PRESIDIANFall 2013

Amount you’ve paid towards

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years: $521.73

Amount you’ve paid towards

solar: $7.24

I’m delighted to present our year-end issue of Presidian. Let me welcome you to this issue with a quick story.

In mid-October, I was at the Social Venture Network’s Fall Conference in Baltimore, attending a standing room only session on impact investing. As I sat there listening to the Calvert Foundation’s Lisa Hall describe a new Sonen Capital report on impact portfolios, I was reminded that one of our alum, Josh Newman (PA2), had co-authored the Sonen report. Josh was hired by Sonen following a Presidio-sponsored Jesse and Betsy Fink Foundation internship there in 2012.

I was so proud. I eagerly pulled up a link to the document on my iPhone from Presidio’s Facebook page to share with the people sitting next to me in the packed room. I turned to my right and showed the report link to the man sitting next to me. He noticed that it was the Presidio Facebook page and said with delight, “I’m Tim Braun, C8!” Turns out Tim’s a cleantech entrepreneur a few times over. As I turned back to the speakers, up to the stage walked Meg Escobosa (C2), an SVN staffer, who was helping facilitate the session.

For me, no other moment so perfectly captures the unique and growing power of the Presidio community.

Presidians are everywhere when it comes to leading edge ideas and practices in sustainability. We are literally building the field, from writing reports and hosting conferences to starting new companies and heading up sustainability programs in major cities. We’re the real deal, working both the supply and demand sides of the equation en route to a new economy and a new society.

This is no different in the world of cleantech, the focus of this issue of Presidian. In fits and starts, the industry is maturing, and these are exciting times for the many Presidians who make it tick.

This issue of Presidian also features our first-ever donor thank-you, a special annual “insert” identifying all of our expanding base of donors and Experiential Learning partners for the past fiscal year. We’re extremely proud to be able to list each and every individual, foundation and company whose contributions make it possible for us to be the #1 sustainable management program in the world.

As always, I want to thank all the contributors to this issue, with special thanks to our Communications Manager Rachel Fus and Ryan Cabinte, our Associate Dean who has assumed overall communications and marketing responsibilities as of September. One last production note: going forward, we’ll be producing the magazine twice annually instead of tri-annually. Look for our next issue of Presidian in June 2014.

I want to wish all of you a happy, healthy holiday season and inspired new year.

Best Regards.

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

Contents

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10 Faculty ResearchDwight Collins spreads the word about teaching sustainable operations.

12 Semester in Photos Images of Presidians from the past few months.

18 MBA Rankings PGS has recently been presented with two accolades.

20 Eric GimonExpert-in-Residence talks about his background as a physist, his experience in clean energy, and obstacles to climate progress.

Net ImpactPGS chapter co-hosts this year’s conference.

Members of the PGS Net Impact Chapter gather together outside the San José McEnery Convention Center during this year’s Net Impact Conference. Story page 6.

3 From the President PGS President and CEO William Shutkin’s letter of welcome.

4 Presidio Graduate School

BOaRD OF DIRECTORS

Nizar Abdallah, MBA, PhD

Eva Auchincloss

Suzanne Farver, JD

Saskia Feast, MBA, PhD

Robert Friese, JD

Jamie Gardner, MPP

Lee Gotshall-Maxon, JD

Richard M. Gray, MDiv, PhD

Rebekah Helzel, CFA, MBA

Heather King, MBA

Maud Ali Long, MA

Chinwe Onyeagoro

Rahul Raj

William Shutkin (ex officio)

David Stripling

Steven L. Swig, JD

Malcolm S. Walter

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Lynne Andersson, PhD

Joy Amulya, EdD

Bram Briggance, PhD

Ryan Cabinte, MBA, JD

Dwight Collins, PhD

Erin Cooke, MPA

Steven Crane, PhD

Rodrigo Espinosa, MS

Tammy Esteves, PhD

Mark Fabionar, MA

Vanessa Fry, MBA

Scott Fullwiler, PhD

Beau Giannini, MBA

Paul Hawken

Allen Hershkowitz, PhD

Jonathan Kevles, MBA

Donna LaSala, MPA

Thomas Li

Martin Medeiros, MA

Nils Moe, MBA

Hilary AbellHow one student is using her PGS education to help spread the benefits of shared ownership.

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43 Donor Thank YouA special section honoring our donors.

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36 OlazulA team of MBA candidates journey to Connecticut to learn about sustainability outside the PGS bubble.

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40 GoogleTransportation EL project leads to $15,000 grant.

David StriplingFrom reading dead languages to the Director of Corporate Development at Soligent.

Bay Area Climate CollaborativeWhat is the best way to market electric vehicles in San Francisco?

Dariush RafinejadGet to know one of PGS’s professors of innovation.

28 Joe HerrRecent grad talks about taking the next step in the field of energy conservation.

anne Sauer (C17), Scott Bright (C17), and Nicole Busto (C15) work on a project in Managerial Finance. Story page 12.

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Dariush Rafinejad, PhD

Amanda Ravenhill, MBA

Carl Schneebeck, MBA

Cynthia Scott, PhD

Dan Sevall, MBA, MA

Alicia Stammer, MS

Kristin York, MBA

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José Abad

Bethany Baugh, MBA

Isa Dyer

Mitchell Friedman, EdD, APR

Rachel Fus

Simone Kujau

Dawn Mokuau

Maria Kei Oldiges

Santhi Perumal, MBA

William Shutkin, JD

Wendell Tull

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he fall conference season has come and gone, but one conference really stood out for Presidians this year: the 2013 Net Impact Conference. This year’s conference was held in our backyard at the San Jose Convention Center on October 24-26th. A total of 81 Presidians attended the conference, earning our chapter the award for bringing the most attendees from a local chapter. However, PGS’s involvement in the conference had started long before. In fall 2012, Presidio’s Net Impact Chapter, led by then-Chairs Ayaka Emoto (C15) and Bobby Coucoules (C14), applied to be one of the host schools for the 2013 conference. By January, I had joined the Net Impact team, taking Bobby’s place alongside Ayaka, and we’d learned that PGS, along with five other Bay Area chapters, were selected to co-host the conference.

The planning began almost immediately. Each year, Net Impact creates tracks, or subject areas, to help organize and label the sessions so that attendees can select and attend sessions based on their interests. The PGS chapter took the lead on organizing three of

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the ten tracks at the conference, the most of any chapter. The tracks we led were Nonprofit Management & Public Sector Innovation; Finance & Investing; and Sustainable Food.

Sam Ruben (C17/PA4), Inna Volynskaya (C13), and Lindsey Kugel (C14) each led the design process for a respective track. Our brainstorming sessions produced format ideas from debates to TED-style talks, and session topics

including Local Libations, Social Impact Bonds for Change, and Impact Investing in the Public Sector.Our members also staffed five conference-wide task forces made up of members from each of the partner schools. Each task force was made up of five or six members, and the PGS Net Impact Chapter ended up having two Presidians per task force, again more than any other chapter:

● Annika Hoeltje (C17) and Mara Slade (C14) staffed the Silicon Valley Impact Task Force, which recruited local organizations, and developed and facilitated mini-consulting sessions using design thinking methodology;

● Frank Teng (C17) and Bart Agapinan (C13) staffed the Local Engagement Task Force, building relationships with local businesses, engaging them in meaningful ways to further sustainability and social impact, and securing their participation in conference activities;

● Casey Schultz (C17) and Michelle Reyes (C15) joined the Special Events Task Force, facilitating a lively and energetic networking component to the conference through off-site event coordination;

● Shaina Kandel (C18) and Ny-Ann Nolasco (C18) Volunteer Recruitment and Management Task Force, recruiting, scheduling, training, and managing conference volunteers; and

● I served as Marketing Manager, ensuring strong chapter presence at the conference by outreaching to chapter members, colleagues, and faculty/administrative contacts.

The tasks forces started meeting in April and were responsible for activities such as bringing in organizations to participate in IDEO-inspired workshops, a tour of Google, and the planning and organizing the no-host dinners. Our efforts lasted all summer and right up though the conference.

By the time the conference rolled around in October, Presidio had

managed to touch almost every aspect of the planning in some way or another.

The conference itself, with the theme “Change Starts Here” aimed to embody the entrepreneurial and innovative spirit of Silicon Valley. Over 2,500 excited students and thought leaders from all over the country came together driven by the belief that each one of us has the capability to create positive and meaningful change around us. Keynote speakers included a variety of personalities like Denise Morrison, CEO of Campbell’s Soup Company; Caryl Stern, President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF; Chip Conley, Founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels and Head of Hospitality for Airbnb; and Blake Mycoskie, Founder of TOMS.

In addition, 15 of our own alumni also spoke at this year’s conference.

All in all, I was honored and proud to be a part of this amazing experience. For a school that may be small in numbers, we are definitely high in impact! Thank you to everyone, students, alumni, administration, and community members that were involved.

Emma is an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. She has taught kindergarten in Istanbul, Turkey and one time appeared on United Airlines’ in-flight TV programming.

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Associate Dean Dwight Collins, PhD, recently published a paper to help teachers of conventional

MBA Operations Management courses convert their curriculum to sustainable Operations Management courses. The article, “Reshaping the Operations and Supply Chain Management Core Class Curriculum to Include Business Sustainability,” was published in a special volume of Operations Management Educational Review. The paper was co-authored by long-time friend of PGS Madeleine (“Mellie”) Pullman, PhD, of Portland State University School of Business. Dwight and Mellie presented a preview of their paper to enthusiastic response at a special session of the Production and Operations Management Society Annual Meeting in Denver in May.

DWIGHT COllINS SPREaDS THE WORD aBOuT

TEaCHING SuSTaINaBlE OPERaTIONS

By José abad, Program Coordinator

Presidian: What are some of the key differentiators between a course in the Sustainable Operations and a conventional course?

Dwight: I can most easily answer this question in the context of our Operations and Production course at Presidio. Perhaps the most important difference is that a sustainable Operations Management (OM) course embeds all the conventional lessons of OM in the broader context of Industrial Ecology (IE).

In IE, an industrial system needs to be viewed not in isolation from its surrounding systems, but in concert with them. IE provides a total systems view. One seeks to optimize the total materials cycle from virgin material, to finished material, to component, to product, to obsolete product, and to ultimate disposal.

A specific sustainable practice I teach as an example of IE is creating networks of production, such as eco-industrial parks that convert waste to profit. Another example is a major new supply chain segment [where] products are not just recycled at end of life but remanufactured to have many lives. A sustainable OM course also introduces the new measurement discipline of life cycle assessment.

At Presidio, we bring authenticity to these new perspectives, tools, and techniques by asking our students to use them in building their Operations Plans with an external Experiential Learning partner.

Presidian: What role do you see for publishing for our PGS faculty and for the school?

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Dwight Collins and Madeleine PullmanReshaping the Operations and Supply Chain Management Core Class Curriculum to Include Business Sustainability Nielson Journals Publishing vol.7: 2013

Cynthia Scott and andrew BrysonWaking up at Work: Sustainability as a Catalyst for Organizational Change. The Journal of Corporate Citizenship. Issue 46(June 2012)

Cynthia Scott and Tammy EstevesLeadership for Sustainability and ChangeOxford, UK: Dö Sustainability (September 2013)

Dwight: Publishing like this offers one highly effective vehicle through which Presidio faculty can maximize the school’s influence worldwide in promoting the sustainable business tools, techniques, and ways of thinking taught here.

It offers a high leverage opportunity to get the exciting teaching messages we impart to our students out to the world. Our faculty has labored for a long time to fine tune the Presidio curriculum and the broad mix of teaching modalities that we use with our students. Our learning outcomes based curriculum definition and our blended in-person/online teaching approach are examples.

While our graduates are marvelous ambassadors for promoting our new way of doing business sustainably on the planet, our numbers are limited. We need to move quickly now to get our message into written form like refereed journals and trade magazines.

Examples of this [effort to get the message in written form] are two outputs of Presidio’s new Research and Case Development Program: Jenny Hoang (C14)’s 2012 case study, Tale of Three Bins, about waste diversion at Sabre Holdings’ Southlake TX headquarters, and Laura Erickson (C15) and Judy Prejean (C13)’s recent case study, The San Rafael Airport’s Solar Farm: Local Renewable Energy Production via Community Choice Aggregation, recently published in the weekly newsletter of Agrion, an international cleantech community.

Presidian: What do you hope to publish next? Is there anything else in the works?

Dwight: I have been developing a proposal for a Presidio-branded Sustainable Business Case Study Classification Framework. Case studies are a highly effective tool for teaching the principles of sustainable business. I am super excited that Presidio faculty and students have started to generate them. However, it can be difficult and time consuming for a business school faculty across the globe to find and vet case studies applicable to specific sustainable management learning outcomes. This framework could change that. I plan to offer this as a potential independent study focus.

José is the Program Coordinator at Presidio Graduate School. He enjoys red wine, long walks on the beach, and occasionally tearing it up on the dance floor.

Recently Published Faculty Work

Scott FullwilerAn Endogenous Money Perspective on the Post-Crisis Monetary Policy Debate, Review of Keynesian Economics(December 2012)

Dariush RafinejadTeaching Sustainable Product Innovation, Development & ManufacturingFeatured at The 6th International Conference, Engineering Education for Sustainable Development, Sept. 22-25, 2013, Cambridge, UK

Chevrolet VOLT: A Disruptive Innovation Bridge to Electrified Transportation(August 2013)

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PRESIDIaNS IN aCTION

left to right from top to bottom: yelena Danziger (C19) and alicia Eerenstein (C19). Michelle Reyes

(C15) and Rhonda Grossman (C13). associate Dean Dwight Collins, PhD. POSM Professor Paul Hawken.

Nicole Palkovsky (C19/EC8). Convocation 2013. Meghna Tare (C18). Brown Bag Guest Speaker Paul

Repetto, Founder of Horizon Organics. Joe Cain (C19). Cina loarie (C19).

Photo essay by Rachel Fus, Communications Manager

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left to right from top to bottom: Ella lu (C19), admissions Coordinator Wendell Tull, and Director of admissions and alumni affairs Bethany Baugh (C9). Ema Phelps (C16) and Ny-ann Nolasco (C18). Professor Kristin york, MBa. Professor amanda Ravenhill (C10). Cheryl Dorsey (C18). Ketan Hazari (Pa3). James Ince-Scott (C13). Professor Rodrigo Espinosa, MS. anne Sauer (C17), Scott Bright (C17), and Nicole Busto (C15).

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left to right from top to bottom: Eric Botcher (C19) and Matthew Emery (C19). EMCa guest speaker

Susan Orenstein (C7). Clay Carlson (C17) and lily laurence (C17). Tim Shaw (Pa5). Spike lomibao

(C15). Professor Cynthia Scott, PhD. ladan Ghashghaeipour (C16) and Mahsa Khamisi (C16).

Professor Jonathan Kevles, MBa.

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For more photos visit the PGS Flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/presidio-grad

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The Presidio Graduate School MBA program has recently been presented with two accolades.

First, the 2013 Business as UNusual: The Student Guide to Graduate Programs, published by Net Impact, presented PGS with a pair of favorable rankings: #1 for sustainability and the #3 for social impact.

Second, in the international Global Green MBA competition by the Corporate Knights PGS also earned the #13 berth.

“While we don’t do what we do for the rankings, the rankings are one measure of validation of what we have been doing at Presidio for the past decade — not simply in creating a world-class management program but in staking a claim at the very leading edge of the sustainability field, working inside and outside the classroom to prepare and place the best leaders possible in some of the world’s most important companies and organizations,” said President and CEO William Shutkin. “We are a David among many Goliaths. But as the rankings confirm, small can be mighty.”

The rankings in the annual Net Impact guide are based on a survey of more than 3,300 students at

more than 100 business schools around the United States. Survey participants were asked to assess their own programs on a 1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the highest rating; students gave Presidio Graduate School a rating of 4.87 in sustainability and 4.58 in social impact.

Rankings for the Global Green MBA were based on scores in three categories: faculty-led initiatives, student-led initiatives, and coursework. This is the first year Corporate Knights Magazine has expanded the report beyond the Canadian borders.

“The MBA, MPA and Dual Degree programs are evolving just like the sustainability field is evolving. New ideas, frameworks and practices are being developed all the time, and we seek to ensure that our curricula and other offerings reflect these changes,” said William. “The key for us is to remain nimble and adaptive in how we design and deliver our programs. This is what has set us apart to date and will continue to distinguish us going forward.”

Rachel is the Communications Manager at Presidio Graduate School. When she’s not playing paparazza at PGS events, she enjoys playing with her new food processor and gazing at examples of French impressionism.

RaNKING aBOVEBy Rachel Fus, Communications Manager

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upcoming Programs

Capstone Showcase & Sustainable Products and Services Design FairDecember 15, 2013

Presidio Presents:Sustainable Real Estate FinanceFebruary 13, 2014

Career Development FairFebruary 19, 2014

For a full list of events visit:www.presidioedu.org/blog/events

FIND yOuR TRIBE

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Eric Gimon, PhD, describes himself as a “climate activist focused on helping society find practical solutions for moving beyond fossil fuels and towards a sustainable future.” He wears many hats, including advisor to the Clean Coalition, Board Member of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Pacific Institute, consultant, and instructor. Eric is also a theoretical physicist who has been a Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Postdoctoral Fellow at both Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study and the California Institute of Technology. As a consultant, Eric wants to help his clients understand their climate mitigation goals and develop strategies to address them.

At PGS, Eric shares his broad knowledge of the clean energy field as a guest lecturer and expert-in-residence in the Sustainable Energy Management Certificate Program. I had the pleasure of speaking with Eric earlier this month.

Presidian: How does a background in physics prepare you for the clean energy field?

Eric: I think in three ways. The first is that as a theoretical physicist you have to have a strong ability to look at logical flows and develop solid arguments. This creates disciplined thinking and is really helpful. The second is having experience in using toy models to infer important observations about nature. By using these tools, I’ve gained an optimism that, even in the face of complex problems, we can approach things from different angles to gain insight and propose better solutions. The third is I’m not afraid to dive into a technical subject. This allows me to understand the technical basis of the energy sector from an engineer’s model analyzing the reliability of an electricity grid to important political considerations.

Presidian: What trends do you see in renewable energy?

Eric: I see of couple of key trends. We are starting to see renewable energy operate at scale in many countries (Germany, Canada, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, etc.) with success. The other trend is a distributed resource versus a utility centered model to run the grid. This is important because it’s quicker and scalable, but it’s also disruptive to the institutions that already exist (regulators, utilities, suppliers, etc.) because energy systems want to change very slowly. They are used to projects built over decades and investments being paid off on multi-decadal time frames. So it presents some challenges.

Presidian: What is the biggest challenge you face in your position(s)?

PHySICIST DISHES ON

THE BIGGEST OBSTaClE

TO ClIMaTE PROGRESS

By Nicole Palkovsky (C19)

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Eric: The biggest obstacle in dealing with climate change is getting people to deal with the cognitive dissonance of understanding where we need to go versus business as usual. Paired with that is helping people see that there is a path forward. We can make a big difference. If you don’t believe you can do something to improve the situation, it is easy to ignore the dysfunction.

Another challenge is getting people to appreciate the prejudices they are applying to a given situation, be it financial (i.e., how assets should be valued in a warming world) or with policy makers using the rear view mirror instead of looking forward and seeing what is actually possible. I try to work with people to get them to look forward.

Presidian: Do we need to have a climate motivation to implement renewable energy? Do you see these two as needing to be linked?

Eric: My motivation to be in this field comes from my interest in climate mitigation. But in my mind the renewable energy transition is on its way – climate change or no change. I’m convinced we are in a crossover zone where renewables are going to be beating fossil fuels on their own merit. There are a lot of benefits including pollution prevention, job creation, increased resiliency. And increasingly, renewables are beating fossil fuels on cost.

Presidian: What current successes are you most proud of?

Eric: There are a few. I worked with Vote Solar to bring “just-in-time” thinking into long-term energy planning, and though our proposal was not successful, I heard the Public Utilities Commission’s Living Pilot is modeled after it.

At the Flora [Family Foundation, where Eric directs grants as the lead member of the Climate Action Team], we were some of the earliest funders of the Beyond Coal campaign, and now we’re funding a similar effort in Australia, which is making some important inroads in a very difficult environment.

At the Hewlett Foundation, we’ve restructured our climate funding so we can more effectively collaborate and partner with other organizations, allowing us to increase funding into this area.

Presidian: What advice would you offer MBA students interested in working in clean energy?

Eric: Develop a broad network by participating in events and conducting informational interviews and read widely. I read anything on climate and energy that appears in mainstream papers, follow the Greentech Media blog, and use Twitter as a news source.

Presidian: If you had the power to change one thing in your industry what would it be?

Eric: I will give you two, one as a scientist and one as an activist. Scientist: no one ever includes error bars in their analysis. This

obscures some of the risk and the opportunity, and as a result the decision-making suffers. We need to communicate the uncertainty.Activist: I wish people were more open to the idea that things really can change. We take on assumptions that limit possibilities. I would aspire for people to embrace a broader sense of the possible.

Nicole is an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. She races against the Strava clock while imaging gals to ride with on the trails of Marin, and has living-room-dance-offs with her two boys.

“I’m convinced we are in a crossover zone where renewables are going to be beating fossil fuels on their own merit.”

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By Ryan Miller (C19)

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es, he has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering,

teaches Sustainable Products and Services, and

consults for Chevrolet, but who is the man behind that dashing

smile, the stylish glasses, and European tweed jacket? Here’s a quick profile of one of PGS’s professors of innovation.

Dariush, the agitator? As a student at UC Berkeley in the 1960’s, Dariush has some great stories about those protest days, catalyzing mass tear-gassings and campus shutdowns. It is hard to see Dariush fitting the agitator role, as his temperament and intelligence tends to bring people together rather than push them apart. At Presidio, he has a persona closer to that of a conscientious objector. But as he closed in on finishing his PhD, Dariush was so focused on protesting for change, a professor once had to advise him, “Finish your thesis first, then go be an agitator.”

a constant study. Dariush gets as much out of the ideas and energy from his students as he gives. His smile is contagious and transcends age differences. You can sense the kid in his curiosity. It’s visible in his eyes and the lines on his face. “I’ve always tried to be doing

something I don’t yet know,” he explains.

It shows in his background. After finishing his undergrad in petroleum engineering at an American University in Iran — and a quick stop off in London — Dariush left for the States, eventually ending up back in school at UC Berkeley, and pursuing a PhD in Aeronautics.

“It was the ‘hot thing’ at the time,” Dariush says. He was drawn by his curiosities to a new field. Sure enough, he happened to be looking for a new challenge at the same time that the semiconductor industry was taking off, and his curiosity and willingness to learn spanned into a decades long career in trajectory with the rise of Silicon Valley. That career designing technology products led to the publication of a textbook, Innovation, Product Development, and Commercialization, which he teaches forward at PGS.

learning along the way.Dariush’s appreciation for learning is mirrored in his philosophy on management and his approach to new opportunity. “Learning as a manager requires trust and curiosity. If you can build trust with your employees, they will open up and teach you. This is the best way to learn and eliminates the

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“I was essentially dead during that surgery. It left me wondering what I really should be doing with my life.”

From left: Professor Dariush Rafinejad teaches a class at Presidio Graduate School. Dariush is interviewed in the 1970s at a solar array. Dariush demonstrates a new product to the company president. “The labs were clean rooms and required putting on a ‘bunny suit,’” said Dariush.

need to use power as a bargaining chip.”

His recommendations on new pursuits? “Make the call. Jump in!” And don’t wait until you know everything, because it will be too late. Learning happens along the way. Dariush is an inspiring guy, and when you listen to him talking you get a real sense that what you are hearing is backed by decades of collective experience, not just one man’s opinions.

you must live to die.Not too long ago, Dariush had a

near-death experience — a heart infection and subsequent surgery that left him in a drug-induced coma for hours. “I was essentially dead during that surgery,” he says. “When I woke up I realized, to my surprise: nothing happened! It left me wondering what I really should be doing with my life. At that moment I felt how important it was to be living in the present. It changed my priorities.”

That sentiment was echoed in a story Dariush tells about taking his son to the office one day. He had been working intensely on

a project for months, and was excited to show his son what all the hard work had led to: a company-issued trophy. His son’s response summed it up, “Is that all?”

“I’ve learned more from my son than I ever taught him,” Dariush says smiling, gleefully explaining his son’s academic pursuit of a liberal arts degree. “I found a passion for literature that I never had the opportunity to pursue in my studies. It wasn’t until my son’s interest re-sparked my curiosity that I began to pursue the arts and new interests again.”

Lucky for us, that feeling manifested into Dariush pursuing a teaching role and finding a home at Presidio.

Ryan is an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. He’s also an amateur songwriter and plays rhythm guitar for the yet to be formed band, The Presidians.

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I began my career in sustainability two decades ago as a worker-owner at Equal Exchange, one of

the largest democratic worker cooperatives in the United States, working to create a fair trade coffee industry. It was the dawn of the fair trade movement, and we were building it person-to-person, one shipping container of coffee at a time. My role was in sales and producer relations. I visited small farmers in Peru, Colombia and El Salvador, developing long-term trade partnerships that were economically just and environmentally sound. When I was elected to the worker co-operative’s Board of Directors, I was a twenty-something with

much to learn. The Board included worker-owners like myself and leaders from the fledgling worlds of socially responsible business and impact investing, though it wasn’t called that at the time. Our charge was to help Equal Exchange grow in ways that were consistent with its pioneering role, while embracing the opportunities in its future. Later as Executive Director of WAGES (Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security), I continued to work with low-income families to improve their environmental health and economic well-being using the cooperative model. We incubated and grew five thriving businesses that served the needs of women workers, customers and the planet. It was very rewarding

SPREaDING THE BENEFITS

OF SHaRED OWNERSHIP

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and very hard work. I started to seek answers to the questions that were vexing me, my organization and the cooperative movement. I wondered how we could combine cooperative models and entrepreneurial ambitions in new ways — to spread the benefits of shared ownership more broadly. To help answer these questions, I enrolled in the PGS MBA program. At PGS, I’ve found students and faculty exploring economic models that benefit all stakeholders while teaching the fundamental business skills required in every entrepreneurial setting. I’ve found that PGS’ practical approach to graduate school fits with my schedule as a mid-career professional who is frequently on the road. I can access coursework with its flexible schedule, including classes on the weekends.

Earlier this year, I joined the team at the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative as a consultant, trainer and system design strategist. We’re bringing local anchor institutions and cooperative businesses together to develop community wealth in Cleveland neighborhoods — whether it’s helping grow local urban agriculture, solar or even LEED-certified commercial laundry operations.

I am also putting the finishing touches on a white paper to be released early next year on the barriers and opportunities in worker cooperative development, and I’m the co-founder of a new organization that will address these issues in the Bay Area. In short, I am putting my classroom work to good use!

PGS is helping me build a toolkit of business skills and systems thinking. But my experience here is more than that. I’ve also found a group of people who understand the path I’ve taken, and who can be thought partners, potential collaborators, and more. Years ago, I saw a clear divide between people who were creating social movements and alternative economic models, and people in the business world. Today, PGS is helping me bridge that divide.

Hilary is an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. She’s a vegetarian at home but rarely passes up a Chicago-style hot dog.

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OPOWER ENGaGEMENT

MaNaGER ENCOuRaGES

ENERGy CONSuMERS

TO CONSERVEBy allyn Mcauley (C19)

s a senior consultant at ICF International, Joe Herr (C13) used to inventory and analyze

greenhouse gas emissions for the US EPA and United Nations, develop agricultural emissions projection tools for the USDA, and launch projects like the Climate Ready Estuaries program.

But while crunching GHG numbers helped mold his view of humans’ impact on the environment, life as a consultant left him wanting more.

PGS served as the mechanism to take the knowledge he already had and leverage it into something new. PGS “helped me push the refresh button,” Joe says, “to figure out how my experience fit into the bigger picture, and

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determine where to head next in a mission-aligned way.”

That next step was to become Community Energy Manager at Pacific Gas & Electric, and most recently Engagement Manager at Opower, winner of the World Wildlife Fund’s Green Game-Changes Innovator of the Year Award. In his new role, Joe performs business development and client advocacy at one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America.

Opower’s signature product is the Home Energy Report, which compares the billpayer’s energy usage with that of its neighbors, motivating energy conservation behavior, like turning off unused lights. Opower is one of the most well-known companies utilizing community-based social marketing strategies, which use social pressure to change people’s consumption behavior.

Behavioral energy efficiency is a tremendous opportunity, with the potential to save 19 terawatt hours of electricity per year and more than two billion dollars in consumer energy costs in the United States. When asked about the best ways to encourage saving energy, Joe says it does not take much work to make a huge impact. “When people learn they use more energy than their neighbors, they make small changes to try to perform better, which adds-up to significant energy savings at scale.”

Joe was excited about a recent peak load management project with Baltimore Gas and Electric that utilizes “behavioral messaging.” The Maryland-based utility provider is currently

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asking customers to cut back during peak energy-usage. Joe says this type of real-time, demand-side influence has the potential to remove plants that providers keep in reserve for peak times from the grid. This is attractive since “peaker” plants tend to be expensive and polluting natural gas plants.

Joe says that both PG&E and Opower are organizations that gave him the opportunity to apply his personal philosophy of working within institutions to “make a genuine and foundational impact instead of staging confrontational attacks” against them. Joe believes that institutions that shape our world usefully excel at their core business (in PG&E’s case, providing “safe, reliable and affordable power”), but they have to provide that service while also being receptive to changing consumer demands and expectations.

With Joe’s help, we just might get the supply side and the demand side to work together.

Allyn is an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. When he is not slumped over his laptop, he is an avid traveler having visited countries such as Saudi Arabia, Japan, Uruguay, and the Czech Republic.

Clockwise from left: Joe Herr (C13) with his wife and child in yosemite National Park. Joe with fellow graduates at PGS Commencement 2013. a headshot of Joe.

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I met fellow classmate and solar connoisseur, David Stripling (C14), at a linen covered table at the Lone Palm in the Mission District of San Francisco. I intended to hear about David’s journey into renewable energy, assuming there would be some trajectory to his story, a thread to follow. But David’s career reads like more of a spiral than a straight line and seemed to surprise even himself.

FROM ClaSSICS TO SOlaRBy Shaina Kandel (C18)

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“I studied dead languages in college,” David opened, with a straightforward, earnest air and the undertone of a smile. “I wanted to read Aristotle in Greek.”

Instead, connections and circumstance brought David to a farm after college, constructing straw bale buildings, a profession approved of by none other than Aristotle himself. This stint led him to more straw bale construction in Healdsburg, CA, where he learned the art of natural building, spending two years constructing Ridge Winery, at the time the largest straw bale building in the world.

David’s story then zigzags home to El Paso, TX where he started a nonprofit, trying to get the homeless access to social services. With Masters of Social Work applications filled out, but the timing not quite right, David instead joined the crew of a whale watching boat, sailing from Portland to Mexico. It was “a version of boot camp,” he reminisced, “with intense rotating sleep schedules.”

After enough time in the Pacific, David went to Portland where he became a carpenter, and then worked in construction management, developing townhouses. “I learned mainstream [construction] practices – and how to be in the belly of the beast.”

When the economy tanked in 2008, David knew that solar was on the rise. He landed a position as a project manager at Stellar Energy where he managed the company’s largest solar installation at Foster’s Winery Estates of Americas. After five years, David grew dissatisfied. Wanting more, he decided to pursue his MBA at PGS.

Since being at PGS, one of David’s most pivotal experiences was being part of the team that was a top-five finalist in the Hult Prize social enterprise competition.

“The Presidio faculty kept showing up to support us,” he said, reflecting on the professors who offered their expertise and attended the competitions. “Through Presidio, we were completely supported

in trying to solve the world’s most vexing problems. It was quite the adventure.”

Now, David is running finance service programs for residential solar installers at Soligent. He is quickly rising in the ranks, serving as Director of Corporate Development. Responsible for innovation and driving new areas of growth, his current path is an opportunity to spread solar in the United States and help the industry mature.

“If this is where I create the most good in the world and that’s what I’m proficient at, then I have to follow it,” he says of his quickly moving career.

Looking ahead, David sees potential for outright innovation in the solar industry. With 20 million roofs suitable for solar in the United States, and only 250,000 solar panels installed, the industry is staged for incredible growth. He sees the industry just scratching the surface of innovation with opportunities in efficiency and storage. David predicts that policy and the choice of consumers will determine the energy mix of the future.

“I’m not worried about people doing the right thing,” he says, “I’m worried about them doing the right thing fast enough.”

David is finishing up his last classes at the Presidio Graduate School and will graduate in May of 2014.

Shaina is an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. She has a background in Organizational Development and Healthcare Consulting. She is passionate about creating sustainable food systems and improving the health and well-being of our communities.

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Previous page: David Stripling (C14). This page: David’s Hult Prize team (from

left): Sarah Cabell (C14), David, Megan McDonald (C14), Shaun Webb (C14), and

Mara Slade (C14).

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MaRKETING THE WORK NOT THE BRaND

By Clay Carlson (C17)

The El Team — (from left) Julian Fishman (C17), Sam Ruben (C17/Pa4), Trey Graham (C15), Scott Bright (C17), and author Clay Carlson (C17) — pack into an electric vehicle for an onsite meeting at Bay area Climate Collaborative (BaCC).

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My Experiential Learning team — Scott Bright (C17), Julian Fishman (C17), Trey Graham

(C15), Sam Ruben (C17/PA4), and myself — recently partnered with the Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) a non-profit project of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the Mayors of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland. The BACC acts as a public-private catalyst toward a low carbon economy.

BACC was interested in better understanding the electric vehicle (EV) landscape, and specifically increasing EV use among public and private sector fleets. Building on the successful implementation of EVs among many municipal

“While the BACC is eager to find innovative ways to communicate with its many stakeholders, it has limited public funding from its founding cities.”

fleets in the Bay Area, BACC is looking to develop new marketing initiatives to better support and facilitate engagement with the fleet manager community.

While the BACC is eager to find innovative ways to communicate with its many stakeholders, it has limited public funding from its founding cities. Therefore, my

team sought to develop a feasible marketing plan to help BACC better target their efforts.

Inresearching our client, my team noted that a dedication to selflessness was central to BACC’s outward facing image. As a public-private partnership, BACC could have chosen to market in a number of ways. We thought it very telling of the organization’s values and greater mission that BACC has chosen to market EV adoption, as opposed to the BACC brand itself.

For me, this focus on campaigns is very much in line with the larger sustainability movement’s goal of educating the general public about the issues we face and the actions we can take — as opposed to the more common but siloed approach of promoting one’s own organization. Since there are a variety of issues that fall under sustainability, and an even greater number of organizations working to promote these issues, it would be a waste of both financial and social resources to spend a coalition’sfunds only on brand marketing. Instead, it can be far

more impactful to market a cause and attach the organization’s name to that cause.

In addition to using a values-aligned approach to marketing, our team’s analysis determined that BACC’s “selfless marketing” approach has also been very successful in reaching intended outcomes. Therefore, we have

chosen to make it an integral part of our recommendations to BACC. While many people haven’t heard of BACC, they have heard of the Bay Area’s push to get electric cars on the road, thus fulfilling the organization’s goal. BACC is just one player in a much larger community of non-profits and public agencies promoting the adoption of EVs. By partnering with, as opposed to differentiating itself from, other organizations working in this space, greater success can be realized in getting more EVs on the road.

Clay is an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. He is currently developing an all natural men’s deodorant.

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This fall, Team Blue Wave — Nick Lee (C13), Ema Phelps (C16), Sam Ruben (C17), and myself — collaborated on an Experiential Learning (EL) project with Beau Perry (C5), founder of Olazul, a non-profit developer of sustainable,

market-based solutions for satisfying demand for ocean goods. Our team’s task was to design an operations plan for Olazul’s pilot seaweed farm in La Paz, Mexico. The seaweed farm will provide an alternative source of income for fishermen, whose livelihood is in rapid decline due to overfishing.

As part of our research, we took a 257-mile weekend road trip in Connecticut to meet with Beau and other aquaculture experts. The trip was exhausting—from La Guardia Airport to Rye, NY, to Stamford, CT, to Guilford, CT, to Bridgeport, CT, back to Stamford, to New Haven, CT, to Stamford again, and finally back to La Guardia. By the end of the trip, I felt like my brain was filled to capacity, and every minute I didn’t spend writing down my experiences would increase the chances that knowledge would leak out of my ears. It was an incredibly powerful and meaningful experience for all of us, from the scientific and business data we gathered, to seeing sustainable business pros at work outside of the Presidio bubble. Meeting industry experts who are so passionate and successful at making a difference in the world made our own EL project more tangible for us. Our project had become about more than completing a school deliverable.

COMMON SENSE & EATING LARVAE IN CONNECTICUT:

A TRAVELOGUEBy Ny-ann Nolasco (C18)

During our first dinner at the Rye Grill and Bar, discussions of seaweed farm operations were set aside as we got to know our EL partner better. Beau talked about his school experience at PGS, and how it contributes to his current projects. To promote the local community, I was reminded why I myself was at PGS — to make a difference by working alongside brilliant people who get up everyday and change the world by doing what they love, and by having a good business head on their shoulders to capitalize on that passion and brilliance.

The next morning, after much debate over the square-shaped fake eggs served at breakfast, it was time to meet Dr. Charlie Yarish, an expert on seaweed farming, and Bren Smith, owner of Thimble Island Oyster Co. in Guilford. We met at a café that served pastries and coffee as though we were in San Francisco – pastries were homemade, with the labels and price hand-written, and a large coffee mill at the front of the store — an attempt to reinforce a sense of place and history. The setting was so telling of the kind of people we were meeting: down to earth and absolutely connected to a bigger story than their own. Bren explained that he had been a fisherman since he was a 14 year old in Alaska. In the course of his career, he realized that he needed to adapt and become a different kind of fisherman. He talked about climate change and its effects on his livelihood (I wondered if he ever took Principles of Sustainable Management), talked about his farm operating under integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (eerily similar to permaculture), and most of all, how this was all “common

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left: Ema Phelps (C16) checks out the blue lobsters breeding tanks at the Bridgeport Regional aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center (BRaSTEC).

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sense.” Haven’t we all said this of the business models we are learning at PGS, when integrating sustainable techniques to improve profit, people’s lives, and the planet?

After a scrumptious lunch (seafood potpie anyone?) by the waterfront, it was time for the part of the trip that I was looking forward to the most: a visit to Bridgeport Regional Aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center (BRASTEC) to meet John Curtis, the center’s first and former director. BRASTEC is aquaculture-based public high school, where, not unlike PGS, students can develop and execute aquaculture projects to satisfy their coursework. The projects are extremely wide-ranging, from building Cocktail Class boats to re-populating the near-extinct blue lobsters in Long Island Sound.

The facilities at BRASTEC are amazing. The students have a computer lab equipped with a chromatograph, a spectrometer, CAD machine, and a 3D projector that allows for real time manipulation. Their science lab is an aquaculture lab complete with tanks for breeding tilapia, lobster, and other seafood. Students study, process, and sell the animals in the student-run Angie’s at Aqua Seafood Market.

BRASTEC also has a bridge simulator where students are able to navigate ships docking at Long Island Sound, London, Hong Kong, and other ports, earning up to 50% of the required hours for a Coast Guard Pilot’s license. The best part for me was meeting John himself, a charismatic man who talked about the principles of the school based on common

sense. He spoke with pride about his students, especially the student who built a biodegradable rechargeable battery made of seaweed that can be shaped to any form.

On the last day, we visited Charlie’s lab at The University of Connecticut. He gave us a two-hour presentation on seaweed farm processes. Charlie emanated pride as he walked us through his lab, showing us the beakers, glass containers, refrigerators filled with seaweed spores germinating at different stages. It was a gold mine of information that we would be using on our Operations Plan. Physically seeing the process and being able to ask questions proved to be one of the more important exchanges we had this whole project. Charlie was with us from the time we met Bren, to meeting John at BRASTEC, and the delicious lunch we had at Miya’s (Ed.’s note: see below). It was thanks to Charlie’s expertise and connections that we were exposed to this world of seaweed of which most Connecticut residents weren’t even aware. His insight on dos and don’ts for seaweed farming — including his offhand comments and opinions on microalgae — really added to the informative, productive, successful, and fun trip that this had become.

For our final lunch of the trip, we had a surprising, weird, delicious, and slightly insane experience at Miya’s Sushi where we met chef and owner Bun Lai. Bun is a James Beard Foundation Award nominee, the only nominee to feature an invasive species-based menu. He served us Asian shore crab, pine needle infused sake, mugwort (mug-what??), and black fly larvae. Yes, larvae. I would say

about 90% of our table agreed to eating it out of peer pressure, but it turned out to be great! Thank goodness for my Asian roots and history with weird food.

Hearing about the history of Miya’s and the principles Bun upholds was inspiring. His successful restaurant doesn’t serve salmon, tuna, or shrimp, which normally account for 90% of a sushi restaurant’s menu. In the course of our EL project, we’d learned that shrimp is a declining industry in danger of collapse within in a few years, and tuna is severely overfished, so we had an even greater appreciation for the stand Bun has taken. Serving invasive species makes sense to Bun: it’s plentiful, it’s delicious if you know how to cook it, and you’re protecting local natural capital.

Bun, along with Bren and John, are described as pioneers and radical thinkers in their respective industries. They both echoed similar confusion about these titles, as they believe they’re not doing anything “radical,” but rather something that makes common sense when running a business or school. With an eye on the future health of our planet, they conduct their operations without depleting

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available resources. They are willing to share their knowledge rather than simply compete with their competition (Sound familiar, Presidians?)

This EL project has gone above and beyond my expectations, and I feel I got real exposure to how I could contribute to a business — and what I still have to learn. Hearing the upperclassmen in the team contribute information based on the classes I have yet to take at Presidio affirmed that I’m on the right track for making a meaningful difference in how businesses are conducted.

Ny-Ann is an MBA/MPA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. She expresses her love of the outdoors through backpacking and road trips, but feels that nothing compares to diving.

Top: Nick Lee (C13) examines the first Cocktail Class boat that the students built

and raced. Right: Sam Ruben (C17) next to the 3D printer the Bridgeport Regional

aquaculture Science and Technology Education Center (BRaSTEC) students use.

Bottom: Seaweed in the beaker, Gracilaria.

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Brendon Harrington, Transportation Operations Manager for Google, approached our Experiential Learning (EL) team with a seemingly simple problem.

“What’s keeping me up at night,” he said at our first meeting, “is parking.” For a company that deals regularly with digital information in the cloud, physical space had suddenly become a constraint to growth.

Parking at Google’s main Mountain View campus is so crowded that the company uses valet services at most parking lots to maximize space. Interstate on-ramps into and out of the campus are over capacity.

These conditions exist despite numerous perks aimed at sustainable commuting and traffic reduction. More than 50% of Google employees already choose an alternative form of transportation to get to the Mountain View campus, whether taking a shuttle bus, carpooling, or biking to work. In addition, Google’s transportation department lends bikes to visiting employees, provides Google-themed bicycles for commuting between buildings, and offers a corporate fleet of electric cars that can be checked out using a system similar to City CarShare.

Our Finance-Strategy EL team of Stowe Beam (C13), Andrew Shiflet (C13), Elizabeth Foughty (C13), and myself, built financial models to analyze offering new perks to employees to further reduce Google’s transportation-related carbon footprint. We closely examined building a parking cash-out system—offering employees a financial reward for giving up their cars—a system that Google already uses successfully at its Los Angeles office. We also examined building new bike routes, establishing flex time for employees, and leveraging Google’s technological expertise in mapping technologies and deployment of self-driving cars to better facilitate transit. If implemented, our suggestions for Google would substantially reduce car crowding as well as the carbon footprint of Google employees commuting to work.

Through our EL project, Presidio Graduate School was nominated for a one of Google’s Home, Sweet Home grants. These grants recognize local organizations that, among other things, reduce carbon footprint or emissions. Based on the work of our EL project and past ELs that have promoted sustainability and reduced carbon emissions, Google decided to reward PGS with a $15,000 grant to grow the EL program.

Hopefully, after our EL project, Brendon is sleeping a little better at night. Working with Google was a unique and exciting experience. Ideas that we’d normally consider outlandish or impossible became carefully considered possibilities. Our experience proves that people with similar passions in sustainability can come together to create solutions that are both economically and ecologically beneficial.

Jared is an MBA candidate at Presidio Graduate School. He has been an EMT at Burning Man and is great at covering the Talking Heads when he sings karaoke.

TRaNSPORTaTION El EaRNS $15,000 GRaNT FOR PGS By Jared Bhatti (C13)

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AACTArchitecture for Humanity

Campbell’s Soup CompanyClean Water Action

Cosmoceutical Research CenterBay Area Climate Collaborative

EcoVadisGreen Leaf Bamboo Doors

Habitat HorticultureKepler’s Books & Kepler’s Arts and Lecture

KivaLaundry Locker

OlazulPacific Institute

Plastic Disclosure ProjectSearch Inside Yourself Institute

Silver Spring NetworkSmall Box Revolution

Snoa SleepwearStiefel Family Foundation

Streets of San Francisco Bike ToursTanko Lighting

Treasure BrandsTreasure Island Museum Association

The Can VanVolunteerMatch

Wells Fargo

For more information about our Experiential Learning Program visit:www.presidioedu.org/academics/experiential-learning

We gratefully acknowledge the support of our 2013 Experiential learning partners!

PRESIDIo GRADuAtE ScHooLDONOR THANK YOU

2012 - 2013 FISCAL YEAR

In-Kind DonationsAllen MatkinsBloomberg New Energy FinanceRyan CabinteCalifornia Academy of SciencesEdelmanRobert FrieseHook & Ladder Vineyards & WineryJones Lang LaSalleLagunitas Brewing CompanyCaroline Luscombe Sky VineyardsSeghesio Family VineyardsSoSF Bike ToursStrip and Go BareRosenblum CellarsAnne SauerCarrie StallerJennifer and Gary TaylorVarsity TechnologiesWilliam ShutkinChris Yalonis

“Presidio is a young school that doesn’t yet benefit from decades or centuries of alumni endowments. But as we

all know, a solid foundation is necessary to build a sound structure. I believe, we, as the early beneficiaries of this

education, have the responsibility to help, however we can, to assure our mission continues.”

Jennifer Creek Sant’anna (Pa2)

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Golden Gate ($25,000+)

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Presidio ($10,000 - $24,999)

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Lincoln ($1,000 - $2,499)

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Supporter ($1 - $999)Anonymous AlumniNick AsterSteve AttingerJonathan James BacklundMatt BaileyDavid BaronBethany BaughBettina BaylisJustin BeanRichard BermanCamille BertramTommaso BoggiaStephen BoniJared BrickLeslie BrownSarah CabellRyan CabinteLeslie CaplanKainoa CascoVickie ChanEleanor G. & Peter A. ChromanJohn Paul ChulliyilKathye CitronRobin ConnellRobert G. CoombsNan CramerMichael CraneKarie Amanda CrispMaryline Daviaud LewettErin DeckerChristie DiedrickErik DistlerJonathan Dove & Sandeep BrarMax DunnJennifer ElksAyaka EmotoMeg EscobosaJerome FalkSaskia FeastSarah Feinstein LozanovaCarolyn FerrisTheresa FremonVanessa FryShivani GangulyRyan GerlachChris GibsonPeter GlennEmma GoodmanRichard & Catherine GrayAndrea GreenKatherine GroteAlexandra Hart

Bruce H. HasenkampKen HejmanowskiRebecca HoJenny HoangCyndie HoffmanBenjamin HorowitzJeffrey P. & Leanora D. HorowitzObrie HostetterChristy HurlburtPeter IgnatiusAaron IsraelRajesh JambotkarKathrin JansenDavid JayBrie JohnsonShehreen JohnsonJamie JonesGregory KandankulamEdward B. KayeErika KimballTed KoHerbert KosovitzLaurie KretchmarElizabeth KruegerLindsey KugelCynthia LangFreesia LeePaul LiotsakisIlana LipsettSpike LomibaoNesa LonderKaren LoseeSusan J. LundenGraeme MacDonaldDeborah MartinDean MartucciSarah McKinneyTim McLaughlinKarin MeyerMichelle MillerRobyn MillerJoshua NewmanDon NicodemusEric O’ConnorChinwe OnyeagoroAnne OrdingIsabelle PainEric PollardTom & Helen PollockJudy PrejeanEdward QuevedoAnthony RadspielerAmanda Ravenhill

“I strongly believe that business can Address social needs and that the programs of the Presidio Graduate School will give

people the tools to accomplish that.”

Margot Fraser, Founder of Birkenstock uSa & Friend of Presidio

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Michelle ReyesMathew RickAmanda RohlichCary RollVanessa RoscoeNorman RossmanDeAnn SarverLindsay SaxbyMichael SchimaneckLisa SchwartzCynthia ScottMatthew ShortsleeveDr. Peter & Elizabeth ShutkinJohn ShutkinWilliam ShutkinMatthew SonefeldtChelsea SouterRobin SpencerDavid StriplingMark SuttonSusan SwigJohn TalbottMonica TanzaJennifer & Gary TaylorFrank TengSteven TiellMargaret TitusKathleen & Floyd TurnquistInna VolynskayaJeremy WaenJennifer WagnerJason WalterDale WannenJane WarrenLaura WatersWendy WeidenLise WeirGregory WertzEllen WhiteAdam WiskindZachary WorthingtonLauren WrayJosh WrightChris YalonisWilliam Yeager

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