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Ann Moller Caen
is President of the Commission. She is also the President of her own company, Moller & Associates, a consulting firm. She also serves on the Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony, the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Board of Trustees of Golden Gate University, as well as the UCSF Foundation. She has served on Boards of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Fisherman's Wharf Merchant's Association. Caen was also a Director of Pier 39, Siwel, Inc, and Sico Inc. Additionally, she was President of the Nob Hill Capital and Publisher of the San Francisco Visitor News. Other involvement of hers included the Audubon Canyon ranch, the International Hospitality Center, KQED, the California Pacific Medical Center, the San Francisco Junior League, and the Northern California Cancer Center. Commissioner Caen holds a BS in Biology and Education and an MBA in Finance. She is the widow of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Herb Caen. She was first appointed by Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. in March 1997, and reappointed for a second term in November 2001. Mayor Gavin Newsom reappointed her to a third term in January 2005. She served as President of the Commission from 2001-2002. Her term will expire in January 2009.
E. Dennis Normandy
is Vice President of the Commission. He is Board Chairman of The PSN GROUP, a consortium providing a spectrum of marketing, communications, and graphic design services. His other business activities include international product sourcing, executive protection, real estate, and overseas agribusiness. He was educated at leading Jesuit universities, in both the Humanities and Business.
He is Chairman Emeritus of the National Asian and Pacific American Coalition, which links leaders of national associations representing the Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, and Pacific Islander communities. He is also Chairman Emeritus of the National Filipino-American Council, an advocacy network of organizations and individuals throughout the United States. He was appointed by Governor George Deukmejian to the State Task Force for the Study of Asia. In the '80s and '90s, he hosted a public service talk show on KTSF-TV San Francisco and was a featured columnist for leading Filipino-American newspapers.
For the past twelve years, he has been Chairman of the Mayor's San Francisco-Manila Sister City Committee. In July 2002, he received a Philippine Presidential Award in recognition of his achievements as an Ambassador of Goodwill between the United States and the Philippines.
He served on the San Francisco Public Library Commission under Mayors Dianne Feinstein and Art Agnos. Mayor Frank Jordan named Normandy to the SFPUC in 1994, and Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. twice reappointed him to the Commission, in 1998 and 2002 respectively. He served as President of the Commission in 1996-97, 2000-01 and 2003-05. His current tenure ends in January 2010.
Ambassador Richard Sklar is currently a business advisor to
engineering, transportation and construction firms in California, and a professional dispute mediator. Concurrently, he acts as economic advisor to the Prime Minister of Montenegro and advisor to the Board of Directors of the principal Montenegro industry, a major aluminum smelter he rescued from foreign management by advantageously restructuring their debt and commercial contract terms. He recently completed a term lecturing at the American University in Rome.
Sklar has had a distinguished 45-year career in the public and private sectors. After serving in the US Army, Sklar founded, built and sold his first business, a Cleveland-based manufacturing company. He was brought to San Francisco by Mayor George Moscone in 1976 to turn around the moribund Wastewater Clean-Up Program (now called the Clean Water Program). At the time, the City was under a building ban for non-performance. At the Mayor’s request, he jump-started construction of the first Moscone Center, breaking the legal, financial and bureaucratic logjams.
As General Manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission from 1979 to 1983, Ambassador Sklar took over a municipal transportation department in disarray, restructuring the organization to focus on performance of its long-neglected maintenance and capital improvement programs. He managed a $2 billion capital transportation program, pushing forward construction of the Muni Metro subway system, rebuilding San Francisco’s historic cable car line, and electrifying troubled diesel bus routes. At that time, the Water Department and Hetch Hetchy Water and Power were, as now, under SFPUC jurisdiction. Both had talented General Managers, and neither presented the challenges of the nonfunctional Muni.
From 1983 to 1996, Ambassador Sklar served as a senior executive and lastly as President of O’Brien Kreitzberg and Associates (OKA), one of America’s pioneer and leading project and construction management companies. He developed the first integrated program management system, now used throughout the industry, to track spending, measure progress and improve accountability on public construction projects. During Sklar’s time at the company, OKA grew to number 1,000 employees with $100 million in annual billings. With over $6 billion in major construction projects at home and abroad, they built ten airports, light rail lines in major U. S. cities, and facilities for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
At the request of President Bill Clinton, Ambassador Sklar served first as the Special Representative of the President in Bosnia following the Dayton Peace Accords in 1996, as Ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 to 1999, and as Special Representative of the President for the Southeast Europe Initiative from 1999 to 2001. He led the postwar economic recovery effort in the Balkans in coordination with the European Union, World Bank and International Monetary Fund, with a strategic focus on industries important to establish a market economy and attract private investment.
Following his return from Europe in 2001, he served pro bono as the coordinator of a task force to expedite construction of new power-generating facilities during the energy crisis at the request of California Governor Gray Davis.
The Sklars have resided in San Francisco for 28 years. Barbara Sklar has served the City as President of the Arts Commission, and currently serves on the Board of the San Francisco Institute of Art. She is a well-known artist who has exhibited in the U. S. and Europe. The Sklars have four children and six grandchildren.
Ambassador Sklar was appointed by Mayor Gavin Newsom to serve on the Commission on August 30, 2004, and was subsequently elected President; his term expires in January 2008.
David Hochschild was appointed to the Commission by Mayor Newsom in 2007. He is a solar energy 
advocate who worked with Assemblyman Mark Leno in 2001 to develop San Francisco's $100 Million solar bond initiative. Hochschild went on to co-found the Vote Solar Initiative, a 30,000 member non-profit organization focused on advancing solar energy in states across the country. David devoted most of his time from 2003 to 2006 to advocacy with the California Legislature, Governor's office and the California Public Utilities Commission to pass and implement the state's landmark $3.3 Billion California Solar Initiative, signed into law by the Governor in 2006.
David co-chairs the California Energy Commission's New Solar Homes Advisory Council for the state's $400 Million New Solar Homes program. Along with City Assessor Phil Ting, David founded the San Francisco Solar Task Force to develop new policies to promote solar energy in San Francisco. He also serves as a member of the Mayor's Clean Technology Advisory Council, is on the board of the City's Community Challenge Grant Program and has served as a judge of the Ford Foundation's Innovations in Government Program.
From January 2006 until May 2007, David served as Executive Director of PV Now, a consortium of the 8 leading solar companies. David is currently Vice President for External Relations for Solaria, a solar start-up company based in Silicon Valley that manufactures a next-generation solar technology.
David has a BA from Swarthmore College and a Masters of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Cynthia Li, a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, and their daughter. His Commission term ends January 2011.
Francis X. Crowley has over 20 years of experience in the theatrical and motion picture 
industry. Mr. Crowley is the Business Manager/Secretary for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, Local 16 in San Francisco. He represents 1,500 theatrical, stage, film and convention technicians in San Francisco, the North Bay and Peninsula.
Commissioner Crowley has also served as President and Assistant Business Agent for Local 16 as well as Chairman of the IATSE District 2 Resolutions Committee. He is a member of the San Francisco Labor Council Executive Committee, a Trustee for the San Francisco Maritime Trades Council, a Member of the Hotel Council of San Francisco and the San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau, and sits on the Treasure Island Citizens Advisory Board. He is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, where he earned his BA in Radio/Television Broadcast. Commissioner Crowley was appointed to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission by Mayor Newsom on February 22, 2008.
