Catherine S. Muther, Founder and President
Catherine Muther is the
Founder and President of the Three Guineas Fund. The foundation’s mission is to
create access to opportunity for women and girls in the economy.
Cate held
Vice President and Officer positions in leading Silicon Valley companies in the
computer networking industry, including Senior Marketing Officer at Cisco
Systems. At Cisco, she developed the marketing strategy, industry positioning
and organization to lead the company from $25Million to over a Billion in sales
with dominant share of a global market . Earlier, Cate was Marketing Vice
President at 3Com and Bridge Communications.
Cate
earned an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, MA from
Cambridge University and BA from Sarah Lawrence College. She has served as a
Trustee of Mills College, Sarah Lawrence College, Cambridge University America
and the Women’s Sports Foundation. She is a founding Board member of
Acumen Fund
and on the advisory council of Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship and Stanford Social Innovation Review,
and currently serves on the board of
PolicyLink.
Cate has
been recognized for business and philanthropic leadership. She was an invited
speaker at the first White House Conference on Philanthropy, and named one of
the nations most innovative philanthropists by Business Week. She has received
several awards for industry leadership, social entrepreneurship, and community
commitment, These include Entrepreneur of the Year in 2001, Visionary Award from
the Software Development Forum, Women Making History Award from the City of San
Francisco, Women Who Make a Difference from the Commission on the Status of
Women, and Future Builders from the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs. Cate is
frequently named one of the Most Influential Business Women in the Bay Area.
She has been profiled in numerous business and national news publications,
including Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time
Magazine, USA Today, Business Week, Wired Magazine and US News and World
Report.
Dennis
Aftergut, Treasurer and Secretary
Dennis Aftergut currently spends his time as the Board President of the
Oak Hill School in Marin City California, a school for children with developmentally based learning challenges. Dennis helped found Oak Hill in October 2000.
Previously, Dennis served as the Chief Assistant City Attorney in San Francisco. There, he won cases of constitutional significance in the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court. Most recently, he successfully defended suits brought by Pat Robertson's legal foundation and United Airlines challenging San Francisco's Equal Benefits Ordinance, a nondiscrimination law assuring domestic partners the same employment benefits as married employees.
Dennis was a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard in September 1996 and in December 1998, California Lawyer Magazine named Dennis among California's 20 "Lawyers of the Year." Dennis has served on the Three Guineas Fund Board of Directors since 1995.
Peggy Woodford Forbes
Peggy Woodford Forbes is the founder, chairwoman, CEO and CIO of Woodford Capital Management. She founded the firm in 1990 as the first African-American woman-owned investment management firm that specializes in growth equity investments. Prior to that, Peggy was a Senior Financial Consultant and Portfolio Advisor at Merrill Lynch and worked for E.F. Hutton as a member of a special management and trading boutique. She frequently contributes her investment insight to financial news shows and magazines.
Peggy is a member of the board of trustees of the Women's funding Network, San Francisco, CA and TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA. She served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Sarah Lawrence College, the American Red Cross of Greater New York, & the National Association of Securities Professionals, Washington D.C. She earned her MBA in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, 1980, and her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Peggy joined the Three Guineas Fund Board of Directors in 1999.
Ellen Friedman
Ellen
Friedman is the Vice President of the
Tides Foundation and
Tides
Center, where she has been working since 1987.
Currently, Ellen directs the Community Clinics Initiative, a
partnership between the Foundation and the California Endowment to
strengthen community health centers throughout California. She
brings a long history of advising individual donors on issues of
philanthropic planning, violence against women, the Jewish
community, and environmental issues. Before working at Tides, Ellen
served as a Program Officer at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in Los Angeles. She is also a
board member of the Family Violence
Prevention Fund, Presidio Hill School, and the New Field
Foundation. Ellen has served
on the Three Guineas Fund Board of Directors since 1995.
Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas has worked as a freelance photographer with
Magnum Photos since 1976. She is the author of three books: Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua, and Pandora's Box and editor of five collections: Learn to See; El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers; Chile from Within; Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History and Encounters with the Dani. Susan has also worked as a teacher and filmmaker and co-directed two films: "Living at Risk" and "Pictures from a Revolution" with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti.
In 1975, as an artist-in-residence, Meiselas established film and photography programs in rural southern schools. She has also developed curricula and run workshops on photography and film for teachers and children in the South Bronx. Susan was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1992, and received the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University for her coverage of Latin America and the Hasselblad Foundation Photography prize in 1994. Her photographic work is included in a number of international collections. Susan received her MA in Visual Education from Harvard University, and a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. Susan has served on the Three Guineas Fund Board of Directors since 1995.
Susan Rothstein
Susan Rothstein has 25 years of management experience working with both
for-profits and nonprofits as senior staff and in a consulting capacity.
She has particular expertise in working with organizations in transition and
in developing systems and implementing management practices to position an
organization for growth. Her work history includes San Francisco School
Volunteers, Children Now, the Museum of Craft and Folk Art, the Women's
Technology Cluster, WetFeet Press, JP Kids, Inc., and Strategic Decisions
Group. She is currently co-founder of Captio Corporation, creator of the CollegeCase - a breakthrough personal organizing system for college students. Susan has been active in any number of Bay Area nonprofits as a
volunteer and Board member and is currently on the Board of Directors of the
Three Guineas Fund. She holds an MBA degree in Public Management from
Stanford, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BS magna cum laude
from Tufts University.
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