Board of Trustees

Overview

Board of Trustees

The members of the Board of Trustees are volunteers, the majority of them parents of Country Day students. The Board is responsible for the hiring and support of the Head of School and for leadership in broad policy issues and fundraising. The Board is accountable for the fiscal health of the school. Board members typically serve three-year terms and are expected to participate on two committees. The Board and most committees meet monthly throughout the year. If you are interested in being considered as a trustee, please contact the Board President or the Head of School for an application.

The members of the Board of Trustees are volunteers, the majority of them parents of Country Day students. The Board is responsible for the hiring and support of the Head of School and for leadership in broad policy issues and fundraising. The Board is accountable for the fiscal health of the school. Board members typically serve three-year terms and are expected to participate on two committees. The Board and most committees meet monthly throughout the year. If you are interested in being considered as a trustee, please contact the Board President or the Head of School for an application.

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Roxanne Elliott
President

Roxanne works for homebuilder Elliott Homes. A California native, she attended middle and high school in Sacramento, college in Los Angeles, and graduate school in Monterey. She spent over ten years as a teacher and translator in Italy, Germany, France, and Japan before returning to the US with her husband, Antonio Falcone. The couple’s two children attend Country Day. Roxanne joined the board in July 2017.

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Jenna Magan
Vice President

Jenna is a partner in the law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and specializes in municipal bond financings for public entities and 501(c)(3) organizations. She grew up in Visalia, California, where her family had a trucking and farming business, then moved to Southern California to attend UCLA.  She and spouse, Luke, have two children who attend Country Day.

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Loren Kaye
Treasurer

Loren grew up in Del Mar, in north San Diego County, and attended UC San Diego, graduating with a bachelor’s in political science. He is president of the California Foundation for Commerce and Education, a think tank affiliated with the California Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife, Cassie Gilson, have a daughter in the middle school at Country Day.

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Manish Aggarwal

Manish Aggarwal
Secretary

Dr. Manish Aggarwal is a  Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, currently working in a private practice setting in Folsom. 

He completed his Child & Adolescent Psychiatry training at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 2013, where he also was the Chief Fellow in his second year of training. After graduation, he joined the Cleveland Clinic, Department of Child & Adolescent psychiatry as an attending where he worked in pediatric inpatient unit from 2013 to 2015 before moving to Sacramento.

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Jeb Burton

Jeb is the Managing Principal of the Burton Law Firm, a mid-sized boutique firm with offices in Sacramento, Roseville and San Francisco. Jeb completed his undergraduate and graduate studies from the University of the Pacific, and his juris doctorate from the University of California Davis. He is a certified specialist in both tax law and trusts, wills and estate law by the State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. Jeb practice ranges from local to international and focuses on advising high net-worth families, closely held businesses, and non-profit entities.

He and his wife, Julianna, have two children that attend at Country Day.

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Norman Colb

Norm Colb received a BA from Brandeis University and his MAT degree from Harvard. He went on to teach English and then serve as the director of Language Arts and English, K-12, in Brookline, MA. Following his years in Brookline, he was the assistant superintendent for curriculum in Newton, MA, and then, for ten years, was the superintendent of schools in Mamaroneck, NY. From1993 until 2013 he was the head of Menlo School in Atherton and, before retiring, spent four years as the head of Reno’s Sage Ridge School.

He enjoys retirement more than he had expected, while his wife Susan, as busy as ever, spends much of her time supporting youngsters in the foster system.

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Billy Downing ‘98

Billy Downing is a proud Sacramento native who attended Sacramento Country Day School and Jesuit. After high school, Billy obtained his undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and his graduate degree from the University of San Francisco before returning back home. His extensive non-profit board experience includes working with Wind Youth Services, Positive Coaching Alliance, San Juan Education Foundation, and the YMCA of Superior California. Billy and his wife Jessaca have two children.

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Steve Edwards

Steve is the owner/CEO of The Edwards Company, specializing in commercial real estate. Originally from southern California, Steve spent many years in Boston and is a devoted Red Sox fan. He returned to the Sacramento area for college at Sacramento State and has worked in the real estate field for several decades. Steve is a former co-president and vice president of the board of trustees, and he and his wife Cynthia are the parents of two Country Day graduates.

