The Encore Fellows program started with a pilot of ten fellows in California's Silicon Valley, supported by the founding sponsors, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Hewlett-Packard. After an outstanding 2009 pilot and a successful replication in 2010, the program is now in its third year and rapidly expanding.

Fellowship opportunities are opening across the United States through a network of programs in California, New York, Oregon, Arizona, New Mexico, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C., all members of the Civic Ventures' Encore Fellowships Network. The program is supported by a range of corporate, foundation and individual sponsors and participating nonprofits, with strategic expansion support provided by The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Intel Corporation, California HealthCare Foundation, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, and HP.

Here we present a sampling of Encore Fellows from across the United States.

• Fellows from around the United States
• 2011 New York and Washington, D.C., Fellows
• 2011 Silicon Valley Fellows
• 2010 Silicon Valley Fellows
• 2009 Silicon Valley Fellows

Fellows from around the United States

John Arnold

John Arnold was a senior finance executive at Pepsi, Novartis, and Levi Strauss. As a 2011 fellow at La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland, he is working with clinic leadership to improve financial management, clinical operations, and compliance. La Clinica strives to improve quality of life by providing culturally appropriate, high quality, and accessible healthcare for Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano Counties of California.

Nigel Ball

Ball served in various senior marketing roles for 24 years at Hewlett-Packard, leaving in 2008 as a Vice President. In his 2009 fellowship, he applied his marketing expertise and strategic partnership skills to help expand Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT), a teacher support organization that provides low-cost materials, tools and strategies to enhance hands-on math, science and art education in California’s San Mateo County. The organization hired Ball as its Marketing Director during his fellowship. Ball now serves as a board member for RAFT.

Terry Connelly

Terry Connelly is working as a 2011 Fellow with Aspiranet’s senior leadership team on business/strategy development. He began his career in Senator Robert Kennedy's New York office. Connelly continued as an attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, managing director and chief of staff of global investment banking at Salomon Brothers, partner and head of investment banking at Cowen & Co., director of strategic advisory services with Ernst & Young Australia, and dean of the graduate business school at Golden Gate University. Connelly’s executive experience focused on driving organizational strategy and change, and he recently published a book on the financial challenges facing American higher education.

Cheryl Edmonds

Cheryl Edmonds began her 12-month fellowship assignment in Portland, Ore., with Metropolitan Family Service in June 2011. Her assignment as the Volunteer Services Fellow is to lead a program to enhance volunteer development opportunities within the agency, working specifically with local businesses to promote volunteerism – focusing on boomers (age 55-plus) with enhanced and professional volunteer opportunities. Edmonds is a retired marketing manager from Hewlett-Packard.

Liane Freeman

Freeman has extensive cross-functional experience, leading the development and introduction of innovative customer relationship practices, strategic planning, organizational design and program execution at Intuit and the Electric Power Research Institute. Freeman leveraged her corporate background and her experience as an instructor at several San Francisco Bay Area community colleges to serve her 2010 fellowship as a strategic planner at the Krause Center for Innovation, an education nonprofit that provides professional development for K-12 teachers and focuses on integrating innovative technologies into the curriculum to improve student outcomes. Following her fellowship, Freeman continued as the Strategic Planning Director at her host agency.

Anne Gable

Anne Gable is helping to create and grow a sustainable funding stream by doing strategic and business development planning for AltruIT, Aspiranet’s for-profit IT venture. She is leveraging 30 years of experience in product management, strategic planning and marketing in IT start-up businesses in companies including Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters), Dow Jones, Deutsche Bank, Standard & Poor’s and Citibank. Gable’s nonprofit experience includes serving on the national board of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network and volunteering at God’s Love We Deliver in New York and Providence House in Oakland, Calif.

