Athletic Director's Council
The Cal Poly Athletic Director's Council is comprised of up to 20 volunteer members. The Council members have diverse backgrounds but share a common purpose. The mission of the Council is to assist the Athletics Department in providing a quality academic and competitive athletic experience for its student-athletes and promote the interests of Cal Poly Athletics throughout the campus, local community, and state.
Members:
Sue Andersen - In July 2018, Sue Andersen became the President and CEO of Marian Regional Medical Center. She oversees an entity with over $600M in annual revenues, two hospital locations, residency programs, a skilled nursing facility, an acute rehab facility, a homecare entity and outpatient labs, imaging and infusion centers. She has been at Marian and Dignity Health for the last 21 years.
Prior to the Presidency, Sue was Vice President of Finance and the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Dignity Health Hospitals of the Central Coast: Marian Regional Medical Center (Santa Maria and Arroyo Grande Campuses), French Hospital Medical Center in San Luis Obispo and St John’s Hospitals in Oxnard and Camarillo.
Andersen oversaw all financial operations for all five hospitals, home care, hospice and infusion agencies, four surgery centers, four foundations and over 30 health centers. She managed all financial and business operations, materials management, acquisitions, joint ventures and more.
Prior to joining Marian, Andersen worked as French Hospital’s CFO and at hospitals in Southern California in Divisional and Hospital CFO roles.
She currently serves as a board member on many local organizations including REACH, the Santa Maria Chamber of Commerce, CenCal Health, the Mid-Central Coast Boys & Girls Club, as well as a board member of the Kids Cancer Research Foundation, Shower the People, Marian Hospital Community Board and Marian and Arroyo Grande Foundation Boards, Health Services of the Pacific Central Coast, Coastal Surgical Institute and Plaza Surgery Center.
Robin Baggett is the sole managing partner for Tolosa winery in San Luis Obispo and Alpha Omega winery in Napa Valley. Born and raised in Salinas, Robin attended Cal Poly on a baseball scholarship. In 1988, he was inducted into the Cal Poly Athletic Hall of Fame, and in 2001, Cal Poly's new baseball stadium was named after him. His 40-year career as an attorney includes an eight-year stint as General Counsel to the NBA's Golden State Warriors.
Robin began his wine career in 1988 as a grape grower, planting more than 750 acres of grapes in San Luis Obispo and in 1998 establishing Tolosa, which specializes in Burgundian-style wines. In 2006, Robin and his wife Michelle moved to Napa Valley with the vision of creating world-class Bordeaux wines. They founded Alpha Omega, a winery that handcrafts finesse-driven, complex and balanced wines expressing the aromatic profile of the best that Napa Valley has to offer.
In 2017, Robin expanded his portfolio by acquiring a significant interest in Perinet, an estate vineyard and modern, architecturally-designed winery in the prestigious Priorat DOQ region of Spain. Robin sits on the boards of the Napa Valley Vintners, Wine Institute, Festival Napa Valley, The First Tee of Monterey County and Cal Poly's Athletic Director's Council. He and Michelle established the Alpha Omega Foundation and are active supporters of the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
Robin sits on the boards of the Napa Valley Vintners, Wine Institute, Festival Napa Valley, The First Tee of Monterey County and Cal Poly's Athletic Director's Council. He and Michelle established the Alpha Omega Foundation and are active supporters of the V Foundation for Cancer Research.
John Capriotti, a 1980 graduate of Cal Poly, in 1992 John began his very successful career at Nike, Inc. and currently serves as the Vice President and Global Director of Athletics/Running Track and Field. Throughout his career at Nike, athletes that signed under his guidance have won over 400 individual Track & Field Olympic medals in six Olympic games and over 900 individual medals in the 13 World Outdoor Championships. In addition to this, athletes signed under his guidance have set over 25 world records and have won over 600 big city marathons.
John started his passion for running as an All-State Cross-Country Runner. Following high school, he was a three-time NJCAA All-American Distance Runner at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield Illinois. John is a member of both institutions athletics Hall of Fame.
After attending community college, John attended California Polytechnic State University where he received All-American Honors for cross country and was a member of Cal Poly's first Cross Country team to win a National Championship in 1978. Following graduation in 1980, John moved into coaching and at Kansas State and Northwestern Universities coached 45 NCAA Division I All-Americans and three individual National Champions while being a three-time coach of the year.
Catherine Cardoza Conner is a Cal Poly Alumni (Agricultural Business 94') and played on the Women's Soccer team under current Coach Alex Crozier. Catherine is originally from Modesto, Califonia, but currently resides in Loomis, California, with her husband Brian and two daughters, Aynsley and Daryn. Catherine is Managing Partner of the Cardoza Family Partnership, a real estate development and investment company.
