Leadership & Financials

Board meetings are scheduled the third Tuesday of each month (unless otherwise noted) in the Seattle Aquarium large classroom (Salish Sea) and are open to the public. 

Chair
*Bob C. Donegan, Ivar's, Inc.

Immediate Past Chair
*Randy J. Tinseth, The Boeing Company

Treasurer
*Karissa Marker, KPMG

Secretary
*Erin Letey, Fox Rothschild LLP

President & CEO
**Robert W. Davidson

Past Chairs
*James C. Gurke, retired, Getty Images
Dan M. Guy III, retired, Columbia Pacific Capital Management
J. Terry McLaughlin, retired, The Professional Basketball Club, LLC
*Stuart T. Rolfe, Wright Hotels, Inc.
*George V. Willoughby Jr., retired, King Broadcasting

Directors
Jesús Aguirre, Tower Steele Services
Kevin L. Blair, Washington Trust Bank
Andrew Bleiman, Independent Marketing and Conservation Consultant
**John R. Braden, retired, Seattle Aquarium
Cary Clark, Argosy Cruises & Tillicum Village
Craig Davison, Sound Transit
Patti Dill, Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S. Bank
*William T. Einstein, Puget Sound Energy, Inc.
Susan L. Gates, Beneficial State Bank
Effie Gleason, Gull Industries
Lisa Graumlich, Ph.D., University of Washington, College of the Environment
*Philip M. Guess, K&L Gates LLP
Wendy Jones, Alaska Air Group
*Stephanie Kornblum, Marketing law attorney
Mark E. Kramer, F5 Networks
Katherine A. Krogslund, University of Washington, School of Oceanography
Gary Kunis, Community Volunteer
Natalya Leahy, Holland America Line and Seaboum
*Lisa C. Luther, Nordstrom
Dave Magee, Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce
*Melissa Mager, conservationist and retired attorney
Lisa McCabe, Interior Architects
Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno, Uwajimaya
Robert W. Power, SEA CON LLC
Michael Purpura, D.A. Davidson
Nathan Rauschenberg, Seattle Mariners
Lisa Schafer, Sweet Beauty
Casey J. Schuchart, Schuchart
Ivan Seda, MUFG Union Bank
Christian Sinderman, Northwest Passage Consulting
*Gary S. Smith, Lease Crutcher Lewis
*Gary T. Smith, Smith and Stark
Eric Steinwinder, Accenture
Michael Trzupek, Community Volunteer
Alex Washburn, Columbia Pacific Advisors, LLC
Carla Wigen, Wells Fargo
Christopher Williams, Seattle Parks & Recreation
Charles Wright, Wright Associates

Emeritus
Ted Ackerley
Don Audleman
Mary L. Bass
Gini Beck
John C. Blackman
Linda Johnson
Paul Kundtz
Jim Kerr

*Executive committee
**Ex-officio

Auxiliary board

The Seattle Aquarium auxiliary board formed in December of 2014 to actively involve Seattle’s young professionals and their communities in the Aquarium’s mission through innovative and engaging programs, events and activities.

Chair
Tom Raaf, Rover 

Vice chairs
Duncan Butcher, Miller Nash Graham and Dunn LLP
Deb Kay Murphy, Cutter & Buck

Treasurer
Dan Karr, iSpot.tv

Members
Andrew Bleiman, Tomofun - Furbo
Gavin Burns, Loge Co​ 
M. Harpur Davidson, O’Keefe Development
Mark Fox, JLL
Michael Guidon, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Meredith Kennedy, Virginia Mason Foundation
Kendall Krause, Gates Foundation
Devin Kunysz, Starbucks
Stren Lea, Queen Investments Corp.
Emily Power, Microsoft
Sophie Riley, AHT Insurance
John Sa, Amazon
Billy Sanchez, RECON Management, LLC
Bryant Smick, Carney Badley Spellman
Andy Stolz, BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Nicholas Stevens, Zillow Group
Yumi Zhang, Amazon

 

For additional information about the auxiliary board and its activities, please contact auxiliaryboard@seattleaquarium.org.