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About the Institute

It's the rare business person who defines success based on the fullness of
the heart.
The Hoffman Institute is guided by a board of directors composed of fourteen highly accomplished people, all of whom have redefined their own success in just this way. Each has experienced the Process and has seen the ensuing healing and joy spill over to family, friends, and community.


Chairman of the Board

Myron (Mike) A. Wick III

Myron (Mike) A. Wick IIIMike Wick is a founding member of the Hoffman Institute Foundation Board of Directors. He has been Chairman since September 2004.
From 1970 to 1988, Mr. Wick held executive management positions including CFO, COO and CEO with several entrepreneurial enterprises including International Oceanographic Corporation, Leisure Dynamics, Werner Erhard and Associates and California Biotechnology.

In 1989 Mike and a partner founded McGettigan, Wick and Co., Inc, an investment-banking firm. From 1989 until June 2006, he participated as a co-founder and investment banker for CTC Media (formerly StoryFirst Communications, Inc.), and served as the company’s Chairman from 1993 through 2003. CTC Media is the largest privately owned television broadcast company in Russia.

Mike is a graduate of Yale College and the Harvard Business School. He served in the Peace Corps in Columbia from 1968 to 1970 and was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as a member of the Peace Corps Advisory Council from 1991 to 1993. In addition to the Hoffman Institute Foundation, Mike currently serves on several boards and is a Trustee of St. Mark’s School.


Board Members


Myron (Mike) A. Wick III,
Chairman

San Francisco, CA
Founder and managing partner, McGettigan, Wick & Co.


Charles "Raz" Ingrasci
, President & CEO

San Anselmo, CA
Mr. Ingrasci is president and CEO of the Hoffman Institute, a Quadrinity Process Teacher and chairman of the board of Hoffman Institute International. He received a BA in Theatre from U.C. Berkeley in 1970. Raz is committed to creating opportunities for individuals to have freedom and access inner knowledge and wisdom. He has held key executive and training positions in seminar companies throughout his career. A friend of the founder of the Hoffman Quadrinity Process, Bob Hoffman, since 1973, Mr. Ingrasci worked closely with him for eight years from 1989 until his death in 1997.


Liza Ingrasci
, Managing Director

San Anselmo, CA
Ms. Ingrasci is managing director of the Hoffman Institute with responsibilities for enrollment, site planning and staffing. She received her B.A. in Developmental Psychology from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1974. For the past 22 years, she has held executive positions in national seminar companies with responsibilities for both enrollment and alumni participation. She has been with the Hoffman Institute since 1990.


Giles H. Bateman,
Board Member

Del Mar, CA
Former chairman, CompUSA & Hoffman Institute; co-founder of Price Club; private investor.


Joan Belkin
, Board Member

Weston, MA
Board member for several educational, human rights and health non-profits.


Steve Belkin
, Board Member

Weston, MA
Founder and chairman of the Trans National Group, a direct response marketing and investment company with over over $200 MM in sales.


Thomas Driscoll, Board Member

Mt. Shasta, CA
Principal owner and director of Driscoll Strawberry Associates; president, Farmhill, Inc; private investor.


Jean M. Halloran, Board Member

Menlo Park, CA
Senior vice president of Human Resources for Agilent Technologies.


Gerald Harris, Board Member

Oakland, CA
Senior consultant with Global Business Network in Emeryville, CA, and a principal consultant with Future Focus 2020, an urban futurist institute at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC; active in community service and the non-profit sector.


Bill Johnson

Aspen, CO
Retired CEO of Scientific Atlantic; former partner at McKinsey & Company.


Barbara LaTour, Board Member

San Francisco, CA
Retired senior vice president, Worldwide Human Resources, Quality & Assessment, Adecco Management & Consulting, Redwood City, CA.


Betsy Manchester, Director Emeritus

La Jolla, CA
Serves on boards of numerous non-profits; activist in area of social services.


Randel L. Perkins

La Jolla, CA
President, Perkins Companies & Private Advisory Group, San Diego, CA.


Michelle Schmitt, Board Member

San Anselmo, CA
Co-owner and vice president of BMW San Francisco; board member and fund raiser for several Bay Area non-profits; musician, wife and mother.


Stephen Seligman, Board Member

Bay Area, CA
Co-owner and former CEO of The Learning Annex, the largest private alternative education company in the U.S. In this capacity he was responsible for producing more than 12,000 personal growth seminars, reaching 300,000 students annually.


Susanna Thompson, Board Member

San Diego, CA
Actor
 



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