CATHEDRAL SCHOOL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of Bridgewater James Limited
Bill Bennington is the managing director of Bridgewater James Limited, LLC, a boutique investment bank regulated by FINRA and SIPC whose main activity is raising institutional assets for selected hedge funds and private equity funds. James works with endowments, foundations, family offices, pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, and fund of funds in the United States, Europe, and the Gulf.
Bill's other board roles have included serving as chair of the board of trustees of the American Farm School (Thessaloniki, Greece); board member and Alumni Fund chair of St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire); board member and Development Committee chair of The Center for the Collaborative Classroom (Alameda, California); and board member and chair of the Development Committee of Cornerstone Literacy (New York, New York).
Bill graduated from Cathedral School for Boys, St. Paul's School, and Princeton University. In 1985, his Princeton four won the National Collegiate Rowing Championships. Bill and his brother, Jeff (a captain in the U.S. Navy), were the third set of twins to graduate from Cathedral School for Boys. Bill actively supports Grace Cathedral and the Episcopal Impact Fund.
Burns Jones has served as Cathedral's Head of School since 2015. Before joining Cathedral, Mr. Jones was the Head of The Canterbury School, an independent, PreK-8 Episcopal day school in North Carolina.
Mr. Jones holds a B.A. in English from Sewanee, an M.A. in English from Middlebury, and a J.D. from the University of South Carolina. In 2014, Burns was awarded a Klingenstein Fellowship at Columbia University's School of Education. He serves as a member of the Board of the National Association of Episcopal Schools, and St. Mary's School (a girls' high school in Raleigh, NC.) He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Elementary School Heads Association, and a member of the Visionary Heads Group.
He and his wife, Elizabeth, have two sons, Wyatt and Crawford, both of whom attend Cathedral School for Boys. In addition to his responsibilities as Head of School, Burns coaches soccer and runs the student law club at Cathedral.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer for the Systematic Active Equity
Carlton W. Linnenbach is a native San Franciscan and graduated from Cathedral School for Boys (CSB) in 1987. He earned a BA degree in Politics and Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996, where he was a member of the men's heavyweight rowing team. He later earned an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2003.
Carlton is the Chief Operating Officer for the Systematic Active Equity (SAE) platform within BlackRock, Inc.'s Active Equities Group. In this role, he is responsible for the execution of the platform's strategic initiatives, the Core Portfolio Management function, and the day-to-day oversight of the platform's non-investment activities. His service with BlackRock dates back to 2009, including his work at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009.
Job Titles:
- CEO / Founder of EPIQ Capital Group
Chad Boeding is the CEO / founder of EPIQ Capital Group, a private multifamily office headquartered in San Francisco. Prior to EPIQ, he was cofounder / partner at ICONIQ Capital. Prior to this, he was an executive director at Morgan Stanley and vice president at Goldman Sachs.
Chad received his B.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign / Urbana, and his M.B.A. in finance and accounting from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Chad lives in San Francisco with his wife, Kristine, son, Austin, and daughter, Blake.
Job Titles:
- Executive Director of Episcopal Impact Fund
Christina Alvarez is the Executive Director of Episcopal Impact Fund, a grantmaking organization that promotes innovative, long-term solutions to address the root causes of poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to this, she managed fundraising, communications, public relations, and media relations as Senior Director of Development at Episcopal Community Services (ECS), San Francisco's largest non-profit provider of services for people experiencing homelessness, extreme poverty, and food insecurity in our city. Before ECS, she served as the Executive Director of The Gubbio Project, which provides space and sanctuary for unhoused people in need of safe, compassionate respite during the day.
Christina is the mother of two Cathedral students, Elliott '27 and Silas '30. Christina currently serves on the Parents Association's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee. When not driving the boys to soccer practice, she enjoys hiking, swimming, and reading.
Diana Marchesi serves on the board of trustees of Grace Cathedral. In that capacity, she chairs the Grace School Committee, which is the liaison between Grace Cathedral and the Cathedral School for Boys.
Hailing originally from Korea, Don attended St. Paul's School in New Hampshire and Harvard College. Starting out in tax law and derivatives trading, Don enjoyed a long finance career in investment banking and capital markets in New York, London, and San Francisco. Now, with a second act in the tech startup ecosystem, Don is working in edtech and fintech to solve some persistent problems. Don has had two boys attending Cathedral School, Jackson '23 (now attending St. Paul's School) and Gavin '28. Don has served on the boards of several nonprofits, including the Church of the Incarnation (New York City), St. Stephen's Church (Belvedere), and the Belvedere Tennis Club as its current president ("not at all indicative of his tennis skills").
