After a 30+ year career at Apple, most recently as the Director of Investor Relations, Joan retired in 2018 and became a full-time resident of Pebble Beach. She and her husband are very active volunteers with German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California, where she has served as the Treasurer since 2004. They have fostered over 50 dogs in their home over the years and own two German Shepherds and are usually fostering a third one. Joan is also the Treasurer of the Stillwater Yacht Club and The Morse Foundation. A second-generation San Francisco native, Joan is a former Peace Corps Volunteer, has a BA in French Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School.