Board of Trustees

COURTNEY SMITH became a Trustee in 2014, after serving on the MMS Parents’ Association Board from 2012 to 2014, as PA President for 2013-14, and on the MMS Head of School Search Committee which resulted in Sam Shapiro’s hire. She serves as Board Chair, and as a member of the Executive, Governance, and Finance Committees.

Courtney is a residential interior decorator and community volunteer — passions she has pursued since 2009. Before then, Courtney spent over a decade on Wall Street in Institutional Equity Derivative Sales, most recently as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman, she led a #1 ranked sales team responsible for covering over 50 mutual funds, pensions, endowments, foundations, and hedge funds. Since moving to California in 2009 she has served in several local community roles, including on the Ross Recreation Board from 2011-14. Courtney also recently served on the National Council for the Coastal Studies for Girls, a science and leadership semester-away program located in Maine.

Courtney holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Georgetown University. She lives in Tiburon with her husband, Greg, and their two children.

DOUG ALEY has been a MMS Development Committee Member since 2015 and joined the MMS Board of Trustees in 2017. He currently serves on the Development Committee and Executive Committee.

Doug has spent his career founding or helping to scale consumer startups. Doug was a Product Manager in the early days at Amazon, helped Zulily scale from $100M to $700M in sales as VP of Product and Corporate Development in the run up to the company’s IPO, led Minted’s foray into digital products, and currently is Ever AI's CEO and an Operating Partner at Atomic Ventures. He has served on three corporate boards and serves on the Investment Committee at St. John's Ross (where he also volunteers as a Sunday school teacher and singer for the family service).

Doug holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He lives in Greenbrae with his wife, Susan, and their two boys.

SCOTT CULLERTON joined the MMS Board of Trustees in 2016, and has been a Finance Committee member since 2015.

He is a Managing Director at KKR & Co., a global alternative asset management firm, where he focuses on credit investing and corporate debt financings. Previously, Scott was with Morgan Stanley Capital Partners where he was a member of the private equity investment team. Scott started his career in the U.S. Navy where he served as both a special operations boat detachment commander and as an anti-submarine warfare officer. Scott is a founding member of KKR’s Vets@Work initiative, which has supported the hiring of over 50,000 veterans and military spouses since 2011.

Scott holds a B.S. from Duke University and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He lives in San Anselmo with his wife, Andrea, and their three children.

FELIX AuYEUNG joined the MMS Board of Trustees in 2016 after serving on the MMS Campus Planning Committee. Felix currently serves on the Campus Planning Committee (as Committee Co-Chair).

He is the Director of Business Development at MidPen Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing organization serving the Bay Area. Felix formerly worked for eight years at EAH Inc., a similar organization based in San Rafael.

Felix holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering with a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies from University of California, Berkeley, a M.S. in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Masters of International Development from the Graduate School of Public and International Development at the University of Pittsburgh. Felix and his wife, Sommer, live in Terra Linda with their two children.

PETER BARDWICK has been part of the MMS community since 2003 and joined the MMS Board of Trustees in 2015. He serves as Board Treasurer and on the Executive Committee and Finance Committee (as Committee Chair).

Peter has served as the chief financial officer of a number of organizations, including three public companies: CBS MarketWatch, Rocket Fuel, and WestwoodOne. In his most recent position at Rocket Fuel he was named the Bay Area CFO of the Year in the small to mid-sized public company division after overseeing the growth of the finance and human resources team from six to over one hundred people in three years to support the company’s rapid growth. He has helped build a variety of other high-growth, industry-leading companies, including one that ranked first on the Deloitte Fast 500 in the period 2008-2012, and raised $10.8B through various forms of financings in the public and private markets.

Peter holds M.B.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Michigan. He lives in Mill Valley with his wife, Whitney, and their two children, both MMS graduates.

ADAM G. GASNER became a MMS Trustee in 2015, after co-chairing the 2014-15 MMS Annual Fund. He has served as Board Vice-Chair and on the Executive Committee. He is currently chair of the Governance Committee.

Adam is an attorney and principal at Gasner Criminal Law, a litigation law firm emphasizing criminal and constitutional legal matters in California and Federal trial and appellate courts. Prior to founding Gasner Criminal Law, Adam was a criminal law research attorney for the Contra Costa Superior Court. Currently, he serves as a judge pro tem of the San Francisco Superior Court, where he is assigned to the Juvenile Justice Center. Adam is the immediate past president of the Criminal Trial Lawyers Association of Northern California and previously was the long-time president of the Lick-Wilmerding High School Alumni Association and also served on the Lick-Wilmerding High School Board of Trustees from 2010-2014, where he was a member of the governance and development committees.

Adam holds a B.A in English Literature from Boston University and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco, School of Law. He lives in San Francisco and has two daughters at MMS.

DAVID GRAYCE joined the MMS Board of Trustees in 2017 and currently serves on the Finance Committee.

