Meet the BFHP Team
BFHP Board Members • Click here to meet the BFHP Staff
Thomas Peeks
President
Thomas Peeks is a retired Business Executive and Entrepreneur. He spent 32 years in Corporate America including stints with Dun & Bradstreet and Xerox Corp. Afterwards, he was the owner and operator of Fitness Together, a health and fitness studio in Lafayette, CA. He has been serving on the Board of Directors of Contra Costa Interfaith […]
Alexandra Vondeling
Vice President
Alexandra Vondeling is a Registered Architect in California with over 25 years of experience in the Bay Area and Philadelphia. She currently leads the Architecture Studio at Opticos Design Inc, a Berkeley design and planning firm committed to creating walkable urban communities. Her work there focuses on delivering residential units that provide an alternate option […]
Alex Rogin
Treasurer
Alex Rogin worked in Banking for over 20 years including at JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo Bank in Corporate Banking and Financial Management. He earned an undergraduate degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a former CFA Charterholder. Alex […]
Jessica Anderson
Secretary
Jessica Anderson has worked as a manager and team leader for case management tech companies over the past 7 years. She spent many years working with California school districts and the Department of Healthcare Services in order to facilitate federal reimbursements that would support school and community health services for children and families. She’s since […]
Harrison Alter
Harrison Alter, MD, MS, FACEP retired 1/2021 as Interim Medical Director of Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless in California. He was previously Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Alameda Health System, and an attending physician in the emergency department at AHS-Highland Hospital. He is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine […]
Tamar Antin
Tamar is an applied anthropologist whose work focuses on the role of stigma in public health practice and policy-making. Her research has examined health inequities by considering the intersections between health-related stigma (e.g. the stigma of being a smoker) and other social identity stigmas (e.g. ethnicity, social class, and/or gender). Tamar is committed to research […]
Scott Barshay
Scott Barshay was a founding partner of Gubb & Barshay LLP, a law firm specializing in representing nonprofit affordable housing developers. Scott has been a resident of Berkeley for over 35 years and was formerly on the board of managers of the Berkeley YMCA. He graduated with an Economics degree from Duke University and a […]
Sam Ernst
Sam Ernst is a law professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. His scholarship focuses on patent law and contracts and he teaches in the areas of intellectual property, contracts, and civil litigation practice. Prior to entering academia in 2013, Professor Ernst was a partner at the international law firm of Covington & Burling […]
Don Falk
Don Falk served as Chief Executive Officer of the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation from 2005-2021. As TNDC’s Director of Housing Development for the prior 11 years, he played a principal role in guiding the organization through a period of profound growth as the portfolio of properties increased from nine to 23 buildings. Under his leadership […]
George Fruehan
George Fruehan earned his B.A. and M.B.A. from UC Berkeley. Currently, the owner of Numbers Talk, he previously served as Director of Consulting Services for Lautze & Lautze Accountancy Corporation. His career has included Price Waterhouse, Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America. As a Certified Management Accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Systems Professional, […]
Jennifer Kawar
Jennifer Kawar is the Chief Investment Officer at Nonprofit Finance Fund in San Francisco. She holds an MBA from Columbia University and specializes in business development, capital partnerships, and business model and capitalization planning for the social sector. She has served on our board since 2014.
Stephen Kirnon
Dr. Kirnon has over 30 years of operational experience in biomedical and medical device organizations. Dr. Kirnon is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Shawshank Therapeutics, Inc. Since January 2009, he has served as the Co-founder and CEO of PharmaPlan LLC and Vitavis Laboratories Inc, which was sold to Nestle health Sciences in 2017. Dr Kirnon was previously the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pepgen Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company based in Alameda, CA specializing in autoimmune diseases.
Kajsa Minor
Kajsa Minor is an attorney at San Francisco-based Shartsis Friese LLP, where she specializes in civil litigation matters concerning business torts, partnership and contract disputes, and securities litigation. She has represented departments of the State of California, large public companies, small business owners, and individuals. She earned a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of […]
Iman Novin
Experienced Housing Developer and PropTech Entrepreneur. Former Planning Commissioner with a demonstrated history of working in the private and public sector. Skilled in Nonprofit Organizations, Land Development, Urban Planning, Mixed-use, Mixed-Income and TOD Multifamily housing. Strong community and social services professional with a B.A. focused in Urban Studies & Planning and B.S. in Structural Engineering […]
Will Rogan
BBI Construction is a mid-sized General Contractor serving the Greater San Francisco Bay Area with quality construction since 1974. We specialize in the renovations and new construction of schools, multifamily housing, commercial and institutional facilities. Most of our projects are private, negotiated work; the remainder is competitively bid. We routinely get involved in projects in […]
Mark Stutzman
Mark Stutzman worked in industrial contracting for 37 years prior to his formal retirement in July 2022. For the past 21 years he served as CEO for Terra Millennium Corporation, which provides refractory design and maintenance, mechanical services, fireproofing, insulation and scaffolding for industrial facilities. These facilities make power, cement, copper, steel, gasoline, semiconductors, batteries, […]
Archie Vaden
“I’d rather do this than anything in the world. That’s how much this means to me. I take it personal because I was there. I know what it feels like to be homeless, I know what it feels like to be hungry and helpless. Here I am today, part of the crew, part of the solution.”
