Joined the board: 2018

Board Officer: President (2026–27, 2025–26, 2024–25)

Serves as head of the Executive Committee

Serves on the Executive Committee

Alexia Brown is an attorney with more than 20 years of experience in corporate law. She has worked with the global law firms Sullivan and Cromwell and Cooley LLP and as general counsel for two San Diego-based companies. Brown volunteers extensively with her children’s schools and sports teams and has been a member of Jack and Jill of America. Originally from Jamaica, Brown grew up in Kingston and New York City and has lived in Southern California since 1999. 

Brown holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law School. 

Brown and her husband, Mike Finch, a screenwriter, are the parents of Harry Finch ’23 and Isabel Finch ’28.

Serves on the Committee on Trustees and the Executive Committee

Dermot O’Shea is an entrepreneur who co-founded and runs Taoglas, a technology company that provides digital transformation to the world's largest organizations. The business was established in 2004 and has grown to 400 employees across 10 locations. Taoglas completed four acquisitions in the past four years and continues to be a fast-growing company. In 2017, O’Shea joined the local Young Presidents Organization chapter and sits on the board of Alpha Wireless, a base station antenna company headquartered in Ireland. 

A graduate of University College Dublin (science), O’Shea also completed postgraduate courses in Griffith College Dublin (computing), Dublin Business School (business), Waterford Institute of Technology (enterprise development), and most recently, Authentic Leadership at Harvard Business School.

O’Shea has lived in San Diego for over 10 years with his wife, Ciara, and their three boys—Rian ’25, Cillian ’28 and Dermot ’34. 

Natalia Burgett spent her career in investment banking, including a decade within the Mergers and Acquisitions department of Goldman Sachs. Based in both the New York and Chicago offices, she advised on transactions in multiple industries with a focus on consumer and retail businesses. Selected M&A deals include the $57bn sale of Gillette to Procter & Gamble, the $17bn merger between May and Federated Department stores, the $5.5bn sale of Gerber to Nestle, and the $7.2bn acquisition of Danone’s biscuit business by Kraft. 
 
Burgett has also been involved with several nonprofit organizations, including serving on the board of the Lurie Children’s Hospital Children’s Research Fund and chairing multiple fundraising events for other worthy causes. 

Burgett earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University. 

Burgett has three children, Lucas ’24, Alice ’27, and Oliver ’30.

Joined the board: 2023

Serves as head of the Buildings and Grounds Committee and is Board President-Elect

Joined the board: 2022

Serves as the head of the Philanthropy Committee
Serves on the Executive Committee

 

Margie Newman Tsay is an award-winning public relations strategist and founding partner and managing director of Intesa Communications Group. 

 

Before founding Intesa in 2012, Newman Tsay served as a media relations and social media manager for The Pew Center on the States, a division of The Pew Charitable Trusts, in Washington, D.C. Her career has spanned public, private, government and nonprofit entities, including time with Tennessee-based public affairs firm Hall Strategies and serving as a press aide to former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen.

 

A graduate of Auburn University, Newman Tsay is a member of the YMCA of San Diego County Corporate Board of Directors, the LEAD San Diego Board of Directors (IMPACT ’15 and INFLUENCE ’17) and the Downtown San Diego Partnership Board of Directors.

 

Newman Tsay was recognized as one of San Diego’s “40 under 40” by SDMETRO Magazine in 2016, named among the San Diego Business Journal’s 2017 Business Women of the Year, and was named the International Association of Business Communicators San Diego 2018 Communicator of the Year. Still, Newman Tsay believes her greatest accomplishments are her two children, Suzie ’30 and CJ ’33.

Joined the board: 2020

Serves on the Executive Committee

Lorri Sulpizio, Ph.D., is the director of the Conscious Leadership Academy and the founder of the Center for Women’s Leadership, both at the University of San Diego (USD). She has consulted with numerous companies and has taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in leadership, including Gender and Leadership, Women in Leadership, and Contemporary Issues in Leadership. She also developed the Cultivate Conscious Kids program at USD. Dr. Sulpizio was a board member of the New Children’s Museum, the California Community College Women’s Basketball Association and the Fitness Advisory Council for San Diego Mesa College. She was the head women’s basketball coach at San Diego Mesa College from 2001–2007 and at Cuyamaca College from 2008–2010. 

Dr. Sulpizio earned a Bachelor of Arts in English, Women’s Studies at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, a Master of Arts in Physical Education, Sport Psychology at San Diego State University and a doctorate in Leadership Studies at USD.

Dr. Sulpizio has four children: Gavin ’21, Garrett ’23, Atlanta ’26, and Maddux ’29.

Joined the board: 2022

Serves on the Buildings and Grounds Committee and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee

 

Glen Woods ’05 is a native San Diegan and LJCDS alumnus.

 

Following in his father’s footsteps, Woods studied at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in political science and played collegiate football for four years. 

 

After graduating from the Naval Academy, Woods served for five years as a naval officer in a wide range of specialties including overseeing equipment safety and electrical systems and managing the day-to-day operations team for radar and AEGIS systems.

 

Woods has worked as a wealth management advisor for Northwestern Mutual since 2014, and he has served on the finance committee of the LJCDS board of trustees since 2020.