Board of Directors

Managing Member, Strongpoint Holdings, LLC

David Babulak is the Managing Member of Strongpoint Holdings, LLC, an investment company focused on real estate, public markets and private companies.

Dave’s philanthropic efforts are focused on local organizations working to make Silicon Valley a better place for all. A longtime supporter of Second Harvest Food Bank, he served on the board for eight years and remains on the Finance Committee and Facilities Expansion Committee. He is also donor partner at SV2.

Dave served as an Engineer Officer in the United States Army and holds Engineering degrees from the University of Michigan and Stanford University.

Dave and his wife relocated to the Bay area from Chicago in 2009 and currently reside in Los Altos. Outside of work, Dave can be found in his basement gym or hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

A member of ALF Class XLIII, Dave joined the board in 2024.

President & Co-Founder, Vector Holding Group | Former COO, Overland-Tandberg

Tina Rogers Brown has over 25 years of leadership in technology manufacturing, cybersecurity, and corporate turnarounds. She is the President and Co-Founder of Vector Holding Group, a purpose-driven business consulting firm that partners with Fortune 500 clients on strategic transformation across their supply chains, marketplaces, and merchandising. Previously, Tina served as Chief Operating Officer of Overland-Tandberg, a multi-national cybersecurity solutions company with a presence in over 90 countries. She started her career as an electrical engineer at AT&T, Texas Instruments, and Deloitte.

Tina is a passionate advocate for financial literacy and the leadership development of young girls. Her leadership philosophy—rooted in “Love Leadership”—combines corporate excellence with deep compassion, aiming to awaken full potential in people and organizations.

She holds an MBA from Wharton and engineering degrees from Stanford and Georgia Tech.

Tina is a member of ALF Class XLIII.

Transit-Oriented Communities Manager, VTA

Melissa Cerezo, AICP (she/they), is a city planner skilled in strategic planning, civic engagement, urban policy, and public-private partnerships. She began at the NYC Department of City Planning during the Bloomberg Administration, leading a 90-block West Harlem rezoning, and facilitated institutional expansions, as well as improvements to the city’s Privately Owned Public Spaces.

Since joining the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in 2017, she has revitalized partnerships with high-growth cities, ensuring transit investments thrive alongside complete neighborhoods. She serves on city and county-wide planning task forces and frequently speaks on innovative transit-oriented communities.

Currently, as the Transit-Oriented Communities Manager at VTA, Melissa champions inclusive growth, community resilience, and sustainability, uniting local agencies, community groups, and stakeholders to co-create people-centered transit-oriented communities.

She is a member of ALF Urban Class XXXVIII, serves on the AAPI Caucus leadership team, co-leads the Power of We Initiative, and lives in San Jose with her wife and two children.

Founder & CEO, Fostering Promise

André is a purpose-driven executive, founder, and CEO with more than 30 years of experience in private, public, and non-profit sectors, driving organizational strategy, transformation, impact, and diversified growth. He is a national ESG expert with a deep passion for creating innovative, impactful initiatives to address complex business challenges.

Building his early career in high-tech, developing, and leading high-performance sales teams led to his entrepreneurial spirit. As Founder and CEO Emeritus, Mr. Chapman led The Unity Care Group Inc. through 3 decades of strategic growth, providing education, employment, housing, and mental health services to 7500+ clients annually, growing revenues from $0 to a budget of $18M.

André is an innovator and problem solver, having developed a continuum of supportive housing, spearheaded market and revenue diversification, completing two acquisitions, and service expansion across Northern California. After transitioning in 2022, Mr. Chapman has undertaken his most audacious endeavor by tackling the public health crisis of homelessness among former foster youth.

As Founder and CEO of Fostering Promise, his commitment is clear: ensuring no young person ages out of foster care without a safe place to call home, the support of a caring mentor, and the hope for a promising future. His strategic leadership is evident as he spearheads advocacy and public policy efforts across California and beyond.

