A Message from CEO Brett Andrews

PRC has been part of the Bay Area community for decades, helping people affected by HIV/AIDS, substance use, and mental health issues realize their best selves by providing the support and the services they need to reclaim their lives.

But, as much as we’re here to support the community, we couldn’t do it without the community’s support in turn. PRC is backed by an amazing group of people – from our donors to our volunteers to our advisors, board, and staff. Every one of them sees the value and potential of ALL people and demonstrates both kindness and dedication as they do their part to serve the underserved, helping them gain the respect, the attention, and the opportunities they’re entitled to.

At PRC, we believe everyone deserves an advocate and an opportunity. Below, you can learn about just a few of the passionate, compassionate people helping others along on their journey – speaking up, standing up, and fighting for people who are too often marginalized or ignored.

Thank you so much for your support. We’re all part of this community – together, we’re making it that much stronger.

Learn what you can do to help.

Board of Directors

Brian Schneider

PRC President

Brian Schneider

PRC President

Brian Schneider

Brian Schneider, Head of Investor Relationships and Marketing, leads Prime Finance’s fund raising and investor relationships. Before joining Prime, Mr. Schneider built and ran large real estate and real asset investment portfolios for Morgan Stanley AIP, Medley Partners, the University of Pennsylvania, as well as DuPont and TRW pension plans. Earlier in his career, Mr. Schneider worked at Prudential, MetLife and First Texas Savings in lending and asset management. Mr. Schneider holds a B. A. in Economics from Connecticut College and an MBA in Real Estate/Finance from The University of Texas at Austin.
Kent M. Roger, Esq.

PRC Vice President

Kent M. Roger, Esq.

PRC Vice President

Kent M. Roger, Esq.

Kent M. Roger, Esq., is a senior partner in Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Antitrust Practice specializing in international competition and antitrust matters. He received his JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and an AB degree, with distinction, from the University of California, Berkeley. Kent sits on PRC’s Executive, Finance, Governance, and Legal Affairs Committees. He also is a member of the Board of Baker Places, Inc..
Tim Schroeder

PRC Secretary

Tim Schroeder

PRC Secretary

Tim Schroeder

Tim Schroeder is President of Performance Realty, Inc, a real estate investment firm that owns, develops and manages multi-family properties and manufactured housing communities. Tim’s career has focused on real estate including development, corporate services, investment management and strategy consulting. Prior to joining Performance Realty, Tim worked at CBRE, Quadrangle, Deloitte Consulting and Balcor-American Express. Tim holds a B.S. in Urban Planning from Michigan State University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

Bill Matheson, Esq.

PRC Treasurer

Bill Matheson, Esq.

PRC Treasurer

Bill Matheson, Esq.

Bill Matheson, Esq., is a real estate attorney and the former president of Catellus Management Corporation, a real estate management company. For many years, Bill was a Volunteer Benefits Counselor for PRC, and has been an active volunteer for a variety of other community non-profits, including Project Open Hand, the San Francisco SPCA, and the French American International School. He received his JD from the University of Denver. Bill sits on PRC’s Finance and Occupancy Committees.
Doug Browning

Doug Browning

Doug Browning

Doug Browning is Director of Communications, Digital Platform Management and Innovation, for Kaiser Permanente National Communications. He is responsible for digital communication strategy, the employee intranet, as well as the company’s external news site. Doug has a BA in Journalism from the University of Georgia and over 25 years of experience consulting with large organizations on their communication and change strategies. Doug also has a passion for helping people in his community make the right decisions about their careers, health, and happiness.
Ryo Ishida

Ryo Ishida

Ryo Ishida

Ryo Ishida is a Vice President at Lyric (www.lyric.com), which operate apartment-style hotels. Ryo heads up their West Coast division. Prior to joining Lyric, Ryo spent six years at Prudential Real Estate Investors, most recently responsible for the East Coast Development Group. Before Prudential, Ryo worked at Peter Linneman’s private equity group and also as a developer. Ryo serves on the boards of PRC and of Montgomery Advisors. Ryo is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Outside of work, he enjoys tennis, cycling, soccer and cooking Japanese food.

