NACD Leadership

Craig A. Stone Ph.D., Director and President
Craig Stone is Senior Project Manager of Delegata Corporation, a premier consulting and systems integration firm located in Sacramento. Dr. Stone is a Faculty for the NACD In-Boardroom Program. He serves on the Board of Midway Heights CWD, and is former CEO of Scientific Digital Visions. Craig has earned the NACD Certificate of Director Education and serves as a faculty for the NACD In-Boardroom program.

Diane Miller, Director and Board Chair
Diane is President and CEO of Wilcox Miller & Nelson, an executive and board search, leadership development and career transition firm in Sacramento. She is a Director for Umpqua Holdings Corporation, a $11 billion financial services holding company serving California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, and for whom she serves on three audit committees. Diane also serves on the board of the California Chamber of Commerce and is a Regent for the University of the Pacific.

Anne Sheehan, Director and Treasurer
Anne is the Director of Corporate Governance for the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the second largest public pension fund in the USA, where she is responsible for overseeing all corporate governance activities for the fund including proxy voting, company engagements and managing $3billion placed with activists managers. Prior to that, she served as Chief Deputy Director for Policy at the California Department of Finance. Ms Sheehan also serves as a board member of the Council of Institutional Investors and the NASDAQ Listing Council. Ms. Sheehan was named one of the 100 most influential people on corporate governance by Directorship magazine for the past 4 years.

Lydia I. Beebe, Director and Secretary
Lydia is Corporate Secretary and Chief Governance Officer of Chevron Corporation, a position she assumed in 1995. She is past chairman of the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and the Society’s Corporate Practices Committee, and has served on the board of directors of the Presidio Trust and the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission. Lydia currently serves on the governing boards of the National Judicial College, the Council of Institutional Investors, Kansas University Endowment Association and Kansas University Law Alumni. She was named Corporate Secretary of the Year in 2009 and every year since 1999, the San Francisco Business Times has named her one of “the most influential businesswomen in the Bay Area.”

Evelyn Dilsaver, Director
Evelyn Dilsaver is a recognized leader in building highly motivated teams in both the public and non-profit sector.  Evelyn is the former President and CEO of Charles Schwab Investment Management.  At the same time, she was Chair of the Board for Women’s Initiative, a non-profit organization that helps lower income women become economical independent.  She is a sought after speaker on leadership and strategy.
Evelyn currently serves on the Boards of:  Aeropostale, Inc, High Mark Funds (subsidiary of Union Bank), Blue Shield of California, Tempur-pedic Int’l and Russell ETF’s Board.  Her non-profit boards include: The Commonwealth Club of California, Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation, Bishop O’Dowd High School and Women’s Initiative.

Jeff Hodge, Director
Jeff is the Vice Chairman of Diversified Search; an Executive & Board Search Firm. He has spent over thirty years with leading executive search firms. His executive search practice focuses on Chief Executive Officer assignments and Corporate Directors. In addition to his general management and Director search work, he has conducted assignments for senior managers in charge of most functional areas.

Richard H. Koppes, Director
Richard has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of NutraCea as an independent director. Richard is the former Deputy Executive Officer and General Counsel of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). He is the founder, Past President, and current Administrative Officer of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys (NAPPA) and serves on the boards of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and the Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute. He also serves as a Corporate Governance Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. Mr. Koppes was a Director of Valeant Pharmaceuticals from 2002 to 2010, and Apria Healthcare from 1998 to 2008. He retired from the international law firm of Jones Day in December 2009 after 13 years of service. In 2007, NACD presented him with its lifetime achievement award for contributions to corporate governance—its highest honor.

Robert M. McCormick, Esq., Director
Bob is Chief Policy Officer of Glass Lewis and manages the analysis and drafting of 18,000 Proxy Paper research reports on shareholder meetings of public companies in 80 countries. Before joining Glass Lewis in September of 2005, Bob McCormick was the Director of Investment Proxy Research at Fidelity Management & Research Co. He serves on the International Corporate Governance Network’s Cross-Border Voting Practices and Securities Lending committees. Bob frequently speaks at industry conferences and has appeared on Marketwatch.com, CNBC television, Fox Business News television and Bloomberg television. Bob was named one of the 100 most influential people on corporate governance by Directorship magazine for the past 4 years.

Mary Jo Potter, Director
Mary Jo is a nationally recognized governance and organizational effectiveness expert. She is the Managing Partner of Highperlink, an international consulting firm specializing in board, executive and organizational development. Prior to that, she had been a Principal/Partner with two other firms, and founder and CEO of a firm which she sold to McGraw Hill. She has over 60 person years of Board experience, including for profit, non-profit and private firms. She currently serves on two multibillion dollar health system boards, one private risk management software board, is Chair of Hanna Center’s Board, and is a board member at Hope in Brazil, GTU in Berkeley, and Siena Heights University in Michigan. She resides in Walnut Creek.

John R. Roberts III, Director
John is the CEO of The Natomas Basin Conservancy, Inc., a non-profit foundation tasked with promoting biological conservation along with economic development and agriculture in the 54,000-acre Natomas Basin of Northern California. He serves on the Board of Directors of SureWest Communications (NASDAQ: SURW) where he chairs the Compensation Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. SureWest is a leading integrated communications provider and the bandwidth leader in the markets it serves. John formerly served on the Board of Directors of Golden Gate University and Meta Information Systems. He has earned the NACD Certificate of Director Education and was formerly the CEO of the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.

Peter Booth Wiley, Director
Peter is the chairman of the board of John Wiley & Sons, a publisher of must-have content and services for professionals, scientists, educators, students, lifelong learners, and consumers worldwide. The world’s leading publisher for scholarly and professional societies, Wiley’s offering includes well-known imprints, such as Betty Crocker, Frommer’s, For Dummies. J.K. Lasser, Jossey-Bass, Sybex, and Webster’s New World Dictionaries. Peter represents the sixth generation of his family to head the firm, which was founded in 1807. Before joining the Wiley board 26 years ago, he was a newspaper and magazine editor and journalist. The author of five books, Peter is a member of the Board of Directors of the University of California Press and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.