Larry Baer
President & Chief Executive Officer
San Francisco Giants
A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Larry Baer is regarded as one of professional sports’ leading visionaries. Baer joined the team in 1992 as the Executive Vice President after he and Peter Magowan led the effort to keep the Giants in San Francisco. Baer was named CEO in 2012. During his tenure as president and CEO, the Giants won two World Series (2014, 2016) and in 2021, won an all-time franchise record 107 games and the National League West title.
Under Baer’s direction, the Giants developed and constructed Oracle Park, which has been praised as one of the “best ballparks ever built.” Baer serves as a key strategist and negotiator of the club’s major transaction, as well as Chairman and CEO of Giants Development Services, which currently has under construction Mission Rock – a new, mixed use urban neighborhood located across from Oracle Park.
Baer is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School, Baer and his wife, Pam, reside in San Francisco and have four children.
Fred Blackwell
Chief Executive Officer
San Francisco Foundation
As CEO of the San Francisco Foundation, Fred Blackwell has spearheaded a transformative journey for one of the largest community foundations in the country. His leadership, marked by a renewed commitment to social justice through an equity agenda focused on racial and economic inclusion, has inspired change and progress. He has collaborated with donors,community leaders, and public and private partners and has been instrumental in creating thriving communities throughout the Bay Area since 2014.
An Oakland native, Blackwell is a nationally recognized community leader with deep roots in the region. Before joining the Foundation, he served as interim city administrator and assistant city administrator for Oakland. He was also executive director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and led the Mayor’s Office of Community Development in San Francisco. His earlier roles include directing the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Making Connections Initiative in Oakland and managing a multi-year community effort in West Oakland for SFF.
Blackwell holds a master’s in city planning from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s in urban studies from Morehouse College. He currently serves on the boards of the Super Bowl 50 Legacy Fund and UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, and is an advisor for the Google Impact Challenge: Bay Area.
Jean Fraser
Chief Executive Officer
Presidio Trust
Jean S. Fraser has dedicated her career to fostering healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. Currently, she is the Chief Executive Officer of the Presidio Trust, a unique federal agency that operates the Presidio of San Francisco, the only national park site operated outside of the National Park Service. The Presidio Trust runs successful real estate and hospitality businesses that fund the free Presidio national park site.
The Presidio hosts more than nine million visits each year and is among the most visited national park sites in America. Under Jean’s leadership, visitor diversity and satisfaction have soared, biodiversity has increased through the reintroduction of species, and park businesses have thrived.
Previously, Jean was the Chief of the San Mateo County Health System and CEO of the San Francisco Health Plan, which developed a first-in-the-nation program providing affordable health care to all uninsured San Franciscans.
Jean serves on the board of The Climate Center, the San Francisco Advisory Board of SPUR, and the San Francisco Streamlining Commissions Task Force as the Mayor’s appointee.
Jean has a B.A. in American history from Yale University and a JD from Yale Law School. She is also a graduate of the Semester in the Rockies program of the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Jean has a husband, two children, two dogs, and pet fish.
George A. Miller was one of a kind; a deep thinker, an urbanist, an environmentalist, a brilliant investment strategist, and an irreverent raconteur. He served on the SPUR board from 2015 to 2022 and was a member of the Finance Committee and the Ballot Analysis Committee. He described a SPUR board meeting as “a graduate seminar where everybody does their homework.” George was an active thought partner in SPUR’s work on water resource planning, transportation, and other region-wide issues. Always generous to SPUR, he became an early supporter of SPUR’s Regional Strategy; a multi-year initiative to envision the future of the Bay Area.
In addition to SPUR, he and his wife, Janet McKinley, actively supported pioneering micro-credit programs in Asia and Africa and programs at UC Berkeley, including the Miller Scholars—which helps low-income students transfer from community colleges—the Cal Band, women’s basketball, and the Bancroft Oral History Center.
George could often be found at Sam’s Grill at lunchtime, where he fashioned himself as the Gin Steward. When the historic restaurant faced closure a decade ago, he rallied friends to take it over, saying, “We just try not to lose too much money.”
He believed that money is most useful when it is in motion and working for the benefit of others. His “estate plan” was simple: give everything away, live to be 80, have a double vodka, and die broke. He beat his goal by ten years, and we are all the richer for his life.
