Andrew Dailey

Board Chair

Andrew Dailey is a Managing Director of MGI Research. Mr. Dailey has over sixteen years of diversified technology and financial services experience. Previous to MGI Research, he was a partner at Stenmark Capital Management, an investment advisory firm. Prior to SCM, Dailey was a partner at the Jetstream Group, a management-consulting firm advising Fortune 500 CIOs on software procurement negotiations, enterprise applications strategies and outsourcing/offshoring strategies. In this role, Mr. Dailey provided hands-on negotiation advice to clients such as British Petroleum, Applied Materials, JPMorganChase, McDonald’s, McKesson, Nissan, Sun Microsystems, and Tetra Pak. His report on BPO, call centers and offshoring was featured in cover stories by BusinessWeek and Time magazine. Prior to Jetstream, he was a senior investment executive with Hagstromer & Qviberg, a Stockholm, Sweden-based investment bank. He established H&Q’s San Francisco office, and led its investment banking and research operations in the US. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Marketing for Baan Company, a Nasdaq and Amsterdam Exchange-listed ERP software company. Prior to Baan, he spent eight years at Gartner Group, where he co-founded the Software Asset Management practice, and launched the ERP and supply chain management advisory businesses in Europe.

Mr. Dailey has received numerous research awards, including Analyst of the Year honors, and was the top ranked analyst in Europe. Mr. Dailey is the author of numerous industry research papers and has lectured at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, and The Charles University, Prague, and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times of London, and Business Week. He currently serves on the board of directors of General Employment Enterprises, Inc. (AMEX: JOB), and the nonprofit boards of the San Francisco Conservation Corps, and Project Bandaloop, an acclaimed aerial dance company. A four-time NCAA All-American in tennis, Mr. Dailey holds a BA degree from Swarthmore College.

Noah Novogrodsky

Treasurer

Noah Novogrodsky is professor at the Univeristy of Wyoming Law School.  A former associate at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, Noah is a human rights lawyer and professor who has worked in California, Canada and in several African countries. Noah lives in Wyoming near the Medicine Bow range with his wife Isa, their children Ruby and David, and their dog Shana.

Alexa Koenig

Secretary

Alexa Koenig is a lawyer and law professor who has consulted with arts-based and environmental non-profits for more than two decades. Alexa has a strong interest in the arts and entertainment, having been a dancer and actor prior to embarking on her legal and academic careers. Alexa is a summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, where she acquired a Bachelor of Arts degree in World Arts and Cultures with an emphasis on dance and theater, and a magna cum laude graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at UC Berkeley School of Law/Boalt Hall. During her spare time, Alexa can be found hiking the hills of Marin.

Martha Nicholson

Board Member

Martha Nicholson received an undergraduate degree from Brown University, and an MD from the University of California, Davis. She went on to a residency in general pediatrics at UC Davis and then moved to San Francisco to do a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology at the University of California at San Francisco. After finishing my fellowship I worked for two pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical research in heart failure, hypertension and intermittent claudication. I am currently employed at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, which gives grants to health care organizations who are trying to improve patient safety and patient outcomes in adult acute inpatient settings.


Amelia Rudolph

Founder / Artistic Director / Dancer

Amelia is a choreographer and dancer/athlete. Her work is informed by aesthetics, non-traditional relationships with gravity, ecology, natural and built spaces, community and human relationships. She founded Project Bandaloop in 1991, bringing together dance, climbing and varied off-the-ground movement through site-specific work on cliffs, buildings and in theaters. She teaches youth in Oakland through Destiny Art Center, lectures as a public speaker and is involved in Creative Capital's Artist Development Program.

Amelia holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in comparative religion from Swarthmore College and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Her intellectual and artistic sensibilities inform her work inspiring practical, spiritual, theoretical and political creativity. Living in India for five years, especially the years she spent in the central Himalaya, have influenced her as a global citizen, and an artist. Her work has explored site-specific dance on buildings and cliffs in Africa, Argentina, and Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Italy, Lithuania, Oman, twelve states in North America and Portugal.