Pat Guerra

Pat Guerra brings a wealth of senior management experience in the fields of manufacturing, distribution, information technology and business development to his 2011 fellowship at the Second Harvest Food Bank (SHFB) of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties. SHFB focuses on eliminating hunger within its community by providing food to people in need. Guerra began his fellowship in January 2011 and is concentrating on improving the overall efficiencies and effectiveness of the SHFB operations and distribution network. He has spent several years addressing the issues of hunger and international development.

Joan Glatman

Joan Glatman spent 21 years at Pfizer in various manufacturing and management positions. She began her fellowship in New York in July 2011 with Women in Need, an organization that provides comprehensive services including: transitional family shelters, permanent supportive housing and substance abuse treatment centers. Glatman’s assignment is to institutionalize and reinforce the “WIN Leadership and Management Series” training and provide individual coaching focused on critical management and leadership attributes and skills development.

Roger Lewis

For more than 20 years Roger Lewis has been a human resource capacity builder in a wide range of industries. His experience includes implementing performance metrics, guiding organization development and shaping corporate culture/structure to improve performance and stability. His former employers included Sanmina-SCI, Ultratech and the University of California, San Francisco. In his role at Gardner Family Health Network in San Jose, Calif., he is recommending and implementing improvements in their human resource systems and compliance and providing management training to improve employee oversight and competitiveness. Gardner provides high-quality comprehensive health and behavioral care to people of all ages, regardless of their ability to pay.

Shubha Tuljapurkar

Shubha Tuljapurkar's 2011 fellowship is with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, where she is responsible for marketing their mission to raise student performance in science and mathematics across Santa Clara, Calif., county school districts. Tuljapurkar brings 30 years of marketing and business management experience, from established firms such as Intel and LSI Logic to industry start ups like Vitelic and Telairity. Tuljapurkar is the second Encore Fellow at the foundation, which hosted Fellow James Otieno in the pilot class.

2011 New York and Washington, D.C., Encore Fellows

Joan Glatman

Joan Glatman spent 21 years at Pfizer in various manufacturing and management positions. She began her fellowship in New York in July 2011 with Women in Need, an organization that provides comprehensive services including: transitional family shelters, permanent supportive housing and substance abuse treatment centers. Glatman’s assignment is to institutionalize and reinforce the “WIN Leadership and Management Series” training and provide individual coaching focused on critical management and leadership attributes and skills development.

Louisa Hellegers

Louisa Hellegers brings four decades of experience as an editor and publisher with several global publishing firms, most recently with Cambridge University Press. Hellegers will rely on her corporate and nonprofit leadership, strategic planning and organizational development background in her fellowship with the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), which is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. She will help implement the center’s Human Capital Plan to maximize the potential of their middle management teams and to support the ongoing development of the leadership capacity within the New York-based organization.

Jack Kelly

Kelly spent 30 years in the Global Investment Research Department at Goldman Sachs where he was co-head of the Industrials research team. His fellowship assignment with the New York City Housing Authority relies on his deep analytical skills, focusing on improving the materials and services procurement process. The housing authority provides decent and affordable housing safe living environments for low- and moderate-income residents (approximately 650,000 New York City residents) throughout the five boroughs.

Beth Kempner

Beth Kempner was a Senior Vice President at Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising and has more than 20 years of marketing, media and advertising experience. Her expertise in media management and negotiations will be helpful in her new position as the Senior Public Affairs Fellow at the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) in New York City. The center is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions.

John Murray

John Murray works with Credit Where Credit Is Due (CWCID), a microfinance organization in upper Manhattan. CWCID helps low-income households gain financial stability through its highly regarded financial literacy training program. Murray is helping CWCID begin offering its program through private employers, so that it can reach a greater number of low-wage workers. Murray brings more than 25 years of Wall Street experience to his assignment, including senior investment management positions at Goldman Sachs and CS First Boston.