David has focused the majority of his career on investing in large leveraged buyouts at Bain Capital (Boston) and, most recently, Pacific Equity Partners (Sydney). He has also invested and advised small companies on growth and capital raising. In previous years, David has worked as a lawyer and as a consultant with Bain & Company. David is currently serving as a Director of the National Art School in Sydney (NAS), the leading fine arts university in Australia granting Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. degrees. NAS has undergone a significant turn-around and commercialization over the past several years, of which David has been a part.

David holds a B.Com economics degree and a L.L.B. law degree, both from the University of New South Wales, as well as a M.B.A. from Stanford. David and his wife, Barbara Merz, have one daughter, and live in Kentfield.

CARLA RUMMO currently serves as SVP of Customer Relationship Marketing and E-commerce at Serena & Lily, a rapidly-growing home furnishings company based in Sausalito with a national e-commerce business and ten retail stores. She joined Serena & Lily in 2013 to help the company raise private equity and became Head of Strategy in 2014.

Prior to that, Carla had a career in Finance with an emphasis on consumer private equity investing. From 2008-2013, she was a Vice President and then Principal at TPG Growth, where she invested in companies like Kosta Browne, Gary Farrell, SurveyMonkey, and Azul. She joined TPG Growth from Weston Presidio, a middle market private equity firm, where she was involved in investments including AECOM, Apple American Group, and Fender Musical Instruments. She began her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs.

Carla holds an AB with Honors from Princeton University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar. She lives in Tiburon with her husband, Paul Williams, and two children. Carla has served on the MMS Finance Committee since 2015.

NICK STIRITZ currently serves as the Director of Marketing at Premier Nutrition, a subsidiary of Post Holdings. At Premier, Nick leads the management of a number of brands and business units – from the original nutrition bar, PowerBar, to America’s favorite protein shake, Premier Protein. Nick began his CPG marketing career nearly a decade ago at Seattle-based Oberto Brands and Amazon’s Consumables division.

Before his time in CPG, Nick started his career in education. After receiving his M.Ed, Nick was a lead teacher in both public and independent schools, primarily leading middle grades classrooms. In addition to his teaching duties, Nick held a number of committee positions including those on board and head-of-school governance.

Nick holds an M.B.A. from University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, an M.Ed from Mercer University, and a B.A. in Education from Emory University. He lives in Ross with his wife, Gita, and two children, both MMS students.

FRANNIE POPE HOHMAN has called MMS her community since she and her family moved here from Seattle in 2005. Not knowing anyone in the area was potentially a scary transition, but Marin Montessori welcomed all of them with open arms. Frannie threw herself into every volunteer opportunity the school had to offer. Very quickly, lifetime friends were made not only by Frannie and Robert, her husband, but also by her sons, Oliver and Elliott. From ages five and three respectively her children grew up at MMS. They continued their education all the way through Junior High with Oliver staying for 9th grade. Their best friends to date are all still MMS students.

Frannie continued to volunteer in the classroom long after her children left lower campus. Being a classically trained actress from Boston University and working as an actress for 15 years, Frannie put her skills to use first by helping various directresses with their class plays and finally becoming resident play director in the Great White Egret classroom for the past seven years.

In addition to being active in her family’s daily life, Frannie is passionate about Social and Criminal Justice. She is a facilitator for a Victim Offender Education Group at San Quentin Prison. She welcomes any discussions or questions about the work and hopes to bring interest and awareness to her beloved MMS community. Frannie lives in Tiburon with her husband and two children.

THEA THOMPSON is a long-time MMS parent and volunteer, and became a Trustee in 2017. She currently serves on the Campus Planning Committee. Thea joins the Board as a MMS legacy — her grandfather served as a Trustee in the 1980s, and her father served two terms in the 1990s as a leader of the school’s first major capital campaign for significant improvements to the Corte Madera campus.

Thea is a Lead Consulting Manager with Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. Her ability to effectively manage large teams and complicated logistics places Thea at the center of many of Kaiser’s largest and most involved build-outs. Thea’s primary role as campus master planner utilizes her expertise in interior design, space planning, facility project management, team management, and emergency preparedness.

Thea holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of Phoenix and a degree in Interior Design from Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. She is a native of Marin and lives in Greenbrae with her two children.

JAMIE WHITTINGTON has been a part of the MMS community since 2007 as a grandparent and joined the MMS Board of Trustees in 2016. She currently serves on the Development Committee.

Through her consulting practice she works with organizations to develop and maintain stable, predictable sources of philanthropic support. Jamie’s areas of expertise include facilitating the fundraising planning process, developing effective major gifts programs, managing campaigns, and providing board and staff training. Jamie began her consulting practice in 1992 after serving as Chief Development Officer for several Bay Area non-profits, including the French American International School and the Exploratorium. Jamie has also served as Interim Head of Fund Development for organizations experiencing leadership changes, including the Asia Foundation, the Myelin Repair Foundation, and the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation, where she serves as Chair of the Development Committee.

A native Mississippian, Jamie attended National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., and received a Bachelor of Arts from Briarcliff College. Jamie is a forty-year resident of the Bay Area and lives in Sausalito with her husband, Peter Pastreich, and their dog Oscar.