Past Chair
Ms. Benton serves as the SDBB Board Chair effective January 1, 2022. Ms. Benton is an entrepreneur who has experience managing both for-profit and non-profit organizations. She was a general partner in a private equity firm in Washington DC for 25 years. She is the founder and board member for Vehicles for Change, Inc., a non-profit that awards automobiles to working poor families and trains previously incarcerated individuals to become auto mechanics. Ms. Benton is a graduate of the Harvard Business School. In addition to being Chairman of the San Diego Blood Bank, she serves on the board of the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD, the San Diego Humane Society, and the Salk Institute Cancer Advisory Board. Ms. Benton has lived in San Diego since 2011.
