2024-2025 Leadership
Executive Committee
Laura Abrahamson, Vice President
Jeffery Daar, First Vice President
Marcus Quintanilla, Second Vice President
Brody Greenwald, Treasurer
Giorgio Sassine, Secretary
Nilufar Hossain, Officer at Large
Ghada Qaisi Audi, Officer at Large
Dana Welch, Immediate Past President
Board of Directors
Daniel Kolkey, Chair
Laura Abrahamson
Ghada Qaisi Audi
Gary Benton
Cedric Chao
Paul Cohen
Jeffery Daar
Ruth Glick
Brody Greenwald
Sally Harpole
Drew Holiner
Nilufar Hossain
Neil Popovic
Marcus Quintanilla
Barbara Reeves
Giorgio Sassine
Steven L. Smith
Nicolas Wiegand
Dana Welch
Administration
David Pollock, Executive Director
Operating Committees
ICCA SAN FRANCISCO 2028 CALARB HOST COMMITTEE
Steve Anderson – Co-Chair
Paul Cohen – Co-Chair
Laura Abrahamson – CalArb
Gary Benton – CalArb
Brody Greenwald – CalArb
Sally Harpole – CalArb
Steve Smith – CalArb
Nicolas Wiegand – CalArb
CALARB MEMBERS ICCA 2028 WORKING COMMITTEE
Laura Abrahamson – Mohamed Abdelfattah – Ghada Audi – TJ Auner – Gary Benton – Cristian Boruzi – Daniel Boyle – Patrick Byrne – Cedric Chao – Paul Cohen – Jeffrey Daar – Peter Durning – Brody Greenwald – Sally Harpole – Nilufar Hossain – David Huebner – Grant Kim – Yasmine Lahlou – Peter Neumann – Neil Popović – Colin Rule – Giorgio Sassine – Les Schiefelbein – Steve Smith – Dan Tan – Colin Ward – Dana Welch
LAW FIRMS AND CORPORATIONS COMMITTEE
Advises on law firm, corporation and trade group messaging and support. Promotes law firm and corporate membership, education and financial support. Recruits law firm and corporate Board members. Supports law firm and corporate programming.
Robert Mockler, Co-Chair
Paul Hines, Co-Chair
Marco Molina, Co-Chair
LAW SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIC COMMITTEE
Coordinates relations with universities and law schools. Addresses California international arbitration issues and educational resources. Oversees the CalArb International Arbitration & ADR Writing Competition for law students and young practitioners. Supports other committees on educational matters.
Gary Benton– Chair
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Advises on membership and diversity. Oversees membership enrollment, directory, programs and communications.
Ghada Audi – Co-Chair
Eric Chang – Co-Chair
PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
Plans online and in-person educational programs, including monthly webinars. Supports law firms and other organizations on programming sponsored by CalArb, including joint CalArb/CLA programming as part of California International Arbitration Week. Advises on programming policies.
Charles Dick – Co-Chair
Nilufar Hossain – Co-Chair
Giorgio Sassine – Co-Chair
Marcus Quntinilla – Co-Chair
YOUNG CALARB
Promotes and coordinates activities for young practitioners and law students.
Young CalArb Steering Committee:
Katie Connolly – Co-Chair
Tuyana Molokhoeva – Co-Chair
Anlin Ye
Gabi Lopez Stahl
Ibrahim Ati
Pragya Sharma