Board of Trustees

For nearly 30 years, Board First Vice Chair Sherilyn Adams has dedicated her career to the non-profit sector, focusing on issues of child abuse and neglect, family violence, mental health, substance abuse, and homelessness. Sherilyn received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Social Work at California State University in Sacramento where she lived most of her life before moving the Bay Area in 1997. Before joining Larkin Street Youth Services in 2003, she worked on another non-profit focused mental health and substance abuse treatment for adults. At Larkin Street, she has led the agency through tremendous growth, nearly tripling the number of housing beds for youth over the past ten years, and putting Larkin Street at the vanguard of the field for its innovative multi-service model to resolve youth homelessness. 

Sherilyn and her partner, Elaine, are the proud parents of Ella, Class of 2024. Since joining CAIS, Sherilyn has been a room parent and participated on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. Elaine and Sherilyn continue to believe that CAIS is the perfect school for Ella and love being part of such a caring, vibrant school community. 

Sherilyn serves on the Executive Committee and on the Finance Committee.

Board Secretary Alda Leu Dennis is a venture capital investor at Initialized Capital. She was born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas and moved to the Bay Area in high school.  

Alda began her career as a financial analyst at The Walt Disney Company. Then, she practiced as an attorney as a litigator at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, and in-house counsel at Clarium Capital and Founders Fund. After that, Alda moved on to be COO of a start-up called Airtime. Thereafter, she served as managing director of 137 Ventures, a later-stage venture firm. She graduated from Stanford with degrees in economics and political science, and a JD from UCLA.

Alda and her husband, Hilary, are happy CAIS parents. They have a son and daughter who are Class of 2025 and a daughter who is Class of 2028.

Alda serves on the Executive, Finance, and Advancement Committees.

Daniel Chang has two children ages 5 and 7. Hugo, his oldest son attends CAIS and is in the Class of 2026. His younger son Julian attends Alamo Elementary School. His wife Deb spends a lot of her time volunteering for CAIS and is a board member of Julian’s Awareness Movement (JAM). He was born in Taipei, Taiwan and spent his entire youth there. Daniel attended Taipei American School (TAS) and graduated in 1994. That fall he moved to Portland, Oregon and attended Lewis and Clark College. He graduated with a BA in Economics and a Minor in Chinese while studying abroad in Beijing for one semester. After graduation, Daniel moved to the East Coast and worked for Air Products and Chemicals in their Career Development Program. He ended up moving back to the West Coast as a Marketing position opened up in Santa Clara. He is currently the President of Fang Da Properties, a real estate investment company. He is also a board member of JAM, which he founded with his wife Deb.

Family is the most important part of Daniel’s life. You will either see him on the golf links or trying to keep up with the rest of his extremely active family. He have been involved with CAIS as the Preschool soccer coach for his son’s soccer team. He believes in the school’s mission and wants all CAIS kids to succeed.

Daniel serves on the Advancement Comittee, the Committee on Trustees, the Facilities Committee, and the NCIS Audit Committee.

Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Domingo Guerra moved to the US at 18 to pursue his passion for technology. After years working as an engineer at Applied Materials and a program manager at Brocade, he decided to pursue his lifelong dream of starting a company. In 2011, he co-founded Appthority, a mobile cybersecurity startup which became the market leader in-app security. Domingo served as President until 2018 when Appthority was acquired by Symantec. Today Domingo leads the go to market and messaging strategy for Symantec’s Endpoint Security division. 

Domingo holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He’s been granted 15 patents across the semiconductor, robotics, and cybersecurity industries. 

Domingo lives in San Francisco with his wonderful wife Yvonne (an endodontist, originally from Hong Kong) and two amazing daughters, Lucía (entering Kindergarten) and Maya (anxiously waiting to start P3 in 2021). On weekends, they can be found exploring nature in San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.

Domingo chairs the Advancement Committee.

Bryant Jenkins is the father of Sydney (Class of 2024; 6th Grade) and Madison (Class of 2030; Kindergarten). Bryant attended high school in the New Orleans metropolitan area and moved to the SF Bay Area with his wife Liyun Li in 2011. Bryant is a Principal at Sperry Capital, an infrastructure financial advisory firm. Prior to that he was a project finance consultant and public finance banker for KPMG, UBS and Stone & Youngberg. Bryant has a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University and a M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

He previously served as Treasurer for Foundation for a College Education, an East Palo Alto nonprofit dedicated to increasing the number of students of color who graduate from four-year colleges. He is a committed member of the CAIS community and an adherent to the school’s mission. Bryant and Liyun strongly believe in the invaluable intrinsic benefits that accrue from bilingual education. Bryant chairs the Committee on Trustees and is a member of the Facilities Committee, National Center for International Schools (NCIS) Committee, and NCIS Audit Committee.

Jon’s daughter Aly is a student in the Class of 2025. A Bay Area native, Jon has enjoyed the challenging ride through the many cycles of commercial real estate in the region for more than 20 years with ground-up development, building rehabilitation, and asset repositioning. As the CEO of his firm Urban Land Development (ULD), he has been the visionary force behind the conception, design, and realization of the company’s portfolio of real estate projects in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also serves on the Board of Directors and Investment Committee for Urban Land Capital, a fund providing investors with a diversified portfolio of select assets which would typically only be reserved for institutional investors.