Ed Park grew up in Queens and Long Island, New York, and moved to San Francisco in 2004 where he met his wife Julie, a San Francisco native. They have two children, Nathaniel (‘27) and Jacob (‘29).
Ed is currently a start-up technology investor and adviser. For the last 15 years, Ed has held several leadership positions at technology companies, helping them to scale during their growth stages. Most recently, he was CFO of Enjoy Technology, a mobile retail-logistics company, and has also held leadership positions at Facebook and Asana. Prior to that, Ed was an investment banker in New York.
Ed graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Economics and currently serves on the Board of City Hope, a non-profit community center in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco. In addition, Ed volunteers as a mentor for BUILD, a non-profit organization that teaches entrepreneurship and business skills to underserved high school students in the Bay Area.
The Very Rev. Eric Metoyer was raised in northern New England, attending Lyndon Institute in Vermont, and is a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley. He moved to San Francisco in 1990 for love and also to begin his career in corporate accounting for an engineering firm. Many years later, he answered a call to ministry in the Episcopal Church, being ordained to Holy Orders in 2011. He currently is a regional dean on behalf of the Episcopal Bishop of California, focusing on congregation and community issues; in addition, he serves as a deputy to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church (four terms) and is a member of the Advisory Group on Church Planting and Redevelopment for The Episcopal Church.
Metoyer has long standing interest in children's education; he served six years as a board member of Synergy School in San Francisco and is currently a corporator (trustee advisor) of Lyndon Institute, Lyndon Center VT. He serves as a board member of the Book Club of California and of Episcopal Community Services. He is married to Jessica Metoyer, JD, and they have a son, Victor Metoyer, USMCR. They live in San Francisco.
Jessica MacGregor was born and raised in New York. After graduating from her local high school, Jessica studied art history at Oberlin College. She moved to San Francisco in 1988, about a year before the 1989 earthquake, and has called San Francisco home ever since. Jessica earned her juris doctor from Golden Gate University School of Law in 1993 and has been a passionate advocate for her clients in her nearly 30 years in practice.
Her son, Thomas, is in the Class of 2025 at Cathedral School. Her daughter, Natalie, is a student at The Hamlin School in the class of 2025. When not trying (and only sometimes succeeding) to manage the schedules of four busy people, Jessica enjoys gardening, knitting, reading, and baking.
John-Austin Saviano '88 is the managing partner of High Country Advisors. He has spent the majority of his career working with or for endowed institutions, including serving as chief investment officer for U.C. Berkeley and roles at Cambridge Associates and the Moore Foundation.
John-Austin earned a B.A. in economics from U.C. San Diego, an M.B.A. from Duke University, and is a C.F.A. Charterholder.
John-Austin and his wife are proud parents to three children, including a son who attends Cathedral School for Boys.
Jorge Klor de Alva, the father of Thiago '27, was born in Mexico but is a long-time Bay Area resident. Today he is president of Nexus Research and Policy Center, a research institute focused on higher education, and Chairman of the Board of 3DMX, Inc., headquartered in Silicon Valley, whose Mexico-based University of Advanced Technologies offers degrees in computer graphics, game design, and development, cybersecurity, and mobile app technologies. He is a former President of the University of Phoenix and served on the board of its holding company Apollo Education Group, Inc. He is also past Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apollo International, Inc., a global education company serving Europe, India, and Latin America.
Previously he was The Class of 1940 Professor at UC-Berkeley, before that, Professor at Princeton University. He has published dozens of scholarly articles, K-8 social studies textbooks, and a high school American history textbook (all published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), along with another 15 books in the social sciences. He also publishes on higher education in numerous U.S., and international media, ranging from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to Issues in Science and Technology and Philanthropy Daily.
Besides serving on numerous editorial boards and as a consultant to, for example, the Educational Testing Service, Graduate Record Exam, and the College Board, he co-chaired the commission that developed a new K-12 social studies curriculum for New York state and served on the Smithsonian Institute Council, the board of the American Association of Higher Education and the Advisory Council on Education and Human Resources of the National Science Foundation. He earned a B.A. and J.D. at UC-Berkeley and a Ph.D. at UC-Santa Cruz.
