Kitchen Cabinet
Deborah Anderson-Bialis
Board Vice President
Deborah Anderson-Bialis is the co-founder of FertilityIQ, an educational platform that helps people navigate all forms of family building. Deborah received a J.D. from University of California Berkeley Law School, and a B.A. from Williams College.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two toddlers. Her family joined the Kitchen in 2018 and regularly attends Rabbi Noa's Torah study classes, Shabbat services and Kitchen Playground events.
Eli Bildner
Eli Bildner's experience spans entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and politics. Eli is currently a Senior Director at Guild Education, and a senior advisor at Rivet School, a nonprofit enabling working Californians to earn an accelerated, low-cost bachelor's degree, which he co-founded in 2017.
Previously, Eli led international expansion at Coursera, managed a winning state-level political campaign in Alaska, and launched a social enterprise incubator in China. Eli is active in California politics as a chapter lead for Govern for California, and writes regularly on education and China for EdSurge, Inside Higher Ed, and The Atlantic, among other outlets. Eli holds a BA from Yale, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He lives in El Cerrito with his wife and daughter.
Shari Freedman
Board Treasurer
Shari Freedman is the Chief Financial Officer of Room to Read, an organization that believes World Change Starts with Educated Children.®
With over 30 years of international finance, non-profit and administrative management experience with companies ranging in size from $35MM - $150B, Shari has a proven track record of success leading finance and legal teams in global organizations with significant scale and complexity. Shari joined Room to Read after a tenure as CFO at One Medical Group, Niman Ranch and Worldwise, Inc. Prior to that, she provided international financial and administrative management to best in class globally branded companies, including Gap, PepsiCo, and GM. Shari was named one of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business in 2012.
She has chaired the boards of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank and JVS, the largest workforce development agency in the Bay Area. As an angel investor, she has actively supported startups with a focus on increasing capital for women entrepreneurs. Shari received her MBA from Georgetown University and a BA from American University. Her academic pedigree also includes certifications in The Art of Negotiations, Building Strategic Consensus and Non-Profit Governance at Harvard University.
Jonathan Katzman
Board President
Jonathan Katzman is Director of Product Management for Learning at YouTube. Previously, he was the founding Chief Product Officer at Minerva Project, where he led both development of Minerva’s technology and its partnerships with other universities. Previously, Katzman founded a startup focused on email and personal search that was acquired by Yahoo in 2009. Previously, Katzman built and ran Tellme's directory assistance business in the early 2000's, served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Corporation and worked at Microsoft on the Office and FrontPage teams. Having contributed to three successful startups, Katzman gives back to the entrepreneurial community through both angel investing and advisory work.
Jonathan grew up one town south of Rabbi Kushner in Massachusetts, but unfortunately did not attend her dad’s shul. He earned a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard University, and more recently completed his Wexner Heritage Fellowship. He lives in Cole Valley with his wife and two sons. The Katzman family are OG Kitchen-ites, having attended services starting the first summer.
Eric Ries
Eric Ries is an entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Business, published by Crown Business.
He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms. In 2010, he was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow. Previously he co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his third startup. In 2007, BusinessWeek named him one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. In 2009, he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. The Lean Startup methodology has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc. (where he appeared on the cover), Wired, Fast Company, and countless blogs. Eric lives in San Francisco.