Presidio Trust Board and Executive Team

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is a social entrepreneur, academic, author, and philanthropic leader. She is the founder of multiple Silicon Valley organizations, including the Institute on Generosity (Founder/Chairman), Arrillaga Philanthropies (Founder/Chairman), Andreessen Philanthropies (Co-Founder/President), Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Founder/former Chairman), Silicon Valley Social Ventures Fund (Founder/former Chairman Emeritus), and Guild Theatre (Co-Founder). She is Co-President of the Arrillaga Foundation. Since 2000, Ms. Arrillaga-Andreessen has created and taught courses on philanthropy and women in leadership at Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and authored the New York Times bestselling book Giving 2.0: Transform Your Giving and Our World. She was a 2005 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, received the 2005 President’s Volunteer Service Award from the Points of Light Foundation, was honored with the World Affairs Council’s Global Philanthropy Forum 2011 Global Citizen Award, and was awarded the 2014 Commonwealth Club Distinguished Citizen Award. Ms. Arrillaga-Andreessen holds an MBA from the Stanford GSB, as well as an MA in Education and both a BA and MA in Art History, from Stanford University. She was appointed to the Presidio Trust board in 2026. 

Lynne Benioff is the current co-chair of TIME. She is a Distinguished Director of the Board of Overseers of the University of California San Francisco Foundation and serves on the board of directors of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and the Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory. Ms. Benioff co-chaired the Presidio Tunnel Tops Campaign Committee, which raised more than $100 million to create 14-acres of new parkland with a youth learning campus. In 2020, Ms. Benioff was honored by the AFP Golden Gate Chapter on National Philanthropy Day with an “Outstanding Fundraising Volunteer Award” for her work as the co-chair of the Presidio Tunnel Tops Campaign. She previously served as chair of the Presidio Trust board and chair of the Presidio Trust board Governance Committee. She also served as a director of Common Sense Media. In 2014, Ms. Benioff was honored by Mayor Ed Lee as one of San Francisco’s “Women of the Year.” In 2020, she and her husband, Marc, received a George H.W. Bush Points of Light Award for their civic engagement. Ms. Benioff received a B.S. from the University of Washington. She was appointed to the Presidio Trust board in 2015 and reappointed in 2019 and 2026. 

John Bickford is the Founder and Managing Partner of Local Capital Group, a real estate investment firm with a diversified portfolio spanning residential and mixed-use development, commercial properties, and hospitality. Previously, Mr. Bickford founded 819 Capital, an investment firm focused on venture capital, renewable energy, and real estate. Earlier in his career, he spent over a decade in corporate finance, including as an investment banker. John holds a B.A. in Economics from Denison University and serves as a Deputy in the San Francisco Sheriff’s Mounted Unit. He was appointed to the Presidio Trust board in May 2026. 

James Burnham is the General Counsel of xAI. Previously, he served as Managing Partner of King Street Legal, PLLC (which he founded) and as the General Counsel for the Department of Government Efficiency. Mr. Burnham was previously a litigation partner at Jones Day, a senior official in the Department of Justice’s Civil Division and Office of the Attorney General, and a Senior Associate Counsel to the President. He also clerked for Justice Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court and Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School and earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Mr. Burnham has spent extensive time in the Bay Area and has long been active in his community. He has served for several years on the Board of Visitors for Gunston Hall, the historic home of George Mason. He was appointed to the Presidio Trust board in May 2026. 

Kyle Corcoran brings to the Presidio Trust board a combination of military service, financial leadership, and deep roots in the technology industry. He is the Chief Financial Officer of Redpanda Data, an agentic AI governance and data streaming company. Previously, he served as CFO of RIS Rx, a healthcare-focused enterprise software company. He was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, executing more than 100 transactions totaling over $200 billion in value, including the public listings of Meta, Palantir, Spotify, Uber, and Zoom. He was named to the Fortune 40 Under 40 list in 2020. Mr. Corcoran began his career as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps, serving combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, leading counterdrug training and operations across Southeast Asia, and attaining the rank of Major. He has continued his commitment to veterans as a Commissioner on the San Mateo County Veterans Commission since 2021. Mr. Corcoran is a Bay Area native and holds an A.B. in Computer Science from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He was appointed to the Presidio Trust board in May 2026 and holds the veteran’s seat. 

Trevor Traina is Chief Business Officer at Tools for Humanity (TFH) and previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Austria, credited with helping usher in an era of “new closeness” between the two countries. Before his tenure at the United States Department of State, he established himself as a successful tech entrepreneur and as a trustee of institutions such as the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Haas School of Business, and the Princeton University Art Museum. He has founded and co-founded five successful technology companies, which were sold to acquirers such as Microsoft, Mastercard, and Intuit.  Ambassador Traina studied International Relations and Politics as a graduate student at Oxford and as an undergraduate student at Princeton. He holds an M.B.A. from U.C. Berkeley. He was appointed to the Presidio Trust board in May 2026. 

