Presidio Trust Board and Executive Team

On April 8, Presidio Trust board members were excused from their service by the Office of Presidential Personnel. We had been anticipating that we would receive new members as several board members had reached the end of their terms. We are awaiting information on the new appointments and look forward to welcoming them to the park.

Jean S. Fraser, Chief Executive Officer, has dedicated her career to fostering healthy, equitable, and sustainable communities. Under her leadership, the Presidio Trust has restored dozens of acres of park land, opened the award-winning Presidio Tunnel Tops, and hosted millions of visits each year from people of all backgrounds, ages, and abilities. Jean serves on the board of The Climate Center and the San Francisco City Advisory Board of SPUR. She is a graduate of Yale University, Yale Law School, and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS).

Travis Beck, Chief Park Officer, has made a career of managing historic landscapes for public use and environmental benefit. Before joining the Presidio Trust in 2024, he oversaw the care and development of parks, open spaces, streetscapes, and urban forest in the city of Santa Cruz as the Superintendent of Parks. Earlier he served as Director of Horticulture at Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, where he supervised the stewardship of native plant gardens, grounds, and natural lands, and spearheaded the creation of a site and facilities master plan. At the New York Botanical Garden, he managed landscape construction projects throughout the heart of the garden. Travis is the author of Principles of Ecological Landscape Design, which applies scientific principles to the creation of successful, sustainable landscapes. He holds a Master of Science in Environmental Horticulture from The Ohio State University and an undergraduate degree in English Literature. He is a licensed landscape architect and an ISA Certified Arborist®.

Catherine (Cathy) Langridge, Chief Financial Officer, brings 30 years of financial leadership experience across organizations both large and small. Prior to joining the Presidio Trust, she served as Chief Financial Officer for Recology, a 100% employee-owned environmental services organization. Most of her career has been in consumer products, where she held senior finance roles including Chief Financial Officer for Levi Strauss’s Global Retail Division, Vice President of Finance for Sephora, and Vice President of Finance at Stitch Fix during its Initial Public Offering. Cathy is recognized for building superior relationships with her business partners through a shared vision of an organization’s future. Respected for her direct and honest approach, she inspires action while being grounded in data. Deeply committed to science and conservation, Cathy has served on the Board of the Oakland Zoo – including two years as Chair – spent eleven years on the Board and Advisory Committee for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and lectured on astronomy for more than 20 years with the California Academy of Sciences. Cathy holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and undergraduate degrees in physics and music. Cathy joined the Presidio Trust in 2022. 

Rich Rusnack, Chief Business Officer, has more than two decades of experience in real estate and operating roles across entrepreneurship, asset management, and private equity. He began his career as a retail and real estate development entrepreneur in the Midwest and later served as an asset manager for The Habitat Company in Chicago, before managing Rudd Properties, Inc. for the Leslie Rudd Investment Company, where he oversaw real estate and operating companies including Dean & Deluca and Standard Beverage Corporation. Rich served as CFO, COO, and then President of Standard Beverage Corporation and has held executive roles at several Bay Area companies, including President/COO at MacPherson’s, CFO at Guideboat Co., and CFO at Flux, a construction technology company founded at Google X. At the Presidio Trust, he oversees the agency’s business operations – including its commercial and residential real estate portfolios, two hotels, a golf course, and the team that maintains and improves the park’s historic assets – and helps ensure the Presidio remains a financially self-sustaining national park site. He holds a B.A. from Colby College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Genevieve Coyle, General Counsel, has deep connections to the Presidio. She began her career in environmental consulting, joining the Presidio Trust in 2005 as a remediation project manager. Since earning her law degree, she has practiced toxic tort litigation and has served as an assistant city attorney. Genevieve has served for many years as a deputy general counsel to the Presidio Trust. As General Counsel, she leads a team of in-house attorneys responsible for legal advice to the organization including land use and preservation, finance, real estate, business, government administration, and regulatory compliance matters. Genevieve holds a J.D. from Golden Gate University and a B.S. in environmental toxicology from University of California at Davis. 

Diana Simmons, Chief Operating Officer, was born and raised in Northern California and has spent her career focused on purpose-driven organizations. She began working in non-profit environmental policy and consulting in air quality, land use, and transportation technology in both California and Boston. She spent 15 years at Clif Bar + Company where she drove brand management, launched new products, led the sustainability team to assess impacts from the field to the final product, and built and led the company’s cross-functional new product commercialization launch process. She joined the Presidio Trust in 2019 as the Chief Marketing Officer. Now, as Chief Operating Officer, she leads marketing communications, government affairs, procurement, and IT. She holds an undergraduate degree in human biology and an M.B.A from Stanford University, spent 8 years on the board of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, and is an Aspen Institute First Movers Fellow (class of 2011-12).