Board of Trustees

Our Board of Trustees is comprised of Minnesota leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors who are actively engaged in the community. The Trustees provide organizational leadership and oversight, and guide the Foundation's Community Grantmaking. 

Chair	Vice Chair	Secretary	Treasurer
Mark Chronister Retired Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers L.L.P.	Lynn Casey Chairman and CEO, Padilla Speer Beardsley	Weiming Lu Urban Planning and Development Consultant	Nancy Siska Human Resources, Cargill, Incorporated
Marshall J. Besikof Retired Partner, Lurie Besikof Lapidus & Company, LLP	Yvonne Cheung Ho President and CEO, Metropolitan Economic Development Association	Jan Conlin Partner, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P.	Robert Fullerton Principal, Blue Rock Advisors
Sima Griffith Founder and Principal, Aethlon Capital	Katherine Hadley Library Director, Saint Paul Public Library	J. Andrew Herring Corporate Vice President, Real Estate and Store Development, Supervalu	Eric J. Jolly, Ph.D. President, Science Museum of Minnesota
David C. Mortenson Executive Vice President, M. A. Mortenson Company	Russell C. Nelson Principal/President, Nelson, Tietz & Hoye, Inc.	Gloria Perez President and CEO, Jeremiah Program	Norman Rickeman Retired Managing Partner, Accenture
Hussein Samatar Founder and Executive Director, African Development Center	David Sternberg Senior Vice President and General Manager, Midwest and Mountain Region, Brookfield Properties Corporation	Lowell Stortz President, Leonard, Street and Deinard	Diane Thormodsgard Vice Chairman, Wealth Management and Securities Services, US Bancorp
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Jane Wyatt CFA and Principal NorthShore Advisors	Anthony C. Williamson III Co-Founder and CEO, AJASA Technologies, Inc.