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V. Toni Adams
V. Toni Adams has served as a Playworks Board member since 2002. Toni currently works for the Alameda County Office of Education as the Director of Special Projects, Student Programs and Services. Toni's other professional experiences include working as an Assistant to both Oakland's Mayor Lionel Wilson and the County Superintendent Sheila Jordan, as a volunteer Community Representative to State Senator Barbara Lee and as a Campaign Coordinator for Barbara Lee for Congress. Toni served as the Board Chair of the Oakland Convention Center, currently serves on the Oakland Convention and Visitors Board as well as the Board of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators. Toni is a graduate of Mills College and holds a Master's degree in Public Administration from a consortium of University of California and California State University.
Randy Drake, Chair
Playworks Board Chair, Randy Drake is senior vice president of community and business development for 24 Hour Fitness. Randy grew up near the Oregon-California border, graduated from Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and received his MBA from the University of Oregon. Prior to working at 24 Hour Fitness, Randy served as the Vice President of Sales at Starbucks and the Senior Director of Strategy and Communications at Nabisco. Randy has also served as a Board member for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Northwest.
Dru DeSantis
Dru DeSantis, Principal, DeSantis Breindel, is an expert in branding, strategy, and communications. Dru was first introduced to Playworks by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation when she was tapped to produce the incredible video about our organization. Dru is interested in refining Playworks' brand and articulating the unique opportunity we offer corporations to demonstrate their corporate responsibility.
Marlon Evans
Marlon manages Global Partnerships ensuring that HP employees are volunteering with the most effective organizations in the most relevant ways and oversees product giving for all community involvement programs. He received his BA in Political Science and a MA in Sociology from Stanford University, where he competed on the football and track & field teams. After graduating from Stanford in 1997, Marlon spent four years working at Stanford University in the Office of Undergraduate Admission and Office of Medical Development. Following his tenure at Stanford, Marlon served as the Director of Partnerships at the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) Foundation. Most recently he spent five years as the Executive Director of All Stars Helping Kids, a national community foundation based in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to promoting a safe, healthy and rigorous learning environment for disadvantaged children. In February 2009, Marlon was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. He also serves on the National Board of Directors of Playworks.
Roger King
Roger King has worked with non-profits on strategy, going-to-scale, and organizational development since the early 1990s. He was a consultant with Bain & Company, an international strategy consulting firm, from 1983 to 1992. He holds his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard University.
Aenor Sawyer, MD
Aenor Sawyer, orthopedic surgeon, specializes in sports medicine, fracture care, and pediatric orthopedic surgery. In her current practice she utilizes her experience in physical therapy, exercise physiology, medicine and surgery as she cares for adult and child athletes from many different sports, and from recreational to Olympic or professional levels. As well as a clinical practice, Dr. Sawyer maintains an active role in research with emphases in sports injury prevention, overuse injury, anterior cruciate ligament repair, stress fractures and bone health. She also volunteers her time as the Director of the Pediatric Bone Health Consortium and the Director for We Duet for Kids, a fundraising program to assist childhood cancer survivors.
Mark Seiler, Treasurer
Mark Seiler is the managing partner of Metrovation, a real estate development firm as well as principal of Metrovation Capital, a real estate capital company. Mark serves on several boards of directors, including Boys and Girls Club of Oakland and Jewish Family and Children's Services of Northern California. He is also past president of Rhoda Goldman Plaza, a not-for-profit assisted living and Alzheimers community.
Kim Tanner
Kim brings more than twenty years of leadership experience in business and philanthropy. She currently serves as the Senior Program Officer for the Jenesis Group, a private family foundation bringing innovation, entrepreneurial acumen, and market based solutions to the philanthropic sector. Kim is responsible for program operations at Jenesis and is currently leading the strategic initiative at the foundation around how to effectively support grantees with both human and financial resources. She has spent the past 12 years in philanthropy serving as an engaged partner to multiple organizations as a funder, board member and co-founder of a nonprofit. Kim earned her bachelor’s degree in Finance & Marketing from Texas Tech University.
