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Genevieve and I have been members of St Luke’s since 2017 and have been active in church activities. Father Ernest baptized all three of our children! We now have three young grandchildren.

I have been a key advisor for Berkeley SkyDeck, a startup accelerator at the University of California, Berkeley. I’ve also been an executive advisor to Neowork Ventures since June 2021, an advisor to Empath since February 2020, and an advisor to Bestselfy since 2023. From August 2018 to June 2021, I served as an adjunct faculty lecturer at San Jose State University. I left the corporate world in 2020 after serving as the Chief Human Resources Officer of Seagate Technology, a data storage and management solutions company. I received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.

What first attracted us to St Luke’s were the services, the friendliness of the members, and feeling a sense of belonging. I believe it is important to be involved with the church and strive to contribute as best I can.

Ron Victor has been a member at St. Luke’s since 1996. He has been a vestry member at the church multiple times over the past 28 years. He has also had the privilege of serving as an usher, lector, and choir member over his tenure at the church. He has spent most of his career as a technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He and his wife Anuja are also the owners of Almaden Yoga, a yoga studio in San Jose. Ron is a certified yoga instructor.

Ron has also been a volunteer for multiple causes over the past 40 years. He was the founding volunteer and president of Vibha Inc. (www.vibha.org), which is focused on education for underprivileged children. He has also been an active volunteer with the American Red Cross (disasters), Habitat for Humanity (affordable housing) and Missionaries of Charity (AIDS epidemic and correctional facilities).

Ron is extremely grateful for all the blessings St. Luke’s has bestowed upon him for all these years.

I was born and raised in San Francisco, California. I left California to live in New York, Israel, and Arizona, but finally found my way back home to the Bay Area in 1997.

My greatest joy thus far has been watching my three daughters—Stella, Simone, and Sadia—grow into incredible, college-educated women. As they spread their wings and begin their own adult chapters, I feel a profound sense of pride and gratitude.

In my professional life, I have the joy of working alongside my partner as a patent paralegal. Together, we’ve built a life fueled by a shared curiosity for this amazing world. Whether we are traveling to new lands, staying active through exercise, or seeking out our next great adventure, we are constantly in awe of the beauty around us.

While I wasn’t raised in a traditional church, a deep-seated belief in God has always been my North Star. My hunger for spiritual understanding even led me to study comparative religions in college, but it was in the heart of Jerusalem that my faith truly caught fire.

Living in Israel from 1988 to 1991, I discovered my identity as a Christian. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre became my sanctuary—a place of refuge that stayed with me long after I left its ancient walls.

I have served and attended many churches, but it is at St. Luke’s Episcopal that I finally felt a true sense of belonging. It is a place where I have found genuine peace and a community that welcomes me exactly as I am. Today, I feel incredibly privileged to serve this community, giving back to the place that has given me so much rest for my soul.

My wife, Gigi, and I have been attending St. Luke’s for the past two years enjoying the friendly community here. The people here worship in a celebratory way that inspires us. We arrived from St. Mark’s Santa Clara where we were members for 20 years, during which we raised our daughter. I served as a parish treasurer and also as a vestry member. 

For most of my life, I have lived in the Bay Area, attending high school and finishing my college years here. I am employed as a financial controller for a construction company. For relaxation, I enjoy reading, listening to music, yoga, and walking in our urban landscape and at the beach. 

While preparing and doing missionary work in Guatemala, I met my wife. At times, when difficulties arise, we remember our missions work helping us adapt to the situation at hand. Now and in the coming years, I hope to kindly serve those who enter the St. Luke’s faith community. 

Originally from a small farm town in Kansas, I moved to the Bay Area in 1981 to attend graduate school, and it’s been my home ever since.

I’ve been working at the intersection of architecture, engineering, construction, education, and technology for over 40 years now. And these interests have led me to many fantastic work experiences here for technology giants – Xerox, Apple, and Autodesk – as well as inspiring me to start up several smaller firms. Currently, my daily focus is on two roles: as an educator at Stanford University, where I develop and lead courses on building information modeling, parametric design optimization, and sustainable design principles; and as a residential designer at Bearington Studios— a small design firm that gives me an opportunity to practice what I teach.

I completed my BS in Civil Engineering at MIT, where I focused on architecture, structural engineering, and the synergies between the two fields. Then, I completed my MS in Civil Engineering at Stanford University, where I’ve continued to teach and focus on innovation in the way we inspire the engineers and designers of tomorrow.

I publish quite a bit of educational content online through Autodesk, my own educational website, and a YouTube channel with over 13,000 subscribers and 2.5 million views. It’s incredibly fulfilling to receive messages from students around the world who report how having access to these materials empowers them to pursue new opportunities to improve their lives.

I was first invited to St. Luke’s to help out with the project of improving and reimagining the Parish Hall, and I had the pleasure of meeting with many of you through the presentations on that design. But, as I started attending our Sunday morning services, I found something very special – an incredibly engaging community of spirituality, caring, and love that I wanted to be a part of and to cherish as a guiding light in my life.

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I have been married to my husband, Steve, for 36 years. We have two sons, Craig (Sarah) and Kyle. I am also hopelessly devoted to my two grandchildren Charlie (4) and Cody (19 mos).

