Gayle Geary – Board President, Marketing Consultant

Gayle has more than 30 years experience in marketing, marketing research and advertising. Gayle has directed strategic planning for a multitude of clients including Fisher-Price, the San Francisco Chronicle, Fetzer Vineyards, Morrison & Foerster, Fireman's Fund, Delta Dental for AARP and McRoskey Mattress Company. Her non-profit affiliations include the Math inquiries Project, Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco, Women's Initiative for Self-Employment, and LightHouse for the Blind. She is a volunteer with the Bay Area Jewish Healing Center's Kol Haneshama program at the Jewish Home.

Aurèle Carlat, MBA – Board Vice-President, Health/Aging Consultant

Aurèle worked for over 20 years in the healthcare industry, holding executive positions with United Behavioral Health (UBH), a United Healthcare Company, Stanford University Medical Center, and Peabody Consulting. She has served on the Board of Directors of VSP, Hospice by the Bay, Women Healthcare Executives and the San Francisco School. She also worked as a volunteer caregiver for The Zen Hospice Project from 2001-2005. Aurèle has a strong commitment to healthy aging and is a trained yoga instructor.

Nina Huebsch – Board Secretary, Owner of Simplify By Design LLC

Nina Huebsch has over 20 years experience managing complex projects in large organizations and at several Bay Area non-profits. She worked at Hewlett-Packard for over 20 years and spent several years at Wells Fargo Bank. She is now the owner of Simplify By Design LLC, a company that provides professional organizing and move management services for boomers and seniors. Earlier in her career, she was a special education teacher. Nina received an MBA from UCLA and an MA in Special Education from San Francisco State University. She believes that as we age, we all need choices about where and how we live.

David Berg, MBA – Board Treasurer – Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services

David has more than 30 years experience in strategy, business development, board development, marketing, and operations in health care, senior services, and housing. David’s prior experience includes service as a consultant for Booz, Allen and BDC Advisors, LLC and as an executive with Catholic Healthcare West.

Mary Moore Gaines – Immediate Past President, Rector Emeritus, St. James Church

Mary Moore Gaines is the Rector Emeritus of St. James Church. She served on the Boards of the Community Learning Center and the St. James Preschool. She has been a visionary leader of San Francisco Village from the beginning. Throughout her long ministry, Mary Moore has championed older adults who want to stay in their homes as they age. She has expanded her vision beyond the church to serve older adults and their families in all of San Francisco.

Eva Auchincloss

Eva Auchincloss was the founding Executive Director of the Women's Sports Foundation which was primarily responsible for the enforcement of the Equal Education Act of 1972 as it applied to sports for women. Among her other service to non-profit organizations she is the past Chair of the Board of San Francisco's International Diplomacy Center, Life Plan Center and the Presidio School of Management.

Jack Herndon, MBA – Managing Partner – Sage Eldercare Solutions, LLC

Jack brings the skills and enthusiasm to enhance Sage Eldercare’s operations and marketing. Prior to joining Sage, Jack developed operations within a number of technology and service-related businesses in the US, UK and France. Jack follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, George Kellogg, who founded and ran Homemaker Upjohn, a network of home care services across the New York metropolitan area.

Lynne Fox – Merchandising Consultant

Lynne began her career at Macy’s thirty years ago. Today she is a consultant to multi-channel catalog companies. Lynne is also a highly successful leader of non-profit events. She was the first chair of Race for the Cure for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation and the first co-chair of University High School’s Decorator Showcase.

Claudia Lewis, JD – Attorney/Community Organizer

Claudia practiced litigation for over 15 years and was a partner at Farella Braun & Martel LLP. She previously served as the President of the San Francisco Women Lawyers Alliance. Currently she is Chair of the Board at the Community Learning Center at St. James and President of Richmond Presidio Neighbors, and is very involved in addressing quality of life issues for Richmond District residents, particularly its children and older adults.

Jeff Maltz

Jeff is the CEO of SilverRide, LLC, a company he co-founded with Susan Steiner Saal in 2006. SilverRide specializes in helping older adults achieve freedom and independence with its assisted transportation, companionship, and socialization services. To date, SilverRide has serviced over 25,000 trips for its over 500 members in the San Francisco Bay Area. SilverRide prides itself on championing the cause for senior mobility and works with various organizations both public and private to make sure an ecosystem of transportation options exists to meet the needs of the needy, exploding senior population. Prior to founding SilverRide, Jeff was a former sales executive and management consultant with Texas Instruments and Accenture respectively, and currently serves on the Board of the Jewish Federation. He holds a B.A. in English Literature and a B.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.

Susan Poor, MPH – Principal, Susan Poor Consulting

Susan is a Senior Policy Advisor with NCB Capital Impact and Principal of Susan Poor Consulting, bringing over 25 years experience in health care policy, planning, and administration to her work in community approaches to aging. Areas of expertise include long term supports and services for older adults, the Village model, family caregiving, care management and coordination, transitional care, end-of-life care, civic engagement, Medicare, and Medicaid. Susan is a Founder and Board Member of San Francisco Village, Co-Chair of the San Francisco Long Term Care Coordinating Council, a member of the San Francisco Network for End-of-Life Care, the West Coast Director of Outreach and Volunteers for Share The Care, and an affiliate consultant with Community Strengths.

Stephen L. Taber

Stephen has practiced law since 1976, focusing on public agencies, nonprofit organizations, housing development and public finance. Mr. Taber's broad experience in the financing of public and nonprofit projects includes an emphasis on multifamily housing, health facilities, senior care and housing, education, public infrastructure and mass transit. He has served as counsel to numerous nonprofit corporations and as a volunteer on the following Boards: Old First Presbyterian Church, Old First Concerts, Front Porch Communities (senior housing and care), Market Street Railway, California Historical Society, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), Art Space Development Corporation, TFCC-America.

Gladys Thacher – Nonprofit Founder/Organizer

Gladys has over 40 years experience in non-profit organizing and fundraising, focusing on public education, career/life transitions and empowerment of women. She has successfully founded four San Francisco organizations: Enterprise for High School Students, Alumnae Resources, The San Francisco Education Fund and Life Plan Center. San Francisco Village is her latest endeavor to which she offers remarkable insight and experience. Currently Gladys is a trustee of the San Francisco Foundation.