As the Chief Executive Officer of MacFarlane Partners’ Investment Management Group, I am chiefly responsible for the overall direction and growth of our investment management companies. I chair our senior management committee and serve on the investment committee.

With over 30 years of experience, I am a seasoned CEO, operator, and corporate strategist, specializing in creating new markets, increasing earnings, and strengthening brand reputation for both emerging growth and large, complex businesses. My unique combination of experiences includes serving as a longstanding champion for ESG-related strategies that positively impact urban communities.

I have a strong background in board governance practices through my extensive service as an independent director on non-profit and corporate boards, as well as my executive leadership roles.

Throughout my career, I have served as president and CEO for a diverse set of businesses in the real estate, technology, and financial services industries. This includes four ventures I led at First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), an $8 billion multi-national FORTUNE 500 real estate information services company. My senior management roles there included president & CEO of First American VMS, a SaaS vendor management platform company; founding president of First American New Market Ventures; and president of the strategic markets division of First American Title Insurance Company, where I focused on strategic growth in the US emerging markets.

As the co-founder of Legacy First Partners, I advise, raise capital, and build strategic partnerships for high impact organizations aimed at achieving attractive market returns while having a positive impact on the communities that they serve, including Freedom West 2.0, a $2.3 billion urban real estate revitalization project in the Fillmore district of San Francisco.

Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud holds a Doctorate of Education in Educational Leadership (Mills College), a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing Sciences (Howard University), a Master’s Degree in Human Relations (Golden Gate University), and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership (Mills College). She was nominated to the position of Board Chair after a successful tenure as Base 11’s Vice Chair.

Dr. Stanback Stroud is highly regarded at local, regional, state, and national levels for her knowledge, background, and perspective on Student Equity and Diversity, education/industry collaboratives, economic empowerment and anti-poverty strategies, community workforce and economic development, and regional and state system policy implications for successful programs and services. She served as an appointee of President Barack Obama to the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans to make recommendations on strategies and policies that help improve the financial well-being of young people.

In honor of her work on equity and diversity, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges established the Regina Stanback Stroud Diversity Award. In addition, the Western Regional Council on Black American Affairs established the Dr. Regina Stanback Stroud Leadership Achievement Award.

As the National Head of Diverse Businesses for JPMorgan Chase, Fred leads a team of 20+ bankers across the country to identify new opportunities and build upon existing relationships with women and minority-owned businesses. 

With a passion for STEM and for people, Teniel transitioned from a stellar career in engineering leadership to human resources. Prior to Base 11, she worked with the world’s largest aerospace firm and Fortune 500 company for 15 years. 

As a Director of Learning & Development and Innovation, Teniel partnered with tech, space and defense industries, as well as with top academic institutions, to promote new ways of learning through collaboration and leveraging technology. She guest speaks, mentors / coaches, and teaches students ranging from K-12 to university level and professional adult learners via forums such as Elevate, a Partnership with UC San Diego, UC Riverside, Cal State Fullerton, the UC Office of the President—MESA, & Spectrum Knowledge. She also serves on the advisory board of EmpowHer, which impacts girls in marginalized communities. As a strategic leader with systems thinking, Teniel is focusing these strengths on Base 11 to successfully create and implement student learning programs, which embody community. Teniel earned a bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a Master of Science in Engineering Management from the University of Southern California. She holds several accelerated leadership certificates, a Project Management certificate from UCI and an HR Management certificate from the University of La Verne.

Doug  Bender grew up in the South and West of the U.S. and graduated from Alcorn State University with a BA in Political Science and Economics. He went on to receive a Masters degree in Human Resources Counseling from North Carolina A&T State University and studied law at North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.

