Rebecca Schuett
Chief Development Officer
Rebecca has 20 years of experience working in philanthropy in the Bay Area and currently serves as the Chief Development Officer at the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. Prior to the Foundation, Rebecca worked for 14 years at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, where she led the Development team as Chief Philanthropy Officer from 2018 – 2020 in raising $22 million annually.
With a passion for health equity and equal access to healthcare for all, Rebecca uses her expertise in fundraising strategy, leadership and staff development, and relationship building to cultivate and solicit donations for programs at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital that serve the most vulnerable members of the San Francisco community.
Rebecca began her career in Development at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA as Director of Corporate Support where she raised over $2 million annually for the museum’s annual fund for education, Tech Museum Awards Program, and special exhibit projects. Rebecca served on the board of the Golden Gate Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) from 2012-2015; co-chaired the chapter’s National Philanthropy Day in 2013– 2014, and was on the host committee for the AFP International Conference in San Francisco in May 2017, and served as a volunteer fundraiser for the American Alliance of Museums 2020 annual event.
Rebecca earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from UC Santa Cruz and a Master of Arts, also in English, from Humboldt State University.
Our Team
Janis MacKenzie
Board Chair
Melissa Chadwick-Dunn
Board Treasurer
Howard Chi
Board Secretary
Pamela Baer
Lifetime Director
George H. Clyde
Lifetime Director
Judy Guggenhime
Lifetime Director
Maria Ansari, MD
Simone Balch
John H. Bell
Andrew Clark
Susan P. Ehrlich, MD, MPP
Rodney A. Fong
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH
Suzanne Giraudo, PhD
Kimberley Goode
Cristina Huezo
Hemal Kanzaria, MD MSc
Matthew Kinsella
Jenna Lim
James D. Marks, MD, PhD
Andrew McCollum
Theodore Miclau, III, MD
Lifetime Director
Elizabeth Minick
Ellen Magnin Newman
Candace Sue
Janet Wojcicki, PhD, MPH
Kim Meredith
Chief Executive Officer
Gerry Chow
Chief Financial Officer
Rebecca Schuett
Chief Development Officer
Paul Rose
Chief External Relations and Communications Officer
Saeed Mirfattah
Chief of Staff
Lauren Jeglinski
Executive Assistant to CEO and Board Liaison
Alice He
Assistant Controller
Allison Arden
Director of Development, Major and Individual Gifts
Melissa Moore
Director of Development, Institutional & Corporate Giving
Damian Bass
Director of Events
Jenna Casey
Director of Communications
Quinn King
Associate Director, Development Operations
Tiffany Liu
Associate Director, Grants and Program
Elaine Robertson
Associate Director of Events
David Yu
Senior Accountant and Financial Analyst
Henry Fung
Annual Fund Manager
Joey Castaneda
Corporate Partnership Manager
Jessie Lee
Development Manager, Grants and Administration
Beth Ferreira
Gift Compliance Manager
Marissa Filice
Database and Donor Information Manager
Aileen Flores
Development Associate
Kaeya Patel
Marketing and Communications Associate
Alyssa Angeles
Staff Accountant