Dennis Powell

Dennis Powell has been placed as a Fellow with Ashoka's United States Program, primarily focused on media and strategic communications. After 30 years in broadcast news covering a wide variety of topics including the first Gulf War, 9/11, homeland security, Hurricane Katrina and the U.S. Supreme Court, Powell decided to leave the business he loved in search of a new career. He has been recognized for his work at ABC News by the National Academy of Arts and Sciences with two Emmy awards, by the University of Georgia with a George Foster Peabody Award and by the White House News Photographers Association. Ashoka is a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs, individuals with innovative and practical ideas for improving the world's most urgent social problems.

Susan Waters

Susan Waters spent more than 20 years at Goldman Sachs in market risk management for the firm and its Asset Management Division. She will bring her financial expertise and project management experience to her fellowship at the Eagle Academy Foundation. Waters will be enhancing the foundation’s financial management infrastructure to augment its development and expansion initiatives. The foundation empowers at-risk inner city young men by providing quality education resources and community-based initiatives.

Michael Weitzner

Michael Weitzner has been involved in the capital markets for 25 years. Most recently he was a Partner and Head of Public Capital Markets at The Dellacorte Group. In addition to other investment firms, he spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs in the Equity Division. Michael will rely on his deep knowledge of and experience with capital markets in his Capital Innovation Fellowship at Enterprise Community Partners. He is part of the National Innovations team working on structuring new products to fund affordable homes for low and moderate income people in diverse, thriving communities.

Lynda Zakrzewski

Lynda Zakrzewski’s corporate experience included 24 years with AT&T – beginning in Bell Laboratories Systems Engineering and culminating with executive leadership positions in worldwide product and operations units. Combining a solid understanding of technology with a keen instinct regarding profitability and efficiency triggers, Lynda has also recently expanded her knowledge into the effective use of social media. Lynda brings this breadth of experience to her fellowship with Community Environmental Center, the largest not-for-profit energy conservation organization in New York State, where she is working on business development and strategic planning. The CEO of CEC is Richard Cherry, a former Civic Ventures Purpose Prize winner.

2011 Silicon Valley Encore Fellows

Mo-Lan Chan

Mo-Lan Chan built her career at Hewlett-Packard in various accounting, finance and treasury functions. She served for 13 years as the CFO of the company's Credit Union during a period of fivefold growth. Mo-Lan was also on the Advisory Board of Ascend, a leadership and career development organization with a focus for the Pan-Asian community. As an Encore Fellow, Mo-Lan brings her financial expertise and leadership to help the management team at Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT) build a financial plan and processes that align with the evolving vision of the organization. RAFT has hosted an Encore Fellow for three years in a row.

Dave Dardis

Dardis worked for over 39 years at IBM in various management roles in sales, marketing and business development. He also contributed significant time as a business development and fundraising volunteer in local non-profits with a focus on serving children in the education and health service environments. As an Encore Fellow, he fills the role of COO at the Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley (HFSV) working with their partners to implement the Silicon Valley Latino Report Card and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) initiatives.

Rich Dempsey

Rich Dempsey worked at Hewlett-Packard for over 25 years in information management and systems. At Hewlett-Packard he was responsible for managing information technologies activities associated with major acquisitions and led several process re-engineering initiatives. In his fellowship role with the Tahoe Prosperity Center, Dempsey will create an economic development strategy and initiatives for the Lake Tahoe Basin area. The Tahoe Prosperity Center is a regional collaborative with a vision of moving one of the country's most economically depressed areas from poverty to prosperity through environmental stewardship.

Jim Dern

Jim Dern brings over 30 years experience driving strategic change at organizations large and small. He has consulted to 15 nonprofit organizations that help youth and work to improve the environment. Jim has also held key leadership positions with several top-tier financial and natural resource corporations. In his role as the Strategic Planning Fellow for Partners in School Innovation, Jim will help lead the development and management of a long-term strategic business plan.