Partner & General Counsel, Klaros Group

Mary has worked in finance, banking, and the law since graduating from UCLA with a BS in Economics (1983) and a JD from Stanford Law School (1989). Most recently, she served as General Counsel of Silicon Valley Bank and as CEO of Green Dot Bank. Earlier in her career, she lived and worked in the Netherlands, where she was General Counsel of New Skies Satellites, and in Washington, D.C., where she served on the staff of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and worked in private practice.

Currently, Mary works as an executive coach and serves on corporate and non-profit boards, including the boards of All Five, Commonwealth, and the Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. Mary participated in ALF Class XXV and joined the ALF board in March 2020.

Alternate Public Defender, County of Santa Clara (Retired)

David received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1980, received his JD from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1992 and joined the County of Santa Clara in 1994. David is an advocate for advancing social justice and equity in the criminal justice system.

As an administrator, he worked collaboratively with the district attorney, law enforcement agencies, the courts, probation, county executive, board of supervisors, community-based organizations, and other justice system partners to find ways to improve efficiency, reduce disproportionality, and reduce recidivism with the goal of enhancing public safety and justice.

David graduated with ALF Class XXIX.

Executive Editor, Bloomberg News

Tom Giles is the executive editor of the global technology team at Bloomberg News. He previously served as managing editor of U.S. company news and team leader for U.S. technology. Tom was also the editor of Businessweek.com’s Technology channel, based in Silicon Valley.

Before joining Businessweek.com in 2005, Giles was deputy technology team leader at Bloomberg News, where he spent more than eight years, with stints in New York, London and San Francisco. He holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in politics from Princeton University.

Tom graduated with ALF Class XXXVII.

Employment Counsel, Netflix

Jon is employment law counsel for Netflix primarily focused on domestic advice and counsel and litigation. Prior to joining Netflix, Jon was senior corporate counsel at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a leading electronic design automation software and engineering company. Jon provided employment advice and counsel and managed litigation.

Before Cadence, Jon practiced at Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, Inc. in their employment law group. He focused on counseling mid-size and large Silicon Valley companies on employment matters, including trade-secret protection, employee discipline, investigations, employee handbooks and policies, employee agreements, tax matters and advocacy, employment class-actions and general litigation. Jon litigated cases in state and federal courts; as well as before various governmental agencies.

Jon graduated with honors from University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in political science; and the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. Jon is a member of Class XXXI.

Managing Partner, Acorn Campus Ventures

Hsing co-founded SDL Inc in 1983 and Pine Photonics in 2000. In addition to his current role with Acorn Campus Ventures, he serves on the boards of several optoelectronics companies.

Previously Hsing served on the boards of Fremont Union High School and United Way Silicon Valley. He received a BSEE from National Cheng Kung University, a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Hsing graduated with ALF Class XIII.

Lead Managing Partner, Woodside Capital Partners

Kelly Porter is the Lead Managing Partner of Woodside Capital Partners, a 30-person, global M&A and strategic financing advisory for technology companies, headquartered in Palo Alto. He has participated in dozens of transactions, including financings, acquisitions and IPOs. He is also the organizer of MASiV: The M&A Silicon Valley Gathering, the most exclusive conference of top corporate development executives from the largest internet, software, mobile, technology and entertainment companies.

Prior to Woodside Capital Partners, Kelly was Managing Partner of a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, ZAP Ventures, where he invested in 22 companies. Prior to ZAP Ventures, he held positions as Chairman and CEO of CatchTV, an interactive TV software firm (acquired by Liberty Media/ACTV); Executive Vice President of InterActive Corp/HSN-Home Shopping Network; Vice President of Fox Cable Networks in Los Angeles; Media Planner at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising; and Director of Business Development at Seltel, an advertising network.

Kelly is a native of Palo Alto, CA, earned a Masters as a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and earned a Bachelor’s degree from the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Board of Councilors of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and is former Co-Chairman of Silicon Valley Social Ventures / SV2. He is a Fellow in Class 33 of the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley.

US Technology Sector Leader, Deloitte

Heather Rangel is the US Technology Sector Leader at Deloitte. She focuses on connecting and inspiring Deloitte’s clients and professionals towards impact in innovation and growth. Heather is passionate about technology’s disruptive effects on business models and supporting operations. She focuses much of her time exploring these edges.

