Diane Doodha, President
Diane Doodha, a long time Ross resident with a career background in education, non profit management and business, has an extensive history of philanthropic work in Marin County and San Francisco. She most recently served on the Board of Trustees of the Bay School of San Francisco where among other services she co-chaired the development committee. She is presently a member of the Marin General Hospital Foundation Board of Directors as well as the new President of MAGC.

Edison Lewis, Vice President
Edison Lewis joined the Board of Trustees in January of 2010. He has been elected Vice President of the Board, is Chairman of the Development Committee and serves on the Operations Committee. Ed runs the Property Management Department of Keegan & Coppin Co., a general Northbay commercial real estate company specializing in brokerage and management. During his 23 years at the company as a Certified Property Manager, he has overseen the growth of the management portfolio to its current size of nearly 100 commercial buildings. Ed has served on various non-profit boards, including on the Lifehouse Board and as Board President of the Marin Center for Independent Living. Ed graduated from Trinity College in Connecticut in 1966 and received his secondary teaching credential from Dominican University in 1972. A 4th generation Marinite, Ed is married to Margaret Hart and they have three children ages 25-31.
 

Nanette Londeree, Secretary
Planting her first garden at age five, this passionate life-long gardener revels in the bounty the Marin Art & Garden Center offers and sees MAGC as a hidden jewel in the heart of Marin. Equally enthused about arts, history and culture, she served as a Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of San Rafael for eight years, and President of Marin Heritage, the historic preservation group that helped save Falkirk, now San Rafael’s cultural center, from demolition. With a B.S. in Microbology, she did a stint in the wine industry followed by a lengthy management career in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries focusing in operations, QA/QC, Compliance, Training and Project Management. Now fully immersed in her encore career – writing, this Master Gardener and Master Rosarian is pulling together her combined loves of learning, teaching and horticulture together to help educate and inspire others.

Robin MacNaughton, Treasurer
Robin joined the Board of Trustees in 2011 and serves as Treasurer. He is Senior Vice President and Senior Risk Manager at Mechanics Bank where, for the past 15 years, he has focused on managing the bank’s commercial real estate portfolio. During the prior 25 years, Robin was actively engaged in the real estate industry, both as a lender and developer holding management positions with Wells Fargo Bank and Barclays Bank of California as well as Reeves Construction and Hare Brewer & Kelley. Robin is currently serving on two other non-profit boards, as Board Secretary of Guardian Adult Day Health Care Center and Treasurer of the Golden Gate Chapter of Risk Management Associates. Robin graduated with a BS in Psychology from Stanford University in 1968, and has lived in Kentfield with his wife and daughter for the last 30 years.
 

Jessica Fairchild
Jessica has a longtime connection to Marin and Ross in particular, having attended Ross School and spending much time at MAGC as a child. She obtained a B.A. in architectural history from UC Santa Cruz and a Masters of Architecture from UCLA. After working in several architectural firms in Southern California, Jessica and her husband began their own business, Fairchild Broms Design. Jessica, her husband and their two children are settled now in Sleepy Hollow and are developing their sunny hillside into a mini farm with chickens, olive trees and other edible landscaping. Jessica is a supporter of the Ross Valley Players and MAGC. She is confident that her background in architectural history lends her a sensitivity to the past history of a place like MAGC, and that her experience with adaptive re-use projects (often historic buildings) allows her to understand the process of moving forward and adapting to the future while still maintaining the critical and place-making elements of the past. Her lifelong interest in gardening and garden design and would bring an architects’ eye and sensibility to shaping the future of MAGC.

 

Lynn Langford
Since arriving several years ago in Ross with her husband and twin sons, Lynn has worked to bring a more eco-friendly theme to her community endeavors. She built an organic raised bed and demonstrated gardening techniques at the Ross Garden Tour two years ago, and her home edible garden was featured in the MCSTOPP Eco-Friendly Garden Tour. Lynn has more than 20 years of experience driving profitable change through enterprise-wide improvement programs. She is able to analyze a broad range of processes to increase efficiency throughout supply chain, logistics, product development, engineering, manufacturing and distribution operations. Even though much of her consulting experience has been to help large corporations become more efficient and eco-friendly, her heart has always been in helping communities become "lean" and "green."

