Board of Directors

Dr. Bathsheba Malsheen, Board President

Dr. Bathsheba Malsheen is BAVC's Board President and has served as CEO of several mobile technology companies. Most recently, she was president and CEO of MINO Wireless, which provided managed global roaming services for mobile operators. Dr. Malsheen was previously CEO at Groove Mobile, the world's leading mobile music service provider and CEO of Voxware, a global provider of mobile voice-based enterprise solutions for distribution and warehouse operations. She currently serves as a Board Member of Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Board Advisor to SoundHound, producing applications in audio and music identification, voice recognition and search technologies. Dr. Malsheen holds a BA from Hofstra University, and an MA and PhD from Brown University in Linguistics.

Neil O’Donnell, Vice President

Neil O’Donnell, BAVC's Board Vice President, is a founding partner of the San Francisco and Washington, D.C. law firm Rogers Joseph O'Donnell where he is co-chair of the government contracts and construction practice groups. He has been consistently named one of the leading government contract lawyers in the country by Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Neil serves on the Advisory Committee for The Government Contractor and on the Associated General Contractors of California Legal Advisory Committee, and is a member of the ABA’s Section of Public Contract Law and Forum Committee on the Construction Industry. He holds a JD from Yale Law School, and a BA from Williams College.

Jason Kipnis, Board Treasurer

Jason Kipnis, BAVC's Board Treasurer, manages the Intellectual Property (IP) Counseling practice in the Silicon Valley Office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and has extensive experience in patent portfolio management, IP litigation and pre-litigation counseling, IP due diligence, and IP transactions. Jason is also an adjunct lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he teaches IP Strategy for High Technology Companies, and is a frequent speaker on intellectual property matters at professional and academic conferences. In addition, he has been selected by the IAM250 as one of the world’s leading IP strategists. Jason holds a JD from Stanford Law School, and an SB and SM from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bonni Cohen, Secretary

Bonni Cohen, BAVC's Board Secretary, runs Actual Films in San Francisco with her husband, Jon Shenk. Bonni has produced The Island President which won the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and opens theatrically in 2012, produced and directed Inside Guantanamo (2009) for National Geographic Television and was nominated for two Emmy Awards and Best Documentary Screenplay for The Rape of Europa (2006). Bonni has also produced and/or directed numerous other documentaries including : Wonders Are Many (2006), Democracy Afghan Style (2004), The New Heroes (2003), Kofi Annan: Eye of the Storm (1999), They Drew Fire (1998), Open Outcry (2000) and The Human Sexes With Desmond Morris. Bonni also runs the Catapult Film Fund supporting documentary projects.

Angela Jones

Angela Jones is currently a Program Specialist with Northern California Grantmakers, responsible for developing skill-building workshops to enhance the effectiveness of grantmaking professionals and formerly worked at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation its Conflict Resolution Program. She holds a BA from the University of California-Berkeley and is pursuing an MBA in Finance and Marketing at Mills College in Oakland. Angela also serves on the advisory board for Chicken & Egg Pictures, a hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they are exploring on film.

Adam Huttler

Adam Huttler is the founder and Executive Director of Fractured Atlas, a New York-based non-profit organization that provides technology-centric infrastructure and support services for individual artists and arts organizations across the US with an annual budget of $12 million. Adam serves on the Board of Directors of the Performing Arts Alliance, the Steering Committee of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, the Steering Committee of NYC's One Percent for Culture campaign, and the Policy Leadership Circle of the Institute for Culture in the Service of Community. Adam also runs Gemini SBS, a web engineering and IT consulting firm that Fractured Atlas launched in 2004, providing custom web-based software development for non-profit organizations, government agencies, and educational institutions.

Ayesha Mathews-Wadhwa

Ayesha Mathews-Wadhwa is a San Francisco digital designer, champion of women entrepreneurs and the Founder and Creative Director at PixInk — a branding, design and online marketing agency specializing in helping businesses market to female consumers. Her firm works with Apple, Facebook, Oracle, Cat Footwear, Riverbed, Camel, Sephora, The Bar Method and Picaboo amongst many others. Ayesha majored in Communication Design at Parsons School of Design, New York.

Marc Vogl

Marc Vogl is the Executive Director of the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC). Marc joined BAVC in 2011 from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where he served as a Program Officer in the Performing Arts. At The Hewlett Foundation Marc managed grants to arts and arts-education organizations throughout the Bay Area, and led the Foundation's work to promote next generation leadership in the arts sector. Earlier in his career Marc co-founded the sketch comedy group Killing My Lobster and the Hi/Lo Film Festival and served as Executive Director of the Lobster Theater Project, a multi-disciplinary San Francisco arts nonprofit. Marc has served as a member of the San Francisco Arts Task Force, on the Barack Obama Campaign’s National Arts Policy Committee and is currently co-chair of the Funding Advisory Committee to Oakland’s Cultural Commission. In 2010 Marc won the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leader award for his work to promote opportunities for young leaders in the arts sector. Marc has History and English Literature degrees from Brown University and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.