Our Staff
OUR BOARD of DIRECTORS Social Enterprises
2300 El Portal Drive,
Suites F and G
San Pablo, CA 94806
Tel: (510) 234-1300
Fax: (510) 234-1330
Paul Lamb, President Man on a Mission Consulting
Jerome Lourme, Treasurer Charles Schwab
Debbie Lamb, Secretary Debbie Lamb Consulting
Geanie Asante Wells Fargo Bank
Jolly Ahluwalia MBA Candidate, Haas School of Business
Stephen Baiter Contra Costa One Stop Operator Consortium
Pamela Collins The Stride Center (Student)
Glen Price The Glen Price Group
Chuck Toombs McInerney & Dillon
Paul Lamb, President. Paul Lamb is a consultant and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in business, nonprofit management, technology and public policy. He is currently the Principal of Man on a Mission Consulting, a management consulting firm dedicated to leveraging technology for the social good. Paul was named the University of California Outstanding Alumnus of the Year in 2005 and honored with the California Governor’s Technology & Innovation Award in 2002, both for his work in technology targeting underserved communities. Paul is a founder and former Executive Director of Street Tech. He has developed several other successful nonprofit programs and community collaboratives in the areas of youth, workforce development, and technology. He is also a frequent radio commentator and OpEd contributor on technology and social issues in a variety of publications. Paul’s business background includes positions as Director of Programs and Executive Director of the China Business Forum at the US-China Business Council in Washington, D.C., and a business analyst for Ernst & Young and a marketing consultant for both U.S. and Asian firms. Paul is a graduate of Earlham College, the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University’s Center for Chinese and American Studies, and the University of California, San Diego’s School for International Relations and Pacific Studies. He is a recent graduate of the Zero Divide Fellowship program with the Community Technology Foundation of California and is currently a Next Generation Fellow with the American Assembly at Columbia University.
Jerome Lourme, Treasurer. Jerome Lourme received his MBA from the University of Berkeley. He has been a Street Tech Board member since May 2007 and he currently holds the position of Finance Director for Charles Schwab. He enjoys trail running, backpacking and photography.
Debbie Lamb, Secretary. Debbie Lamb is an award winning marketing professional with over 17 years of industry experience. Debbie helped launch Comcast Spotlight brand in 2003, and also launched one of the first web sites in the U.S. in the television advertising industry in 1999. She left Comcast after twelve years in the advertising sales division, serving in a variety of marketing positions in both San Francisco and Washington D.C. While serving as the Marketing Director for Comcast Spotlight in the Northwest U.S., Debbie was also responsible for all client promotions, public relations and interactive advertising for the west coast. In addition, she also has three years of experience in radio promotions and marketing. Learn more about Debbie at her website, aptly named www.debbielamb.com.
Jolly Ahluwalia. Jolly Ahluwalia is currently an MBA Candidate with the Haas School of business, graduating in June, 2008. Before entering the Haas MBA program, Mr. Ahluwalia was a senior analyst for new business development, mergers and acquisitions, where he researched, created and launched a new IT benchmarking service, achieving $500K in sales within the first month. Mr. Ahluwalia was co-founder of MonthlyGiving, a nonprofit organized to solicit continuous private donations through deductions from monthly paychecks. He is an accomplished dancer, having competed in ten competitions for US Berkeley Bhangra team.
Geanie Asante. Geanie Asante has been in IT for 19 years and is a certified project manager at Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco with the Online Banking and Investments group. She has won awards for empowering team work and customer service. She is passionate about giving back to the community and has taken part in several volunteer and outreach projects that focus on housing and fighting domestic violence. As a property owner she has worked with the homeless and transitional housing for people who have fallen on hard times to get back on their feet. Geanie has been an advocate for youth services and has spent the past 15 years as the youth services coordinator for her church in Africa, Europe, and the US organizing camp outs, services and youth programs. As Vice President of the NAUW Silicon Valley chapter, she led a reading event in the San Jose public library as a part of the “Leave No Child Behind” campaign. Geanie is currently working on her Doctorate in Management of information systems and technology and is focusing on the under-representation of ethnic minority women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Management (STEM). To learn more about Geanie, attached to this email is her full biography and resume.
Stephen Baiter. Stephen has spent most of his professional life in the human services field working in both the government and nonprofit sectors. He is currently the Administrator of the Contra Costa One Stop Operator Consortium, the group of core partners responsible for operating a comprehensive, fully-integrated, and seamless One Stop Career Center system that meets the diverse needs of job seekers, workers, and employers in order to ensure a strong, vibrant economy in Contra Costa County. Prior to his arrival to Contra Costa County in 2005, Stephen was the Director of Youth and Evening Services at Opportunities Industrialization Center West (OICW) in Menlo Park, where he developed, funded, and managed comprehensive programs for youth and young adults while also overseeing educational upgrade programs for older adults seeking new or better employment.
Pamela Collins. Pamela Collins is a current Street Tech A+ student. Pamela was one of three candidates who expressed interest in the role of student board member. After interviewing each candidate, and consulting with course instructors and Joe McKinley, there was unanimous agreement that Pamela would be a great student board member and liaison between Street Tech’s board of directors and Street Tech students. A resident of Richmond, Pamela came to Street Tech after she heard Joe McKinley speak at a Career Center presentation. In her application essay, Pamela wrote, “I also feel that I could be your next success story for it would show people that no matter what your age or condition you can do anything you set your mind to as long as you keep your mind open, teachable and reachable.”
Glen Price. Glen Price brings almost 30 years of expertise in highly successful strategic planning, high–performance programming, and fund development experience for a wide range of local, state, national, private sector, and international clients. Price has been the principal team leader for efforts that have raised over $990 million dollars for the capital, program, and strategic planning needs of public and private agencies. Since he founded the Glen Price Group in 2001, Price has worked extensively with numerous non–profit organizations, government agencies, and collaborative initiatives including the American Red Cross, County of Sonoma, Alameda County Family Justice Center, City of Richmond, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, World Wildlife Fund, and others. Price is a skilled team leader, presenter, facilitator, trainer, and writer. He has supported Street Tech work for over 10 years and joined the board of directors in 2004.
Chuck Toombs. Mr. Toombs practices in the areas of tax, business and real estate law. He counsels clients in different areas of sophisticated tax planning for their business and investments. He advises clients in matters regarding organizing, operating, merging and dissolving various business entities with particular emphasis on those clients involved in the construction industry. He advises clients in matters involving intellectual property, including trademark law and acts of unfair competition. He also advises nonprofit entities on operational issues and compliance with applicable tax requirements. Mr. Toombs represents clients regarding issues before the State Board of Equalization, the State Franchise Board, and the Internal Revenue Service.
Mr. Toombs is a contributing author to the treatise entitled Advising California Partnerships (3rd Ed) and Selecting and Forming Business Entities both published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar, and to the treatise, Partnership and Joint Venture Agreements published by Law Journal Press. He is also a current member of the CEB Business Law Advisory Committee. He authored the article entitled Drafting a Basic Partnership Agreement XIV California Business Law Practitioner 89 (Fall 1999 Cal CEB) and appeared as a panelist on the program entitled A Organizing and Advising California Partnerships vs. LLCs sponsored by California Continuing Education of the Bar in 1997.
Mr. Toombs was admitted to the State Bar of California and the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, in 1984. He received a Masters of Law in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 1987, J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1984 and B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
