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Department: Finance and Operations

Department: Finance and Operations

As the Facilities Manager, Ryan oversees the operations, repair, and maintenance of the Foundation’s buildings, equipment, and landscaping.

Department: Finance and Operations

Mimi is the Taaffe House manager at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, where she manages the Foundation’s conference center in Los Altos Hills. She also manages and produces engaging meetings and events for the Foundation. Mimi joined the Foundation in 2015, and previously worked in development and special event roles at Bay Area nonprofit … Continued

Department: Finance and Operations

Mike McKinney is the Orchard Manager at the Taaffe property in Los Altos Hills. Mike joined the Foundation in this role in 2005. Prior to joining the Foundation, Mike farmed stone fruits and walnuts in Santa Clara Valley and East Contra Costa County.

Department: Finance and Operations

Ruben Ortiz joined the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 2001 as a member of the Workplace Services Team. For 13 years, he worked in the Foundation’s mail room. He is currently the Taaffe House Assistant at the Foundation’s Conference and Events Center. His prior experience includes domestic and international shipping and receiving. In his … Continued

Department: Finance and Operations

Alisa is the finance and accounting director at the Packard Foundation. Alisa and her team are responsible for financial reporting, external audit, tax returns, budgets, investment accounting, banking relations, property management, insurance administration, contract compliance, and investment accounting. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Alisa worked in finance for public retail and manufacturing companies, … Continued

Department: Finance and Operations

Lucy Lee is a Senior Investment and Tax Accountant with the Packard Foundation’s Accounting and Finance team. Lucy and her team are responsible for the investment accounting, cash movements of capital calls, distributions, trade orders and investments cash reconciliation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Lucy worked as an Operations Officer in Government of Singapore Investment … Continued

Department: Finance and Operations

Kurt is a Senior Accountant for the Packard Foundation’s Accounting and Finance team. He is responsible for month-end activities and reconciliations along with maintaining the Foundation’s Fixed Asset database.

Department: Finance and Operations

Joanne Tong is a grants officer supporting the Families & Communities goal area. In this role, she oversees the grantmaking budgets for Families & Communities while supporting Foundation-wide grants management initiatives. She manages and collaborates on special projects that drive toward improvement and best practices in our grants management processes. In addition, Joanne serves as … Continued

Department: Finance and Operations

Amy Iftekhar is a program associate with the Global Reproductive Health initiative. She provides programmatic and grantmaking support to advance reproductive health and rights for women and young people, with a focus on the Sub-Saharan Africa region.   Amy has over 20 years of experience working on reproductive health and rights and has had the privilege, … Continued