M.A. in Educational Administration from San Francisco State University. Laura is a Leadership Mountain View graduate from 1998, on the CONNECT Steering Committee, and is active in numerous adult education organizations throughout the state.

Laura is honored to be an active working member of the Mountain View community, lives in Palo Alto, and has two sons in various stages of college.

Members

Mark Bollwinkel

Mark S. Bollwinkel was born and raised in the Mid-West, coming to Northern California to finish high school. He experienced the call to ministry at the age of 16. Mark attended Callison College of the University of the Pacific in a program requiring residence and study in non-western cultures; his sophomore year was spent in South India and he participated in a six-month anthropology seminar in the Yucatan of Southern Mexico in his Junior year.

Mark chose to attend the School of Theology at Claremont in part to work in the field of international development studies. During his course at CTS he spent a year working with the Methodist Church in Kenya. Upon graduation he was assigned to lead the seminary program of the Iban Conference of the Methodist church of Malaysia.

Since 1982 Mark has served local churches in the California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist church. He is currently in his 11th year as Senior Pastor of Los Altos United Methodist Church. He is married to Bonnie Bollwinkel, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker; they have recently celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary. They have two sons, Daniel and Matthew.

In his “spare time” Mark is a potter, fisherman and devoted San Francisco Giants fan.

Gisela Daetz

Gisela Daetz spent her childhood in Hamburg, Germany.  Growing up with both the visible and invisible scars of war led her to a firm belief in the need to reach out to our neighbors with arms of compassion.  As a teen, she lived two years in Manila,  the Philippines, before coming to California.  She earned her BA at UC Berkeley, married her husband Douglas in 1962, raised three sons and is blessed with eight grandchildren.  In the seventies her family lived in Mexico City for two years and another year in San Jose, Costa Rica.  Living in these countries gave her an appreciation for their language and culture.

Upon returning to California, she earned a secondary teaching credential and a Master's Degree from the University of Santa Clara.  She taught German and Spanish in the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District and English as a Second Language to adults for the Fremont Union High School District.

She is a "full-time good-for-nothing", serves as President of the Church Council at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Los Altos, chairs the Alpha Omega Task Force which supports CSA's services to the homeless and organizes the annual Empty Bowls Soup Supper. She feels blessed to be able to work together with so many people who share her passion to be positive agents of change in their communities.

Kevin Duggan

Kevin Duggan was appointed ICMA’s West Coast Regional Director in May. Prior to that he worked in California city government since 1971, the last 27 years as a city manager for the cities of Campbell and Mountain View, California. As West Coast Regional Director, he will serve as the primary staff link between ICMA and members and professional associations in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Nevada.

He began his career as an administrative intern for the City of Mountain View while earning a BA in Political Science from San Jose State. He then served as an intern for the City of Campbell while obtaining his MPA, also from San Jose State. He worked for Campbell for 18 years, the last 6 as city manager. He then returned to Mountain View in 1990 as city manager where he served until this past April.

He has served as President of both the City Manager’s Department of the League of California Cities and Cal-ICMA. Other professional activities have included serving on the State Board of Fire Services, participating in an international city management exchange with Limerick County, Ireland and serving on ICMA’s Task Force on Organizational Structure and Governance. He has served as an ethics trainer for ICMA and has written a number of articles for professional journals with topics ranging from budgeting during tough economic times, city council/city manager relations and ethics.

Karen Fox

 Karen Fox is a San Francisco-born California native.  She grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, and Ames, Iowa, and returned to the Bay Area to attend Stanford University.   She holds graduate degrees from Harvard (MAT), Stanford (PhD), and Northwestern (Master of Management in marketing). 

She held faculty positions at San Jose State, Teachers College Columbia University, and Northwestern, and then returned to the Bay Area as associate professor of marketing at Santa Clara University from 1980 to 2009. 

