David W. Kunhardt

Chairman of the Board
Director - Solar Finance, NRG Energy

NRG Energy is a Fortune 500 diversified energy company, headquartered in Princeton, NJ with a fast-growing solar business. Mr. Kunhardt is Director of Finance in the solar sphere, arranging debt, tax equity and partnership finance for new commercial-scale solar projects, in the Larkspur, CA office. He was VP of Structured Finance with Solar Power Partners starting in 2008, through its acquisition by NRG Energy in November, 2011. Mr. Kunhardt has been engaged in community development and partnership debt and equity finance for 29 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, directing a program that reached over $1.7 billion in partnership investments. He has 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. He passed NASD/NYSE Series 7 certification in 2007, and was appointed in 2008 to serve on the Board of the Marin Workforce Housing Trust.

NRG Solar, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NRG Energy, is developing utility scale and commercial scale projects to harness solar power to produce clean, renewable electricity for thousands of customers. NRG Solar is developing the best solar technologies currently available, with the goal of leading the industry in the commercialization of solar projects in North America. In the commercial sector, NRG Solar will continue the SPP record of providing solar Power Purchase Agreements to schools, hospitals, municipalities, water districts, airports and businesses. Please see: www.nrgenergy.com for more information.

Robert J. Pendoley

Vice 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.

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.

Kathleen Harris

Program Director, Housing and Ending Poverty, Marin Community Foundation

Kathleen joined the Marin Community Foundation in 2006 and currently leads its strategic initiatives for economic security and affordable housing, which aims to increase affordable housing in Marin through investments in new housing production, policy change, and the prevention of homelessness. Kathleen has over 20 years experience in the nonprofit arena, primarily in the areas of education and community development.

She has worked in Washington DC, Chicago, and the Bay Area to help low wage earners attain economic empowerment through education, employment, homeownership, and wealth accumulation. She has represented the interests of public schools with state legislators on issues of school funding, teacher certification, and charter schools. Early in her career, Kathleen was as a middle teacher, and later trained as a principal with New Leaders for New Schools in Chicago.

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

Thomas Peters Ph.D.

President and CEO, Marin Community Foundation

Thomas Peters, Ph.D., has been President and CEO of the Marin Community Foundation since 1998. He came to MCF following his seven years as Director of Health and Human Services for Marin County. Prior to that, he served for 17 years with the Department of Public Health in San Francisco, where he was Chief of Staff from 1982-1990. Tom received his undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University, his doctorate from the University of Minnesota, and for three years was a fellow of the National Institutes of Health.

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.