Never satisfied with simply participating in the industry and strongly believing that communities are best served when developments include cultural arts and related enhancement projects, Jon leads the effort at ULD to develop community relationships and provide a base for retail entrepreneurship, enabling future opportunities for local and regional populations. Included in the many organizations he supports are Jacob’s Heart, Children’s Cancer Support Services, Community Arts Stabilization Trust, APACC, United Playaz, and the ABADA-Capoeira Arts Center. And, of course, CAIS! 

Jon’s degree is a B.S. in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California, Davis, which underscores his commitment to protecting the natural environment and ensuring a safe and sustainable project.

Mr. Mueller served as a career diplomat with the U.S. Department of State for 32 years specializing in U.S. relations with China and Asia.  The culmination of his career was as American Consul General to Hong Kong from 1993 to 1996, leading the 400-person Consulate General. These were the formative years leading up to Hong Kong’s reversion to China in 1997.

Following his career with the State Department, Mr. Mueller began a second career in education. In 1998 Mr. Mueller became Head of School of Northfield Mount Hermon School, a college preparatory boarding high school in Massachusetts. During his seven-year tenure he deepened the school’s historic commitment to global education, particularly to China and Asia, and led the strategic planning and decision-making to become a smaller school of 650 students on one campus rather than two. He then served from 2005 to 2010 as Head of School of Hong Kong International School, a pre-K through grade 12 school with a diverse, global student body of over 2500 students. Most recently he served as Head of School of Shanghai American School, a 3,000-student international Pre-K through 12 school on two campuses.

Mr. Mueller’s diplomatic career included assignments to Asia and the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. At the Department he worked at a senior level for Secretary of State George Shultz coordinating the worldwide work of the State Department and subsequently for Secretary James Baker carrying out the President’s national security agenda with Congress. Earlier in his career Mr. Mueller worked for and traveled with Secretary Henry Kissinger. The highlight of that assignment was meeting his future wife, Claire, who was also a career diplomat.

In the early years of his career, after two years of Chinese language training, he and Claire were assigned to the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing from 1976 to 1978. They were there to witness the events surrounding Chairman Mao Zedong’s passing, the end of the Cultural Revolution, and the subsequent launching of economic reform under Deng Xiaoping. Previously he had studied Vietnamese for a year and then served two assignments to the American Embassy in Saigon, Vietnam. 

Mr. Mueller also served at the American Consulate General in Hong Kong in the 1980’s as Chief of the Economic Section and earlier on the team which negotiated the first US-PRC trade agreement. He was also Director of the Asia Society Hong Kong Center from 1996 to 1998, an educational non-profit organization building understanding among the peoples of Asia and the U.S.  He has traveled widely throughout Asia and seen firsthand the transformation of China and other Asian countries. 

Mr. Mueller has served on several non-profit education boards of trustees, including a previous term on the CAIS board and Hong Kong International School. 

Mr. and Mrs. Mueller have two sons.  Jonathan and family live in Colorado, and Eric and family live in San Francisco. The Muellers are proud grandparents of five young grandchildren, Jackson, Katherine, Clara, Allison, and Gillian.

Sara Roberts is currently an Executive Director in the Advisory Services practice of Ernst & Young LLP with a focus in Strategy, Organizational Culture, and Purpose-Led Transformation. Prior to EY, she was Founder and CEO of Roberts Golden, a boutique consultancy, where her team and she advised on organizational strategy and culture transformation efforts for nearly a quarter of the Fortune 100 as well as many other large brands and NGOs. Her deep area of expertise is helping organizations get clear on their purpose and how to align and activate it to drive their most pressing strategic imperatives. She has been known as a “go-to” person when companies are looking to become more customer-centric, innovative, and agile in the way they operate.

Sara is an accomplished author and her latest book, Nimble, Focused, Feisty: Organizational Cultures that Win in the New Era and How to Create Them, was published in August of last year. This book outlines her perspective that in the most successful “new era” companies a customer-centric purpose is what focuses their organization in order to drive results. She is also the co-author of the best-selling book, Light Their Fire: Using Internal Marketing to Ignite Employee Performance and Wow Your Customers. She is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop presenter at top events including Gartner, The Conference Board, and the Association for Corporate Growth on the topics of transformation, purpose, and culture and has been quoted and featured in numerous publications including BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and Forbes.

Sara has extensive board experience having previously been the board chair for Drawbridge, an arts program for homeless children, and Family Builders by Adoption which places hard-to-adopt children in loving homes.

She is mom to Vinn Schumann, Class of 2024, who began at CAIS in his first year of Pre-K.

Sara serves on the Advancement Committee.

Darren is the father of Claire (Class of 2024) and Willy (Class of 2026).  He grew up in Los Angeles and moved to the Bay Area to attend UC Berkeley where he received a B.S. in environmental economics. He obtained a M.P.P. degree from Harvard, an M.D. from Stanford, and he did residency training in internal medicine at UCSF. While at UCSF, he met his wife, Stefani Wedl, who is now a Hospitalist physician at CPMC. Darren is currently the CEO of Apixio, a healthcare technology start-up that uses artificial intelligence to mine medical records to improve care quality. During his career, he has held executive roles in managed care and healthcare technology companies.  In his free time, Darren continues to pursue his rock star dreams as a drummer in a local band.  He is honored to serve on the Board and support CAIS and its parent community.

Darren serves on the Finance Committee.