Board of Directors (2020-2021)
Executive Committee
Victoria Stratman | Board President
General Counsel, CA Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Katharine Harrington | Treasurer
Professor, Marshall School of Business, USC
Max Brennan | Secretary
Community Volunteer
Catherine Arias | Vice President, Board Affairs
Director of Education and Visitor Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Gale Kohl | Co-Vice President, Personnel
Owner, Gale’s Restaurant
Jill Sumiyasu | Co-Vice President, Personnel
Founder, A Better Life by Jill
Mary Chou | Co-Vice President, Development
Principal, OVERHAUL Architecture
Pete Kutzer, | Co-Vice President, Development
President, The Kutzer Company
Phillip A. Swan | Chair, Investment
Vice President, UBS Wealth Management
Alice Fung | Co-Chair, Strategic Planning
Partner, Fung+Blatt Architects
Sarah Deschenes | Co-Chair, Strategic Planning
Education Researcher and Consultant
Linda Burrow | Immediate Past President
Director of Content Litigation, Netflix
Board Members
Carolyn Cutler
Community Volunteer
Tonita Fernandez
Educator, Chandler School
Tamerlin J. Godley
Litigation Partner, Paul Hastings LLP
Betsy Greenberg
Arts Advocate
Michael Greene
Director for Communications and Education, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Christopher Hawthorne
Chief Design Officer, City of Los Angeles
Maria Khader Karp, Past Board President
Relationship Manager, TIAA-CREF
Dianne M. Magee
Attorney (Retired), Community Volunteer
Kristin Kearney Massimino
Marketing Initiative Manager, Capital Group Companies
Denise Mathews
Community Volunteer
Stephen Nowlin
VP, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design
Shelley Short Ogden
Arts Advocate
Debra A. Ortega
Chief Human Resources Officer and Senior VP of Administrative Services, Huntington Hospital
Lisa Sugimoto
Senior Associate, Professional Personnel Leasing
Peter Tolkin
Architect, Tolkin & Associates
Donna Vaccarino, AIA
Architect, Vaccarino Associates
All board members serve voluntarily. The Armory’s Board meets six times per year in September, November, January, March, May, and June. The standing Board Committees are Executive, Audit, Board Affairs, Building & Technology, Development, Exhibitions, Finance, Investment, Personnel, & Strategic Planning.