by Miriam R | Apr 16, 2025
Bardy Wallace rejoined the board in July 2021, having spent three earlier terms as board secretary. She grew up in Palo Alto during the post-World War II period of accelerated population and job growth that foreshadowed the physical and economic outlines of today’s...
by Miriam R | Apr 16, 2025
Born in Santa Clara California and a Palo Alto resident for 30 years, Robert brings over 35 years of international sales and marketing experience to the board. Upon graduation from San Diego State with a degree in Business Administration, Robert began his professional...
by Miriam R | Apr 16, 2025
Native Californian Steve Staiger was raised in Marin County. With an AB degree from UC Davis and a Masters of Library Science from UC Berkeley, Steve relocated to the Peninsula in 1973. From 1977 until he retired in the early 2000s, he served as a reference librarian...
by Miriam R | Apr 16, 2025
Palo Alto native John Northway, architect and cofounder of Stoecker & Northway, studied under Birge Clark at Stanford and worked for his firm in the 1970s. Since 1978, John’s company has provided varied architectural services—including residential, commercial,...
by Miriam R | Apr 16, 2025
A UC Berkeley computer science graduate, Nelson Ng worked over three decades in Silicon Valley to build global software for users worldwide. In 1996 he moved to Palo Alto with his wife Kimberley Wong, whose deep family roots—her grandfather cofounded Palo Alto’s first...