Jacques Michaels

Jacques Michaels

Jacques Michaels

Jacques Michaels is a San Francisco community leader, entertainer, and member of the Imperial Council, a non-profit that hosts and participates in a variety of entertainment and educational events and activities in support of a variety of diverse community-based charitable organizations that do not discriminate based upon race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or ethnic background. Jacques sits on PRC’s Fund Development and Board Development Committees.
Laura Powell

Laura Powell

Laura Powell

Laura Powell conducts executive searches at the senior level, and provides organizational consulting to privately held firms—both for-profit and not-for-profit—focusing on team-building, governance, and high-functioning boards. She’s actively served the Bay Area nonprofit community for many years. Volunteering for the past three years on PRC’s campaign and development committees, Laura is a past Board Chair at Larkin Street Youth Services and led the Board of a private school in Marin County in its first capital campaign, and in the design and approval of a new school building. Laura holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
Michael Steinberg

Michael Steinberg

Michael Steinberg

Michael Steinberg is currently Team Lead, Global Public Health and Special Projects, Enterprise Health for Chevron Corporation, working out of the company’s headquarters in San Ramon, California, since April 2008. Michael oversees various health projects and programs that support the health needs of the company’s 40,000 plus employees as well as communities the company operates in.

Michael began his career at Chevron as Health and Productivity Advisor where he supported preventive and population health management initiatives, national health events, wellness facilities, programs and capacity building across the enterprise. Over the years, he was progressively promoted within the Enterprise Health function and has resided on projects that range from capital project wellness design, business process optimization, health metrics, human performance, strategic partnerships, community health programming and disease prevention design and implementation.

Michael previously completed a twenty-month assignment in Chevron’s Angola medical department where he developed and implemented a sustainable integrated wellness strategy, health program processes and business plans. In addition to supporting the U.S. workforce, he continues to provide consultation to global operations and organizations that includes public health initiatives in cardiovascular health, HIV, mosquito borne illnesses, tuberculosis and other health threats.

He graduated with a kinesiology/exercise physiology major and holds a Master of Management/Business from the University of San Francisco. He previously worked at one of the most prestigious private clubs in the world, The Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco, where in his health management role engaged daily with global business and government leaders. He has served on the Chevron Recreation board, Plasma Science board and as Chairman of the Chevron Health, Environment and Safety Committee as well as on various health and safety teams as lead, member and contributor

Patty Thayer

Patty Thayer

Patty Thayer

Patricia (Patty) Thayer is a Vice President in the Legal Department at Gilead Sciences, Inc. Her legal team at Gilead focuses on global protection and enforcement of intellectual property. She joined Gilead in 2017 after spending more than thirty years at several international law firms, including most recently Sidley Austin LLP, acting as trial counsel for biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies in U.S. patent and trademark litigation. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the Child Care Law Center. Before specializing in patent litigation in 1984, Patty was a Legal Advisor in the U.S. State Department and fulfilled a fellowship at the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles. Patty graduated from Harvard University, with a major in History of Science, and holds a JD from Harvard Law School.
Merredith Treaster

Merredith Treaster

Merredith Treaster

Merredith Treaster is Regional Head of Northwest Office Investments at Nuveen. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a BS in Neuroscience, but quickly moved into real estate, working with CBRE, Tishman Speyer, Hines, and the John Buck Company.

Advisory Board

Michael F. Bell

Co-Founder, President, and CEO of InPartnership Consulting, Inc.
Michael S. Bernick, Esq.

Special Counsel, Sedwick LLP
James Carter

Retired, Kaiser Permanente Chemical Dependency Recovery Program

Karl H. Christiansen, Esq.

Vice President and Senior Counsel, Wells Fargo Bank
Ryan McKeel

Senior Director, Public Affairs, Gilead

Ryan McKeel

Senior Director, Public Affairs, Gilead

Ryan McKeel

Ryan McKeel is Senior Director of Public Affairs at Gilead Sciences, overseeing international communications related to the company’s work in HIV as well as its efforts in the developing world. Prior to joining Gilead, Ryan worked at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and KPIX-TV in San Francisco, where he produced an Emmy-award winning documentary on the 30^th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS. He has a BA in Communication and Spanish from Trinity University. Ryan sits on the Development Committee.
David Stith

Vice President and District Manager, Wells Fargo Bank

Donna Sachet

Entertainer and Community Leader
Gary Virginia

Community Leader
Daryl Walker

Field Service Manager, AT&T

Executive Leadership

Brett Andrews

Chief Executive Officer

Brett Andrews

Chief Executive Officer

Brett Andrews

Brett Andrews joined PRC as Executive Director in February of 2003 and was promoted to CEO in September 2016. Prior to PRC, he spent four years as Executive Director of Los Angeles Team Mentoring, Inc. (LATM), a non-profit that runs TEAMWORKS, a group mentoring program providing mentorship and support to 1,200 middle school students growing up in some of Los Angeles’ most challenging and underserved communities. Prior to LATM, Brett served for six years as the Executive Director of Kids n’ U, Inc., a New-York-City-based non-profit youth service organization sponsored by Michael Kors.

