Kerry Adams Hapner

As the Director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Jose since 2008, Kerry Adams Hapner leads the Office of Cultural Affairs (OCA) for the 12^th largest U.S. city. The OCA portfolio includes: public art, special events, grantmaking, artist workforce development, stewardship of 12 City-owned convention and cultural facilities, and the Arts Commission. Kerry previously served as Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Ventura. Kerry serves on the advisory board of Californians for the Arts. She is a former Chair of the U.S. Urban Arts Coalition and the Public Art Coalition of Southern California. In 2022, she was the inaugural Face of the Bay Honoree presented by News UpNow. In 2014 and 2015, she was named one of the most powerful and influential leaders in the United States’ nonprofit arts sector in Barry’s Blog published by Creative West. Kerry earned a Master in Liberal Arts degree from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Art degree in Art History with a specialization in Business from UCLA.

Armando Castellano

Armando Castellano is a professional French horn player, bilingual teaching artist, arts advocate and philanthropist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As a professional musician, he is active internationally as a chamber musician, soloist, and orchestral performer. As a bilingual teaching artist, this year alone, he is reaching over 700 students with residency work in Latino majority schools throughout the Bay Area. Armando is the founder and artistic director of Quinteto Latino, a national performance and advocacy organization whose mission is to celebrate and empower the diversity of Latina/o/e identity in classical music through concertizing, education, and mentoring. This year Quinteto Latino is celebrating 20 years performing works by Latino and Latin America composers exclusively and having performed well over 750 concerts throughout the US in that time. He actively advocates on behalf of musicians of color in the U.S. through direct mentorship as well as leading Quinteto Latino’s fellows program. The fellows are the only all Latino wind chamber music group in the US that performs exclusively works by Latino composers.

His equity work is far-reaching and tireless, speaking nationally on issues impacting BIPOC classical musicians, giving workshops on culturally relevant arts education and cultural expression in the arts, and consulting on organization diversity. 24/25 speaking engagements include the Sphinx Connect National Conference in Detroit Michigan, the Chamber Music American National Conference in Houston Texas, the Center for Excellence in Nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Music Teachers Association of California.

As a philanthropist, Armando has spent the last 20 years funding Latino serving nonprofits throughout the region, as well as championing DEI and cultural competency within the philanthropic field at large through public speaking and influencing. He is a founding Board Member and recent past Board President of the Donors of Color Network, a community of high-net-worth donors of color focused on advancing racial justice and equity through strategic giving and cross-racial solidarity. Currently he is partnering with SVCF in building support for Latino lead and serving non profits in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.

Russell Hansen

Russ Hansen is a long-time resident of Saratoga, where he and his wife Marcia have lived since returning to the Bay Area in 2001.

He is a retired partner of the Palo Alto office of the global law firm, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, although he continues to practice on an advisory basis. His practice has focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, strategic alliances, general corporate advice and counseling boards of directors.

Russ has also served in numerous leadership roles at Gibson Dunn, including Partner in Charge of the Palo Alto and Century City offices and as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Hiring Committee and Professional Development Committee.

Russ received his A.B. degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1976 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his J.D. degree from the Stanford Law School in 1980.

He is an active member of the Saratoga Rotary Club, where he has served as Treasurer and director, and the Saratoga Men’s Club. He is a past member of the Board of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors and serves as a member of the Board of the Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation.

T.M. Ravi

T. M. Ravi is a seasoned technology investor, entrepreneur, and nonprofit board member. He is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of The Hive, a global venture fund focused on AI and data-driven startups, with operations in the U.S., Malaysia, and Brazil. A pioneer in applying artificial intelligence to enterprise innovation, Ravi has co-created and invested in numerous successful companies. He previously founded and led companies such as Mimosa Systems, Peakstone Corporation, and Media Blitz, and held senior executive positions at Iron Mountain, Computer Associates, and Cheyenne Software. Ravi holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from UCLA, and a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur.

In addition to his professional work, Ravi has served on the Board of the Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA) and as well as previously at Montalvo Arts Center. He is actively involved with arts organizations and cancer-related nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area and Paris.

David Sacarelos

David is a certified public accountant with more than 30 years of experience providing advisory and tax services to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, partnerships, not-for-profit organizations and privately held businesses. His clients include multigenerational families, corporate executives, founders and investors. He has expertise in income, tax, estate and financial planning and consulting for complex financial transactions; all aspects of high-net-worth income, estate and gift tax planning and compliance; tax accounting and reporting in support of fiduciary tax return preparation for complex trusts; consultation with families and individuals on philanthropic goals and their charitable gift planning; private foundations, public charities and other not-for-profit organizations; complex investments underlying non-profit and foundation funds and endowments; representation of clients before taxing authorities (IRS, FTB, etc.); and foreign tax matters for individuals and families. He is a returning trustee to Montalvo Arts Center.

Vijay Subramanyam

As a Principal at KPMG US, Vijay shapes enterprise transformations for clients across industries with a specific focus on the Hi-Tech Sector. He leverages his extensive experience in business strategy, operating model evolution, technology potential realization, digital transformation, cyber security and risk management to successfully deliver complex and large scale global programs for his clients.

Vijay’s mission is to help clients achieve sustainable growth and competitive advantage through innovation, efficiency, and resilience. He is passionate about exploring the implications and responsible applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies for business strategy, enterprise models, employee engagement and social impact. He loves speaking about these topics.

He has more than 24 years of experience at KPMG across 3 offices in 2 countries. He spent the last 16 years in various leadership roles including key account leadership, solution and offering leadership, service line leadership, people management and operational excellence roles for a variety of teams including roles that spanned across ~3000 consultants.

Vijay also supports and volunteers for a number of causes especially around education, access to opportunities, community empowerment, healthcare and sustainability.