Jean S. Fraser, Chief Executive Officer, has dedicated her career to fostering healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. Under her leadership, the Presidio Trust has restored dozens of acres of park land, opened the award-winning Presidio Tunnel Tops, and hosted millions of visits each year from people of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities. Jean serves on the board of The Climate Center and the San Francisco City Advisory Board of SPUR. She is a graduate of Yale University, Yale Law School, and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

Travis Beck, Chief Park Officer, has made a career of managing historic landscapes for public use and environmental benefit. Before joining the Presidio Trust in 2024, he oversaw the care and development of parks, open spaces, streetscapes, and urban forest in the city of Santa Cruz as the Superintendent of Parks. Earlier he served as Director of Horticulture at Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, where he supervised the stewardship of native plant gardens, grounds, and natural lands, and spearheaded the creation of a site and facilities master plan. At the New York Botanical Garden, he managed landscape construction projects throughout the heart of the garden. Travis is the author of Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, which applies scientific principles to the creation of successful, sustainable landscapes. He holds a Master of Science in Environmental Horticulture from The Ohio State University and an undergraduate degree in English Literature. He is a licensed landscape architect and an ISA Certified Arborist®.

Catherine (Cathy) Langridge, Chief Financial Officer, brings 30 years of financial leadership experience across organizations both large and small. Prior to joining the Presidio Trust, she served as Chief Financial Officer for Recology, a 100% employee-owned environmental services organization. Most of her career has been in consumer products, where she held senior finance roles including Chief Financial Officer for Levi Strauss’s Global Retail Division, Vice President of Finance for Sephora, and Vice President of Finance at Stitch Fix during its Initial Public Offering. Cathy is recognized for building superior relationships with her business partners through a shared vision of an organization’s future. Respected for her direct and honest approach, she inspires action while being grounded in data. Deeply committed to science and conservation, Cathy has served on the Board of the Oakland Zoo – including two years as Chair – spent eleven years on the Board and Advisory Committee for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and lectured on astronomy for more than 20 years with the California Academy of Sciences. Cathy holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and undergraduate degrees in physics and music. Cathy joined the Presidio Trust in 2022. 

Rich Rusnack, Chief Business Officer, has more than two decades of experience in real estate and operating roles across entrepreneurship, asset management, and private equity. He began his career as a retail and real estate development entrepreneur in the Midwest and later served as an asset manager for The Habitat Company in Chicago, before managing Rudd Properties, Inc. for the Leslie Rudd Investment Company, where he oversaw real estate and operating companies including Dean & Deluca and Standard Beverage Corporation. Rich served as CFO, COO, and then President of Standard Beverage Corporation and has held executive roles at several Bay Area companies, including President/COO at MacPherson’s, CFO at Guideboat Co., and CFO at Flux, a construction technology company founded at Google X. At the Presidio Trust, he oversees the agency’s business operations – including its commercial and residential real estate portfolios, two hotels, a golf course, and the team that maintains and improves the park’s historic assets – and helps ensure the Presidio remains a financially self-sustaining national park site. He holds a B.A. from Colby College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Genevieve Coyle, General Counsel, has deep connections to the Presidio. She began her career in environmental consulting, joining the Presidio Trust in 2005 as a remediation project manager. Since earning her law degree, she has practiced toxic tort litigation and has served as an assistant city attorney. Genevieve has served for many years as a deputy general counsel to the Presidio Trust. As General Counsel, she leads a team of in-house attorneys responsible for legal advice to the organization including land use and preservation, finance, real estate, business, government administration, and regulatory compliance matters. Genevieve holds a J.D. from Golden Gate University and a B.S. in environmental toxicology from University of California at Davis. 

Diana Simmons, Chief Operating Officer, was born and raised in Northern California and has spent her career focused on purpose-driven organizations. She began working in non-profit environmental policy and consulting in air quality, land use, and transportation technology in both California and Boston. She spent 15 years at Clif Bar + Company where she drove brand management, launched new products, led the sustainability team to assess impacts from the field to the final product, and built and led the company’s cross-functional new product commercialization launch process. She joined the Presidio Trust in 2019 as the Chief Marketing Officer. Now, as Chief Operating Officer, she leads marketing communications, government affairs, procurement, and IT. She holds an undergraduate degree in human biology and an M.B.A from Stanford University, spent 8 years on the board of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and is an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow (class of 2011-12).