Organization & Contacts

The SFZH Initiative is a non-profit organization with a unified board consisting of two committees, one based in Zurich and the other in San Francisco.

The two cities of San Francisco and Zurich signed a memorandum of understanding to also formally establish ties between them.

Zurich
Chairman
Walter Anderau, Chairman, Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue

Members
Walter Diggelmann, Member of the Board of Directors, Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce
Marianne Dürst-Kundert, Member of Canton Council, Canton of Glarus
Urs T. Fischer, General Manager, Hewlett-Packard (Schweiz) GmbH
Martin Frey, Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Nils Hagander, Co-founder and Vice Chairman, a-connect
Konrad Osterwalder, Rector, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Alexander Pereira, Director, Zurich Opera House
Peter Quadri, General Manager, IBM Switzerland
Andreas G. Schmid, Chairman, Board of Directors, Kuoni
Rudolf K. Sprüngli, Board of Directors, Lindt & Sprüngli
Martin Vollenwyder, Member of City Council, Zurich
Hans Weder, Rector, University of Zurich
Peter F. Weibel, Member of the Board, Greater Zurich Area Inc.
Martin Zollinger, Vice Chairman, Zürcher Kantonalbank


San Francisco
Chairman
Richard Fredericks, Former US Ambassador to Switzerland

Members
Bob Bishop, Chairman and CEO, Silicon Graphics Inc.
Louis (Lou) Burnett, Managing Partner, Secura Burnett
Lewis (Lew) Coleman, President, The Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
John Hendrickson, Founder, SFRi, LLC
Richard Horning, Partner, Tomlinson Zisko
Donald McQuade, Vice Chancellor-University Relations, University of California Berkeley
Andy Nash, Transportation Consultant
Pamela Rosenberg, General Director, San Francisco Opera
Asher Rubin, Deputy Attorney General of the State of California
Otto Tschudi, Managing Director, Thomas Wiesel Partners
David Zenoff, Founder and CEO, David B. Zenoff Associates