FOSTER - Key Persons


Adam Nemer

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Adina Mangubat

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Adrian Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Alex Eli

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Undergraduate Programs

Alex Goldenberg

Job Titles:
  • AG Consulting / Member

Alisa Boninger

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator
  • Program Manager

Alisha Tidball

Job Titles:
  • Employer Services Manager

Allison Comer

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Allison McCarty

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Manager

Amber Ratcliffe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Amy Sallin

Job Titles:
  • Director

Andrea Mano

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Andrew Krueger

Job Titles:
  • Director of Alumni and Media Relations

Andrew Rabitoy

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Andrina Bigelow

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

April Sather - COO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations

Arthur Buerk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Fellow in Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur - in - Residence, Site Lead Creative Destruction Lab Seattle

Ashley Russell

Job Titles:
  • Event Manager

Ben Minicucci

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • CEO, Alaska Airlines

Ben Straughan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Bill Bromfield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Bill McAleer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

BJ Ong

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  • Unify Consulting / Member

Bob Donegan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • President, Ivar 's, Inc

Bronica Sam

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Director for Recruiting and Talent Acquisition

Bruce J. Avolio

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director
  • Mark Pigott Chair
Bruce has published 12 books and over 150 articles on leadership and related areas. In 2017, Bruce was recognized as being among the top 70 most highly cited researchers in the United States in Economics and Business, and among the top 3,000 across all sciences around the globe (Thompson Reuters). He was also listed this past year at the #18th spot on the all-time most highly cited industrial and organizational psychology researchers over the last 100 years. Finally, a recent Stanford University study published in the journal PLOS Biology, the authors reported on a sweeping analysis of citation data from 1996 to 2019 on the research of 6,880,389 scientists, who have published at least five papers in any of 22 major disciplines, ranging from biology to engineering to economics to management. The author's database listed the top 2% of scholars-more than 100,000 names in total. Based on this study, Dr. Avolio was in the top 0.06% of the most-cited scientific researchers overall, and #25 among the 36,319 researchers in the category of business & management. Bruce has consulted with hundreds of organizations around the globe in Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, in the design and delivery of transformative leadership development systems. His current work focuses on how to design and implement gamulations (part game and simulation) to foster and accelerate leadership development and organizational transformation.

Chad Robins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • CEO, Adaptive Biotechnologies

Charles Trillingham

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Communication, Marketing and Public Relations

Chee Chew

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • Chief Product Officer, MParticle

Chris Milliken

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Manager

Chuck Barbo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Clyde Walker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • Chairman of the Board, First Choice Health

Colette Vogel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Director for Recruiting and Talent Acquisition
  • Senior Associate Director for Recruiting and Talent Acquisition Director, Mentorship Program

Craig Kinzer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Craig Sherman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Dan Sheridan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • COO & EVP, Brooks Running

Dave Carey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • CEO, TeleScope Advisors, Former Executive VP of Corporate Services, T - Mobile

Dave Gartenberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • Executive Transformation & Former CHRO, Avanade

David Albano

Job Titles:
  • Unify Consulting / President

David Coven

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board
  • Scholarship

David Hanson

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

David Smukowski

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Dempsey Hall


Eileen Herbert Bhatia

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Partner
  • Assistant Director of Corporate Relations

Elaine Newtson

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Senior Associate

Elizabeth Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Emer Dooley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board
  • Affiliate Instructor of Management and Organization

Ethan Anderson - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Evan Fein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • CFO & COO, TextNow

Farah Ali

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Fariba Alamdari

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board

Foster Blog


François Baneyx

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Frederick Huntsberry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Geoff Entress

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Gordon Neumiller

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Master of Supply Chain Management Consulting Projects

Gordy Williams

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Gregory Heller

Job Titles:
  • Coach

Harold Scoggins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • Fire Chief, Seattle Fire Department

Ivanka Goneva

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director
  • Executive

Jack Chung

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Jake Rhyner

Job Titles:
  • HIC & Dempsey Startup Co - Lead

James Zheng

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Manager

Jean Choy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Executive Education and

Jean Gekler

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Senior Associate

Jeff Adams

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Jeff Dossett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Jeff Pyatt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • CEO, Broadmark Realty Capital

Jeff Roh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Jennifer Chen


Jesse Proudman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Jessica Roberto

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge & Graduate Programs

John Oppenheimer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • CEO, Columbia Hospitality

Joseph Sherman

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Partner
  • Director of Development & Corporate Relations

Julie Boden

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Director and Career Consultant

Julie Fergus

Job Titles:
  • EIC Co - Lead

Kaeleen Drummey


Kate Spoor

Job Titles:
  • Senior Program Manager

Katherine Wu

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager

Kathi Lentzsch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • Board Member of 4Front Ventures Corp, Former CEO & President, Bartell Drugs, Former CEO, Elephant Pharmacy

Kelci Zile

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Kimberley Martonik

Job Titles:
  • Philips Medical Systems / Member

Kristin Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Stakeholder Communications and Relations

Kurt Shintaffer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • Co - Founder & CFO, Apptio

Kyle Beavert

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator

Kyondra Kennard


Lauren Brohawn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge

Leanna Le

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Leslie Meagley

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Senior Associate

Lindsey Friessnig

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Lindy Sin

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Lisa Hjorten

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Liz Pearce

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Loretta Little

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board
  • Washington Research

Lucas Ruiz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Marc Barros

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Marcia Caldwell

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Martina Welkhoff

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • Founding Partner, Women in XR & Managing Partner at WXR Fund

Marty Pisciotti

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • COO at JobLandr, Former Head of People at MOD Pizza

Mary O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • Partner, Mercer

Maxine Chen - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Melissa Borges

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Alumni Communications and Engagement

Melissa Solberg

Job Titles:
  • Director of Sales and Marketing

Michael Gambee - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Michael Verchot

Job Titles:
  • Director, Consulting & Business Development Center

Mike Fridgen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Molly Breysse Cox

Job Titles:
  • Leadership Associate

Naomi Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean
  • Assistant Dean, MBA Career Management

Nathan Coles

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Neal Dempsey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Emeritus Board
  • Emeritus Board Members

Nick Stiritz

Job Titles:
  • Premier Nutrition / Member

Olivia Amestoy

Job Titles:
  • Research Coordinator

Ralph Derrickson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Ric Merrifield

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CLST Advisory Board
  • CEO, How Trap Consulting

Riccardo Pasto

Job Titles:
  • Forrester Research, Beijing, China / Member

Ron Howell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board
  • Retired WRF

Samantha Buhr

Job Titles:
  • Director, MBA Strategic Consulting Program

Sara Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Sean Cappello

Job Titles:
  • ECG Management Consultants / Member

Sean Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Shawn Lipton

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Career Coach

Stacy Duhon

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Senior Associate

Stefka Koenig

Job Titles:
  • Philips Healthcare / Member

Suresh Kotha

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board
  • Research Director
  • Professor of Management

T.A. McCann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Tama Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Tarah Moore

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Terry Drayton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Thom Murawski

Job Titles:
  • Staff Member

Tom Seery

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Troy Cichos

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Buerk Center Advisory Board

Uday Keshavdas

Job Titles:
  • Snowflake Computing / Member

Vivian Truong

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Yuko Oaku

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Dempsey Startup Competition & Jones Foster Accelerator