Brett holds a master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Penn State University. Brett is also a member of the CBO Workforce Coalition, the Steering Committee of the San Francisco Human Services Network, and the Executive Committee of the San Francisco HIV/AIDS Provider Network. Brett has also served as a Commissioner of the SF Ethics Commission, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baker Places, Inc..
Christopher Brown

Chief of Policy & Communications

Christopher Brown

Chief of Policy & Communications

Christopher Brown

Christopher Brown is the Chief of Policy & Communications, overseeing public policy and external stakeholder communications at PRC. Prior to joining PRC, Chris led regional government partnerships and public affairs at Bird, a global transportation-technology firm, and has served at the intersection of policy, politics, community affairs, and the business community for over 15 years. He began his career in Congress as Counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor under Committee Chair Rep. George Miller (CA-11), and as Legislative Director for U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (IL-1). He later became a longstanding Director at PolicyLink, a national public policy institute focused on racial and economic equity across the national economy. Chris has also served as an advisor to various political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton’s Policy Advisory Council in 2016.

Chris holds a BA from the University of Georgia and a Juris Doctor from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. He serves on several local, national, and academic boards, including: The University of Georgia School of Public & International Affairs; Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy; Centerforce; Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC); SPUR; and the University of California’s Council on Small and Disadvantaged Businesses.
John Fostel

Chief Clinical Officer

John Fostel

Chief Clinical Officer

John Fostel

John comes to PRC with over forty years of combined experience in psychiatric and addiction healthcare, having managed both hospital-based and community-non-profit-based mental health and substance use disorder programs. Contributing to the modern evolution in mental health and addiction healthcare, he has been a part of the movement from the de-institutionalization of the 1980’s to the community-based, individualized, whole person care models of today. Joining Baker Places, Inc., in 2004, he has held leadership roles in the organization’s residential crisis stabilization, substance use disorder, and outpatient supportive living programs.

He received a bachelor’s degree from State University of New York and a master’s degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, and is a certified addiction treatment counselor.

Robert Pascual

Chief Financial Officer

Robert Pascual

Chief Financial Officer

Robert Pascual

Robert has been working in the nonprofit sector as a finance professional for almost 30 years in senior leadership and consultant roles. The organizations and government agencies with which he has worked span the fields of health services, housing, employment and training, environmental sustainability, technology, media arts, education, advocacy, organizing, and philanthropy and range in size from $100,000 to over $200 million operating budgets. He has been an instructor in nonprofit financial management through CompassPoint Nonprofit Services and at Cal State East Bay and has spoken on financial management topics at conferences and Bay Area universities. Robert’s background also includes over 10 years of management experience in the financial services industry, a BBA in Finance from the George Washington University, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Rafael and enjoys soccer, skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and music.
Chuan Teng, Esq.

Chief of Programs and Confidentiality Officer

Chuan Teng, Esq.

Chief of Programs and Confidentiality Officer

Chuan Teng, Esq.

Chuan Teng supports PRC’s social services programs in her role as Chief of Programs and Confidentiality Officer. Previously, Chuan served as the Managing Legal Director of PRC’s Legal Advocacy Program, where she helped launch its healthcare legal services practice. Chuan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a juris doctor degree from Santa Clara University. She is a licensed attorney with the State Bar of California.
Joe Tuohy

Chief Operating Officer

Joe Tuohy

Chief Operating Officer

Joe Tuohy

Joe comes to PRC with over twenty years of experience, primarily in the arts. Most recently, he served as Director of Development at Architecture for Humanity, a global humanitarian design firm. Before that, he was Director of the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation. While living in NYC, he served as Development Director at both Second Stage Theatre and School of Visual Arts. Early in his career, he worked at San Francisco Ballet and was Executive Director of the Bay Area Dance Series. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and undertook graduate studies in Art Criticism and Writing at School of Visual Arts.

Jim Wegman

Chief Information Officer

Jim Wegman

Chief Information Officer

Jim Wegman

Jim has been managing data and technology in the not-for-profit sector for over twenty-five years. He joined PRC in 2003 after relocating to San Francisco from Rochester, New York. Prior to his move west, Jim spent over five years in the role of MIS Director for AIDS Rochester (now known as Trillium Health). His career in non-profit human services began at the United Way of Greater Rochester where he fulfilled a variety of data management and administrative roles over his three-year tenure.