2009 Bay Area CFO of the Year Awards

On May 28, 2009, the fourth annual Bay Area CFO of the Year Awards was held at the Palace Hotel. Over 400 local business leaders attended the annual gala dinner and awards ceremony to honor Bay Area CFO Award finalists and winners. The event raised over $360,000 in support of Larkin Street Youth Services, which for 25 years has served homeless and at-risk youth in San Francisco.

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To view photographs of the event, click here: CFO 2009 Photos
               

2009 Lifetime Achievement Honoree
Peter A. Darbee, PG&E Corporation, Pacific Gas and Electric Company

The 2009 Winners
Public Company with revenues above $500MM
               Daniel J. Heinrich, The Clorox Company

Public Company with revenues up to $500MM
               Martin A. Kropelnicki, California Water Service Group

Non-Public Company
               Nathan Brostrom, UC Berkeley

Venture-Backed Company
                Jack Jenkins-Stark, BrightSource Energy, Inc.

Community Service
                Paul Sussman, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp.

Transformation Agent
               Byron H. Pollitt, Visa, Inc.


The 2009 Finalists
Public Company with revenues above $500MM
                Paul Coghlan, Linear Technology Corporation
                Mark Garrett, Adobe Systems Incorporated

Public Company with revenues up to $500MM
                Thomas P. Cawley, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc.
                Randy S. Gottfried, Riverbed Technology, Inc.

Non-Public Company
                Thomas Berquist, Ingres Corporation
               
Venture-Backed Company
                Donald McCauley, Qualys, Inc.
                Greg Walker, InnoPath Software, Inc.

Community Service
                Steve Bach, Nimblefish Technologies, Inc.
                Michael Braude, San Francisco Food Bank

Transformation Agent
                James Beer, Symantec Corporation
                Lewis Chew, National Semiconductor Corporation