Josh Rupright was born and raised in Worthington, Ohio, and earned a B.A. in anthropology from Kenyon College before moving to San Francisco in 1992. Josh's wife, Annie, is chief compliance counsel at Okta, his daughter Finley is in the class of 2024 at The Kent School, and his son, Griffin, is in the Cathedral School Class of 2025. Many of Josh's family lived or live in San Francisco, including his maternal grandparents, mother, father, and stepmother, sister, brother, niece, and nephews.
Josh has been in the legal consulting business for over 25 years and is currently senior director of business development with FTI Consulting. When not parenting, working, or volunteering, Josh enjoys travel, golf, hiking, birding, pickleball, sangiovese, and hazy IPA.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director of Admissions & Outreach
Job Titles:
- Director of Enrollment Management
Lauren Johnston leads global marketing for Content Safety and Counter Abuse Technology at Google. In her 10 years at Google, Lauren has led the creation of Google's Policy Brand Marketing and Global Brand Management teams, as well as brand strategy for launches across the company's many product areas. Prior to Google, Lauren worked in both corporate strategy and product marketing at Mattel; and prior to that, she was in strategy at the brand consulting firm Interbrand. In addition to brand marketing, she has a passion for leading and aligning cross-functional teams.
Originally from Los Angeles, Lauren received her M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and her B.A. from Duke University. She serves on the board of directors for Children of Shelters, a nonprofit organization helping break the cycle of homelessness for San Francisco children.
Lauren and her husband, Spencer Hugret, live in San Francisco with their two sons, Wells (‘30) and Jack (prospective ‘33). When not dodging lightsaber duels in her living room, Lauren enjoys baking, traveling with her family, and time with friends.
The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young is an Episcopal priest and dean of Grace Cathedral. He began his tenure as the ninth dean of the cathedral in August 2015.
As dean, Malcolm leads the cathedral in its mission to reimagine church with courage, joy, and wonder. He oversees the spiritual life of the cathedral and ministers to the cathedral's congregation and wider community. Malcolm is the moderator of The Forum, the cathedral's flagship lecture series. He created the Innovative Ministries program, which includes the Tuesday night yoga practice, which draws up to 700 people weekly, and The Vine, a contemporary worship service and community for people age 20-45. Malcolm has also launched programs to expand the cathedral's social justice programs and digital offerings.
Malcolm joined Grace Cathedral from Christ Church, Los Altos, California, where he was the rector and also the founder of the Ventana School, an Episcopal day school. Malcolm was ordained a priest in 1995. He holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master of divinity and doctorate of theology from Harvard University. He is the author of "The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau" and "The Invisible Hand in Wilderness: Economics, Ecology, and God." Malcolm contributes articles regularly to publications such as the "San Francisco Examiner" and "Huffington Post."
Malcolm is married to Heidi Ho, a lawyer and professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law, and they have two college-aged children, Micah and Melia.
Michael Hanna '94 is a corporate attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Michael's practice is focused on the representation of private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide variety of aspects, including leveraged acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint ventures, corporate governance, and other corporate matters.
Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Michael was a commercial litigator at Morris Polich & Purdy LLP. Michael's litigation practice centered around real estate and corporate matters, including residential/commercial acquisitions, construction defects, landlord-tenant issues, shareholder claims, business-to-business disputes, and D&O liability.
In addition to Michael's practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Michael serves on the board of directors of Hanna Winery, Inc., a family-owned and operated business founded by his father in 1985.
A Cathedral alumnus himself, Michael currently has two sons at Cathedral: William '29 and Johnny '31.
Job Titles:
- Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at Artisan Partners
Michael McKinnon is a portfolio manager and managing director at Artisan Partners. He attended college at Tufts, and received an MBA from Columbia and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard. He has previously served on the board of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, and AEI's Enterprise Club.
Michael and his wife Emily have been San Francisco residents since 2010, where they live with their two children Jack ('28) and Nina.
A former tutor and teacher, Michele Bell currently focuses on her work as an artist and photographer. A native Houstonian, she stayed in Texas for college and graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. While working at an ad agency in New York, she attended Parsons School of Design where she earned a certificate in fashion design before moving to San Francisco 21 years ago. She always finds ways to keep her creative streak alive through her work and volunteer efforts.