She is an active member in her community and currently sits on the Board of Girls Scouts Heart of Central California and The Body Positive. Other charitable and non-profit involvement includes past board member for Sutter Health Central Valley Region, Gallo Center for the Arts, Stanislaus Community Foundation, and Omega Nu Phi Gamma Chapter.
Catherine enjoys yoga, running, hiking, tennis and most of all watching her girls play sports. She has a passion for Cal Poly and the outdoors which is why she loves coming back to San Luis Obispo.
Scott Cooper has spent nearly his entire career in financial and accounting positions at high technology and life science companies in Silicon Valley and Orange County and has worked at ophthalmic medical device and pharmaceutical companies for most of that time. He currently operates his own part-time Chief Financial Officer and Business Development consulting business, Oso Creek Consulting. In 2015, Scott joined Allegro Ophthalmics, LLC as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Business Development and helped Allegro complete an option purchase transaction with Bausch Health in 2020. Scott joined WaveTec Vision Systems, Inc. in 2007 prior to the company's commercialization of its product and helped guide the company through the development and commercialization stages that ultimately led to the sale of WaveTec to Alcon, a division of Novartis, in 2014. Prior to joining WaveTec, he was Corporate Controller at IntraLase Corp. during a period of rapid growth from a private company through IPO to the ultimate sale of the company to Advanced Medical Optics (now Johnson and Johnson). Scott has held several other financial management positions and began his career in public accounting at KPMG. He is a Certified Public Accountant, holds a BS degree (Business Administration '91) from Cal Poly and has an MBA from the University of Michigan. Scott played football at Cal Poly and met his wife Laura (Construction Management '91) there. His son Thomas (Business Administration '19) and daughter Natalie (Child Development '21) are also Mustangs.
Mike Fisher has over 22 years of experience in managing all phases of planning, design, and construction management for new and existing wet utility infrastructure projects and leads the California Conveyance Infrastructure Design Group at Water Works Engineers. Mike has extensive experience in hydraulic analysis and condition/capacity assessments in preparation of rehabilitation and replacement recommendations for wet utility infrastructure. He is experienced in trenchless construction methods and is certified in pipe-bursting and cured-in-place (CIPP) best design and construction practices by the North American Society for Trenchless Technologies (NASTT). Mike specializes in management of complex projects requiring coordination of multi-discipline design teams. His “hands on” approach to design, attention to details, and exceptional communication skills are what make his projects successful. Mike led the development of Water Works “risk” based infrastructure failure analysis protocol and has utilized that protocol in the preparation of prioritized, time-phased, capital improvement plans for numerous existing water and sewer systems.
Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate. The California native holds a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering from Cal Poly, in addition to a Master of Science in Flight Test Engineering, a Master of Science in Systems Engineering and a Master of Military Operational Art and Science. Glover is a Naval Aviator and was a test pilot in the F/A-18 Hornet, Super Hornet, and EA-18G Growler. He and his family have been stationed in many locations in the United States and Japan and he has deployed in combat and peacetime.
Glover was selected as one of eight members of the 21st NASA astronaut class. In 2015, he completed Astronaut Candidate Training, including scientific and technical briefings, intensive instruction in International Space Station systems, spacewalks, robotics, physiological training, T-38 flight training and water and wilderness survival training.
He was named one of Jet Magazine's inaugural 40 under 40 in 2013 and he has Military decorations that include a Navy Commendation Medal and two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals. In addition to the Athletic Director's Council, Glover is also on the Dean's Advisory Council of the College of Engineering at Cal Poly.
Glover is married to the former Dionna Odom of Berkeley, California, and they have four children.
Tim Gonzalez was born in Hawaii, grew up in Southern California, and moved to Diablo, California in 1993 with his wife Cathy and their two sons Geoff and Kevin. He received a Bachelor's degree from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1978 and earned his Master's degree from Harvard University in 1980.
Tim retired in 2012 as the CEO of RREEF, an institutional real estate investment management firm, based in San Francisco. During his 22 year tenure at RREEF, he also served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for two real estate investment trusts with $13 billion in assets, directed RREEF's investment activities, and managed the portfolios of the firm's largest clients.
He has served as a board member of various real estate industry organizations and is currently active on an Advisory Councils at Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo.
