Board of Directors

Bob currently participates on the Boards of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation; Chair, Cali Baja Mega Region; the San Diego History Center, San Diego Art Alliance. Previously Chair, San Diego Regional Airport Authority; President, San Diego County Board of Education.  He is Managing partner of Tollbridge Ventures LLC, a seed capital venture fund; a Board Member of Armor Designs; Power Waste Gasification LLC and MLEP LLC; Former Board Member of Regenesis Biomedical and Urigen Pharma, Inc.  He is a founding member and Trustee of the San Diego National Sports Foundation, the organizer and builder of the U.S. Olympic...

Matty Sandoval is currently the head rugby coach at Torrey Pines High School, and the Assistant Head Coach for the San Diego Mustangs U18s. He’s coached high school rugby for the past 15 years. He is a graduate of the University of San Diego, as well as USD Law School, and is actively involved in their rugby alumni association. He was instrumental in connecting the San Diego Legion with Mira Costa College during the formation of the Legion Collegiate Academy.  Professionally, he is a local attorney who has represented San Diego’s disabled for the past thirty-two years. He is a...

Brad Cowie is the President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Green Dot Tax Division, also know as Tax Processing Group or TPG.  Green Dot is a leading fintech company that provides alternative banking solutions for business and consumers who don’t have access to, or don’t find traditional retail banking services functional, convenient and cost effective.  Prior to starting with TPG, Brad served in several executive leadership roles for Pacific Capital Ban, including Chief Risk Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Community Lending.  Pacific Capital was a consortium of community banks with local brand names which...

Veronica Williams is a Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of BW Research. Veronica has been in technology industry for almost 30 years. Veronica is responsible for innovative technical solutions, infrastructure, databases, strategies, and design deliverables including UI/UX design.  Veronica was elected to the Carlsbad Unified School District Board of Trustees in 2010 and is serving her third term, where she focuses to prepare students for the 21st century workplace and to become lifelong learners. Veronica is also Treasurer for Thunder Rugby Board, a nonprofit youth rugby organization in North County.  Veronica and her husband, Josh, have two boys – the oldest...

Dave Elliott leads AI and Machine Learning advocacy for developers at Google Cloud. His team engages communities to inspire them to try new products and technologies, embrace new ideas, and they are the voice of those communities to product development. Prior to Google, Elliott was the Chief Cloud Evangelist at Symantec where he advocated for new architectures in data and storage. Mr. Elliott was an early advocate of cloud computing while at Sun Microsystems in the 1990s and has spent his career helping companies understand and embrace emerging technologies.  Prior to Symantec, Elliott served as GM Americas at Arkeia Software,...

David has an impressive history in professional rugby, as a representative player, coach, and administrator in both Australia and Japan. Haigh has participated in and captained numerous premiership-winning teams in Sydney Premier Rugby. He was rewarded by his excellent rugby abilities with professional contracts in Melbourne and Japan.  David spent his undergraduate career studying at the University of Sydney, where he earned a degree in Engineering. Post university, Haigh worked for seven years in management and business development, before pursuing his rugby passions full time.  This career change was a purposeful move to work in an elite, high-performance sporting organization,...