George Anderson, Secretary and Chorus Representative

George Anderson is the senior technician and lab manager for a Geochemist for whom he has worked for the last 10 of his 30+ years at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He has a B.A. from Williams College where he majored in chemistry and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. He is married with two sons. He has been a member of the LJ Symphony Chorus for over 10 years and has sung in more than a few church choirs since high school.

Gordon Clark

Gordon R. Clark has over 17 years of executive level P&L responsibility in a variety of industries. He is skilled at building talented management teams and has a successful record of building businesses by creating value, systematizing processes, and controlling costs. Gordon most recently served as President and CEO of The Governance Institute, the leading provider of governance knowledge and solutions for the CEO's and trustees of hospitals and health systems. He increased profitability during each of the five years he led the organization, culminating in the successful sale of the business to National Research Corporation. Prior to The Governance Institute, Gordon led First American Records Management, a records and information management company headquartered in Silicon Valley. Previous experience includes key management roles at Transamerica, Itel Container, and Iron Mountain.

Gordon has both for-profit and not-for-profit board experience. In addition to LJS&C, he currently serves on the Finance and Information Technology Committees of Sharp HealthCare's Board of Directors and as Board Chair of Access Information Management, a records and information management company with operations in California, Georgia, and Hawaii.

Dr. Joan Forrest

Joan Forrest has been a violinist in the La Jolla Symphony for 29 years. She has been a board Member since July 2005. Dr. Forrest has lived in San Diego since 1978. She is a retired dentist from Del Mar where she has practiced for the last 29 years. She received her BA from University of Pennsylvania, her DMD from Boston University and did a general practice residency at the VA Hospital in La Jolla. She enjoys exercise and travel as well as music.

James R. Goode, Treasurer

Bringing extensive experience in hands-on CFO and financial management to the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, James R. Goode provides guidance to emerging growth companies across a wide range of industries. Goode has over 30 years of consulting and senior management experience in helping organizations achieve their financial and operational goals, obtain funding, pursue acquisitions, expand their global business, and effect turnarounds.

Goode's accomplishments include substantial financial management of numerous venture capital backed high growth technology companies in the southern California area, including software, medical device, biotechnology, and high technology manufacturing firms. Goode also has CFO experience in the retail arena. Goode has successfully participated in raising over $100 mil for his clients and the companies he has worked for.

Goode received an MBA from UCLA and his CPA while at Arthur Young & Co in Los Angeles and San Diego. His professional memberships include the California Society of CPA’s, the American Institute of CPA’s, the Corporate Directors Forum, the San Diego Software Industry Council, Biocom, and the San Diego Venture Group.

Marty Hambright, Chorus Representative

Marty received a bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University and a master's degree from San Diego State University. Music training began at age eight with piano lessons and voice lessons in high school, both of which continued in college. Singing in the a cappella choir in high school and the University Chorus and Concert Choir at Northern began her chorus experiences. She also studied voice and theory at Chicago Musical College.

After teaching for six years in Chicago, Marty moved to San Diego and continued her elementary teaching career. After a 6 year hiatus from singing, Marty joined the 1st Unitarian Church choir for a few years before joining the La Jolla Civic/ University Orchestra and Chorus, as it was called in 1973. Marty is now retired after 41 years of teaching. To keep in touch with children, she volunteers at Birch Aquarium in the Discovery Lab.

Dr. Ida Houby, Chorus Representative

Ida Houby, a native Dane, originally came to San Diego as a graduate student to study with renowned psychologists in the area, and earn her Ph.D. in clinical Psychology.

She met and married her American husband soon after, and has returned to Denmark only for visits. Ida is a practicing psychologist in Del Mar and Solana Beach since 1990 with special interest in life-transitions and psycho-oncology, a subject she has taught, along with research methods, at universities in the area.

She reconnected with her musical past (B.A. in Music Education from the University of Copenhagen) when she joined the La Jolla Symphony Chorus in 1997.

Stephen Marsh

Stephen Marsh is a partner at Luce Forward, attorneys at law, in San Diego. At the firm, he is chair of the Environmental practice group, specializing in hazardous waste and toxic tort litigation, and advising businesses and property owners on issues related to environmental issues in connection with corporate and real estate purchasing, leasing and financing. He earned his JD at the University of Michigan, after receiving a bachelor's from Wayne State University in Chemistry and conducting graduate work at Florida State University in Sediment/Geochemistry.

Steve has served on numerous boards, both connected to his professional life and personal interests. He is a singer in the La Jolla Symphony Chorus.

Carolyn McClain

Carolyn McClain has over 30 years of experience in marketing, strategic planning, executive communications and software engineering. In 2005, she retired from Sun Microsystems to pursue her passions for travel, learning, and music. As a Sun Microsystems executive, she held roles in systems marketing, strategic business planning, and software engineering. Prior to Sun, she held product marketing positions at Cray Research Business Systems, Floating Point Systems, and TeleSoft. She was also a member of San Diego's pioneering graphics software company, ISSCO and did a stint as a marketing consultant.

