Tex Schenkkan is currently Vice President and General Manager of the Audio business of Avid Technology, Inc. Prior to that, Schenkkan ran his own consulting firm for several years, after serving in senior executive positions with Maxtor Corporation and Quantum Corporation. Prior to those assignments, he was with Hewlett-Packard for almost twelve years in a variety of marketing and business development roles. He was born and raised in Austin, Texas where he attended Stephen F. Austin High School. He holds a BA in History from Yale University, Phi Beta Kappa, and is an Arjay Miller Scholar with an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is married to Judith Schenkkan, who holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Stanford University. Their son, Aaron Cheris, daughter-in-law, Karla Kollerbohm, and daughter Katherine Schenkkan are all alumni of International High School. During his time on the Board, Schenkkan has served on the Long-Range Planning Committee during the development of the 2000-2005 Long-Range Plan, as Vice-President of the Board, Chairman of the Marketing and Communications Committee, member of the Finance and Long Range Strategic Planning Committees, and President of the Endowment Fund of the French-American International School. He was elected to the Board in 1999.

A native of Southern California, Adam spent his youth and college years playing competitive tennis on a national level (as much as possible) and studying (as little as possible). He graduated from Princeton University in 1981 with a degree in Economics, where he captained Princeton's nationally ranked tennis team. The following year as a Rotary International Scholar, he attended Université François Rabelais in Tours,France where he studied International Economics. Adam received an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1984.

Adam was a Vice President in the Corporate Finance department of Goldman, Sachs & Company in New York until 1994, at which time he and his family moved to San Francisco. In San Francisco, he was Managing Director and Head of the Investment Banking Division of Volpe Brown Whelan & Company (an emerging growth company investment banking firm). Currently, Adam continues to work with high growth technology companies on an advisory basis through his own firm, Rolling Hills Capital, and participates in a variety of volunteer activities at French American and International.

He has served on the board of directors and on advisory boards of several private and public technology companies, including the Advisory Board of the California Health Care Foundation's Management and Leadership Fellowship Program. At French American and International, Adam has served as Treasurer of the Lower School Parent Association and as a coach for various soccer and basketball teams in the lower school. He has been a parent chaperone for several overnight field trips. He has served as Co-Chair (with his wife, Beth Cobert) of the World Without Borders capital campaign, as well as Chair of the Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees.

Adam has two children at French American and International. He also speaks French and Polish.

He is the President of StratéGenius, which works with 55-60 specially selected schools nationally that are taking leadership in diversity.   He also consults and presents internationally, including South Africa, Cuba, Germany, India  and Brazil.   Mr. Crutchfield has been a regular speaker at the NAIS Annual Conference, the NAIS People of Color Conference and the California Association of Independent Schools, where he most recently presented on Board Diversity Committees, among many other cutting-edge and provocative sessions.  His areas of expertise include recruiting a diverse pool, retention, cultivating underrepresented communities and candidates of color, community organizing and board development/diversity.

He also works with the University of California, Berkeley’s world class College of Engineering helping them recruit and prepare women and underrepresented minorities into computer science and engineering fields through the nonprofit Berkeley Foundation for Opportunities in Information Technology, its high school Information Technology Leadership Program, and its middle school program, Science for Youth.

Orpheus is presently a trustee with French American International School/International High School (CA), The San Francisco School, SpeakOut (national nonprofit artist and speakers bureau), has been a board member of Saint Mark’s School (CA), Marin Horizon (CA) and Windrush School (where his daughter is a 5thgrader) and is a member of the Gold “C” committee through the BGCSF. He has advised several boards, including Marin Academy (CA), Corlears School (NY), Roger’s Park Montessori School (IL), Giddens School (Head Search- WA), the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, South Africa (Head & senior leadership searches), the San Francisco Bay Area People of Color in Independent Schools’ board and numerous faculties and administrations nationally. 

Frances Hochschild currently serves as the West Coast HR Manager for the management consulting firm, Bain & Company. Prior to rejoining Bain in 2008, Frances spent several years as an independent consultant working on a variety recruiting and other strategic, operational, and administrative projects for private equity and financial services firms. Previously she served as Chief of Staff/Chief Administrative Officer for the Investment Banking department and Director of Human Resources for the San Francisco based investment bank, Robertson Stephens. She has also held a variety of other positions including strategic planning at The Gap Inc., as a consultant for Bain & Company, and in the Merger and Acquisition Group at Lehman Brothers. Frances holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and an AB from Harvard College. She attended French American from Pre-K through 8th grade and has a daughter in kindergarten.

Kathie Lowry currently holds the position of Chief Development Officer for Larkin Street Youth Services, a key provider of services for homeless and runaway youth in San Francisco. She formerly worked for Pacific Bell where, over a 28-year career, she held positions in a variety of departments ranging from business office operations to public relations. Kathie received an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Colorado, and a Masters Degree in Educational Research from San Francisco State University. Her husband, Dexter, is a trust officer for Union Bank of California. Kathie and Dexter are the parents of two daughters, both of whom are alum “lifers” from French American and International, and both of whom have gone on to successfully pursue degrees in college and graduate school. With the richness of experience the school has provided all of them, the Lowrys are thrilled they are a part of the French American and International family.

Anne-Marie Pierce, a native of France, began her teaching career at the Head-Royce School, where she became Foreign Language Department, Chair. She then assumed the same role at San Francisco University High School upon its founding. She became Head of the East Bay French-American School in 1980, and Head of Washington International School from 1991-2001. She is President of her own consulting firm A.M.P. & Associates. Anne-Marie Pierce was the founder and past President of the Association of French Schools in America (AFSA). She also served as a Board Member of the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS), where she became, Vice-president, chair of the Elementary Board of Standards. She also served two terms as a member of the Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington (AISGW). Anne-Marie served as a three-term Board Member of the International Schools Association (ISA) and a member of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) Council of Foundation’s Executive Board and Heads Representative Committee. She is currently a member of the board of the Alliance Francaise in San Francisco. Mrs. Pierce graduated from the University of California in Berkeley and obtained her M. A. from California State University, Hayward. She is "Chevalier des Palmes Académiques" and of the "Ordre National du Mérite".