Mark covers employment collective bargaining jurisdiction for over 100,000 women and men employed at United Parcel Service (UPS), the construction industry, logistics delivery, warehouse and transportation service sectors in Northern California and Nevada. Mark serves as chair of the Bay Area Automotive Group which provides health benefits to 3000 union members and their families in the greater Bay Area.

Mark also sits on the Executive Board of the San Francisco Labor Council and is a delegate to the San Mateo Central Labor Council. Mark is a current director of the Teamster Assistance Program (TAP) providing rehabilitation services for those suffering from alcohol and substance addiction. As a City native, Mark attended San Francisco public schools, City College and San Francisco State University, and has raised his three children in the City’s local public educational system. Mark considers housing a “workplace issue” and is passionate about incorporating housing crisis solutions into effective advocacy for economic improvements in the lives of working women and men.

Dr. Gurfein is the Chief Scientific Officer for Tivic Health, a Bay Area company that develops bioelectronic device therapies. Dr. Gurfein also holds an appointment as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and received an Sc.B. in Neuroscience from Brown University, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In Dr. Gurfein’s academic and industry research, he has focused on developing therapies for patients with unmet treatment needs. Dr. Gurfein started volunteering with HomeRise in 2016.

Will works as an analyst and consultant with MCorp – a leading CX Consultancy that provides actionable, data-driven insights into how companies’ interactions with their customers can be improved to boost customer experiences. Prior to MCorp, Will worked at Colliers International for five years with San Francisco’s top-selling commercial residential investment brokerage team. At the time of his departure, the team had been responsible for >$3.7B in sales.

Will was born and raised just across the Golden Gate in San Anselmo, and holds an abiding love for San Francisco. Before he began his career with Colliers, Will taught intensive SAT and college application courses to at-risk inner-city high school students for two years in Worcester, MA, an experience which added fuel to his desire to help marginalized members within his community.

Scott works with local leaders to infuse technology into existing systems to make cities better places to live, learn, work, and innovate. He has worked for Microsoft for 19 years. He was the Director of the Microsoft Technology Center, an innovation lab where Microsoft’s top architects work hand-in-hand with Fortune 500 companies to envision, architect, and prove out solutions based on Microsoft’s newest technologies. Scott also worked for Microsoft Consulting Services where he ran early stage projects for customers in Microsoft’s Early Adopter Program. He has written extensively for Microsoft Press and Ziff-Davis.

Scott serves on the national boards of Upwardly Global, City Innovate Foundation, and the Urban Age Institute and co-owns The WELL, the groundbreaking online community founded in 1985. A resident of San Francisco, when not working, he enjoys skiing in the winter, backpacking in the summer, and seeing—and photographing—as much live music as possible year-round.

Stuart McFaul is president of Stuart McFaul Associates, a marketing strategy and management firm helping purpose-driven entrepreneurs. He is the creator the Living Brand™ Marketing System, an empathy-based approach that has been leveraged by over 100 companies and has been recognized by The Smithsonian Institution as a groundbreaking way to introduce companies, products and services to consumers.

He most recently founded and led Spiralgroup, an internationally-focused full service brand marketing agency. A seasoned business strategist, Stuart has guided B2B / B2C marketing efforts for over 200 companies all over the world, including Apple, Cisco, Getty Images, HP and Oracle to multiple startups to foreign governments. His efforts have earned clients billions of dollars and program ROI as high as 23,000%. He is a frequent lecturer at major universities, including Wharton, Stanford and USC Marshall School of Business.

Ty joined TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP) in 2012, and is based in San Francisco. TPG Real Estate Partners focuses primarily on investments in real estate-rich companies, property portfolios, and select single assets located in North America and Europe. Employing a value-add approach to investing, it leverages the full resources of TPG’s global network to optimize property performance and enhance platform capabilities. TREP has approximately $6.4 billion of assets under management. Before joining TPG, Ty worked as an Analyst in both the Investment Banking and Private Equity Investing arms of Morgan Stanley Real Estate and as a Finance Analyst for Developers Diversified Realty, a publicly traded REIT. Ty received his B.A. in Economics with a certificate in Markets and Management studies from Duke University.

Ty is proud to serve on both the HomeRise Advisory Circle and as a volunteer on the HomeRise Housing Committee and currently lives in Tiburon with his wife and two young children.

Mike Petricca has been at the Academy of Art for the last 16 Years and is the Vice President of Campus Safety. Before taking that position he worked at AT&T leveraging his expertise with their Public Safety 9-1-1 team.

Previously, he worked as the Chief of Police in Webster City, Iowa from 1987 to 1996. He was the department head of an innovative Police Department and one the first to deploy Enhanced 9-1-1. As Chief of Police, he coordinated the state-wide narcotics task force and implemented crime-prevention strategies locally. Mr. Petricca was also Chief of Police in Sac City, Iowa from 1984 to 1987.

Mr. Petricca received his Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice Administration from Central Missouri State University in 1986. He also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Iowa Central Community College and Buena Vista College.

Karen Sheffield is a long-time corporate finance professional, working in a number of industries and for large companies such as American Airlines and PepsiCo. She has also held board leadership roles over a couple of professional organizations and has enthusiastically volunteered for various non-profit organizations including those serving people experiencing homelessness in Raleigh, NC. Currently, she is the VC-in-Residence at Pipeline Angels and she also serves as an advisory board member for BeeFree, a CPG startup company that makes all-natural and gluten free snacks.

Born in Peru, Karen is passionate about investing in underestimated founders. In 2021, she started making angel investments with the goal of building a diverse portfolio. She enjoys mentoring entrepreneurs and individuals with an eye on career growth and financial freedom.

For more than 20 years, Vanna’s work has focused on under represented communities while promoting environmental, social, and financial sustainability. Her projects provide varying amounts of permanent supportive housing for people experiencing homelessness, as well housing serving low-income families in the San Francisco Bay Area. Vanna’s projects have recognized with awards from local and national organizations. One of her projects, Rene Cazenave Apartments which provides housing for the formerly unhoused, was selected as an AIA COTE Top Ten Green Project in the U.S.