George Dies

George Dies worked for over 25 years in corporate strategy and finance at Hewlett-Packard, Spectra-Physics, Raychem and Palo Alto Design Group after a career in the US Foreign Service. In addition to his corporate experience, Dies has served on the finance committee for several nonprofits. His fellowship is with the Marine Science Institute (MSI), where he is working to secure a permanent site and revising their strategic plan. The mission of MSI is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment through interdisciplinary science education and innovative marine science education programs.

Frank DiMassa

Frank has worked in the energy business for the past thirty years, most recently providing consulting services to municipalities and municipal utilities. He earned his MS in Environmental Management early in his career while working with PG&E. Frank instructed upper level courses on energy, economics and the environment at WSU while working as a Senior Research Engineer with PNNL. In his Encore Fellowship, Frank is leading a team implementing the Small Cities Climate Action Partnership PG&E Innovator Pilot project for SEI (Strategic Energy Innovations).

Ken Larson

Ken Larson worked for Hewlett-Packard for over 25 years in a variety of roles, including Director of Corporate Social Responsibility, California Region Government and Public Affairs Manager, and Sacramento Area Public Affairs Manager. He held various roles in Human Resources Manager for several of HP’s businesses. Larson's fellowship is with the Sierra Business Council in Truckee, California. Larson is managing the Green Communities project, helping rural communities develop business plans in response to California's Global Warming Act - AB32.

Mark Magers

Mark is helping with strategy development at Future of Fish, a San Francisco non-profit focused on delivering solutions in sustainable fisheries by supporting entrepreneurs in that space. For the past 10 years, Mark’s focus has been on developing solutions to address poverty and dignity issues in developing countries through Fair Trade. Most recently, Mark was CEO of Divine Chocolate, the world’s first farmer-owned Fair Trade chocolate brand. He was VP of Business Development at non-profit FairTrade USA, and was VP Sales & Marketing for Kauai Coffee. Mark was a founding partner of both greatcoffee.com and The Coffee Review, and serves on the Advisory Board of The Bread Project in Berkeley.

Connie Osborne

Connie Osborne brings decades of experience in public accounting with PWC, as a small business owner, and as a manager in several start up companies. In her Fellowship as the CFO of 1st Act Silicon Valley, she is responsible for implementing robust accounting, financial and information systems. Osborne is also helping to create a School of Arts and Culture at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in east San Jose.

Kelly Pope

Kelly Pope has worked at a variety of start-up and established high technology firms in the Silicon Valley including Electronic Arts, Sun Microsystems and Classroom Connect. She also chairs the Citizen Schools California Advisory Council. Her fellowship is with Education Champions/Proof Points, where she works as a strategic planner as part of a national effort to scale successful models of academic achievement in under-served communities.

Shubha Tuljapurkar

Shubha Tuljapurkar's 2011 fellowship is with the Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF), where she is responsible for marketing their mission to raise student performance in science and mathematics across Santa Clara county school districts. Shubha brings 30 years of marketing and business management experience from firms including Intel and LSI Logic to industry start ups including Vitelic and Telairity to SVEF, which is hosting its second Encore Fellow.

2010 Silicon Valley Encore Fellows

Betsy Balassone

Balassone worked in international finance and sales at IBM, Wachovia National Bank and Hoffmann-La Roche and has served on the boards of several nonprofits, conducted national events and led annual and capital fundraising campaigns. As a member of the Encore Fellowships Network team at Civic Ventures, she leveraged those business development and management skills to partner with organizations to design and establish new programs in conjunction with the national expansion of Encore Fellows programs.

Bill Blodgett and Mee Leng Wang

Blodgett and Wang have a combined 54 years of experience in various marketing and customer support roles at Hewlett-Packard and “job-shared” their 2010 fellowship. They partnered to bring business development and change management expertise to Experience Corps Bay Area, a program of the statewide nonprofit, Aspiranet. Experience Corps engages older adults as tutors for children in urban public schools. Since completing their Fellowship, they have continued to work on change management initiatives at Aspiranet.

