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, Deputy General Counsel, Patient Square Capital

Sarah Beresford

Marc Bensadoun, PhD, Seed-stage Investor and Advisor

Robert Bingham, Founder, Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough, LLC

Tony Brettkelly, Founder, Latitude 38 Housing Services 

Pat Finn

James Ford, Principal, Vista Equity Partners

W. Reed Foster, Jr., Executive Search Consultant, Foster Talent Partners

Asher Hochberg, Founder, Rootspring Ventures

James K. Mitchell, Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, Ernst & Young

Lauren Patrizio, Founder of SquashDrive and Head Coach of Trinity Women's Squash

Martina Sourada

Gareth Webber

Patrick Williams, Executive Director

Missy Wyant Smit, Real Estate Agent, Compass

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.

Katherine Schloss Ackerman

Kat is the Deputy General Counsel at Patient Square Capital. Kat was most recently a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where her practice focused on the representation of private equity funds and their portfolio companies.

Kat played squash at Princeton University where she graduated magna cum laude. She also holds a J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

Marc Bensadoun

Sara Beresford

Robert Bingham

Tony Brettkelly

Pat Finn

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.

Asher Hochberg

Asher is the Founder of Rootspring Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage consumer brands. Previously, he has held senior investment roles across private equity, private credit and public equity strategies. Asher lives in the East Bay with his family and hopes his children give squash a chance despite it being an indoor sport.

Asher grew up playing squash in northern New Jersey and was ranked #1 in the US for Boys Under 17 in 2000. He went on to play squash for Harvard, captained the 2005 team, and is still an active player today. During a decade living in NYC, Asher was active with the city's urban squash programs and when he moved to the Bay Area in 2015, became involved with SquashDrive.

Lauren Patrizio

Lauren is currently the head coach of the Trinity Women's Squash team. Lauren founded SquashDrive in 2010 and led SquashDrive as its Executive Director for 10 years. After SquashDrive, Lauren worked in executive recruiting while remaining active in the squash community and coaching.  

Lauren was a two-time All-American at the University of Pennsylvania and was part of an historic 1999-2000 season for the Quakers, where they won their first Ivy League Championship winning its first national championship. Lauren was co-captain for UPenn during the 2000-01 season, earning All-Ivy League honors. Lauren graduated with a BS in Economics from the Wharton School. 

Originally from Philadelphia, Lauren now lives in Amherst, MA, and loves being able to stay involved with SquashDrive from the East Coast. 

Martina Sourada  

Gareth Webber

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.