Since 2000 she has been named an Irvine Fellow in Dance and awarded funding and commissions for new work from the National Dance Project, Creative Capital, National Performance Network, the NEA, The Creative Work Fund, The Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, San Francisco Foundation, City of Oakland, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and the Paul Allan Foundation among others. Project Bandaloop is a 2004 multi-year grant recipient for organizational support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Amelia is an artist/athlete who has been a student of movement since beginning ballet lessons at six. Developing first as a dancer/gymnast, her early training was with the Ellis Duboulet and Lou Conte studios in Chicago. She spent seven years at the school of the Hubbard Street Dance Company where she became a company apprentice at 17. She has performed with Mark Morris, Dance Brigade, Clay Taliaferro and Sarah Elgart among others. She competed as a gymnast for eight years and was captain of the women's cross-country team in college. She began climbing in 1989 in California's Sierra Nevada range and her experiences have ranged from back-country peaks and big walls to sport climbing and three seasons as a national competitor. In 2005 she began to surf. Amelia is continually challenged and educated by her experiences in nature. Those experiences unearth and clarify her values, identity and art.

Rob Eisenbach

Board Member

Robert Eisenbach is a sustainable business leader and consumer products executive. Mr. Eisenbach recently led the creation of Green Genius, the first consumer product company bringing affordable biodegradable plastic solutions to everyday consumers. As VP of marketing, Rob led all branding, communication, government affairs, regulatory, technology, and business development activities.

Prior to Green Genius, Rob advised VC funded companies on their branding and business development activities in the CPG industry. Rob also served as the director of marketing for Otis Spunkmeyer, where he strived to perfect the chocolate chip cookie, and in various leadership roles at the Clorox Company, where he managed such well-known brands as Kingsford and Tilex.

Prior to his work in the consumer products industry, Mr. Eisenbach was a senior consultant at Ernst & Young LLP and a Systems Engineer at Martin Marietta. Rob received his MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and has a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Rob makes his home in San Francisco where he is a lover of music and an avid outdoor enthusiast.

Dominie Garcia, PhD

Board Member

Dominie Garcia is currently an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University in the Organization and Management department of the College of Business. Her areas of expertise are organizational change and transformation, organizational structure and design, and organizational culture. Her research topics are focused on how organizations can better manage large scale, disruptive change processes, ensuring successful outcomes and smoother transformations. Dominie earned an MBA, Magna cum Laude, from Babson College. After Babson, she worked for the Vice Chairman of AOL Time Warner during the merger of the two companies, and was co-founder of an organization, Emerging Venture Network, which serves to connect high potential early stage companies, led by minority entrepreneurs, with private equity funding sources, such as venture capital.

Dominie’s work with several non-profit organizations to help streamline and focus their organizational structure and strategy in order to more effectively execute on their cause-based missions, has likewise been an integral part of her work. It is critical for non-profit organizations to attend to structure and management elements in order to better serve their constituents and manage multiple stakeholders, a process that often involves major change within the organization.  Dominie helps organizations find their best designs and manage the related change process.

Dominie holds a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Vassar College, an MBA from Babson College and a PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Michael Uthoff

Advisory Board Member

Internationally renowned artistic director, choreographer, teacher and dancer, assumed the newly titled post of artistic and executive director of Dance St. Louis on July 1, 2006.

Uthoff was born in Santiago, Chile, to former dancers, Ernst Uthoff and Lola Botka, both of the Jooss Ballet and founders of the Chilean National Ballet. He started dancing after high school and a year later arrived in New York to attend the Juilliard School of Music, School of American Ballet, and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. He danced with the José Limón Company and was a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet.

In 1972, Uthoff established the Hartford Ballet in Hartford, Connecticut. For the next 20 years, as artistic director, he developed the company into a national institution that toured throughout 49 states. He commissioned works by both new and established choreographers, and created more than 100 ballets for the company himself. In 1992, Uthoff accepted the position of artistic director of Ballet Arizona, a post he held until 1999. From the time that Uthoff created his first dance for the Joffrey Ballet in 1967, his ballets have entered the repertory of companies all over the world. His large-scale works include The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Hansel and Gretel, Alice in Wonderland, Awakening, Dias de Muertos, and Romeo and Juliet. He has directed opera and choreographed for opera companies internationally, and has served on the Board of Dance/USA and panels of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Uthoff's recent career as guest teacher, choreographer, and artistic advisor includes entities such as the government of Chile, the Shanghai Ballet of China, the California Ballet of San Diego, Portland Opera Performing Institute, Andanza Dance Company of Puerto Rico, the Ballet Estable of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he held the post of artistic director, and his own Michael Uthoff Dance Theatre, which premiered in 2003.

Uthoff's most recent dance work is Honorable Sky, which he created in August 2007 for 30 X 30, the 30th anniversary celebration of BalletMet Columbus. In October 2007 he received the Chilean North American Institute’s Distincción Ernst Uthoff award for his distinguished 40-plus-year career and outstanding contributions to dance.

Uthoff is married to Cynthia Uthoff, and is the proud father of Michelle Uthoff-Campbell and grandfather of Owen and Ivy.

Gail Kalver

Advisory Board Member

Gail Kalver, a native Chicagoan, is an independent arts management consultant and project manager, having recently incorporated as "Gail Kalver Arts Management, Inc." Her current clients include the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, the Ruth Page Center for Dance in Chicago and SeeChicagoDance.com for Carol Fox and Associates, an arts marketing firm. Past clients include The Chicago Dancing Project and 2007 Festival (Lar Lubovitch and Jay Franke, Founders and Artistic Directors), Dance Affiliates of Philadelphia, and the Grant Park Concert Association for the City of Chicago in Millenium Park, Chicago. Pro bono clients include Dmitri Peskov and Dancers and LehrerDance. She recently completed training to be an Interim Executive Director by the Executive Service Corps of Chicago, and will soon begin that assignment for the Chicago Human Rhythm Project.

Previously, she was Executive Director of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for 23 years, where she guided the company through substantial growth, seeing the formation of the highly-respected second company, Hubbard Street 2, vast education and community services, the acquisition of the Lou Conte Dance Studio and the purchase and renovation of the Hubbard Street Dance Center in the West Loop. She received a degree in vocal/choral music education from the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana) and a master’s degree in clarinet from the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University (now Chicago College of Performing Arts) in 1974. Kalver founded the Windy City Wind Ensemble with David Johnson in 1971 and also performed as a free-lance musician with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera Orchestra, Joffrey Ballet Orchestra and Grant Park Symphony. She joined the Ravinia Festival staff in 1976, where she became associate manager before joining Hubbard Sttreet in 1984. Kalver was also music consultant to the Peabody Award-winning National Radio Theatre and wrote the monthly publication "Music Explorer", for students grades 4 through 8, which was distributed nationally.

Kalver has served on the boards of the Chicago Dance Coalition, Dance/USA and the National Association of Performing Arts Managers and Agents and on numerous local, state and national funding panels. She currently serves on the boards of Chicago Dancers United and the Arts & Business Council of Chicago; on the advisory councils of Northshore Concert Band (where she also plays clarinet), Dancers Responding to AIDS, Child’s Play Touring Theatre, Project Bandaloop and the Trey McIntyre Project; and served on the Excellence in Dance Initiative Advisory Committee of the Chicago Community Trust for the 5 years of their Dance Initiative.

Kalver is the recipient of the Chicago Dance Coalition's 1988 Ruth Page Award for Service to the Field, was recognized by Today's Chicago Woman as one of 100 women making a difference in Chicago in 1996; and has co-chaired the Midwest Arts Conference and Dance for Life, the annual AIDS benefit of Chicago Dancers United. In 2003, her 20th anniversary with Hubbard Street, Kalver was the recipient of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago’s ABBY Award for Arts Management Excellence and she recently received the 2007 Ruth Page Award for Lifetime Service, now given by the Ruth Page Foundation in Chicago.