Board of Trustees

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 Paravison'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.

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.

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 Executive Committee (as Secretary).

He is the Vice President 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 Fairfax with their two children.

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 the immediate past chair of and currently serves on 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 County 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 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-one currently at MMS and the other a MMS alumna, who is currently a sophomore at The Branson School. 

ALIYYA SHELLEY MATTOS joined the MMS Board of Trustees in 2020 after serving as an active volunteer on the MMS Development Committee, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee, Parent Culture Committee and serving as a Parent Ambassador, Steward Family, and Room Parent.

Aliyya specializes in multi-sector collaboration to increase education achievement, girls' empowerment and support sustainable supply chains globally. She is the Head of Sustainability and Social Impact at CellMark, a global supply chain services and commodity trading company, the Executive Director of the PaperSeed Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening educational opportunities in resource-lacking communities around the world, and Founder of the Global Girls Fund, working for and with girls to advance their education, achievement and transition to healthy adulthood. 

Aliyya has served in a variety of roles on a number of nonprofit boards and is currently the Vice Chair of the International Education Funders Group, a board member of Keep California Beautiful and a member of the Brookings Global Compact on Learning Donor Network. 

Aliyya holds a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley, and is pursuing her MBA from Cornell University Johnson School of Business. She lives in San Rafael with her husband, Blake, and their three spirited daughters. 

CARLA RUMMO currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Serena & Lily, a rapidly-growing home furnishings company based in Sausalito with a national e-commerce business and thirteen design shops. She is responsible for marketing across the business and the company's e-commerce channel. Carla joined Serena & Lily in 2013.

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 mid-sized consumer businesses around the world. She joined TPG Growth from Weston Presidio, a middle market private equity firm. She began her career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs where she first focused on M&A for financial institutions, and subsequently on IPOs and follow-on offerings in equity capital markets.

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.

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, a degree in Interior Design from Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, and a certification from eCornell in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 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.