He has worked for some of the most exciting organizations in corporate America including Miller Brewing Company, Uncle Ben’s Foods, Dove, International, M&M/Mars, and Kal Kan Petcare, and held a number of corporate and manufacturing HR positions of increasing responsibility which included international assignments. His last corporate assignment for Mars, Incorporated prior to entering private consulting practice was as Head of HR Support Services for North America and Co-Chair for Global HR Support Services over seeing the management of a combined budget of over $200 million dollars annually.

Doug is an Adjunct Instructor at the heralded California State University campuses at Long Beach and Fullerton and has lectured many international business leadership delegations from around the world including The Peoples Republic of China.

Along with many published professional articles written over the course of his career he has also published the award winning book titled The ABC’s of Leadership in 2008 (Axiom Business Book Awards) and a second book, Caution: Smiles At Work (lulu.com, 2014). In addition, he is a Contributing Author to bestseller The Leadership Challenge Activities Book by Kouzes and Posner (Pfeiffer, 2010).

Al Bunshaft was the Senior Vice President of 3DExperience Edu, Americas, for Dassault Systèmes. He was also the President of the Dassault Systèmes US Foundation, the charitable arm of the company’s US presence.

Bunshaft’s expertise in 3D visualization, computer graphics and engineering-related software tools has been a special focus of his career. He was Dassault Systèmes’ leading voice for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States.

From 2014-2017, Bunshaft was co-chair of the STEM Innovation Task Force of STEMconnector, a consortium of organizations concerned with STEM education and the workforce of the future. He was named by the organization as one of its Top 100 CEO STEM leaders. He represented the company on the US Council on Competitiveness, which advances a pro-growth policy agenda to US government representatives, and has been a representative to multiple National Academy of Engineering committees. He serves on the Massachusetts Governor’s STEM Advisory Council and is a board member of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, the New York Hall of Science, the American Technical Education Association, and Base 11 (a non-profit, 501c3 workforce and entrepreneur development company). He is a member of the President’s Council of the Olin College of Engineering and the Advisory Board of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY).

He received his bachelor of science degree in computer science and mathematics from the University at Albany, SUNY. He has a master of science degree in computer systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

John D. Beneventi is the chief financial officer for Base 11. With over 25 years of finance and accounting experience, John is a social entrepreneur, focused on technology as an industry change agent.

He has over a decade of experience leading the design, creation, and deployment of market-leading technologies and process improvements for the real estate, mortgage finance, housing counseling, and aviation industries.

As president and co-founder of 5x Solutions and Center for Innovation in Education, John implements streamline processes and provides scalable solutions — resulting in disruptive technology achievements that redefine industries. As Chief Financial Officer for Base 11, John oversees all economic strategy and forecasting for the organization.

Noah Wintroub is a Global Chairman responsible for helping founders and entrepreneurs navigate, scale, and succeed in a period of massive disruption and innovation fueled by technology and creativity and to deliver J.P. Morgan and its capabilities to Silicon Valley and the innovation community globally.

Based in San Francisco, Noah founded J.P. Morgan’s Internet and Digital Media (“IDM”) business. Since joining J.P. Morgan over 20 years ago, Noah has helped the firm become Wall Street’s preeminent platform for founders as well as traditional and emerging clients seeking content, advice, access, and capital to take advantage of disruption and innovation in consumption patterns, platforms and business models.

Noah graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Colgate University with a B.A. in History and a minor in Religion. An avid traveler, Noah studied abroad in Russia and Israel and has visited over 30 countries.

A native of Chicago and diehard Cubs fan, Noah lives with his wife and three daughters in San Francisco, California. In 2015, he was named the youngest-ever Vice Chairman at J.P. Morgan and was named #13 on Fortune’s 40 under 40.

In his free time, Noah serves on the board of CoachArt, Congregation Emanuel, and the advisory board of YadHanadiv. He enjoys running, coffee and spending time with his family.

Sig Anderman, the Founder and retired Chairman of the Board at Ellie Mae, offers strategic guidance to Base 11 and the Parity Project. Sig, a respected CEO, is known as a conscientious leader in the Mortgage Industry.