Founding CCIT Board of Directors – 1959/1960

Jack Gomperts, President, Jack Gomperts Company

Nathan Most, Executive Vice President, Getz Brothers

R.V. Winquist, President, General Steamship Company

E.H. Brumley, President, Brumley-Donaldson Company

Chalmers Graham, Sr., Partner, Graham, James & Rolph

B.T. Rocca, Chairman of the Board, Pacific Vegetable Oil Company

Dr. F.A. Brier, Assoc. Professor, University of San Francisco

Robert B. Fowler, Attorney, Fowler & Mertz

Al Perrish Winter, Wolff & Co., Inc.

R.V. Garrod, Chairman of the Board, Farmers Insurance Company

Peter Haag, Area Manager, James I. Metcalf Company

Former Chairs, CCIT Board of Directors

• David Zuercher, Exec. Vice President, Wells Fargo – 2006 – 2007
• Everett Golden, President, Otis McAllister Inc. 2004 – 2005 
• Paul Oliva, President, Oliva Global Communications / Tamsin Randlett, Sr. Director, Govt Affairs Gap, Inc. 2001 – Northern California
• Carlos Valderrama, Dir. Latin American Operations, Carlsmith Ball 2001 – Southern California
• Mike Faulkner, CEO, Nimbus Water Systems / James Whittaker, Dir. Int’l Public Policy, Hewlett Packard 1991 – 1994
• Greg Carnill, Director, Americal Farm Land Trust 1990
• Dave Kenny, Partner Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP  1986-1989
• Robert D. “Bob” Kleist, Evergreen Shipping / Arch Hardyment 1984-1985
• R.L. DeLap Accounting 1982 – 1983
• Walt Payne, President & CEO, Blue Diamond Growers 1980 – 1982
• Jerry Levine, President, Mentor International 1978 – 1979
• J.H. Dethero, Crocker National Bank 1975 – 1977
• Robert E. Gomperts, Vice President, Calagrex Inc. 1972 – 1974
• Warren S. Titus, Founder, Royal Viking Line 1970 – 1972
• William A. Muriale, Intl Banking, Bank of America 1969 – 1970
• Jack Gomperts, President, Jack Gomperts Company 1967 – 1969
• B.T. Rocca, Chairman of the Board, Pacific Vegetable Oil Co. 1960 – 1967

Former Members, CCIT Board of Directors (Alphabetical Order)

• Elaine Abbott, Sunkist Growers
• Roger Baccigaluppi, Chairman, RB International
• Donna Bayliss-Wallace, Owner. Bayliss Ranch
• Kimberly Benson, Vice President. Cange International
• Michael Bianco, Chairman, Asia Pacific Capital Corporation
• P.M. “Marty” Bitter, Manager, Fed. Relations, Chevron Corporation
• Anne Blackwood, Sr. Vice President, Comerica Bank
• William Bold, Director of Govt Affairs, Qualcomm
• Ronald Bornstein, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop
• Anne Chadwick, The Chadwick Company
• Doral Cooper, President, C&M International, LTD
• Janice Cooper, President, Pacific Resources
• Fermin Curzon, Mattel, Inc.
• Derrell DePasse, Varian
• Joseph Englert, President, Export Assist., Inc.
• Charles Foster, Executive Director, Port of Oakland
• John Gilbaugh, Sr. Vice President, Wells Fargo
• Catherine Hutchinson, Apple Computer
• William Ichord, Vice President, UNOCAL
• Laura Ipsen, Cicso Systems
• Jim Jarrett, Vice President, Worldwide Govt Affairs, Intel Corporation
• John Leitner, President, WJ Byrnes & Co.
• John Liebman, Attorney, McKenna Long & Aldridge
• Jim MacLellan, Director of Marketing, Port of Los Angeles
• Michael Mailbach, Intel Corporation
• Fred Martin, Bank of America
• John McKenna, President, The Lombard Group, Inc.
• Walt Minger, Bank of America
• W.J. (Mike) Moody, AT&T
• Mary Mooney, Dir. of Sales & Marketing, Mooney Farms
• Charles Nevil, President, The Meridian Group
• Ned Ord, Ord & Norman LLP
• Jim Pandol, Owner, Pandol Brothers
• Stephen J. (Steve) Potash, President, Potash & Company 1987 – 1994
• Joseph Rollo, CA Wine Institute
• Mary Kay Ryan, Atlas Asia-Pacific
• William Ryan, Atlas Asia-Pacific Top Oil
• James Salisbury, Treasurer, Tri-Valley Growers
• Frank Sebastian, Envirotech
• Hal Shenson, President, H. Shenson International CCIT Sr. VP, 1989-1991
• Cheryl Sill, Vice President & Manager, Bank of America
• Susanne Stirling, Vice President, California Chamber of Commerce
• Nicholas Unkovic, Partner, Squire Sanders
• Helga Ying, Sr. Dir., Govt Affairs, Levi Strauss & Co

Former CCIT Secretaries / Executive Directors / Presidents

Joe Harrison – 2001 – 2004

Martina Johnson Kent** – 1987 – 1990s

Stephen J. (Steve) Potash* – 1970 – 1987

Charles Von Lowenfeldt – 1970Susan Brossy – 1967

Roger J. Fleischmann – 1960 – 1967

* From 1980 to 1987, CCIT was a client of the international public relations firm of Potash & Company, which housed and managed the organization, with Steve serving as its Executive Director. CCIT became the state’s leading international trade organization and commenced its tradition of holding an annual conference in Sacramento with state officials and legislators. CCIT’s original research during this period determined that one out of every 10 jobs in California was related to international commerce, directly or indirectly, and the Council used this data to counter protectionism and to advocate state and federal policies that would expand commerce.
For a decade or more prior to 1980, CCIT was domiciled in the San Francisco offices of the late Charles von Loewenfeldt, who had helped organize the group, and it was managed by principals of that PR firm – Charles von Loewenfeldt, the late Susan Brossy, and Steve Potash.
**First full-time Executive Director