Marc Burton

Burton has enjoyed a wide-ranging 31-year career in banking and financial services, including roles as Regional Vice President, Commercial Lending at San Francisco Federal and Vice President, Commercial Mortgage Banking with Wells Fargo. Burton applied his business skills in finance, management and marketing at Environmental Volunteers to assist with strategic planning and develop marketing practices geared toward organizational growth and expansion. Environmental Volunteers provides natural science and environmental education programs to local schools, helping fill a critical gap in science education.

Mark Cator

Cator leveraged his 25-plus years in sales and sales development management experience at Apple Inc. to help Legacy Works, an organization focused on magnifying the philanthropic efforts of its members. Cator developed and launched new programs designed to engage Legacy members and increase their philanthropic impact. Cator’s corporate experience included heading up the Western Region Education Industry sales team for Apple. Cator now consults with Legacy Works on the delivery of their member programs.

Janice Edwards

A talk show host, executive television producer and community relations director who worked at the local NBC and CBS stations in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, Edwards put her expertise to work on the communications strategy at Partners in School Innovation, a nonprofit that supports public schools in low-income Bay Area communities in achieving education equity through school-based reform. The organization works directly with educators at the grade, school and district levels and serves students of color and English learners.

Liane Freeman

Freeman has extensive cross-functional experience, leading the development and introduction of innovative customer relationship practices, strategic planning, organizational design and program execution at Intuit and the Electric Power Research Institute. Freeman leveraged her corporate background and her experience as an instructor at several Bay Area community colleges to serve her 2010 fellowship as a strategic planner at the Krause Center for Innovation, an education nonprofit that provides professional development for K-12 teachers and focuses on integrating innovative technologies into the curriculum to improve student outcomes. Following her fellowship, Freeman became the Strategic Planning Director at her host agency.

Mike Gallagher

Gallagher spent his entire career at Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies, managing marketing and marketing communications functions. Gallagher's Fellowship involved doing primary research for Civic Ventures to determine the market potential, feasibility and fit for Encore Fellows working in rural county governments and school districts. His in-depth study to determine the core needs, delivery model and value of the services that could be provided to widely dispersed and remote counties has led to the 2011 pilot of two Encore Fellows now serving in rural counties in the Sierra Nevada area. Gallagher has extended his 2010 Fellowship to include an evaluation and potential expansion of the rural Fellows pilot program during 2011.

Mark Judge

After beginning his professional life at Hope Services, Judge left the nonprofit sector for a career in children’s publishing. His 22 years at Klutz, a publisher of children’s activity books, included the role of Vice President of worldwide sales and marketing. This experience served him well in his market research role at Youth Science Institute (YSI) of Santa Clara Valley. YSI delivers science education programs to more than 30,000 children annually in support of the mission: “To inspire enthusiasm for science and a love of learning.” After his fellowship, Judge took on the role of YSI's Marketing Director.

Janet Pretti

Pretti spent 20 years at Hewlett-Packard in a range of sales, marketing and international assignments and served most recently as Vice President of Worldwide Channel Marketing. During her fellowship, she brought her extensive business and leadership experience to oversee new initiatives at Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT) that will enhance science, technology, engineering and math education for students, involve community volunteers and assess RAFT's impact on teaching and learning. RAFT develops hands-on activities aligned to curriculum content, serving more than 8,500 teachers and transforming learning for hundreds of thousands of students. After her fellowship, RAFT hired Pretti to become its Director of Development.

Kim Wisckol

Wisckol brings more than 25 years of experience in human resources at Hewlett-Packard, where she was a Vice President, and at Accuray Inc. During her fellowship, Wisckol applied her extensive experience in human resources and change management to assess the structures and processes at Partners in School Innovation for designing and implementing programs and processes to support the organization's mission and scaling plan. Before working at Hewlett-Packard, Wisckol served in a social services organization in Vista, Calif., providing services to youths, families, the homeless and senior citizens. After her fellowship, she became the human resources manager for Partners in School Innovation.

