WELL Network | board/advisors

Mary T. Crowley is the founder and CEO of Ocean Voyages, based in Sausalito, California, which offers sailing trips and luxury yacht voyages worldwide, and Oceanic Expeditions. She currently serves on the boards of Ocean Voyages Institute, which operates an educational brigantine, KAISEI; and the Richardson Bay Association. She also is a founding member of Planetree, which enhances healing environments in hospitals.

Annette Gellert is a co-founder and chair of WELL Network. She is the co-chair of the Fred Gellert Family Foundation and a family investment company. Annette is a founding board member of Rachel's Network, serves as chair of the Resource Renewal Institute, and has served on the boards of the UC San Francisco Obstetrics and Gynecology Research and Education Foundation and the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Jill Reber serves as the President, CFO and General Counsel of Primitive Logic, a business consulting and technology services firm based in San Francisco that creates reusable solutions and leverages technology to increase business performance and profitability. Jill's prior legal practice includes business and technology law and litigation with her own and other firms. She is on the advisory boards of Essential Living Foods in Los Angeles and the Hunters Point Family, San Francisco's only urban organic garden.

Marion McMasters Hunt is a trustee of the R.A. Hunt Foundation. She has served on several boards in philanthropy, arts, biodiversity, environmental policy and food systems, and spent 10 years in film and television production. Marion’s passion in grantmaking is largely focused on root causes of environmental degradation and innovative, practical approaches to problems. Appreciating very much the interconnectedness of all life, she is interested in systemic, sustainable solutions.

Renee Ingold is on the board of Rachel's Network; the New Mexico Environmental Law Center; and ZERI New Mexico, a sustainable community nonprofit organization. A longtime activist in energy issues, Renee operates a ranch in Fallbrook, California, using solar photovoltaics and other alternative energy sources.

Peggy Lauer is the former executive director of WELL Network and former executive director of the Fred Gellert Family Foundation. She was vice president of the Resource Renewal Institute, where she developed its Green Plan Program. She is a founder of the Public Trust Alliance and serves on the Environment Working Group for the San Diego Foundation.

Lynn Olson has been a community activist for 35 years in education and civic engagement, and had a career in real estate. The City of Orinda chose Lynn as Citizen of the Year in 1999 and Volunteer of the Year in 2001. She is a passionate advocate of wellness related to personal health and the challenges to a healthy world.

Varda Rabin is past chair of the Northern California American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Varda is a leader in the Jewish community in Marin County and San Francisco, and is active in education related to health and well being. She serves as a trustee of the
Irving and Varda Rabin Philanthropic Fund..

Linda Giudice, MD, PhD, MSc, Professor and Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UC San Francisco

Charlene Harvey is a co-founder of WELL Network. She serves on the board of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.

Sylvia McLaughlin, co-founder of Save the Bay, co-founder and board member of Citizens for East Shore Parks. www.eastshorepark.org

Christine Haas Russell, PhD, trustee of the Columbia Foundation and the Gaia Fund.

Lynne Twist, co-founder, Pachamama Alliance and the Soul of Money Institute. http://www.pachamama.org