Board of Directors
Stephen Seelbach, Board Chair, Managing Director, Vista Equity Partners
Chris Sheldon, Treasurer, Head of Leveraged Credit, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Katherine Schloss Ackerman, Corporate Associate , Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Sarah Beresford
Marc Bensadoun, PhD, Seed-stage Investor and Advisor
Robert Bingham, Founder, Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough, LLC
Tony Brettkelly, Founder, Latitude 38 Housing Services
James Ford, Principal, Vista Equity Partners
W. Reed Foster, Jr., Executive Search Consultant, Foster Talent Partners
Asher Hochberg
James K. Mitchell, Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, Ernst & Young
Blair Richardson, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey
Missy Wyant Smit, Real Estate Agent, Compass
Lauren Patrizio Xaba, Founder of SquashDrive
Gareth Webber
Patrick Williams, Executive Director
Stephen Seelbach, Chair
Stephen is a Managing Director at Vista Equity Partners and previously worked at Morgan Stanley for 15 years in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York. Stephen lived 13 years in Asia before moving to San Francisco in 2014. Stephen started playing junior squash in New Jersey and won his largest trophy (which he still has) as the NJ 10 & under state champion. He attended Amherst College and co-captained the team that was ranked as high as 2nd in the US. Stephen has 4 young children who are eagerly awaiting their first squash rackets. He graduated magna cum laude with Political Science and French degrees as well as an International Relations Certificate.
Chris Sheldon, Treasurer
Chris is Co-Head of Leveraged Credit at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. He joined KKR in 2004 and sits on Asset Management’s Leveraged Credit and Private Credit Investment Committees, along with their Portfolio Management Committee. Prior to joining KKR, Chris was a Senior Investment Analyst with Wells Fargo’s High Yield Securities Group. He has also worked at Young & Rubicam and within the media-planning department of SFM Media Corporation.
Chris started playing squash at a young age in New Jersey. After serving as captain of the Princeton Day School team, he went on to help found, develop, and captain the Denison University squash program. He holds a B.A. from Denison University.
James Ford
James is a Principal at Vista Equity Partners. Vista is a leading private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses. James has worked at Vista since its founding in 2000. Prior to joining Vista, James worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co.
James started playing squash at a young age at the Merion Cricket Club in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He went on to play for and captain teams at the Haverford School and Amherst College. James graduated from Amherst magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics in 1998.
W. Reed Foster, Jr.
Reed is an executive search and technical recruiting consultant who runs a boutique consulting practice at Foster Talent Partners. Early in his career, Reed was a management consultant and then a business development executive in Silicon Valley. Reed joined a very small company in 2001 called Newfield Wireless, Inc. in Berkeley, CA. Over time, Reed came to lead the recruiting and HR team at Newfield Wireless, helping to build the company to over 125 full-time employees, and supported an eventual acquisition by Danaher/Tektronix Communications in 2014. Since 2014 Reed has been working primarily with venture and provate-equity-backed technology companies to help them fill key executive and technical positions.
Reed began his squash career as a young teen at the side of his father, the real W. Reed Foster, at the Olympic Club in San Francisco, but ended up dedicating his athletic pursuits in high school (Loomis Chaffee) to springboard diving where he was a Connecticut State champion and finalist in the New England regional championship meets. Reed continued his diving career in college and was a California state finalist while at Diablo Valley College two years in a row, and then completed his diving career at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he earned a degree in Telecommunications and English. After college he moved back to San Francisco and re-joined the squash community and has been playing hardball, doubles and some softball as much as possible ever since. Reed grew up in Oakland, CA and lives in Piedmont with his wife and three children.
Blair Richardson
Blair Richardson is a Managing Director at Houlihan Lokey, a middle market focused investment bank, where he advises alternative asset managers on a variety of transaction and valuation related matters. His prior background includes direct private investing and mergers & acquisitions advisory. Blair holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Accounting from Franklin & Marshall College. His previous charitable involvement includes Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the Humane League of Lancaster County. Blair enjoys spending his free time outdoors with his wife, two young daughters, and yellow Labrador Retriever.
Missy Wyant Smit
Missy has been a San Francisco real estate agent for almost 20 years and consistently ranks within the top 5 agents in the city. Prior to being a founding agent of Compass San Francisco in 2016, Missy was the #1 producer at Hill & Company.
During her time at Princeton University, Missy captained a National championship squash team and achieved first team All-American honors four times. Enthusiastic, competitive, and goal oriented – she remains an active squash and now also pickleball player, and plays in tournaments across the U.S.
Originally from Cincinnati, Missy comes from a family of squash players and is thrilled to be a part of an organization that is making a difference and growing the game of squash.
Young Professionals Board
Sarah Beresford, President, Director, Bayshore Global Management
Garrett Kitahata, Student, UC-Berkeley
Matthias Matsui, Investment Banking Analyst, Needham & Company
Ben Warfield, Senior Data Engineer for Lemonade Insurance
Libby Mattimore, Lead Product Manager for Found
Sarah Beresford, President
Sarah is a Director of Fundraising and IR at Playground, an early-stage VC in Palo Alto. She previously was Chief of Staff at a private family office and started her career as a strategy consultant at Deloitte in New York City. Sarah is from the east coast originally and picked up squash in high school at Phillips Exeter. She went on to play for Brown University and serves as co-captain in 2013. Sarah moved to the Bay Area after graduating from Harvard Business School in 2020 and now lives in San Francisco.
Garrett Kitahata
Garrett is a 4th year student at UC-Berkeley and a Conservation and Resource Studies major. He has an interest in energy consulting/energy sales and has been involved in a few associated solar projects. As a transitioning co-captain of the men’s squash team, acting coach at the first club nationals in 2022, and part-time former Squash Pro at Bay Club, he has served on special projects inside and outside of the squash world. Garrett is from the San Francisco Bay Area and briefly played at Crystal Springs Uplands School with original home club at Bay Club Redwood Shores.
Matthias Matsui
Matthias is an investment banking analyst at Needham & Company assisting companies in the Technology, Media and Telecom sector. Originally from Hong Kong, Matthias grew up playing squash and went on to play in high school at Lawrenceville. Matthias moved to the Bay Area in 2021 after graduating from Brown University, where he studied History and Economics.
Ben Warfield
Ben grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and started playing squash in college at the University of Virginia where he served as treasurer of the club organization. He moved to the Bay Area in 2009 for graduate school at Stanford and now lives in San Francisco where he works as a Senior Data Engineer for Lemonade Insurance (formerly Metromile).
Libby Mattimore
Libby is a Lead Product Manager at Found, a telehealth weight loss company. She previously was in advertising sales at Yahoo/AOL and started her career in FX sales at Barclays in New York City. Libby is from Haverford, PA and started squash at a young age, following her three older sisters’ footsteps. She went on to play for Princeton University, where she was a four time All-American and served as co-captain in 2014. Libby moved to San Francisco in 2016, where she still lives with her husband and son and continues to actively play squash.