California State University, Northridge
Collection of facial portraits of the steering committee. Names are listed below.

Summit Leadership

Steering Committee

First Row

  1. Co-Chair Earl Enzer '83, Chair, California State University, Northridge Foundation, Co-Chair Special Task Force on Engagement, and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
  2. Co-Chair Hon. Linda Lingle '75, Co-Chair, Special Task Force on Engagement and former Governor of the State of Hawai'i
  3. Dr. Sylvia Alva, Dean, College of Health and Human Development
  4. Richard Bergman '77, Special Task Force on Engagement member and CEO, Bergman Group, Inc.
  5. Barbara Bergman '76, Special Task Force on Engagement member
  6. Dr. Wm. Robert Bucker, Dean, Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication and Executive Director, Valley Performing Arts Center
  7. Dr. Vaughn Cable '70, MS '72, Chair, College of Engineering and Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board and Caltech-JPL Spacecraft Communications Systems and Operations Group executive
  8. Dr. John Cagle '66, MA '67, Division of Student Affairs volunteer advisor and CSU Fresno Emeritus Professor
  9. Dennis DeYoung '87, CFP, President, California State University, Northridge Alumni Association and Branch Manager, Financial West Group
  10. Dr. Barbara Gross, Chief of Staff, Office of the University President
  11. Dr. Ruth Harris, College of Health and Human Development volunteer advisor and Emerita Professor
  12. Dr. William Jennings, Dean, College of Business and Economics
  13. Mark Lainer, Chair, Jewish Studies Advisory Board, College of Humanities; Board member, California State University, Northridge Foundation; and Partner of Lainer Investments

Second Row

  1. Ian Leslie '78, Biology Alumni Advisory Board member; CSUN Heritage Society Steering Committee member; and a retired Amgen manager
  2. David Merritt '75, College of Business and Economics Advisory Board member, Managing Director of BC Partners, Inc. and Director of Calpine Corporation, Charter Communications and Outdoor Channel Holdings
  3. Richard J. Parent, CPA, Chair, Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication Dean's Advisory Board and Executive Vice President, Gumbiner Savett Inc.
  4. Dr. S.K. Ramesh, Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science
  5. Robert Rawitch '67, CSUN Foundation Board member; 2011 Founders Day Co-Chair; past President of the CSUN Alumni Association Journalism Chapter; and Senior Vice President of Winner & Associates
  6. Ford Roosevelt, Michael D. Eisner College of Education volunteer advisor and President & CEO of Project GRAD Los Angeles
  7. Dr. Elizabeth Say '81, Dean, College of Humanities
  8. David Schwartz '92, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Dean's Board of Ambassadors member and founding partner, Schwartz and Shapiro LLP
  9. Dr. Michael Spagna, Dean, Michael D. Eisner College of Education
  10. Dr. Jerry Stinner, Dean, College of Science and Mathematics
  11. John Tronson '88, Athletics Director's Circle Board member and Principal, Ramsey Schilling Commercial Real Estate