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Ben Gumpert

Ben Gumpert is the President & Chief Operating Officer of Sacramento Republic FC. In his role, Ben oversees the full range of Republic FC’s operations and leads the effort to bring MLS to Sacramento under the direction of ownership, including oversight of all business and soccer operations for the club since 2017 as well as a focus on prospective MLS operations and new stadium development.  Sacramento Republic FC has set records across its league in sales, attendance, retail and marketing categories and has reached the playoffs in every season. 

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Amy L. Johnson ‘95

Amy Johnson is the Co-Founder and CFO of SkyLine Scaffold, Inc., a Sacramento-based family-owned scaffolding company.  Currently, she is President of the Scaffold and Access Industry Association Education Foundation, a 501c3, and a member of Vistage International, Inc., a CEO Peer Advisory Board.

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Kate Kaufman

Kate Kaufman graduated from University of San Francisco with a B.S. in Nursing. Kate spent the majority of her career in the ICU at Stanford until relocating to the Sacramento area in 2006.  Since moving, Kate and her husband, Dave, have built and run a successful plastic surgery practice in Folsom, where she continues to work in the operating room and manage the practice.  

Kate and her husband Dave have three children that attend Country Day.

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Melinda Levy-Storms

Melinda Levy-Storms is the chief operation officer for Dawson Oil Company.

She began her career with FedEx, where she started in customer service and ended in senior management after 16 years. While still with FedEx, Melinda attended McGeorge School of Law and subsequently joined the Weintraub Tobin Law Firm as an associate attorney.  In 2004, Melinda joined the Niello Company as in-house counsel where she combined her passions for leadership, business, and sales. Her role at the Niello Company also encompassed HR, compliance, and risk mitigation for all areas of the company. 

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Barbara MacAulay Ore

In her 34 years as an employee at Country Day, Barbara MacAulay Ore worked as a pre-kindergarten assistant, sixth grade teacher, counselor, director of admissions and development, interim head of school, head of the lower and middle schools, and associate head of school.  She received Country Day’s Francie Tidey Award for Excellence in Education in 2005.

In 2006, she officially retired but has remained active in the Country Day community, serving as the coordinator for Country Day’s Grands and Friends association. Her two grandchildren attend Country Day.

Barbara joined the board of trustees in 2018.

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Louay Owaidat

Louay Owaidat was the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Magnus Pacific Corporation, a national environmental and infrastructure construction company with headquarters in Sacramento and offices in Denver, CO; Dallas, TX; Atlanta, GA; Salt Lake City, UT; and Brielle, NJ. As President of Magnus Pacific, he oversaw the planning, operations, development, marketing and finances of the company and provided input to design, planning, and execution of complex geotechnical, specialty civil and remediation projects at sites nationwide. Mr. Owaidat founded and managed Magnus Pacific Corporation (President and CEO) which grew to be a national leader in the infrastructure and environmental fields before being acquired by Great Lakes in November 2014.

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Patrice Ratinoff

Patrice was raised in Los Angeles and graduated from California State University, Northridge with a degree in business administration and accounting. She moved north after her apartment was declared off limits following the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Patrice’s career path has taken her from an accountant with Ernst & Young to marketing and sales at Tiffany & Co., and Baume and Mercier.

She retired from her most recent position as a fundraising consultant with Lester Consulting Group and is currently involved as a community volunteer. Patrice and her husband, Eric, have two who attend Country Day.

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Julie Sloat

Julie grew up in Sacramento, attended La Sierra High School and CSU Sacramento, and earned a law degree from McGeorge School of Law. She is a veteran of Desert Storm and operated a KC-135 boom for the 940th air refueling reserve unit. Julie’s work experience includes public relations for PG&E, law and public policy for the California Cable TV association, and general counsel for Nationwide Health Plans of California.

Julie joined the Country Day board in 2015-16 and started her term as president in 2017-18. She is a successful fundraiser for local non-profits and has served on many non-profit boards. She and husband, Kevin, have two children.

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Emily Stephenson

Emily was born in San Francisco and graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a bachelor’s in sociology and a double minor in European history and physics/biology. She is retired from her position as a senior executive producer at the Intel Corporation and currently is the managing director of Stephenson Medical Consulting, Inc. She and her husband, Topher, have a son who attends Country Day.

General information

Honorary Trustees

  • Baxter Geeting **
  • Herbert H. Matthews **
  • Nancy O’Neil **
  • James O’Neil **

** Deceased