The Charter of the City of Oakland vests the Board of Port Commissioners
with exclusive control and management of the Port Department. The Board
consist of seven members nominated by the
Mayor and appointed by the
City Council for four year terms. Members must live in Oakland during
their term and at least 30 days prior to their appointment. Members of
the Board serve without salary or compensation.
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Commissioners via email at board@portoakland.com.
Anthony Batarse, Jr. is President and Chief Executive Officer of Lloyd A. Wise Inc., one of the largest Hispanic owned businesses in California, with holdings in automobile dealerships and outdoor media. He is a U.S. citizen born in El Salvador. He was appointed to the Board of Port Commissioners in June 2003. Mr. Batarse attended Liceo Salvadoreno, College of San Mateo and the Harvard Graduate School of Business, and holds degrees in Science & Letters and Business Management. He is a past member of the Board of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce (Director), Oakland Planning Commission (Commissioner), Oakland Unified School District - Budget Advisory Board (Member). State-wide Political Action Committee (President). Mr. Batarse is currently a member of several civic organizations including: the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Alameda County (Director), Oakland Chamber of Commerce, San Leandro Chamber of Commerce, SF State University Business Advisory Board (Board Member) and, the Youth Opportunity Foundation (Board Member).
Mr. Batarse serves on the following Port of Oakland committees: Administration; City/Port Liaison; Executive.
Mark McClure, is a Managing Partner at MDM Investment, a real estate development firm based in Emeryville. He is also a principle in the Borussia Land Company, LLC.
Born and raised in Oakland, Mark’s family moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, when he was seven years old. There he attended Ecole Primaire Grand-Vennes de Lausanne for three years where school was taught entirely in French. Mark returned to Oakland for middle school and high school. Mark graduated from Piedmont High School and later attended Merritt and Laney College before going on to graduate from Cal State East Bay with a degree in Art/Design.
In 1995 Mark moved to Gelsenkirchen, Germany, where he spent two years working in his family’s real estate business and attending Inlingua Sprache Schulle in Essen, Germany, formalizing his German language skills.
Mark is proud to be a native Oaklander and has served the public both in appointed positions and on various boards and community organizations of personal interest. Mark’s appointed positions include four years on the Oakland Planning Commission, which he chaired from 2004 to 2005, and serving since September, 2005 as an alternate to Geoffrey Gibbs, Esq., on the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission. Mark was appointed to the Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners in December of 2006 where he now serves as the First Vice-President. His personal interests include serving on the Board of The Crucible, a non-profit educational collaboration of art, industry and community in West Oakland. For the past three years, Mark has supported Children’s Fairyland by serving on their annual fundraising gala committee. Mark also served a member of the OakPAC Board, an organization that functions as the political action committee for the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. Mr. McClure serves on the following Port of Oakland committees: Audit, Budget & Finance; Aviation; City/Port Liaison; Maritime.
In May 2007, Darlene Ayers-Johnson received a presidential appointment to the post of Senior Advisor to the Pacific Rim Regional Administrator, U.S. General Services Administration, San Francisco, CA. In September 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Ms. Ayers-Johnson to the California Commission on the Status of Women and she received Senate Confirmation in February, 2007. Darlene Ayers-Johnson is principal of her own consulting firm, and served from January 2004 to May 2007 as Executive Director of "Friends of Faith" Fancher, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that brings breast cancer awareness to the underserved community. The organization was founded by well-known television newsperson, Faith Fancher * a pioneer for female journalists, and an untiring activist for women's health. Ms. Ayers-Johnson has also served as executive director of the California State Board of Control, which handles restitution to crime victims and torts claims against the state.
Additionally, Darlene Ayers-Johnson formerly served as Chief Deputy Director for the State of California's Department of General Services. She is a second generation Californian who has served in her community on various boards and commissions over the past 35 years. Ms.
Ayers-Johnson has been awarded the National Association of Women Business Owners Award, the state of California Department of Vehicles'
Woman of the Year Award and has been recognized numerous times for her dedication and service in civic activities in her community.
Ms. Ayers-Johnson serves on the following Port of Oakland committees:
Administration; Aviation; Executive; Public Art.
Over the last decade, Margaret Gordon has been respected locally as a strong voice of reason and intellect not only in her West Oakland community, but regionally as well. The longtime health and environmental advocate has earned statewide respect on Port issues. A recipient of the
2007 Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame award, Ms. Gordon is one of the founding members of both the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project and the Alameda County Stakeholder Project for the Environmental Health Tracking Project. In 2006, Ms. Gordon was a presenter at a Port-related conference concerned with trucking, shipping and logistics sponsored by the Intermodal Maritime Association, while also contributing to the development of two community-based participatory research reports and the publications, "Neighborhood Knowledge for
Change" and "Reducing Diesel Pollution in West Oakland". Moreover, during this period she was instrumental in the design of the 7th St/McClymonds Corridor Neighborhood Improvement Initiative and was co-Chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee, the group assembled to oversee replacement of the Cypress freeway following the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989.
As a staff member of the Pacific Institute's Community Strategies for Sustainability and Justice, Ms. Gordon was a planner and presenter for the San Francisco Bay Area's first regional conference on reducing diesel pollution and improving public health. The event titled, "Ditching Dirty Diesel" brought together community organizations, environmentalists, public health groups, including the American Lung Association, and government officials to focus on asthma and other health problems related to diesel air pollution. In 2007, Ms. Gordon became co-Chair of the Port of Oakland & Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the Maritime Air Quality Improvement Plan (along with Omar Benjamin and Jack Broadbent, Head of BAAQMD). Most recently, Ms. Gordon, who herself, suffers from asthma, co-authored the Healthy Home Indoor Air Quality Project that relates to the reduction of diesel exposure and other toxics for residents in West Oakland and was selected to serve on Governor Schwarzenegger's statewide committee on State Goods Movement Action Plan.
Kenneth Katzoff is a partner in the law firm of Katzoff & Riggs, where
he represents real estate developers, contractors, architects and other
design and creative professionals. Mr. Katzoff has served as a public
official in a variety of positions, including Past President of the
Board of Port Commissioners and Chair of the Oakland Planning
Commission, having assumed Chair responsibilities shortly after
joining the Commission in 2001. He also served as Chair of the Oakland
Base Reuse Authority ("OBRA") as Mayor Brown's alternate. Mr. Katzoff
has also served as a Judge pro tempore and mediator for the Alameda
County Courts. He is a member of the Alameda County Bar Association, the
Oakland Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club of Oakland. Mr. Katzoff
is an avid tennis player, sailor and snowboarder and resides in Oakland
with his wife Diana, an East Bay Realtor, and their three children.
 Patricia
Scates is Senior Vice President and regional manager of Wells
Fargo's East Bay commercial banking office. She brings 29 years
of experience in the banking industry with Wells Fargo. Ms. Scates is an
Oakland native, and serves on a number of Boards including: National
Corporate Advisory Board of the Urban Financial Services Coalition
(UFSC) and Vice President of the UFSC Foundation, and Corporate
Advisory Board of the California Black Chamber of Commerce; and
Board Member of the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and
the YMCA of the East Bay. Ms. Scates has received the following awards
and honors: 2002 named one of the "75 Most Influential Businesswomen"
by the San Francisco Business Times, 2000 Corporate Community Leadership
Award from the California Black Chamber of Commerce, 2000 Corporate
Award from the California African American Business Summit, 1999
Madame C.J. Walker Corporate Recognition Award presented by the
Oakland/ Bay Area Chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black
Women, Inc., 1998 Economic Development Award by the Black Chamber
of Commerce of Orange County and the 1997 Dream Makers award granted
by The Woman's Foundation.
Ms. Scates serves on the following Port of Oakland committees: Audit, Budget & Finance; Commercial Real Estate;
 Victor Uno, who is currently a National Board Member for the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO, and the business manager for the International Brotherhood Electrical Workers Local 595 began his career twenty five years ago installing new rail lines, lights and power along one of the Port of Oakland berths. Since then, he has initiated an apprenticeship training program to train future skilled craftspeople, also spending time as a Community College instructor at Chabot College (1987-1989). His other experience includes his work as a Facilities Department Electrician at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1989-1999). As well as his experience in the field, Uno has also served on many boards and has extensive trustee experience. Currently, he serves as a Board member for the Asian Health Services, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Oakland APOLLO Alliance, and East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy, among others. Since 2002, Uno has been a Trustee for the Alameda County Electrical Apprenticeship Training Trust, Maritime and Aviation Project Labor Agreement Social Justice Trust, and in 2007 assumed the role of 2nd Vice President for the Alameda County Central Labor Council.
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