Janet Beach, Executive Director
Janet serves the Job Forum in the role of our non-profit Executive Director. She is the volunteer who provides the strategic management, policy decision-making, annual and long-term planning, financial and operational oversight of the Job Forum. She also handles the approximately 50 Job Forum events for weekly Wed. Job Forum plus other panelist volunteer–focused events, supervises the weekly sign up schedule and keeps up connections with our volunteers, develops and hosts the annual meeting, manages the marketing, the web presence and outreach, and manages recruitment of new volunteer panelists. She also manages relations and interface with our sponsor, the SF Chamber of Commerce.
Roger Brooks, Job Forum Vice Chairman
Roger leads The Job Forum’s Workforce of the Future program for job readiness for young people. He backs up The Job Forum with leadership oversight as needed and particularly, with contributions to our efforts to explore new forms of outreach and our ongoing satisfaction surveys.
Tom Toy, Chairperson, Job Forum Board of Advisors
Startup Capital Ventures, Managing Director, an early stage venture capital firm, investing in diverse Technology, Healthcare and Clean tech start-ups and has been a Board Member at private companies, including Health Crowd and Phizzle.
Marc Gallo, Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
Marc is a Board Member at MSIG (Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group) Holdings, USA and a retired PwC Partner. He has been a board member at Opportunity Junction and Capax World. He volunteers at American Corporate Partners and is on the Finance Council at St John Vianney church.
Bill Murphy, Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
Dillingham and Murphy, Founding Partner 1982, Managing Partner of mid-size San Francisco Law firm and volunteer mediator for the U.S. District Court’s Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) program
Brenda Rogers, Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
Fractional CHRO for Silicon Valley life science and technology companies and Board Member at Bay Area Human Resources Executives Council (A CA chapter of SHRM, Society for Human Resource Managers).
Chau Mai, Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
A results-driven and relationship-focused Marketing leader currently at Google, where she is Senior Marketing Manager for Google’s Global AI Campaign.
Betiel Hadgu Haile, Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
A Medical Affairs professional at Roche Diagnostics, overseeing evidence generation projects, with a Master’s in Public Health, certified as Clinical Research Professional and Scrum Master, Instructor at UC-Berkeley Extension, in Clinical Research Conduct and Management.
Darren Reger, Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
Senior Data Science Manager, Machine Learning, & Experimental platforms at Pinterest. Darren was formerly at Stitch Fix, Facebook and Galvanize, a workforce tech training company online and in Boulder, CO. Darren has a PhD in transportation engineering from UC Berkeley.
Frank Yoke, Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
Development and Fundraising Consultant and Director of Development at the Sierra Center for adult with disabilities. Frank is a Leader at Rotary Club of San Francisco and former Development Executive at Boy Scouts of America.
Bill Davidovich, Founding Emeritus Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
Human Resources Executive, recently retired, in 2023, from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Laura Haggerty, Founding Emeritus Member Job Forum Board of Advisors
Business leader IT, Communications and Change Management, former Visa Executive.
Christina Sahagun, Kathy Mark, Anurag Jain, Tina Choi & Kathy Knudson
Co-Directors of Panelist Recruitment and Onboarding
Christina, Kathy, Anu, Tina, and Kathy help to interview, screen, train and welcome new panelist volunteers. (Please fill out the Job Forum Volunteer Form if you are interested in volunteering with the Job Forum) They are assisted by other Job Forum volunteers, who help us to identify great additional talent from SF Bay Area businesses and non profits who may want to join us as members of the Job Forum panel.
John Gouws, President of The Job Forum Business Council
Megan Slater, Director, Youth Program “Workforce of the Future”
Teresa Gilman, Co-Director of Corporate Partnership Programs
Sandy Yu, Co-Director of Corporate Partnership Programs
Chau Mai, Volunteer Engagement Manager
Christopher Ford, Director, African American Outreach & Impact
Abby Evans, Director, Advancement Support for Women in STEM
Kathy Mark, Special Projects Manager
Kathy contributes to the special initiatives of The Job Forum both by participating and contributing in leadership roles at our events and by contributing “behind the scenes” in a wide variety of valuable ways and on projects.
Nancy Longo, Social Media and Online Outreach Manager
Nancy leads The Job Forum’s social media and online outreach team, creating content for all platforms. She is also a video editor.
Ella MacNamara, Job Forum Communications & Outreach Program Intern
Ella MacNamara is a communications student at University of California Santa Barbara. She is majoring in communications and working on a certification in Technical Management. Ella will focus on adding to The Job Forum’s digital brand visibility and adding awareness and engagement by helping us to establish a strong program on Instagram.
Jason Slamovich, Job Forum Social Media Volunteer
Jason is a social media and content writing professional with skills in email marketing, blog composition, community engagement, and digital marketing. With 6+ years in the Bay Area technology sector, his industry knowledge is very diverse. Jason is excited to bring his positive energy into many facets of the The Job Forum scope. Outside of work he can found paddle boarding, downhill skiing, or baking delicious banana bread!
Archanaa Vinod, Program Advisor and Outreach Coordinator to The Job Forum’s Military and Veterans Program
Archanaa is the Job Seeker Outreach and Networking Coordinator at The Job Forum. She focuses on job seeker outreach and networking, helping individuals connect with opportunities, and building relationships within the community. With her background in HR operations and recruitment, she is dedicated to supporting various aspects of The Job Forum’s projects.
Archana conducts outreach to military organizations and educational organizations to build partnerships that will build Job Forum event attendance by military trained job hunters who are seeking civilian job roles and want to meet Job Forum volunteer companies and receive advice for how to conduct a modern job search for great careers after the military. The program also serves spouses and those in the reserves. All the events are on zoom so that anybody can attend for free.
Nancy Longo, Communications and Job Forum Video Producer
Nancy Longo envisions, plans, shoots, develops, and keeps current the video marketing for The Job Forum. She assists with marketing and social media ideas. Nancy regularly interviews job hunters and Job Forum panel members to share and communicate the benefits of The Job Forum program.
Roger Brooks, Laura Haggerty, and Bill Pollak, members of the Job Forum Marketing Committee
This group works to identify marketing outreach programs to build awareness about The Job Forum and our programs which offer job search advice, skills training and coaching, job search strategy ideas for each job hunter and provide networking and referral opportunities via the volunteers from business and nonprofits who volunteer their time to help job hunters. The marketing committee provides input during the year, working with Janet beach and Arik Warren
Arik Warren, Administrative Manager
Arik supports The Job Forum organization and assists Janet Beach, the Executive Director as well as the management and volunteers of The Job Forum in organizing the approximately 170 Job Forum events per year. He works behind the scenes doing administrative work for our organization, increasing awareness of The Job Forum, communicating with all volunteers and levels of management, facilitating our free Wednesday Job Forum meetings and Thursday special events, handling the regular listing of the Job Forum in various online community listings: Eventbrite, MeetUp, SF Business Times, SF Chamber of Commerce, Monster, and much more.