Acclaimed
NASCAR executive and sports marketer
Jill Gregory is the Executive Vice President and General Manager at
Sonoma Raceway. Named by
Adweek one of "The Most Powerful Women in Sports" for the past two years, Gregory assumes leadership of the historic 1,600-acre property where she attended her first NASCAR road course race as a teenager.
During her tenure at NASCAR, Gregory revamped NASCAR's marketing, content and fan development strategies to elevate strategic planning and enhance collaboration across the industry. She also launched an effort to refresh and modernize the NASCAR brand, significantly elevated the sport's diversity and inclusion platform, and was a key leader in NASCAR's drive to become the first major league sport to return to live competition during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prior to joining NASCAR, Gregory was the Senior Vice President of Motorsports Marketing for Bank of America, and previously served as Director of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series marketing program for Sprint Nextel. In 2011, Gregory was selected for the inaugural class of "Game Changers: Women in Sports Business" by Sports Business Journal and Sports Business Daily.
Gregory earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from California Polytechnic State University, and is a member of the Board of Directors for The NASCAR Foundation.
Michael Hoo played baseball at Cal Poly from 2010-2014 and was part of the team that won the Big West Title (2014). He received his undergraduate degree in 2014 in Agricultural Business and went on to receive his MBA from Cal Poly in 2016. While earning his MBA, he also served on the coaching staff of the baseball team under Head Coach Larry Lee.
In 2017, Hoo moved to the Sacramento area to pursue a career in Commercial Real Estate at Colliers International. At Colliers, he currently focuses on Landlord representation and investment sales of Industrial real estate, where he represents developers and institutional investors. Some of his clients include NorthPoint Development, Badiee Development, Phelan Development, BentallGreenOak, and Invesco.
Hoo currently resides in El Dorado Hills with his wife, Kristen, and two sons (Jaxon and Mason).
J Johnson has been practicing in the fields of estate planning, probate, trust administration, and real estate since his admission into the California Bar in 1981. Over the years J has forged many strong bonds in the community and when people ask "Who did your estate plan?" around the Five-Cities area, chances are you will most likely hear his name in reply. This kind of reputation and word of mouth was built over 40 years of meeting with clients and their families, getting to know them, listening to their needs and concerns, and coming up with estate plans and real property solutions that are tailored to meet their unique situations. J is very proud to have his two daughters, Hannah Murphy and Cori Jones, as his partners at Johnson, Murphy & Jones.
J was born in Iowa and was raised on a farm in the small town of Jolley until the age of 11, when he and his family moved to Grover City (now known as Grover Beach) in 1959. J graduated from Arroyo Grande High School, Received a B.S. in Mathematics from Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo, a Masters of Public Administration from Golden Gate University and his J.D. from Santa Barbara Law School. J served as a police officer with the Pismo Beach P.D. from 1968 to 1980 and was a volunteer fireman in Grover Beach from 1985 to 1999.
J has always been, and continues to be very involved in the community. Over the years he has served as past president of the 5-cities Rotary Club, the Arroyo Grande Chamber of Commerce, the Grover Beach Chamber of Commerce, 5-Cities Men's Club, the Los Padres Council Boy Scouts of America, the Cal Poly Athletic fund, he was awarded the Silver Beaver by the Boy Scouts of America and was named Grover Beach Citizen of the Year in 2015. When J isn't at the office you can bet his free time is being spent attending or planning for charity events, or simply volunteering his time where it is most needed in the community.
Kelley Bannon Lashley is a partner at Calleton, Merritt, De Francisco & Bannon, LLP, and chairs the firm's Trusts and Estates practice group. Her practice areas include estate and business succession planning, trust administration, probate, conservatorship, and guardianship law, as well as nonprofit advising and mediation. Kelley splits her work week between the firm's Pasadena and Westlake Village offices and serves clients throughout California.
Kelley graduated from Cal Poly in 1995 with a degree in political science and a doctor of jurisprudence degree from the Santa Clara University School of Law in 1999. She is also a softball alumna and the founder and president of the Cal Poly Varsity Club, an alumni chapter for former student-athletes. She has worked to gain representation for all Cal Poly sports on the club's Board of Directors and to connect Cal Poly alumni to athletic events and activities at Cal Poly and throughout the United States.
She has served in various volunteer roles at Cal Poly, including the Mustang Athletic Fund, Board of Directors, 2002-2005; Alumni Association Board of Directors, where she chaired the Spirit and Traditions Committee, 2011-2017; and the Athletics Director's Advisory Council, 2015-present. Kelley is leading the effort to raise funds for a new $300,000 batting cage for the Cal Poly softball team. Her husband, Dan, is a former wrestler at Cal Poly and a 1996 physical education and kinesiology graduate. Kelley and her husband live in Thousand Oaks with their two children, Emma and Rhett.
