Our Leadership

Our Leadership Council is a diverse group of Californians who select and guide California Forward’s projects.

Thomas V. McKernan, Co-Chair
Chair of the Board of the Automobile Club of Southern California

Lenny Mendonca, Co-Chair
Director of the San Francisco office of McKinsey & Company

Carl Guardino
President and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group

R. William "Bill" Hauck
Former President of the California Business Roundtable

Joanne Kozberg
Principal at California Strategies, LLC

Stewart Kwoh
President & Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California

Sunne Wright McPeak
President & CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund

Cruz Reynoso
Former Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court & the Third District Court of Appeal

Constance L. "Connie" Rice
Former Co-Director of the Los Angeles NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund

Eugene J. "Gene" Voiland
Former President & CEO of Aera Energy LLC

Peter Weber
Executive Committee Chair of the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley

Previously Served

Robert L. Balgenorth
President of the State Building & Construction Trades Council of California, AFL-CIO

David Davenport
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
CEO of Green For All

Antonia Hernández
President & CEO of the California Community Foundation

Robert M. Hertzberg
Former Co-Chair; Chair & Founder of G24 Innovations

Fred Keeley
Former Assembly Speaker pro Tempore

Donna Lucas
Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategic Planning & Initiatives for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Bruce McPherson
Former California Secretary of State

Leon E. Panetta
Former Co-Chair; Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Charles "Chuck" Poochigian
Former State Senator & Assemblymember

Arturo Vargas
Executive Director, NALEO