FII - National Board of Directors

Charles (Chuck) Parrish, Board President
Chuck Parrish is founder and former Executive VP of Phone.com (now Openwave), former VP of Contel Cellular, GTE Mobile (now Verizon), Board member of CFED, board member of Novarra Inc of Itasca and former Chief of Staff, US Department of the Interior in the Carter Administration.

John (Tony) Mayer, Board Treasurer
Tony Mayer is retiring Managing Director and CEO of J.P. Morgan Capital Corporation. Mr. Mayer is a Trustee of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He is also a Director of Public/Private Ventures, Expansion Capital Partners, and a number of private companies.

Robert (Bob) Friedman
Bob Friedman is founder and chair of the board of the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and former member of the Levi Straus corporate board. Bob also sits on the boards of the National Fund for Enterprise Development, EARN, the Rosenberg Foundation, the Friedman Family Foundation and the Koshland Committee of the San Francisco Foundation. Bob has been central in the development of the IDA matched savings accounts and an asset agenda for this country.

Sherry M. Hirota
Sherry Hirota is chief executive officer of Asian Health Services, based in Oakland. Formerly a founding member of The California Endowment’s Board of Directors, Sherry was appointed member of the Advisory Committee on Research on Minority Health of the ORMH, National Institutes of Health along with many other appointments. Sherry has a long history of working in some of our most difficult communities.

Maurice Lim Miller
Non-Voting member
Maurice Lim Miller is Founder and CEO of the Family Independence Initiative. Previously he ran a successful community development agency in San Francisco and Oakland and was honored by President Clinton for his work. Maurice sits on the board of the California Endowment and the Hitachi Foundation.

External Members

Jack Burns, Finance Committee Member
Jack Burns joined P/PV in January 2006 as Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration. Prior to joining P/PV, Mr. Burns served as controller of Special Olympics- Pennsylvania for several years. He has more than 20 years’ experience in various global and domestic corporate finance capacities, including for Tower Perrin, Glaxo SmithKline and PNC Bank. In addition, for the last 25 years, Mr. Burns has served as an instructor at Philadelphia-area colleges and universities. Mr. Burns holds an MBA in Marketing and International Business and a BBA in Finance from Temple University. He is currently enrolled in a doctoral program at a Philadelphia-area university.

Michelle Chao, Board Secretary