George Lee is co-chairman of the Global Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) Group and co-head of Investment Banking Division Engineering. He serves on the Firmwide Technology Risk Committee and Investment Banking Division Technology Investment Committee.
Previously, George was chief information officer for the Investment Banking Division. Before that, he was co-head of Global TMT. George joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 as an associate and was named managing director in 2002 and partner in 2004.
George serves on the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College and is chairman of the Board of Overseers for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He also serves on the boards of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Indelible Mark Foundation and Marin Academy.
George earned a BA in History from Middlebury College in 1988 and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.
Mike Mantle joined Morgan Stanley in 2009 and led the design of Morgan Stanley's community and economic development lending and investments business. Mike is the Head of the Global Sustainable Finance transactions team, President of Morgan Stanley Community Investments, and Vice Chairman of the Morgan Stanley Impact SBIC, where he is also a Member of the Investment Committee.
Mike has over 35 years' experience in banking, including over 27 years as a community development professional, and he serves on several national non-profit communities, and economic development boards, including a leading non-profit tax credit syndication organization.
Mike was the founding President and CEO of the Bank of America Community Development Bank. Under his leadership, the Bank grew from a start-up to a $4 billion institution with offices in 23 states and 37 cities. Mike was also the Chairman of Zion Bank's Community Investment Corporation, where he designed and managed a $100 million New Markets Tax Credit program. Mike has also served as the Division Director for California Bank and Trust's Retail and Small Business Banking. In addition, Mike held the role of Chief Operating Officer of the One Economy Corporation, a non-profit organization serving low- and moderate-income communities across the nation.
Kelly McInerney is a Senior Project Manager at Lockheed Martin Space in Sunnyvale, CA for a U.S. Navy program. Kelly has been with Lockheed Martin Space since 1993 where she has taken on a variety of positions encompassing programmatic roles and all aspects of systems engineering across multiple Department of Defense (DoD) programs.
Kelly received her bachelors of science in aeronautical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in 1991 and played softball for the Mustangs during her four years at the University. After receiving her undergraduate degree, Kelly went on to earn her master of science in aerospace engineering in 1993 from the University of Cincinnati.
Kelly has been a student of the Han Moo Kwan Tae Kwon Do Club since 1994, an instructor since 1999, and a Chief Instructor since 2008. As a not-for-profit Club, Kelly volunteers her time to train students in self-defense.
Kelly has also been an Assistant Winemaker since 2002 for Mori Artisan Wines, a private reserve label that crafts exceptional Zinfandel from grapes produced by two of the best old-vine growers in California.
Kelly has been serving as a member of the Cal Poly Athletic Director Council since May 2015.
David W. Mossman currently is the Managing Member, along with his wife Bianca of several family businesses which focus on Real Estate, Farming and other various investments.
Mr. Mossman served as the Executive Vice President - Chief Investment Officer for Donahue Schriber Realty Group, L.P. where he oversaw the teams responsible for sourcing acquisition and development opportunities, as well as strategic dispositions within the portfolio. As a component of this role, Mr. Mossman directed all leasing activity through internal leasing staff and external brokers. In his 22 years with Donahue Schriber, he oversaw more than $4 billion of new property acquisitions, property dispositions, and development projects for the company.
David also served as Executive Vice President Acquisitions, Dispositions, and Development, Vice President of Northern California Development, and Vice President of Finance. He served on Donahue Schriber’s five-member Executive Committee, which directed the company’s strategic vision and managed its daily operations. Before joining Donahue Schriber, he served as a manager for Deloitte.
Mr. Mossman is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. David believes in volunteering his time to organizations which help children prosper both academically and as individuals. He has served as a board member for Harbor Day School in Corona Del Mar and KidWorks in Santa Ana from 2012-2015, and was a trustee for The Pegasus School in Huntington Beach from 2005-2011. He currently is a board member of the Cystinosis Research Foundation as well as a member of the Cal Poly Athletic Director’s Council.
Jason Novi is the COO & CFO at Unchained Labs, a global life sciences tools company headquartered in Pleasanton, California, where he is on the front line of fundraising, acquisitions, and integrations. Prior to joining Unchained Labs, Jason was the CFO and VP of Operations at ProteinSimple, helping raise $60M in venture capital, acquiring four businesses and building a $60M+, profitable global life sciences tools company over a six-year period. That business was sold to Bio-Techne in July 2014 for $300M. Prior to joining ProteinSimple, Jason was VP of Finance at Nektar Therapeutics, and earlier in his career, he spent seven years in various senior financial leadership roles at Molecular Devices. He began his career as a C.P.A. with Ernst & Young, based in San Francisco, California.