I spent many years working with and assisting in fundraising for various organizations. Included in these are the American Heart Association with my fellow SCU Alpha Phis’s, Saint Andrew’s Episcopal School and St. Mary’s Church and School. One of my proudest works was serving on the board of the Princess Project Silicon Valley. Along with many hard working people, we helped bring this worthy organization from San Francisco to our South Bay. In our first year we successfully dressed and accessorized a few hundred girls for their proms who could not otherwise afford to attend. By the end of my time with these amazing people, we were assisting over a thousand girls a year. Girls with financial needs as well as those with special needs. It was truly one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.

In my early career I worked as a self-employed hairstylist then finishing my working career as an orthopedic surgery scheduler for three different local surgeons. I handled all scheduling, equipment, authorizations and appeals on behalf of our many patients and enjoyed working with and for the patients very much.

I look forward to helping Saint Luke’s in any way possible to continue to grow and thrive. This loving and inclusive community has come to be a true cornerstone in my daily life, from Morning Prayer Group to begin my day “centered,” to our fellowship at Sunday Coffee Hour. I consider myself to be truly blessed to be a part of this amazing parish.

From the moment I met with Fr. Ricardo in 2019 to inquire about the possibility of using the nursery room in the church to practice singing, I knew this was the eventual church home for me! Over the next few years I was blessed to have been invited to be a guest in the choir or to cantor while also attending St Andrew’s in Saratoga. In June 2023 I happily made St Luke’s my new church home and am truly excited to serve such a welcoming and wonderful community. 

As a little background, I was born in San Jose and spent most of my early years in Almaden and Saratoga, and attended Saratoga and Los Gatos High Schools. I began college as a piano major but after a semester switched schools and graduated from San Jose State University with a BS in Chemistry. I worked over 27 years at IBM in technology, management, and executive sales. Twenty of those years were spent living in New York and Connecticut (and a few months in Brazil!), where we (my ex- husband and I) raised four children that are now all grown—two step daughters (and seven step grandchildren) that still live in the northeast, and two sons. One of our sons, Tiago, lives in Vancouver, Washington, as an animator, and our other son, Nico, still lives at home with me and just graduated college in media and communications.

While living in Connecticut I was fortunate to be part of Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport where we raised our family. While there I served on the Vestry, sang in the choir (as did both boys), taught Sunday school for many years, was the director of the church’s Vacation Bible School (90-plus kids from all over town), and led several wonderful community outreach programs, including support for the local food pantry as well as to raise awareness of human trafficking. 

I currently work as a full-time Realtor at Christie’s International Real Estate Sereno in Los Gatos and am passionate about helping to improve the lives of my clients by helping them through their life transition to sell or buy a home. When I’m not selling real estate, you can find me singing, baking, trying new local restaurant spots, or enjoying time with my family! I love to bake cookies for my clients, family, and friends and adore classical music. I do all I can to participate in and volunteer my time and marketing expertise in supporting several non- profit music organizations. 

I am incredibly honored to have the opportunity to serve the wonderful people of St Luke’s, and look forward to continuing the good work of spreading loving kindness and support to our parish and throughout the local community. 

My wife, Amanda, and I have been parishioners at St Luke’s since moving to Los Gatos in 2014. We have two boys in elementary school here in town, and have been drawn to the very tight-knit and relaxed atmosphere at St Luke’s and its very close proximity. We are regulars at the Saturday service – an even more tight-knit group to whom we very much enjoy relating.

I grew up in St. Louis and went to university in Colorado. I’m a partner with PwC with whom I have been ever since graduating from college. Before moving to the Bay Area, I lived in Detroit (where Amanda and I met) and London. My foundation in the Episcopal Church was planted at St. Michael and St. George in St. Louis, where I was very active while in high school. I’ve found amazing parishes each step of the journey, with one of the more notable probably being my time in London attending St. Martin in the Fields (where countless amazing classical recordings have been made). I am more of a traditionalist, and the service I attended there had a liturgy that may have been even older than the 300-year-old nave that it was practiced in. I think St. Luke’s hits the sweet spot of bringing a traditional liturgy with a relaxed, open, and friendly setting.

I am honored and humbled to be able to serve the St. Luke’s congregation as a member of the vestry. This is a special parish and I look forward being a steward as it follows its journey in the years ahead.

I am a native of the Bay Area, having grown up dividing my time between my parent’s home in Oakland and staying with my aunt and uncle in Vancouver, BC, most summers. I graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, back in the days before personal computers. Early on in my career, I serendipitously found myself writing computer code. I retired in September 2022 after a long career as a senior software engineer providing tier three support to organizations in the banking and insurance industries.
I’ve been attending St Luke’s since I moved to the South Bay in the Autumn of 2011. In my time at St Luke’s, I have had the honor to serve on the Vestry, Search Committee, and Altar Guild, and to assist at the liturgy as a lector, thurifer, and lay assistant. Prior to joining St Luke’s, I was a parishioner at St Mark’s, Berkeley, for over 30 years. At St Mark’s, I served on the Vestry and the Worship Committee, as well as being a lector and lay eucharistic minister. My aunt introduced me to the Anglican Church back in the 1970s when I attended Holy Trinity, Vancouver, with her when I would visit her over the summer.
Since the Saturday evening service resumed during COVID, I’ve been a faithful 5 o’clocker. Before that, I regularly attended the 11 o’clock high mass when it was offered, and then the 10 o’clock service.
I value St Luke’s for the friendliness of the community, the dignity of the liturgy, and the high quality of the preaching. I look forward to serving the parish as a member of the Vestry.