Meet the Board

Kit has been a corporate lawyer throughout his career. He was a partner at Latham & Watkins until 2018, when he formed Kit Kaufman, Counsel to Independent Directors. He has focused on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of securities, and start-up companies.

Kit serves both as Lead Independent Director and as an advisor to Next Gen Personal Finance and NGPF Mission Fund 2030. Kit also serves as a board member of a number of privately held technology companies. Kit graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review.

An Huang Chen is a native Californian who, after 30 years in DC, returned to her hometown in the Bay Area. She has served as school board trustee for Hillsborough City School District since 2018 and is grateful to be contributing to the community that raised her and her daughter, Patti.

An has dedicated her time to a variety of organizations, including the Stanford Health Care Facilities Committee, which opened a new $1 billion hospital months before the pandemic of 2020. She has also served on the boards of the San Mateo School Boards Association, Hillsborough Recreation Commission, UCSC Arts Advocacy Council, San Mateo County Transportation Authority Citizens Advisory Committee, Hillsborough Beautification Foundation, Hillsborough Schools Foundation, Self Help for the Elderly, and the San Francisco Symphony.

An studied Business Administration at Georgetown University and spent much of her career as a founding member of The Advisory Board Company, working with hospitals and health systems in the US and abroad to strengthen their product lines and better serve their patients. She later applied her hospitality experience to help build and manage the Clement InterContinental Hotel in Monterey, CA, which has been recognized multiple times as the top service provider among InterContinental Hotels in the Americas.

An finds joy in mentoring the next generation of business leaders and works regularly with the Growth Team at DC-based startup Veris Insights. Outside of work, she travels the world with her daughter, bakes every morning, and has fostered nearly 200 puppies.

Eddie Lopez is a Principal in the Technology Group at Hercules Capital, partnering with visionary technology companies driving innovation across enterprise SaaS, AI, cybersecurity, defense and space tech, climate tech, and internet. Backed by deep domain expertise and trusted by leading VCs, Hercules delivers flexible non-dilutive financing solutions tailored to support critical inflection points and sustained growth. At the firm, Eddie primarily focuses on investment origination, venture relationships, and business development efforts across the spectrum of the technology market.

Prior to joining Hercules in 2021, Eddie spent five years at Wells Fargo’s Corporate Technology Division, serving as an Assistant Vice President responsible for diligence, underwriting, and structuring for many of the bank’s credit investments in the venture and mid-corporate technology market nationwide.

Eddie graduated with honors from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in economics. He currently serves on the board of directors of SomosVC, a non-profit organization helping accelerate and elevate the presence of Latinos/as in venture capital. Eddie was born and raised in East Palo Alto, CA, where he attended Eastside College Preparatory School — and counts himself among the first students to experience an NGPF course firsthand.

Gary Hornbeek, a Certified Public Accountant, brings extensive financial expertise as an independent consultant and retired Chief Financial Officer. His most recent role was as CFO at Quicken Inc., a personal financial management software company, where he joined during its transition to a private company after being spun out of Intuit.

Following his retirement, Gary began his involvement with NGPF in 2024 and currently serves on the company's Audit Committee. Gary launched his career as an auditor with Price Waterhouse and later held key leadership positions at prominent software companies, including BILL, NetSuite, and PayCycle. Committed to community engagement, Gary dedicates volunteer time to nonprofits such as the Positive Coaching Alliance and the Center for Social Sector Leadership at UC Berkeley. He is an alumnus of the Haas School of Business at Cal.

Patrick Purcell is a seasoned education technology executive with more than 25 years of experience leading strategy, product, and content development across the education and technology sectors. He has held senior management and policy roles in both the public and private sectors, overseeing large, cross-functional teams and the delivery of global curriculum and assessment programs.

He currently leads Apple's Product Marketing Education team, developing software and services that support K–12 educators, students, and institutions globally. He previously managed Apple's Worldwide Education Policy and Advocacy team, including key initiatives focused on assessment and student data privacy.

Previously, Patrick held leadership roles at Coursera, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and the New York City Department of Education where he focused on expanding access to high-quality learning experiences, scaling digital platforms, and launching innovative classroom tools for teaching. He is a trusted advisor on digital transformation, governance, and the responsible adoption of emerging technologies in education.

Patrick holds a BA in Economics from Cornell University, a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Arthur P. Johnson, Jr. is a technology executive, board director, and real estate investor with nearly 30 years of experience driving growth, corporate strategy, and governance across hyper-growth companies and global enterprises.

Arthur currently serves as a Venture Partner at Authentic Ventures. Passionate about developing the next generation of financially empowered leaders, he has helped teach personal finance to students at Berkeley High School and serves as a Personal Finance Workshop trainer with the Babson Financial Literacy Project.

Previously, Arthur served on the Board of Directors for Quickbase and Genesys, where he was a member of the Audit Committee. His corporate leadership background includes serving as Chief Strategy Officer at Pure Storage, helping lead its evolution into a market leader in cloud data storage. Prior to Pure Storage, he was the founding Vice President of Strategy, Corporate Development, and Global Partnerships at Twilio, where he crafted the company’s enterprise growth strategy through its IPO.

His career also features roles as an Operating Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (advising over 40 portfolio companies), Chief Operating Officer for Cisco WebEx ($1B division), and executive positions at Intuit, Hewlett-Packard, and Goldman Sachs. Additionally, Arthur is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Amara Investments, a real estate investment firm managing over 50 rental units.

Arthur earned a B.S. from California State University, Los Angeles—where he was a scholarship baseball athlete—and holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Seyonne is a Partner at Stepstone Group, focusing on venture capital and growth equity fund, direct and secondary investments. Seyonne holds Board/observer seats at several portfolio companies, in addition to serving on the Limited Partner Advisory Committees for many early stage venture capital funds. Previously, she spent seven years in investment management firms with a focus on private capital. Before moving into investment management, Seyonne spent about a decade on Wall Street in institutional equities where she served in a variety of functions, including software equity research and distribution of IPOs, follow-on offerings, convertible financings, and equity research, most recently at Morgan Stanley.

Seyonne earned an AB with honors from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. She serves as a member of the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) at the University of Michigan and as a Board and Investment Committee Member for Mather Foundation.

Tim Ranzetta co-founded the nonprofit, Next Gen Personal Finance (NGPF), in 2014 after seeing the impact of financial education while teaching a course he developed at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, California. The first-gen students' engagement level and their parents' interest convinced him of the transformative effect of this education both inside and outside of the classroom. In addition to co-founding the organization, he has established an endowment to provide all of its curriculum and professional development at no cost to schools.

NGPF's goal is referred to as Mission 2030 when ALL high school students will take a personal finance course providing them with the financial skills they need to thrive in the future.

Prior to founding NGPF, Tim co-founded several companies including an information security company (acquired by Recall Secure Destruction Services), the nation's leading compensation and corporate governance research firm (Equilar), and a student loan research firm (Student Lending Analytics). He began his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.S. degree in Commerce with Distinction and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Greer Ahlquist is Chief Operating Officer at NGPF, where she oversees internal operations and leads the Curriculum, Professional Development, Marketing, Product, and Teacher Success teams. Prior to NGPF, Greer spent six years at EducationSuperHighway, most recently as Senior Program Director, where she built cross-functional teams and designed programs to close the classroom connectivity gap.

Earlier in her career, she worked as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and at the Charter School Growth Fund, supporting investment decisions to scale charter school networks. Greer holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University.