Who we are

Ann Mathieson

Ann Mathieson is the founder and CEO of the Marin Promise Partnership.  MPP is a collective impact partnership committed to closing educational opportunity gaps by catalyzing systems change among school districts, community based organizations, funders, government and business in Marin County.  COVID-19 and the shift to distance learning has exacerbated the digital divide for students and elevated MPP’s sense of urgency to ensure internet access for all students.  Ann is passionate about educational equity, innovation and community. She has been a trustee and Board Chair of the Marin Community Foundation and was elected twice to the Kentfield School Board where she served as President.  Prior to founding MPP in 2012,  Ann’s was a marketing executive,  first at Hallmark Cards and then with Collagen Corporation, a biotech startup in Silicon Valley. She has a BS from Indiana University and an MBA from Stanford University.  She lives in Kentfield with her husband Andy and they have four children.

Bruce Vogen

Bruce spent the bulk of his professional career in the publishing industry working at Surfer Publishing Group as the Director of Manufacturing for a dozen years and followed by sixteen years in sales for Quad Graphics, one of North American’s largest commercial printers.  After leaving the workforce, Bruce followed Aristotle’s sage advice, setting out on the path of civic engagement.  He served as an alternate on the 2018/19 Marin County Civil Grand Jury and has since become a working board member for the Coalition of Sensible Taxpayers.  His interest in broadband and digital inclusion began in 2014 when Comcast sought to merge with Time Warner Cable.  The Marin Telecommunications Agency directed Marin’s opposition to the merger, leading Bruce to follow the agency until it closed in May 2020.  Bruce is an active individual member of the non-profit National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), a unified voice for home broadband access, public broadband access, personal devices, and local technology training and support programs.  He has been a homeowner in San Anselmo for twenty-three years and is a former college national championship baseball player.

Elise Semonian

Elise Semonian has served as the Planning Director for the Town of San Anselmo since 2015. Elise is a Marin County native and mom to two boys in local schools. Prior to working for San Anselmo, Elise worked as a planner for the Town of Ross and City of Mill Valley.

She graduated from the public high school in San Anselmo, has a BA in Political Science from CSU Chico, a law degree from the University of San Francisco, and is an inactive member of the State Bar of California.

Johnathan Logan

Johnathan joined MCF in early 2016, initially in the role of Special Assistant to the President, and soon after segueing to Vice President for Community Engagement. He brings a wide range of skills, with 11 years of local government and community development leadership experience. He has served on various non-profit and local government boards and commissions.

Johnathan is a National Urban Fellow and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and a Master’s in Public Administration Degree from City University of New York, Baruch College.

Liza Massey

Ms. Massey has served as a technology executive in several state and local government agencies, including San Francisco and the City of LA. She was President and CEO of a non-profit technology organization, as well as, the founder and CEO of a successful public sector consulting firm. She served as a Senior Fellow with the Center for Digital Government and Education, and an award-winning Columnist for Public CIO Magazine. With a commitment to education, Ms. Massey served as an Assistant Professor for the University of Maryland and an adjunct professor in the Executive MBA program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

She has also participated on numerous advisory committees for K-12 and higher education. Ms. Massey has been a member of numerous Boards of Directors and appointed to several government task forces. She has received several awards throughout her career including being recognized as one of Nashville’s Top Business and Civic Leaders and a Government Technology Top 25 Doer, Dreamer & Driver of Public Sector Innovation.

Michael Frank

Michael Frank is the contract Executive Officer of the Marin General Services Authority, an agency made up of Marin County and all Marin cities and towns, as well as a public-sector consultant. He was the City Manager of the City of Novato (60,000 pop) for 7 years ending in January 2016. Prior to that time, he was Assistant City Manager with the City of Santa Rosa. He has also worked for the cities of Hayward, Palo Alto, Fremont, and San Francisco. Michael has project managed IT software implementations and supervised IT Operations in multiple organizations. Michael graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. and moved to San Francisco for a Coro Fellowship in Civic Leadership. Mr. Frank received his MBA from the Yale School of Management.

Mike Blakeley

Mike serves as the CEO of the Marin Economic Forum, a non-profit organization supporting economic vitality in Marin County. In this role he directs the research and partnerships for the organization. Previously Mike served as a Managing Director at Nathan Associates Inc., a global strategy consulting firm. In this capacity he led the firms activities focused on entrepreneurship, business strategy and workforce development.

Mike is a former founder of a company in San Francisco that exported agricultural commodities, including many products from California. He acquired his MA in International Economics and a BA in Political Science.  Mike is a native of Marin County and currently resides there with his wife and two children.

Rebecca Woodbury

Rebecca worked in local government for over a decade and was the City of San Rafael’s first director of Digital Service & Open Government. She developed the City’s digital strategic framework and led an organization-wide training program for human-centered design. In 2017, Government Technology named her one of the Top 25 Doers, Dreamers and Drivers and in 2014 received the Rising Star award at the Municipal Management Association of Northern California’s Women’s Leadership Summit. Her favorite thing about government is the potential to scale good ideas and services across jurisdictions. She believes that openness makes things better. Rebecca holds a BA in Public Policy and an MPP, both from Mills College in Oakland.

Rich Levine

Rich has been inside the IT industry for 34 years; 10 years at Apple, 17 years in K12 IT as a Tech and in Senior Management, worked at a handful of startups, and the Superior Court of Napa County. With a B.S. in Environmental Conservation Biology, he focused on Mycology/Forest Pathology and wrote his senior term paper on the evolution of programming compilers through Algol, Modula-2 and Fortran. He has multiple Certificates in Project Management, Cisco Networking, Network Management, Apple Certified Support Professional. 24-year member of Bicsi (Building Industry Consulting Service International); was once an Apprentice network cabling installer. Besides IT, he served in the U.S. Forest Service on the Spotted Owl project running anadromous fish (salmon, steelhead) habitat surveys and helped run a Shiitake mushroom spawn farm in Pt. Reyes Station. He continues his interests as a member of the Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF) and the North American Mycological Association (NAMA) and has volunteered on mapping the Sudden Oak Death Syndrome (SODS) impact in Western Sonoma County. His father was a Veteran, a founding principal engineer of The Aerospace Corporation, and when he retired at age 88 from the Albion-Little River Volunteer Fire Department, was one of California’s and the Nation’s oldest acting Captain-EMTs.

Ross Millerick

Ross serves on the Board of directors for NUSD and chairs the College of Marin Construction Oversite committee. He earned a Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Ross is also the Director of IT Management and a lecturer at Golden Gate University.  He has worked in Information Technology for 30 years leading company transformations to modern technology systems.  He has developed national level, enterprise class infrastructure and data centers supporting businesses supporting industries including, credit card processing, insurance, health care, banking & thrift, municipal government, product distribution. Prior to 2000 he supported local businesses including, Bank of Marin, City of Napa, City of Oakland, Birite Food Service and Recology.

Sean Mooney

Sean Mooney is the Director of Digital Service and Open Government at the City of San Rafael, California. As Director of Digital Service and Open Government, Sean oversees the technology needs of the City, process improvement, and performance measurement programs to continuously improve service delivery, civic engagement, and civic technology.

Sean developed the City of San Rafael’s public information strategy in the response to COVID-19 and managed major technology projects including the construction of San Rafael's public safety facilities. Sean has worked in the public sector and public education for the last 25 years in California and New York City with roles in community engagement, web development, libraries, and teaching. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History from University of California Berkeley and a Master of Science in Education from Fordham University.