Campus Foundation
James Koshland, President
Carol Saal, Vice President
Stuart Klein, Vice President and Secretary
Neill Brownstein, Assistant Secretary
David Friedman
Larry Marks
Paul Resnick
Mark Reisbaum, Treasurer
James Koshland became president of the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life in November 2004, having joined the board in May 2003. He is a partner and co-chair of the Venture Services Group at Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP, where he has practiced law since 1978. He serves on the boards of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation (JCF), San Francisco Jewish Community Endowment Fund, Hillel at Stanford, and the San Francisco School Volunteers. He also serves as a member of the Strategic Council of the Dean of Stanford Law School (where he received a J.D. in 1978) and as a trustee of the University of California Berkeley Foundation.
Carol Saal, Campus Board Vice President, Campus Campaign Chair
Carol Saal chairs the Campus Capital Campaign and is a board member of the Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center, where she previously served as president. She is a past board member and officer of JCF and also served as 1997 and 1998 overall campaign chair. She has been a long-standing member of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund and has served as president of the South Peninsula Federation Council, South Peninsula Campaign chair and president of the Women's Division. For three years, she was Bay Area chair of the American Committee for the Weitzmann Institute of Science. Currently, she is on the executive committee of the American Associates of Ben Gurion University of the Negev and was appointed to serve on the Board of Governors of the university in Israel. She is a founder of Hatikvah, a Jewish community residential facility serving the needs of developmentally disabled adults, and New Bridges to Jewish Community, an innovative outreach initiative.
Stuart Klein, Vice President and Secretary
Stuart Klein negotiated the purchase of the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life site at 901 San Antonio Road from Sun Microsystems in 2001-02. Klein is an attorney and private investor who was instrumental in development of the Mid-Peninsula Jewish Community Day School (now the Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School) previously located in Palo Alto on Arastradero Road adjacent to the former site of the Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center. He currently serves on the board of Hillel at Stanford and chairs the Site Committee for development of Hillel’s new facility on the university campus. Klein received a J.D./M.B.A. from Stanford in 1983 and subsequently practiced law at Cooley Godward, representing startup companies and venture capital firms, before co-founding SuperMac Technology in 1986.
Neill Brownstein, Assistant Secretary
Neill Brownstein is a founding member of the boards of directors of over 30 companies. He currently serves on the boards of Bisnet, Club One, and VYYO, Inc. In 1973, Brownstein was the co-founder of Bessemer Venture Partners, one of the largest firms specializing in technology investment. He is a member of the board of the San Francisco Jewish Community Endowment Fund and previously served for six years as a JCF board member. He has also served on the Overseas Committee of JCF, and chaired the Upper Galil Sub-committee. From 1978-84, he chaired the JCF JCC Oversight Committee during the period when the ALSJCC was established and the Marin Center was initially conceived.
David Friedman is president of Forell/Elsesser Engineers, a structural and earthquake engineering consulting firm in San Francisco founded in 1960. He currently chairs the board of the Jewish Home and is a trustee of the San Francisco Foundation, the UC Berkeley Foundation, Asian Neighborhood Design and Architectural Foundation of San Francisco. His background combines 30 years of professional experience in development of major institutional projects ranging from the San Francisco Jewish Community Center to the Asian Art museum and historic renovation of San Francisco’s City Hall, with extensive nonprofit leadership experience.
Larry Marks has been active in real estate financing, acquisitions and management for more than 30 years. His professional background includes arranging financing for commercial real estate projects throughout the country as well as having purchased and managed apartment and offices properties for investor groups. As a board member of the Jewish Home, he has chaired the Home’s Building, Finance and Investment committees. He currently serves as president of the Menlo Park Kiwanis, having been involved in various community projects undertaken by the group since 1995.
Paul Resnick is president of the OFJCC board. A principal at AKJ Asset Management, LLC, he holds aB.A. from Claremont McKenna College and a M.B.A. from UCLA. In addition to his work with the OFJCC, he sits on the boards of the Jewish Community Center Association, the Cleo Eulau Center and as chair of Investment Committee for the North Peninsula Jewish Campus. He also has served as board president/chair for Lytton Gardens, Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Jewish Family & Children's Services, San Francisco Art Institute and Zonta Services and as treasurer/finance committee chair for various non-profits.
Mark is the Chief Endowment Officer at the Jewish Community Federation. Prior to assuming this role in November of 2009 Mark was the Associate Executive Director and Director of Grants at the Federation’s Endowment Fund. He joined the Federation in 1997.
“I am gratified each and every day by what I have been able to for the Jewish community but, equally important, I am content in what i get in return.”
Carol Saal,
Past President of the Palo Alto JCC and
Past President of the TKCJL Supporting Foundation