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2008-02-05

East Bay Community Foundation adds new board members

The East Bay Community Foundation, which gave out $36.7 million in grants during its 2006-2007 fiscal year, announced Feb. 5 that it has added two new members to its board of directors.

Asian Health Services CEO Sherry Hirota and Robert Davenport, an investor and adviser to technology companies, joined the 15-member panel effective Jan 1.

Davenport is the former CEO of Covad International, a subsidiary of the broadband provider Covad Communications in San Jose.

Hirota takes the place of Marcia Barinaga, a science writer and member of the board since 2003.

Davenport takes the place of Stephen Hicks, chief administrative and financial officer of Clark Sustainable Resource Developments Inc. and an East Bay Community Foundation board member since 2000.

A spokesman for the Oakland-based foundation said both Barinaga and Hicks resigned late last year to spend to spend more time on their work; the new members will serve out their terms and begin three-year terms starting July 1, 2008.

credited by: bizjournals.com

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