Leadership

Sandy holds a deep commitment to improving the quality of life for children, adults and families throughout Silicon Valley. With over 40 years of YMCA leadership experience, Sandy is a passionate believer that when youth have the support, access and opportunities they need to thrive, we are empowering the future generation that will make our community and our world stronger and healthier.

Ira brings 20 years of CFO experience in the nonprofit sector from serving with the San Jose based Health Trust, where he developed and delivered CFO support and counsel to over 80 nonprofit organizations throughout California. Prior to joining the Health Trust, he spent 17 years at Good Samaritan Health System and Lockheed Corporation. Ira is a well-respected leader, coach, and educator in finance and strategic leadership. He is known and trusted for his guidance with boards, executives, and government entities throughout Silicon Valley.

Tony joined YMCA of Silicon Valley as Chief Development Officer in June of 2013 with more than 20 years of development experience from the YMCA and UC Berkeley. Most recently, Tony served as the Senior Director of Foundation Relations at YMCA of the USA. Tony has built a successful career at the Y and he believes our organization has the power and opportunity to create positive change in the lives of the people in our community.

With more than 20 years of strategic marketing experience, Judy leads and manages the process of innovation – identifying and developing creative new strategies, opportunities and ideas to further the Y mission. She leads all marketing and communications initiatives for the YMCA of Silicon Valley. Previously, Judy developed and introduced services that generated profitable new growth for Hewlett-Packard’s $1 billion service business. She later joined the HP Leadership and Development team, creating comprehensive leadership development programs for the highest level HP executives.

Karla joined the YMCA of Silicon Valley’s Human Resources team in 2016 following 13 years at YMCA of the Triangle in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 20+ years of human resources and management experience, that spans for-profit to nonprofit, her extensive experience leading HR initiatives supports the vision of YMCA of Silicon Valley. Karla’s expertise includes policy design, compensation, performance management, recruiting, compliance reporting, HRIS implementations, HR workflow development, and benefits administration.

Mary has over 37 years of experience as a Y professional and volunteer. She currently oversees operations of several YMCA branches, the Youth Development team, and YMCA Project Cornerstone. She works collaboratively with school districts, funders, cities, counties, nonprofits and businesses to create programs that meet the needs of our community. Mary serves as a national leader for the YMCA movement in expanded learning programs and youth health and wellness. Mary is passionate about the programmatic magic in the intersection between youth development, education and healthy living creating impact for all members of our community.

Simon joined the Y in June of 2018 and brings 23 years of experience as a school leader and fundraiser.

His career in education began as a high school English teacher, before transitioning to school leadership roles. He has served as Assistant Principal and Principal at different Bay Area Catholic schools. Most recently as President of Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, where he implemented strategic planning and fundraising strategies that led to growth in giving each year.

With more than 15 years of project management experience, David has led and managed countless major projects in his more than 11 years with YMCA of Silicon Valley, including the YMCA Camp Campbell transformation and a 17 million dollar construction and renovation project for the Lewis and Joan Platt East Palo Alto Family YMCA. Prior to joining the Y, Dave served in project management capacities for the International School of the Peninsula and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

Sujan brings 25 years of Information Technology experience and is responsible for leading the technology transformation at the YMCA of Silicon Valley.

Prior to joining YMCA of Silicon Valley, Sujan held senior leadership roles in several multinational and startup organizations in the Bay Area, focusing on IT business applications, networks, security, and compliance in the Contact Center and Software industries. Sujan is passionate about architecting solutions, driving efficiencies, delivering quality services, managing by metrics and spearheading change. He utilizes employee and customer centric focused management philosophies that compliment the Y's core values.