Board of Directors

Officers

John A. Gunn, Chairman of the Board
Steven Menzies, Vice Chairman of the Board

Keith B. Geeslin, President
Matthew Shilvock, CEO & Tad and Dianne Taube General Director
Robert A. Ellis, Vice President
Lisa Erdberg, Vice President
Dr. William M. Coughran, Jr., Treasurer
Karin J. Kubin, Secretary
Michael Simpson, Chief Financial Officer 

Reid W. Dennis, Chairman Emeritus
Franklin "Pitch" Johnson, Jr., Chairman Emeritus

Board of Directors

Susan Anderson-Norby
Helen Berggruen
Claire Wrenn Bobrow
Romana Bracco
Carol Franc Buck
Jack Calhoun+
Barbara Bruser Clark, Merola Opera Program President
Naniette Helene Coleman
William M. Coughran, Jr.+
Arif Damji
Jayne C. Davis
Ira Dearing+
Jerome L. Dodson
Carol Pucci Doll+
Dixon Doll
Valerie Crane Dorfman+
Robert A. Ellis+
Lisa Erdberg+
Peter Fenton
Sarah Fenton
Anna Fieler
Margarita Gandia
Keith B. Geeslin+
Susan Graham Johnston
Louise Gund+
John A. Gunn+
Gretchen Wolfe Hansen
Jane M. Hartley
I. Craig Henderson, M.D.
John Hendrickson
Doreen Woo Ho
Charles Edward Hudson, III
Sylvia Hughes
George H. Hume+
J. Burgess Jamieson
Franklin P. Johnson, Jr.+
Timothy F. Kahn+
Lawrence A. Kern
Mark R. Kroll
Karen J. Kubin+
Thomas A. Larsen
Sylvia R. Lindsey
Mrs. Cynthia Snorf Livermore
Hon. Richard C. Livermore
Susan Marineau
J. Patterson McBaine
Patrick McCabe
Anne G. McWilliams
Teresa Medearis
Steven Menzies+
Helen Meyer+
Karl O. Mills+
Justin Moore
Maryam Muduroglu, Guild President
Nancy S. Mueller
Janet Napolitano
Ben Nelson
J. Boyce Nute+
Bernard Osher+
Jason Phillips
Anne Brandeis Popkin
Mary A. Powell
Nora Quattrin, BRAVO! CLUB President *
Randall Reynoso
Richard J. Rigg, Ph.D.
C.P. Russell
Bill Russell-Shapiro+
Jack Schafer
Matthew Shilvock+
Ruth A. Short
Mrs. George P. (Charlotte) Shultz
William R. Stensrud
Mrs. Dianne Marie Taube+
Soo Venkatesan
Ms. Barbara Moller Ward
Mrs. Diane B. Wilsey+
Barbara A. Wolfe
Melinda Yee Franklin
S. Shariq Yosufzai+

+ Executive Committee Member

Chairman's Council

Reid W. Dennis
Franklin P. Johnson, Jr., Chairman
Bernard Osher

Presidents

1923-1924 Timothy Healy
1924-1931 Robert I. Bentley
1932-1936 Wallace M. Alexander
1937-1944 Robert Watt Miller
1945-1951 Kenneth Monteagle
1952-1968 Robert Watt Miller
1969-1970 Prentis Cobb Hale
1971-1973 William H. Orrick, Jr.
1974-1984 Walter M. Baird
1985-1990 Tully M. Friedman
1990-1993 Thomas Tilton
1993-1995 David M. Chamberlain
1995-2002 William W. Godward
2002-2006 Karl O. Mills
2006-2013 George H. Hume
2013-          Keith B. Geeslin

Chairmen of the Board

1969-1971 Robert Watt Miller
1971-1982 R. Gwin Follis
1983-1984 Richard K. Miller
1985-1999 Reid W. Dennis
1999-2008 Franklin P. Johnson, Jr.
2008-         John A. Gunn

San Francisco Opera General Directors

Gaetano Merola
Founder and General Director, 1923-1953

Kurt Herbert Adler
Artistic Director, 1953-1957
General Director, 1957-1981; General Director Emeritus, 1982-1988

Terence A. McEwen
General Director, 1982-1988; General Director Emeritus, 1988-1998

Lotfi Mansouri
General Director, 1988-2001

Pamela Rosenberg
General Director, 2001-2005

David Gockley
General Director, 2006-2016; General Director Emeritus, 2016-

Matthew Shilvock
General Director, 2016-