Commission
Jeff Ira, Chair
Redwood City Council Member
• Certified Public Accountant, CG Uhlenberg & Co.
• Elected to Redwood City Council 1997, re-elected 2001, and 2005.Served as Mayor 2003-2005
.• More than 25 Years Experience in Governmental Auditing.
• Sequoia Hospital Foundation Planned Giving Committee.
• BS in Business Administration • Boy Scouts of America.
Ronald W. Shepherd, Vice Chair
West Bay Sanitary District Board Member
• Occupation: Businessman/CPA; has managed family-owned Shepherd & Associates Insurance Services, Inc., in Menlo Park since its founding in 1994. His experience also includes 11 years with a “Big Four” accounting firm
• His son, daughter, and wife all participate in the thriving family insurance consulting/brokerage business, whose main activity is the design and implementation of self-insurance pools for government entities in addition to standard property/casualty/employee benefits brokerage activities.
• Education: B.S. in Accounting, San Diego State University
• Public Service: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce. Also actively involved at St. Raymond’s Church in Menlo Park.
• Elected West Bay Sanitary District in 1999 and re-elected 2003.
• Has represented West Bay on the SBSA Commission since 1999.
Bob Grassilli, Secretary
San Carlos Council Member
• He started his professional career in 1970 with Arthur Andersen, a large certified public accounting firm and in 1977 went to work for Sunstream Homes, where he spent 27 years, the last 18 as chief financial officer.
• He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Samaritan House as well as the Carl and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation.
• He has lived in San Carlos since 1983. He enjoys golf and travel, as well as volunteering for various charities on the Peninsula, including the San Carlos Youth Center Foundation.
• He was elected to the San Carlos City Council on November 8, 2005. • Currently serves as Vice Mayor.
• Previously, he served on the San Carlos Planning Commission from 1994 to 2000, and volunteered on the Railroad land Use Committee.
• MBA, Finance from UC Berkeley, Bachelor’s in Business from University of San Francisco.
• Graduate of Serra High School in San Mateo, which has also produced sports greats Lynn Swann, Barry Bonds, and Tom Brady.
Warren Lieberman, Member
Belmont Council Member
• Occupation: President of Veritec Solutions, a Belmont-based consulting and software development firm focused on helping companies improve their pricing and revenue management capabilities.
• Chair of the Revenue Management and Pricing Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management.
• He has received international recognition as perhaps the world’s leading expert in non-traditional implementations of revenue management.
• He pioneered the application of revenue management techniques in the cruise, timeshare exchange, and equipment leasing industries, providing both design and technical leadership.
• He has published a number of articles on scientific topics, including pricing and revenue management.
•Ph.D. in Operations Research from Yale University. • B.S. Degree in mathematics with a specialization in computer science from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
• Elected to Belmont City Council in 2005 after several years on Belmont Finance Commission.
• Currently serves as Belmont Mayor.