Heather leads the global Deloitte account for a Fortune 500 technology company, where she drives strategic relationship management, addresses complex business challenges and nurtures positively disruptive ideas.

Heather is on the Board of Directors of a non-profit, Cancer Commons, an organization dedicated to uniting patients, oncologists, and scientists in creating a rapid learning platform for the delivery of precision personalized cancer care.

Heather is a frequent public speaker around topics related to women in leadership and digital disruption. She is a strong supporter of the arts, especially documentary filmmakers addressing the most important social and economic issues of our time. She participated in ALF Class XXXIII.

Former Chief Legal Officer, Seagate Technology

Kate Schuelke has more than 35 years of experience representing technology companies both in-house and at international law firms. She is the former Chief Legal Officer at Seagate Technology, a multinational manufacturer of data storage solutions, where she was responsible for the company’s legal, government affairs, and security functions. Prior to joining Seagate, she was Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary at Altera Corporation, during which time she helped negotiate that company’s purchase by Intel Corporation.

Kate began her career at an international law firm litigating intellectual property law, business, and securities class action cases.  She also worked at a European law firm where she counseled clients on intellectual property protection and business formation issues, and she was a Fulbright Scholar lecturer on U.S. intellectual property (IP) law in Poland.  She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Buffalo and received her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.

Kate currently serves on the board of directors of SiTime Corporation, a fast-growing semiconductor company listed on Nasdaq, where she chairs the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of the Compensation Committee.

Kate is a champion of talent and leadership development, and she finds great joy in mentoring and sponsoring others in their career journeys.  She is also a frequent speaker on leadership, corporate governance, and legal issues.

Kate is a member of ALF Class XLII.

President & CEO, San Jose Chamber of Commerce

Leah Toeniskoetter is the President & CEO of the San Jose Chamber of Commerce. Her twenty-year career has spanned multiple industries – corporate, small business and nonprofit – and her community leadership roles have delved into differing sectors that impact our daily lives including public health care, open space preservation, urbanism and civic engagement.

Previously, Leah lead Deloitte’s Social Impact investments for the Bay Area, served as SPUR’s founding San Jose Director, development manager of large real estate development projects for the family business in the South Bay and Northern California, financial analyst at Comerica Bank and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Bolivia).

She is an ALF Senior Fellow Class XXIV, Pacific Clinics Board Member, International Women’s Forum member, SPUR City Advisory Board member, and avid cyclist.

Judge, Santa Clara County Superior Court

Judge Erica R. Yew has served on the Santa Clara County Superior Court since 2001, where her judicial assignments have included a variety of court settings, including presiding over a dependency drug treatment court and other collaborative problem-solving courts. In her years as an attorney, Judge Yew was President of the Asian Pacific Bar Association of the Silicon Valley, served on the California State Bar Board of Trustees, Pro Bono Project of Silicon Valley, provided leadership to the Asian Law Alliance, the Legal Aid Society, the Silicon Valley Campaign for Legal Services, as well as having served on the Santa Clara County Bar Association’s Board of Trustees.

Judge Yew is also an educator, having taught classes on a wide spectrum of subjects, including judicial ethics, the elimination of bias in the court system, language access in the legal system, and the function and work of collaborative courts — and for a wide group of organizations, including the State Bar of California’s Center for Judicial Education and Research, Children and Family Futures, the Rutter Group, the California Judges Association, the National Center for State Courts, the National Judicial College, and the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.

She chaired her court’s Community Outreach Committee and its Legislative Liaison Committee.  In 2006, Judge Yew served on the California State Bar and Santa Clara County Bar Association Pipeline Task Forces on Diversity, and she established Santa Clara County’s first county-wide collaborative workshop program serving families dealing with domestic violence.  In 2010, the Supreme Court appointed Judge Yew to the Commission on Judicial Performance, where she served as a member until 2019, and as the Commission’s Chairperson from 2013 to 2016.

Judge Yew served as a member of the Judicial Council from 2009 to 2012 and currently serves on the Council’s Advisory Committee on Providing Access and Fairness.  She also serves on the Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinions to which she was appointed in May 2019. She graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley.