Anne Ferguson

Executive Director & Nonprofit Leader

San Jose, California, United States

About

Anne manages Bay Area Older Adults' (BAO) daily operations, long term strategy, fundraising, programs and volunteers. To read more about BAO, please visit https://www.bayareaolderadults.org/home

Experience

  • Founder and Executive Director at Bay Area Older Adults
    Jan 2009 - Present · 17 yrs 6 mos

    • Founded a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that improves the health and well-being of more than 65,000 adults age 50+ each year through physical activity, cultural, health education and socialization programs and a community referral resource each year. (www.bayareaolderadults.org). • Develop long-term strategy, manage daily operations and fundraising and engage highly skilled volunteers. • Built more than 40 mutually beneficial strategic alliances with non-profit organizations, government agencies and local businesses.

  • Leadership Council Member at Aging Services Collaborative
    2014 - 2018 · 4 yrs

    As a member of the Leadership Council, I worked with other organizations and individuals to provide leadership and build community-wide capacity to support, maintain, and promote the well-being of older adults and their caregivers in Santa Clara County.

  • Member of Leadership Council at Silicon Valley Healthy Aging Partnership
    Jun 2012 - 2018 · 5 yrs 8 mos

    As a member of the leadership team, I advised on the overall direction of SVHAP as a sustainable infrastructure for the delivery of evidence-based health promotion programs to older adults in Santa Clara County.

  • Santa Clara County Commissioner, Senior Advocate at Senior Care Commission
    Apr 2012 - Dec 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    As Commissioner, I was actively involved in collaborating with our county, state and federal programs and assessing existing services for seniors by identifying areas of unmet needs and finding solutions for those unmet needs, advocating for senior legislation in collaboration with the Board of Supervisors and fostering programs that promote independence, good health and quality of life for persons over 60.

  • Worldwide Director, Strategic Marketing at Affymetrix
    Apr 2008 - Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    • Managed 30 M dollar, 15% CAGR MyGeneChip Custom and Affymetrix Services Business including implementation of improved sales processes and tools, and drove contractual and negotiation sides of large & strategic multi-million dollar business deals • Developed and managed execution of global 3-year marketing strategy and tactics for the Agriculture Genomics Business including integrated marketing campaign, establishment of global service providers and partners, strategic evaluation and recommendation of new market and product opportunities synergistic with Affymetrix’s microarray and QuantiGene businesses • Led the successful launch of crop and livestock capital equipment and consumable products through partnerships with agriculture departments at universities such as UC Davis Animal Science Department, and Cornell University, government agencies such as the USDA and commercial agribusinesses such as Bayer and Syngenta to increase efficiency of beef cattle production and nutritional value of crops. • Responsible for strategic marketing due diligence for two new acquisitions to realize full range of genomics market offerings