Board of Trustees

B.Sc., Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Gull joined the Kirby Board of Trustees in 2017 and brings with him over 25 years of IT expertise, entrepreneurship and business leadership. He has founded three companies, served as Director of Technology and Software Engineer for a variety of Internet and web companies, including Magellan Navigation. He has also served on the Lakeside Elementary Joint School District School Board and co-chaired a local parcel tax committee which passed in 2009. Mr. Gull is a parent of a Kirby student in the Class of 2023 and an Kirby alumna from the Class of 2020.

M.Sc., Engineering, Digital Image Processing, VMEI (Technical University), Sophia, Bulgaria;  Ph.D., Computer Science with a focus on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, CNIKA (Automation Research Institute), Sofia, Bulgaria. Mr. Koltchev is a founder of IJS Solutions, a technology consulting company based in the Bay Area. He has spent over 25 years in the software industry, working for companies including McAfee Associates, Inc., Network Associates, Inc., and at his own company. Jivko has been a member of the Kirby community since 2009, both through his involvement in Kirby’s mountain biking team and through his two daughters at Kirby School: one having graduated in the Class of 2015 and the other currently in the Class of 2021.

M.B.A., International Business, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Certificate in Legal Practice, College of Law in London, England; LLB (Bachelor of Laws), British and German Law, London School of Economics, London, England; Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Ms. Reid joined the Kirby Board of Trustees in 2019 as a parent and an experienced school governor, having served as School Governor for 4 years at the Holtsmere End Junior School in England. Ms. Reid's professional experience spans over two decades of market research and brand strategy leadership at companies including Bayer Consumer Healthcare, Premier Foods and Britvic Soft Drinks. 

J.D., University of Michigan Law School; B.A., Theater Studies, Swarthmore College. Mr. Maletic is currently a Senior Associate General Counsel at Broadcom, and manages a team of attorneys who work on commercial transactions and products counseling. Before this, Mike worked at Apple in several business and legal roles, and, before Apple, was an associate attorney at Weil Gotshal. Prior to law school, Mike worked in the Literary Department of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and co-founded a graphic design firm in San Francisco. Mike and his wife Adrianne are the parents of two Kirby students, one in the Class of 2022 and one in the Class of 2023.

Former Kirby valedictorian, Willa Brock ‘10, joins the Kirby School Board of Trustees as its second alumni in May 2021. Ms. Brock earned a B.A. in Art History and Archaeology from Stanford University in 2014 and an M.A. in Museum Studies from New York University in 2017. She currently serves as Interpretation Manager of the renowned Filoli Center, a National Trust Historic site, in Woodside, California. Willa is so grateful for the positive learning experiences and incredible community she found as a student at Kirby, and looks forward to giving back and bringing another alumni perspective to the Board.

B.A., Economics and Government, Duquesne University; Fellowship: Lic. Management and Technology, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. Mr. Costello is a Vice-President of Hardware Engineering and Operations at Apple and Chief Operating Officer of Beats by Dr. Dre, an Apple subsidiary acquired in 2014. Prior to this, Matthew served as the Development Officer for the IKEA Group based in the Netherlands, Chief Operating Officer of HTC Corp based in Taiwan, and Corporate Vice-President of Operations and Strategy of SonyEricsson in Sweden. Prior to his operational management experiences, Matthew was a management consultant, having started his career in Andersen LLP (later Bearingpoint) both in the US and in Europe and later serving as a Partner in Booz Allen Hamilton (Booz & Co.) based in Stockholm. Matthew and his wife Liselott have three children, two of whom attend Kirby School (Kirby Class of 2021 and Kirby Class of 2023).

M.F.A., Video, Photography and Printmaking, University of British Columbia. Ms. deLancey is a co-founder of Kirby School and currently serves as Secretary of the Board. She has been a volunteer at the School since 1994. Her daughter is a Kirby alumna, Class of 2004. Ms. deLancey is also Board President and member of Spring Mountain Zen Center and Alcatraz Editions.

B.S. and M.F.A., Visual Arts, UC San Diego. Ms. King is a Writing Program faculty member at UC Santa Cruz.  She teaches critical thinking and writing courses, as well as courses about social justice, health and food politics, and mass media. She worked in the cable television industry as a channel coordinator and video producer at Southwestern Cable TV, and as a programming coordinator for Viacom Cable. Ms. King joined the Kirby Board in 2015 and is an alumni parent of two sons.

B.A., Economics, UC Berkeley, 1993.  Mr. Huang joined the Board of Trustees in 2023.  After growing up in and attending college in the Bay Area, Mr. Huang worked abroad for 14 years before coming back to California from where he now maintains a small export business and some other ventures.  Sean and his wife Elaine have two Kirby kids (Alumna Class of 2023 and current student Class of 2026) and two cats.  When not working or driving his kids, Sean likes to fish the waters of the Monterey Bay from his kayak.

J.D., NYU School of Law; M.A., Russian Studies, Harvard University; B.A., Russian, Yale College. Mr. Richter is Honorary Lifetime Trustee and has served on the Board of Trustees since 1998, acting as Co-Chair from 2003-2010.  Mr. Richter is a corporate lawyer with a private practice in downtown Santa Cruz and parent of a Kirby alumna, Class of 2005.  His current involvement in the community, education and the arts includes serving as a Founding Director of Shakespeare Play On, a Director of the American Farm School in Thessaloniki, Greece and pro bono counsel to the Anna Mahler Foundation (USA) Inc. (Inactive)

B.S., Mathematics, University of Chicago. Owner/Manager of Salamandre Wine Cellars, Ms. Shoemaker is Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees. She has been on the Board since 2001, served as co-chair from 2003-2010 and chair from 2010-2014. She is a parent of a Kirby alumna, class of 2005.

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; J.D., Harvard University; B.S., Iowa State University. Mr. Takahashi-Kelso is Program Director of the Marine Conservation Initiative at The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and has extensive experience in non-profit management, including Senior Counsel and Vice President at the Ocean Conservancy and Conservation and Science Program Officer at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. He has served as steward for a number of natural resource and environmental conservation and policy organizations and his honors include the Pew Marine Conservation Fellow and the University of California Santa Cruz Golden Apple Social Sciences Teaching Award.  Mr. Takahashi-Kelso is a parent of a Kirby student in the class of 2022.