Michele has served on the board of the Bay Area Discovery Museum, Katherine Delmar Burke School, and San Francisco's Midweeklies. She and her husband, Scott, have three children: their daughter Finley is at Lick-Wilmerding ('25), son Sanders is a Cathedral alum and attends Proctor Academy in New Hampshire ('27), and their youngest son, Charlie, is a current Cathedral School student, Class of '26.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Buildings and Grounds Committee
Peter Oberndorf is responsible for the overall leadership and direction of The Axton Group, a privately held investment management firm focused on value-add real estate and real estate-related operating assets in the United States and Canada. He serves as a member of the Investment Committee and oversees identification, evaluation, and consummation of real estate strategies and investments.
Prior to forming Axton in 2017, Peter led the Real Estate division of Oberndorf Enterprises, LLC, worked for Strategic Hotels and Resorts, where he had responsibilities in corporate finance and portfolio management, and Colony Capital, LLC, where he had responsibilities in acquisitions and asset management.
Peter currently serves as member of the Buildings and Grounds Committee and the Space Planning Strategic Planning Committee for Cathedral School for Boys, and he is a class agent responsible for leadership gifts at Williams College. He is also a member of the Stanford Real Estate Counsel.
Peter received a B.A. in political economy and leadership studies in 2008 from Williams College and an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business in 2017.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President and Head of the Wealth Client Group at Wells Fargo Asset Management
René Picazo is an executive vice president and head of the Wealth Client Group at Wells Fargo Asset Management (WFAM). René and his teams are responsible for the distribution of WFAM investment products through national, regional, and independent broker-dealers; private banks; insurance companies; retirement platforms; and registered investment advisers. He also oversees some of WFAM's largest and most complex client Relationships.
Before joining WFAM in late 2017, René served as a managing director and senior relationship manager with the Global Institutional Capital Group at Wells Fargo Securities. Earlier, René served as a managing director and senior relationship manager for top UBS clients on the West Coast. Prior to UBS, he was with Deutsche Bank in New York, where he served as senior relationship manager for global markets. René also has significant international experience from his time at Merrill Lynch, where he initially covered clients in Latin America and later oversaw relationships in Italy, Spain, and Portugal while based in London.
René earned a bachelor's degree in government from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He holds Series 7, 63, 79 and 24 FINRA licenses. He is a proud member of the Association of Latino Professionals for America (ALPFA) and he also serves on the national board of the Wells Fargo Foundation, an organization that donates over $400M a year to non-profits that support underserved populations.
Ronald Clark is a native of San Francisco, where he and his wife, Ashley, have lived since 2011, after spending a little over a decade on the East Coast. Their son, Oliver, is a proud member of Cathedral School's Class of 2028.
Ronald currently serves as a managing director in Teneo's Strategy and Consulting practice. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied economics, and of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he received an M.B.A. He is an active supporter of The Episcopal Church in the San Francisco Bay Area and recently served as junior warden and a vestry member of The Episcopal Church of St. Mary the Virgin.
Ronald enjoys spending time outdoors with Ashley, Oliver, and their beloved Soft-Coated Wheaten Terrier, Jameson, and he is an avid skier and sailor.
Shipley Salewski is an educator and consultant. She most recently served as a member of the Academics Team at KIPP NorCal Public Schools, where she coached instructional leaders in the areas of literacy and disciplinary literacy. Prior to this, she was the dean of instruction at Everett Middle School, a public school in SFUSD. She has taught English, humanities, world religions, and Latin to grades 6-12 in public, private, and charter schools.
Shipley received her masters in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School and her B.A. from Duke University. She currently serves vice chair of the board of trustees for The Tipping Point Community.
Her son, Gray, is in the class of 2026 at Cathedral School, and her daughter, Adele, is in the class of 2028 at The Hamlin School.
Thayer Hopkins is a 5th generation San Franciscan native with longstanding ties to Cathedral School for Boys and Grace Cathedral. His parents were founding trustees of the school, and his brothers and son David (‘98) are graduates. Thayer graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with degrees in fine arts and architecture. He started his architectural and design practice in 1990, a multidisciplinary atelier with a portfolio of Bay Area residential, commercial, and institutional buildings. Many of his projects have been featured in publications and he has been the recipient of several awards.
Thayer served as Trustee and Head of the CSB Buildings & Grounds Committee in the 1990s, overseeing the first expansion of the campus since its origins in 1965. He subsequently was the architect for numerous campus projects before becoming an Honorary Lifetime Trustee. Thayer has also served as founding Director and Treasurer of the San Francisco Architectural Club, member of the Board of Town School for Boys as President of the Alumni Council, Director of the Board and member of the Committee for the Renovation of the California Tennis Club, and currently serves on the Rhode Island School of Design Architectural Advisory Council.