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About SVBC Staff and Board Members

While all of our members have something to contribute to the rapidly growing movement to mainstream bicycle transportation, here are some faces you might see around more often championing our cause.

Staff members are dedicated to carrying out the goals set by the Board of Directors. They run the organization’s programs and coordinate member and volunteer activities.

Board members of SVBC are elected for two-year terms at our annual Winter Party in December. Directors set the policies and goals of the organization and ensure that it is operated in a sustainable manner.

Alyssa Plicka

Biography: 

Alyssa is a native of the Bay Area and by design currently lives in the biking rich Santa Cruz Mountains. In college she exclusively commuted on her bike. Alyssa currently rides both road and mountain bikes in addition to competing occasionally in both mountain bike races and triathlons. "The Bay Area has such diverse terrain there really is something for everyone. I strongly support cooperative driver/cyclist awareness and education so both can safely coexist."

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Anne Fisher

Title: 
Executive Assistant
Biography: 

Anne started riding late in life, and is still timid about going into high traffic areas. However, she enjoys using her bike for commuting and short errands. She is committed to SVBC's mission of safer bicycling and getting more people out on their bikes both for health and the environment.

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Colin Heyne

Title: 
Deputy Director
E-mail: 
colin@bikesiliconvalley.org
Biography: 

Colin Heyne joined the SVBC staff before Bike to Work Day 2009. He served as Communications and Development manager until being promoted to Deputy Director in July 2011. He is a lifetime cyclist as well as an advocate for sustainable development. He has been involved in environmental issues since middle school, when he served as Vice President of Pollution Solution, his school's environmental club. Colin is a graduate of San José State University with a degree in Global Studies, where he studied global history and culture, climate change, politics, and sustainable development.

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Corinne Winter

Title: 
President and Executive Director
E-mail: 
corinne@svbcbikes.org
Biography: 

Corinne joined SVBC as the Executive Director in 2005. She is passionate about bicycle advocacy and other transportation, land use, and environmental issues. She is responsible for implementing the vision of the organization as defined by the Board of Directors. She oversees the organization's fundraising, membership, marketing and outreach, board development, educational offerings, and supervises all SVBC programs. She works with the members of SVBC to advocate for cyclists and bicycle facilities at the local, regional, and national levels.

Corinne also chairs the board of the Bay Area Bicycle Coalition (BABC), is on the Board of Directors for the California Bicycle Coalition (CBC), sits on the VTA Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (VTA BPAC), is on the TransForm Board of Directors, and serves on the City of San José Downtown Parking Board. In 2011, Corinne was honored as one of 100 Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley/San José Business Journal.

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Dave Fork

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Dave Fork is the founder and program manager of the Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange and also a Renewable Energy Technologist at Google. He has managed the Bicycle Exchange for 18 years and has also served on the Palo Alto Bicycle Advisory Committee. For his volunteer work he has earned a Certificate of Congressional Recognition from Anna Eshoo and the Ellen Fletcher Volunteer Award. He commutes daily by bicycle and donates his Google Self Powered Commute dollars to the SVBC. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Rochester in 1987 with degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering. He completed his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Applied Physics in 1991. Dave is full of ideas; he has over 100 scientific publications and 80 issued US patents.

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Ernesto Lizaola

Title: 
Program Coordinator
E-mail: 
ernesto@bikesiliconvalley.org
Biography: 

With previous experience in public outreach, Ernesto Lizaola joined SVBC as a Program Coordinator in early 2010. He has always been a recreational bicyclist but has recently discovered the benefits of bicycle commuting. As a native Spanish speaker, he hopes to engage more of the Hispanic community in various SVBC programs, including Bike to Work Day, Share the Road and Bicycle Education.

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Gary Brustin

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Gary has been an avid cyclist for over forty five years. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1971, and earned a law degree at Hastings College of the Law in 1975. His passion for cycling has also shaped his professional career. Approximately fifteen years ago Gary transformed his law practice from general personal injury cases to a specialized cycling practice. Today his entire case load involves cycling related matters. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the California Bike Coalition, the League of American Bicyclists, and the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates Advisory Committee. Gary believes cycling is a vital part of the solution to our nation’s public health and transportation problems. He views bicycle advocacy as a catalyst that awakens the motoring public to the possibilities for bicycling to solve some of our country’s most complex issues.

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Ian Dewar

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Ian is excited to join the SVBC board and contribute to the ongoing success of building cycling momentum in the Silicon Valley. His experience as a cyclist began where most people’s did – he rode his bike to elementary school. He continued to do so through high school, university, graduate school and his first job. He didn’t intend to make a statement about cycle commuting – it was just easier and more efficient. He has worked in cycling related employment for 15 years, starting in 1996 as a bicycle tour guide, moving into event planning for cycling companies, working with professional teams, and ultimately arriving at Specialized Bicycle Components as the Partnership Manager. In his current role at Specialized, he works directly with local and national bicycle advocacy partners and helps to direct the goals and mission of the Specialized Advocacy Fund in the United States. Ian is committed to increasing the use of bicycles for transportation as well as leisure. His primary focus is twofold – getting kids on bikes and creating infrastructure to allow safer bicycle use. He believes in Silicon Valley we are primed for growth on both fronts.

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Jack Miller

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Jack has bicycled to work year-round since 1971. He has volunteered with the Bicycle Exchange for over a decade repairing and distributing bicycles and helmets to charities, as well as teaching bicycle repair classes. However, he is just as comfortable “suiting up” to work with businesses, foundations, and government organizations.

Jack is interested in expanding the Bicycle Exchange and other education/safety programs, doing outreach to the Hispanic community, and developing grant applications that benefit the full range of SVBC goals.

Jack is also the 2007 Silicon Valley Bicycle Commuter of the Year.

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James Lucas

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As a youth, James Lucas fell in love with the freedom his blue, 24” wheeled Schwinn Varsity could give him. He didn’t know at the time that this passion would cause him to seek out all knowledge bike related and result in his becoming a race mechanic, fit technician, and an expert in retail operations. He has spent the last 10 years managing people, operating a business, and converting people into regular cyclists.

At UCSB, James served the campus community on multiple boards of governance and as the Student Director of the Sport Clubs program. He competed in the first ever Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships, raced incessantly, and provided mechanical support for Shimano and the USA Cycling National Team during his tenure there. Afterward, he followed his passion to the University of Wyoming to work on his Master’s in Exercise Physiology. There, he taught Exercise Physiology and served his campus community on boards of governance.

James is now working on his next level of service through bicycle advocacy. He went to his first National Bicycle Summit in 2010 and saw what individuals can do accomplish just by showing up. When James isn’t wearing every possible hat running Calmar Bicycles, he follows his two young sons on their rides to the park.

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