Carolyn earned her B.A. in Economics from UCSD, and attended the Graduate School of Business at CSU San Diego.

Cynthia Mendez

Cynthia Mendez is Director of Global Human Resources with BakBone Software, a $53 million software development company in San Diego. Prior to her position with BakBone, she was Principal of HR Link, a company that specialized in consulting projects. Cynthia has over 20 years business experience in Human Resources with an emphasis in Performance-Based Compensation, Strategic Planning, HR Audits and Process Analysis, Legal Compliance including Fair labor Standards Act (FLSA) Audits, Technical and Senior Level Recruitment, Organizational Effectiveness, Employee Relations, Handbooks and Policies, Management Coaching, as well as other Human Resources activities.

Her experience spans the fields of Bio-related (Technology, Medical, Pharmaceutical), Health Services, Telecommunications, Gaming, Electronics, Manufacturing, and Banking industries. She has consulted in such areas as the design and implementation of competitive performance and compensation processes and systems intended to bridge performance and pay to a Company's strategic plan.

Liza Perkins-Cohen, Vice President

Liza Perkins-Cohen is an attorney with the law firm of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth. Her practice focuses on complex business litigation in state and federal courts, with a particular emphasis on securities litigation. She is also experienced in bankrupcty law and was a law clerk for the Honorable Arthur J. Gonzalez of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her J.D. from New York University and her B.A. from the University of Chicago. Prior to attending law school, she was a Latin American equities analyst in New York and Brazil.

Ms. Perkins-Cohen moved to San Diego from New York City in 2001 and has served on the board of the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus since 2006. She is an avid music fan, and her tastes span from classical to jazz to Brazilian and beyond. Her hobbies include photography, gardening, and studying foreign languages.

Brendi Rawlin, Orchestra Representative

Brendi Rawlin plays oboe in the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra. In August of 2007, she started her own public relations firm, Limelight PR, with a focus on clients in the lifestyle and entertainment industries.

Kristie Rice

Kristie Rice, a native of Chicago, relocated to San Diego in 1988. As a graduate of Columbia College in Chicago, where she focused on design and fine arts, her early career evolved into asset management, preservation and redesign of historic buildings in downtown Chicago.

Kristie has dedicated the last six years to developing community based projects and improvements in one of San Diego's older historic neighborhoods, most recently as Executive Director of the Greater Golden Hill Community Development Corporation. She is an experienced project manager, events coordinator and grant writer.

James R. Rosenfield

Jim Rosenfield attends over 150 musical events a year, and serves on the boards of eighth blackbird (Chicago based new music ensemble) and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP). He is president of MATA/Young Composers - Now! in New York, an organization founded in 1997 by Philip Glass and others to nurture, mentor, and commission composers at the beginnings of their careers.

Jim serves on Carnegie Hall's Patrons Council, and until recently was a board member for many years at Mainly Mozart and La Jolla Music Society. His musical activities include commissioning new works: a string quartet by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, premiered by Cuarteto Latinoamericano in San Diego May, 2006; "Singing in the Dead of Night," by Bang on a Can/David Lang, to be premiered by eighth blackbird at Carnegie Hall April, 2008; and Lisa Bielawa's Double Concerto, to be premiered in Boston March, 2008.

He bridges his musical and non-musical lives via seminars he delivers in arts marketing for Chamber Music America and American Symphony Orchestra League, and through pro-bono consultation with numerous arts organizations, including the UCSD Department of Music. He is currently advising several organizations on board formation and board governance.

In his non-musical life as a marketing consultant, Jim has delivered over 1,500 seminars and speeches worldwide, published a book and hundreds of articles and white papers, and has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, CNN, ABC's "20/20," "Dateline: NBC," CBS's "60 Minutes," NPR, and many others. He has worked often with Citigroup, American Airlines, AT&T, Bank of America, IBM, and other household names. From 1989 through 2004 he was Senior Outside Marketing Consultant for MasterCard International. A graduate of Columbia University, Jim resides in Carlsbad CA and Manhattan. Website: www.jrosenfield.com

Jennifer Smerud, Acting Treasurer and Orchestra Representative

Ms. Smerud joined the La Jolla Symphony in 2004 and has played second clarinet, bass clarinet, and Eb clarinet for the past several seasons. She received her undergraduate degree in clarinet performance from Indiana University in 2000 where she studied with Howard Klug and James Campbell. She received her masters degree in accounting from Indiana and began working as a CPA in Chicago in 2001. She worked at Ernst & Young, LLP in Chicago as an auditor. She moved to San Diego in 2003 and works at the family business in Escondido, and lives in San Marcos with her husband Scott and her dog, Watson.

Amee Wood, President

Amee Wood, a native New Yorker, has lived in San Diego for the past 22 years and worked as a Psychiatric Social Worker. She has sung with the La Jolla Symphony chorus since she moved to the area, and has been a Board member for the past 3 years. Amee also has served on the Board of the Sweetooth Theater, and is currently on the Board of 6th @Penn Theater. She is an actress and is a member of the Screen Actors' Guild. Besides her artistic pursuits, Amee enjoys camping, bicycle riding and traveling.