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San Francisco, CA – It was
announced today that Archbishop George H. Niederauer has appointed
Carlos Alvarez, Gloria Carlos, John
A. Knight, James McCabe, Stephen
Molinelli, Robert Morris, and Rev. Dr.
Kenneth Weare to the Board
of Directors of
Catholic Charities CYO (CCCYO), one of the largest non-profit providers
of social services in the Bay Area.
The Catholic Charities CYO Board
of Directors oversees the $39 million organization, which supports
33 critical programs that help the Bay
Area’s
most vulnerable. CCCYO provides services to families, children,
the aging and disabled, and runs CYO Camp and CYO Athletic programs
that support
opportunities for healthy growth and development for youth.
On the
new appointees, Archbishop George Niederauer remarked, “These
seven new Members bring an abundance of experience and unique resources
to Catholic Charities CYO, and will strengthen the agency’s work
in serving and advocating for the Bay Area’s most vulnerable.
We are blessed to have them join Board President Cecilia Herbert
and the
other distinguished members of the Board of Directors in steering
Catholic Charities CYO into its second century of service.”
Carlos
Alvarez is an attorney and founding member of Steyer Lowenthal
Boodrookas Alvarez & Smith, LLP in San Francisco, and was previously
with Leland, Parachini, Steinberg, Matzger & Melnick, LLP. He
is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and the Boalt
Hall School
of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition
to his active membership in the Bar Association of San Francisco,
the State Bar of California
and La Raza Lawyers Association, Alvarez has served on the St.
Brendan Parish Advisory Board and as a youth baseball and basketball
coach.
Gloria Carlos is a seasoned Human Resources
executive with extensive experience in the high technology and financial
services
industries
and currently serves as the Vice President of Human Resources & Administration
at Renesas Technology America in San Jose. She is a graduate
of St. Scholastica’s
College in the Philippines and the New School for Social Research
in New York and has previously held senior Human Resources positions
with Imagicast,
Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Hitachi America, Ltd., where she
realigned the HR department. In addition to her expertise in
employee relations,
recruitment and management development, Carlos brings a deep
knowledge of organizational design and process improvement to
Catholic Charities
CYO.
John A. Knight is a Director at UBS Financial Services and
is the former Senior Vice President & Division Manager at Union
Bank of California, where he managed the Northern California and Central
Valley/Pacific Northwest
divisions of Corporate Deposit Services. He is a senior manager
with over 25 years of sales and management experience in the
financial
services
industry, having held positions with Wells Fargo and Chemical
Bank. Knight is a graduate of Queens College in New York and
Mount St. Mary’s
College in Los Angeles, and has also dedicated his time and leadership
abilities to Westside Community Mental Health Center, Laguna
Honda Hospital Foundation, Regents Council at St. Mary’s College
and the Haas School of Business at the University of California,
Berkeley.
James McCabe is an accomplished sales,
insurance and financial services industry executive and currently serves
as
Executive Vice President of
ABD Insurance & Financial Services in Redwood City, California. He
has previously held senior management positions with Sedgwick Noble
Lowndes, Arthur Gallagher and Company and Marsh USA, Inc., where
was the Managing
Director. McCabe is a graduate of the University of California, Santa
Barbara, and has been the First Vice President of the Guardsmen since
1989, where he has helped to raise millions of dollars to send underserved
Bay Area children to summer camp.
Stephen Molinelli is the owner and
manager of Northern California Practice Sales, a firm specializing
in dental practice sales and
appraisals. He is a graduate of the University of the Pacific and
has extensive experience
in banking, real estate, finance and sales. In addition to serving
on the Board of Directors of The First Tee of San Francisco, Molinelli
is
the tournament chairman of the annual Kids in the Klinic golf tournament
and has been a member of the Guardsmen since 1999.
Robert Morris is a private investor and former Managing Director and General
Partner for Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was the head
of Global Investment Research in New York, European Investment
Research in London and Telecommunications Research. Before joining
Goldman Sachs, he was a General Partner at Montgomery Securities
and worked
for
Wells
Fargo Investment Advisors in San Francisco. Morris is the former
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of San Francisco University High
School and is
currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the Schools of
the Sacred Heart and Marymount School in New York. He holds an
MBA from the
University
of New Mexico and has charitably contributed his time and expertise
to the American Liver Foundation and St. Ignatius Church. Rev. Dr.
Kenneth Weare is an adjunct professor of social ethics at the
University of San Francisco and Pastor of St. Rita’s Church
in Fairfax. A graduate of Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium
and St. John’s College in California, he is a Catholic moral
theologian and priest, and was the Director of the School of Pastoral
Leadership
for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Weare has served on the
Board of Directors for various human rights, humanitarian and United
Nations organizations,
including the Humanitarian Law Project, International Educational
Development, the International Association Against Torture, the
Committee on Disarmament,
and the Archbishop Romero Relief Fund. Additionally, he has served
as an Official Observer of the El Salvador (1994) and Nicaraguan
(1990) elections,
and has traveled on human rights delegations to several countries,
including Guatemala, Jamaica, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Cuba, the
former U.S.S.R.,
India, Haiti and Honduras.
These seven new appointees join the Catholic Charities
CYO Board of Directors during the agency’s Centennial year, which celebrates
100 years of Catholic Charities CYO’s work as a critical safety
net for families, children and those in need. # # #
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