Treasurer

Paul has over 35 years of leadership and general management experience in product design and development, design consulting and business operations in telecommunications, healthcare and computer industries. These range from start-up companies to large providers of technology services. He has held Vice President or C-level roles at a number of companies most recently at Celestica, Vocera Communications and IDEO. Paul enjoys helping to grow companies through the involvement in business strategy, business planning, product design and financing. He is currently a certified mentor with Score helping small businesses start and grow. Paul has an engineering degree from Brighton University, England.

Board Secretary

Lois Weithorn is a law professor at University of California College of Law at San Francisco (formerly known as University of California Hastings College of Law). She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School.  Lois also holds a doctorate in Psychology.  Her teaching and scholarship integrate perspectives in law and the behavioral and health sciences, with special emphasis on legal policies affecting family relationships or vulnerable groups such as children and persons living with health and mental health challenges. She also served as a consultant to the Ethics and Policy Core at the Center for AIDS Prevention, UCSF Medical Center. In the years prior to joining the faculty at UC Law SF, Lois served as a fellow at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, on the faculty of the University of Virginia, as a staffer at the National Mental Health Association in Washington, D.C., and as a consultant to the Judicial Council of California.

Over the years, Lois has volunteered with a range of organizations.  In recent years, she served on the board of the Mental Health Association of San Mateo County and now volunteers for CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse) in San Mateo. 

Although not an artist herself, Lois’ lifelong love of and appreciation for the arts motivates her current involvement with the Pacific Art League.

Darren teaches portrait, figure and landscape painting at the Pacific Art League. He earned an MFA in Figurative Painting in 2012 and has been teaching or taking classes at PAL since 2010. Before that he was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems and holds several US patents in the fields of internetworking and packet switching algorithms. He also had a very short career playing basketball in Europe, but can unfortunately no longer dunk. Meanwhile, the whole Kerr family is fully invested in the Arts: wife Lisa paints and helps with classes, daughter Lauren works as an instructor for adult artists with disabilities, son Steven writes, and son Kevin practices Fine Arts in college.

Mike has 40 plus years of experience in design, leadership and management. Since arriving in the Bay Area in 1980 he has made a significant impact in the world of design, most notably by strengthening the visual appeal and usability of technology products. His contributions have drawn corporate attention to the use of design as a source of strategic competitive advantage. From 1983 to 1991, Mike’s internationally recognized firm Matrix , won more than 20 design awards. Mike then joined forces with David Kelley and Bill Moggridge and formed IDEO. At IDEO he led development efforts resulting in hundreds of successful computer, consumer and medical products for companies in the US, Europe and Asia. Mike also managed IDEO Ventures, a multi million dollar internal venture capital fund making strategic equity and royalty investments in IDEO’s clients. Mike has an MA from the Royal College of Art in London.

Lisa spent 30 years as a corporate strategist and market research executive. She has taught at NYU and UC Berkeley, and guest lectured at Parsons School of Design and USC Marshall School of Business.

Lisa joined the Pacific Art League Board of Directors in 2025. She is passionate about creating programs that benefit children, teens and young adults. Lisa is an Ambassador for the UC Santa Barbara Education Abroad Program, and she served five years on the Executive Board for the PAUSD PTA. She has also volunteered for the Ravenswood Education Foundation, and YMCA’s Project Cornerstone. In 2019, Lisa founded GIVES, a grassroots organization dedicated to building social awareness, and creating service opportunities for children who want to give back to their community. In 2024, 18 GIVES middle schoolers ran a self-funded bakery. They baked over 1,500 loaves of bread, which they donated to communities in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Together, they volunteered for over 1,000 hours and were awarded the Presidents’ Volunteer Service Award.

Lisa’s grandparents moved to Palo Alto in 1946. She went to UC Santa Barbara and the University of Kent, where she studied political science. Lisa has worked and traveled to many countries around the world, and she has lived in Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.

Nathaniel O’Neil is an Engineering Program Manager at Apple, where he helps bring new software features to Apple products. He holds a degree in Economics from UCLA and has worked with nonprofit organizations on financial and budgeting process improvement, including reporting and operational planning, with a focus on strengthening systems that support long-term sustainability.

Having spent most of his life in the Bay Area, Nathaniel is drawn to the Pacific Art League’s role as a community anchor and its commitment to making art accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds. He is honored to support PAL’s mission and its continued service to the community.

Subha is a technology transactions attorney currently working at a nonprofit medical research organization. Subha has experience in the art, nonprofit, science and legal fields. Subha’s involvement with the Pacific Art League is motivated by her appreciation for the arts and desire to increase access to the arts for members of the community. Subha is from the Bay Area and has had the privilege of taking classes at Pacific Art League in the past. Subha has a BS in Biology from Carnegie Mellon University and a JD from the University of California, Davis.