CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Bay Area Social Committee Chair and Event Moderator
Barbara is an Ameriprise Financial Advisor, specializing in job transition and retirement, tax planning, and women's financial strategies. She has owned her own business for 19 years. Barbara worked at HP/Agilent in financial and management roles for 16 years. She is a CPA/Personal Financial Specialist, holds a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor℠ Designation, and has taught financial, tax, and retirement planning as an Adjunct Professor at a local community college for 13 years.
Cathy worked in manufacturing and customer support at the Santa Clara Division for 11 years. She is now a food and water safety consultant, operating Carlson Ag Food Safety Consulting. Previous roles include QA and Food Safety Manager at Fresh Leaf Farms, project manager at California Organics, and project manager at the USDA. Cathy has a BA in Environmental Studies from UC-Santa Cruz, focused on Agroecology and Land Use and Planning.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- President Emeritus
Founder and President Emeritus: John Verrochi
John was Product Marketing Manager for HP-UX, HP's UNIX operating environment. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Yale School of Management.
Mary was Global Business Manager for the iPass/Cisco alliance as well as the world-wide marketing manager for various HP partners. Mary holds a BA in Economics from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Shirley's 23-year HP career included Asia Pacific Project Manager in Singapore, European PC Business Controller in Grenoble, and Global Director of Internal Audit in Hong Kong. After HP, she was Director of Internal Audit at Intuit. Shirley has a BA in Economics from Agnes Scott College and an MBA from Emory University. She is a Certified Internal Auditor and self-published poet. Shirley now fits short-term consulting engagements around travel and several non-profit board memberships.
Tom worked in R&D, manufacturing engineering, and process engineering at HP for 20 years. He is currently a web application developer at Information Designs in Boise. Tom has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Idaho and an MS in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford.