Robert J. Pendoley

Board Chair
Planning Consultant

Robert Pendoley is a city planner, living and working in Marin County since 1989. He has a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science from the College of the Holy Cross and a Masters in City Planning from San Diego State University. He has thirty-seven years of professional planning experience as a public sector planning manager and as a private consultant. From 2004 through 2009, he was Planning Director and Assistant Town Manager for the Town of Corte Madera. His other public sector positions include serving as Planning Director for the City of San Rafael, Director of Environmental Management for Solano County, and Community Development Program Manager at the City of Vallejo. As a sole proprietor planning consultant, he has focused on management assistance to local planning agencies, including guiding housing projects through the permitting process.

David Latina

Vice Chair
Vice President, Business Development, Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services

David brings over 25 years in real estate development and has a demonstrated track record in the areas of affordable and market-rate senior and family housing, mixed-use commercial retail, below-market-rate homeownership, community economic development, historic preservation, acquisitions, entitlements, sales and leasing, work-outs, re-positioning, mergers and real estate development consulting.

Currently David is Vice President, Business Development at Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services (NCPHS). NCPHS owns and operates three affordable senior residential towers (two in San Francisco and one in San Jose) and three market rate continuing care retirement communities (The Sequoias in San Francisco and Portola Valley and The Tamalpias in Marin).  David is responsible for leading the strategic planning and business development functions for NCPHS and will oversee their growth strategy to create more continuing care retirement communities for the organization in the Peninsula, San Francisco and Marin.

Prior to joining NCPHS, David was Director of Housing Development and Community Revitalization for the Marin County Housing Authority where he was responsible for managing Marin’s Below Market Rate (BMR) Homeownership program, Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Home Loan Rehab program and the Capital Improvement Program for the County’s public housing portfolio.

David was Vice President of Development at A.F. Evans Company where he was responsible for business development and overseeing the development of multi-family rental communities, market-rate condominium developments and ancillary commercial retail development.  Prior to joining A.F. Evans, David served as Director of Housing Development for Mercy Housing California where he was responsible for overseeing the development of 49 multi-family projects with over 4,000 housing units and 271,000 square feet of commercial/retail space throughout California.  His experience also includes leasing and sales, adaptive re-use of industrial and retail properties and commercial district renovations.

David earned a Master’s degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.  Additionally he earned his designation as a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) from the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute in Chicago, Illinois.

Carlos Porrata

Board Secretary
Retired, California State Parks Department

Carlos was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He lived in the East coast of the United States for 6 years where he earned a M. Ed. and worked in that field before moving to CA with his family. He joined the California State Parks Department as a State Park Ranger in 1976. He has been a West Marin resident for the last 32 years. He retired from Tomales Bay State Park in 2005 after 25 years of stewardship of that park unit.

Carlos has served on the Boards of the Inverness Association, the Dance Palace Community Center, the Point Reyes National Seashore Association, Tomales Bay Watershed Council Foundation, the Board of Trustees of Shoreline Unified School District and the Board of Trustees of the Marin Community Foundation. He is presently serving on the Executive Committee of the Tomales Bay Watershed Council of which he has been a member since it’s inception in 2000.

Carlos is actively involved in the environmental and educational fields, in workforce housing, and in other Social Justice issues affecting underserved communities in the West Marin area and throughout the County.

Beth Reizman

Board Treasurer
Commercial Banking Manager, Bank of Marin

Beth Reizman, Commercial Banking Manager, a seasoned lender and manager, has held various positions over her fourteen year tenure at Bank of Marin. As Commercial Banking Manager she heads the commercial lending department located at the Bank’s headquarters in Novato. Ms. Reizman has also served on numerous local non-profit boards, including Novato Human Needs Center, North Bay Children’s Center, and Novato Sunrise Rotary.

Born in the Philippines, Ms. Reizman started her career at Crocker Bank in the Asia Pacific division after graduating with a degree in economics from Stanford University. She has a twenty-nine year background in the banking industry, including private banking, international banking and commercial banking with Crocker Bank, Hibernia Bank and Bank of California.

Long time residents of Lucas Valley, Reizman and her husband have raised two children. She is active with the Lucas Valley Swim Team, Lucas Valley Community Church, and is Treasurer for the Marin Catholic Fashion Show Fund Raiser.

Pat Kendall

Medical Group Administrator for Kaiser Permanente, Marin and Southern Sonoma County

Pat Kendall is the Medical Group Administrator for Kaiser Permanente in Marin and Southern Sonoma County.  Pat's leadership position is operational, strategic, financial, quality, care, service, people and community.   Her guiding philosophies are patient, family, staff and physician focused.  She often speaks of working in the Intimacy Business believing that seeking Health Care is one of the most intimate things we do in life.  In addition, Pat believes in building a healthy community with an upstream emphasis focused across the spectrum of Prevention, recognizing the impact of the social determinants on health.   Creating a healthy work place and engaging the leader in all levels of staff is a lifelong endeavor.

Pat holds degrees in Nursing, Business, Organizational Development, Human Resources and Leadership.   She has completed post graduate work at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.  Pat is presently on the boards of North Bay Leadership Council, Healthy Marin Partnership, School to Career Partnership, Marin Economic Forum, Hospice, Marin Sustainable Agriculture and Dominican University School of Natural Sciences Advisory Board.  Pat is also a member of the citizen's oversight committee of SMART, Friends of San Rafael and the Pickleweed Advancement Team.

David W. Kunhardt

CFO and Director of Project Finance - SolEd Benefit Corporation

Mr. Kunhardt is the CFO & Director of Project Finance for the new solar developer SolEd Benefit Corporation.  SolEd's public mission is to provide energy efficiency and solar solutions for schools and municipalities at the lowest practical cost, with the highest long-term public benefit.  He previously was VP of Structured Finance with Solar Power Partners starting in March 2008, and remained as Director of Finance with NRG Energy for a year after it acquired SPP in November, 2011. During his time in solar, he has been instrumental in originating and arranging $275 million in debt, tax equity and partnership finance for over 70 municipal, commercial, and university solar projects.  NRG Solar has almost 1,000 MWs of solar projects in operation or under construction. 

Mr. Kunhardt has been engaged in community development and partnership debt and equity finance for 30 years, working in the corporate, non-profit, and public sectors. Prior to SPP, he served as a Director of RBC Apollo Equity Partners in the expansion of investor relationships. Before that, Mr. Kunhardt was Senior Vice President with Transamerica and AEGON USA Realty Advisors, leading a program for 10 years that reached over $1.7 billion in partnership investments. He served as President of the Affordable Housing Investors Council and sat on its Board of Governors, and represented Transamerica on the Board of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Kunhardt graduated from Middlebury College, cum laude and attended the George Washington University Masters program in Urban and Regional Planning.
 

Mona Miyasato

Chief Assistant County Administrator, County of Marin

Mona has worked for 18 years in public service, committed to improving government performance to better serve residents and their communities. She joined the County of Marin in 2008 as the Chief Assistant County Administrator, responsible for administrative functions for the County of Marin, including departmental operations and coordination, policy development, communications, budget management, and special projects. She has served as the director of Human Resources and oversees that department and the information services department on behalf of the County Administrator.

Previously she worked for the City of Santa Monica, her last post being Deputy City Manager, where she led workforce succession planning efforts and a major reorganization to improve departmental effectiveness. During her 10 years in Santa Monica, she also managed a variety of initiatives, including land acquisition for affordable housing development through the redevelopment agency, coordination of capital improvements including acquisition/rehabilitation projects, and human service programs for homeless individuals and low-income families. Prior to that, she managed affordable housing development programs for the City of West Covina and created new redevelopment areas as a planner for the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with a concentration on community development and affordable housing. She has served on several community boards and currently is on the Advisory Council for Pacific Asian Counseling Services, a social service agency for low-income immigrants in Southern California.

