Board of Directors

Governance

Make-A-Wish^® Northeastern California and Northern Nevada’s Board of Directors represents our diverse area and helps chart the Foundation’s course. They contribute a vast array of experience and skills that helps maintain our status as the nation’s largest wish-granting organization. Board meetings are held every month.

As a whole, the board determines the Foundation’s mission and vision. It selects, evaluates and supports the president and chief executive officer. The board also protects the Foundation’s assets, enhances its public standing, ensures accountability, maintains legal integrity and assesses its own performance.

In addition, there are ad-hoc task teams and Board Committees organized around specific areas of the Foundation operations. There are currently Regional Advisory Boards or Steering Committees in Northern Nevada, Stanislaus and San Joaquin counties and the Redding area. These groups represent the chapter in their cities and surrounding counties.

Chair
Jack Ross Williams
Smog ‘N Go

Vice Chair
Ed Crane
Clear Channel

Secretary
Don Ball
Vision Service Plan Global

Treasurer
Les Passuello
Vision Service Plan Global

Board of Directors
Craig Burress
CB Richard Ellis

Chris Chediak
Weintraub Genshlea Chediak

Dennie Conrad
Sutter Health

Jennifer O’Brien Cooley
Mark III Construction, Inc.

Jay Farquhar
Minuteman Press- Redding

David M. Fritz
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Diane Koellen
White Star Construction

Sean M. Mullin
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.

Scott Myers
Wells Fargo Commercial Banking

Azad Sheikh, MD
Sutter Children’s Specialists