Board Members

Cathy Gelb Mobley, Chair

Cathy is a Principal of The Foster Mobley Group, a group of advisors, researchers and educators whose commitment is to help leaders and leadership teams demystify the path to sustainable, breakthrough performance.  Cathy has over 22 years of experience in management, leadership and sales training.

Cathy began working in the development of managers in 1985, as a Project Manager with the Forum Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts, one of the country’s leading firms in training and development.  At Forum, she developed into a top trainer in the topic areas of leadership, sales and customer-focused quality.  Her clients included American Express, Disney, ITT Sheraton, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Panasonic, Price Waterhouse Coopers, and PSE&G.

After Forum, Cathy served as Dean of the corporate university for DaVita, the largest independent provider of kidney dialysis services in the US.  During her tenure there, she was responsible for overseeing the operations, content and faculty of the DaVita University Academy Program, a 2-day, culture building experience delivered to 15,000 employees.  In addition, Cathy coached DaVita’s senior leaders on communications/presentation skills and was responsible for coaching all presenters at the company’s annual meetings.

Most recently, Cathy serves as a consultant and lecturer for such world-leading businesses as Microsoft, Nike and Visa and continues to coach executives on their communications and presentation skills effectiveness.

Cathy has significant involvement in several charitable and philanthropic causes, including serving as a Board member of two non-profit organizations:  The Kidney Trust and Kids’ Global Outreach.  She also serves as a trainer for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a non-profit organization whose mission it is to transform youth sports, so sports can transform youth.  Cathy is also a member of National Charity League, which supports philanthropic organizations in her community.

Cathy holds a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude degree from Tufts University.

Cathy resides with her family in North Tustin, California and serves clients throughout the United States and Europe.  She enjoys reading, walking and yoga.

Dan Cawley, Treasurer

Dan Cawley is Vice President of Impact & Administration at HopeLab. As the administrator of programs and services, Dan implements systems and strategies to ensure the greatest possible impact for HopeLab’s innovative solutions. He is also responsible for creating and administering efficient and effective internal systems consistent with HopeLab’s mission and values to support the work of the organization’s research and development staff.

Dan has extensive experience in finance and administrative systems. Most recently, he was the Deputy Executive Director of Finance and Administration for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, one of the oldest and largest community-based AIDS service organizations in the United States. He was also the Treasurer of Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, a global affiliate of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. During his ten years with the organizations, Dan was responsible for strategy development and implementation, fund development, finance, administration, and technology management. He was previously Director of Finance & Administration for the Stop AIDS Project from 1994 to 1996 and the Business Director for the Foundation for National Progress, publishers of Mother Jones Magazine, from 1991 to 1994. Dan also held finance positions in other industries, including motion-picture production and telemarketing.

Dan received his B.S. in Marketing from the State University of New York, College at Oswego in 1985.

Margaret Laws, M.P.P.

Margaret Laws is director of the California Healthcare Foundation’s Innovations for the Underserved program. In this role she oversees the Foundation’s work to reduce barriers to efficient, affordable care for the underserved. Specific objectives of the program include: encouraging, testing and promoting lower-cost models of care; improving the availability of specialty and dental care for underserved Californians; promoting policy and operational improvements to increase enrollment and retention in publicly sponsored insurance programs; and increasing the efficiency of safety-net institutions.

Prior to joining CHCF, Laws was on the staff of the California Managed Care Improvement Task Force. Before that she was a senior consultant and manager with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), where she worked in the government and health care strategy practices with clients including state health and human service agencies and payer and provider organizations.

Laws also has worked as a consultant with the Francois Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, conducting research on trends in international development funding for HIV/AIDS; for the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, providing technical assistance in program development and operations for nonprofits in developing countries; as a consultant for the World Health Organization’s Global Programme on AIDS; and as a caseworker and analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare.

She serves on the advisory board of the Health Initiative of the Americas.

Laws received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Princeton University and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Julia Martin, MHSc

Julia Martin is Vice President for Programs at Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation. With over 15 years experience in HIV/AIDS and public health she brings leadership in the areas of program and research development across multiple populations. Working in the fields of both disease prevention and treatment she has extensive experience in developing national policy, supporting operational research and the design of healthcare delivery systems in mid-level and developing economies. Recently, her work has focused on injection drug using populations in Ukraine and roll-out of ART programs Uganda. She previously coordinated the clinical, prevention, and training programs of the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda where she lived for several years, and established clinical and administrative systems for one of the first free ART delivery programs in Africa. Ms. Martin was previously the coordinator of HIV Prevention Strategies, Applied Research and Knowledge Development for Health Canada where she oversaw the management of national and international HIV prevention programs and policy development. Prior to her position at Health Canada, Ms Martin practiced clinical intensive care nursing for eight years in a tertiary care hospital in Canada, and additionally, functioned as a clinical manager in a primary care, rural hospital in Zambia. She earned a BscN from the University of Western Ontario and a MHSc from the University of Toronto.

Douglas L. Vlchek

Douglas L. Vlchek is currently Director of Stewardship for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne in Wyoming.  Reverend Mister Vlchek is a Permanent Deacon in the Catholic Church, ordained in 1999.  Prior to his current position, Doug served as Vice President and Chief Wisdom Officer at DaVita Inc for eight years.  He retired from DaVita in 2006.  Having spent his entire career in healthcare he has authored five books on a variety of medical topics and published over 200 articles in areas including: technical aspects of dialysis, quality of care, continuous quality improvement, customer service, and management and leadership.   During the past thirty years he also worked as a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration, Health Care Finance Administration (now CMS) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as well as over 100 independent dialysis providers and manufacturing companies.  He also served in an executive position with Vivra Renal Care (dialysis provider), Colorado Medical (dialysis equipment manufacturer), and Hospal Medical Corporation (dialysis supply and equipment manufacturer).  Early in his career, he worked in patient care as a dialysis technician.

Doug and his wife, Patricia, have been married for thirty-four years and have four children and eight grandchildren.  His hobbies include mountaineering, scuba diving, canoeing, photography, and guitar.