Her interest in community development and cross-cultural understanding started with planning and participating in a student-run summer project in Michoacan, Mexico in 1962.   Her special interests are in marketing for nonprofit organizations and in social marketing, the application of marketing tools and concepts to the promotion of beneficial social change, including such areas as health promotion, family planning, and civic participation.  She has traveled extensively in developing countries, and carried out short-term social marketing assignments for the US Agency for International Development in Burma, Egypt, Indonesia, and Russia.  

Karen lives in Mountain View and participated in Leadership Mountain View, which deepened her appreciation for CSA’s important work.   She is a member of the Los Altos Rotary Club and serves as the Community Service Chair.  Serving on the CSA board is a welcome way to learn more about the community’s needs and to support CSA's programs to meet those needs. 

Tilmin Hudson

Tilmin Hudson is a self proclaimed "charity junkie".  She has walked, rode her bicycle and been part of relay teams for charity for numerous years. She previously worked as a Social Worker for 12 years working in Community Services for the Developmentally Disabled, Autistic Spectrum and Mental Health populations before changing careers to Organizational Development.

William James 

Bill James grew up in Detroit and later studied Mechanical Engineering and History at the U.S. Naval Academy. After leaving the Navy, he attended Stanford Law School and he now works as a patent attorney at Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP in Cupertino. Bill lived in Mountain View for over ten years prior to moving to Los Altos, where he now lives. Bill is married and has three small children.  Bill believes CSA is one of the most effective social service agencies on the Peninsula, and he is proud to participate as a Board member in CSA's efforts to provide services directly to the most needy members of our local community.

Darelda Medina

Biography Pending

Barbara Mordo

Biography Pending

Gavin O'Duffy

Biography Pending

Vicki Oldberg

Biography Pending

Jeannie Richter

Jeannie Richter is a native Californian. She received her undergraduate degree from San Jose State and her Masters Degree in Early Intervention from Santa Clara University. She started as a teacher with Project Head Start in San Jose and moved on to direct the Los Altos Parent Preschool, part of the MVLA Adult School.

Jeannie’s next position with the Adult School was as Director of Parent Education and Child Care. She taught in the Young Parent’s Program and was awarded the Even Start Family Literacy Grant, a federally funded program for low income families and teen parents. She also received a grant to start The Blossom Project, a local teen pregnancy prevention program, now taught through CHAC in the local middle schools.

Jeannie’s life work has been about supporting families in their efforts to raise happy, healthy, well-educated children. Working with CSA will offer a new opportunity to serve those families who are most in need.

Jeannie and her husband, Wells, have lived in Los Altos for 30 years, where they raised their two sons. They enjoy traveling the world and visiting their sons in San Francisco, where they cheer on the Giants!

Deepak Sharma

Deepak Sharma is a strategy consultant with a passion to change people and businesses. He started his career in the Silicon Valley as part of the marketing organization at Cypress Semiconductors. For the past several years he has been a part of the Strategy & Transformation practice at IBM. Deepak has over a decade of experience focused on B2B Sales / Solutions Marketing transformations & Mergers/Acquisitions/Divestiture management at a global level. He has helped a wide spectrum of clients (semiconductors, janitorial services, medical equipment, ATE manufacturers, consumer electronics, digital solution manufacturers...) to shape their strategy, establish services / solutions growth and successfully integrate multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions.

Deepak is also actively involved with the Taproot Foundation in Silicon Valley by providing pro-bono consulting to non-profits - helping them understand/define their brand identity and shape their strategy for success. He is an active board member of BITSAA International and involved in both growing the organization and establishing the founding principles, mission and vision. As a Mountain View resident, he is very excited to be part of CSA and is looking forward to contribute/ further CSAs mission/vision and enhance the quality of life for all in the community.

In his spare time, Deepak loves to 'goof off' with his daughter and wife, have friends over for a 'single malt' session, watch Bollywood & Hollywood movies, try to hit the golf ball accurately and works towards his "PhD in LifeFun".

Tom Smith

Biography Pending