2009 Fellows

Scott Allen

Allen focused his extensive executive experience and expertise in small business management and marketing in publishing at MacAdam CAGE Publishing and in the financial sector to create a business plan for an encore careers job-matching system in California. He served his fellowship at Aspiranet, a statewide network of family, adoption, foster care, after-school and education programs in California.

John Armstrong

Armstrong, a financial analyst and marketing specialist who worked at a private financial consulting firm, Hewlett-Packard and in the Peace Corps, put his expertise to work on the communications strategy and its implementation at Environmental Volunteers, a nonprofit that works with trained volunteers to deliver environmental education throughout Silicon Valley. Armstrong became the Collaborations Project Manager at Environmental Volunteers, heading up “Science by Nature.”

Nigel Ball

Ball served in various senior marketing roles for 24 years at Hewlett-Packard, leaving in 2008 as a Vice President. In his 2009 fellowship, he applied his marketing expertise and strategic partnership skills to help expand Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT), a teacher support organization that provides low-cost materials, tools and strategies to enhance hands-on math, science and art education in California’s San Mateo County. The organization hired Ball as its Marketing Director during his fellowship. Ball now serves as a board member for RAFT.

Gina Cassinelli

Cassinelli leveraged her 20-plus years' marketing experience at Hewlett-Packard, including her role as Vice President of Enterprise Solutions Partners, to raise awareness with the public and key partners about the entrepreneurial work at Citizen Schools, a national nonprofit that partners with middle schools to enhance learning for low-income children. Cassinelli served as interim Executive Director for the last three months of her fellowship. She is now involved in expanding the Encore Fellowships Network nationally.

Leslye Louie and Lyle Hurst

Louie and Hurst were both Vice Presidents and General Managers at Hewlett-Packard, with a combined 50 years’ experience in marketing, sales, finance, operations and business development. They worked together at Partners in School Innovation, a nonprofit that works with low-performing urban public elementary schools to achieve educational equity through school-based reform. Their job-share fellowship increased the group’s impact through performance management and marketing. Louie also served as interim Executive Director during a transition in the organization’s leadership. Louie and Hurst are now leading the national expansion of the Encore Fellowships Network for Civic Ventures.

Luanne Meyer

Meyer brought more than two decades of experience and expertise as a director managing primary market research projects and teams, including work in the biotech and health care industries, to her fellowship. She provided marketing expertise and strategic program planning assistance while helping to build new partnerships at Youth Community Service, a community education partnership that builds civic engagement and positive youth development for middle and high school students. Her Encore Fellowship led to her current position as Director at the Human Investment Research and Evaluation Center at California State University East Bay in Hayward, Calif., which does research projects that aid at-risk communities.

James Otieno

Otieno, originally from Kenya, has 23 years of experience working in Silicon Valley, including Vice President in human resources at Hewlett-Packard. He spearheaded improving human resources systems and management, while helping with strategic planning, at the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, which partners with the private sector and education community to improve public education. Now Otieno is a Vice President in new business ventures at the foundation.

Bill Pace

Pace has 25 years’ experience as a senior executive providing strategic management consulting services, including roles as CEO and President at Kurt Salmon Associates. Pace worked to develop a business plan to expand the Encore.org website for Civic Ventures, a think tank on boomers, work and social purpose. Pace also spent half of his fellowship working as part of a team with Scott Allen, another Encore Fellow, at Aspiranet.

Louise Smith

Smith has a doctorate in social psychology and more than 20 years of experience in marketing, business and systems development in senior roles in the technology sector, including work at Apple Inc. and BEA Systems. During her fellowship, she helped the Community School of Music and Arts develop a comprehensive marketing and outreach plan. After her fellowship, Smith became the Director of Marketing for Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT). She works part time, to enjoy both a new nonprofit encore career and other interests.