Meet The Board

About the Store Operations Board Members

The Board is composed of 12 voting members corresponding to the following organization chart:

ASUC President

Vishalli Loomba Hi Cal Students! My name is Vishalli Loomba and I am a 4th year Molecular and Cell Biology major and Global Poverty minor. I am excited and honored to be your ASUC President, especially as we enter our 125th year dedicated to serving students! This past year I served as an ASUC Senator and as the Finance Officer for the College Panhellenic Association. I was born and raised in the Bay Area and I rep Nor Cal hard! Some of my favorites? Mexican food, shopping, golfing, traveling and my SF sports teams! I have many goals and ideas for the year, but most of all I want to ensure that the ASUC's primary role remains serving each of you: the students. Our mission is to represent Cal's student body and to be the voice of the students. I encourage you all to contact me with any questions or suggestions for the ASUC and to get involved during your time here at Cal! In a school so large, the best way to feel right at home is to pursue your passions and become a part of all that this school has to offer!

ASUC Executive VP

Christopher Alabastro
Greetings Cal Bears! I am Chris Alabastro, a senior studying Bioengineering with an emphasis in cell and tissue engineering, and I plan on attending medical school upon graduation. I'm originally from SoCal but I love Berkeley! Last year I served as one of your ASUC Senators, and this year I could not be more excited to be your Executive Vice President. Some of my goals for this year include making it easier for new student groups to access funding, and ensuring that the transition for student groups during the construction of our beautiful new Lower Sproul goes as smoothly as possible. I encourage everyone to get involved in the ASUC so feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions!

Undergraduate Representative

Ryan Landis
Hi, my name is Ryan Landis and I am currently an undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley studying Business Administration at the Walter A. Haas School of Business. I am an avid intramural softball player (Spring 2009 Championship team) and love going to Lake Tahoe. Go Bears!!!

Undergraduate Representative

Hedy Chen
Hedy is a second year Business Administration and Political Science double major and Education minor. She has been a part of the ASUC for two years and served as the Chief-of-Staff in the Executive Vice President's office of the ASUC from 2010-2011. A new member of the SOB and one of two non-elected undergraduate representatives, Hedy's goals are to increase the diversity and selection of vendors on campus, raise awareness about the SOB and its decisions, and incorporate more student voice into the decision-making process. She hopes to not only increase the selection of traditional store-front vendors, but to also bring in more food carts and cooperatives on campus. Throughout a two-year term, Hedy hopes to learn more about the commercial activities of the ASUC, uphold the values of Berkeley, and make responsible decisions that will leave a lasting impact.

Graduate Assembly President

Bahar Navab
Bahar Navab is a second-year PhD student in Health Services and Policy Analysis. Originally from Iran, Bahar grew up in southern California and first came to Cal as undergrad. She served as an ASUC Senator and was an active advocate on behalf of women and people of color. After graduating, Bahar completed a Master of Public Health at UCLA, where she served as a member of the Graduate Student Association. When she's not in meetings, at Anthony Hall, or doing research, you can find Bahar watching a Sharks game (she's a big hockey fan), swimming, or fishing.

Graduate Representative

Mollie Epstein
Mollie Epstein is a second-year PhD student in the Health Services and Policy Analysis doctoral group. Part of the first cohort in the Population Health track, her research interests focus on early-life determinants of chronic disease, maternal and infant health, climate change, and the implementation of policy to reduce health disparities among marginalized populations. Before matriculating to Berkeley, she worked at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, specializing in research and analysis related to cost-effectiveness, health disparities reduction and diffusion of technology. She has also worked in pharmaceutical market research and consulting, authoring numerous published reports, market forecasts and analyses. Mollie holds a BA and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in biology and anthropology (CAS, GSAS 2007).

Graduate Representative

Michael Nicholas
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UC Administrator

Emily Marthinsen
Assistant Vice Chancellor Emily Marthinsen, UC Berkeley’s Campus Planner, heads the office of Physical and Environmental lanning (PEP). PEP provides comprehensive physical and environmental planning services for the Berkeley campus. Marthinsen works closely with campus clients through early planning phases of projects emphasizing program and project definition, alternative space development and alignment with overall campus plans and planning policy. Marthinsen is responsible for the campus design review process, coordination with the City of Berkeley related to planning issues and the implementation of the 2020 Long Range Development Plan. She worked previously on campus in the Department of Architecture and in the Office of the Dean, College of Environmental Design. She taught undergraduate and graduate studies, worked on departmental accreditation and guided programming and planning for Wurster Hall’s seismic retrofit. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Chicago and Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley. Marthinsen is a licensed Architect in California and has over twenty-four years of relevant work experience at UC Berkeley and with design and planning firms.

UC Administrator

Erin S. Gore
Erin S. Gore is the Associate Vice Chancellor & CFO for UC Berkeley. Erin joined Cal in 2011 and her portfolio includes Budget, Controller, Space Management, Capital Projects Review, Debt and Short Term Interest Accumulation, Indirect Cost Recovery, Institutional Data Management, Planning and Analysis (including enrollment planning), Survey Research, direct reporting of the Director of Financial Aid and the CFO from Housing and Dining. Co-leads campus wide operational excellence initiative regarding finance, including rationalizing of existing processes and implementing Hyperion planning and a revised budget process. Key functional owner in the planned implementation of financial shared services. Total revenue for UC Berkeley in 2011 is approximately $2 billion with the largest revenue sources in order: Federal Sponsored Research, Student Tuition, Philanthropy and the State. Prior experience includes Managing Director and Team lead for the Education and Nonprofit Sector at Bank of America, Sr. Analyst and Credit Committee Member at Moody's Investors Service, and Budget Analyst at the City of New York. She holds a MPA in Economic Policy from Columbia University and a B.A. from University of California Los Angeles.

UC Administrator

Bob Flaharty
Bob Flaharty joined UCB/RSSP in February 2010. He oversees all financial operations of RSSP as well as the Early Childhood Educational Development progam. Prior to joining UCB, Bob served as CFO for private companies in retail, food service, property management and wholesale distribution. He is experienced in building infrastructure, implementing large scale IT systems and driving financial performance. His earlier experience includes 18 years as a Consulting Partner for a major West coast CPA firm where he specialized in business/organizational planning and performance measurement. He currently serves on non-profit and for-profit boards of directors. Bob is a Cal grad (BS - Finance) and also a UCLA grad (MS - Management Systems).

UC Faculty

Professor Todd LaPorte
Todd. R. La Porte is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Univ. of California, Berkeley (1965), where he was also Associate Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies (1973-88.) He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University (1962), and held faculty posts at the University of Southern California, and Stanford University as well as UCB. He teaches and publishes in the areas of organization theory, technology and politics and the organizational and decision making dynamics of large, complex, technologically intensive organizations, as well as public attitudes toward advanced technologies, and the challenges of governance in a technological society. Most recently, he has taken up questions of crisis management, and has examined the institutional evolution of a critical element in the nation's meteorological monitoring capacity and Earth Observation systems managed by NOAA and the DOD in cooperation with NASA.