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. 

Officers
*Bob C. Donegan, Ivar's, Inc.
Chairman
*Melissa Mager, conservationist and retired attorney
Vice chair/Chair elect
*Randy J. Tinseth, The Boeing Company
Immediate past chair
*Karissa A. Marker, KPMG
Treasurer
*Erin J. Letey, Fox Rothschild LLP
Secretary
**Robert W. Davidson
President & CEO

Directors
Jesús Aguirre, Tower Steele Services
Kevin L. Blair, Washington Trust Bank
Andrew Bleiman, Tomofun-Furbo
**John R. Braden, retired, Seattle Aquarium
Bill Chapin, NHL Seattle
Cary Clark, Argosy Cruises & Tillicum Village
Patti Dill, Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S. Bank
Terren Drake, PACCAR Inc. 
*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
Michael Guidon, Goldman Sachs
*†James C. Gurke, retired, Getty Images
†Dan M. Guy III, retired, Columbia Pacific Capital Management
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 Seabourn
*Lisa C. Luther, Nordstrom
Dave Magee, Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce
†J. Terry McLaughlin, retired, The Professional Basketball Club, LLC
Tomoko Moriguchi-Matsuno, Uwajimaya
Robert W. Power, SEA CON LLC
Michael Purpura, D.A. Davidson
Nathan Rauschenberg, Seattle Mariners
*†Stuart T. Rolfe, Wright Hotels, Inc.
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
Michael Trzupek, Community Volunteer
Alex Washburn, Columbia Pacific Advisors, LLC
Carla C. Wigen, Laird Norton Wealth Management
Christopher Williams, Seattle Parks & Recreation
*†George V. Willoughby Jr., retired, King Broadcasting
Charles Wright, Wright Associates
Susie Wyckoff, Community volunteer

Emeritus
†Ted Ackerley
**William C. Arntz
†Don Audleman
Mary L. Bass
Gini Beck
†John C. Blackman
Lesley Canfield
†Dan Hungate 
Linda K. Johnson
†James P. Kerr
†Paul J. Kundtz

*Executive committee
**Ex-officio
†Past chair

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
Meredith Kennedy, Virginia Mason Foundation
Kendall Krause, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Devin Kunysz, Starbucks
Stren Lea, Queen Investments Corp.
Emily Power, Microsoft
Sophie Riley, AHT Insurance
Billy Sanchez, RECON Management, LLC
Bryant Smick, Carney Badley Spellman
Andy Stolz, Stolz & Associates
Nicholas Stevens, Zillow Group
Yumi Zhang, Amazon

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