Kay Moore

REALTOR® - Coldwell Banker, Marin Association of REALTORS®

Marin Association of REALTORS®

  • President (2001)
  • REALTOR® of the Year (2004)
  • Secretary/Board member (1996-2000, 2005)
  • Chair, Past Presidents Council
  • Chair and Co-chair, Governmental Affairs Committee
  • Chair, Education Committee
  • Chair, Bylaws Committee
  • Chair, Community Service Committee
  • Chair, Board of REALTORS® Political Action Committee
  • Member, Governmental Affairs Committee
  • Member, Housing Opportunity Committee
  • Member, Strategic Planning Committee

California Association of REALTORS®

  • Chair of Region 4 (2004), a seven-county region of local REALTOR® associations in Northern California
  • Director (2000-present)

Community Activities

  • Member, Marin Economic Commission (2004-present)
  • Chair/member of the Strawberry Design Review Board (1998-present)
  • Director, Marin Workforce Housing Trust (2008-present)

Personal

  • Moved to Marin from New York City (1988)
  • A REALTOR® with Coldwell Banker (since 1991)
  • Has rescued/spayed/neutered over 20 feral cats
  • Married
  • Daughter and two grandchildren

Sandra Nathan

Vice President, Programs, Marin Community Foundation

Marc Rand

Program Director for Loans and Affordable Housing, Marin Community Foundation

Marc Rand is the Program Director for Loans and Affordable Housing at Marin Community Foundation.  Mr. Rand has invested more than $25mm to Marin-based nonprofits.  He has managed the MCF Loan Fund for nearly ten years and recently taken on the affordable housing grant portfolio.  His interest in nonprofit lending and economic development are complemented by his nonprofit pursuits.  For the past four years, Mr. Rand has been an active board member of Opportunity Fund, a community development financial institution based in San Jose, CA with assets over $45 million.  He has also served on many advisory committees, including:  Co-Chair of Northern California Grantmaker’s Emergency Loan Fund,  Co-Chair of the Marin Workforce Housing Trust Fund Program and Lending Committee,  board member for the Marin Workforce Housing Trust Fund; steering committee member of Marin’s Housing Council; and a steering committee member of Marin’s 10-Year Homelessness Initiative. Mr. Rand has spoken at several national conferences on nonprofit lending and served as a guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business.

Prior to arriving at the Foundation, Mr. Rand worked in Romania with the Peace Corps.  While serving two years in Timisoara, Mr. Rand was the project manager for a USAID funded program that developed five credit unions.  Mr. Rand began working in finance with First Union in Philadelphia where he was a financial analyst for five years in the International Corporate Division concentrating on UK, Dutch, Japanese and Thai large corporations.  Mr. Rand earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Delaware.

Suzanne Swift

Retired, Buffet Concepts, Inc. President

Ms. Swift has more than 20 years experience in volunteering on the boards of many non-profit organizations. She has recently served as president of the Boards of Directors for Mercy Housing California and The Alzheimer’s Association of Northern CA Northern NV as well as Vice President of Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

She is currently a member of the Alzheimer’s Association National Board of Directors, Chicago; a member and Vice President of Saint Anthony Foundation Board of Directors, San Francisco; a member of the Marin Workforce Housing Trust Board of Directors; a member Marin Housing Authority Board of Directors and a member of the National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health Leadership Council for the University of California, San Francisco. Ms Swift has recently served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Independent Journal.

Experience with nonprofits include leading a successful merger of seven corporations into one with a $13 million dollar budget, co chairing a $25 million dollar capital campaign for affordable housing as well as participating on several Fund Development and Finance committees of national and local organizations.

Some past affiliations include: Eldercare Alliance Board of Directors, Trustee and Treasurer Marin Country Day School and Marin County Long Term Care Integration Task Force.

In her professional career Suzanne served most recently as the director of Human Resources for Security Research Associates, Inc., a small stock brokerage firm. Prior to that she was President, owner and operator of Buffet Concepts. Inc., a chain of five restaurants located throughout California. Ms. Swift was also Assistant to the Director of Compensation and Benefits for I. Magnin and Co.

Leelee Thomas

Principal Planner, Community Development Agency, County of Marin

Leelee Thomas works for the Marin County Community Development Agency where she heads the Affordable Housing Program and staffs the Redevelopment Agency. She oversees implementation and monitoring of the Housing Element of the Countywide Plan, the Housing Trust Fund, and facilitation and funding of affordable housing projects as well as other public policy issues related to affordable housing within the unincorporated area. Ms. Thomas has been involved with affordable housing issues in Marin County for over fifteen years, beginning with her first job out of college at Ritter Center, and including Canal Community Alliance, and Marin Housing Authority. She was previously on the board of the Marin Continuum of Housing and Services and the Housing Leadership Alliance and was past co-chair of the Housing Council.