Robyn Luhning

Robyn is a Ross resident who knows MAGC well and attended many of the summer concerts in 2011, fostering her interest in board membership. Her chief areas of interest if chosen as a MAGC Trustee would be to establish corporate partnerships with the Center resulting in funding and expansion of MAGC’s reach. Robyn has recently become the manager for environmental and social risk for Wells Fargo in their wholesale lending group. Her background includes development of conservation programs with the Aldo Leopold Center in Wisconsin, as well as experience as a corporate sustainability specialist working in a wide range of companies from consumer goods to electronics to media. Her work has covered all angles of sustainability strategy, including concrete areas such as corporate reporting and stakeholder communications, environmental management systems and strategies for meeting new regulations abroad. Robyn graduated from Yale University in 2002 with a Master's Degree in Environmental Management and completed her undergraduate education at New College of Florida in 1997.
 

Alex Ross
Alex Ross joined the Board of Trustees in 2006. He is on the Facilities Committee and the Space Utilization Committee. Alex has been active with the Ross Valley Players at MAGC since 1971 and has served numerous terms on its Board including four terms as its President and is currently its Business Manager. Retired since 2000, Alex worked for Chevron Corporation for 38 years, the last 15 years as General Manager of its Employee and Retiree Benefits Department. Alex holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Chemical Engineering from MIT. Alex is also a long term Board member of the Marin Shakespeare Company and is married to Tinka Ross (retired astronomer and lecturer). He enjoys acting, scuba diving and travel.
 

Brian Salmen

Brian has been a Marin resident for 38 years and has lived in Ross for 23 years.  He is a physician on the Medical Staff of Marin General Hospital, Kentfield Rehabilitation Hospital, Novato Community Hospital, and Sonoma Valley Hospital.  He graduated from Northwestern University Medical School and received his specialty training at the University of Chicago and UCSF.  He was Assistant Clinical Professor of Radiology at UCSF from 1977 to 1987.  He has served on the Vestry of Christ Episcopal Church in Sausalito and St. Johns Ross, where he chaired the Endowment Committee.  He has been active in community affairs, particularly flood control, having represented Ross on the Flood Zone Nine Design Advisory Committee and as a Board Member of the Flood Mitigation League of Ross Valley.  He has also been a member of the Ross Property Owners Association Board of Directors.  He is married and his two children both attended Ross School.

Gary Scales

Gary and his wife Janet have been affiliated with numerous Center groups for 40 years, including Pixie Parents, Marin Society of Artists, Garden Society of Marin, Marin Garden Club, Marin Rose Society and Moya-RHS. Gary has served on the MAGC board in past years and is a founding member of the Marin Rose Society and the Ross Historical Society. He was appointed as a member of the original Ross Recreation Advisory Council and served on the Ross School Fundraising Committee that pre-dated the School Foundation. He was Assistant Scoutmaster of Ross Troop 17 and appointed to the Ross Town Council and later elected to office, serving one term as Mayor. While a Trustee or an advisor of MAGC he has been involved in numerous projects, including: Introducing the concept of non-profit rentals at the Center that brought the Ross School and Ross Recreation to the Center as income producing entities; Creating a Community Collaboration Committee comprised of MAGC, Ross Town Council, Ross Town Manager, Ross School and Ross Recreation; Recommending the replacement of five-person gardening-grounds staff with an independent landscape service resulting in substantial savings to the Center; Demonstrating to the Board that the Livermore Rental Program was not producing the projected revenue stream and introduced the concept that real estate should be valued at "fair market" and that common area maintenance costs, including real estate taxes and administrative expenses should be allocated to Center users rather than subsidized; and developing the original concept of a Veterans Memorial Flagpole and made the initial presentation to the Center Board last year.

 

Scott White
Scott White joined the Board of Trustees in 2011. He is Vice President at San Francisco Sentry, where he focuses on Risk Management. Previously Scott was a portfolio manager for an event-driven long/short investment partnership and spent six years with the Wealth Management Groups at Goldman, Sachs and Deutsche Bank advising high net worth clients and institutional investors. He holds a B.S. in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University and has earned the right to use the CFA designation. Scott is also on the Financial Audit Advisory Committee for Marin County.