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Leadership

Louis Meunier, Chairman
Louis Meunier is the Executive Vice President of Macy’s West, and has been with the company for 37 years. Meunier is involved in the state and local service organizations including serving as Immediate Past Chairman, California Retailer’s Association; Past Chairman, San Francisco Convention & Visitor’s Bureau; Finance Chair, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Board of Directors, United Way of the Bay Area; Executive Committee Member, Goodwill of Santa Clara County; Immediate Past Chairman, School of Education Corporate Advisory Council, Saint Mary’s College of California.  A resident of San Francisco, Meunier attended Lowell High School and graduated in 1965. He received his BA in Medieval History and English Literature from University of California, Davis in 1969.

William Hauck, Vice Chairman
Bill Hauck is President of the California Business Roundtable and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for California State University.  Bill has served as deputy chief of staff to a Governor and as a top aide to two State Assembly speakers.  Bill also chaired the California Constitution Revision Commission during its 1994-96 existence.

Jim Lanich, Ph.D., President
Dr. Lanich began his career as an inner city middle school teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District. In 1992, he joined the Los Angeles County Office of Education where he led the Research and Development Unit. In 1998, he assumed leadership of Core Curriculum Services for the Los Angeles County Superintendent of Schools where he developed and led the Academic Achievement Alliance charged with raising the reading and math scores in the 100 lowest performing schools of Los Angeles County. In 1999, he was elected by the 58 counties of California as the Chairman of the California Technology Assistance Project, charged with bringing standards based education to all schools of California. In 2001 he served as the first Director for the Inaugural Broad Prize for Urban Education which awarded $1 million dollars in scholarships to high performing urban school districts in the U.S. Dr. Lanich currently serves as Executive Director of Just for the Kids-California, a non-profit organization that provides free, easy to understand data on the performance of every school in California and promotes identified, proven teaching best practices that get results.