At Cal Poly (B.S., Business Administration) from 1994-1997, Jason was a starting and relief pitcher for the baseball team in its first three years as a Division I program, making the WAC (1995,1996) and Big West (1997) All-Academic teams each season. Jason and his wife Erin have two kids, and when he isn't coaching Blake's basketball and baseball teams, or traveling with Julia's club volleyball team, you can find him hacking away on the golf course or cheering on the SF Giants, SF 49ers, and Cal Poly Mustangs!
Leslie Orradre is a clinical Speech Language Pathologist with a private practice in San Luis Obispo, The Speech Company.
She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1989 and her Master of Arts degree in Speech Language Pathology from California State University, Fresno in 1991. Leslie has worked in the field of Speech Language Pathology for 25 years here on the Central Coast. She has been a full-time employee for Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center performing acute care speech therapy and intervention with the NICU and follow-up program. Leslie has been in private practice for 15 years servicing the needs of children and adults with communication deficits. The majority of her work is with neurological impairment resulting in communication dysfunction including brain injury, CVA, or strokes, brain tumors, autism, childhood apraxia of speech, and developmental disabilities.
She has been the chairman of her children's School Site Council for Santa Margarita Elementary School, responsible for the allocation of state and federal funds for the school, as well as the Parent-Teacher Association. She is currently the Chairman of the Board for the nonprofit organization, Jack's Helping Hand. She has been a member of this organization since its inception in 2005 and has been responsible for the annual fundraising events. She is a strong supporter of both men's and women's athletics, enjoying all team sports and the responsibilities each teammate shares. Leslie has two daughters, her oldest, Courtney, is a Cal Poly student in the Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Department, and her youngest, Sydney, is a senior at Atascadero High School. Leslie is looking forward to participating on the Cal Poly Athletic Directors Council and feels she will be able to contribute ideas based on her experience with facilitating learning and participation in a successful nonprofit organization.
John A. Ronca Jr. graduated with a degree in business administration in 1975, a doctor of jurisprudence from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1978 and a master's in the Laws of Taxation (LLM) from the University of Denver School of Law in 1979. As ASI vice president, Ronca implemented a legal aid service for students and was a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management. Ronca has served as chair of Cal Poly's Athletic Directors Council since 2007. He is a member and secretary of the Cal Poly Foundation Board, and chair of the Governance Committee. Ronca has contributed to the community in many ways. He has served as chair of the French Hospital Community Board of Directors and is on the Mission College Preparatory High School Board of Regents. He is the President of the Northern California Golf Association Board of Directors and member of the board since 2006. Ronca and his wife Tracy are the proud parents of alumna Stephanie (Journalism '13) and Rachel (Boston College, '14).
Ted Tollner has contributed to just about every level of football throughout his illustrious 47-year coaching career. Born in 1940, Tollner earned a bachelor's degree in 1962 and later a master's degree in physical education at Cal Poly. He was the starting quarterback for two years at Cal Poly and pitched for the baseball team for four seasons. Tollner was one of 26 survivors of the tragic Cal Poly plane crash in 1960, which killed 22 people, 16 of them were teammates of Tollner.
His coaching career started at Woodside High in 1963. He then joined College of San Mateo as an offensive coordinator in 1968 and later became head coach. From 1973-1980, Tollner was the offensive coordinator at San Diego State University. He then served as the quarterback coach at BYU, working with future San Francisco 49ers star, quarterback, Steve Young.
Tollner would eventually move on to be the offensive coordinator at USC and in 1983 became the Trojans' head coach. He wend 26-20-1 in four years at the helm and captured the Pacific-10 Conference Championship in 1984 and the Rose Bowl in 1985.
In 1994, Tollner returned to San Diego State University as its head coach. He coached there for eight years, posting the program's first back-to-back eight-win seasons (1995-1996) since 1977.
Tollner spent ten years coaching for six different teams in the NFL. He was a wide receiver's coach for the Buffalo Bills (1987-1988), an assistant coach for the San Diego Chargers (1989-1991), quarterback's coach for the Los Angeles Rams (1992-1993), quarterback's coach and offensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers (2002-2004, 2007-2008), offensive coordinator for the Detroit Lions (2005) and passing game coordinator for the Oakland Raiders (2009-2010).Tollner was inducted into the Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame in 1989. He has two daughters, Linda and Tammy, and one son, Bruce, with his wife, Barbara.
